All new ventures of goal-building follow a set pattern in which your initial euphoria is quickly replaced by lonely struggle. Dont let this phase fool you into giving up as it does for so many. This article will show you how to treat this phase as an essential part of your success.
New Year’s Resolutions
Have you kept to your new year’s resolutions? Sadly most of us haven’t, and many of us have given up trying. But why is this? Are you going to wait another 12 months before you try again? Many people give up if they fail once. You are putting unreasonable pressure on yourself if you do this.
In one of the British Heart Foundation publications I came across a lovely phrase: ” A lapse is not a collapse”. In other words, because you’ve failed once, it doesn’t mean you’ve fai…
There Is Always Room For Improvement
When I was twelve my parents bought me a five foot snooker table for my birthday. This turned out to be the best present I was ever bought and I quickly became hooked on the game. My friends would regularly come round to my house for a game and when they were not there I would practice on my own.
Are You Trapped By Old Beliefs?
If you have ever wondered what kinds of beliefs you have stored away in your unconscious that silently influence your choices, take a good look at your life, including your friends, your loved ones, your job, and even your health.
The life you currently live is a reflection of your beliefs about what you are willing to accept and tolerate. This is the vital difference that separates people who live abundant happy lives from those who dont.
For instance, people who cont…
Mr. Mafioso Does Emotional Intelligence
I love Mr. Mafioso on AskMen. Look, college boy, he writes, there are certain lessons that all the books in the world couldnt teach you.
Is Emotional Intelligence Just The Fad Du Jour?
Ive been doing this for 15 years, Annette told me. It just wasnt called this.
But How Can I Use Emotional Intelligence?
Im sure youre hearing the term Emotional Intelligence. Its being talked about a lot these days. For most people theres an immediate click. We recognize it as the missing piece!
So If Retention Is So Harmful, What Should We Do? Teach!
Heading Toward a Long-term, Systemic Solution
A Boston Globe editorial stated that for “40 years, study after study on grade retention has reached the same conclusion: Failing a student, particularly in the critical ninth grade year, is the single largest predictor of whether he or she drops out” (Edley, 2002). The editorial goes on to state that “widespread retention further exacerbates the achievement gap: In Massachusetts, for example, across all grades, African-America…
Eight Billion Reasons Yahoo Didn’t Buy Facebook
For much of the year, Facebook had been in negotiation to sell itself to Yahoo. The market value of the “instant behemoth” social service sites has fluctuated, as services both large and small have changed hands this year. The first big acquisition was Newscorp’s purchase of MySpace for $580 million in 2005. That set a benchmark, which was driven upward somewhat by the NBC Universal purchase of women’s online network iVillage for $600 million earlier this year.
A Healthy Relationship With Failure
Some people have the notion that if they ?Can?t do it right, they won?t do it at all.?
Making Money On A Site That Bombs
You spend a lot of time and effort to build out and market a site. You are getting a lot of traffic, but the site isn?t profitable. What now?
Learning From Online Business Failures
I remember reading a book on Judo a long time ago. It advised that to be a good martial arts practitioner one must learn how to fall. It made a lot of sense since if a person is trying to learn Judo and doesn’t learn to minimize one’s fall, great injury is probably bound to happen. As a small online entrepreneur, I wasn’t aware at the time that this same wise advice can also apply to running your own online business. In order to be a good businessperson, you have to learn how…