The Missing Ingredient to Success
“Love yourself, for if you don’t, how can you expect anybody else to love you?”
The missing ingredient to success is Self-Esteem! Self-esteem is a mix of confidence, positive feelings about yourself, and an ability to grow as a human being. Self-esteem is really one of the most important things you can cultivate in your life. Your life can essentially be condensed to how you feel about yourself, because it often permeates throughout the rest of your life.
People with high self-esteem perform better in life, are happier, and have more fulfilling relationships. But developing self-esteem is harder than you might imagine, because it means battling your inner demons.
It also means trusting yourself, instead of trusting the opinions of others. It means putting your goals and dreams before those of others. That might sound selfish, but until you feel fulfilled and proud of yourself, you won’t be able to help others. Continue reading »
Self-Sabotage: How To Turn Resistance Into Momentum
“Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn’t happen.” ~Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
Have you ever been so close to success that you could smell it? And then something happened to take it all away? We all have these types of moments, but what we need to recognize is that sometimes we are responsible for our lack of success. That’s self-sabotage.
I would like to suggest that self-sabotage is not an entirely negative experience that we need to avoid at all costs. On the contrary, self-sabotage has some merits, but you need to learn how make self-sabotage work for you and not against you. Continue reading »
Worry Wart: I Can’t Do Anything, I’m too Busy Worrying About It
“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.“
Worry keeps you up at night. It nibbles at you, while you go about your life, and it makes you lose focus on the big picture. You might become clumsy, say things you don’t mean, or put your shoes in the refrigerator. You might become distracted and lose the thread of a conversation.
Everyone worries, and despite our best efforts it can be an all-consuming pastime. The problem is that most of us don’t realize when we are worrying, until a worry has become deeply rooted into our mind. Continue reading »
One Number That Has The Power to Change Your Life
No, I’m not talking about your credit score, your social security number, or your net worth. I’m talking about your age! This one number can hold you back, and stop you from doing what you want in your life. But contrary to popular belief, this number is only able to hold you back if you let it.
In fact, it can be liberating to follow your dreams despite your age.
How Getting Out of Line Can Get You To Your Financial Finish Line Sooner
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If there was a straight line starting at birth, and finishing at a retirement home, it would look a little like this: first you go to school, to get educated and learn to socialize with others.
Then you attend more school, and if you’re really good, even more. Eventually you go to work, and no matter if you’re good or not, you keep on going to work. Eventually you retire. This “assembly-line” is what the song “Another Brick in The Wall” by Pink Floyd refers to: that line that everyone is supposed to toe.
But what if you could get more of what you really want, say money or success, if you didn’t toe this line? Continue reading »
The Difference Between Fulfillment and Achievement
Although the main focus of this blog has been to detail the different aspects of the lives of billionaire women, I like to think that it goes deeper than that. After all, we are all human beings, no matter what our income level or our inheritance accounts. That’s why I think that it’s really important for us to take a step back from the every day routine to look inside. It also helps to know what you’re looking for when you peek inside your own dark abyss. Sometimes we like to think that we are all after something different, but Tony Robbins suggests that all human beings are only trying to meet the same few basic needs. One of these needs is the topic for this post today and I’ll go over the two sides of it in more detail now.
Achievement is…
Dictionary definition: A thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage or skill.
It seems today that everyone is fueled by the golden carrot of achievement. This carrot is dangled in front of us day and night and it is something that gets ingrained in us from birth through social conditioning. We want to succeed, we want to be the good child, the one who does well. So we try harder, put more effort into it and develop our skills. We achieve, whether it is what we want or not. We achieve at school and at work. Then we show off our achievements to everyone through the house we buy, the family we build, and the wardrobe we wear. For men everything revolved around their car, for women it can be the size of the ring on their finger or their beautiful home.
We live in an achievement driven environment and if we don’t have anything to show our achievements, then we feel inferior. Do you ever feel weak explaining your career choices to strangers or new acquaintances? Continue reading »
