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Give your Word more Power! Part 5 in the Commitment series

You want what you want, which you get by using the three tools of creation: Thought, Word and Deed (action). The more power in each one, the more it helps you achieve your goals. The more you desire, the more you need your Word to contribute to its achievement. So increase the power of your Thought, the power of your Word, and the power of your Deed. The secret of success is to improve the power in your Word. Increasing the power in your Thoughts and Deeds will be explored another time. Your Word is a Promise

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Your Word is Worth what you Say It's Worth! Part 2 in the Commitment series

Commitment can be seen as a muscle, a mental muscle. And just like physical muscles, the secret of success is to keep your mental muscles fit and toned. Keep fit Physically Physically, exercise keeps your muscles strong. Yes, I know that physical workout can be a pain. I've stopped asking my body if it wants to go to the gym, it always says no! But it gets easier once I tell myself that since I'm here I might as well work out properly. The shower afterwards is generally the most enjoyable part!

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Integrate your Three Aspects to Enhance your Success. Part 7 in the Secret of Success series

So far we've covered several crucial secrets in this article series on the secret of success, now let's look at another. Your Three Aspects You have three aspects to your being. Intellectuality, emotionality, and your sensuality. Reason is your intellectual capacity, thinking, your head. Feeling is your emotional capacity, it comes from your heart. And lastly what can be called your sensuality includes artistic expression, intuition, fun, play, sex, and laughter.

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Does Your Word have any Power? Part 1 in the Commitment series

Is your word to be trusted? How much of the time can your promises be relied on? Perhaps your answer depend on who you make the promise to. For many people, giving your word to another person is more important than a commitment they make to themselves. They value the way other people see them, so they prefer not to let someone else down. Yet they don't mind letting themselves down! Let's look at the enormous value, the immense benefits you gain by keeping your word. Respect

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What Are You, since You're Not what you Have nor what you Do? Part 4 in the Secret of Success series

The key to real success, as we saw in the previous article in this series, is neither what you have, nor what you do. So what is it? How much time have you invested in contemplating this crucial question? First Reflect on Your Answer If you haven't already come up with your answer then please do so, it could change your life. Your successful implementation of this secret of success can only be achieved once you have come up with your own answer. Read that article, and spend as much time as you need.

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You're Unique, so why try to Duplicate Another? Part 2 in the Secret of Success series

You do all kinds of things which are necessary in your life. Yet one thing remains common and that is your consciousness, a golden thread running through all your actions. Your body changes and your actions change, but you're there unchanged. When you change your context by increasing your awareness, improving your knowledge, and investigating your beliefs, your actions change yet your consciousness remains. Mistakes

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If You don't Know Where You're Going, Any Road will do! Part 5 in the Change My Life series

"To change my life, I have to make a change in my life." This made so much sense to me when I first came across it! One of my goals was to change my life and, since you're reading this article, I guess it's one of yours too. My list was rather long, how about yours? You want life to become more desirable. Yet to change your life, you need to see change as a good thing! What do you want to change? Write down your List of Desirable Changes

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Deal with it - Proactively! Reduce your Stress with this Proven Tip, part 2

Would you prefer an easier life? Me, too! Yet how many of us are willing to put in the effort for life to become easier? You already appreciate the value of investing so you have money for later, but is that the only thing that will give you an easier life? Let's agree what's plain to see: any area giving you unsatisfactory results will also cause you some stress, right? Then the way to ensure you don't stress in the future is to ensure you don't end up with unsatisfactory results. So you need to look at those areas today.

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The Real Meaning of BUT - the Other Way of Saying No!

Melody was particularly attractive, and it was a challenge not to stare. I was very interested since I was dating no-one. After chatting for a while, I asked her if she would like to have dinner with me that night. She smiled, "I'd love to have dinner with you tonight, but..." Although she completed the sentence after the word but, I didn't hear it, my self-sabotage mechanism said she was rejecting me! What was she Actually Saying? What invariably comes after the word but? A negative!

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Do your Thoughts Sabotage or Support You? Part 6 in the Self-Sabotage Series

Where do thoughts come from? Do you have control over what you think? Sometimes, yes, but not always. Thoughts can just spin round and round, ignoring your screams of enough! Some seem to arrive from nowhere, and some thoughts come from your beliefs. Change your Perspective What are beliefs? If you know something is true then you say "I know this is true" rather than just "I believe this is true." Which suggests a belief is something you hold to be true without evidence, an unsubstantiated perspective. Yet your beliefs influence your thoughts.

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How to Respond rather tha React, the basis is Responsibility!

Respond and responsible have the same Latin root [re 'again', spondere 'to promise']. You can respond when you take responsibility. This is a decision that you are accountable for your circumstances, which doesn't mean you're to blame. Be Responsible Without taking responsibility, you pretend your contribution has had no effect, and such self sabotage makes you unable to respond. Yet no matter what you have or haven't done, it has affected the situation!

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Wolves - the Cherokee Indian viewpoint on the Enemy Within

Cherokee Indians have an interesting insight on your internal motivation which can change your life. They say two wolves live inside everybody : a black wolf and a white wolf! The black wolf feeds on negativity, it lives to bring you undesirable experiences. It's the enemy within, also known as your self-sabotage mechanism. The white wolf is on your side, it feeds when you're positive, realize your dreams, and enjoy desirable consequences. The Black Wolf

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Change Your Perspective to Become More Effective! Part 2 in the Self-Sabotage Series

What do you actually know? is the age-old question of philosophers and statesmen. A good answer, but not the only answer, is that you know what you have learned and experienced in the past. How can you know if you haven't learnt it, or remembered that experience? Which implies your mind only knows your previous events. Your regular, random, unrequested thoughts and emotions are based on the past. They're memories.

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Are you Being Right - even though you're Wrong? Part 4 in the Self-Sabotage Series

Stop Confusing the Issue with the Facts "It doesn't matter what you say, I've made up my mind and I'm not going to change it." Such self-sabotage is widespread, you've probably seen it often. Everybody likes to be right. But when the need to be right is exacerbated by the dislike of change, then you get the hilarious comedian's line: I've made up my mind, stop trying to confuse me with the facts!

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