If you’ve recently experienced a setback or failure, it can be difficult to find the motivation to bounce back and keep going. Yet it’s our setbacks and failures that offer the greatest opportunity for personal growth and success. Here are 6 tips to help you get back on track and find the courage to move forward and achieve success. Continue Reading

How do you get motivated? Initially, it is usually some type of pain that sparks change in people. Debts, break ups, bad grades, and being embarrassed can give us that needed ‘push’ to do something about our situations. Or, it could be an inspiring personal story, movie, or book that gives us the motivation we need to get started. Here are 15 tips for motivating yourself when the going gets tough. Continue Reading

Have you ever wished you were someone else? Maybe you think back to decisions you made in life and wonder what might have been if you had taken a different route. Would your life be better if you stayed with that one special person, choose a different career or traveled when you had the chance? Continue Reading

Personal development and self growth aren’t easy, especially when they require a healthy dose of self-reflection. The good news is that becoming a better person simply requires a decision. What should you focus on? Here are seven steps to improving yourself over the next few days. Continue Reading

Taking action and increasing your self esteem go hand in hand. The more you are motivated to change and achieve your goals, the more confident you will feel. Sometimes, pursuing your dreams can feel scary or overwhelming, especially if it requires you to step outside of your comfort zone and embrace change. Here are 4 ways motivating yourself to take action can actually build your self esteem. Continue Reading

If you have a job that doesn’t interest or inspire you, you may find it difficult to motivate yourself to be productive at work. Many people feel trapped in jobs they don’t like or don’t feel is important.

Ideally, if you don’t like your job, you should be actively looking for a new one, but in today’s poor economy, finding a newer, more fulfilling position may be challenging. What can you do in the meantime? Here are a few ideas to motivate yourself at work. Continue Reading

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I am good at setting goals and deciding what I want. But I never seem to take action. I’ve been considering changing jobs from a career as a banker to become a motivational speaker for youth and young graduates. The demand of the job is much and I find it hard to make significant progress. I have organized one training and talked once as an invited speaker at a university but that was since last year. Got any advice for me?

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I have a strange problem. I am a musician who formally studied classical guitar and piano. When I am alone, I play well but when I play in front of people, I feel intimidated and don’t play my best. I have tried affirmations and ways to relax, be self confident, and so on, but nothing seems to work. Composing is my strong area not public performance. I do realize that it is my responsibility as a musician to overcome this problem and give a good performance to my audience. Do you know of any solutions to overcome this?

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Why does it seem so difficult to achieve our goals? It’s easy to set goals, and even easier to visualize how our life would be if we got what we wanted. Yet too often, our goals take a back seat to the day-to-day activities of our lives. They get pushed aside as other priorities become front-and-center, and we think, well maybe next week, next month, next year, I’ll get around to accomplishing that.

The truth is that you will never succeed at achieving your goals unless you become clear about what you want, become motivated enough to change your life, and create a solid plan of action to achieve your goals. Without these three things, your goals will remain elusive dreams and wishes. Here are 4 steps to achieving your goals. Continue Reading

It can take 3-4 weeks to form a new habit. When you think about it, that’s not a long time, and yet so often, we get stuck doing the same bad habits over and over. Continue Reading