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- Are you Committed to Growing or Staying the Way you Are - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonAs you know when you are in the gym and you want to grow, either your fitness or muscle mass. You can never just maintain the same workout routine. You either need to increase the size of the weights you use or the number of repetitions you perform, or if you are using cardio equipment, you need ...
Views: 625 - Have you Discovered what you Value Most in Your Life? - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Andrew HortonIf you thought about this question for just a second, the first thoughts that would pop into your mind would be, “my family”, “my children” or “my spouse”. Now take the time to look a little deeper, is the way you are living your life indicating that you are actually living your life, like those ...
Views: 619 - Small Errors in Judgement add up to Disaster - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2012 from Andrew HortonThere is most certainly no such thing as failure; you only fail when you finally give up and stop trying to achieve anything. As long as you are still taking action, which is in line with achieving the outcome you desire or you are working to overcome an unresolved challenge you have not failed. ...
Views: 706 - Invest into Building your Strength of Character - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2012 from Andrew HortonLife truly is a magnificent journey filled with meaning and fulfilment, when you strive to build great strength of character, always choose to reflect a positive attitude to everyone in your environment, operate from the high ground of good values and you choose to be passionate about the things ...
Views: 711 - Are you Willing to Live a Life of Purpose - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe creation of the mobile Global position system has revolutionized travel and made getting lost virtually impossible. Finding your way to any destination, in a simple stress free fashion, is as simple as entering your destination and then sitting back and following the verbal instructions that ...
Views: 987 - Becoming a Super Achiever Is Easier than you Think - by Submitted on Sep 20, 2012 from Andrew HortonChanging or improving any part of your life or business, is one simple decision away. When you make the choice to excel at something or to become world class, you must first make the decision that you want this positive change in your life. Then you need to learn a few basic new lessons and ...
Views: 1089(1 vote) - Break Out of Your Sales Comfort Zone and Become a Sales Super Star - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe numerous changes we see all around us every day and the roller-coaster economy, has presented us with a few new and interesting challenges. Everything continues to change, and will most certainly keep changing into the future. The markets are no longer the same, peoples buying habits and ...
Views: 2929 - Sales Success Demands Preparation and an Understanding of your Prospects Emotions - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2012 from Andrew HortonI have been involved in sales in one way or another for what feels like my entire life. I got my first sales position working in a chemist, when I was only ten years old. The wily old pharmacy owner knew that the people, who came in to his pharmacy, were there to buy prescription drugs or other ...
Views: 878 - Unleash the power of visualization - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2012 from Andrew HortonHave you got any idea where your life or business will be one year or five years from now, or are you satisfied to leave that to chance? You are most certainly going to arrive somewhere, one year or five years from now. My question to you is “WHERE” is that going to be. You can continue to fly ...
Views: 1066(1 vote) - Choosing to Be happy is the Key to Invite Meaning into your Experience - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2012 from Andrew HortonInviting meaning and fulfilment into your experience, starts with you making one of the most important and satisfying choices you will ever make in your life, namely the choice to allow yourself to experience true joy and happiness. Remember happiness is always a choice and the level of ...
Views: 1105(2 votes) - Your Attitude and strength of Character will determine your Altitude - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe attitude you project to the world can never be something, which depends on what is going on in your life or business at that time. It is something you have 100 % control over. In fact one of the most important choices you must make every day, is the type of attitude you intend to project to ...
Views: 985(1 vote) - Your Habits are Creating your Future - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe way your life will turn out, one year or even five years from now, is the result of an accumulation of all your current habits. Everything in our lives is governed by our habits. Starting with how you get out of bed in the morning, to how you dress, to how you speak, think and most ...
Views: 1359(1 vote) - Designing your Power Plan for Peak Performance - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2012 from Andrew HortonSuccess always leaves clues. No one around you that has achieved great success has done so in a vacuum. The path they have traveled, to achieve the remarkable success they have achieved, is paved with their own personal recipe or brand for success. One of the easiest ways to invite similar ...
Views: 1031(1 vote) - How are you feeding your mind every day? - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2012 from Andrew HortonI am sure that you are like most people and have a favourite type of food or even a favourite restaurant, where you love to eat. This gives you a wonderful way of nourishing your body. Can you say the same about your mind? Do you have a favourite author or type of book, which you use to nourish ...
Views: 1396(1 vote) - Become Childlike Once Again – Turn Anger into fascination - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonI am sure that you are like everyone else and you want to experience real positive and meaningful changes in the results you are currently enjoying in your life. The best way to this is to make a small shift to the way you view things. It is time for you to change your casual interest in ...
Views: 1323 - Today is the start of the “BEST” of your life - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonAccept that today is the start of “THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE”. I have lived life in great poverty and have also had the privilege of sharing in the abundance of financial wellbeing, which flows all around us. Take it from me; money is most certainly not everything. It does bring along with it ...
Views: 866 - Are the People Around you Supporting you? - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2012 from Andrew HortonHave you ever taken the time to look around your world and explored how much influence the people around you exert on you and the business decisions you make? Are you even remotely aware of the power the people around you exert on how your life and business unfolds? If you want to wrestle back ...
Views: 634 - Stop Allowing yourself to Be Distracted - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe best way to achieve greatness and to excel at everything you do is to remove distraction from your life. Whatever you do, always give 100 % to the task at hand. When you are working on any specific project, place all your energy into working as effectively as you can on that project only. ...
Views: 846 - Sustainable Success is Built on the Foundation of your Personal Brand - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe world around you will continue to change at an ever increasing pace and over the next twenty years, you may even be selling products or services into markets that don’t even exist yet. The one thing that you and everyone around you should be able to depend upon and, which will keep you ...
Views: 670 - How do you want to Project yourself to the World? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2012 from Andrew HortonIf you were asked to describe yourself in one word, what would that word be? Would it be something like, honest, obsessed, driven, compassionate, humorous, empathetic or any myriad of other possibilities? Write down the one word you would use to describe yourself. Is it the same word other ...
Views: 3646(2 votes) - Simplify Everything in your Life and you will Succeed - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2012 from Andrew HortonOne of the biggest challenges we face in our lives every day is the need to control everything in our environment. Too many people are so obsessed with things over which they have no control at all, that they do not have any energy left to focus on the things that really matter in their ...
Views: 609 - How do you View any Challenges you Face? - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2012 from Andrew HortonChallenges are Inevitable You will face challenges as small as a traffic jam, which may make you late for work in the morning, to massive challenges, such as the loss of your job, as a result of company resizing. In the moment these challenges may seem overwhelming and you may even feel like ...
Views: 1398 - Motivation is never a Solution, It is a Symptom - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonYou can, and never will, find any meaning and fulfilment in your life or business, if you go to a job every day just to make money. A job is something you do whilst in college to help you pay the bills. A vocation on the other hand, is something you do because you enjoy doing it and you feel ...
Views: 717 - Your Drive and Inspiration Must Come From Within - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonAll enduring and sustainable inspiration must come from within each individual. That is why it so important for leaders to empower their team members and to support them to have a vision for the future of their own. As it is the inner drive or inspiration of each individual and their ability to ...
Views: 1349 - Who are you Really and who do you want to Become? - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonNo one can ever expect to feel fulfilled or to be living a life of meaning, unless they have a clear vision and mission for the future. The two greatest tragedies in life is to either, never have a mission or vision for the future or to feel like you have fully achieved your life’s mission, ...
Views: 876(1 vote) - Effective Networking is one of the Top Sales Skills Required to Succeed Today - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2012 from Andrew HortonOne of the most important skills you need to develop as sales professionals is your ability to build meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships and real connection with people who matter. Dare to take inventory of your current relationships right now. Are the relationships you have, ...
Views: 822 - Mistakes and Challenges are Your Best Teachers - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2012 from Andrew HortonSuccess is a wonderful journey, but like any worthwhile long trip you will take, you will inevitably encounter a few challenges along the way. These challenges may even knock you down for a while. The secret to inviting sustainable success into your your life and business, is to spend as little ...
Views: 2059(1 vote) - Leaders need to Define, Clarify and Communicate - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2012 from Andrew HortonI believe it is because we have a need to always complicate everything in our lives and businesses that we cause ourselves a whole lot of unnecessary stress and discomfort. It is more often than not the simple solution or option, which delivers the best results in the end. Action ...
Views: 1060(1 vote) - Luck is Everywhere, are you Identifying and Utilising yours? - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2012 from Andrew HortonSuccess is a becoming; it is never something you can successfully pursue. Are you satisfied with amount of preparation you are putting in every day, towards becoming the person you need to be, to attract the success you deserve and desire? Are you acquiring the skills, knowledge and resources ...
Views: 633 - Learn the Art of Positive Influence and Become a Sales Superstar - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2012 from Andrew HortonOne of the greatest success skills super achievers develop is the ability to build meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships with their clients and to add real and meaningful value to them, when they sell them either their products or services. When I talk about sales I am not referring to ...
Views: 902 - You can Master the Art of Innovation - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2012 from Andrew HortonWe live in an ever changing world. Any casual observer can see that the pace of the change, we see all around us, is speeding up every day and so the best way to survive and to thrive, in this ever changing environment, is to commit to constantly innovate, evolve and grow. Your commitment to ...
Views: 766 - You Cannot Succeed Alone – Build a Rock Solid Support System - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe people you choose to associate with are one of the most important factors or influencers, which will determine how your life and business will turn out in the future. These influencers will get to determine whether you stick to your daily commitments to take action towards achieving your ...
Views: 1499(1 vote) - See the Abundance all Around – Share Freely - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe greatest gift you can give to yourself and everyone around you is the ability to see the abundance, which abounds and then be willing to offer everyone around you the gift of your caring and sharing. Learn to view the universe as an abundant place, see it as a place, with sufficient ...
Views: 1287 - Discover What you Truly Value or “Must” Have - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2012 from Andrew HortonWe have an incredible ability to do whatever it takes to get exactly what we truly value. In other words when you have a really deep rooted need to achieve something, it is something you feel like you just “MUST” have. There is no obstacle or challenge that will stop you from achieving it. ...
Views: 1092 - How Good are you at Meeting the Commitments you Make With yourself? - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhen you make a commitment with yourself, do you generally keep all of them? Or do you continually let yourself down? Always remember that there is always a price to be paid when you make a commitment or promise to yourself. That price can either be one of regret or one of accomplishment. Which ...
Views: 1448(3 votes) - Invest your Most Valuable Possession, your Time Around the Right People - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe influences, which the people you spend time around have on your life, are very subtle. Just like anything, either positive or negative, if you repeat something consistently over time, they add up and eventually shape the way you live. The people you consistently spend time around will ...
Views: 1816 - Do You Appreciate Everyone Around You? - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonNothing has a greater effect on building relationships than Appreciation Appreciating others is one of the principles of success, which too many business professionals, neglect on their journey towards sustainable business success. This is often at their own peril as research shows that up to ...
Views: 760 - Understanding how to get from mediocrity to super achievement - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe best way to convert a fantasy or a dream into a goal, which you can readily achieve, is to write your dream or fantasy down and then to formulate a broad plan to achieve that goal. This simple step begins the process, of goal achievement, by creating something concrete in your mind. This ...
Views: 1046 - Unlock Your Inner voice and listen to your Intuition Once Again - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe pressures imposed by society and its expectations, regarding anything you can't touch, feel or see, has forced us to repress our intuition and to stop listening to our inner voice. I hear you asking the question "What inner voice are you talking about". Well that inner voice that just asked ...
Views: 2100 - Are you Happy with what you See, When you Look in the Mirror? - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhen you look at yourself in the mirror in the bathroom every morning, do you like what you see? Do you feel satisfied and content that the person staring back at you is living a life of meaning and fulfilment, in all areas of their life? Are you asking yourself questions like, “How did I get ...
Views: 2415 - Are you Happy with the Way you are Spending Your Life? - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhen you reach the end of your fleeting physical experience one day, will you wish you had spent more time chasing after money or will you wish that you had invested your most valuable resource, namely your time, into creating meaningful relationships? The reality is that we are so driven to ...
Views: 1182(1 vote) - Identify the People and Resources you Need to Succeed - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhat are the skill sets you possess, that you believe can contribute towards reaching your goals? Take a long hard look at yourself and see what characteristics or skills you possess, which will contribute to your sustained success. This self-audit will help you assess where you are ...
Views: 1027 - What is your Commitment to your Life-long Growth and Learning? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2012 from Andrew HortonFormal education is important, but not crucial; to create sustainable success in your life, as it only equips you with the fundamentals for making a living. A commitment to lifelong learning and consistent growth, on the other hand is crucial, if you want to achieve and sustain greatness, as it ...
Views: 1562 - Drive Sales Success, Give More to Fewer Clients - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2012 from Andrew HortonUnless you are in the business of selling a complete commodity product or service, which relies exclusively on massive numbers of people buying your easily substitutable, low value product or service, you will find that the Pareto principal applies. Where 20 % of your clients give you 80 % of ...
Views: 1091 - Focus, Prioritisation and Rest, are Indispensable Parts of Your Success Toolkit - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe best way to achieve greatness, become a super achiever and to excel at everything you do is to strive to focus 100 % of your attention on whatever you are doing at that time. When you are working, place all your energy into delivering the best possible outcome you can achieve, strive to ...
Views: 1068 - Is Change Something to Fear or Something to Embrace? - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe world around us has started changing at an ever increasing rate. Everything seems to have become more and more interconnected. Events outside your industry and sphere of influence, very often have a huge influence on your business, family and your wallet. It is for this reason that, if you ...
Views: 1156(1 vote) - Formula for Success - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe first and most important way to change the results you are enjoying in your life right now is to set your imagination free. Let your imagination out for a walk and allow it to wander through the corridors of possibility. Explore all the possibilities and opportunities, which are available to ...
Views: 955 - Overcome Inertia – How Do You Get Started on Your Success Journey? - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Andrew HortonYes a journey of one thousand miles does indeed start with the first step. The challenge for most people though, is to find that inner drive and desire, to actually get off their butt, escape their comfort zone and for them to take that first teetering step and then to stay inspired enough, to ...
Views: 1229 - Are The Numbers In Your Life Adding UP? - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2012 from Andrew Hortonhe easiest way to ensure that you remain inspired and on track as you traverse the path to the success you desire, Is to constantly measure your performance against a number of predefined outcomes. These outcomes or measurement criterion must be defined and clearly stated, during the planning ...
Views: 1272 - Know WHY you Want Anything and it Will eventually be Yours - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2012 from Andrew HortonThere are factors, like the type of parents we had, the schools we attended, the part of the country we grew up in, which may affect how our lives turn out, if we allow them to be a factor. In reality all these factors are merely events, which occurred in our lives. The real measure of who we ...
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