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- Small Errors Compounded over Time, Destroys your Potential - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe compound effect is remarkable and small consistent, well directed efforts over time, add up to remarkable results in our lives and businesses. Unfortunately the compound effect does not only work in a positive direction. Consistent neglect of your health, career, and relationships or around ...
Views: 1583 - The Time To Act on any Suitable Opportunity Is Now - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2012 from Andrew HortonLearn the art of exploring all opportunities, which may cross your path and build your experience and judgment, so that you can quickly decide if it is worth investing time and energy into exploring any new opportunity. It is always far easier to explore any opportunities and save buckets of ...
Views: 1288 - Overcome Fear and Invite Success into your Experience - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2012 from Andrew HortonAre you destroying your ambition for meaningful success, because you are allowing yourself to remain trapped in FEAR? Fear, as you know, is our way of looking at our world and seeing “False Experiences Appearing Real”, instead of exploring our world and seeing opportunity and possibility. How ...
Views: 1071 - Are Your Associations or Relationships Serving You? - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2012 from Andrew HortonChoose the people you associate with carefully as they are great contributors to your success. If you associate with or surround yourself with the wrong people, they will negatively impact your life and business, as they slowly, almost unnoticed, nudge you just a little off course every day. ...
Views: 1268 - Emerge From Behind The Clouds Which are Hiding Your Potential - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2012 from Andrew HortonRight now, is the time for you to emerge from behind the clouds that are hiding your ability and for you to finally allow the light of your unlimited potential to shine. Ignite the spark of possibility and allow it to burn in a brilliant blaze as you explore, discover and live your potential. ...
Views: 1454 - Developing a Success Habit Set, Promotes Long Term Sustainable Success - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2012 from Andrew HortonInspiration is that fire in your belly, which drives you to begin taking the necessary action to realize your dreams. Sustaining that initial momentum and to keep effectively traveling on the path of achievement, requires you to develop a success habit set, to help you sustain your daily ...
Views: 2244 - Powerful Plan for Peak Performance - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2012 from Andrew HortonSuccess comes to those who have a strong will to succeed, a vision of what they want and finally a plan to guide them to get it. Does that sound really simple and easy to do, well it really is. The challenge you face though, is that as easy as it is to do, so easy is it not to do. It is really ...
Views: 1228(1 vote) - Dare to Break Free From your Comfort Zone and Live your Potential - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2012 from Andrew HortonYou can choose to continue living your life like a little shadow, which runs across the field of your potential every day and then simply disappears when the sun sets or you can make the choice today to begin taking the strides necessary to finally invite your full potential to shine. When you ...
Views: 1787 - When Selling, Lose the Fear and Make the Sale - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhen sales professionals avoid any situations, where they have the potential to fail or make mistakes, they are limiting themselves and are in fact positioning themselves to fail. The fear of failure or rejection holds far too many sales professionals hostage. They have the ability and the ...
Views: 1592 - Should we Listen and Learn from the Feedback we Receive from our World - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2012 from Andrew HortonAll the actions we take or fail to take every day result in one outcome or another. Some of the outcomes, which we enjoy, are aligned with our needs and expectations and others are not. So in a very simplistic fashion, all we really encounter every day are events. They neither have a positive or ...
Views: 938 - How Can you Control How Your Life Unfolds? - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2012 from Andrew HortonMy grandfather had a really vivid imagination and whenever he would babysit for my parents, he would play a little good-night game with my brother and I. I loved this little ritual and was eager to go rushing off to bed, to wait for my grandfather to come tuck me in. He would sit with my brother ...
Views: 1969 - Sharpen Your Selling Skills and Seize Opportunities - by Submitted on Jul 09, 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 has changed, the markets are not the same, peoples buying habits and demand for products has changed. Innovation is driving new products, ...
Views: 1639 - The People Around you Mirror who you are - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2012 from Andrew HortonStrive to hold the highest consciousness possible and aspire to surround yourself with the RIGHT people. People that reflect the qualities you want to see in your own life. This will help you keep your focus and energy on the business of utilising your excellence and exposing your ...
Views: 5720 - Are you Prepared to Go the Extra Mile To Succeed? - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonIf you want to finally start moving towards the success you want to invite into your life. It is time to stand out from the crowd and go the extra mile. As long as you allow yourself to remain trapped in your comfort zone. A place where you are, neither content, nor fulfilled your life will ...
Views: 2548 - You can Double your productivity in only 30 Days - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2012 from Andrew HortonJohn lives an average life, waking up at 7 am every day. He immediately switches on the radio as he wakes up, filling his brain with all sorts of random pointless distracting input. He drives off to work with the radio blaring away in the background. This allows him to stay tuned out of his day ...
Views: 1117 - Build Momentum and your Sustainable Success is Assured - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2012 from Andrew HortonI am sure we all know someone like Jane, she was really inspired last week and decided that she finally wanted to change her life. She set herself a goal to double her income by the end of 2013 and vigorously started taking action on Wednesday, so that she could finally start to deliver on the ...
Views: 1939 - Do What you Love, Or love What you do - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2012 from Andrew HortonIs your greatest aspiration in life to retire one day and sit under a coconut tree? I challenge you to grasp all the possibilities available to you and to accept that to live a life of meaning and fulfillment, a life where you will get the greatest pleasure and satisfaction, requires you to ...
Views: 1039 - Are you learning from the Top Sales Performers in Your Organisation? - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2012 from Andrew HortonI find it astounding that the same sales professionals achieve the top sales results, year after year, whilst others sit back and wonder how they could achieve similar results themselves. When I work with sales teams, I ask one simple question. I ask them if they know who the top three sales ...
Views: 1882 - Managers – How to Motivate Your Employees - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonOne of the greatest challenges facing many businesses today is finding ways to motivate and inspire their team members every day. This task is growing even more difficult, due to the turbulent economic conditions; we are facing and the ever increasing pace of change all around us. I hear many of ...
Views: 1217 - Turn your business into a success - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2012 from Andrew HortonStop Selling and Build Mutually Beneficial Relationships with your Partners Anyone who has built a camp fire knows that starting a fire and getting it going is quite difficult. You need to build a small pile of dry kindling and then apply some sort of spark to it, to get it burning. Once this ...
Views: 1231 - Achieve the Impossible, One Step at a Time - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2012 from Andrew HortonAt some stage in your life, you still dared to dream and you had those grandiose goals and aspirations, to live a life of meaning and fulfillment. What killed that drive and determination in you? Was it because you really were dreaming the impossible or you just simply did not have what it took ...
Views: 1979(1 vote) - Do You Know What You Really Want and Do you Believe You Can Have It? - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhen you walk into a dark room, you simply reach across, press the light switch on and the darkness disappears. Do you need to attend a motivational talk to inspire you to press the light switch, or do you procrastinate and contemplate the task, before you actually press the switch? No, you just ...
Views: 1609 - How do you Unlock the power of Knowledge? - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2012 from Andrew HortonI am sure you have heard the phrase “knowledge is power” bandied about and have even used the phrase yourself on occasion. Well as you know, simply knowing something doesn't make anything happen. A whole lot of things we hear or read about are common knowledge, everyone knows about it. The ...
Views: 1690 - Invite Harmony into your Life - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2012 from Andrew HortonInviting harmony into your life means that you will need to exert a little more conscious control over your habits and lifestyle. I believe that if you are to truly become a fully actualised individual, you need to look beyond the obvious, on-going commitment to lifelong learning, consistent ...
Views: 1238(1 vote) - How are things going this year? - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2012 from Andrew HortonSmall Insignificant Daily Actions, Add Up Into Super Achievement How are things going this year, with those big dreams and goals you had earlier this year? Are you still allowing yourself to stand on the side-lines of your life and are you still making those small daily errors in judgement, ...
Views: 1306 - Create Your Own Vision Book or Vision Board - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2012 from Andrew HortonAs you travel on your journey towards the success you desire, you obviously understand the importance of having a purpose, vision, mission, a set of very clearly defined goals and finally individual goal specific actions, which you will carry out every day. Once you have this crucial structure ...
Views: 3569(1 vote) - Affirming the Correct Behavior, will bring Light to the Dark - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhen helping individuals within corporations to work effectively with their affirmations. I remind them that they might sometimes feel resistance well up inside themselves, when they are affirming any new behaviour. When anyone in your team affirms something, which challenges their comfort zone, ...
Views: 1319 - Using Affirmations to Inspire the Optimal Behavior in Your Team - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe type of success you will get to enjoy in your life or business is directly affected by the clarity of your vision, how serious you are about what you want to achieve, the quality of your goals and plans and your daily commitment to carry out goal specific actions, which will help you to ...
Views: 2083 - Visualization will Support you on your Success Journey - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2012 from Andrew HortonVisualization is a really powerful supplemental tool, which you can utilize on your success journey, to support you to build belief, encourage activity and help you to stay focused on achieving your vision. It is by no means a standalone process, which on its own, is going to deliver the meaning ...
Views: 1147 - Sustainable Success Starts with Self-Belief - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2012 from Andrew HortonAs you know whatever you think about you will eventually bring about. It is for this reason that I recommend creating a few positive affirmations, which support your vision and goals. Positive affirmations are nothing more than positive statements, which we create; to support a new positive ...
Views: 1452 - The Goal Setting/Achieving Process - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2012 from Andrew HortonIt takes as much energy to set a large goal that will stretch you, as it does to set a very small goal, which does not challenge you at all. When you set worthwhile goals they should feel a little daunting and require a stretch to achieve. An effectively set goal is one that clearly states the ...
Views: 1549 - Never Let Making a Living Stop You - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Andrew HortonWe all need to make a living and even though we may be involved in something that is not inspiring us or making us feel passionate, right now, we must never allow that to stop us from expressing our true desire. Give yourself permission to dream once again, allow your mind to walk into the ...
Views: 1351 - Decide What You Want, Chances are it wants you Too - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Andrew HortonDecide what you want, chances are it wants you too. Once you are clear on exactly what you want in your future and you have invested the time and energy to turn that picture into a crystal clear vision for the future and you begin to take action every day to bring this vision to life. You will ...
Views: 800 - Effective Communication is the foundation of all success - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2012 from Andrew HortonCommunication is critical when developing mutually beneficial and mutually enjoyable relationships. Relationships require trust, and one of the best ways to develop trust is to focus on helping the other person feel heard and understood. Remember this important distinction: There’s a big ...
Views: 1760 - Meditation as a Tool to Unlock the Power of your Intuition - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe pressures imposed by society and its expectations and beliefs, regarding anything you can’t touch feel or see, has forced us to repress our intuition and to stop listening to our inner voice. The practice of meditation helps you clear away the day to day distractions and if you will just ...
Views: 1058 - Why it’s good to FAIL - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Andrew HortonFailure is really only feedback from our environment or the universe telling us that our response to various events in our lives was not correct. What that in effect means is that our responses did not deliver the outcomes that were desirable at that time. So failure really only serves as an ...
Views: 2653(2 votes) - Create a new Success Habit Set to Support Your Dreams - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2012 from Andrew HortonChange is always disconcerting, if not terrifying, for most people. I want to offer you a few tips in this article, which will help make positive changes in your life, which will take you from where you are to where you want to be. The positive change I encourage you to make in your life right ...
Views: 1792 - Strive to Create a Positive Environment - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2012 from Andrew HortonLet’s face it; it’s difficult enough to maintain a positive, confident and enthusiastic outlook in the face of setbacks and the ever changing world we live in. So why do we sometimes add to the challenge, by hanging around in environments that are filled with negativity and compound the ...
Views: 1785 - Turning your Dream into Reality - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhat must you do every day to finally live your goals? To get from where you are to where you want to be or should I rather say “where you passionately NEED to be”. You must firstly be certain that you really need and want, whatever goal you are attempting to achieve in your life. You must ...
Views: 1446(1 vote) - You can be happy Right Now - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2012 from Andrew HortonHappiness like success is very often misunderstood and too many people think that happiness is a function of how much money you have. Most people wrongly believe that if you make enough money, you can buy happiness. I have had the experience of pursuing money at the expense of everything else ...
Views: 1098(1 vote) - Pursuing happiness is as effective as chasing a rainbow - by Submitted on May 30, 2012 from Andrew HortonAttempting to pursue happiness is as effective as attempting to discover the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. The harder you try to find happiness, the more you pursue it, the further out of your reach it will become. Happiness is never something you pursue; it is something you choose to ...
Views: 1506 - The Power of Your Imagination, Will Create the Future you Desire - by Submitted on May 29, 2012 from Andrew HortonI have often pondered the question around, what drives one person to consistently take the daily actions, which result in great success and what encourages someone else with the same potential, to sit back and do nothing. The research that I am conducting is pointing me towards, a finding that ...
Views: 2831 - Stop Attempting to Solve Problems Any Longer – Just Make Different Decisions - by Submitted on May 27, 2012 from Andrew HortonWorking with the concept of problem solving, introduces a number of challenges for me. I believe that what we think about, we most certainly, through our thoughts and actions, eventually bring about. So the very act of viewing something as a problem causes us to engage in negative thought ...
Views: 1034(1 vote) - The Art of Making Decisions that Can Change your Life or Business - by Submitted on May 25, 2012 from Andrew HortonThe ever increasing rate of change in our world, over the past few decades, has resulted in the challenges we face, becoming more and more complex. There is a constant barrage of data and information, through which we need to sort, before we can even begin making any decisions. These constant, ...
Views: 1122 - Make The Most of Your Personal Power as a Leader - by Submitted on May 24, 2012 from Andrew HortonAll really great leaders know the few leadership secrets I am going to share with you in this article. They know that there are a few crucial personality traits, which they can use to empower themselves as leaders. These personality traits or rather personality powers, will help them to increase ...
Views: 1345(5 votes) - Share in the Abundance, Which Ebbs and Flows all Around Us - by Submitted on May 23, 2012 from Andrew HortonI very often get asked by people, why I write an article every day, in which I aspire to add inspiration to as many people’s lives as possible and freely share my take on personal development. They cannot understand how I can give so freely to others and ask nothing in return. My answer is ...
Views: 1056 - Real winners never cross the line, they Keep Moving the Goal Posts - by Submitted on May 23, 2012 from Andrew HortonWhenever I watch the athletes being interviewed, before the Olympic Games I can quickly tell who the winners and who the participants will be. The most reliable way of doing this is by simply listening, to their answers, during sports interviews. Those that say “I am just glad to be here” are ...
Views: 1926 - Connect with the Right People and you will Dramatically Increase your Sales - by Submitted on May 19, 2012 from Andrew HortonIt is a well-known fact that people buy from people they know, like and trust. So if you have a desire to increase your sales, then you need to stop sitting with your feet braced firmly against the table, with a desperate look on your face trying to sell your products or services. Instead you ...
Views: 1487 - Reward Your Successes, Re-Energise and boost Your Productivity in The process - by Submitted on May 18, 2012 from Andrew HortonIf you are like most of the people I meet every day, you are searching for ways to reduce the overwhelm you feel, finally begin to make some real headway on your big goals and yet still have some time left over, to enjoy your favourite and most nurturing activities. The challenge we all face ...
Views: 1515 - It is Time for You to Re-fire and Create the Life you Have Dreamed About - by Submitted on May 17, 2012 from Andrew HortonI met a really amazing lady yesterday; she really inspired me with her attitude and drive. What was really outstanding about this lady was that she was 86 years old. I told her that I was astounded by her vigour and energy. She looked at me quizzically like there was nothing unusual about an 86 ...
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