Your Recipe For Success
[Self-Improvement: Success] If you are like most people, you tend to judge your success by comparing yourself and your situation to other people, usually within your inner circle of friends and acquaintances. You have more than this person, but less than that person, and so on. This "keeping up with the Jones's" mentality leads to nothing but more stress and less contentment. More importantly, it does not increase your chance at attaining true success.

Failure - What's it to You? Seeing Failure For What it Is - Feedback!
[Self-Improvement: Success] What is failure to you? I have a pretty good idea of what you have been conditioned to think failure is. That's not my question. My question is what is failure to you? You define it. You decide what to call failure. After all the only opinion that matters in life is yours.

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
[Self-Improvement: Inspirational] The challenge is to overcome that fear of the unknown and consistently seek the uncomfortable. The first thing you need to do is to get out of your daily rut. It sounds simple but you won't believe how uncomfortable you will feel at first when you change a routine that has been established by years of repetition.

Reality - How Real is It?
[Self-Improvement: Empowerment] In the dictionary, reality is defined as, the state of being real or genuine, an actual situation or event. I contend that there is no reality, that we are all living in a fantasy world of our own making, one that most fits into the model of the world that we accepted.

Fear - A Survival Mechanism
[Self-Improvement: Personal-Growth] Fear is something that has been bred into us. At one time it served a very useful purpose and still can today. Fear is our way of protecting us from great bodily harm or a threat to our survival. The unfortunate part is that we have generalized fear to the point that we use it in a way that hinders our growth and possibilities.

Your Life in a Minute
[Self-Improvement: Personal-Growth] This is your life. The only one you're going to get. There's is no second chance. There is no do-over. This is it. Every day you are given a precious gift of 1440 minutes. The quality of your life depends on how effectively you use those minutes.

Limiting Beliefs - You Are What You Believe You Are
[Self-Improvement: Personal-Growth] Have you ever wondered why your goal is always just out of reach or why life is always such a struggle? More than likely, it has to do with your beliefs. Beliefs are a powerful and often times unchecked force with the power to push you toward or pull you away from your desired goals and objectives. This article sheds light on the importance of our beliefs and the necessity to constantly be aware of and challenge them.

Failure - Why Does it Scare Us?
[Self-Improvement: Success] The fear of failure is responsible for more unrealized dreams and potential than any other factor in human existence. If this fear was somehow abolished from our psyches, just imagine what could be accomplished. What would you do if you new without a doubt that you could not fail and therefore had no fear? The answers are endless and the accomplishment would be astounding...unfathomable.

Life is Not a Zero Sum Game
[Self-Improvement: Abundance-Prosperity] The abundance of life is explained in this article through the metaphor of a drinking well in an Italian Church. When it comes to life, it is possible for everyone to win. There does not need to be a loser. Life is not a zero sum game. Enjoy the article and go for abundance.

Get Into the Habit of Success
[Self-Improvement: Success] This articles explores one of the most powerfull tools that we have at our disposal...our habits. It outlines how habits are formed and what effect they have on our lives.

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