How to be Successful

What does it take to be successful? What are the essential success skils? And what does success mean to you.

Success isn't about how much money you make - it's about leaving a legacy, making a contribution and doing what makes you happy. So what are you waiting for. Make a contribution and get happy!

Make your New Year's Resolutions Work

If you're one of the millions of people around the world who set new year's resolutions every year, only to have forgotten them before January's even over - then you need to read this article on why traditional New Year's Resolutions just don't work...

The #1 Reason Why People Succeed

Ever wondered why some people succeed and others don't? It all comes down to goals. Setting them, stretching them, achieving them, monitoring them and when they're done - celebrating your success and then setting another one! Find out the who's who...

Great Success Quotes

Great collection of success quotes by Henry Ford, Napoleon Hill, Thomas Edison and more.

Why some people succeed and others don't

Have you ever wondered why some people are successful and others aren't? Or have you ever said "I'm not like them - I can't be successful? This article explores what makes people successful and the secrets of success. Includes a link to 5 FREE Secret...

How to use the law of attraction

There is much mystery and contraversy surrounding the law of attraction - is it real? or is it just another marketing gimmick. Read these lenses and find out for yourself.

Learn to Live by the Law of Success and Rules of Attraction

The law of attraction is based on new age principles that state that a person can control their destiny through a certain pattern of thought. The law of attraction says that positive thoughts and emotions attract positive experiences. Negative though...

Manifest The Law Of Attraction

The Law of Attraction is at work every day in our lives and as the movie "The Secret" points out, we manifest/create what we think and that can be dangerous on a conscious level.

Imitate Success and You'll be One!

By visualising what success looks like to you and then imitating this success now, the expectant power of the brain through positive affirmation means that you will manifest the very success story you're imitating. Read this article and find out how...

Using the Expectant Power of the Brain to Succeed

A positive attitude and self-belief as the secret of success is more than just motivational hype - it is a powerful phenomenon of the human brain. Find out about the expectant power of the brain and how you can use this to drive you to success. Read...

Secret of Law of Attraction

If you've already had the opportunity to see "The Secret" movie, or you've read the book, you probably realize that The Secret is essentially an introduction to the Law of Attraction. The movie provides the key to open the door, but now tha...

How to get motivated

Action towards any goal or success is difficult without the motivation to get you there. Get motivated to achieve today!

Self Motivation Skills

Do you have self motivation skills? Do you understand how your self motivation skills work for you? Everyone has the ability to make their own outlook better or worse just with the thoughts they dwell on or the words they say. We each have the opport...

Motivation Quotes

It is a game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game you will win." -- Maharaji

Why Motivation Is Important

Many people talk about self motivation. We often hear that we should motivate ourselves and keep our motivation high. But why is motivation important? Is it really essential? In this lens, I'll give you some reasons why motivation is important if you...

Every Day Motivation

We find that motivation is a key ingredient to success in every aspect of our lives. This Squidoo lens is about what motivates us everyday. Please feel free to leave your comments about what motivates you that would be beneficial to others.

Daily Motivation

Daily motivation is essential to keeping a fresh outlook and maintaining the energy to get up and do your best each day. Are you looking for a source to find your daily motivation? Daily motivation can be found in many places and ways. You may find...

How to Set Goals

Most successful people would agree that to be a success, you need to have goals.

Everything you want to know about goal setting

If you've heard successful people rave about goal setting and wonder why, then you've just got to find out! Most successful people attribute their success to setting and achieving goals. So find out how to set your own goals and be a success too!

How to set goals in 5 easy steps

How do you set goals? Like all things, its actually quite simple - once you've done the groundwork. Find out the 5 steps to setting and achieving your goals.

How to achieve goals

Goal setting is just a process [there's a diagram of this process here]. But it is a very important and personal process that helps you get what you really want out of life. And there are some tips and techniques that will help you set and achieve...

7 Deadly Sins of Goal Setting

Goal setting sounds simple right? Well it is, but it can go wrong, so watch out for the 7 deadly sins of goal setting! I am sure there are more than 7, but these are the biggies.

It’s all about YOU!

The biggest mistake people make when setting goals is thinking 'BIG GOALS' rather than thinking 'PERSONAL GOALS'. BIG goals are fine, as long as they are what you personally want - setting a goal to 'keep up with the Jones' is doomed to failure from...

How to Manage your Time

There never seems to be enough of it, so just learn how to manage it better!

Tips for Effective Time Management

I'm making this page about time management because I myself had been wasting a lot of time unnecessary, end up most of the important things were not being done and started to have stress feeling.

5 Tips to manage your time effectively

Time is the most powerful currency of the 21st century. And this powerful currency demands much of our attention.. Here's some tips to help you make the most of your time every single day. And keep reading to get your copy of a FREE ebook on The Time...

Managing procrastinating

Procrastination may occur owing to the fact that one is attempting to organize things in the dark. This is especially true in mental activities like writing or working on a class assignment.

Time Management For Dummies

By Clare Evans Packed with hundreds of time-saving ideas, techniques and strategies, you'll be able to: get on top of your workload, communicate effectively, make the most of your business meetings, organise your desk and files, prioritise and deleg...

How to manage your finances

What success site would be complete without a section on money? More importantly, we should all manage our finances wisely - these lens show you HOW.

How You Can Rebuild Your Wealth After The Stock Market Crash

I have one primary goal for Middle America: Help you rebuild your wealth. First and foremost, I want to educate you today regarding personal finances. I don't want to preach the same old buy and hold strategies that have been preached by financial pl...

Tips for Saving Money

Now, more than ever, most of us are trying to find ways to save money that will make our paychecks go far enough to cover our basic needs. Many of us don't have enough to buy "extras" like car repair bills, new clothes, or taking our family out to ea...

Money Management

Articles and resources to help you handle your finances from planning your budget, managing your loans, and balancing your credit and debt.

Recession Busting Tips For Saving Money

The recession busting tips for saving money in this lens will help you take control of your finances in any economic conditions. Saving money on everyday expenses in the midst of an economic recession could be one of the biggest challenges you will e...

Don't Panic - It's Just a Recession!

With all economists warning that the western world is on the brink of a global recession - and even inklings of another depression - find out what this means for the average Joe and how you can manage your finances through these financial times.

How to be a leader

Leadership skills are important for being successful. And leadership isn't just about being a jerk and barking orders! Good leadership is about being able to influence others through your actions.

Good Leadership Skills

Effective Leadership Skills As you work your way up the corporate ladder at work, you may find that you need to know how to manage people effectively. This isn't always easy, and there may be many times when you make crucial mistakes that cannot be...

Effective Leadership

Effective Leadership Skills A common question many people moving up the ladder in their career have is about effective leadership skills. Though I believe these can be learned, I also believe that this is something that you are born with. There are...

How to be an Excellent Leader

This lens is for all those aspiring to be a great leader. Leaders can be made, in fact very few people are born with leadership ability. Leadership qualities and skills can be acquired, and developed through quality information, practice,experience a...

Good Leadership Skills

Effective Leadership Skills As you work your way up the corporate ladder at work, you may find that you need to know how to manage people effectively. This isn't always easy, and there may be many times when you make crucial mistakes that cannot be...

It's All About Leadership

I believe that everything rises and falls on Leadership. Leaders make thinks happen. Anything of significance that is accomplished is accomplished because of leadership. Anyone can be a leader. Although there are gifts that contribute to one's leader...

How to be emotionally intelligent

They say that EQ is the new IQ, so get emotionally intelligent and learn some real people skills from these lenses.

How to improve your emotional intelligence

Ready to improve your emotional intelligence? Let's go!

Coaching with Emotional Intelligence

Understanding emotional intelligence is a core ability for anyone involved in personal development. Coaches and other helping individuals become more self-aware and more effective in their personal and professional lives can find resources here...

Emotional Intelligence At Work

Welcome from Joseph Liberti, Emotional intelligence (EQ) is most simply described as capabilities that enable you to perceive, understand and use emotions to more effectively manage yourself and relate with and positively influence others. This len...

Practical EQ - Emotional Intelligence for the rest of us

Emotional Intelligence - just a fashionable buzzword or something you need to know about? If you are involved in management, sales, education, or running a business, I'd say the latter. Although some overhyped claims have been made for EI in th...

Emotional Intelligence

It is never too late to change and improve your behaviour so that you can improve your lifestyle, your future and your peace of mind. Emotional intelligence can be described as the mental ability we are born with which gives our emotional sensitivit...

Planning and Organisation

Being successful is about setting goals, planning your success and getting organised. So get organised today with these tips and lessons.

HOWTO: Use ThinkingRock to organise your thoughts

Good planning, and finishing up tasks, or writing down where you were and closing things so you can take them up again later, will prevent you from clogging up your brain, and you computer. Thinking Rock has come from a lot of thinking on Getting Th...

Decision Making Techniques

I'm sure you've been in a situation where your decision making or problem solving ability has let you down - I know I have! But there are tools and techniques that you can use to help make seemingly impossible decisions and solve problems no matter...

Mind Mapping for Goal Setting

One of the tricks with goal setting is getting all that information on your dreams and desires out of your head and onto paper. Once things are written on paper they are no longer just a thought - they are a reality. But what is the best way to extr...

What we can learn from the Military

Military organisations have been around in some form for centuries and in that time they've probably learnt a thing or two about stuff. Afterall, the Military deals with strategic planning, logistics, decision making, leadership, communications - to...

Action Planning to Achieve Goals

Action planning is all about turning your goals into achievements. Talking about creating life goals and improving your life is fine and dandy but actually making it happen is the real deal. This lens is to help you create plans that will allow you...

Other things you need to know

The 7P's of Career Success

We've all heard of the 7 P's of planning - Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P$#% Poor Performance. Well, here are the 7 P's of career development. Use these 7 P's as your guide to a prosperous and purposeful career!

Life Skills for Success

Goal setting is one of many life skills that require practice and a little effort to get started. There are some other useful skills that you need to develop to complement your goal setting skills to give you the full arsenal of success skills. Time...

Looking after yourself

Goal setting is about YOU anyway, so ALL goals you set should be personal and meaningful to you. But there are some particular goals you should consider to look after your overall well being and to achieve that sometimes elusive life balance - spiri...

Pay it Forward

In today's materialistic society, community goals are often seen as low priority. However the reality is that the community we live in has a huge influence on us personally - it fosters safety, responsibility and sustainability - so it is important...

Resources

Goal Setting Guide 2009

While resolutions for the New Year give us a wonderful sense of positive intent, they are extremely hard to stick to unless we turn them into clear, well-defined goals. But goal setting isn't always easy either! So here's a lens to guide you through...

Free stuff for goal setting

We are always on the look out for websites that offer great downloads and FREE stuff for goal setting and success. Here are some of the ones we've found and recommend - and yes, they're all FREE. Risk free, obligation free and don't-cost-any-money-t...

Life Planning Workbook Review

If you're looking for a complete guide to getting your life organised and heading in the right direction, then try this FREE workbook that steps you through the process of goal setting. But more than that, the workbook gets you to focus on YOU and a...