Tag: persistence
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How to Achieve Your Goals
When it comes to setting goals, most people focus on the end result rather than the process. They look at what they hope to get and ignore who they need to become in order to achieve what they desire. In order to do what you have not done before, you have to become who you…
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Financial Freedom: One Day at A Time
Attaining any goal, including financial freedom involves much more than setting a goal and having a plan. To make it happen, you need to make progress on a daily basis. You need to generate and sustain momentum in the direction of your goal. You need to develop a habit in alignment with your goal. This…
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Face Your Fears
Fear is the main reason why we are yet to do something about our dreams. What is your fear? Is it fear of losing money, fear of failure or what? You will have to face that fear sometime. The more you run away from it, the more it looms larger. If you stop for a…
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Overcoming fear of failure
Most of us have remained rooted in one spot because of the fear of failure. We are risk averse. We have an idea of what we want to do, but the fear of failure throws up several doomsday scenarios, both real and imagined. What if? We ask. The fear of failure makes failure loom larger…
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You need persistence
Persistence is the bulldog’s tenacity of holding on against all odds and opposition. Continuing steadfastly, obstinately, and stubbornly in the face of apparent failure or defeat. To succeed in any worthwhile endeavor, including your journey to financial freedom, you need persistence. You do not fail when you encounter a contrary outcome. You fail when you…
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Three kinds of people
By Les Brown I believe there are three kinds of people. There are winners, who know what they want and understand their potential and the possibilities. They take life on. Next are losers, who don’t have a clue as to who they are. They allow circumstances to shape their lives and their self-image. I believe…
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When things don’t go as planned
You have a plan. You have everything figured out, together with timelines for each event. On your computer, everything looks perfect. You are the man. One thing we have to understand in life is that we are not in absolute control of events around us, especially when we are still in the rat race, trying…
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Simply A Matter of Time
Getting to your goal takes time. Sometimes progress seems excruciatingly slow. Putting it bluntly, you seem to be at a standstill, and other times too slow. If you are earning a good salary on your day job, making peanuts by the side seems very discouraging. Sometimes you feel like calling it quits and putting more…
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Focusing and Acting On Your Dream
By Les Brown Focusing and Acting On Your Dream Whatever dream you decide to go after, whether it is a family or a career goal, you must consciously decide that it is your life’s mission. Benjamin Disraeli said, “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” You must go at it obsessively and set high…