During the course of our daily lives, we make plans. We make plans for dinner, for trips to the grocery store, and for cleaning our house. We also make long-term plans for our education, our finances, our businesses, and our vacations. However despite all the planning that we do very few of us actually make a life plan and this is a critical oversight as a life plan would encompass all those areas as well as our self development, personal relationships and happiness.

We all...

It is a common belief that the human brain is somehow empty at birth, and as the child begins to grow and receive stimulus, the neurons start making connections. Science is now discovering, however, that the reverse may be true. The infant is actually born with many more neuron connections than most adults have. It may be that learning does not happen by making neuron connections, but rather by "weeding out" those that are not used. If this is true, then we are all, literally,...

Statement Goal

Is a goal somewhat the we should figure of just for a second?

One common mistake a good amount of people make is this they do not think of the goals on a constant basis. Normally, when they are asked what their goal is, that is the only long time properties think of it. Then decades pass and the target they thought of is never achieved.Statement Goal

A Goal is a personal positive statement of something you wish to achieve. Rather than write out a goal...

One of the saddest things in the world is a good, never published novel.

Even sadder -- not writing the novel for fear of that sadness.

I'm not speaking from personal experience here.  Luckily.  Although someday, I may spend the time to write a novel, which may or may not sit in a drawer, or on my computer.

But this morning I was thinking about a friend who wrote a novel -- a good novel -- 15 years ago.  It still unpublished and almost certainly will...

People set goals all the time and this is good but the real measure of success is when you achieve your goals. You see the thing here is goal setting is very admirable but without an established plan you are just setting yourself up for failure.

When you first set your goals these targets should be something you have a burning desire to reach. When you motivate yourself in this way it helps you maintain the necessary drive you'll need to successfully reach your goals. These...

Many people make New Year Resolutions to lose weight and get in shape.  Unfortunately, by the end of January most people have given up on their resolutions.

I think one of the biggest problems with resolutions is that they tend to be all or none.  It’s hard to change a behavior or habit all at once.  Some people do achieve their resolutions by going cold turkey on a negative behavior, but for most of us quitting something cold turkey just doesn’t...

Goal setting can be done in many ways. For example, you could simply think about it, make big plans or even use goal setting worksheets. Success is determined by a system that can streamline the process. Join me as you discover how goal setting worksheets can help you.

In any goal, there is always a way for its achievement. We can look at the success as a spectrum. On the one end, failure, and on the other, success. To achieve success then needs to do things different. After...

An incisive quotation can often make your writing or speaking more effective.

But be sure that the one you choose is appropriate to your context and that your audience isn’t likely to have read or heard it before. In addition, a quotation should never just be dropped into your text. Explain its relevance to your theme. Or cite a real-life example or story that illustrates its point.

Many fine quotation resources exist. One that I recommend was just published. Mardy...

Have you started on your New Year’s Resolutions for 2008 yet? I hope you haven’t. I say that because resolutions don’t work. You heard that right. They simply do not work. It’s said that over 90% of New Year’s Resolutions are broken or given up on now – they turn to dust. Why is that? It’s because there is no plan to achieve them. You can’t just write them down and put them under the plastic mat on your desk or tape them in your planner,...

At first glance, it would seem that positive thinking and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have nothing to do with one another. But many of us with ADD develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our challenges and frequent feelings of being overwhelmed. This negative outlook then makes it even harder for us to manage those challenges and move forward.

Practicing positive thinking allows people with ADD to focus on our strengths and accomplishments,...