Thomas Alva Edison failed in his experiment for thousands of times before he was able to invent the electric light bulb. Laurence Peter failed when more than 20 publishers rejected his book, "The Peter Principle," before it became a best-seller. Abraham Lincoln failed the bar exam, failed in several business ventures, and failed in six major elections before he was finally elected president.

The truth is, all the aforementioned great people failed... but they were not...

Intelligent affirmation (suggestion), thinking intelligently and strongly of the thing desired, soon becomes the predominant thought in the subconscious mind. This predominant thought becomes the pattern or blueprint which in time is materialized--inwardly and objectively--into the reality of the picture or blueprint of the predominating thought. In other words, whatever we think of oftenest and most strongly, we get (this summarizes the law of attraction). To have health and keep it,...

Creating a successful business requires a good deal of self-examination and a willingness to change as the business progresses. The owner(s) must determine their purpose and interests to be served and plan for the future. Successful companies develop a vision statement for interacting with their customers, employees, suppliers and business partners and use them in their daily operations.

Your vision statement is a declaration of what you want to become in your life. Establish your...

Guiding your child to behave in a positive manner is as easy as 1,2,3. Two business practices have been adapted for family use. The first one is compelling in its simplicity.

1. Set a Goal
The first step is to meet with your children, and have them "buy in" to a mutually-developed goal. Explain to them that decisions and goals are made for one of two reasons. That is, to move away from an uncomfortable situation, or to move towards a desired goal. The latter is...

Enhance your power to manifest the life of your dreams using these ten creative methods:

1) Keep the end in mind. Ask yourself, what specific quality of life will the object of my desire bring to me? Why do I want this? Will it bring more Love, Harmony, Joy, Peace, Wisdom or Prosperity? Once you identify your real goal, do your best to assimilate that quality without the object and you will be deliberating achieving a vibrational harmony with the object you desired in the...

Under large amounts of exposure subliminal messaging can have a significant effect upon your thought processes.

It can be used to form habits, and even new behavior patterns - so much so that the use of subliminal messages (either quick flashing pictures, text, or subliminal sounds) in advertising has been completely banned.

Subliminal messaging has been used to help people with a range of personal development issues. They work by sending positive messages to your...

Anyone who has spent any time at all looking into self improvement will undoubtedly have come across the subject of goal setting. This is one of the most commonly written about and discussed of all subjects in the area of personal development.

So why is goal setting considered to be so important? A simple answer is that goals provide you with the destinations you want to reach in your life, and give you the inspiration and motivation to build a roadmap to reach these destinations....

This idea for executing a goal was first inspired by the movie "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, the girl playing Hoffman's sister is teaching him how to be a gunslinger with some lessons on how to shoot. This is where the story gets good. Hoffman's sister tells Dustin that he has to shoot the target "before" he draws his gun. As you will see, this is just one important part of the "fire".

This formula for goal execution is...

What are goals and why do we need them. Goals are targets for you to reach, things for you to aim for, obstacles for you to overcome or a destination for you to reach. Why are they important? Read on and find out.

How can you reach a destination if you don't know what or where it is. Imagine living in the USA and wanting to get to England but you have no idea where England is, you don't even know that you need to take a boat or a plane to get there because you've never even heard...

I recently had a conversation with one of my former students. She has been out of school for a few years now but isn't satisfied with the direction her career has taken. In fact, she's not too happy with her personal life either. Her voice developed more than a touch of whine as she said: "I don't know what to do."

So I asked her about her goals. Her response was a rather slack-jawed look of surprise. "Goals?" Well at least she wasn't whining anymore.