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20 Ways To Improve Your Life People often ask me how they can improve their lives. I always give them very specific advice on simple things they can do to create a radical shift in their experience of life. Here are 20 ways to improve your life. I challenge you to act on each one. Adopt one a day. You will be done with the list in 20 days, but in 3 months time, your life will have changed beyond recognition! An Exercise To Open Your Mind To Your Possibilities Here is a simple exercise in imagination that you can use to create a compelling future. Create A Statement Of Professional Goals To Increase Your Income Business success starts with creating a statement of professional goals. Create Your Best Life How do you use your imagination to create your ideal scene? If you want to be inspired to create your best life, I'll share with you some of the ideas I've used. Do You Believe What You Think? When we question the story that we habitually tell ourselves about why we can't follow our dream, we break away from the myth that what we want is not possible for us. Instead of our usual place of resignation, we will find ourselves in a place of resourcefulness. Do You Need A Change Of Mind? This is a short story with many success lessons on how Napoleon Hill, the famous inspirational writer, once met a reader who became a millionaire after reading one of his books. The book, Think and Grow Rich, transformed Bill McCall of Australia from rags to riches. Dream the Impossible Dream When you believe in impossible things, they become possible. All major breakthroughs in progress happened when someone dared to dream about something that was considered impossible. How could Mahatma Ghandi, a single man, bring down the mighty British Empire? How could Martin Luther King bring respect to a people who had historically always been disowned? How could Nelson Mandela, a prisoner, overthrow the government of his captors and become its leader? It is all because they dared to dream the impossible dream. Dare you imagine what is possible for you if you dare to dream? Follow Your Dream If you have a dream, follow it. No matter how wild, outrageous, and improbable it may seem. Here are some ideas on how you can break through to your goal. How A Decision Can Save Your Life Mr. Galen Litchfield, the manager of Asia Life Insurance, was in Shanghai when Japanese troops invaded. This was in 1942, after the invasion of Pearl Harbor. His ability to make sound decisions saved his life. You, too, can learn to be decisive and get better results in your life. How An Idea Can Lift You In the privacy of your mind, you can think original, stirring thoughts. You can find what stirs you. When you find what moves you, you can determine the direction in which you wish to go and shape your destiny. How Flexibility Can Get You Out Of A Rut In our bid for security, we often stick to a path that has long since outlived its usefulness to us. Although we are uncomfortable with our situation, we prefer it to the fear of the unknown. The following story shows why flexibility is an important success principle. How The Right Questions Can Change Your Life The right question will solve your problem. You are always asking questions and answering them; this is part of your internal dialogue, casually referred to as thinking. But real thinking is asking a quality question and expecting an answer. It is sticking with the question until the right answer appears in consciousness. How To Cope With Difficult People Coping with difficult people is an essential life skill that we seldom learn. Here is a way to get some perspective on this thorny issue. How To Gain Control Of Your Life When we cultivate awareness of ourselves through honest introspection, we accelerate our personal evolution, success, and happiness by noticing dysfunctional life patterns that arose from decisions made in childhood. Awareness gives us the power to redecide and create a new response that will help us gain control of our lives. How To Get As Lucky As J. Paul Getty J. Paul Getty knew how to engineer his luck. He knew how to take risks but also how to calculate them. We can learn a great deal from him about how to get "lucky." How To Make Good Decisions The failure to arrive at a decision causes a person to go round and round and round in maddening circles. The person ponders over the same information over and over. It is this failure to grasp a problem that creates nervous breakdowns. Once a decision is made, a clear, definite course of action opens up. How to Read a Page a Minute Reading faster does take some effort. However, your results will be worth it. As your knowledge expands, your income will soar and the quality of your life improves. Alternatively, those who still have an industrial age mentality risk becoming obsolete. While we can’t slow the brisk pace of modern life, we can prevent the tragedy of falling behind. How To Turn Dicey Situations Around It's easy to turn dicey situations around. You simply have to use your imagination. Once you hold a picture in mind for long enough, you invite a chain of circumstances to completely turn everything around for you. How to Win at the Game of Life In any company, in any entrepreneurial venture, it is the service provider who takes home the money. The slackers, the cynics, and the rebels watch the prizes fly past their noses. See why providing excellent service automatically leads to riches. Is goal setting a waste of time? Success requires a clear goal. It's easy to set goals when you know how. Here are a few tips to get started. Lessons from the First Space Strike On Apollo 13, the crew staged the first strike in the history of space travel. The date was December 27, 1973. Mission Control had sent more commands than the crew could cope with. Commander General Carr put a stop to this when he radioed in to Mission Control. “You have given us too much to do,” he complained. “We’re not going to do a thing until you get your act in better order.” Mastering The 5 Habits Of Success If you aspire to success, you'll find that you can start exactly where you are now. Starting with an attitude change will begin the process. Success begins with your willingness to adopt a few simple habits. Stepping Into Possibility Thinking To transcend the built-in limitations of our minds to resist fresh ideas is an act of will. We must choose to question the nature of our beliefs. We must choose to be interested in other perspectives. Success Is Knowing What You Want The human mind is like a smart bomb. It needs specific targets, clearly outlined, before it will make an impact. A focused mind, a passionate mind, a committed mind is one of the most potent forces in the universe. The 7 Keys To Astonishing Success Here are seven essential keys to success. Use these ideas to find ways to stretch your beliefs about what is possible. Break free of self-imposed limits. Follow these principles and you will realize your dream. The Bubble Of Prosperity If you aspire to wealth, you'll find that you can start exactly where you are now. Starting with an attitude of gratitude will begin the process. Gratitude creates an active, dynamic subconscious that helps you win friends and influence people; wealth, in financial terms, also shows up. Financial change begins with your willingness to appreciate your current situation. The Circular Blame Game We tend to forget that we create the circumstances that we bemoan. By taking responsibility for being at cause, we can then do something about it. We don't have to be victims to effect. What Is Mastery And Why It Makes All The Difference In The World If you aspire to mastery, you'll find that you can start exactly where you are now. Starting with a decision to become excellent at something will begin the process. Mastery creates a higher level of joy in your life. Success begins with your willingness to master some one thing that you love to do. What Is Success Anyway? Success is a journey. When we undertake this journey, we feel that our life has meaning. Anyone can become successful at anything if they persist through all the learning trials that are inevitable when aiming for mastery. Finding a mentor and undertaking some kind of training speeds your progress. What We Can Learn From J. Paul Getty This is a brief story of how J. Paul Getty first got started on his way to his vast fortune. There is a lot we can learn from observing how he made his decisions. What Will It Cost You? What will it cost you if you don't express your dream? The We are happiest when we are expressing ourselves and living out our dreams. When we repress what we value, our unmanifested destiny and our unlived life will cause us grief. Who Else Wants To Know Oprah's Secrets To Wealth & Success? In my opinion, Oprah Winfrey has an invaluable secret. Ironically, she shares it openly with everyone, but few get it. This is the secret to her abundance and popularity. She draws wealth and success to her like a magnet attracts iron filings using a very simple principle that anyone can adopt. Why Anyone Can Be Prosperous Life overflows with abundance, from trees to meadows, from the highest mountain to the deepest seas. Abundance is the law of life, and we can tap into it by focusing our desires on a positive and uplifting vision.