Most people tend to quit after one or two failures these days and if they don’t, if they persevere through the first two and get to three than that’s considered rare. For some reason, we are programmed to think, we are programmed to believe that if we fail that’s the way that it’s supposed to be. “This was meant to happen,” we think. We don’t realize that each failure we have, each “no” that we encounter is getting us one step closer to success. Each failure ought to be thought of as a lesson, not as a failure. Once we change our minds to view it as such our life will begin to change. Her ..read more

In this easy-to-read, in-depth 8 minute article you will learn why you shouldn’t make decisions in anger, Barbara Fredrickson and the broaden-and-build theory, and real-world examples of how and why anger and negative, raw emotion shuts down your mind and limit the options available to you. There was once a young boy who had a very bad uncontrollable temper. His father, one day, being the wise man that he was, decided to hand him a bag of nails and said, “every time you lose your temper, hammer one of these nails into the fence.” On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into the fence ..read more

What is the Law of Attraction? Well, quite simply, the Law of Attraction is the ability to attract into our lives whatever we constantly focus on—whether it be good or bad, positive or negative. Doesn’t matter. You simply attract into your life what you give your energy, effort, and attention to. All of our thoughts eventually begin things.  It’s Not Some Crazy Law If you focus on the negative you’ll receive the negative, if you focus on the positive you’ll receive the positive. This can be in the form of ideas, people, opportunities, you name it. Law of Attraction Your body, you see, is ..read more

Self-love isn’t selfish and here’s why: When on a plane the flight attendant will tell you, “should oxygen be needed at any time during this flight a mask will fall from above. If that is to happen, it’s important for you to secure your own mask first, before assisting those around you.”  Yes, even if it’s your little girl, boy, brother, sister, mom, dad, or even wife. You are supposed to put on your own, you are supposed to help yourself before assisting those around you. Why is that? Why would you help yourself before helping others? Doesn’t that contradict everything we have ever been ..read more

If you worked day and night for months on end on a difficult project that tested you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and then got rewarded for the work that you did, would you blame your success on someone else? Would you give someone else the credit? Would you say the reason I was successful was because of this person or that person? Or even better, would you say it was luck? Would you say, “I was successful because I worked my ass off. I deserve this. I put in the work and got rewarded. This was me.” You see, this is a key question and can very well mean the differenc ..read more

This is a short story about the art of creative thinking which I first heard on wealthygorilla.com. The ability to think creatively and problem solve is an invaluable skill that will bring you tremendous success once you are able to fully master it. At the end of this story I have included the most commonly asked questions and answers on the art of creative thinking. The Art of Creative Thinking Hundreds of years ago, in a small Italian town, a small business owner owed a large sum of money to a loan-shark. The loan-shark was a very old, lonely, unattractive looking man that just so happe ..read more

How you can achieve the impossible. That’s certainly an audacious, bold statement. Is there enough evidence to make that a legitimate claim? Well, as soon will soon see, everything is impossible—that is, at least until it is done. Thousands would try and thousands would fail. Thousands would try again and thousands would fail again. Doctors and scientists both agreed, they said it couldn’t be done. It wasn’t just dangerous; it was impossible. “Man could not run a mile in under 4 minutes and whoever tried would die in a foolish attempt.” Our bone structure was wrong, wind resistance too gr ..read more

It was the summer of 2012 and a professional basketball trainer named Rob was hired to train the USA Men’s Olympic basketball team as they prepared for the Olympics in London. Rob had a fantastic opportunity on his hands, he got to work with some of the best names in basketball, including: LeBron James Kevin Durant Chris Paul James Harden And many other great players. However, the one who stood out to him the most—by far was Kobe Bryant. Not for his talent or skill, but rather, as Rob put it, “his tremendous work ethic.” In fact, the very reason this story was made public is because ..read more

Imagine a large, dull, steel cage containing 5 monkeys. High at the top of the cage, well beyond the reach of the monkeys is 10 bananas. Underneath the bananas is a large ladder. As soon as the monkeys are inserted into the cage, within five minutes, one of the monkeys immediately spots the bananas and begins to climb the ladder. As he does, however, spray him (or her), along with the other 4 monkeys with a stream of cold, almost freezing water.  After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result—all the monkeys are sprayed with ice-cold water. Pretty soon, when another a ..read more

The entrepreneurial story of Elon Musk began in 1995, in Palo Alto, California, where he and his brother Kimbal started Zip2: A web software startup that created online city guides for newspapers. However, this endeavor did not last long and in 1999, roughly four years after starting Zip2 Elon and Kimbal decided to sell the company to Compaq for $341 million and Elon managed to walk away with $22 million.  To the average person that may suffice, that may be okay for them and they may be ready to walk away and “enjoy their life.” But not Elon, not now, not ever. Later that same year he and ..read more