So many people from all over the world just feel sort of “blue” during the winter months.  Often time it is the cold or the lack of sunlight, depending on where you live, but you don’t have to allow for the seasons to affect your life negatively.  It’s January and most areas are in the height of their winter season and the blues are settling in for many.

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Can you believe a New Year is here already? I believe wholeheartedly in setting goals, setting intentions, deciding what you will do over the next year. However, I also think it's equally important to know what not to do.

Try these Anti-Resolutions to add some Don'ts to your day, and see how it helps with all those Do's.

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Leaders do nothing more important than get results. But you can't get results by yourself. You need others to help you do it. And the best way to have other people get results is not by ordering them but motivating them. Yet many leaders fail to motivate people to achieve results because those leaders misconstrue the concept and applications of motivation.... Continue Reading...

Go over to your bookcase and count the self-help, business and how-to books you've bought.

Now add in all the audio tapes and CDs you own, plus the seminars you've attended.

Next, go back through and count only those books, tapes and CDs that you've completely read or listened to, all the way through. If it was something you... Continue Reading...

There are many keys to success, but they all depend on one thing: action. No one ever experiences success in any area of life without first taking some action. No amount of good training, excellent planning or benevolent intention will ever create success. Not even a little.

Now, that may not be news to many of you. In fact, Nike seems to... Continue Reading...

A little imagination can do wonders for changing the scale and putting things into perspective. Here are four simple visualizations I've found to be particularly effective for me in providing insight into the things I actually value as opposed to the things I sometimes think I value or the things I often act like I value.

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The strategy I call, "changing the scale" should be about gaining perspective, getting a better look a reality, not obscuring it. Too frequently using an inappropriate scale can hide the reality behind a situation. Mass murderer Joseph Stalin knew this well. "When one man dies, it is a tragedy," Stalin said. "When thousands die it is statistics."Continue Reading...