Articles

"You cannot travel within and stand still without." ~ James Allen, As a Man Thinkith

Here are just a few of the articles I've written about how to empower your thoughts, strengthen your creativity, and increase your motivation mojo:

• Understanding Creativity and Talent
  [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Do you see yourself as creative or talented; or both creative and talented? Have you ever thought about whether or not there's a difference between being creative and talented? Is Michael Jordan creative or talented; or creative and talented? Which came first the chicken or the egg?
  
  
• Living the Life You Love - How I Discovered 10 Extraordinary Principles
  [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Words are the substance of life. They can empower. Like, "Go 'head girl, you got it!" Words can also change lives. "I'm sorry, but... you have breast cancer." After a routine exam followed by a biopsy; my doctor uttered these words and my life as I'd known it, was forever changed.
  
  
• How Twitter Can Help You Stay Motivated
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Twitter is the newest and snazziest web 2.0 tool that really is: Us against them! For those people who don't quite understand the magic and power of Twitter they say that tweeting is just a big waste of time. For those of us who do understand the power of Twitter and its benefit we know that among other things, Twitter is the #1 Motivation Station for four life enhancing reasons.
  
  
• Access Your Creativity and Increase Your Motivation
  [Self-Improvement:Creativity] All of life is centered on the reality that everything present came to be because of the energy of creation & creativity. Nothing exists that did not happen as a thought or idea first. Many many people have been told either directly or indirectly that they aren't creative, which is the ultimate untruth. What I know for sure is that there's a direct link between the actualization of your creative impulses and how high your motivation quotient is in your life.
  
  
• Dreaming Big - How to Adopt a Mindset That Will Align You With Your Dreams
  [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do you want to Dream Big? Well, if the answer is yes, than you'll have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think. You'll most likely have to adopt a new mindset.
  
  
• 50 Reasons Why You Should Achieve Your Goals
  [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Figuring out what our dreams and goals are isn't always the difficult part. Often times, it's maintaining our motivation as we pursue those dreams and goals that's the challenge. One of the ways we can help ourselves stay motivated is to remind ourselves of what's in it for us.
  
  
• Money As Motivator - It's a Tool For Good
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] People are fond of saying that money is the root of all evil, but of course it isn't. People and the choices they make are the root of any evil that exists in this world. Changing your money attitude will substantially increase your creativity and motivation quotient immediately.
  
  
• How to Achieve Your Dreams - Use Imagination Thinking
  [Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] At the core of the law of attraction is the directive to see what it is you want prior to your having it in hand. To see something in our minds eye is the combination of inspiration, thought and image sparking to life inside of us. Before we execute our creative impulses we must allow ourselves to SEE what it is we want to bring into being. It may start out as a fuzzy or a clear image, but an image it must come to be.
  
  
• 3 Common Mistakes That Beginning Article Writers Make
  [Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] There are many mistakes that newbie internet article writers make that undermine the potential success that article writing can bring to your business. In this article, I've outlined the top three mistakes most beginning internet article writers make.
  
  
• 10 Principles For a Well Lived Life
  [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Who among us doesn't aspire to have someone say, at the end of our lives, that we lived our lives as a testimony, that we spent our time well? That opportunity is available to each one of us, through living our lives based on a unique set of 10 Principles. The principles are: Courage, Faith, Reciprocity, Revolution, Creation, Friendship, Affirmation, Mission, Inspiration, and Beauty.
  
  
• Motivation During a Job Hunt - How to Stay Motivated While Looking For a Job
  [Business:Job-Search-Techniques] "A downturn is really the time to prepare for the inevitable upswing!" Staying motivated when things aren't going the way we'd like can be challenging. Recently someone left me a note on my blog asking me how can they stay motivated while looking for a job. After thinking it over, I came up with this quote. There are several things you can focus on to help you stay motivated while looking for a job.
  
  
• Your Unique Purpose - 4 Characteristics of People Who Are Living Their Life Purpose
  [Self-Improvement:Success] People who understand their purpose are living the life they were born to live.They're expressing it every single day. It affects everything they touch and all of the people they meet. In fact, if you had a chance to ask them, they might say that it's hard to imagine them doing anything else.
  
  
• Discover Your Life Motivation - Ask Yourself, What's Your Why?
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] When you can answer the question: What's your life motivation. You will know why you're here. You'll have a clearer answer to your life's purpose. You will experience a knowing that will render you momentarily speechless because it's so amazingly comforting.
  
  
• Improve Your Integrity - Clear Up Your Incompletions & Keep Your Agreements
  [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] When you clear up your in-completions you will strengthen your integrity which means how you are on the outside lines up with how you are on the inside. Therein lies peace. Here are four suggestions to help you stop manifesting incompletions and move to keeping your agreements.
  
  
• Living Well - Really Get the Most Out of Life - Become Your Own Best Coach
  [Self-Improvement:Coaching] I think there's no argument, that we all want to live well. Everyone of us wants to get the most out of their time here on this earth, and I think this quote really gets to the heart of what matters. To really get the best out of life each of us has to become our own best coach.
  
  
• Staying Motivated - One Simple Solution to Staying Motivated and Living a Full Life
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever thought about what it means to be a motivated person? Like so many people, you probably have. On many many occasions I've been told that I'm a very motivated person. Years ago I used to shrug my shoulders at this comment because I took it for granted.
  
  
• Motivation Solution - Master the 6 Essential Skills For Maintaining Your Motivation
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] There's something that seems to be elusive to so many that we all need to be successful in life and everyone wants to learn how to keep it or at best how not to lose it so frequently. What is this elusive quality that I'm referring to? I'm talking about Motivation. There are lots of studies about motivation but I'd like to suggest 6 areas to focus on that will keep you and your motivation mojo in harmony for a good long while.
  
  
• Motivation Solution - Give Your Motivation a Boost - Remember That Practice Makes Permanent
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] I'm sure you've heard the saying that practice makes perfect, right? Well, I don't believe that there is any perfection and instead of shooting for perfection, I'm an advocate of practicing those things you want to make a permanent part of your thinking, behaviour and life style success.
  
  
• How to Improve Your Life - Manage Negativity With the 4 R's
  [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Negative thoughts, Negative people, negative messages, negative images... negative, negative, negative, negative. See, even reading the word negative too much creates an energy of adversity. Phew! My belief is that negativity sucks so we all need to manage it.
  
  
• Honor the Creative Process - Struggle is an Essential Part of the Creative Process
  [Self-Improvement:Creativity] We all want to sail through our experiences and even think that if we're experiencing even the tiniest bit of challenge that must mean that what we're producing is crap. Well that's just WRONG! Struggle is simply a necessary and even vital part of the process of creating.
  
  
• Become a Life Attractor - Be Grateful and Want More From Life
  [Self-Improvement:Attraction] I find that many people struggle with the concept of being grateful yet wanting more from life. The truth is to be grateful and to want more are not at odds. Although some see it as a conundrum, these two states of mind are not mutually exclusive. Actually, they need each other to thrive.
  
  
• Discover Your Life's Purpose - Dreaming Big and Determining Your Life's Purpose Go Hand in Hand
  [Self-Improvement:Success] So many people want to live their dreams yet they've done very little to identify their purpose in life. Is that you? Do you have a hunger to live your dreams, but can't quite figure out what those dreams are? Well, once you determine why you are here and what you are to do with the gift of your life you will be well on your way to living your dream.
  
  
• Increase Your Abundance - Acquire the Ability to Think the Way You Want to Think
  [Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] It has been reported that there is a science for gaining abundance. This science is largely centered on how you develop your mind. No matter if you want to become abundant in your finances or in your capacity to experience greater joy and satisfaction, there's an exact science involved.
  
  
• How to Be Successful - Increase Your Courage, Self Esteem & Confidence by Documenting Your Successes
  [Self-Improvement:Success] To go to your next level in life you have to get bigger than your present space. One way for you to develop a mindset that embraces this truth is to document and celebrate your successes as you move forward in your life. Here are 5 ways to document your success.
  
  
• Blogging - Spring Clean Your Business Blog to Keep the Customers Coming
  [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] No matter if spring is on the scene or not, you can take a look at things and do a little Spring Cleaning for your Blog! If you've been blogging for years or even for just 6 months you should periodically take time to spruce up your blog. A schedule of 3 times a year should do it: April, August, and January.
  
  
• Create a Wealth Mindset - Improve Your Thoughts and Improve Your Bottom Line
  [Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] How does one get rich? How does one increase their financial abundance? If I told you that you are less financially wealthy than you'd like to be because your thoughts are poor as it relates to money would you stomp your foot and disagree or would you pause long enough to consider the potential truth?
  
  
• Accountability is King - #1 Motivational Support Tool to Keep You Honest & on Track
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Have you ever told someone you'd do something and then as it got closer to the time to do the thing you felt bad because you weren't keeping your word? Well, that's the power of accountability in action.
  
  
• 3 Motivational Quotes That Will Help You Set Standards For a Well Lived Life
  [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Having standards are essential for determining the quality of the life you intend to live. Motivational quotes can help you identify these standards and create the energy you want to be central in your life.
  
  
• Think Yourself to Wealth - Discover What Money Sounds Like to You
  [Self-Improvement:Abundance-Prosperity] What does money sound like to you? I don't mean the coins that clink together in your pocket or at the bottom of your handbag, I'm talking about what does money sound like to you inside your mind?
  
  
• Positive Thinking - To Change Your Thoughts Improve the Power of Your Thinking
  [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] There's so much talk about changing your thinking and think positive that it can be a bit overwhelming at times as to how to actually achieve the kind of change that everyone is talking about. I'm going to introduce you to a radical new way to help you change your thinking.