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Success secrets 101

I’d like to continue talking about success. Isn’t success one of the outcomes we want from our personal growth? So let’s look little deeper at success and purpose.

Why are successful people able to do things they don’t like while failures are not?

Because successful people have a purpose. Not only have they a purpose,they have a purpose that is strong enough to make them form the habit of doing things they don’t like to do so that they can accomplish the purpose they want to accomplish.

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Secret of success.

There is a really big denominator of success.

The secret of success of every person who has ever been successful - lies is in the fact that “they formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do”

It’s just as true as it sounds and it’s just as simple as it seems.

You can put it to the acid test, you can put it under a microscope, you can even kick it all around until it’s worn out but when all is said and done it will still be the common denominator of success whether or not we like it.

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The three forms of love

As the center of personal growth there is nothing but love. So today I thought I would share some thoughts on the different forms of love.

As we learn from history I think it’s best to go back in history to Ancient Greek.

Ancient Greek is the language in which the New Testament was written and it has three words for love.

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Work Ethics To Live By

Ever so often, I believe, we need to stop and have a real look at what our goals are and are we still ontrack?

If one of your goals is to create improvement in your life is by making work a better experience for you then here are a few ideas to keep in mind.

* Failing to plan, is the same as planning to fail. One of the worst mistakes many people make is failing to plan. In doing so, you actually plan to fail because without a plan, you won’t get very far. If you don’t already have a work plan, sit down and write out some of your goals and plans right now.

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Learning from others

Today I thought it would help to question about learning from others.

Why you ask me and I would reply that our personal growth and self-improvement is a time of constant learning.

Self knowledge, to be comprehensive, should include awareness of how we are perceived by others.

Could it be that the things we do not know about ourselves by the very things that others know only too well?

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Tools of peacemaking

“Peace is not the absence of war: it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence and justice” - Benedict de Spinosa

As part of our self-improvement and personal development we come across situations where we must understand about peacemaking.

I have found this to help me when I think about what we have learned from our past. The native Americans provided a form and a ritual for establishing peace, including the pipe of peace and the ceremony of burying the axe.

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How to Avoid A Negative Attitude

In understanding our personality so that we can continue to grow and get the best from our personal growth and development exercises we need to be aware of any negative attitudes that are around us.

A negative attitude is the most difficult of attitudes you can have. When you develop a negative attitude it is unbelievably difficult to change it. In fact, a lot people only succeed in becoming more and more negative over time.

This trap, a negative attitude trap, is terrible. It’s a horrifying monstrosity that can be annoying, to say the least. So how do you ward off falling into its trap?

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