7 Foolish Excuses You Need to Stop Using

Does it seem that somebody else is always responsible for your failures? Are you ever at fault? Well, guess what. Foolish excuses, pointing fingers and living in denial are temporary band-aids that will eventually come undone and cause you nothing but heartache. If you are one of the people living in denial, stop pretending to [...]

The Ultimate ‘Success-O-Meter’

The thing with us Personal Development types is, we’re always talking about creating our best life.Success.
Whatever that is.
We know that success is represented by different things for different people, but society teaches us that success is typically about money, position, attractiveness, power and influence.
Some more evolved souls have philosophies like:
“We make a living by what [...]

Flip Your Karma: 8 Tricks to Turn the Bad Into the Awesome

It’s inevitable: sometimes, life just doesn’t go your way.
Your schedule gets all messed up. You fail to follow your exercise plan. Someone is mean to you. You feel like quitting something. You want to curl into a little ball and cry.
Life deals out its blows, and leaves us discouraged, angry, frustrated, depressed, drained. And once [...]

Four Steps To Achieve Happiness, Fulfillment and Success in Your Life

There are four steps you can take, every day, to help bring fulfillment into your life, achieve happiness and help you attain success. Though it may seem impossible, taking these four steps will actually help set you up to achieve these goals and, even more importantly, will help you become a better person and define [...]

How to Stick to Your Goals When Life Disrupts

Have you ever been doing great with a goal or habit change — exercise, waking early, becoming organized, eating healthy, anything — and your progress was completely disrupted because of some major event in your life (death, marriage, illness, work, etc.)?
Of course you have. It’s happened to all of us.
Life gets in the way.
Fortunately, although [...]

10 Ways to Control Fear

In setting goals and working toward their achievements, you may find yourself facing a fear of something you can’t seem to get rid of. Here are ten ways you can control fear and put it behind you.
1. Take baby steps - no need to face your fear of snake wrangling by thrusting your hand into [...]

Overcoming Failure

The great poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” As important as goal setting is, understanding how to deal with the blockades we might encounter in our path is also pretty important.
One of the first things you can do is to [...]

27 Great Tips to Keep Your Life Organized

It’s a rare person among us who doesn’t feel the need to get more organized. I consider myself fairly organized, for example, but there are times when I get a little lax about my organizational rules, and there’s always room for improvement.
And if you’re already organized (read: you’re an organizational freak), chances are, you like [...]

20 Tricks to Nuke a Bad Habit

Are you letting bad habits rule your life? I started learning how to change habits a few years ago. Since then I’ve switched to a vegan diet, began exercising every day, started writing new articles every day, began waking up earlier and trying some wacky experiments to improve my life. Here are some ideas I’ve [...]

73 Great Debt Elimination Tips

Last week, I asked you all to give me your best advice for getting out of debt. And boy, did you deliver. More than 70 of you chimed in with some amazing advice, and shared your success stories, and shared your failures.
It was overwhelming, and I applaud you all.
To take advantage of all the great [...]