Personal Development

Getting involved in petty arguments will get you nowhere. It's a great way to stifle creativity and kill productivity. You see it happen in business meetings all the time.
One person pitches a specific approach. Someone else argues against that particular idea. Maybe a third person gets involved. An hour or more can be spent monopolizing the time of everyone in the room, and little progress is made.

Sometimes this is the way you come up with great ideas.

It's a great brainstorming tactic. You g…

Do you know anyone that went from a big dream to a big reality? You've undoubtedly heard stories about big achievers if you don't know anyone personally. Many of them had a big idea and nothing more.

There are endless stories about the biggest names in business, starting with little to no money. Then, they had to spend every waking hour working on their dream and looking for financial backers.

They eventually found success. The fact that they started with not much more than a thought didn't ma…

The next time you hear someone tell you to think big, look at it another way. Take the advice as a suggestion to think differently. Of course, two people may have different ideas about what thinking big means. Still, everyone understands having thoughts that are different from the norm.

When you think normal, typical and common thoughts, you'll create those realities. You have to think and act differently than you have in the past to create a different type of life.

You definitely don't want t…

Do you engage in a lot of self-talk? Most of us do. It seems like our inner voice never stops talking. We can simultaneously contemplate a dozen possible results of an action we're thinking about taking. Most of the time, what our worrisome inner voice tells us will happen isn't a very pretty picture.

These are just thoughts, nothing more. Your inner thoughts are there to take care of you. They're a part of your ego. The ego part of your psyche is concerned with keeping you alive. So if you're …