Do you take responsibility or just make excuses? When you fail, do you make excuses? Do you take responsibility for your actions or blame others? What is your excuse for poor performance? Excuses keep you from looking at the real problem! Excuses will make you give up! Do you start out with good intentions and tolerate poor results? Why? ...
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6 Habits for Success
Habits are more important than decision making. "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." (Vince Lombardi). All of us have good and bad habits. A habit is a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. Little things like your morning coffee, exercise, getting up early, reading or ...
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Do You Have What It Takes to be an Entrepreneur?
Are entrepreneurs born or made? You can take a class or earn a degree! I grew up in an entrepreneur incubator! Both my parents had thriving businesses and did not have the benefit of any college classes in entrepreneurship. I think if you interviewed them, they would tell you it was experience. They were passionate and did not know they could ...
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Win or Lose
Win or lose is not universal! “In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.” (Douglas MacArthur) “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” (Vince Lombardi) How do you measure ...
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Goals You Will Never Achieve
Athletes, successful business people, and achievers set goals! Stop procrastinating or you will find yourself never achieving anything. Goals should be specific, measurable attainable, realistic and timely. SMART goals are a framework for setting goals! Any goal that you want to achieve requires consistent effort over time or it will remain just a ...
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Why Save and Invest?
Why save and invest? If you don’t, you would have to save about two thousand ($2,000) dollars per month for nearly forty (40) years to accumulate one million ($1,000,000) dollars. If you invest as little as five thousand ($5,000) dollars per year with a seven (7%) percent annual return, you will accumulate one million ($1,000,000) dollars by ...
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How to Become Financially Fit
What is financially fit? You can measure your physical fitness in a variety of ways. You can measure your heart rate, pulse, strength, body composition, flexibility, coordination, etc.How do you know if you are financially fit?“Being physically fit is having the energy to perform your daily duties alertly and with vigor, while also maintaining ...
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25 Money Savings Tips for Everyone
These are 25 money saving tips, I use daily/weekly/monthly and they work! I learned at a very early age that I needed to save my money to get the things I wanted. Notice, I said the things I wanted. My parents provided the things I needed! Previously, I wrote “10 Changes Can Make Millions” and I thought I would share some more. Start making ...
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Impossible Is Just an Opinion!
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” (Muhammad Ali) ...
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How to Manage Your Money
“Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” (Natasha Munson) Money management is the process of budgeting, saving, investing, spending or otherwise in overseeing the cash usage of an individual or group. How you manage your money is crucial to building wealth! Managing your money better just requires ...
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