Having a lot of willpower is a good thing. Some of us seem to have more of it than others, but all of us struggle from time to time with not having enough. Sure, you can get better at sticking to your guns and reaching your goals with practice and discipline, but if that’s reallyContinue reading “Creating Positive Habits Is Just as Important as Willpower”
Category Archives: Management & Education
5 Ways to Learn Patience
There is a decades-old children’s song that goes like this – “Have patience, have patience, don’t be in such a hurry. When you get impatient, you only start to worry.” (Herbert the Snail, written by Sherry Saunders and Frank Fernandez) There’s a powerful message in that song because anyone who deals with impatience knows whatContinue reading “5 Ways to Learn Patience”
The First 5 Things to Do After a Life-Altering Event
No one escapes a major life change. It is painful to know that you’ve lost something you don’t know how to live without. Whether it’s a job, a relationship or something else entirely, there are things you can and should do after experiencing a major loss. Let Go of Blame Sometimes things just happen. SometimesContinue reading “The First 5 Things to Do After a Life-Altering Event”
Why Do We Lose Willpower with Time?
We’ve all experienced the loss of willpower throughout the day. We start early in the morning with all the enthusiasm and drive we can muster. We have no problem avoiding temptations and aren’t tempted to give in to our impulses. Then as the day goes by it’s getting harder and harder to resist. By theContinue reading “Why Do We Lose Willpower with Time?”
Using Challenges to Develop More Discipline
One way you can develop more discipline is to use challenges. This makes it more like a game and less like a chore. Also, there can be the added elements of competition with others and having them help hold you accountable, which improves your odds of success. Challenges are very popular, and you can findContinue reading “Using Challenges to Develop More Discipline”
Thinking Small to Go Big
Did you know that only eight percent of people reach their goals? That’s right! And the other 92 percent often fail within just weeks or months. According to researchers, what differentiates the two comes down to one simple thing: setting specific and challenging goals. However, this doesn’t mean you should try to do everything atContinue reading “Thinking Small to Go Big”
3 Tips for First Impressions in Email
In both the business world and your personal life, often the first point of contact with someone new is email. It’s important to make a good impression in that first point of contact. It will open doors for you and make the rest of the future relationship go that much smoother. Of course, making aContinue reading “3 Tips for First Impressions in Email”
The Connection Between Emotions and Willpower
On some days it’s easy to find the willpower to delay instant gratification for the greater good or to get a step closer to a long-term goal. On other days it’s a lot harder to do the same. I’m sure you’ve experienced this. You’re doing well with your healthy diet and eating less for aContinue reading “The Connection Between Emotions and Willpower”
Perseverance: How Beliefs Affect Motivation
Perseverance can be defined as steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. It is our ability to stay committed to a thing even amid hardships and even when the particular goal we are working towards is not quickly obtained (Shahid, 2018). Perseverance is also tightly linked to grit, a term coinedContinue reading “Perseverance: How Beliefs Affect Motivation”
6 Tips for Improving Your Negotiation Skills
Being a good negotiator can be helpful in a whole range of situations, like getting a better price on a product, swapping a shift with a colleague, or closing a business deal. While not everyone is naturally good at negotiation, it is a skill that can be developed. This is great news for anyone lookingContinue reading “6 Tips for Improving Your Negotiation Skills”
Using Accountability to Help You with Self Discipline
Many people think self-discipline means doing it all on your own, but it does not. In fact, having a coach, or a group, or an accountability partner can really help you to develop more discipline. An example would be when someone puts off housework until they know someone is coming over, and then they raceContinue reading “Using Accountability to Help You with Self Discipline”
Influencing Someone You’ve Just Met
Being persuasive is a lot easier when you know your audience. But what if you want to influence someone you’ve just met? How can you tell what they need and want? In this case, the best thing you can do is to as likable as possible. The way you speak and walk, what you’re wearing,Continue reading “Influencing Someone You’ve Just Met”
5 Ways to Stay Motivated No Matter What
Losing motivation? It happens to the best of us. But there are tricks to staying motivated, many of which involve taking a hard look at your goals. With a little preparation and solid planning, there’s no reason why you can’t stay motivated all the way through whatever project you’ve set out for yourself. How? 1.Continue reading “5 Ways to Stay Motivated No Matter What”
Willpower Is Like a Muscle – You’ve Got to Work It Out Daily
Are you wanting to improve your willpower? The good news is that willpower works a lot like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. The key then is to make using your willpower a daily habit, and that’s easier than you may think. It All Starts With a Goal The easiestContinue reading “Willpower Is Like a Muscle – You’ve Got to Work It Out Daily”
Making a Good First Impression on the Web
Times are changing and a good part of our daily lives now takes place on the Internet. We meet and communicate through social media, email, text messages, and video conferencing apps like Skype. It’s a great thing and thanks to all these technologies, the world has grown closer together. It’s not uncommon to meet peopleContinue reading “Making a Good First Impression on the Web”
Discipline in Bite Sized Steps
One of the ways that people struggle with developing self-discipline is trying to make too many changes at once. Not just by doing more than one goal at a time, but by making those goals way too large. Either of these approaches tend to lead to failure. An example of too many goals at onceContinue reading “Discipline in Bite Sized Steps”
Why Being Persuasive Is Important in Today’s World
Want to get a raise, but you’re afraid to ask for it? Or perhaps you’re trying to grow your business? Maybe you’re getting ready for a sales presentation? All of these scenarios have one common trait: they require strong persuasion skills. In today’s competitive world, persuasion is power. It can help you stand out fromContinue reading “Why Being Persuasive Is Important in Today’s World”
Why Routine Is Good for You
You’ll hear people refer to routine as being dull or boring. It implies that life is the same from one day to the next. However, routines are a great way to get your work done. It’s also a great means for teams to work together towards a common goal. When everyone has an understanding ofContinue reading “Why Routine Is Good for You”
Becoming a Successful Negotiator
Negotiation skills are important in all walks of life. Whether we need to negotiate a better deal for our phone bill or these skills are a necessary part of our profession, being a good negotiator will come in handy. If you are looking to become a successful negotiator, here are 5 steps to improve yourContinue reading “Becoming a Successful Negotiator”
Why Does Willpower Fail Us
If getting things accomplished were merely a matter of making up your mind, you wouldn’t be reading this. But in reality, often willpower fails us, and that can be quite discouraging. We might beat ourselves up and assume we’re just not good enough or not trying hard enough. However, while that can be true atContinue reading “Why Does Willpower Fail Us”
6 Tips for Improving your Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is all about self-control. It’s the ability to control both emotions and actions, ensuring you have the power to respond appropriately to different situations. It’s also the ability to avoid short-term temptations to achieve long term goals. There are a range of benefits associated with this skill, so it’s not surprising if you feelContinue reading “6 Tips for Improving your Self-Discipline”
Create Habits to Stay Motivated
It should come as no surprise that the habits we form will determine our success or failure. After all, habits already dictate a lot about our lives. If we, for example, eat large amounts of food regularly and don’t exercise, we can expect to have physical consequences for our actions. That’s why it’s important toContinue reading “Create Habits to Stay Motivated”
3 Ways to Build Mutual Respect in the Workplace
Respect is one of those things that’s hard to gain and easy to lose. But respect is vital to a work environment. Without mutual respect, employee productivity goes down and more mistakes get made because people just don’t care about their job when they are treated with disrespect. They bail ship as soon as theyContinue reading “3 Ways to Build Mutual Respect in the Workplace”
Willpower and Exercising Self-Control
At first glance, willpower and self-control seem like they are two terms for the same thing. While they are certainly related and work well together, they aren’t the same thing. Let’s take a look at how we can use willpower to exercise self-control, and what we can do about making it easier to control ourselves,Continue reading “Willpower and Exercising Self-Control”
Discipline is Empowering
You may think that developing discipline is about limitations. This thought has probably been reinforced by previous attempts at changing your bad habits. But actually, it can be very empowering to develop discipline. Think back to when you managed to make a change in behavior that was successful, how did you feel? When you overcomeContinue reading “Discipline is Empowering”
The 5 Steps to a Negotiation and Why They’re Important
If you’re new to negotiation or simply looking to improve your skills, it’s important to understand the stages of a negotiation. The more familiar you are with the process, the better prepared you will be for your next negotiation and the better the outcome. There are 5 steps to a standard negotiation, and each oneContinue reading “The 5 Steps to a Negotiation and Why They’re Important”
Tips to Increase Trust in Yourself
You may have a difficult time trusting yourself. Don’t despair. You are not alone. It is something that many people experience and find difficult to overcome. When you lose trust in others, you start to lose trust in yourself. To help you overcome this problem, you need to focus on key aspects of trust. TheContinue reading “Tips to Increase Trust in Yourself”
Willpower and Smart Goals Will Get You There
Making significant changes or reaching big life goals, like getting fit, paying off student loans, or saving up for a down payment on a home, can seem like insurmountable tasks. What you do on a day-to-day basis can feel like such a tiny drop in the ocean. It can get discouraging. At the same time,Continue reading “Willpower and Smart Goals Will Get You There”
Characteristics of a Self-Disciplined Person
Self-discipline is highly beneficial in both a personal and professional sense. It helps us to have control over our emotions and actions, responding to situations in a better way than if we were to be solely driven by our feelings. It also helps us to stay on track, forgoing short term pleasures for long termContinue reading “Characteristics of a Self-Disciplined Person”
Having Effective Conversations about Difficult Situations
We all have to face up to the fact that we will have to begin conversations about touchy subjects in different relationships throughout life. We may try to put them off for as long as possible because we don’t want to deal with it, but eventually, to keep the relationship healthy, we must. Here areContinue reading “Having Effective Conversations about Difficult Situations”
Tips to Boost Your Willpower
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little extra boost of willpower when you need it most? It would make it so much easier to stick to our plans and reach our goals instead of giving in to temptation. Here we will be sharing five different tips and strategies that help you get that extraContinue reading “Tips to Boost Your Willpower”
Different Types of Negotiation
Looking to hone your negotiation skills? You’re not the only one. Whether it’s for everyday life or your profession, negotiation skills are extremely valuable. And the good thing is that anybody can improve their skills in this area with some practice! While practice and experimentation will get you a long way, knowledge is also helpful.Continue reading “Different Types of Negotiation”
5 Steps to Becoming a More Self-Disciplined Person
Self-discipline is a valuable skill to have in all facets of life. It gives us power over our emotions and behaviours, helping us to regulate our mood and manage our responses to different situations. This means were are able to have better relationships, experience more success, and develop an inner strength to feel confident andContinue reading “5 Steps to Becoming a More Self-Disciplined Person”
How Can I Make a Difference? By Starting Small
Little things can make the biggest impact. Something as simple as reading a book could lead to a major career shift. A tiny mistake in your social media campaign could ruin your brand. There are plenty of examples of very small things that have great impact – and the same applies to your daily life.Continue reading “How Can I Make a Difference? By Starting Small”
Benefits of Developing Discipline
When you develop self-discipline, you have many beneficial results. These include a sense of accomplishment, more self-respect, and a better understanding of what you can do. Discipline is not always easy, but it is well worth it. When you set goals and work on them every day until you accomplish the goal, you feel proudContinue reading “Benefits of Developing Discipline”
Defining Willpower
Let’s talk about willpower. It’s the ability to delay instant gratification to reach longer-term goals. That sounds a bit dry, doesn’t it? Let’s look at a couple of examples of willpower in action. When a young boy saves up his allowance money to buy a bike instead of spending it on candy this week, he’sContinue reading “Defining Willpower”
Starting an Online Business: How to Set Clear Goals
If you are starting an online business, you are joining the ranks of hundreds of thousands of others. There are many tasks to achieve when it comes to your online business. One of the most important and perhaps the most beneficial ways to achieve success is to set clear goals for your business. There areContinue reading “Starting an Online Business: How to Set Clear Goals”
4 Key Ways To Positively Address Financial Worries And Concerns
Have you ever had trouble sleeping because you were worried about your finances? Have you ever avoided checking your bank account balance because you’re afraid to look? You’re not alone. In their latest “Stress in America” survey, the American Psychological Association found that 72 percent of Americans reported feeling stressed about money during the previousContinue reading “4 Key Ways To Positively Address Financial Worries And Concerns”
4 Benefits of Strong Negotiation Skills
When most people think of negotiation skills, they think of corporate types in suits battling it out after a boardroom table. While negotiation skills are certainly important for this type of environment, they can be used for so much more than that. Buying a car? Negotiation skills can help you get a good deal. ShoppingContinue reading “4 Benefits of Strong Negotiation Skills”
What Self-Discipline Means and Why It Is Important
We’ve all heard the term ‘self-discipline’ thrown around, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we completely understand it and its benefits. If you’ve been thinking about building your self-discipline but want to make sure it’s the right area for you to invest in, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve put together a quick guideContinue reading “What Self-Discipline Means and Why It Is Important”
The Antidote To Fear Is Education And Preparedness
Fear is a completely normal part of life. Maybe you’re afraid of spiders or other critters. Perhaps you’re fearful of losing your loved ones to illness. Or it’s possible you’re terrified of what you don’t know, the unknown. Regardless of what your fears are or where they come from, one thing is for sure: TheContinue reading “The Antidote To Fear Is Education And Preparedness”
Creative Budgeting 101
Your family budget does not necessarily have to fit a template – even if you do use a template, you can customize it. A budget that really fits your style and family dynamic tends to be a lot easier to stick with, and can even be fun! Here are some tips for making a creative,Continue reading “Creative Budgeting 101”
10 Daily Time Tips
Time management isn’t a seminar you attend or a book you read. Time management is a process that must be engaged every day to be effective. Some of the most frustrated, disorganized people in any office are the ones with the most time management books on their shelves. It’s not that these books were ineffective.Continue reading “10 Daily Time Tips”
Beyond the Home – Tips for Decluttering Your Life
Clutter does not only happen at home. In fact, it also can happen in your mind, your body, your schedule, your finances, and your workspace. Unfortunately, chances are that if you have clutter in one of those areas, you most likely have clutter in all of those areas. If you have been trying to conquerContinue reading “Beyond the Home – Tips for Decluttering Your Life”
Dress for Success Even When Working from Home
Working from home is still work. It’s your skills and labor that make you a professional, not your location. Just because your home base isn’t an office building doesn’t make you any less serious about your business venture. One way to “get into character” is to look the part. Getting into Character You are playingContinue reading “Dress for Success Even When Working from Home”
How to Use Waiting Time Productively
Do you get impatient when you have to wait in line at the bank or sit for an extra hour at the doctor’s office? Instead of getting frustrated with wait time, put that time to good use. As you look over your daily to-do list, identify places that you are likely to have to wait.Continue reading “How to Use Waiting Time Productively”
Do You Really Need an Emergency Fund?
Some may question the necessity of an emergency fund. After all, is it really necessary? How do you go about it? Does it need to be a huge amount? Here are some ideas and suggestions that should help answer these questions. Is an Emergency Fund Necessary? Generally speaking, yes, an emergency fund is necessary. WhatContinue reading “Do You Really Need an Emergency Fund?”
If Only You Had More Time
Be honest, how many times have you said that? Do you say it weekly, daily, or several times a day? That’s a red flag indicating that you are either not using any time management strategies or the ones you are using are not working for you. Either way, time is ticking away and you areContinue reading “If Only You Had More Time”
How Cutting Calories Can Save You Money
Buying food is one of the larger expenditures we make each week. But did you know that by cutting calories you can also save money? Use our tips on how to save money both when eating out and eating at home. Eating Out We know eating out is much more expensive than brown bagging it,Continue reading “How Cutting Calories Can Save You Money”
Creating A Family Budget
You’ve probably heard that getting everyone involved is important to the success of your family budget. But you may be wondering if that’s really necessary, or how to even do it. Here are some ideas and tips for getting everyone on board with your family budget. Be Open Sometimes parents try to hide their financialContinue reading “Creating A Family Budget”
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