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 If you’re reading this article you’ve most likely experienced the sinking feeling of financial insufficiency at some point in your life, or you know someone who has. One of the most challenging parts of getting a grip on your finances is keeping track of where you’re actually spending all of your money. The recurring expenses are easy—rent, groceries, utilities—and are fairly easy to keep track of as you do your best to manage your money and the health of your financial goals.

You don’t have to...

Ask anyone who has achieved any measurable level of success and they will likely tell you they had to find the courage to follow their convictions and to embrace the resolve to be different.

Being different separates you from most people. And, while that’s neither a good nor a bad thing, it’s still relevant. It’s relevant because most people have a tough time separating themselves from the wrong people—the influencers who don’t add value to the goals and objectives that personally define what suc...

Like a slow boil, an erosion of cohesion is taking place across America. Emotions are strong, opinions are diverse, and discord dominates. Why? What have we become? We are America because of and in spite of our differences. Our strength lies in the fact that we do not have a dominant race but are instead an eclectic melting pot of cultural diversity. Instead of embracing that, however, we have allowed it to divide us.

Recently, I’ve watched as politicians, pundits, news media, and community organ...

Influence is part of everyinteraction. Anyone refusing to admit that it’s not a part of their life is likely the one who is being influenced. In fact, influence is so powerful that it has become a vital part of an increasing movement of personal awareness and self-improvement curriculums designed to accelerate results across the spectrum of business and personal relationships.
Your ability to persuade and influence people to help you to achieve the things you want out of life is one of the most ...

Everything you hope to accomplish in life lies in wait for you to act. You are solely responsible for the quality, course, and construct of your life. Every choice you makefrom the use of your time to the selection of your matemakes a difference. So, if youve been blaming everything and everyone for your circumstances, that stops right here, right now.  

If you are not happy with your life, the only one who can change things is you. Change is one of the most difficult things for...

Before you can see an opportunity, or anythng for that matter, you must be looking.
Its important to know that opportunities dont just happen. You must MAKE them happen. Making them happen requires effortactionon your part.
You must first begin with a STRATEGY that supports your goal. Your strategy is a plan you develop that takes advantage of opportunities that suit your unique skillset, desire, or purpose. This approach puts you in the best position to SEE your opportunity when it emerges.
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How bad do you want to escape the life you live to a life you know, deep down, that you truly deserve? What if I showed you a way to have that life if only you followed a few simple rules? If your very first reaction is to be skeptical, then you have some internal programming work to do. If you'll simply open your mind and follow the rules, then you'll be well on your way to realizing the kind of life you deserve.

How do you define success? Some people equate success to a sum of money, an...

One of the most significant steps you can take toward achieving your greatest potential and to literally change the conditions of your life is to learn to monitor your outlook and its impact on your personal performance, relationships, and everyone around you.
To be clear, your outlook is largely responsible for the way you see life and is driven, in large part, by the attitudes you develop along the way. Far too many people fail to recognize the critical role that attitude plays in the...

Stepping into a brand-new year is typically a time of reflection and of new beginnings. We look back to take account of the good things we did to affect the life we’re now living. If we’re smart, we also examine the things we could have done better to provide more in terms of better health, wealth, and happiness.

With retrospect in our hip pocket, we look forward with renewed optimism at what lies ahead. The most common anticipation centers around our desire for more. It is tantamount to our...