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For Another Great Lecture...See: https://youtu.be/cZjSd4MLFXU Zig Ziglar, Well known Master of Success & motivation presents one of his classic "Motivational Lectures" In this one he defines the Qualities of Success --- (NEW) Also see him describe the 'how to' with the "Success Strategies" lecture at this link: https//youtu.be/cZjSd4MLFXU Also Try "The Champion Within" with Denis Waitley at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKyHtrtO0s&feature=youtu.be

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While recruiting a young, talented running-back, Ernie encourages him to become greater and set his goals higher than he ever thought possible.

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Positive thinking sounds useful on the surface. (Most of us would prefer to be positive rather than negative.) But "positive thinking" is also a soft and fluffy term that is easy to dismiss. In the real world, it rarely carries the same weight as words like "work ethic" or "persistence."

But those views may be changing.

Research is beginning to reveal that positive thinking is about much more than just being happy or displaying an upbeat attitude. Positive thoughts can actually create real value in your life and help you build skills that last much longer than a smile.

The impact of positive thinking on your work, your health, and your life is being studied by people who are much smarter than me. One of these people is Barbara Fredrickson.

Fredrickson is a positive psychology researcher at the University of North Carolina, and she published a landmark paper that provides surprising insights about positive thinking and its impact on your skills. Her work is among the most referenced and cited in her field, and it is surprisingly useful in everyday life.

Let's talk about Fredrickson's discovery and what it means for you...

What Negative Thoughts Do to Your Brain

Play along with me for a moment.

Let's say that you're walking through the forest and suddenly a tiger steps onto the path ahead of you. When this happens, your brain registers a negative emotion -- in this case, fear.

Researchers have long known that negative emotions program your brain to do a specific action. When that tiger crosses your path, for example, you run. The rest of the world doesn't matter. You are focused entirely on the tiger, the fear it creates, and how you can get away from it.

In other words, negative emotions narrow your mind and focus your thoughts. At that same moment, you might have the option to climb a tree, pick up a leaf, or grab a stick -- but your brain ignores all of those options because they seem irrelevant when a tiger is standing in front of you.

This is a useful instinct if you're trying to save life and limb, but in our modern society we don't have to worry about stumbling across tigers in the wilderness. The problem is that your brain is still programmed to respond to negative emotions in the same way -- by shutting off the outside world and limiting the options you see around you.

For example, when you're in a fight with someone, your anger and emotion might consume you to the point where you can't think about anything else. Or, when you are stressed out about everything you have to get done today, you may find it hard to actual start anything because you're paralyzed by how long your to-do list has become. Or, if you feel bad about not exercising or not eating healthy, all you think about is how little willpower you have, how you're lazy, and how you don't have any motivation.

In each case, your brain closes off from the outside world and focuses on the negative emotions of fear, anger, and stress -- just like it did with the tiger. Negative emotions prevent your brain from seeing the other options and choices that surround you. It's your survival instinct.

Now, let's compare this to what positive emotions do to your brain. This is where Barbara Fredrickson returns to the story.

What Positive Thoughts Do to Your Brain

Fredrickson tested the impact of positive emotions on the brain by setting up a little experiment. During this experiment, she divided her research subjects into five groups and showed each group different film clips.

The first two groups were shown clips that created positive emotions. Group 1 saw images that created feelings of joy. Group 2 saw images that created feelings of contentment.

Group 3 was the control group. They saw images that were neutral and produced no significant emotion.

The last two groups were shown clips that created negative emotions. Group 4 saw images that created feelings of fear. Group 5 saw images that created feelings of anger.

Afterward, each participant was asked to imagine themselves in a situation where similar feelings would arise and to write down what they would do. Each participant was handed a piece of paper with 20 blank lines that started with the phrase, "I would like to..."

Participants who saw images of fear and anger wrote down the fewest responses. Meanwhile, the participants who saw images of joy and contentment, wrote down a significantly higher number of actions that they would take, even when compared to the neutral group.

In other words, when you are experiencing positive emotions like joy, contentment, and love, you will see more possibilities in your life. These findings were among the first that suggested positive emotions broaden your sense of possibility and open your mind up to more options.

But that was just the beginning. The really interesting impact of positive thinking happens later...

How Positive Thinking Builds Your Skill Set

The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.

Let's consider a real-world example.

A child who runs around outside, swinging on branches and playing with friends, develops the ability to move athletically (physical skills), the ability to play with others and communicate with a team (social skills), and the ability to explore and examine the world around them (creative skills). In this way, the positive emotions of play and joy prompt the child to build skills that are useful and valuable in everyday life.

These skills last much longer than the emotions that initiated them. Years later, that foundation of athletic movement might develop into a scholarship as a college athlete or the communication skills may blossom into a job offer as a business manager. The happiness that promoted the exploration and creation of new skills has long since ended, but the skills themselves live on.

Fredrickson refers to this as the "broaden and build" theory because positive emotions broaden your sense of possibilities and open your mind, which in turn allows you to build new skills and resources that can provide value in other areas of your life.

As we discussed earlier, negative emotions do the opposite. Why? Because building skills for future use is irrelevant when there is immediate threat or danger (like the tiger on the path).

All of this research begs the most important question of all: If positive thinking is so useful for developing valuable skills and appreciating the big picture of life, how do you actually get yourself to be positive?

How to Increase Positive Thinking in Your Life

What you can do to increase positive emotions and take advantage of the "broaden and build" theory in your life?

Well, anything that sparks feelings of joy, contentment, and love will do the trick. You probably know what things work well for you. Maybe it's playing the guitar. Maybe it's spending time with a certain person. Maybe it's carving tiny wooden lawn gnomes.

That said, here are three ideas for you to consider...

1. Meditation -- Recent research by Fredrickson and her colleagues has revealed that people who meditate daily display more positive emotions that those who do not. As expected, people who meditated also built valuable long-term skills. For example, three months after the experiment was over, the people who meditated daily continued to display increased mindfulness, purpose in life, social support, and decreased illness symptoms.

Note: If you're looking for an easy way to start meditation, here is a 10-minute guided meditation that was recently sent to me. Just close your eyes, breathe, and follow along.

2. Writing -- This study, published in the Journal of Research in Personality, examined a group of 90 undergraduate students who were split into two groups. The first group wrote about an intensely positive experience each day for three consecutive days. The second group wrote about a control topic.

Three months later, the students who wrote about positive experiences had better mood levels, fewer visits to the health center, and experienced fewer illnesses. (This blew me away. Better health after just three days of writing about positive things!)

Note: I used to be very erratic in my writing, but now I publish a new blog every Monday and Thursday. I've written more about my writing process and how you can stick to your goals in this blog and this blog.

3. Play -- Schedule time to play into your life. We schedule meetings, conference calls, weekly events, and other responsibilities into our daily calendars... why not schedule time to play?

When was the last time you blocked out an hour on your calendar just to explore and experiment? When was the last time you intentionally carved out time to have fun? You can't tell me that being happy is less important than your Wednesday meeting, and yet, we act like it is because we never give it a time and space to live on our calendars.

Give yourself permission to smile and enjoy the benefits of positive emotion. Schedule time for play and adventure so that you can experience contentment and joy, and explore and build new skills.

Happiness vs. Success (Which Comes First?)

There's no doubt that happiness is the result of achievement. Winning a championship, landing a better job, finding someone you love -- these things will bring joy and contentment to your life. But so often, we wrongly assume that this means happiness always follows success.

How often have you thought, "If I just get ___, then I'll be set."

Or, "Once I achieve ___, I'll be satisfied."

I know I'm guilty of putting off happiness until I achieve some arbitrary goal. But as Fredrickson's "broaden and build" theory proves, happiness is essential to building the skills that allow for success.

In other words, happiness is both the precursor to success and the result of it.

In fact, researchers have often noticed a compounding effect or an "upward spiral" that occurs with happy people. They are happy, so they develop new skills, those skills lead to new success, which results in more happiness, and the process repeats itself.

Positive thinking isn't just a soft and fluffy feel-good term. Yes, it's great to simply "be happy," but those moments of happiness are also critical for opening your mind to explore and build the skills that become so valuable in other areas of your life.

Finding ways to build happiness and positive emotions into your life -- whether it is through meditation, writing, playing a pickup basketball game, or anything else -- provides more than just a momentary decrease in stress and a few smiles.

Periods of positive emotion and unhindered exploration are when you see the possibilities for how your past experiences fit into your future life, when you begin to develop skills that blossom into useful talents later on, and when you spark the urge for further exploration and adventure.

To put it simply: Seek joy, play often, and pursue adventure. Your brain will do the rest.

James Clear writes at JamesClear.com, where he uses behavior science to help you master your habits and improve your health. For useful ideas on improving your mental and physical performance, join his free newsletter.

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I've always told people who want to go far in life that all they require is a positive mindset.

The same goes for you.

You don't need money because the most important capital you already possess, your mind.

You also need to understand that you look the way you think.

Your mind is an inner reflection of what you are outside. It's what defines you- your personality and everything that concerns you.

Like I said earlier, the most important element you require to succeed in life is your mindset- that's why the power of the universe gave you the ability to imagine. You're at your free will to think anything you want to, and it all depends on you to think or meditate on the right or wrong things.

If you are poor inside ( I mean,if you have a negative mindset) it will reflect in the things you do.

Having said that, the first thing you need to work on if you really desire to go far in life- as well as professionally, is to train up your mind positively.

I believe your appetite is already wet and you're really eager to know how to renew your mind for the next level. Right?

No need to worry. Trust me, I'll show you how to. But first, know this:

Your success, prosperity and greatness in life or business is not dependent on your geographical location- neither is it dependent on your financial state. In fact, the nation in which you live in, the economy in which you function ( though are very vital elements) are not the determining factors of your success or failure.

Your mindset is so important and that's why you need to build on it.

If you look at the very successful bloggers or online entreprenuers today, you'll see that they are people with big goals-dream thinkers- and people with the right mentality. No doubt they were able to achieve so much. You can also achieve more, and even perform better if you develop the right mindset.

Here are the list of things you need to build the right mindset.
1. Build your thought process.
What are thoughts?

Thoughts are machines of the mind with constructive or destructive meaning.

For you to achieve great success in life, you have to change your thoughts.

You're the character of your thoughts. The things you have today- the level you're in your life today - the material things you have and friends that surround you came as a result of your thoughts ( You just didn't know).

The totality of your personality-the things you do-and the character of your words are all expression of your thought process.

Here are a list of things to do to build the right thought:

Mount garrison over your heart and decide to only think on positive things. Don't allow every thought come in because not all are good.

Accept and dwell only on positive thoughts.

Meditate on the right things. Read inspirational books and messages that will improve your mind and make you think the right way.

2. Make up your mind to change.
If you really want to build a positive mindset- it all comes down to you.

You've got to tell yourself that you're ready for a new beginning and conform your entire being to it. Don't just sit down there and say "I'm going to build my mindset soon" . Don' do that- but Follow up with action.
3. Get whatever help you can to change.
When building a positive mindset, you need people along the line to help you one way or the other. Look at the most successful people around you and try to get close to them.

Seek advise from them and ask about the attributes they invested their time on. You'll be surprised at the things they did to become successful.
4. Get connected with like minded people.
You can't make it if the people that surround you are negative minded people who don't believe in the possibility of success.

This is very important.

Do you have friends who discourage you from doing the right things or making the right decisions?

If you have such friends, please stay far away from them and connect yourself with positive minded people.

It's not hard to make friends with positive minded people because they surround you ( maybe you just didn't notice them). All you need to do is to work on your thinking and your thought will attract their being to you.
5. Believe in the possibility of a bright future.
No matter how things go rough,believe in the possibility of a bright and successful future.

Challenges are not meant to discourage us, but they're steps to our promotion.

Don't get discouraged if you're not seeing any changes in your life. Stick to your passion-the things that works for you and with time, you'll start seeing results.

When I first started online as a Freelance Writer , I was scammed by different editors -and Freelance writing clients. In fact, there was one particular guy that scammed me of $4,000 worth of articles. I never allowed that to discourage me; instead, I put the past behind me and moved on with business and you know what?

Two months later, I met with the right set of people I needed to grow my Freelance business and today, my blog is rocking ( Though just started 1 to 2 months ago)!

If you want to make go far in life and in business, believe that you will get to the level you've always desired to be and with time, you'll get there.
You own it all!
Yeah. If there'll ever be a change- you'll be the one to make it happen.

Your dreams are achievable if you develop your mind positively.
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He's also the CEO of infowland, where he shares practical sales and traffic generation tips for online entrepreneurs.

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Erin shows overscheduled, overwhelmed women how to do less so that they can achieve more. Traditional productivity books-written by men-barely touch the tangle of cultural pressures that women feel when facing down a to-do list. How to Get Sh*t Done will teach you how to zero in on the three areas of your life where you want to excel, and then it will show you how to off-load, outsource, or just stop giving a damn about the rest.

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Our bookshelves are lined with habits that successful people do on a daily basis. We read about them and implement them into our routines and practices. Quite often these practices improve our productivity and make our lives better as a result. But that's not what this article is about. It's not about what successful people do, but what they did.

Here's a brief study of 10 things that these hungry and unstoppable people did to see the success they all eventually achieved.

The 10 Things Successful People Live By Before They Make It

1. They didn't use excuses.

We all have two voices. There's the voice that tells us to work hard, to focus on the task at hand and to finish it before we move on to the next. And to finish it well.

We also have the voice that tells us to take a break, to think about what's on TV, or to visit a site that we like to visit that entertains us - whether it's ESPN.com or facebook.

In life we're the victim of injustice from time to time. It could be a promotion that we deserve but don't get. No matter who we are, we're going to be treated unfairly at some point. We can either feel sorry for ourselves, or push forward and put it behind us - even use it as motivation.

Nelson Mandela could have used his unjust imprisonment as an excuse to give into his anger. Instead, he used it as an opportunity to learn, grow, and eventually free others.

Listen to your excuses. Understand why you have them. Then figure out how you can use them for good.

2. It wasn't just about them.

'Things' can be a motivator, they can even be a reward, but they can't be the motivator. The truly successful in life always get there because they created change in the lives of others, not just their own.

If something drives you that is greater than just the 'ends', we're going to work harder, longer, and we're going to give more of ourselves to our project.

Yes we can make money when we have the primary goal of making money. Some might even use that money for good - which is awesome. But there's no fulfillment in simply making money. And isn't that the point?

3. Early mornings and late nights.
People who have achieved true success in their lives have worked for it.
This might come at the detriment of other areas of their lives, such as family or social life. But their mission is first and foremost. Until it's complete, everything else comes second.

There's literally no substitute for hard work. Abraham Lincoln said, "Things may come to those who wait... but only the things left by those who hustle." If you want to be successful, you're going to have to out hustle everyone else.

4. The greatest commodity.

Energy is a huge commodity that is often not talked about. Yes, energy in the sense of fuel and electricity is talked about everywhere, but I'm talking about our own energy levels.

The fact is that the more energy we have, the easier it is to focus, and the higher the quality of our work is.

One of Richard Branson 's 'key's to success' is staying in great physical shape. So would raised energy levels be the greatest benefit to working out? It may be.

Keeping physically fit gives us greater blood-flow to our brain, enhanced alertness and improved focus. Make training a routine part of your life and increase your chances at success - in every meaning of the word.

5. Principles.
History will be kind to me. For I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill had principles. The difference between him and the rest of us, is that he stuck to his principles at all costs. He didn't waver when they weren't popular - an extreme rarity in politics.

What are your principles? All of us should have them, know what they are, and live our lives by them.

One of Apple's principles is to bring change to the world through technology, and they do it with every product they release.

Identify what principles you have that guide your life through tough times, and when things couldn't be any better. They shouldn't change, and at your core, neither should you.

6. Wavering, yet unbreakable faith.

We all have moments of doubt. Even the best of us question if our dream is going to come true. The one thing that separates the truly successful from those who never reach their true potential is an unbreakable faith in the fact that what they're doing is right.

Even if they have moments of doubt, they're soon quelled, where other's listen to that doubt and let it eat them up and finally they quit.

Have your moments of doubt. You're human. Just don't let that doubt eat you up. Instead let it motivate you to prove your optimism right.
Many of the greatest accomplishments in the world were accomplished by insecure men and women, people who had something to prove to others. A desire to elevate their status and create change that was so strong, that failure is simply never and option.
Abraham Lincoln's reason(s) had to do a lot with his view of himself in relation to how other's viewed him. Where others saw a poor, illiterate boy, Lincoln saw someone capable of achieving more, even if he had to do it completely on his own. He also saw the need for change. A nation that preached freedom wasn't free. He saw something fundamentally wrong with this and set out to change it. His why wasn't about him. Which in turn made him one of history's great men.

Understand why. You have that reason to work when others sleep, to sacrifice a safe life for a risky one with no ceiling. Find it by asking why, and not stopping until you hit your core, emotional reason for wanting to change your status, or the status of others.

8. They persevered when others didn't.

How does the guy who quit on his dream know how long it would've taken him to become a success? He doesn't. None of us do. It could be tomorrow, or ten years from now.

What separates a lot of the great people we read about in our history books from those we've never heard of is the fact that they never quit. Quitting was never an option. They only stopped when they reached their dream. And even then, they created a new mission.

Take James J. Braddock, or even Nelson Mandela, for example. They didn't achieve their greatness or success early on in their careers or in life like some. They achieved it after surviving. They survived while others literally died, or quit. In their cases it wasn't just that they were the best, but they were the best because of what they endured. They were the last one's standing.

We don't know when our breakthrough will come. So don't guarantee your failure by quitting. You can adapt, change, and evolve, but never, never, never quit.

9. Great people relentlessly studied their craft.

Tony Gwynn and Mike Tyson studied their craft as much as anyone. Gwynn spent hours upon hours studying opposing pitchers. He studied their patterns. He wasn't the most athletic guy around, but he put his work in to be the best at what he did: hit baseballs.

When people think of Tyson, they think of an animal, but what we fail to see is the student. No one studied boxing like Tyson did. Watched more film than anyone in the history of the sport. He was a student first, a fighter second.

These great athletes studied film, but how can we perfect our craft?

Using myself as an example; much of my job has to do with writing, and obviously fitness. So, I study those two things. I read books about how to become a better writer, ways to connect with the reader, and I simply read great books written by authors who are much better at writing than I am. If you're in sales, read and study sales. If you're a marketer, then do the same with marketing.

Being a drone that simply goes through the motions is no way to achieve greatness. Assuming success is something you want, you have to study your craft, whatever it may be. Learn it inside and out. Build a wealth of knowledge. It'll help you create great, inspiring, and unique work.
No risk, no reward. Yes it's an over-used, cliché of a phrase. But it's true. Those who have achieved real success have often risked the most to get there.
There have been billions of people throughout history who have had the ability to achieve greatness, whether it was the talent or smarts, they had it. What they didn't have was the guts to risk the life that they were living. They also didn't have the work ethic to see their talent realized.
The greatest tragedy in life is wasted talent ~ A Bronx Tale
Your big, audacious dream might be to marry the girl of your dreams and have a family with her. You risk might be to leave the career that you love in order to support her and your family. Your dream might be to help millions live longer, healthier lives. Whatever your dream is, give it enough of a chance to be realized.

Risk if you truly want to see the reward.

Find your dream. Then risk everything to get it.

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