Using Your Brain for Self Improvement: The Power of Affirmations

Changing your mindset from scarcity and difficulty to abundance and good fortune isn’t that easy.  After all, you grew up with this mindset.  It’s been taught and reinforced to you for 20, 30, 40 years and more.  Not that anyone’s set out to bring you a negative mindset.  To most people, it’s just the reality [...]

Yes, Affirmations Are Essential to Your Personal Growth

Different things work for different people.  This is true for most things in life, including your personal growth journey.  Some people get the most benefit from reading, some from journaling, and some from visualization.  And so on.  In a perfect world, we would all do all of these things every day.  But most of us [...]

Self Improvement: Going Backwards is Okay Some Days

I am in the business of helping others with their personal growth.  I write and talk about having a positive mental attitude under even the worst of circumstances.  About taking action when you feel like sitting on the couch.
Yet every now and then, I feel negative or depressed about my life.  Or I check my [...]

Doing Something is Always Easier Than Doing Nothing

It would seem like it’s easier to lay on the couch watching TV than to work on the copy for your new landing page.  And that it’s easier to surf the internet for a new summer wardrobe than to sit at the computer and do keyword research.  But it’s not.
With few exceptions, when you first [...]

Work at Home Moms: 4 Ways to Manage Your Time and Your Kids

Work at home moms face a set of unique challenges that no one else understands.  The biggest of those is how to manage both your time and your kids.  Follow these four rules and your path to success will be much smoother.
First, you have to stop making excuses.  Yes, you probably have less time than [...]

Work at Home Moms: Is Time Management Only For Men?

There is no group of people who are more blessed than work at home moms.  The popular saying that “being a mom is a full time job” is ridiculous.  Being a mom is a passion.
A job is 9 to 5 with a boss, weekends off, and insurance benefits.
A mom is a 24/7 opportunity to follow [...]

Your Home Business Makeover: Redefining Attitude

Most of us start a work from home business because we don’t like our job and/or we’re looking for time and financial freedom.  At first, your new online business is great.  You are taking action to get things started.  You’re imagining the new car, new house, new clothes, new life your work from home success [...]

Zig Ziglar: Yes, Attitude Makes All the Difference in a Successful Home Business

This is one of my favorite Zig Ziglar stories.  In just over 9 minutes, Zig can shift your entire attitude about your business.

In the video, Zig tells how a woman changes her attitude towards her job, which changes her life.  Tomorrow I’ll give you my thoughts on how we can apply this same thinking to [...]

Twitter: To Follow or Not to Follow?

I keep going back and forth on this issue.  Do I automatically follow everyone who follows me on Twitter?  Or do I study their profile and tweeting habits first?
There are some people that I respect that say the nice thing to do is follow back everyone who isn’t a blatant spammer.  There are others that [...]

How to Journal Your Way to Work From Home Success

We’ve covered why journaling is important, now let’s talk about how to do it.  Not that there’s just one way.  It is your journal.  But there are some things you should know to make journaling easier for you, and more effective in aiding your quest for personal and business growth.
Choosing your journal is an important [...]