Wouldn't we all rather be here.

One essential key to achieving success the like you want is keeping a picture in your mind of what it is you really want. The book "Master-key to Riches" talks about how imagination, when used properly can be a very vital tool in your quest for success. Keeping a good mental picture of what you are trying to achieve is necessary to keeping yourself on track and avoiding distractions.

A good way to help yourself focused on your goals is to have pictures of what you want so you can keep your imagination stimulated. If one of your dreams, for instance, is to be able to travel to warm, tropical places throughout the world than find pictures of place you want to go. If your favorite search engine has an image search go there and do a search for tropical beaches, find some pictures that move you and save them in a special folder so you can look at them any time your imagination needs some refueling. Another great source of inspiration can be found through the use of calenders. At the beginning of a new year get a couple calenders that have pictures that motivate a inspire you. That way you can have fresh imagination fuel each month.

Of course there are lots of people who have calenders or pictures on their computer's desktop of wonderfully scenic places, but they only really represent mere wishes or hopes. If you really want to your dreams and goals to be fulfilled you have got to want them with all you heart. You have to have a burning desire and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are going to be there and you will.

Desire by Brandon

I was going to do a reviews for the books on my favorite books list but I am now reading through Think and Grow Rich again and I realized that it is so full jam-packed with good information that instead I could just do brief summaries of each chapter individually, so this is the first one. I am going to start with the chapter on desire with is actually the second chapter because the first is kind of an introduction.

Desire is the number one most important thing for any kind of success. If you don't have any desire to accomplish anything than you will not have the willpower or follow-through to be a success at whatever you want.

In the book Think and Grow Rich it tells a story of a great warrior who was taking his men into battle against an enemy that far outnumbered them. He need a way to ensure that him and his men would have victory in the upcoming battle. So he ordered that the ships they sailed on be burn cutting of any possible way of retreat. As he and his men stood on the shore watching their ships burn he turned to them and said, "You see the ships going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win - or we perish. Needless to say they won.

That is the type of attitude one needs to have if they expect to succeed at anything. You will need to cut off all hope of retreat leaving victory as your only option. If yo try to enter into any type of endeavor with out having "burned your ships" how will you ever be able to move forward.

If you know what you want and have a burning desire to see it through to the end than nothing can stop you. A person with definiteness of purpose back by a burning desire is one of the greatest force known. It was these traits that allowed Wright Brothers to build and fly the first airplane. It was these traits that took Thomas Edison from being someone who people thought was mentally inept to becoming known as one of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century. And it is desire that will get you to wherever you want to go in life.

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Successful Living: Take Responsibility for Empowering Your Attitude and Actions By Melissa Wadsworth

Personal responsibility. We each know we have it in the various areas of our lives: work and career, family relationships, friends, future goals. But do we always do all we could in directing our attitude and actions for a positive result? Do we use our attitude and actions to empower ourselves? Or has the hectic pace of modern living encouraged us to let crucial attributes slide?


For instance, I know that I have a responsibility to give back to others. Each time I hear of someone volunteering with real heart and purpose, I am reminded that I need to do more. In the meantime I try to be friendly and helpful to people I come in contact with. I’m not always as successful as I’d like to be (Oops! I was in my head again and missed an opportunity to return the smile of a nice stranger).


Also, I know that I have a responsibility to interact with others fairly and with kindness. We all get our fear buttons pushed. Such moments are prime opportunities to push back. We can push back fear and act with generosity and optimism. We can imagine our connection to others and act more inclusively.


There’s enough success to go around for everyone. There’s enough business. We can remind ourselves that our agenda shares a stage with many other people and their own goals and plans. How we execute our daily tasks and goals is just as important as when we complete them. If at the end of the day we can say we acted with grace and honor to fulfill our goals, then it’s a very good day indeed.

Of course, the most important responsibility we have is to ourselves. Since we are the first link in our chain of influence and connection, ideally, we act from a hopeful, grounded and honest place. From a place of heart that nourishes us so we have more to give ourselves, others and our communities.

Boost Your Focus on These Five Areas of Personal Responsibility:

1. Kindness. Embrace nice. The smallest acts of kindness can change the energy in someone’s day (indeed your own) or even make you a hero in another’s eyes. Find these opportunities. Grab them as they arise. And, remember the flip side: negativity in any form matters: small meanness as well as selfish behavior. Don’t rationalize unkindness.


2. Courage. Sometimes it takes courage to be an agent for positive change. You might have to step up and report someone’s negative management style. You might need to point out someone’s unsuccessful relationship patterns. I once witnessed a boss who was being so emotionally cruel to a secretary that she had her in tears. When I asked her what she was doing, it was almost like I awoke her from a trance. She was truly apologetic.


3. Integrity. Be uncompromising in your intention to take the highroad. Shortcuts are tempting. Rationalization is often right on the tips of our tongues. Walk your talk and act in sync with your values. It will reduce your own stress, not to mention that of others in your sphere of influence.


4. Courtesy. Business and social courtesies seem to be quickly eroding. Maybe it’s a technological side effect? Regardless, do your part to act with courtesy. RSVP. Follow up when you network. Respond to job applications (even with a form letter). Return calls in a timely manner. Send a "Thank You" card to someone who has done you a favor or a kindness. Use your turn signal! It’s a great opportunity to set yourself apart in a very positive way. And, just think of all the good energy that should soon be headed your way.


5. Self-examination. Every now and again, maybe after a hectic week, it's good to review how satisfied and pleased you are with your own behavior. Self-knowledge: it’s healthy to occasionally question your motives for words and actions. Did anything you say or do feel too self-serving, greedy or out of alignment with how you think of yourself, or how you'd like to regarded? Be frank. Make adjustments as necessary and keep challenging yourself to grow.


If you pay attention to your attitude and actions in these five areas than each day will be a meaningful success.

Melissa Wadsworth is a self-help author and speaker specializing in creative awareness and personal growth topics. Check out her book Small Talk Savvy Then sign up for her FREE "Living Awareness" ezine at: www.melissawadsworth.comandd receive a FREE copy of her special report "Personal Insight: Seven Steps to Empowering Yourself."

Successful Living! By Raymond Usbal

We all have 24 hours each day.

No one have more, no one have less. What is then the difference for it is evident that others accomplish more than the rest?

Respect of time

We must realize that time is a limited commodity. Our time on earth is limited, our years are numbered. So we must be wise then to redeem our time.

The desire to grow

You can use all your time digging dirt or you could use some of your time to polish your brain to work in it its higher caliber. The question is, do you have the guts to do it? Are you motivated enough to make a change for good?

Growing is one of the most painful of all experiences. Suffering makes one grow. We didn't plan to suffer but when we refuse to grow or mature, we suffer nonetheless. In that situation, being wise enought, we then make the decision to grow.

Imagination

We can use our imagination to work for us or against us. You can imagine that there is a lion waiting at the streets to eat you up, thus you are afraid to venture in the open in fear of being eaten up by a lion! So what is your lion? Isn't it just a figment of your imagination that you created so that you can have an excuse to pamper yourself in bed all day?

Your imagination can do you unspeakable good. Take a good look at the city, tell me is there a single building that was built without an architect who designed it first conceptually on paper. Yes all creation starts at the mind. Be careful though that it will not die in there. Let your dreams grow strengthening it continually by feeding your mind with positive thoughts.

Direction

Where am I to go? That is one of the most difficult questions I have to answer recently. I have two job offers that compete each other in offered benefits. But that doesn't give me the reason not to decide. As painful as it can be we must make decisions that either break us or make us.

So where do we get our directions? The apostle Paul preached the good news from place to place. Like fire that burns everything in its way so is the apostle preaching the good news of salvation in every place he goes. But not always… at times the Holy Spirit hindered him to enter a certain village to direct him to another one.

So we must be sensitive enough for the leading of the Holy Spirit. The bible also says that the Children of God are led by the Spirit of God.

Rest

As important it is to use our time wisely, it is also important to rest. When we rest, we enable our bodies and imagination to recharge itself. Only by resting that we can accomplish more and properly maintain the most important asset in achiving our goals -- our physical bodies.

Raymond S. Usbal is a Filipino Christian writer who wants to inspire others by sharing tidbits of wisdom and humor for practical living. He is, at the same time, a PHP/MySQL programmer. Be inspired more by visiting inspirational-pages.com!

Reading Success Minded Books Can Improve Your Thinking and Your Life by Brandon

Living a successful life is one of the deepest desires in most people's hearts, and anyone who says otherwise is probably not being totally truthful, at least conscientiously. Anyone who says that money will not bring you happiness is partially right, however, they need to keep in mind that having bills to pay will not bring happiness either. No one likes to go to the mailbox knowing that there is going to be bills in there that they cannot afford to pay.

So what can we do to get ourselves out of the financial situations some us find ourselves in and on to a greater life we want and may even feel we somewhat deserve? One of the easiest and most effective ways is the read.

Some people like to read and some people do not. Some people vowed that they would never pick up a book again after leaving school. Which ever of the two categories you fall into is irrelevant if you wish to leave behind your average like for a great life.

Books are capable of stimulating our imaginations and taking us to far away places. Books can teach us things that we may have never known without some one to have written them. Some books even allow us to look deep within ourself to discover aspects and capabilities of ourselves that we might not have even known were there. But most importantly books can can help us to change our thinking in order that we can change the way we live.

Go to any bookstore or do a search online and you will be able to find dozens, if not hundreds, of books written about living a successful life. You can find books on how to have better people skills. Books on how to manage your finances better. Books on how to invest and the list goes on an on. Most importantly though you can find books on how to think, which is most important because without proper thought process you really have nothing, which is why most people who win the lottery usually end up worse off then before they won it. They do not have the proper thought process to handle the immediate "success."

Most all people who have achieved any real type of success were readers. Virtually no one is born with the know how to be successful. All of us need to educate ourselves on how to think properly if we want to live successfully. I have heard some very successful business partners of mine say many times that "two things will determine where you end up in life: the books you read and the people you associate with." So whether you like to read or not, and if you have not ever done so, do yourself a favor; find a good book that can help you change your thinking and your life.

For a list of book suggestions see the side bar.

Successful Living: 9 Universal Laws By Jeff Herring

1. The Law of Balance

I got an email from a wise friend the other day who had this to say,

“Whenever I am out of balance in one area of my life, I usually end up binging, (going to excess) in some other area of my life.”

Even sunshine burns if you get too much.

2. The Law of Competition

There are many times when competition is an extremely healthy thing. There are other times, however, when it can get in our way. Because there will always be people who we do better than and there will always be people who do better than us, the danger is to feel either arrogant or inferior, neither of which is a very useful emotion.

One answer is to be in competition with your self. This simply means to commit to doing better and better in each day. As Colonel Potter said to Hawkeye on an episode of M*A*S*H, “The only person you need to do better than is your self, and that’s a big enough challenge.”

3. The Law of QTIP

Here’s an instant stress buster & perspective changer from professional speaker Tim O’Brien:

“Quit Taking It Personally.”

4. The Law of Perspective

Author Richard Back said, “Perspective: use it or lose it.”

Losing perspective is one of the quickest ways to lose your way in life. On the other hand, using your perspective, even seeing a different perspective is a most effective tool.

5. The Law of Stress

Believe it or not, we all need a little stress in our lives. Too little, and there is no motivation for change. Too much, and we begin to shut down and get overwhelmed. It’s important to know your optimal level of stress and then do all the necessary things to keep your stress in balance.

6. The Law of Passion

The happiest people I know are those that are passionate about something in their lives. Even happier people get to earn their living pursuing their passion. What’s your passion? How could it support you?

7. The Law of Freud

I’ve never been a big fan of Freud. At the same time, he did have this usefeul thing to say:

“To be happy, we all need some one to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

8. The Law of Hope

Never, ever, never give up hope. Hope for the future, in and of itself, keeps us moving in the right direction.

9. The Law of 10,000

One of my favorite change stories is called “The Room of 10,000 Monsters.” In this room, all your worst fears, anxieties and nightmares are played out in front of you as if they were real. You walk in and close the door behind you. There is no handle on the inside of the door. The only door with a handle is across the room. If you can walk across the room and reach the door, you will reach Nirvana. (Not the rock group, but happiness and contentment.) You have to go by yourself, with only two pieces of advice. The first is no matter what you see, hear or feel, remember that it’s not real, it’s just taken from your own imagination. That’s good advice, but if your biggest fear is of heights and you see your self on the edge of a 20 story building, you’re not likely to get anywhere. The second piece of advice is that no matter what you see, hear, or feel, keep your feet moving, and you will get to the other side.

The moral of the story: keep your feet moving

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Welcome

In my haste and excitement of starting my very own blog I neglected to write any kind of of welcome post. Like the description in the heading says this blog is for people who want to live a happy, prosperous and successful life. I will be posting articles I find on here as well as so post of my own. I put a list of some of my favorite success and self-help books at the side if you haven't seen it already and will be posting some short reviews of them from time to time. So I hope this gives you a good little introduction and I hope you make this a regular source for enlightenment and inspiration. Sincerely Brandon (v_vega511)

Life Inspiration: 12 Tips for Successful Living By Jeff Herring

1. Constant affirmation without accountability is a sure-fire way to cripple a child. In other words, belief in yourself without responsibility leads to a sense of entitlement.

2. Raise your hand if you've ever been rejected for anything, anytime, anywhere. We all have. How would you like to have a nice little four-letter word for the next time you're rejected? It's: NEXT. Next sale, next job, next date, next whatever.

3. Beware of people who use their own emotional pain as a tool to manipulate others instead of as a motivation to change themselves.

4. Parents of teens need to watch out for NMK Syndrome: Not My Kid, as in "my kid couldn't have done ___" (fill in the blank). Well, yes, they could have. Even if you have faithfully raised them not to do certain things, kids still have the power of choice, which means they can make bad choices.

NMK Syndrome can blind you to something that needs immediate attention. Trust in your kids and in your parenting, and always check out what you hear.

5. When you receive a notice in your credit card statement that says, "Congratulations, because of your excellent payment history, there is no minimum fee due this month," it's not a time for celebration. You're still being charged interest. These people are not your friends.

6. It's a humbling and sobering experience to have a child who wants to be like you.

7. I've noticed more and more people doing what I call "caboose living."

Picture a three-car train. The engine in front we'll call facts/reality; the car in the middle is our thoughts, beliefs, decisions, choices and behaviors based on the facts; the caboose is our feelings. The facts/reality come first, then thoughts and behaviors followed by feelings.

Many folks try to run their life train with the caboose (feelings) in the lead. Feelings are interesting and important, but they cannot drive the train. Pay attention to your feelings, but let the facts/reality drive the train.

8. A successful marriage requires selective and strategic ignoring. The right things to ignore are little habits and irritating peculiarities that we all have. The problem comes when you select the wrong things to ignore.

9. I wonder if it's a bad thing to believe that football on TV is one of the first signs of fall approaching.

10. Most folks live with the illusion that worrying about something can actually make a difference. The only possible way that worrying can make a difference is if the worrying motivates you to take action to do something about the subject of your worry.

11.People often say, "Well, I'm just going with the flow." The problem with going with the flow is that many times the flow is lost and does not know where it is going.

12. Best quote I've seen since last time, by Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts: "At some point, though, a problem ought to be defined less by our ability to explain why it happens than by our willingness to demand that it happen no more."

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Hope - A Necessity For A Successful Living By Keji Giwa

Life - Question It! If people say you can’t do it? Why and why not? If people don’t believe in you, as long as you don’t believe them but believe in yourself and your abilities as a person, they'll soon come to believe you and believe in you. Why? Because no one can change the real you and if they watch carefully, over time, they will come to see how you increase in worth the more you believe in yourself. Thomas Edison: Proven record of achievement in experiencing too many failed attempts. His success as an inventor was based on his ability to keep trying despite his many failed attempts. Today you have the light bulb and many other inventions because of his many failed attempts. Abraham Lincoln: His autobiography is one that had failure written all over it. If failure was a degree, he would have graduated with a first class. Yet his many failed attempts led him to be the most successful and highly influential president America ever had. The Wright Brothers: With no college degrees, these two brothers picked up the failed idea of a man who died as a result of implementing his idea and they ran with it. They had too many failed attempts as a result. It was like deliberately taking on the curse of another. Due to their tenacious and resilient attitude towards adversity and complicated issues, they finally succeeded. Today, their success enables you and I to fly all around the world in aeroplanes. YOU:You have probably experienced a few or too many failed attempts. You are no different from the people mentioned above and the principle remains the same even with you. Success involves learning from our many failed attempts and using our experiences to keep us from making the same mistake twice. What keeps us going? HOPE. Hope is seeing what isn’t there as if it were there and working towards getting it there. By Keji Giwa http://www.careerinsights.tv

Hope - A Necessity For A Successful Living By Keji Giwa

Life - Question It!

If people say you can’t do it? Why and why not?

If people don’t believe in you, as long as you don’t believe them but believe in yourself and your abilities as a person, they'll soon come to believe you and believe in you.

Why?

Because no one can change the real you and if they watch carefully, over time, they will come to see how you increase in worth the more you believe in yourself.

Thomas Edison: Proven record of achievement in experiencing too many failed attempts. His success as an inventor was based on his ability to keep trying despite his many failed attempts. Today you have the light bulb and many other inventions because of his many failed attempts.

Abraham Lincoln: His autobiography is one that had failure written all over it. If failure was a degree, he would have graduated with a first class. Yet his many failed attempts led him to be the most successful and highly influential president America ever had.

The Wright Brothers: With no college degrees, these two brothers picked up the failed idea of a man who died as a result of implementing his idea and they ran with it. They had too many failed attempts as a result. It was like deliberately taking on the curse of another. Due to their tenacious and resilient attitude towards adversity and complicated issues, they finally succeeded. Today, their success enables you and I to fly all around the world in aeroplanes.

YOU:You have probably experienced a few or too many failed attempts. You are no different from the people mentioned above and the principle remains the same even with you. Success involves learning from our many failed attempts and using our experiences to keep us from making the same mistake twice. What keeps us going? HOPE. Hope is seeing what isn’t there as if it were there and working towards getting it there.

By Keji Giwa

http://www.careerinsights.tv