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Much Food is in the Fallow Ground of the Poor
Proverbs 13: 20 I’ve been reading Proverbs daily now for the last couple of years. It started from a suggestion by Steven K. Scott in “The Richest Man Who Ever Lived – King Solomon’s Secrets to Success, Wealth and Happiness.” Just to provide a bit of backstory – this is what his mentor Dr. Gary…
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We Move Towards What We See in Our Mind
In the classic book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill shares a Self-Confidence Formula. This is a formula that he asks readers to memorize and repeat aloud once a day and there is good reason for this. The second paragraph of that formula goes as follows: I realize that the dominating thoughts of my mind…
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How to Be at Your Best when Life is at its Worst
Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill repeats this phrase in every book he has written. “Look for the benefit…” he suggests. “So you’ve got a problem? That’s good!” How can a problem be a good thing? You might be asking this right now. How can my present challenge…
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Small Business Success Requires an Open Mind and the Ability to Think
Thinking seems to be a lost art. Today you can get an answer to virtually any question by typing in our question into a search engine. Compare that to the age BEFORE Google where children had to use their imagination all through playtime and draw on both sides of their brains to solve problems. Playtime…
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The Importance of Developing Inspirational Dissatisfaction
Life is short. And uncertain. It is like a drop of water skittering around on a lotus leaf. You never know when it will drop off the edge and disappear. So each day is far too precious to waste. And each day that you are not radiantly alive and brimming with cheer is a day…
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écouter et répéter
I love the French language. The guttural Rs…the way one word seems to join another in a sentence…except in certain cases…pure music. To learn French back when I was in secondary school – our teacher always started the lesson by asking us to “écouter et répéter…” – listen and repeat. In Og Mandino’s ‘The Greatest…
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Progress Calls For An Open Mind
“If your mind is closed you become stagnant and any talents that you have will decline. By having a closed mind you will put yourself in a mental prison.” This was one of many nuggets that I discovered in Napoleon Hill’s ‘A Year of Growing Rich.’ As I mulled over this quote, I started thinking…
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Lost Control of Your Life? Here’s How to Get it Back!
1) Who decides how you feel at any given moment? 2) Who decides what you do with your time? 3) Who has the most say about your career? 4) Who prods you about how you’re raising your children or perhaps the decisions you’re making regarding their future? 5) Who makes the decisions regarding your finances?…
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Don’t Reset the Goal…Revise the Plan
Planning has been on my mind a lot these days. In the main because I’ve set out to experience my best year yet and am realizing that to do so, my actions every single day must move me closer to aligning with my definite purpose or else I’m simply walking from one day to the…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
High-stakes decisions deserve disciplined thinking
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to reduce unnecessary risk.
When your decision affects income, reputation, or stability,
pause with structure before you act.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Advisory for Leaders Under Pressure 