30sec Tip: You Can Make Any Choice You Want

You can make any choice you want if you are willing to accept the consequences that come with it.

With every choice comes a decision, and from the moment you wake up to when your head hits the pillow each night, you are faced with endless choices.

When life is stressful, plates are overflowing, and your brain, living space and work space are cluttered, making a decision (even a simple one) can seem overwhelming. So what do you do? You make the decision not to make a decision.

How Living Clutter-free Will Make You a Better Decision Maker

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30sec Tip: You Cannot Love or Hate Something about Another Person Unless…

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

You see it every day on your newsfeed, and you probably don’t even question it—by now, it comes as no surprise. The popularity of Facebook has caused a shift in how people perceive themselves; the “like” button has become nothing more than a a self-esteem booster; a way for people who are low in self-esteem to get a quick fix of validation if they’re feeling low.

Can you see how this can be problematic?

5 Self Esteem Hacks You Can Use Now

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30sec Tip: The Secret to Success

The secret to success is… Is not secret. It’s called work your ass off and find a way to add more value to people lives than anyone else does!

We’re all in a hurry, it seems. The pace of life has increased and rushing through our days—through our lives—has now become the norm. We want everything now; happiness now, success now, health now, love now. Not surprisingly, this is the way we approach our goals and life changes as well. Patience is hard to come by: we expect results now, and if we haven’t reached our goal yet, it must be because we’re not working hard enough or fast enough or we’re lazy and undisciplined.

The Number One Secret to Life Success: Baby Steps

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30sec Tip: The Primary Cause of Unhappiness

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Are you truly happy? Do you even know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves. I live my life to maintain my own happiness while trying my best to not cause unhappiness to anyone else. If you want to be happy you need to understand that you can be happy and that you should be happy. Many people make the mistake of believing that they don’t deserve happiness and accept their unhappy state as their destiny. The truth of the matter is that happiness, like anything else in life, needs to be nurtured. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

9 Tips in Life that Lead to Happiness

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30sec Tip: Never Look Down on Anyone

Never look down on anyone, unless you are helping them up.

We make commitments to others and ourselves all the time. The question is: Do we keep them?

When we fail to keep a promise, it communicates to the other person that we don’t value him or her. We have elected to place something else ahead of our commitment. This can result in an erosion of trust in our relationships.

More importantly, we are telling ourselves that we don’t value our own word. Not keeping a promise to yourself is the same as disrespecting yourself. Eventually, it can harm our self-esteem, confidence, and experience of life.

5 Tips to Help You Keep Your Promises

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30sec Tip: Be Aware that Healthy Relationships are Built on Trust

Be aware that healthy relationships are built on trust, and that trust takes time to develop. It may be unwise to share too much of yourself and about yourself too quickly.

Want to build positive relationships? Then make sure not to commit the following 10 things that disrupt relationships:

10 Things To Stop Doing in Your Relationships

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30sec Tip: Don’t Give Others the Power to Control Your Emotions

Don’t give others the power to control your emotions. Those are only yours and it is only for you to manipulate.

Time after time you see a promising athlete come out of college and go into the pros only to bomb out. He or she had the best athletic ability, yet could not cut it at the professional level. Others might not have great athletic ability, get picked late in the draft and go onto become super stars. Tom Brady comes to mind as someone who wasn’t particularly outstanding in college who has gone on to be a probable first time inductee into the NFL Hall of Fame.

Personally I have seen the same. I spent many years in the US Army Special Forces. We would have tryouts who while in the best physical shape just could not make the grade to be a Green Beret. Others, who would seem to be nondescript, would pass the Special Forces Qualification course with flying colors and go onto to be an outstanding soldier.

You are probably asking yourself by now what is the difference? What do you need to perform at the highest levels, which is even more important than physical ability?

How to Develop Mental Toughness

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30sec Tip: You May Miss out on Future Opportunities

You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, but you may miss out on future opportunities.

We live in uncertain times. Global financial collapse, rapid relocation of industries, emerging markets, political unrest, and just the fast pace of change in the Information Era in general all mea that things you take for granted today might be completely different tomorrow.

In Uncertain Times, Prepare Yourself for New Opportunities

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30sec Tip: How to Continuously Improve Yourself?

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30sec Tip: How to Improve Your Mood Easily?

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Practice Gratitude. Think of Every Positive Thing That Happened to You at the End of the Day. It Increases Your Mood.

Do you think happiness is a state that only a few can achieve?

I think Happiness is your birth right, it is available to each and every one of us.

But if this is true why does it elude so many?

It eludes so many of us because our habits don’t support a life of harmony and happiness. I have heard it said that our collective habits determine the quality of our lives, in that case we need to ensure that our habits are positive and help us work towards creating an overall habit of happiness

There are many constructive habits that will help bring us more joy.

How to Create the Ultimate Habit of Happiness

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30sec Tip: How to Calm Your Imagination Before Sleep

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Keep a Pen and Notepad Next to Your Bed. Whenever You Have a Thought or Concern, Jot it Down and Let it Go.

Lucid Dreaming is consciously being aware within your dream. When you are dreaming and you become conscious that you are dreaming you can start to control your dreams and the direction they go in.

Lucid dreaming can help with recurring nightmares, solving creative problems, speaking with loved ones who have passed on, anxiety, and problem solving. It can be an exhilarating experience and the feeling of euphoria after your first few lucid dreams can last for days.

7 Steps to Start Lucid Dreaming

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30sec Tip: Do You Spend Too Much Time on Reading and Thinking?

Don’t just read and think. Work out problems and apply them to reality.

You have a deadline looming. However, instead of doing your work, you are fiddling with miscellaneous things like checking email, social media, watching videos, surfing blogs and forums. You know you should be working, but you just don’t feel like doing anything.

We are all familiar with the procrastination phenomenon. When we procrastinate, we squander away our free time and put off important tasks we should be doing them till it’s too late. And when it is indeed too late, we panic and wish we got started earlier. The chronic procrastinators I know have spent years of their life looped in this cycle. Delaying, putting off things, slacking, hiding from work, facing work only when it’s unavoidable, then repeating this loop all over again. It’s a bad habit that eats us away and prevents us from achieving greater results in life.

Don’t let procrastination take over your life. Here, I will share my personal steps which I use to overcome procrastination with great success. These 11 steps will definitely apply to you too:

11 Practical Ways To Stop Procrastination

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30sec Tip: How to Generate Better Ideas?

Be open minded, listen to opposite points of view so that you can formulate new ideas.

The strangest thing about the process of generating ideas, is that there seems to be a commonly held belief that it is some sort of mystical process, one that is only reserved for the likes of ‘visionaries’ and mad scientists. There is this idea that those kinds of people are the only ones who can come up with great ideas consistently, and even then, only after ‘waiting’ for ‘inspiration’ to strike. This belief is held despite the fact that there are many people who have said outright (and show through their output), that they work hard and sweat for their ideas.

How to Consistently Come Up with Great Ideas

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30sec Tip: Identify Your Peak Hour of Productivity

Identify your peak hour of productivity. Schedule your most important task for this period. Work on unimportant tasks during non-peak hours.

Our minds are basically organized like human computers. They function to a great extent in much the same way. So, if we want to improve our daily productivity, efficiency and focus, we need to empty the cache of temporary “files” and reboot for our brains to allow us perform at our peak levels.

Otherwise we can easily experience brain overload with too many circuits firing simultaneously and so many programs (thoughts) working in the shadows that we often “freeze up” and cannot remember everything or simply process the information in a much slower and less efficient manner than we’d like.

It sounds odd, but when you stop to consider, it actually makes sense. The best part is that’s not difficult or time consuming at all. It really only requires a few minutes each day and surprisingly simple tools

How to Organize Your Brain for Better Productivity

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30sec Tip: Hit the Target No Matter What.

When you start doing a task, identify the goal you must reach before you can stop. Hit you target no matter what.

Many people think that setting a goal destination is having a dream that is there in the far distant future, but will never be attained. This proves to be a self-fulfilling prophesy because of two things. Firstly, that the goal isn’t specifically defined enough in the first place, and secondly, it remains a remote dream waiting for action which is never taken.

Defining your goal destination is something that you need to take some time to think carefully about. The following steps should get you started on a journey to those goals.

9 Steps to Define your Goal Destination and Devise a Plan to Get There

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30sec Tip: How to Prevent Wasting Time

Set a fixed time period for yourself. Don’t worry about how far you get, just work on your task during that time.

By the end of this time management article you will have an important gift – a bundle of time to get more things done today.

Sound too good to be true? Well, it’s a simple fix — all you need to do is eliminate four bad time management habits and stop wasting time today.

4 Critical Ways You Can Stop Wasting Time Today

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