Personal Learning Lifestyle

It’s important to understand that there are two main things you can change about yourself that will help you let go of clutter: your attitude and your habits. Neither is easy to change, but of the two changing your attitude is most essential. Change your clutter-attracting attitude, and you won’t have to change as many […]

1. When you talk, listen to yourself for the “buts,” “could ofs” and “gonnas” in your own conversations and those of people around you. Zap those negatively charged words and phrases from your own vocabulary.
2. Create scenarios in which you may have reacted negatively in the past and envision yourself responding in the future with […]

The people you associate with - whether on the job or socially - can have a motivating or a demotivating effect on you.
Some folks see life in a positive light and are natural motivators.
If a positive person asks you how you’re doing and you say, “Not well at all. I’ve had this cold for a […]

Your attitude is enormously important. It enables you to accomplish amazing things.
But without the right skills, you’re limited in what you can do, regardless of your attitude.
An enthusiastic salesperson with the right attitude can achieve a degree of success in selling a good product - sometimes even considerable success.
But this individual can’t realize his or […]

You need to have a positive yet cautiously realistic attitude toward your own abilities and yourself. Knowing your capabilities and being realistic about your possibilities are starting places for success.
For example, your chances of being a rocket scientist are slim if you flunked high school math twice, so spending several years in college taking every […]