Category: Happiness

On Saturday, August 20, 27-year-old Singaporean lawyer Darren Tay became the Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking.

Action is part of the process that Charles F. Haanel espouses. Haanel’s writing in The Master Key System teach us how to think — properly, correctly, and with taking action in mind.

This is a post about revenge. I can’t tell you why…

We’ve all heard the term multiple streams of income, meaning ongoing income from several different sources. If one source dries up, you can rely on another.

Better sleep and more productivity during the day could be just around the corner using this very simple technique.

Hollywood has a terrible tendency to take true stories and embellish them until all that's left is a sad husk of truth stuffed with too much questionable artistic license. So let's hope Hollywood doesn't touch the following celebrity biographies, because these underdog tales are dramatic enough.

Imagine where you want to be someday. Now, how did you get there? Retrograde analysis is a style of problem solving where you work backwards from the endgame you want. It can help you win at chess -- or solve a problem in real life.

Here are five tips for refreshing yourself and rekindling your motivation through taking a mini-vacation:

How New Thought has Taken Center Stage in the Lives of Champion Athletes.

Here's a few of our favorites quotes from America's "Ol' Blood and Guts."

This article is especially for best friends, share the best friendship quote that describes you and your friends the most. This article consists of best friendship quotes to share with your amazing friends. Share with us in the comments amazing memories you have with your friends.

One fascinating thing I’ve come to know about confidence is that it’s mostly a set of learned skills and beliefs.

What's the deal with folks like us, huh? Do we eat too much sugar and caffeine? Not get enough sleep or masturbation? Undiagnosed ADD? Or is it the meth? Whatever the cause, if you can stop rearranging the Pacific Rim action figures on your desk and pay attention to what I'm telling you for just 2,000 words, I'll give you some tips that just might save your life. Or marriage. Or job. Oh, and I promise not to make any "har har, what was I talking about?" jokes just because I don't know how to end a paragraph.

Since our mindset is the key factor driving our confidence and self-esteem, let’s talk about 7 things you can learn today to achieve this.

So how can you never be frustrated again? Let's break it down.

At the risk of severe hyperbole, I believe these three questions can help solve any problem. Don’t take my word for it. Try it yourself.  Think of any problem you are dealing with right now — a difficult colleague, changes to your business wrought by the digital revolution, or even, say, the struggle to get into better physical shape —and honestly ask yourself these three questions:

Find yourself on the receiving end of a barbed remark? Try these retorts to win the war of linguistic acrobatics.

The secret to working more efficiently isn’t about working more or less, but smarter. So we asked 12 successful people how they do it.

There are many deadly pitfalls of success and self-doubt is a biggie! Too many people frequently doubt their abilities, talents, self-worth, and what they deserve in life. These people also remain stuck in unfulfilling careers, relationships, financial situations, negative living environments, and have difficulties in other areas of life.

Since nobody knew how to mix art with commerce better than Andy Warhol did, here are his rules, straight from his own mouth, about how you can become an artist of business.

Of the 36 rules Descartes planned to write, he only penned 21, the first twelve of which outlined the principles of the scientific method. (The latter nine were specific to mathematics and thus rather esoteric.)

“Not-to-do” lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance.

So what is it about productivity that’s having such a positive impact on the ability of individuals to achieve their goals?

The comfort zone and outside of it is tricky. This what you need to know.

Listed below are a few common, self-defeating thoughts, and how to transform them into more helpful, positive affirmations.

This is a phenomenal story that Tony Robbins tells about Sylvester Stallone and how the movie Rocky was made. Inspiring and incredible. Please enjoy!

A faint but discernible dividing line separates achievers from dreamers. What makes the difference?

I completely get your frustration. When I first started using positive affirmations, I felt like I was wasting 5 minutes a day too. If you feel like this, if you feel like you failed at positive affirmations, then stop using them and watch this video.

Are you feeling lost? Frazzled? Like you have no idea where your life is going or what you want to do with your life? Don’t despair. Feeling lost might be the best possible thing to experience right now.

Everybody makes mistakes—that’s a given—but not everyone learns from them. Some people make the same mistakes over and over again, fail to make any real progress, and can’t figure out why.

Check out these five need-to-know facts of psychology, and maybe start living your life a bit differently:

Anders Ericsson is a professor of psychology at Florida State University. His wonderful new book is Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.

If money and fame weren’t part of the equation, how would you define success?

We've rounded up some useful hacks that are proven to help you get out of bed as early as you'd like.

I’ve known about the benefits of taking cold showers for a long time. Many of you are probably familiar with some of the science. You may have read about it in Tim Ferriss’s book, “The 4-Hour Body,” or seen it in a Fast Company article.

What is power? And how do you acquire it? Robert Greene, author of "The 48 Laws of Power," has some insight.

Lifehacks -- who doesn't love them? We jump all over anything that will give us a shortcut to achieving our goals because, hey, most of us were raised on CliffsNotes and Wikipedia summaries. So for our fellow shortcutters out there, here's more ways to win at life without giving 100 percent.

There are certain truths I really need to remember when I’m in a panicky state, which is exactly the time they are hardest to remember. So you may want to bookmark these gentle reminders, because the next time you’re overwhelmed you will never remember them.

A question a lot of us are struggling with these days is “how to focus.” There’s a reason . . .

Author Peter Drucker wrote, “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.”

Here are some ways to get your mind to relax and return to a productive state.

Regardless of the destination, this will help you get there.

Laura Vanderkam studied the schedules of high-achievers. What did she find? Almost all have a morning routine.

We all have one thing in common: every night we all go to bed and every day we all wake up. Each day we have the opportunity to start again, seize the day and create the life we want. It is such an amazing opportunity that we should all be jumping out of bed every morning with total excitement to start our day. Alas, I know that is not the case for many people.

When people encounter someone with a strong personality, they don’t understand the kind of person they are dealing with.

There are four principles I try to stick to whenever I’m building a new habit. Through everything I’ve tried, these are the principles that seem to work every time.

How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long-term memory through the right retrieval cues.

In order to stay on top of your game and reach the level of success you want, you need to follow a certain set of self-induced rules. Success is not something that happens by accident; if you want it bad enough, you will get it. Learn the habits that successful people have given up in order to reach their own success.

In my career, I’ve had the fortune of coming in contact with bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, investors, executives and creative people. Some I didn’t meet, but I found their thoughts in book form. Whether they knew it or not, I cased all of them and took from them what I thought were their best ideas on productivity.