How to Become More Assertive Being assertive does not mean you are learning to become aggressive, loud or a bully. It is all about helping you to stand up to people who are like this. It's not a matter of trying to dominate others. It is a matter of resisting those who are out to dominate and manipulate you. It is all about resisting manipulation and being able to cope with criticism.  So how do you exactly go about improving it? The concept of being assertive is about seeing yourself as an equal who has certain rights. Also it involves respecting ...

Consider this: How you think determines how you feel. How you feel determines how you act. How you act determines what happens to you... good or bad. The one and only thing you have control over is your thoughts. You cannot think two thoughts at the same time. If I say "Purple Dinosaur", right at that moment you cannot help but think of it and nothing else. You must choose (yes, I said choose) your thoughts as you would items you eat. Your body probably likes things that are not good for it, sweets and fatty foods rather than fresh vegetables, but what must you ...

There is a science that deals with manifesting desires. Many people regard it as mystical or esoteric, but it's actually a science like physics or algebra. There are certain immutable laws that govern the process of materializing wishes seemingly out of thin air, and once these laws are complied with, anyone can make their dreams a reality -- with absolute certainty. Does this sound far-fetched? If so, I need you to suspend your disbelief until you hear the whole story because I assure you -- this will be positively electrifying. Emile Coué, the 19th century ...

Are you focusing your time and attention to the right things? Are you placing importance on the right thoughts, feelings and behaviors? Did you know that for most people, much of what they do in life was not consciously chosen by them? And many times we have done these things for so long they now do seem important to us, but deep down they really are not. At least not as important as what truly is deeply important. This is because doing so requires us to take command of our thinking and analyze the state of our life. But letting our ...

3 Leadership Development Training Strategies For Developing Executive Managers Leadership development training strategies must help executive managers focus their attention on developing leadership skills for the Imagination Age. So many of us compete on a relatively flat playing field while advancing technologies empower millions of us to reach for and achieve even greater prosperity. Recent studies of leadership development training strategies show more executive managers developing their organizational leadership skills or purchasing executive development programs. Whatever the trends reveal, executive managers must confront this truth, today's leadership development training needs to move beyond ...

Self-discovery happens as the result of conscious mental and physical action. Doing the same things over and over is not conscious mental action, it’s passive unconscious automatic beahavior. We think we are thinking because our brains are working, that is not thinking. Real thinking is active curiosity, analysis, planning, dreaming and questioning. When you carry on only doing the same things each day in the same ways, you are essentially living one day many times. But when you are actively thinking, you are living a new day each day. And your personal growth ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed with fear as you have faced doing something? We all have I think, each at our own level, with some becoming physically immobilized by it. If your fear feelings overpower you to the point of inaction you have given fear the upper hand. I stated it this way on purpose, your fear is not doing anything to you, rather you are allowing the fear to affect you as it does - it is all within your thought. And you have command over your ...