Be Inspired by open communication: Improving Assertive Behavior

Success is dependent on you.  Is this a scary thought?  Don’t be scared – just realize that you have control over you – nothing else.  So, in order to take control and be successful, you must have the desire, knowledge, and skills to do so.  Here is something that will help with your knowledge in the area of communication skills – one of the most critical aspects of your success.  Skills take practice.  This article will give you knowledge and also shows you how to practice these skills.  Remember, life is a journey and it should be enjoyable! So have fun gaining new knowledge and practicing for your success!!

Click here: Improving Assertive Behavior

This article will show you:

• What is assertive behavior?
• Ten Assertive Rights of an Individual
• Journal Exercise on 10 Assertive Rights
• Six Myths That Encourage Non-Assertive Behavior
• Steps to Improve Personal Assertiveness

Life by Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
~ Mother Teresa

The Secret

The more you give
the more you get
The more you laugh
the less you fret
The more you do unselfishly,
The more you live abundantly
The more of everything you share
The more you’ll always have to spare
The more you love,
the more you’ll find
That life is good and
friends are kind
For only what we give away
Enriches us from day to day…….

Balance Is the Key

We must understand what balance is and that it’s a priority.  Balance has to do with every aspect of our lives – from what we eat, to what we communicate, to every action that we take.  Above all, it is a conscious decision that we decide to take personal responsibility for our choices.  We place a priority on areas of importance in our lives not based on others’ opinions, but because the results of not choosing balance has an undesirable outcome.

Balance equals happiness.  When things are balanced, they feel right.  When things are out of balance, it feels like an emotional roller coaster.  Focus on what you feel and focus on variety.  We can’t lean too far to one side or this will take us out of balance. The key is to be in the middle and to be able to walk through life with the perspective that this life is all a temporary state.  Try not to become attached to the world.  Focus on the moment, being grateful and appreciative and enjoying life for what it is.

Achieving balance takes an unwavering commitment to self-consciousness and independence.  We can measure balance by the feeling of contentment and being at peace – not being distraught – feeling centered.  We can feel ourselves slip from balance and it becomes easier to recognize when our daily discipline becomes solid.  When we feel such a contrast, our awareness and focus bring us right back where we should be.

Before we became balanced, we tended to blame others for things in our life.  We blamed others for us not having balance in our life, but in the end, we were just kidding ourselves.  Balance can only be learned from experience.  Don’t get caught up into believing that learning balance can come from a book.  It is like riding a bicycle; you can read the manual, but until you ride the bike and feel what it is like to ride, the manual won’t do anything for you.

Balance is not an end to a means, but something to strive to achieve every moment of the day.

Failure: Key to Success

“Remember, you can fail 100 times as long as you succeed once.” quoted from the video below.

You must be willing to take risks in order to succeed and taking risks mean of course the high chance of failure.  The key is to not fear failure, but welcome it.  It means you are on your way to success.  As long as you consider that failure is the key to your success and not something to be avoided.  It must be welcomed and learned from.  Start getting comfortable with failure.  Make it your friend instead of your enemy.

Daily Habits and Disciplines For Success

• Balance is key
• Positive attitude + mental focus + plan of action = success
• Stop chasing rainbows and find your treasure
• Change nothing and nothing will change
• If you want to change the world you are your first responsibility
• It is all right to help people, just not at the expense of your own essence
• The definition of insanity is to repeat the same thing over and over again, and each time expecting a different result
• Surround yourself with like-minded individuals
• Looking at the top of the mountain from the bottom looks hard; one baby step in front of you is easy
• Its absolutely perfect to make a mistake, this is how we can learn and grow, the important part is to learn and grow
• Why worry, it will not change the outcome
• The destination is the journey
• Never put off till tomorrow that which you can do today, and never put off till later, that which you can do right now
• If you stick your head in the sand, your ass is a wide-open target
• Ignorance is not bliss; it’s deadly
• One of the creator’s greatest gifts to you is the ability to think. One of the greatest gifts to your self is what you choose to think about
• Duality is like a pendulum swinging back and forth, stay neutral
• That which you’re looking for is inside of you
• If you have a choice between the best of things or the worst of things, why not always choose the best of things
• Absolute truth does not have exceptions or discrepancies
• There are 2 “E’s” in life.  “E” for excuses and “e” for enthusiasm.  The choice is ours.
• You reap what you sow.

How Failure Leads to Success!

We can’t expect to achieve success without first experiencing failure.  Any successful person has failed and the more successful they are, the more times they have failed.  The key to their success is that they learned in order to succeed, one must fail.  Successful people have learned how to use failure to catapult themselves into success.  If you have never failed, then how can you possibly have success?  If you have not failed, then what have you risked? What have you learned? What have you reached for? Do you want to hear more stories to inspire you of people you have heard of and how many times they failed?  Here are 50 Famously Successful People Who Failed At First.

Here is an inspirational video that shows you how to take your failures and turn them into successes. 

This short video will share with you some famous people you know and how they failed many times before they achieved success. 

By wrenfrost56

True success is not a sprint.

It’s a life long marathon and because of all the many different way’s in which we interpret success, there is no one formula or short cut in which to achieve it. More often then not we don’t think of success as one particular thing or another and view it more as a delicate balance or collaboration of many things. Like finding love, creating wealth, being in good health, gaining confidence, discovering happiness and having a sense of good general well being.

As well as wanting the best of all these things for ourselves we also want them for those we love and care about, which seems to make success all the harder to obtain, this does not mean however that it can not be achieved, it just means that it takes time and hard work to do so.

The real successful people of the world don’t just fall upon success, although in some cases a fair amount of luck was involved, for the most part they have worked extremely hard to get where they are. Also success does not come quickly or easily and many a mistake is made before success has come and these people have experienced their fair share of failure, in one form or another too.

Seeing success.

If I were to tell you that you are already hugely successful, you have and know so much already. You live a wonderful life and you must feel very grateful, I wonder if you would you agree with me? Maybe not but in fact even though I don’t know you, I can tell you it’s true.

Success seems to be so elusive for many of us because rather oddly, we don’t seem to know when we already have it. We forget to have a good look at what we already have and concentrate on all the things we do not have. I have been as guilty as the next person of this and yet as soon as I started to appreciate all the great things in my life, I changed my perspective on what success means to me.

I know that you are already successful and when you can start to see this success for yourself will you then be able to draw from it, harness it and actually create further success  from it.

The feelings created by the fear of failure, is often much worse then the actual experience of failing itself and it’s not the fear of failure that scares us the most, it’s actually the fear of success. We know that if we fail we will just be back to where we were, before we decided to try something new and failed. We know how to handle that kind of reality, even if it wasn’t ideal because it was what we did before, it’s safe. Although we may suffer from a bit of a dent in our pride and some disappointment we are generally familiar with failure, we have to a greater or lesser degree, experienced it before and have come out the other side back at square one, no better off, maybe a little out of pocket, but none the less OK.

Success is a different animal entirely, in your mind you have no idea what it would be like to be truly successful and that’s a scary concept. Being successful leaves you exposed, open to criticism and completely out of your comfort zone. Maybe there’s a part of you that feels that you don’t really deserve to be a success and its easier and less of a risk not to try. Think about what might be holding you back, don’t fear the thought of success, embrace it and use it to motivate you.

Persistance pay’s.

If at first you don’t succeed try, try and try again. When you were younger you did not know how to talk, do you’re shoe laces up or read and yet although it was difficult you kept at it. Later on in life you face situations in you’re working life, with parenting and relationships, all of which come with there own trials. Again I’m sure there were many that were difficult but you saw them through and succeeded, we are not born with the ability to know everything but we are born with the ability to learn. The rewards of overcoming something that has been a challenge or struggle are great, by reminding yourself of what you want to achieve and you motives for wanting to achieve it, you will get to where you want to be, even if it means you make a few mistakes along the way.

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

Things are often difficult to do before they become easy, as I mentioned before when you were a child you were not born with the immediate ability to walk, talk or be capable of looking after yourself. But given time and hard work, it has become relatively easy, for the most part you don’t even have to think about it consciously. However the way you do these things are unique to you and right for you.

Everyone is different and what works for someone else may not necessarily mean it will good for you. One persons view on success may mean lots of money, lots of traveling but no partner or children, where as someone else may feel success means a good relationship with their partner, happy children and money is irrelevant.

If something doesn’t work for you find something that does, giving up on something is not failing if the thing you gave up on was not right for you.

Know what you don’t want.

Discovering what you really want by finding out what you don’t want.

Chances are you have not had the same job, partner, hairstyle or home since you were say a teenager or young adult. This is because it takes a while to discover who we are and what we really want.

You don’t know what food you do or don’t like, until you taste them, similarly you don’t know what you do or don’t like until you experience it. Sometimes you have to try all the ways that don’t work before you finally find the one that does.

Everything changes.

The world changes, People change, priorities and ideas change. What might have felt like an impossibility before or was a head of it’s time, may well become a success after all. Weather it be a business idea, a band, art, music or an invention chances are what may have gone down like a lead balloon in the past may well bring you success in the future.

Maybe something seems to be falling out of fashion and beginning to look like a failure, when in fact all it may need is a bit of attention, a tweak hear and there, just to keep it with the times.

Change is inevitable and can be very useful, can you use it to your advantage?

Happy Accidents.

Sometimes what is assumed a failure, becomes more of a success then the original idea would have been, if it had not failed.

Some of the mix of foods you eat, were the result of an accidental ingredient or two being added.

Many an invention and idea was discovered while looking for or experimenting on, something else entirely.

Some medication and chemicals were similarly found by mistake, unintentionally becoming more successful then could have been imagined.

There are also plenty of gadgets and inventions that didn’t work for there desired use. Yet have often gone on to have been used for something completely different and to great success.

For all the reasons mentioned, it just goes to show how failure really can and does lead to success!

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