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Quality consists of making things better. That’s all. When you do something better, when you produce better results, you are achieving higher quality. The rewards range from personal satisfaction to admiration from others to financial success. If you make a relationship better, you get (and give) more happiness. In short, better is good.

The reason people have a hard time achieving higher quality in their lives is they don’t know the principles of quality. Yes, there are basic underlying principles, as simple and precise as gravity. The following is a crash course in the three major principles of quality, which, when applied to any area, result in higher quality in that area.

One: Quality is an attitude.

A quality attitude means that you agree and believe that better is a good direction to go. You also believe that staying the same or getting worse are not good directions. Thinking that better is only sometimes a good direction is not a quality attitude. An attitude is all about how you approach things: your job, your friends, your hobby, your driving. How good a driver are you? “Good enough” is not a quality attitude. Nor is “Better than most.” “I’d like to be even better than I am” is a quality attitude.

The nice thing about an attitude is that it is completely under your own control. You don’t have to ask permission to take on a quality attitude. No one can prevent it. No one can stop you from wanting to do things better. But they can try, which brings us to number two.

Two: Quality leads to opposition.

For all of the wonderful rewards that higher quality brings, there is a price. Some people don’t like higher quality and don’t want you or anyone else to achieve it. These are the critical people, who make fun of or talk badly about successful people. These are the people who “know” things can’t get better.

As you begin to apply a quality attitude, you will hear negative comments: Why bother? You’re trying too hard. Who are you trying to kid? It doesn’t have to be that good. Slow down, you’re making the rest of us look bad. And then there is the real attitude-killer: No one cares. In a hundred ways, openly or hiddenly, these people will try to shift you away from a quality attitude.

The better you get, the harder they will try. They may seem to make sense, they may even have some truth in what they say, but if you find yourself agreeing even a little bit that making things better, doing things better, is not worth it, or not important, know what is happening: you are succeeding. Your movement in the direction of doing things better is making progress. Keep it up.

Three: Quality takes time.

For some reason, this major principle seems to be a major stumbling block to many people, but really, it is as easy as the others. Remember, quality isn’t doing things well — it is doing them better. A middle-school boy, no matter how good he is at basketball, can’t play as well as a professional, but if he keeps moving in the direction of doing it better, perhaps someday he will be that good. Yet even then, if he keeps his quality attitude, he will keep getting better.

Usually, the difference in time between doing something and doing it better can be measured in seconds or, at the most, minutes. If you are raking a lawn, take that extra swipe to capture the leaf in the corner. If you are filing papers, take five extra seconds to make the folder neat before you put it back. Read over that email before you send it. Listen to your child before deciding his fate. Maybe he thought he was doing a good thing when he watered the plants with your coffee.

No matter how much you have to do, how busy you are, you always have the time to do things a little bit better. If you don’t agree, think of all the times you have had to do something again because of an error or because it wasn’t quite good enough. Think of the times when the results were not as good as you had hoped they would be. To put it bluntly, using time to do something better always saves you more time later. Always.

So those are the three major principles of quality. There are more, but those are the foundation, and they will take you to higher levels of success and happiness all by themselves.

Don Dewsnap has spent years studying quality and its principles and applications. Now he has put his knowledge into a readable, useable book: Anyone Can Improve His or Her Life: The Principles of Quality. Read an excerpt or buy this book in paperback or as an e-book at Principles-of-Quality.com or as a paperback at any online bookseller.

Your subconscious mind dominates every aspect of your life. Who you are as a person and where you are in life in relation to where you want to be, is largely a reflection of the subconscious mental conditioning that’s occurred to this point.

It’s the subconscious mind that is the controlling force of your life. But learn how to guide it and the infinite world of possibility is within your grasp. That’s the value of self affirmation.

Self affirmation is a proven tool to influence the subconscious. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it can and does happen for those who make affirmations and visualization a part of their way of living.

Affirmations are positive statements about you and your desired reality. “I feel happier and more energetic now that I’ve lost 10 pounds” - that’s a simple example of an affirmation. The beauty of it is that you’re not limited in any way. You can add dozens of affirmations into your routine and eventually the subconscious will get hold of this desire and guide you to manifestation. It doesn’t matter what the affirmation is. If you believe it heart and soul and repeat it enough times, the subconscious will act on it as though it were an order.

Self affirmation is any positive statement delivered by you - to you. You simply make a decisive statement about you already in possession of some desired condition, quality, circumstance, or thing. “I feel my self-confidence surging higher and higher with every step I take towards each prospect’s door” is a statement of a desired condition for anyone in sales. Repeated regularly and with conviction, this self affirmation will undoubtedly increase the confidence and improve the performance of anyone.

Here’s why self affirmation is such an effective tool…

We see the world through our conditioned eyes. Have you ever noticed someone who is perpetually happy? They’ve conditioned themselves to experience more joy in life. There are also those unfortunate souls who are miserable most of the time. Most of us though live in the grey zone between these two extremes. If you want to be happier more often, use affirmations to make it your reality.

In their book, Become A Magnet To Money, author’s Bob Proctor and Michelle Blood state that “Your subconscious conditioning or paradigm will determine your logic”. Until we see a particular result as logical, realistic, or within our reach, we won’t take the necessary steps to get there. That’s why you’ve got to stretch yourself and open up to a new set of possibilities in your life. “Breakthroughs are made by violating logic” say authors, Proctor and Blood.

Your potential about your life and your potential are based on conditioning and nothing more. Unfortunately, most of us grew up accepting limitations; limitations that are nothing more than illusions we’ve bought into. It’s as though we look at life with long mailing tubes attached to our eyes. We can see a glimpse of some of the possibilities out there, but we miss out on the bounty that’s all around us.

Self affirmation facilitates change. Try if for 30 days — every day — and you’ll begin to notice its effects. You can change your life any way you choose and only you can change it. Affirmations are free and freeing. Use them and shape your future so you are actually living your dreams.

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Yes, love is everywhere. Love is in me and you too. But yet we still ask what love is. And at the same time we might not know how to love! Everyone wants to love and be loved in life. Call it addiction to love or whatever; love is a feeling that cannot be described in words. It has to be felt. Scientifically it is difficult to tell the causes of love. Love has depth. It cannot be defined due to its limitless nature, yet it is in how we define it, that gives our life meaning. Read on to find out some killer strategies on how to make others love you.

One of the most important things we as humans need to learn is self-love. If we do not love ourselves, it is impossible for others to love us or for us to love anyone else. If you want others to love you, you must love yourself. If you willing to love yourself you will love others and others will love you too. It is as simple as that. The reverse is also true if you go through life hating yourself you can end up hating others and if you go through life hating others then others hate you too.

Trust is one of the important aspects in love. If you love someone and you want the love of that person in return, all you have to do is to trust that person. As a matter of fact, trust makes a strong bond between any relationships. The relationship could be very fragile and never last long if you keep thinking of “Can I trust him, how can I be sure he will never betray me.” So, trust a person and expect trust from that person.

When you are concerned about other people they will automatically start being concerned about you. You see once you start caring about people you would automatically start receiving love and support from them. If someone needs your help, learn to offer a helping hand selflessly without any incentives. You see its common human nature that when you help someone they tend to remember and help you one day. Care, concern and help others are something which will make people love you.

Some people are self centered and always think about themselves. These kinds of people are hated the most by everyone. Remember true love is self-less. So, stop using the word me and start to listen to others. Show your respect and attention to them rather than you own. Appreciate the achievement of others even it is just a small one. Your appreciation will make others feel worthy and important. When you make someone feel worthy they automatically give you one of the most incredible gifts you can imagine which are love.

We need love from the moment we are born to thrive. We might survive but we do not thrive without abundant love. Everybody needs love because it is the simple answer to almost any question. Love is not outside us, though we can block our awareness of it. Love remains the truth of our being, regardless of our relentless attempts to let fear stand in its way. Love patiently calls to us from within, to get out of the way and let it be our guide. Show your love to others, they will definitely shower you with love from all corners.

Max enjoy funny cartoon very much. He shows people the way to make others love you using simple strategy called “Learn To Love” in their everyday life!

“Formal education will make you a living but self education will make you a fortune.”

This was said by Jim Rohn, one of the top 50 motivational speakers in personal development and one of the trainers at the top online personal development site, Success University.

Formal education is never easy. When I was at school I wasn’t really that bothered about whether I got an A in Maths or History. I was too worried about whether people liked me or not, where I could get the latest Rod Stewart photos or whether my skirt was the trendiest length.

Yet, education seems to happen despite the student. We come out with our varied grades and reports of “Could do better” (in my case), but somehow we get some sort of an education. Unfortunately, going to school is never the choice of the pupil, it is a requirement. In most Western countries it is the common consensus that you must go to school so you can get a job and earn a living.

Perhaps this is why many of us achieve only average results. We are not doing it out of love, but because we have to. It’s the law.

However, self-education has far more power because we only come to it through personal choice. Because we have chosen it, we feel it is our responsibility to take it on and achieve the results we want. This gives us self-motivation and we are far more likely to succeed.

I know this is true because after a mediocre set of school grades, in later years I took a degree with the Open University - for no other reason than because I wanted to - and I achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Humanities. I majored in history, which was a subject I wasn’t even interested in at school.

Because it was my choice, and a subject I had come to love through my own discovery, I was far more motivated to succeed.

Unfortunately, many people believe that once they have finished their school education, there is nothing more to learn. They get a job, and might earn a comfortable living, but very rarely do they live the life of their dreams.

When we were very young children, before we were old enough to allow ourselves to be limited, our dreams were boundless. We talked about what we are going to be or do when we are grown-up without any doubt that it is possible. Now we really are grown-up, we laugh at these childish statements. We think we know better.

Sadly, the last laugh is on us. We our not only stamping on our own dreams, but those of our children too.

When people reach adulthood, they start to give up their dreams and start to play small. Those huge, passionate dreams are adjusted to the mundanity of every day life, and gradually dwindle to nothing more than a distant memory.

As this happens, our vision becomes smaller; our lives become mediocre and boring. We focus only on earning enough money to keep out of debt and paying the bills. We begin to suffer and wonder why we are not happy or fulfilled.

This is not how life is meant to be.

Inside us is a huge potential: all our big dreams and passions that we have tucked away in a dark little box. But this box is always waiting for us to re-discover and open it again.

Inside this box is all the inspiration, power and joy of life; it’s all there inside of you, waiting to get out.

We are aware that it’s there. There is that little niggling voice at the back of our minds that we are not living the life we wanted, but we allow ourselves to be influenced by our conditioning: “it’s not possible, I can’t do it, it’s too big”. So we stuff it down again and get on with our small lives, excusing ourselves by saying, “Ah, well, it’s OK I suppose”.

Do you really want to live a “just OK” kind of life?

When you pursue your dreams, you feel energised, full of inspiration and excitement. You also feel authentic. Perhaps, for the first time in your life you are living truthfully. This is an incredibly powerful feeling. And the bigger your dreams, the more intense the feeling.

It may take courage to start with, but once you have made that commitment a new world will open up to you. All you have to do is to start listening to yourself - allow that little voice to tell you what you need. Once you have done this, you will start to develop the mindset that you possess all that you need to live the life of your dreams. Your will power will strengthen, your confidence will grow - and then you will be ready to learn the strategies that will reinvent your life.

Self-education then becomes a powerful resource that you will come to with passion and a will to succeed. This is real learning.

After that, making our dreams come true is only a matter of time.

Ros runs her own online business and is also a successful writer and life coach.

Find information about Success University at Financial Freedom Online (Success University)

Ros’s coaching site is at Career & Life Change Coaching

Do you want to be rich and have what being rich brings to your life? I want to BE RICH. Do you know how to be rich? By saying that we are saying we want to have changes in our lives. Are they major changes or are they minor changes. That would depend on where you are at in your life and what being rich means to you.

What exactly is meant by the term rich? Do we all put the same value on a dollar? Can you have no money and feel you are rich or is it the money value that makes you Rich? Not everyone will see being rich in the say way or use it in the same context. I did a small survey and asked 10 people this Question “What does Being Rich mean to you? Here is the response I got.

Rod from British Columbia - “Money, lots of money. It’s not having to look in your wallet, bank account or credit card statement any more, ever.”

Joseph from Manitoba - “Freedom to do the things you love when you choose to do them. Napolean Hill puts it very well in the first chapter of Think & Grow Rich. He lists 12 things, I believe, that constitute riches. Money is only one of them and without the others, money means nothing. The others include health, peace of mind, etc.”

Terry from Illinois -I think that being rich is a freedom. That’s it freedom. Now to figure out how to be rich.

Larry from Kansas - “Money, Lots of money, millions of dollars, fancy sports cars, big beach front houses, no travel restrictions. Nothing dictating when I have to get some sleep and more alarm clocks waking me up when I’m still tired. I would be rich when I had five million dollars in the bank, and everything else I want paid in full. Yes, I want to be rich”

Phil from Maryland - “Although I have never been really rich in terms of money, I have been richly blessed with family and with relationships. Now, with new opportunities, I foresee myself becoming rich monetarily as well as the result of services I am able to provide to help others. In one sense, being rich is simply a state of mind. In another, it means being able to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.”

Dee from Alberta - “The first thing that comes to mind is money but being rich means being happy with what have.”

Bobbi from Alberta - “Rich to me means having the resources to enjoy life to it’s fullest with my friends and loved ones.”

Joel from Ontario - “Choices and time freedom. It’s the ultimate way to live life, not having to worry about what you want to do, how much something costs, and you can always choose to do whatever you want tomorrow.”

The answer to the question what does being rich mean to you is defiantly in the eye of the beholder. It can mean anything from comfort and security to ultimate wealth. But in every answer I got money is defiantly at the root of it but the amount that is needed will be different for every person.

Now for the changes it takes to have the lifestyle you want, deserve and should have. You could go back to school but is a better job going to get you to where you want to be. Probably not! With the Internet now, owning and operating a home based business is easy. There are many business opportunities that will allow you to live the lifestyle you want when you say I want to be rich. My question to you is what is it you are doing to be rich?

Faye B Roberts is an homebased business entrepreneur who aids people to reach their goals in their quest for financial and time freedom. Her goal is to coach people into full time home business entrepreneurs.
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Finding Financial Freedom

I’m sure you have a bright idea hidden somewhere in the back of your mind that you just cannot wait to test out. Of course you are not the only one with the bright idea. So what motivates you to churn those creative, or even inspiring juices to its utmost flavor?

It’s always best to set up a personal goal where you can accomplish the most in record time, maybe like mowing the lawn in an hour before the big game on TV. A correct and positive attitude in whatever you do will make things easier, and even enjoyable.Having a bit of positive thinking can help you realize things that are never thought possible.All the successful people in the world has one thing in common - they think big and they think positively.

Here are some tips to make it through the week even if you’re just sitting in your favorite couch. An idea takes time to form in your head and is always at work while you are busy sitting.

1. Take passionate action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.

This is a perfect example where dreams are made of where you start by tinkering with your mind, then with your hands. And if the idea weakens, you can always go back to it later until you finish it.

2. Commit to yourself as well as those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to creating from your heart and soul, out of love rather than fear. The American Dream will always be there, but a dream will still be a dream without motion. Be amazed as the transformation begins.

3. Recognize and embrace the thought that each moment is perfect regardless of its outcome. Every time you hit on something that may appear too extreme, why not give it a shot and see if it will work. You will be surprised to see of there are other ways to get the task done in time. If you are not pleased with the outcome, decide to use that moment to learn from and make the appropriate shift.

4. Dwell completely in a place of gratitude. Learn to utilize what you have in your hands and make use of it in the most constructive way. Slipping into neediness will become less of a habit when you repeatedly shift towards gratitude, away from poverty consciousness.

5. Use a Passion Formula of Recognize/Reevaluate/Restore in place of the Shoulda/Woulda/Coulda whirlwind. The former is based in increased knowledge and abundance while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. As you face people or tasks that may seem harder than scaling the summit of the Himalayas, allow yourself to realize that the task is just as important as giving out orders to your subordinates. You would rather be richly passionate!

6. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! I am yet to see a comedian ever go hungry even though his jokes are as ‘old as great-grandma’. Life has so much to offer to allow you to mope around in self pity. Humor is very attractive, very passionate: life-giving.

7. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically. As long as there’s still breath in your body, there is no end to how much you can accomplish in a lifetime. The concept of thinking big is all about enjoying your work, which would lead to celebrate a discovery that is born within your hands. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.

It’s interesting how people get wallowed up by something trivial as learning to use a computer, when nowadays that top computer companies are manufacturing software that even the kids can do it. I don’t mean to be condescending, but that’s the idea of not having any positive thinking in your life-you’ll just end up as a dim bulb in a dark corner. So instead of subjecting yourself to what you will be doomed for, make your path by taking the first step with a positive attitude.

Paul Hata is active in various social and community programs aimed at providing equal access to education,health and jobs to all.Paul has over 10 years experience in managing a multi-million dollar advertising company.Paul can be reached at TradePlanets.com