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Win the Mind Game
Life is a mind game. You can win
the mind game by developing
your awareness and training
your mind. Winning the mind
game makes your life fun
and valuable to the world.
So go for it.
Ten Best Confucius Quotes to Make You Better in Life and Work
Confucius was a giant. His thoughts and ideas reverberate through the ages and are today as relevant as in his lifetime some 2500 years ago. Here are the ten best Confucius Quotes and their meaning with important keys in life and work. Go straight to the Ten Best...
How to Find Your Affiliate Marketing Niche and Make Sure It’s Profitable
Understanding how to find your affiliate marketing niche is key. Because defining your online market determines your profitability. Hence, discovering your affiliate niche is crucial in your journey to make a living on the Internet. As a general guideline, you...
Why Habits Beat Willpower and How to Create Habits that Stick
When thinking about reaching your goals in life, it is not obvious why habits beat willpower. In fact, perseverance, grit, and sheer willpower rank high on the list of success factors. We admire willpower, which we see as a hero's positive attitude who forces fate to...
Why Affiliate Marketing is the Best Business Model in the World
Okay then, here is why affiliate marketing is the best business model in the world. And let's start by getting three reservations out of the way. First, I have not always been convinced that affiliate marketing is a good way to make money. In fact, I felt that there...
Why a Sense of Agency is Important for Your Well-Being And How You Can Improve it
Understanding why a sense of agency is important for our well-being, let's first look at what the sense of agency is: Marc Jeannerod (2003) described the sense of agency as 'the way by which the self builds as an entity independent from the external world.' And this...
From Journaling to Blogging – Taking the Leap from Your Diary to the Web
Moving from journaling to blogging is an essential step in personal development and establishing your own business. Because journaling is a private reflection on one's perspectives, challenges, and aspirations in life. Blogging, on the other hand, is inspiring others...
Not Sure What Business to Do? – Then this Business is For You
Are you not sure what business to do? But have you realized that you need to be an entrepreneur to have a free and affluent life? Do you hear people talking about following your one passion that will eventually make you happy and wealthy no matter what? But do you...
How to Create Effective Systems For Your Life Goals
Knowing how to create effective systems is a game-changer for life. Why? Because having systems allows you to make progress without anxiety about future goals. And knowing how to create effective systems helps you maintain your energy and enjoy the present while...
Why Following Your Passion Business Can Lead to Disaster
What could be more fulfilling than following your passion business, so you never feel that you are working? And if you pursue what you feel passionate about, riches will come automatically, right? 'Follow your passion' does indeed sound fabulous. And perhaps you have...
Systems versus Goals – Yes, Systems are Better but Why not Have Goals too?
Systems versus goals - having systems is superior to having goals when aspiring to succeed. This key takeaway resonated enormously ever since I read Scott Adam's 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.' And the book contained a second tenet, equally...
Why There is Nothing Wrong with Wanting to Be Rich – Only One Condition
If you are like me, realizing that there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich took some effort. A serious effort. Originally from Northern Europe, I wasn't alone. Back in high school, it was quite fashionable to discard the pursuit of money as outright ugly....
Reduce News Consumption for Better Productivity, Health and Happiness
Reduce news consumption for better productivity, health, and happiness. Are you serious? What flies in the face of popular opinion does make sense. But it takes conscious will, if not sacrifice, to experience the benefits of not being plugged into news and social...
The mind game involves the tricks our minds play on us to keep you stuck in a limited outer reality that others determine. Common tricks the mind uses are fear, judgments, preconceptions, limiting beliefs, and habits.
Indeed, the mind has been called the great trickster. As a result, we are pitted against ourselves in the mind game. But we can win the mind game and live switched-on. Learn how.