How Fast Can Your Subconscious Run 3 Miles? - By Gordon Bryan

This article is about one of the most powerful, yet underused ability we have as humans - training our subconscious mind.To celebrate passing the age of 40, I decided to train for and run my first marathon. I did the research and found a training programme for beginners which seemed to suit me, and began my training.Being as unfit as I was, it took me a long time to get into the swing of things,

Stay Happy: Don't Hold Onto Grudges - By Alan Kintel

By holding onto grudges, we are holding onto the past and this holds us back and stops us from growing and going onward with our lives. Grudges and not allowing ourselves to let go of the past is negative and negativity holds us back and stops us from achieving what we are capable of achieving out of life and encourages resentment, unhappiness and fear instead of being happy in life and finding

If You Are Not Achieving Your Goals Try A New Method - By Anne Hartley

Much has been written over the years as to how to achieve goals. One piece of advice, which I’ve read many time, is that we should write our goals down, which very few people do. Others recommend a S.M.A.R.T. goals approach. This acronym suggests that goals be: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and a time frame should be set.I’m sure these approaches work for many people, but the

How's Your Luck - By Rich MacKenzie

I was on the Oxford to Witney bus the other evening, on the way back from a really fun day trip to London. I was with my partner, Jackie and we where both exhausted after the long day of walking around the shops of our beautiful capital city.As we were sat there in the bus, I heard a young guy speaking to his friend about his cousin. He was saying how lucky his cousin was to be able to fly

How To Be Smarter - By Saleem Rana

The term half-wit may actually be more true than we realize. And it also may be more common than we care to admit.There isn't really a term for thinking with all of your brain, so we'll call it whole brain thinking.Whole brain thinking is not only top to bottom thinking but also left to right thinking.Evolution has created three brains, and they built themselves one on top of the other.The first

The Tale of a Pen - By Bhaskar Banerjee

One day, while rummaging through the miscellanea that had accumulated in my drawer over the years, I came upon a slim case sheathed in purple satin. Not quite sure and trying to recall what that box contained, I started wiping the case slowly even as a faint memory, sweet yet hurtful, stirred somewhere deep within me.Finally, on opening it, my curious gaze came to rest upon a thick, old-world

Did you Know How Simple it Is to Surrender - By Bhaskar Banerjee

A bank manager used to take all the cash to his home everyday and bring it back with him the next morning. He did this for a month and could not do it any more. He found himself trembling while driving back home and was not able to sleep at night with the money in his custody. He finally wrote a letter to his boss asking to be relieved of the job. His boss told him that even if the money was lost

The Action Reaction - By Kevin MacAskill

Wikipedia defines a reaction as being a response to some other action. And actions abound. We are surrounded, immersed, caught up in action at every moment. We have been accustomed to responding to these events in an almost automatic way, even tuning out the activities around us, out of a need for self preservation. We are steeped in hype, from the evening news to the commercials which punctuate

Promise - By C. V. Harris

How many of us are aware that we need to make important or even life saving changes about our person or within our lives? Yet we wait until the eve of New Years to convince ourselves that NOW is the time to put in the work to secure that change.Case in point: You KNOW you need to quit smoking, so what do you do? You take out that new pack of Vice Roys and hurl em into the trash. However, as soon

The Journey Of A Lifetime - By JeNeika Smith

The journey of a lifetime...can only begin when you take your first step forward. If you REALLY want to make your dream a reality...you must be willing to step into your destiny. No dream was ever realized by sitting and just THINKING about it...action is necessary.Let's say you want to lose twenty pounds. Now, to meet that goal, you'd need to have a game plan, right? You won't lose it by sitting

Positive Mental Attitude

"Go on a 21-day PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) diet; think and talk about only the things you want for three weeks. This is not easy." --Brian Tracy "Of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great." -- From A League of Thier Own "The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the

Urgent Motivation? - By Tomas Labas

You may not be aware of it but you are actually practicing motivation techniques everyday of your life. You can notice this clear when you force yourself to wake in the early hours of the morning to prepare for the day ahead.The same motivation is the one that gets you going through the rough day, even though you felt that you cannot finish it in the start. And do you know what makes you feel at

What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do - By Caroline Jalango

Sometimes life can be so overwhelming. It can leave you feeling helpless and drained especially when you really don’t know what to do or even how to tackle the situations that bombard your life.Have you ever experienced a “brain blackout” where your brain temporarily became incapable of churning productive thoughts?Have you ever felt that you just could not think anymore, even though you knew

Move Himself

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. --Socrates One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.--Forest Witcraft Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The Resolution Revolution - By Craig Harper

So today is Sunday December 31st 2006; the day before we all change our lives forever.Apparently.We've told ourselves tomorrow is the day. The new us. Leaner, lighter, happier, more relaxed, wealthier, more balanced.... different. Better. Between Christmas and New Year we ate our own body-weight in food because... that's what we do and anyway..."We're starting tomorrow!"So it's all okay.I can

Powerful Resources

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. --George S. Patton Wisdom begins in wonder. --Socrates

A Fresh Start - By Diana Long

2007..A Brand Spanking New Year is upon us. What will you choose to do with it? Your decisions and mind set today about the year ahead will make all the difference in how this year shows up for you. Really. The ritual of making New Year's Resolutions has been in place for centuries dating back to Babylon. Records show that their top two resolutions were #1 to pay off old debts and #2 return