- 5 Ways to Avoid Acting on Stupid Advice
You’ve heard that the path to the netherworld is paved with good intentions, haven't you?Right next to that observation should be a kindred one:Before people experience major life and business reversals or they fail to step-up to the next level of success there is often a flawed tip, a bad piece of advice, or an incomplete or incompetent instruction that was whispered to the falling or stalling that they accepted to their detriment.Here are 5 ways to avoid acting on bad advice, according to a top speaker, management consultant, and best-selling author of 12 books, including SIX-FIGURE CONSULTING. - Success Secret: Forget Your Past Accomplishments!
You probably read somewhere in a motivational book or heard a self-help guru tell you in his audios or videos that it will really psych you up to make a list of all of your past accomplishments.While I think this is very useful if you are DEPRESSED, it can backfire, utterly if you're not. - Five Reasons to Lose Sleep Tonight
If you read my title and think I’m going to give you a list of items to worry about, that will keep you awake tonight, and heighten your paranoia, sorry, you're wrong. I'm actually going to give you 5 POSITIVE reasons you should deprive yourself of some sleep. - How to Conquer Daunting Distractions
How many times, at work or at home, have you been pressed by difficult personalities and tasks that just seem to multiply?At some point, you feel overwhelmed, that you can’t go on, the distractions are too difficult.Here are five things to keep in mind that will help you to conquer them, according to the best-selling author of PLEASE DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER! and top speaker and consultant. - Success Secret: It's Great To Be A Goodman!
Maybe you're like meA certain swagger runs in your family.Man, woman, or child you're just a little cocky, if not unbearable.That's not altogether bad. For one thing, it raises your aspiration level, a key ingredient in success according to Harvard research."It's great to be one of us", says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top convention speaker and best-selling author, in this humorous article. - Losers Ask "Why?" and Winners Ask "How?"
I thought of something this morning while reading a very interesting article in the paper about gamblers, those that succeed and those that lose everything and hit rock bottom.The losers are stuck asking themselves: "Why did this happen to me? Why did I lose?"Losers seek a cosmic or at least a psychological explanation or handy excuse for their mishaps.Winners have a setback or experience a loss and ask: "How did this happen and how can I do better next time?"Want top win? Change the questions you ask yourself, advises Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author, international consultant, and popular radio and TV commentator. - Here Are the 4 Keys to Success - HOSS
Just as I was taking my first sip of a fresh coconut on the world famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, a rail thin, haunted looking youth of about 10, lurched in front of me and crudely demanded money, a handout.This wasn’t your typical American plea for assistance, "Spare change, Mister?"It was a guttural, spiritual attack, meant to pummel the listener into compliance, to wobble after feeling a concussion grenade.Though he doesn't know it, he possesses one of the four critical ingredients to succeed in any walk of life, according to Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, international consultant, and best-selling author. - Success Question #1: Where Can You Concentrate?
The power of concentration is the most vital characteristic of highly achieving people.It trumps all other abilities.I, for one, have long maintained that with “A good 20 minutes” I can solve nearly any problem I face or launch a significant, new initiative.Where can you concentrate?This may be the most important success question you can ask yourself. If your reply is "Nowhere!" then you’ll want to find your own happy asylum and lock yourself in, from time to time. - Intention: The Superhighway to Success
You’ve read about the power of intention, the idea of setting a goal, visualizing it completely, and stating “I want this” or “Let there be this.”And then, you’re supposed to let it go, allowing the universe to bring this outcome to you on the wings of doves.Forget that last part. It’s a little too dreamy.But you get the idea.You’re not supposed to “press,” as my Dad used to call wanting to hit a home run so badly that you try too hard, tighten up, and actually prevent yourself from achieving what you want.You need to relax and to trust that the goal will be accomplished in the fullness of time, providing it’s decent and worthwhile.But this is easier said than done, especially in a culture such as ours that believes success is “99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.” Unless we’re rolling up our sleeves and trying hard all the time, we think we’re undeserving and unlikely to get what we want.The key to realizing your intentions s to let go of HOPE and FEAR, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling auhtor, top speaker, and popular radio and TV commentator. - Cultivate Feelings of Quiet Accomplishment
Goals don’t have to be huge to be significant, and while we’re waiting for those big ships to come in, or we’re even contemplating swimming out to meet them, it’s useful to cultivate feelings of quiet accomplishment, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker and consultant, best-selling author, and popular commentator on radio and TV. - International Speaker Suggests Keeping Your Eyes On YOUR Prize
We all know that it’s important to set goals, and most people have at least some that include financial and career success, a solid interpersonal and family relationship, and spiritual aspirations, as well.But how often are we pursuing OUR goals, instead of those that others have tacitly set for us?The key is to have goals, but makie sure they’re your own. Don't get stuck in comparing yourself to others, trying to compete with phantoms, making others admire or envy you, or attempting to fulfill unfinished family business. - 99% of Success Boils Down To a Matter of FAITH
You've heard the expression that says "Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."It makes sense, especially when you consider that we can have all of the best intentions but sooner or later we have to get to work.Still, I believe there’s quite a lot to be said for the idea that 99% of success is based on Faith.Faith has been defined as "Belief without proof."Before we're willing to put forth any amount of perspiration we need to be convinced, somehow, that our efforts will be rewarded, that they won't be wasted.This is where faith comes in, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, international consultant, and best-selling author. - If You're Tired or Hungry or Grumpy, Postpone That Decision!
Decision making can be fun, profitable and productive, but we need to know the circumstances in which we make good ones, and bad ones.I've noticed if I make a decision when I'm tired, hungry, or grumpy, usually it’s one that I'll regret, unless it is about eating or getting some rest. - Success Speaker Asks: Are You Moving Toward Something or Away From Something?
I was in that twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness when the question popped into my mind:"Are you moving toward something or away from it?"My eyes drifted over to my exercise encampment where I could see my bike, my Soloflex machine, barbells, dumbbells and rowing machine.I wondered: Do I exercise because I'm concerned about my waistline getting out of control or because I foster a vision of a better, stronger, leaner body?You might wonder, what’s the difference?If you’re fleeing something you have a certain kind of motivation. It can be called avoidance or escape motivation, and it has its own set of dynamics.If you’re striving for something, it’s an approach motivation, a growth impulse that is propelling you. Generally, this is what comes to mind when we’re feeling we’re making progress in our jobs and in our personal lives, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top speaker, best-selling author, and Fortune 1000 consultant. - Success Secret: Work & Grow Rich!
Undoubtedly, you’ve come across these wealth-building expressions:"Nobody ever got rich working for a living.""Nobody ever got rich working for somebody else.""I'd rather work smarter than harder!"If you were to build these notions into book titles, you just might come up with a monster best-seller like THINK & GROW RICH or THE LAZY MAN'S WAY TO RICHES.But are these notions true? Is striking out on your own the best way to get rich or to strike out? - Succeed With Three Magical Words: I'll Start Over!
Romantics contend the three most powerful words in the world are "I love you."Wonderful as they are to say and to hear, they just can't stand up to "I'll start over!"These are the three practical, down to earth, little words that built America, colonized by émigrés who vowed to leave all behind, good and bad, and begin anew.I believe it is precisely our unwillingness to drop what we're doing, abandoning our comfort zones, and leaving our habits behind, that prevents us from taking total control of our lives and succeeding as we should, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top motivational speaker, best-selling author, and Fortune 1000 consultant. - Don't Ask "Who Will Let Me?" but "Who Will STOP Me?"
Shakespeare's Hamlet said Conscience makes cowards of us all, but he was wrong.Needless currying of the opinions of other people, especially in matters of our personal happiness, career objectives, and mating decisions, that's what makes us cowards.Someone quite great remarked that nothing great has ever been accomplished by a committee. The real movers and shakers of society are individuals, and generally speaking they're pesky, prickly, persistent types who aren’t popular, particularly when they're pioneering.If genuine innovators asked for permission for every step of their journeys, they'd be hobbled before they left the door, according to Dr. Gary S. Goodman, top motivational speaker, best-selling author, and Fortune 1000 consultant. - Top Motivator Says: Debt Is The Universe Telling You To Accomplish More!
There’s only one great way of interpreting the fact that you’re not living within your means. - Top Consultant Says: Call Me Crazy But I Love Hard Work!
If you want to sell something, particularly via direct mail, the guru Joe Karbo advises using the words FREE and EASY in your promotional literature. - Double Your Success With The 10% Solution!
I am the author of the audio program,. “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant, and a favorite with salespeople and entrepreneurs.
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