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Category: Expand Your Thinking

How to Transform Nothing into Something of Value

| January 22, 2012 | 0 Comments
How to Transform Nothing into Something of Value

To transform nothing into something of value, you must first start with ideas and imagination. Now, it might be difficult to consider ideas and imagination as nothing. Yes, they aren’t tangible, but I think an idea that becomes a business, a new vaccine or a miracle product is more than nothing. Think of it, ideas [...]

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Nitty-Gritty Reasons

| December 30, 2011 | 0 Comments
Nitty-Gritty Reasons

  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be motivated to achieve by such a lofty goal as benevolence? I must confess, however, that in the early years of my struggle to succeed, my motivation was much more down-to-earth. My reason for succeeding was more basic. In fact, it fell into the category of what I like [...]

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Four Steps to Success!

| December 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Four Steps to Success!

Step #1: Be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future. My mentor taught me to keep a journal when I was twenty-five years old, and I’ve been doing it ever since. I will pass them to my children and grandchildren. If you hear a good health idea, then [...]

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Invest these 10 “Assets” that are more Important than Money to Succeed at the Highest Level

| October 2, 2011 | 0 Comments
Invest these 10 “Assets” that are more Important than Money to Succeed at the Highest Level

[Editor's note: This rotating column will introduce readers to new authors and consultants who will expand your thinking to drive your success. This column is an except from Jim Rohn’s book, Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness.] To start any part-time or full-time business, you typically need plenty of capital (money); but, occasionally, you’ll hear [...]

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Conduct a Personal Inventory of Your Knowledge Resources

| September 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
Conduct a Personal Inventory of Your Knowledge Resources

Self-knowledge has always been the key to prepare for competition. Knowledge of your attributes, abilities, interests, strengths, weaknesses and traits is essential to riding the front-end of the wave of change into the new century. To assess fully your talents, realize that studies confirm that what we loved to do when we were children continues [...]

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The Formula for Failure and Success

| September 17, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Formula for Failure and Success

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. You make errors in judgment and then foolishly repeat them every [...]

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From Motivation to Motive-Action

| September 17, 2011 | 0 Comments
From Motivation to Motive-Action

With the passing of every New Year, you must understand the magnitude of social and economic changes in the world. In the past, change in business and social life was incremental and a set of personal strategies for achieving excellence was not required. Today, in our knowledge-based world, where change is the rule, a set [...]

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When your income goes up…your taxes don’t necessarily need to follow suite

| September 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
When your income goes up…your taxes don’t necessarily need to follow suite

I was involved in a pretty toxic IRS audit of the tax return of one of my clients (a plumber who was operating his business as a Sole Proprietorship) a while back. The auditor seemed pretty intent on not allowing his business deductions as business expenses because, although his income had been steadily going up, his [...]

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Just because your Income Increases Doesn’t Mean your Taxes Should Too

| September 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
Just because your Income Increases Doesn’t Mean your Taxes Should Too

I was involved in a rather toxic IRS audit of one of my client’s tax return (a plumber who was operating his business as a sole proprietorship). The auditor was intent on not allowing my client’s business deductions because, although his income had been steadily increasing, his expenses had increased also. This had happened largely [...]

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The Four Emotions that Can Lead to Life Change

| September 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Four Emotions that Can Lead to Life Change

Emotions are powerful human forces. Under the power of emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic (as well as barbaric) acts. To a great degree, civilization itself can be defined as the intelligent channeling of human emotion. Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, which together propel the ship of civilized progress. [...]

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Nitty-Gritty Reasons

| September 15, 2011 | 0 Comments
Nitty-Gritty Reasons

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be motivated to achieve by such a lofty goal as benevolence? I must confess, however, that in the early years of my struggle to succeed, my motivation was much more down-to-earth. My reason for succeeding was more basic. In fact, it fell into the category of what I like to [...]

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