Self-Improvement and Interesting Knowledge
  • Become a Leader

    First and foremost: becoming a leader means that you take responsibility. Whether this means responsibility for your general situation in life or just the situation that you find yourself in at the present moment. This personal responsibility is the one factor that will spur you to take action in your life. The majority of the human population is a made up of followers. It makes sense that most of us find ourselves in this role since mother nature would not want a whole species of leaders: that would be chaos. The biggest reason why most people are followers is because

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  • Persuade Others With Voice Power

    The ability to persuade others to your desires is an incredibly powerful thing. It is hyped about in many articles, books and seminars. What is rarely discussed in this material though is the power of the voice to persuade and entice others. The timbre and resonance of a powerful voice can make a great impression on a person. The power to move people emotionally with your voice can be incredibly potent when you are trying to persuade others to your point of view. The power of a well developed voice can shatter glass, entrance and soothe. A very clear and

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  • Calculate and Win

    In order to be a good leader, you must be able to conceptualize and implement strategy. Any action that we take in life, weather its buying a house, eating dinner or crossing the street; involves strategic thinking and action. It is the craziest of notions to think that strategy does not apply to everything that you do in life. You might think that it doesn’t apply to you if you are a happy go lucky wanderer but in all things, strategy has played a role in what you do and how successful you are at it. The strategy of having

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  • All Objectives Have a Cost

    Every single objective has cost. Leaders must understand that any goal comes with a certain price. Nothing is free that is in anyway meaningful and certainly any campaign that has a possibility of success must have a certain cost. This cost is not always measured in money or energy per se, often times what we risk is something more existential; our future. Every time that you take responsibility for an action, you are risking your standing and reputation. You are putting yourself on the line as soon as you are willing to stand up and take action. Taking responsibility means

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  • Be Swift and Win

    Great leaders must be swift. Whatever it is that you need to do and whatever it is that you have to get done, has to be done quickly and with great confidence. You must calculate and while you calculate you must not appear as if you are calculating. You must become a master of misdirection, and never let your competition see your intention, BUT there will come a time when calculation and misdirection will be over, this will be the time to act. Action must always be swift and aggressive even when it might appear that it is the easiest

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  • Leaders are Masters of Paradox

    Those that would be successful leaders must master paradox. Leaders must be in it to win. Weather its overcoming an obstacle, finishing an objective, or beating the opposition; leaders have to be in it to prevail. If you do not carry a winning objective in mind, those that follow you will soon rebel. Leaders need followers and followers need to feel that they stand behind someone that is strong and will succeed against any opposition. You cannot fake a winning attitude. You must know deep within yourself that you can win, that you will win, and that you have the

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  • Meeting Goals

    Many people set goals for themselves, which is a good thing. Unfortunately following through on those goals becomes a very difficult thing for for many, and most goals are never achieved. In this article, we will explore some techniques that you can use to help you meet the goals that you set for yourself. Let us begin though by becoming very clear on what you want your goals to be. To do this, you will have to spend some time alone and explore your inner visions. See a picture of your ideal future self and work backwards to find out

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  • The Power of the Eye to Persuade

    Would you like to learn a technique that can persuade others and bend them to your will? How about a way to stop another person in their tracks and totally invade their soul? Would you like to learn a technique that creates instant sexual tension? I hope so because this is just what I am going to teach you and if you are able to master this technique, you will be able to exert your will with incredible results. Have you ever been to the Greece or Southern Italy? If you have been lucky enough, you might have noticed that

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  • Measure The Risks Before You Act

    Before you act, find out how risky any action is. Many things in life tend to be mundane, that is you do them because they need to get done. You brush your teeth or go to work for example. These are the mundane things of the day.There are situations though that can get a bit risky. Often times these risky situations or challenges entice us with a reward, and depending on the risk, the reward can be great. When these situations present themselves, it is very important that you learn to assess the risk level involved.What is very dangerous and

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  • Use Physiology To Control Yourself And Others

    Your physiology is an incredible indicator of your mental state. It is possible that you have read or heard something about the incredible correlation between your body and your mind. If you watch shows like “the mentalists” or “Lie to me”, you will see the protagonist do amazing things just by watching and manipulating body language.It is nearly impossible to separate body action and reaction from mental focus. When you are depressed for example, you hunch over, look down, and tend to frown. When you are happy and excited, you tend to look up, arch your back, and smile. Most

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  • Learn To Not Explain Yourself To Others And Win

    There is no need to explain yourself to others. The time that you waste trying to explain yourself and your motives to others can be better spent focusing on your desired outcome. I have mentioned before that there is a natural need in other people to control situations and things, it is therefore expected that others will feel that you have to explain yourself to them. Don’t let others intimidate you into having to explain yourself to them. Since most of us grew up with parents or parental like figures, we tend to find it normal to have to explain

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  • Learn All The Rules Of Any Game You Play

    Always learn the rules of every game. Every game has certain rules, and it’s very important that you learn then before you start to play.Learning the rules starts by learning what you are playing for. In every game there has to be an objective, and this objective needs to be learned before you waste any energy and time. This objective is very important because it will show you which way you have to go and give you a clue as to how hard the competition will be. Knowing the objective will also allow you to focus your energy better because

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  • What Is Persuasion?

    Persuasion is an incredibly powerful ability. It is the ability to be able to get others to do what you want them to do. Or to be more specific; it is the conscious act of getting someone to do what you want them to do.Through persuasion you are able to get others to focus on you exclusively. You can focus their attention so that you become the center of their world. This attention can be conscious or unconscious, the difference being that the person that you are trying to persuade is either aware or unaware that you are now controlling

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  • How To Develop Charisma

    If you are constantly dealing with people, or if you find that you are having difficulty dealing with others, it is a very good idea for you to develop your charisma. Natural charisma is a talent that some people have in dealing with others, it helps them to be liked and to usually get what they want with little resistance. Those that do have natural charisma are lucky, but you can also develop charisma on your own with a little effort on your part. Putting in a little effort to develop your charisma can help you any time that you

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  • To Be A Good Leader, Act Like A Leader

    In order to be a leader, you must act like a leader. It is possible that you could find yourself in the position of leadership, but you truly will not be a leader until you begin to act like one. Leadership is a difficult and challenging role and must be given great consideration or else you will fail.It is possible that you are now a leader because you own business or you have been assigned a task by your superiors. If this is the case, it is most important that you consider deeply how it is that a leader should

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  • Leaders Simplify The Message

    A good leader needs to simplify the message. It is most important that as a leader you are understood perfectly, and that you make your message as clear as possible. You will not be able to get others to do what you want and unless your messages is simple and clearly stated. Others will also not pay attention to you if your message is hard to follow and difficult to understand.Influence is most important to a leader. The most important precept of influence is the ability to capture attention. If you cannot hold the attention of others then it is

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  • Great Leaders Always Pay Close Attention To Others

    Great leaders always pay great attention to the people that they are dealing with. Every interaction no matter how small or large requires full focus and attention. Leaders do not take things for granted, they realized that the only way to win is to never overestimate or underestimate either the situation or the people before you. Every interaction then is a kind of battle, where full attention must be given.By concentrating fully on the other person, leaders are able to correctly assess what the other person needs. By identifying these needs, a leader is able to figure out exactly what

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  • Good Leaders Lead Through Motivation

    As a leader you must be perfectly clear about the fact that you have to tell other people what to do. Leadership basically means that you set the course; this means that you are the one that says where you and your team will go and what you and your team will do to get there. Since you are the head of a group, team, or organization, you are the one in charge of giving orders and making sure that others do as you say.Good leaders never command through fear. Any leader that believes that he can control and command

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  • Never Make Yourself Second Best

    You must never forget that you are the most important person in your life. Some, especially parents, would disagree with this statement but the fact of the matter remains that if you do not treat yourself well or consider your own needs first, you might not be around long enough to take care of those that you really care for. Since you are at this moment looking out at the world from within yourself, using your senses in an outward fashion, you could really say that you are at the center of the universe. As such you could say that

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  • Always Try To Build Powerful Alliances

    Always try to build alliances. An alliance is a cooperative venture that you make with someone else or a group of others. This cooperative venture allows you to accomplish things that you are not able to do on your own and to overcome barriers far more easily.In alliance should always be a win-win scenario. Whenever you make an alliance with another group or individual, make sure that you are always in a win-win scenario. Of course you always want to align yourself in such a way that you are in a winning position, this after all is the reason for

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  • Don't Be Afraid To Take Risks

    Life is risk. We can definitely minimize the amount of risk that we experience in our lives but if we pursue this line of action too much we can end up with lives that are stale and boring. Risk is a natural result of being alive; since it is impossible for us to know every single possibility, since we cannot predict the future, any action that we take involves some kind of risk. Always be willing to be a risk taker. If you stop taking risks, in many ways he stopped living. Since risk is a natural result of being

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  • Leaders Must Always Be Tactful

    Leaders must always confront things in the most diplomatic way possible. When you are a leader you are in the spotlight and as such must always be careful in how you act and what you say. As a leader you must take full responsibility of all your actions because these actions will be intensely scrutinized by all the people around you.A leader must never attack his people. Many believe that because they are in a leadership position they can treat others any way they want. The exact opposite is actually the case. Because of the leaders position, he or she

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  • How To Make Hard Choices

    Life is all about making choices. The wonderful thing about life is that we choose most of the things that we will experience. Some might say that we consciously choose, whether we realize it or not, all the experiences of our lives. Whatever the case may be it is true that we constantly need to make choices and some of these choices can be very hard.If you do find it hard to make some choices, there are certain techniques that can help you. Something that does help right off the bat is to always try and stay objective. As I've

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  • Leaders Work With Their People

    Leaders always work with their people. A leader must always be able to collaborate with all of the members of his or her team. He must be able to use their resources well, and to make sure that everyone is working as a cohesive unit. A leader shows teamwork and cohesive action by example; he makes sure that he shows others that he is a team player and that he respects what every single person in his team has to bring to the table.A leader must always make full use of his resources. His greatest resource will always be his

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  • Learn To Be Flexible

    You must learn to be as flexible as possible when you're trying to accomplish your goals. Life is a very difficult thing to predict. This is so because life is not a closed system; what this means is that random events and random things can be introduced into it at any time. If you are not able to predict something then it is very wise to always remember to stay flexible so that you can change in accordance with changing circumstance. Always remember to hold your goals lightly. Never put your head down and march straight without deviation. Doing so

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  • Why And How To Be Assertive

    In order to become successful in life you must be willing to assert yourself. The ability to be assertive is very important because it allows us to make your intentions known and well understood. Without this ability you end up being dominated by others and by the environment around you. Assertiveness is usually a tricky topic because it can be seen by some as being overtly forceful or in some ways manipulative. Assertiveness though is positive action manifesting itself through strong personal intention. In order to be assertive in a truly positive way, you must learn to listen to others.

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  • Always Have A Contingency Plan

    In all facets of life is always a good idea to have a contingency plan. You must try and get yourself into the habit of always thinking ahead. In this way you can plan one step ahead and therefore be prepared for anything or anyone that might come along. Eventually you will want to increase the steps ahead that you can plan and just like a chess master you can be three or four steps ahead of your competition. It is very seldom that things go perfectly. No matter how hard we try to come up with the perfect plan,

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  • For Difficult Conversations, Have an Ace Up Your Sleeve

    Interaction with others is very difficult to plan. People are dynamic beings and it is very difficult to completely direct the course of a personal interaction. Talking to others can be a difficult thing for some people, they lack confidence and believe that they will make fools of themselves by saying the wrong thing. Even people that are quite adept at talking to others can sometimes run into difficulty when the conversation goes in a completely odd direction. The best way to overcome these problems is to be a little prepared. All preparation breeds confidence and it is therefore always

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  • Good Leaders Must be Able to Laugh at Themselves

    Being in a leadership position can be quite difficult if you are too stiff. I have personally seen people in leadership positions that seem to be stuck in a fight or flight state continually. What I mean by this is that I have seen people in leadership positions that seem to be in an incredibly nervous and apprehensive state all the time. If you look at these people, they tend to shiver like a nervous poodle and they take any small thing as an affront to them personally. A person in this kind of tense nervous state, creates bad feeling

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