Keeping a Positive Outlook
by, Corey Wells

Studies have shown that positive thinkers tend to live longer than negative thinkers. But maintaining a positive outlook is not easy. Health problems, stress at work, family challenges, and social interactions can frequently make it very difficult to stay optimistic. Mental illness, genetically inherited tendency for depression and our early childhood treatment can also have a significant affect on our ability to stay up-beat. However, even with these obstacles, it’s still possible to learn positive thinking.

A positive attitude can foster improved self-confidence and increased self-esteem. By thinking positively, we’re more likely to see ourselves as capable of completing any task or solving any problem. Unfortunately, sustaining a constantly positive attitude can often be challenging for most of us.

The best way to overcome a negative attitude is to choose to have a positive outlook. If you’re constantly thinking negative worst case scenarios why not start thinking positive best case scenarios. Both outcomes are possible but what you focus on is what you will attract to your life. Why not choose to focus on the most outrageous positive outcome you can dream.

When you feel yourself getting negative or thinking of a negative situation. Quickly think of 3 outrageous positive outcomes or situations. This quick switch in thinking makes all the difference. Believe it or not, it works!

Let’s get started.

1. “You’re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It
   could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen.Choose. Act.”
   Barbara Hall,
2. “A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”
   Jean Paul Richter,
3. “If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.
   Mitchell Burgess,
4. “Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. ”
   Lee Iacocca
5. ” If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens, opens, opens up all along the line.”
   Joseph Campbell,
6. “Loyalty is still the same,
   Whether it win or lose the game;
   True as a dial to the sun,
   Although it be not shined upon.”
   Samuel Butler
7. “People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
   Ogden Nash
8. “Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.”
   E.H. Chapin

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Creating Abundance
by, Corey Wells

Why is it in today’s society so many are unable to achieve their abundance? The reason is because they don’t possess the proper mindset. They are continually worrying about what everybody else has instead of concentrating on their own wants and desires. To change this mindset they need to first establish a clear view of what they’re thinking. Most people are not aware of the negative beliefs that are automatically being generated in their own subconscious.

How can your thoughts have an affect on the people and experiences in your life? That’s where the law of attraction comes into play. This law basically states that your thoughts impact your view of things and determine whether negative or positive people and experiences will be attracted to you. If you are depressed and inundated with negative thinking, then negative people and experiences will be attracted into your life. The law of attraction implies we are basically big magnets that draw either positive or negative events depending on how our mindset is focused.

Most people hold the mistaken belief that there is only so much abundance to go around. 90% of the world’s wealth is controlled by only 5% of the population. You can bet those folks are well aware of the law of attraction! Isn’t it time you decided to join them?

Start by changing your mindset to see the positive in all situations. The more you do to create positive energy in your life, the more abundance will start to flow your way. There are abundant opportunities for everyone. So purge your negative mindset and replace it with a positive attitude and a world of abundance awaits.

Let’s get started.

1. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
   -Robert Byrne
2. ”I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
   -Lord (George Gordon) Byron
3. ” a man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.”
   -Truman Capote,
4. ” Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.”
   -Deepak Chopra,
5. “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
   -Agatha Christie,
6. “To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.”
   -Alexis Carrel,
7. ” Turning points always seem so sudden and absolute, as if they have come bolt out of the blue. That is
   not true, of course. A whole slow process goes into their making.”
   Azar Nafisi,
8. “Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into
   good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.”
   Leigh Hunt,

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The Courage to Be Rich
by, Corey Wells

It takes a lot of courage to become rich. Anybody can sit around and think about being rich and hope that one day it will come to pass. However, only a few actually rise up and take the actions necessary to become wealthy. But we all want to be rich don’t we? So why isn’t everybody pursuing this goal? The answer is fear! The same fear that allows us to come up with excuses about why we can’t do something we really want.

So how can you overcome this fear? Well, first you have to acknowledge that it exists. Without admitting that the fear is present, the fear continues to be in control. Deep down inside, we all know it’s there. It makes its presence known in the negative self-talk we hear all the time in our heads. “I’m not smart enough to be rich” or “I can’t handle the responsibility that comes with wealth.” After we admit that we have this fear, we can begin to turn it into something positive. Take this opportunity to use positive affirmations to mute the pessimistic voice of fear. Whenever you hear the negative self-talk tell yourself, “I am smart enough to do this”, “Responsibility comes easy to me.” Once we learn to squelch our fears, we are ready to face the challenges ahead with a positive attitude and we’ll no longer fear the possibility of being rich.

One thing that holds people back more than anything else is the fear of success. The fear of success is really the fear of change. Sure we want to be rich and we want to live the life we deserve, but there’s something that’s holding us back. There’s something that’s preventing us from making that one extra call or pushing ourselves to do the activities that will lead to success.

Why do we fear change, even if it’s positive change? We fear change because we fear uncertainty. We fear the unknown. You may consciously believe that being rich will be a fantastic way of life, but your sub-conscious may have a different attitude. You may have sub-conscious fears that because you are rich people will want to steal what you have or there may be more responsibilities. You may believe that this means you’ll have to pay more taxes and you’ll have to give up more of your time. These are legitimate concerns that your sub-conscious will try and protect you from. Don’t let the fear of change stop you from leading the life you deserve, stand up to this fear and move forward with what you know is right.

Fear is a very powerful foe. But we can all beat it if we have the courage to try. You owe it to yourself to summon every ounce of courage you have in order to defeat your own demons and to finally live the life you deserve.

Let’s get started.

1. “The plain fact is that man is not ruled by thinking. When man thinks he thinks, he usually merely feels; and his instincts and feelings are powerful precisely in proportion as they are irrational.”
   -Nicholas Murray Butler
2. ” A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
   -Robert Burton
3. “There is no road or ready way to virtue.”
   -Sir Thomas Browne,
4. “Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you
   may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.”
   Margaret Cho,
5. “He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a
   scholar.”
   Chuang-tzu,
6. “He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the
   mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.”
   Confucius,
7. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
   ROBERT FROST,
8. “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.”
   WERNER HEISENBERG,

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Procrastination
by, Corey Wells

Procrastination and the resulting frustration it causes can be a problem in business, as well as life. The main reason we end up postponing duties or tasks is simply because we don’t enjoy doing them. However, there are some simple things you can do to avoid falling into the procrastination trap.

It is always helpful to define what goals need to be obtained. Once you know the desired outcome, determine what you need to do to make it happen. Then create a realistic deadline. After the goal is defined and the time line established, you need to set priorities and establish an achievable deadline for each necessary activity. If needed, subdivide larger tasks into smaller more doable actions. Complete each task prior to moving on to the next.

Getting started is always the hardest part. It’s easier if you start with the smaller tasks first. You’ll gain needed reinforcement each time you complete one of these tasks. Creating visible reminders like lists or notes and displaying them where they are easily viewed will help you maintain focus. Making commitments can be very inspiring. Tell someone (spouse, friend, coach, etc.) when you expect to complete a task and ask them to hold you to it.

Finally, be sure to take enjoyment in your achievements. Every time you complete an action give yourself a reward. If you can get enjoyment out of what you’re doing, procrastination will be a thing of the past.

Let’s get started.

1. “You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can’t keep that which belongs to someone else.”
   -Edgar Cayce
2. ” Living, just by itself –what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom’s the usher, there all the time to spy on you… “
   -Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
3. “Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing”
   -Miguel de Cervantes,
4. ” And after all, what is a lie? ’T is but The truth in masquerade.”
   -Lord (George Gordon) Byron,
5. “An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
   -Lord Chesterfield,
6. “Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.”
   -G. K. Chesterton,
7. “History never repeats itself ,as most people fear. People usually repeat history.”
   -Divine Chikobvu,
8. “As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
   -Pema Chödrön,

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Constant Motivation
by, Corey Wells

There’s no better way to get motivated than to attended a motivational seminar or by listening to an inspirational tape. The problem is that you get really pumped up for the next week or two, but after that your enthusiasm starts to wane. This happens because the information we were so exited about initially, begins to fade from our memory. If we can feel excited about life for a couple of weeks, then there should be no reason why can’t feel that way all the time.

In order to maintain a constant motivation in our lives, we need to create continual reminders of the concepts and inspirational thinking that we were exposed in the motivational material. A good way to do this is to create inspirational reminders to place around your home and office. By doing so, you will constantly be surrounded by motivational mantras and inspirational quotes that will eventually become part of your regular belief system. All the wisdom acquired from tapes, books and seminars won’t be forgotten in the normal commotion of your everyday life.

Another benefit you’ll find be doing this is that your friends, family and co-workers will also be exposed to these same concepts and ideas. Thus, you’ve not only improved your own positive attitude, you may start to influence the thinking and actions of those around you. This well further assist you be providing a built in support system you can call on when needed.

Let’s get started.

1. “Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
   -Thomas Carlyle
2. “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
   -Dale Carnegie
3. “All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.”
   -Alexis Carrel,
4. ” There are only two lasting bequests we can can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.”
   -William Hodding Carter, Jr.
5. “Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”
   -Pablo Casals
6. “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have”
   -Johnny Cash
7. “All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.”
   -Fidel Castro,
8. ” “Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
   -Willa Cather,

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Procrastination
by, Corey Wells

Procrastination and the resulting frustration it causes can be a problem in business, as well as life. The main reason we end up postponing duties or tasks is simply because we don’t enjoy doing them. However, there are some simple things you can do to avoid falling into the procrastination trap.

It is always helpful to define what goals need to be obtained. Once you know the desired outcome, determine what you need to do to make it happen. Then create a realistic deadline. After the goal is defined and the time line established, you need to set priorities and establish an achievable deadline for each necessary activity. If needed, subdivide larger tasks into smaller more doable actions. Complete each task prior to moving on to the next.

Getting started is always the hardest part. It’s easier if you start with the smaller tasks first. You’ll gain needed reinforcement each time you complete one of these tasks. Creating visible reminders like lists or notes and displaying them where they are easily viewed will help you maintain focus. Making commitments can be very inspiring. Tell someone (spouse, friend, coach, etc.) when you expect to complete a task and ask them to hold you to it.

Finally, be sure to take enjoyment in your achievements. Every time you complete an action give yourself a reward. If you can get enjoyment out of what you’re doing, procrastination will be a thing of the past.

Let’s get started.

1. Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.”
   -Lou Brock,
2. ” Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.”
3. “To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy.”
   -John Burroughs,
4. “Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”
   -Samuel Butler,
5. ” But if a person has had the sense of the Call — the feeling that there’s an adventure for him — and if he doesn’t follow that, but remains in the society because it’s safe and secure, then life dries up.”
   -Joseph Campbell,
6. ” Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.”
   -Albert Camus
7. ” [The secret of] how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else…was to be indifferent to that difference.”
   -Al Capp,
8. “”Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
   -Orson Scott Card,

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Success is a Journey
by, Corey Wells

The great Earl Nightingale said, “Success is the progressive realization of a worthwhile goal.” What he means is being successful is not just reaching your goal, but the continuous activity towards that goal. After all, there’s no point in a person’s life where they actually stop, look at what they have, and suddenly decide that’s it, I have enough and I’ve made it to where I want to be. Do you think Bill Gates and Donald Trump did that, or did they just set higher goals and aspirations and continue onward?

Success is a journey, not a final destination. You become successful as soon as you begin the journey. So if you’re striving to reach a goal you are successful. If a new salesperson’s initial goal is to sell 15 widgets a week, is his success concluded when he reaches that goal, of course not. They may have been successful, but the journey continues by setting new higher goals and objectives.

Being successful is about striving to overcoming personal barriers and recognizing your own unique dreams. Success is the result of a combination of commitment, passion, and patience on a never ending voyage. Make your entire life a part of one long successful journey.

Let’s get started.

1. Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates beyond the place where the eyes can see.”
   -Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera,
2. “Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal …. service.”
   -Henry Cadbury,
3. ” Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”
   -Joseph Campbell,
4. “Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are
   just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.”
   Margaret Cho,
5. “It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the
   mechanisms of friendship.”
   Colette,
6. “He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
   Confucius,
7. “To err is human, but it feels divine.”
   MAE WEST,
8. “Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.”
   -Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus),

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Dealing With Adversity
by, Corey Wells

No matter who you are, at one time or another you’ve had to deal with adversity. We’ve all experienced times when nothing seems to go right. Whether it’s surviving a crisis, dealing with an unexpected setback or any number of possible occurrences. If you can name a problem, it’s happen to us or someone we know.

Today, we live in a society where blaming is pretty much the norm. We blame our parents, we blame the politicians, we blame our employers, we blame our customers, we blame the weather, and so on. But if we want to overcome our adversities, we need to change our attitudes and outlook. Instead of looking at adversity as something that was “done to us” by something or someone else, we need to identify it as a blameless event that we can learn a positive lesson from. Instead of saying; “Why am I the victim of such adversity?” ask yourself “What can I learn from this?

By changing our outlook, we’ll find we have better responses and a much better outcome. It’s not the problem but rather your response to the problem that’s important. By coming up with new responses, we’ll be free from the previous response patterns that have always limited our progress. If we can look at adversity as just an impersonal experience, we’ll soon discover that overcoming it is nothing more than choosing a different way to experience the situation.

One of the greatest thoughts on adversity I’ve ever heard comes from the late professor Randy Pausch who was dying of pancreatic cancer and said, “We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” I think this sums up dealing with adversity perfectly.

Let’s get started.

1. “All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet…where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That’s a very good damn question!”
   -Lois McMaster Bujold,
2. “Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.”
   -Robert Burton,
3. Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I’m dying and I’m having fun. And I’m going to keep having fun every day, because there’s no other way to play it.
   -Randy Pausch
4. “Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.”
   -George W. Bush,
5. “Justice while she winks at crimes,
   Stumbles on innocence sometimes.”
   -Samuel Butler
6. “A real thinker is one of the rarest things in nature. He comes only at long intervals in human history, and when he does come, he is often astonishingly unwelcome. Indeed, he is sometimes speedily sent the way of the unfit and unprotesting earthworm.”
   -Nicholas Murray Butler,
7. “Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.”
   -Robert Byrne,
8. ” “Adversity is the first path to truth.”
   -Lord (George Gordon) Byron,

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The Importance of Focus
by, Corey Wells

Focus is the act of channeling all our activities into achieving a desired objective. Focused behavior doesn’t just happen by chance. It happens when we take the time necessary to regularly look at our own behavior and then choose what needs to be done each day in order to obtain our goal. This requires a lot of personal discipline and the ability to shield yourself from the distractions of everyday events or other opportunities. Someone who is truly focused does not allow occasional problems or the resistance of others to keep them from pursuing their ultimate goal.

Although setting a desired goal and focusing your efforts to obtain that goal my sound simple, it’s not. As time passes the concentration necessary to keep focused is continually under assault by such things as boredom, new objectives and other possibilities. Many start out with clear objectives, but find themselves inevitably distracted by other emerging and exciting opportunities. It’s easy to get excited about something new and many times people have fallen pray to shifting focus half way through their original goal.

What happens when we lose focus? We start going in multiple directions toward multiple goals and end up doing nothing well. We have essentially invited failure by focusing our efforts on too many things. Success comes from focusing on doing one thing right, rather than doing many things poorly. Stay focused and be successful at whatever you do.

Let’s get started.

1. ” Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.”
   -Heywood Broun,
2. ” If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks.”
   -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.,
3. “You must be willing to do the things today others don’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have. “
   -Les Brown,
4. “He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.”
   -Sir Thomas Browne,
5. “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
   Or what’s a heaven for?”
   -Robert Browning,
6. ” “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
   -William Jennings Bryan
7. “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
   -Pearl Buck,
8. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
   -Buddha

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Failure Leads to Success
by, Corey Wells

Whenever, wherever you see success you’ll almost always not see the failure that accompanied that success. One of the most famous examples of this is Thomas Edison was working on the light bulb, a reporter found out that Edison had created 10,000 different versions and still could not get it to work. The reporter asked Edison, “How can you keep going after failing 10,000 times? Isn’t that a little ridiculous? Why don’t you just give up?” Edison answered, “You don’t understand, I haven’t failed 10,000 times, I’ve simply succeeded in finding 10,000 ways that definitely won’t work.”

We often fear failure because we view it as an expression of our own self worth. We sometimes think it shows that we’re an inadequate person or we’re bound for a life of mediocrity. However, this is simply not true. Failure, if anything, means that we now have an opportunity to learn. We tried and it didn’t work. So we need to find a different way to proceed until we can master the task at hand. Don’t let one failure deter you from trying something else.

Those who understand the learning opportunity presented by failure, like Edison, look forward to failures because of what they can teach you about yourself and your inner resiliency. When a failure occurs, look at it objectively and ask yourself why. Did you not do everything you could have? Can you retry it from a different angle, or with another mindset? Keep working and you will eventually achieve a favorable result. If you stop learning from your experiences, then you truly have failed.

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1. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
   -Henry de Bracton,
2. “Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
   -Ray Bradbury,
3. ” The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing.”
   -William Cowper Brann
4. “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”
   -David Brinkley
5. “You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.”
   -Lou Brock,
6. ” The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. That is, something that can’t be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn’t be happy with.”
   -Joseph Brodsky,
7. “A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.”
   -Rupert Brooke
8. “Life…is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.”
   -Anita Brookner,

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