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The Role Your Subconscious Mind Plays in Your Everyday Life

The subconscious mind – something that has a huge effect on every action, but is constantly overlooked.

Instead, the focus is often on our conscious mind, which contains the critical thought function of our brains. The subconscious is the powerful layer underneath. It encompasses the awareness of all things the conscious mind cannot recognize.

Once the subconscious is tapped into, this remarkable part of the brain plays many different roles in your everyday life.

The Memory Bank

Your subcons...

Brian Tracy’s Ultimate List of Public Speaking Tips

I’ve had a wonderful motivational speaking career that has spanned for over 30 years. There are hundreds of public speaking tips I’ve learned along the way. I’m going to share as many of them with you as I can.

An enormous number of professional speakers start off the same way:

They start off speaking in their organization or in their company or sometimes will be asked to talk on their subject to a small group of people within their industry. They put together some notes and share what they k...

Start Doing This If You Want Better Relationships

Strong relationships with others are vital components of a healthy and happy life. Those that are able to build connections with other people tend to lead longer and richer lives.

Those that cannot maintain relationships are more likely to experience loneliness or depression. The effects of both are detrimental to the health of both the mind and body. If you experience difficulty connecting with others, there is a way to build stronger relationships. Whether that be at work or in your persona...

Here’s Why You Haven’t Achieved Your Goal Yet

Simply put, successful people are goal-setters. Goal-setting applies to every area of our lives. We set goals for our careers, relationships, families, finances, etc. Our ultimate goals, however, set the course for our lives. The ultimate goals define the direction that we go in.

Unfortunately, some people never achieve their ultimate goals in life. They limit their self-confidence and they limit themselves.

Learn how to set achievable goals. Get my FREE 14-Step Goal-Setting Guide. Identify...

The Major Obstacles to Financial Freedom & How to Overcome Them [Special Offer Inside]

There are many major mental obstacles that deter financial success. The most common reason is that some people believe, for whatever reason, that they don’t deserve to be rich. Now, I know some of you may be asking, why is that?

Some people, including myself, have been raised with a steady drumbeat of destructive criticism. This has led them to conclude, at an unconscious level, that they don’t deserve to be successful and happy.

Of course, this is untrue. Yet, this negative way of thinking...

How To Start Your Book: Choosing A Winning Message

When you write a book, where do you start?

You have the ambition to write a book, but you’re not sure how to structure it.

I’ve written 72 books and I publish 4 or 5 books a year with publishers worldwide and this is the main question that I get asked.

When I decide to write a book, I’ll sit down with a blank piece of paper and I’ll lay out the entire book on paper without reference to any resource material.

I can then write the whole book from beginning to end without even using my notes.

I’...

The Secret to Getting Rich

Do you ever think about what your life would be like if you doubled your income this year? What if you doubled your income AND you doubled the time you spend doing what you love? Better yet, with the people you love?

Herein lies the secret to building wealth. If you think it’s impossible in this economy, it’s not!

In every shift of the economy — down or up — there are winners and losers, like with everything in life. It’s all on how you look at and play into your current circumstances.

Even...

3 Biggest Leadership Mistakes People Make Today

One of the best leadership qualities that a manager can have is the ability to build up self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-respect in others. As a leader, your choices affect your entire team, especially your leadership mistakes.

However, we’ve all had bad bosses who do just the opposite. Today, I am going to identify 3 of the biggest leadership mistakes people make and provide some solutions.

Perhaps some of you have made some of these leadership mistakes in the past. The good news is,...

How to Be a Confident Leader in Uncertain Situations

One of my students recently asked me, “How can I be a confident leader in uncertain situations? Does it come from your personality or is it learned?”

My simple answer to that is…

Yes. Having certain personality traits does help your self-confidence. But, self-confidence is a habit that can be learned.

Maintaining your self-confidence as a leader in unsure or defensive situations does not have to be difficult. You just have to know how to go about the situation in the right way. What makes a...

Use the 4 Levels of Customer Satisfaction to Build Customer Loyalty

The ability to satisfy your customers to gain customer loyalty is the critical determinant of your success in driving sales and growing your business.

There are four levels of customer satisfaction, all based on the degree to which you meet customer expectations. The higher the level you achieve, the more you will build customer loyalty and the greater your success.

Level One: Meet Customer Expectations

The minimum requirement to simply stay in business—to survive—is to meet the expectations...