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Dealing with people and relationships generally require some level of adroitness. Keep these tips in mind: Call attention to other people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes first.    Humble yourself and praise the other. No one likes to take orders. Ask questions relating to what you want. Let the other person save face rather than find fault. French aviation pioneer, Antoine de Saint- Exupery wrote: "I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man's dignity is a crime."        HOW TO SPUR PEOPLE ON TO SUCCESS You encourage people to be their best selves when you praise even the slightest improvement.      This is not about excess flattery. It is simply capitalizing on the inherent need in every human to feel appreciated.      Psychologist Jess Lair said, "Praise is like sunshine to ...

25 Habits That Will Guarantee You Success The ancients were fond of an expression: Character is fate. It means that character is deterministic, that who you are determines what you will do. Self-discipline is one of those special things that is both predictive and deterministic. It both predicts that you will be great, AND it makes whatever you are doing great. It is not a means to an end. It is not just something we value until we get something we think we might really value—this job title, that amount of money, winning the biggest game, landing the best opportunity. No. Discipline is the win. When you are disciplined about your craft…you win. When you know you put your best into something…you win. When your self-worth is tied to things you can control (effort, for example)…you win. Who we are, the standards we hold ourselves to, the things we do regularly—in the end, these are all better predictors of the trajectory of our lives than things like talent, resources, or anything e...

WHERE YOU ARE IS NOT WHO YOU ARE By ISHOLA EMMANUEL There is a very interesting experiment which I would like to share with you. The experiment is this: Try taking a container and put in it, carefully selected big stones. Make sure that the stones are big and put them at the bottom of the container. Now place on top of the container stones of smaller sizes. By now you would have a container with small stones on top and big stones underneath. The next thing is that you shake the container. What would you find? You would find that the smaller stones wuld find their way to the bottom while bigger stones will find their way to the top. The big stones signifies people who have built capacity in areas such as physically, mentally, spiritually, socially etc. but due to the vicissitudes of life find themselves down. Whenever you find yourself in this category, I am here to tell you that it is only a temporary phase. You will rise again. Whenever you find your self down ...

Imagination is gotten from two words namely image and formation. So imagination talks about the formation of images. Why is this imagination important to focus on. it is important because You can only feature in a future that you can picture. Instead of picturing yourself as not capable you must picture your self as capable. Instead of picturing yourself as not qualified, you must picture yourself as qualified. Instead of picturing yourself as not healthy, you must picture yourself as healthy and fit. Instead of picturing yourself as in lack and debt, you must picture yourself as having all things supplied because even the Scriptures say that My God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory and The Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not want. One man who has two important quotes relating to imagination has to be Albert Einstein. He was a German born physicist and he lived between 1879- 1955 and was popular for his theory of relativity. Concern...

Philipians 4:7: "And the peace of God which passes all human understanding shall keep your hearts and minds in Christ." Why is your peace of mind so important? It is so important because you can always gauge or measure the quality of decisions that'll you make based on the level of inner peace that you enjoy. When you are living in harmony with your innermost convictions and highest values in life, you have a perfect balance and you enjoy peace of mind. Brian Tracy calls peace of mind your internal gyroscope. You will appreciate this better when you check further for the meaning of gyroscope. A gyroscope is a compass or guidance system usually used in ships and aircraft. It is used to detect the deviation of an object from its original orientation. In the words of Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), (a motivational speaker and author of Enthusiasm Makes the Difference, Power of Positive Thinking, Positive Imaging and You Can if You Think You ...

Your tongue will end up repeating the thoughts you have entertained in your mind. You must therefore counter negative thoughts that are contrary to or rebelling against the Word in your life and rebelling against what you truly deserve. Do not allow negative thoughts to flow through your mind lest they cripple your faith and make it feeble. Listen to this: When our thinking becomes right, our believing will be right and our talking will be right. If you can control your thinking, you can control your talking and if you can control your talking, you can control your life. This is why James teaches that if a man can control his tongue, he can control his life. Remember that controlling your tongue begins by controlling your thoughts.

It is important that you guard your mind against unrestrained thoughts of doubts because unrestrained thoughts leads inevitably to unrestrained words which inevitably leads to an unrestrained life manifested in the actions and events around you. Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:23) As a man thinks in his heart so is he (Proverbs 23:7) To boost and bolster up your faith, uproot negative thoughts planted your mind. Instead of thinking lack and poverty or sickness for instance, think about what the word says concerning your health and prosperity like "By his stripes you have been healed" (Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24) and "Generous hands are blessed hands because they give of their bread to the poor" (Proverbs 22:9). Your actions will always fall in line with your thoughts and the cause you proclaim determines your course in life.