by Alex Shalman

What has started off as a single article on the benefits of respect, grew into a follow up with 10 ways to respect others, and now finds us here as a full blown series. It’s often correct to take care of ourselves, before allotting the time to take care of others. After all, if we’re physically or mentally incapable of serving others, than we’re not being very fruitful. In that essence, we must respect ourselves, before we are truly capable of respecting others.

It’s also intuitive that if we respect ourselves, we’ll boost our self-esteem, which will than spiral outwards into how we treat others. You can imagine what kind of energy a person that does not respect themselves will give off. Let’s see how we can do just the opposite.

Respecting Ourselves

1. Take Care of Your Body. It’s not about how you look, or what shape you’re in. It’s about what you’re doing to better yourself. Yes, you might be overweight now, because you’ve slipped up. It’s okay, just show yourself some respect, and start by taking small steps towards a better you.
2. Take Care of Your Mind. You might not be a nobel prize candidate, or even a spelling bee champ, but it’s not too late. Expand your mind by reading, speaking with intelligent people, and spending less time on things that will ‘rot your brain’.
3. See To Your Goals. If you’re dreams and aspirations are sitting around on the sidelines for too long, they start to feel neglected. Respect yourself, by striving to achieve, and taking steps to obtain your life goals.
4. Think Bigger Than Before. You think you know what you’re capable of, and you believe you’re being fairly realistic about it. Chances are that you’re wrong. Your potential is an unmeasurable force that has no boundaries. So respect yourself by dreaming bigger and expecting more from yourself.

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By Michael Lee

Breaking the chain of low self-esteem need not be an exercise in futility. Despite the fact that it seems like a Herculean task, because the state of self-loathing and insecurity colors one’s world in bleak shades of gray, breaking the chain of low self-esteem is actually an easy endeavor that starts with one step.

No matter how difficult that first step is, once it’s done, you would be on your road to a better you.

Self-worth is a crucial part of a person’s psyche. If one’s self-respect is in dire straits, his or her productivity, outlook in life, and just about everything in his/her life would be affected. This bondage must be broken.

Most men in the corporate world respond to their achievements being praised. Most women, on the other hand, bank their self-esteem on their physical beauty or whether they are lovable.

Whether you are an adult needing your sense of worth fixed, or a teenager who is in search of your identity, a sound self-esteem is very important. Here are some great tips to get you moving.

1. Find out the root cause of your low self-esteem.
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By Leon Edward

Perhaps you have heard the old saying “If there is a will, there is a way”. Many say that the same holds true with concentration. If you can learn to harness your power of concentration, then you will have the willpower to do just about anything.

Perhaps you have even heard the ever popular News caster known as Diane Sawyer, when she was asked about what the secret to her success was. She replied that her big secret was paying attention. So the big question is still, “How does one basically maintain focus and concentration?”

Below is a list of great tips to help you no matter what you are up against. Whether it is a business meeting, a certain project, school and even everyday work obstacles.

1. Go with one step at a time
There will be many times that your mind is racing and you can’t stay focused as you are being pulled in many different directions.

Instead of trying to keep focused on so many different things, take time to prioritize your list and do only the things that needs to be done at that time. This will allow you to stay better focused and get more accomplished.
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by Aaron Potts

Don’t even bother trying to improve your life via personal development methodologies, because those systems don’t work. Yes, there are great tools available. There are books, audio programs, seminars, eBooks, and general “life hacks” that you can use to effect some positive changes in your life. However, none of those things are the real fuel behind personal development success – or lack thereof.

As a general rule, people are fruitlessly scouring our existence looking for the latest and greatest ways to get what they want out of life. For some people it is a new weight loss system, for others it is a financial success method, while still others are simply looking for a way to have rewarding personal relationships.

Regardless of the particular goal that you are trying to accomplish, however, YOU are the fuel for success in that endeavor, not the method that you choose in order to effect those changes in your life.

The best personal development program in the world will not help you if you are not truly ready to make positive changes in your life.

Please read that again and make sure you understand and internalize the meaning of the word truly.

Everyone wants their life to be better in some way. It is our own human drive and hunger for continual growth that is one of the defining characteristics of who we are as human beings.
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by Travis Wright

CultivateGreatness.com Podcast #0010 Napoleon Hill Law of Success - Lesson 6 - Intolerance

Lesson Six in the Law of Success Podcast Series, Intolerance!

Before Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill wrote a series of sixteen lessons, called The Law of Success, which were designed to teach fifteen principles of successful living to students, starting at the high school level.

I am going through each lesson and creating a podcast about each lesson in Hill’s Law of Success. Tolerance is very important if you want to get things accomplished in your life. This is episode 6 in our 16 part series.

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Lesson 6 - Tolerance

- Why you should be aware of the two significant features of intolerance.
- Why your life is built upon bias and prejudice…and how you need to re-learn what you previously thought was the truth.
- Why children are more important to business than you think.
- The two things that are the foundation of enduring success.
- Why you don’t have the time to allow intolerance into your life.
- The lessons from a war built upon a lack of tolerance…and how you can profit from them.
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by Aaron Potts

What good is self improvement and personal development if you turn around and sabotage your own efforts by celebrating prematurely? We’ve all done this in some fashion or other, regardless of what our original goal was.

In the case of weight loss, we’ve all worked really hard at exercising and eating right for a month, lost 5 or 10 pounds, and then went WAY overboard on the reward process. After eating in such a healthy manner and forcing ourselves to workout for 30 days, we show some serious progress, and decide that we deserve a few days off.

Friday night starts with a nice dinner and some drinks, which eventually turns into several drinks plus dessert, and Saturday morning finds us feeling dehydrated, hung over, and nutrient deficient.

By the time Sunday rolls around, we aren’t feeling the effects of Friday night’s drink fest anymore, but we did eat very poorly on Saturday as a result of feeling too under the weather to really care, and we certainly didn’t exercise. We make a token effort at eating in a healthy manner on Sunday, but are only marginally successful, and as we are getting ready for another busy week, we can’t seem to find the time to exercise.
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by Aaron Potts

We’ve all been there. We get excited about some major new goal in our life, we get all fired up about making it happen, and then… zilch. Nothing happens. The very lives that we want to improve via our personal development and self improvement efforts get in our way, and our dreams of success on a massive scale fall by the wayside.

This is especially common when it comes to financial success or weight loss, and that is probably due to the fact that attaining financial stability or sustained weight loss are both things that take an on-going and consistent effort over the long-term.

The key to pulling yourself out of this self improvement slump is to find ways to once again become passionate about whatever it was that you wanted to accomplish in the first place.

A lot of people decide on some sort of personal development or self improvement program after a negative experience, and their goal becomes not wanting to experience that same type of situation again.

However, is NOT wanting something to happen really a strong enough motivation to keep yourself on track over the long-term so that you can attain the opposite of that thing?

For example, if you decide that you are finally going to get your finances together because you almost got kicked out of your apartment for not paying the rent, or you walked to work for 2 weeks until you could afford to get your car fixed, both of those experiences are pretty powerful motivators.

However, once you are back inside the comfort zone of having enough money to pay the bills, and your car is running fine, where is the motivation to achieve financial freedom that will keep you burning the midnight oil and working weekends in order to make that happen?

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