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Growing a Business

How to Lead With a Balanced Sense of Optimism When The Future Looks Bleak

This approach can help conscientious leaders maintain good morale and results even through uncertain times.

Leadership

How to Control Your Brain for Optimal Functioning

Ways of making that mighty three-pound organ work for you instead of against you.

Thought Leaders

How Negative Self-Talk Can Ruin Your Business

Tuning into a gloomy inner voice? One entrepreneur shares how silencing negative self-chatter helped him turn failures into successes.

Thought Leaders

How to Escape From the Prison of Negative Thinking

Negative thinking is common but it's seldom really that bad.

Leadership

Why Mindfulness Is a Must-Have Mental Skill

Every business leader faces overwhelm, self-doubt and a hundred other unhelpful habits of mind. Learning to pause them in their tracks puts you back in the pilot's seat.

Lifestyle

Why Being Too Optimistic is Bad For Your Business

A route to greater success for entrepreneurs would be to dial their optimism down a notch

Growing a Business

Why Thinking Negatively Isn't Always a Bad Thing

Contrary to what you've always been told, thinking negatively can very much be a good thing.

Growing a Business

5 Things Entrepreneurs Do Mindlessly Every Day That Sabotage Their Success

Insidious habits could have you stuck in a rut. Break free by celebrating small wins and focusing on the big picture.

Making a Change

Me, Myself and I: 4 Ways to Harness That Nagging Voice in Your Head

Internal dialogue is real, constant and often irrationally critical and pessimistic. Changing that tone is a powerful personal improvement.

Thought Leaders

Why Negativity Ruins More Good Ideas Than Anything Else (and 5 Tips to Avoid It)

Don't let negative people or encounters get in the way of your ultimate success.

Thought Leaders

5 Ways to Leverage Your Pain, Disappointments and Hurt

Why do you believe what you believe? Once you start asking questions, your outlook may change.

Growing a Business

The Bright Side of Negative Thinking

Despite what we're often told, positive thinking may not be conducive to meeting one's goals. In fact, you're probably better off visualizing obstacles.

Leadership

A 30-Second Habit With the Power to Shift Your Perspective

Habits don't have to take lots of time or be complicated. It's entirely possible to make changes in 30 seconds.

Growing a Business

Ignore the Cynics, Hope Is Your Greatest Asset

Hopeful people will find ways to achieve their goals despite any obstacles.

Growth Strategies

Positive Thinking For Success? No, Not Always!

This is what will give you strength to face someone who is strong, mighty and has a very successful winning track record.