Many aspects of careers today are results oriented. You may have seen sales professionals with certain milestones that determine success. There are daily deadlines and tasks that need to be completed with work. But one thing that can make time and quality lag is self doubt in one’s abilities. 

When many people take on a major project that lasts days, weeks, or even months, they have a tendency to take their time throughout the project, thinking that they must slow down their work in order to complete it at a high level. They doubt their own ability to work at a quick pace and still complete that work at a high level.

You may have heard the phrase work smarter not harder. But sometimes we cause ourselves to work harder by not focusing on what needs to be done. One way we do this is though procrastination.

When people procrastinate, they do it in an effort to avoid an unpleasant or less desirable task they want to avoid doing. They think that if they avoid doing that task, it will be easier to complete the project they are working on. In truth, procrastination only makes you work harder to accomplish the project you are trying to complete.

Starting and running a business can be a great challenge to anyone. This is true if you are a full time entrepreneur or trying to be a business owner on the side. 

Failure is one of life’s greatest teachers, just ask anyone who’s failed and used it as a stepping stone towards success. If you’re not sure if you will actually learn anything from failing, then consider the steps discussed in this episode.

We’re all supposed to love ourselves, and everyone in their right minds would say they love themselves. But when it comes to success, many people lack the belief that they can actually succeed at anything. There are different ways believing in yourself will help you become successful.

We all have fear of the unknown and what may lie ahead. We may get into unfamiliar territory and worry what it may bring. In other words we have a comfort zone.

We’ve all got our comfort zones. And to be honest, they are pretty important. It’s where we are able to do the things we love without being worried about what other people will say. It shelters us from the rest of the world. 

It might come as a surprise, however, but if you want to succeed in life, then you’re going to have to step out of your comfort zone.  

Failure is often seen as a negative. We must be strong, reach our goals and succeed. Failure is not an option. But failure does happen.

But failure can be a learning experience as well. We see what we did wrong and learn from our mistakes.

People fail due to a variety of reasons. Knowing why most people fail helps to avoid the same outcome.

Do you ever feel like not waking up on a Monday? Do you dread the morning commute because you know the work day ahead is going to be nothing but headaches? How do you overcome this? One answer may be mental strength.

Mental strength significantly affects your self-discipline. In fact, there's a strong correlation between having a high level of self-discipline and being mentally strong. 

Some studies even show that self-discipline is an essential attribute of people who earn more money since discipline is an underlying factor in achieving personal goals. Simply put, people who earn more often have high levels of self-discipline and the mental toughness to finish whatever they started and see it through to the end. 

You may have heard the military commercials where they say they get more done by 9am than most people do all day. Athletes and people in business also do something thar brings success: waking up early and having a morning routine. 

According to research, creating good habits and sticking to a morning routine plays a huge role in your success. If you’re a night owl, unfortunately, this means you will have to find ways to adapt and change your lifestyle. 

Creating a morning routine and turning it into a habit may sound difficult at first. But if you keep at it every day for at least a month, you will start seeing noticeable differences in how you approach your entire day.

Sometimes we have this fear of upsetting others and separating ourselves from others. We are afraid to set up a certain degree of separation with those we interact with out of fear others may be offended or hurt.

But we all need to set up boundaries between ourselves and other people because we need a certain amount of space in order to think clearly and act properly. 

We all need to put boundaries between ourselves and other people because we need a certain amount of space in order to think clearly and act properly. 

Habits of any kind require a routine. For a routine to work it takes commitment. Let’s admit it, we all have that one goal we’ve been trying to set yet failed to achieve. Think about countless New Year’s resolution attempts, broken piggy banks, a planned vacation that remains a plan.

So how exactly do we go about having a goal and then actually achieve it? 

Commitment is the key. The only problem is that not everyone stays committed. The word itself is associated with fear, distraction, procrastination, and whatnots.  You are in luck though, because below are a set of tricks you can carry up your sleeve should you plan to tackle your goals head-on.