The best way to learn successful achievement techniques and philosophies is to study those who have consistently made great achievements. It would be hard to find anyone that would match the incredible accomplishments of Coach John Wooden. Wooden spent 41 years of his life coaching basketball teams and in all of those years he only had 1 losing season. While coaching the UCLA Bruins NCAA team he was able to amass some of the most incredible achievements in all of sporting history including: 10 NCAA National Championships (a record) ; 88 consecutive game wins (a record); 38 straight tournament wins (a record); and four perfect seasons with no losses (a
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March 10th, 2010 | Category: Public Speaking |
Some of the best persuasion techniques have been developed from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) methods. For example, if you hear a person saying, “I see,” a few times, they are probably processing information visually, according to NLP. To influence them then, you would use phrases like, “You can see how…” or you would actually show them things. A more auditory person would be influenced by, “I hear what you’re saying,” and “Listen.” Notice if they use visual, aural, or kinesthetic words. If March 9th, 2010 | Category: Goal Setting, Success |
In 500 B.C. a man named Sun Tzu wrote 13 manuscripts on military strategy that became known as The Art of War. Sun Tzu served as a General in the Chinese Kingdom of Wu during a time of unprecedented war and political turmoil and through his successful conquests the kingdom went on to become the most powerful state of the period. While Sun Tzu’s writings on The Art of War were originally founded in military strategy, it has since been applied to achieve objectives in many different fields of competitive endeavors. It has found application as a training guide in sports, games, business, finance, and in just about any activity March 8th, 2010 | Category: Body Language |
How do you tell if someone is lying? Carefully. All methods of lie-detecting, including polygraph machines, are regularly fooled or used improperly, resulting in mistakes. So use the methods described here, but try to confirm the truth by other means as well, such as confession or investigation of the facts. You should compare behavior in the person under suspicion to their “base” behavior, if possible. In other words, if they always have shifty eyes, then this trait March 5th, 2010 | Category: Goal Setting, Success |
Few truly worthwhile things are attained without adversity, obstacles and conflict all of which can make us stronger, smarter, better, and tougher. In Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill writes: More than 500 of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them…Opportunity ‘often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat…Thomas A. Edison “failed” ten thousand times before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. That is— he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times, before his efforts were crowned with success…Sometimes it appears that there is March 4th, 2010 | Category: Self-Confidence, Success |
Secret information? Maybe not much remains truly hidden or forbidden anymore, but there are always important little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. “Lucky people” use little-known tricks to get that way. Here are some examples. Controlling Through Words There is a classic joke, “Have you stopped beating your wife?” It is difficult to answer without incriminating yourself. This technique of the implicit premise is |
            
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