Archive for August, 2009

Do You Keep a Personal Success Diary?

Curiously we remember our failures more than our successes because of ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) which see to the job of recalling our disasters and embarrasments.
Keep a Success diary of all your successes, exams, breaking a bad habit, new job, salary increase, trying something new, got a compliment from a customer or boss, entered a [...]

Frittering Your Life Away

The successful make use of every little bit of their time, they get down to doing serious work quicker

Learning English with Harry Potter

On vacation I met a French couple who said that their son who previously shown little interest in studying English had unexpectedly locked himself away with the latest English version Harry Potter (The French version arrives much later). He only emerged when he had read the 600 pages or so with vastly improved English.
Now that’s [...]