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One-Minute Motivators

These short messages from our company president, Bill Mansell, are filled with timely principles of success and motivation. (We call this our company blog.) They are designed to help you and your team stay motivated and to sharpen your success skills and attitudes. Each takes only one minute to read, but the profound principles could fill an entire seminar. Why not take a weekly one-minute break from your hectic schedule to read and internalize each message.

Has Civil Society Come to an End?

Start Boldly and Finish Strong

Bill Mansell

Years ago, as a member of a cross country track team, I learned a concept that has helped me in life. Coach taught us, “The important thing is to start boldly and finish strong. What happens in between isn’t nearly as important as how we begin and end the race.”

Article Categories: Motivation, Success, Time Management

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Moving from Why and Who to How

Bill Mansell

When something unpleasant happens to us, we go through a series of questions as we attempt to mentally process the event. Often our first response is “Why did this happen to me?”

Article Categories: Inspiration

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How Happy are You?

Bill Mansell

Recently, I had dinner with an old friend who I’ve known for 28 years. Pat Hill is a world-class artist, illustrator, painter, and commercial designer–with talent up to his eyeballs.

Article Categories: Inspiration, Success

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Failure is Not Failure

Bill Mansell

How do you feel when you gave something your best shot and it didn’t work out as planned. It’s easy to name a project “dead” or “a failure!” But is it really?

Article Categories: Motivation

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Go Forward

Bill Mansell

Last week, as I was walking my Golden Retriever, another dog passed by with its owner going in the opposite direction. Naturally they caught the attention of my dog, who never wants to miss an opportunity to socialize with anyone.

Article Categories: Inspiration

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Keep on Learning

Bill Mansell

The difference between those who are educated and those who aren’t is not so much about their level of formal education. Truly educated people continue to learn every day. If you want to reach your full potential, keep on learning!

Article Categories: Goals, Mind Development

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Choose Wisely

Bill Mansell

Once, I dreamed that I was in a large room with dozens of tables filled with every kind of food imaginable. It was a buffet like no buffet I have ever experienced.

Article Categories: Inspiration, Time Management

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The Best Valentine is a Better Relationship

Bill Mansell

Today, you will likely buy chocolates, flowers, cards, or jewelry for a significant person in your life. For some, it is a heart-felt gift of love.

Article Categories: Communication, Relationships

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Don’t Put It Off

Bill Mansell

For many of us, procrastination has become a habit, a way of life that is difficult to change. Like other habits, we are often so close to it that we don’t see how it negatively affects our lives.

Article Categories: Motivation, Success

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Proceed with Passion

Bill Mansell

Do you remember dreaming as a child about what your future would be like? Did you have big plans in high school or college to accomplish something truly great in your life?

Article Categories: Inspiration

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Attraction Requires Action

Bill Mansell

Recent popular trends in the self-improvement industry have had people focus primarily on their thinking and beliefs, visualizing their future success. This, some say, is the long lost secret to success.

Article Categories: Goals, Time Management

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Make Your Resolutions Stick with Daily Motivation

Bill Mansell

Tired of making New Years resolutions that don’t stick? Here is a tip that will elevate your New Year’s resolutions from wish lists to permanent changes.

Article Categories: Goals, Motivation

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Holiday Giving

Bill Mansell

The holidays are a time of giving. People scramble around, rushing from store to store, spending hours online, scouring newspaper ads—just to find the perfect gift for a loved one.

Article Categories: Inspiration

Be a Driver!

Be a Driver!

Bill Mansell

I saw a bumper sticker on an old car the other day. It said, “I go where I’m towed.”

Article Categories: Motivation, Success

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Cultivate Humility

Bill Mansell

Do you want to be among the most intelligent, charismatic people in the world? Do you want to be a top achiever and an effective leader, one who has the respect and admiration of peers? Cultivate humility.

Article Categories: Communication, Leadership, Success

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Get Off the Energy Roller Coaster

Bill Mansell

It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, and you’re beginning to feel drowsy. Your mind is not as sharp as usual. Your head droops as you listen in on that conference call or read that report. So, you reach for a candy bar or cup of coffee to try to get you through the day. STOP!

Article Categories: Health and Weight Loss

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How to Get Out of a Slump

Bill Mansell

We all have times when our effectiveness increases and times when it fades This happens in every area of life, including sports, the arts, family or spiritual life, and in business.

Article Categories: Attitude, Leadership

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Learn to Translate

Bill Mansell

The ability to translate is the most important skill you can develop in yourself, and teach to others, to facilitate personal development. Without it, you can read every book self improvement book, listen to hundreds of business CDs or watch each and every personal development seminar on DVD–and still get nothing out of it.

Article Categories: Communication, Mind Development

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Bumps in the Road

Bill Mansell

Recently, I ran into an old friend at a neighborhood event. This woman has been plagued with numerous chronic health problems throughout her life, yet she continues to serve others with a positive, upbeat attitude.

Article Categories: Inspiration

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Pay Attention

Bill Mansell

Pay attention! I heard this phrase a lot while in elementary school. I remember once hearing it just before a yardstick struck the desk next to me and broke into pieces.

Article Categories: Time Management

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Can I Really Change?

Bill Mansell

Self Improvement is all about changing–identifying things that we would like to be different in our lives, then taking action to effect the changes. But, if you’re like me, you’ve tried changing some things in the past and found yourself slipping back into old habits. It can make us wonder if lasting change is really possible. I’m here to assure you, it is!

Article Categories: Motivation, Success

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Keep Running, No Matter What

Bill Mansell

A number of months ago, some family members and I decided to run a 5K. We knew that we’d never make it unless we trained and prepared.

Article Categories: Motivation

Freedom to Fail, Freedom to Succeed

Bill Mansell

But, today I want to talk about the freedom to fail. What? Who would ever want to celebrate the freedom to fail? You and I should–because without the freedom to fail, we do not have the freedom to achieve real success.

Article Categories: Inspiration, Success

You Can’t Fail

Bill Mansell

As a college student, I worked part-time under a wise sales manager, Mark Benson. He often made the statement: “You cannot fail in this business! You can quit, but you cannot fail.”

Article Categories: Goals, Motivation, Sales Training

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Blaze a Trail

Bill Mansell

Recently, I noticed a bumper sticker on a rickety old car. It said simply: “I go where I’m towed.

Article Categories: Inspiration, Leadership

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The First Lap is the Hardest

Bill Mansell

A couple of months ago, a friend and I decided to take up swimming. We decided that our initial goal would be to swim a mile.

Article Categories: Motivation

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Self Esteem Makes the Difference!

Bill Mansell

Dr. Maxwell Maltz, a world famous plastic surgeon, noticed that many people who don’t really need it would come to him for plastic surgery. Their real problem was not their outward physical appearance, but their inner, hidden self-image.

Article Categories: Motivation

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How Audio Learning Can Change Your Life

Bill Mansell

As a sales trainer and motivational coach for over 20 years I have given away dozens of self-improvement and motivational books.

Article Categories: Mind Development, Sales Training

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Stress Relief: How to Let Off Steam without Getting Burned

Bill Mansell

If enough heat is applied to water, it expands and becomes steam. In a closed container, the resulting steam builds up a great deal of pressure or force—enough force to power a locomotive or generate electricity.

Article Categories: Attitude, Health and Weight Loss, Time Management

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Replace Fear with Action

Bill Mansell

In today’s society, there are plenty of things to worry about. Will I lose my job? What if my daughter gets involved with drugs? Am I getting too fat? Can I keep this relationship going? Will I have enough money at retirement? What if a natural disaster hits my town? Will the economy recover? Worry, worry, worry.

Article Categories: Motivation

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