Mostly people think that just the achievement of the goal is the reward but this is not necessarily the case. If you don’t learn to reward yourself there will be dangers ahead.

Goal setters and high achievers expel lots of energy. Some are naturally highly motivated while others have learnt how to awaken or turn up the intensity of motivation in their lives. When working with clients to create S.M.A.R.T. (specific, measureable, attractive, realistic, and time-framed) goals we always make sure there is a reward at the end. Read more →

Looking back over my life there have been many times I felt like quitting. That even included quitting on life all together. The feeling of giving up or quitting is never the problem (everyone experiences those feelings). How we respond to those feelings is what’s important.

If we listed the things that make the difference between winning/losing and success/failure the words persistence, perseverance and commitment would appear. These are required to push through the inevitable obstacles that appear when we choose to be, do or have more in our lives.

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“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel”.

Napoleon Hill

“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle”.

Sir William Osler

“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It’s no use. I can’t go on. If you do you’re licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on”.

Norman Vincent Peale

“Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard”.

E. Joseph Cossman

“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep”.

Denis Waitley

“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come”.

James Whitcomb Riley

“How long should you try? Until”.

Jim Rohn

Looking back over my life there have been many times I felt like quitting. That even included quitting on life all together. The feeling of giving up or quitting is never the problem (everyone experiences those feelings). How we respond to those feelings is what’s important. Read my post on this here.

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” Jim Rohn

I always chuckle when I read the words of a self-help book title or on a website the “Secrets of Success” as if the individual has made some amazing discovery that no-one else has ever thought of before. Are there really any secrets? There have been some amazing breakthroughs in understanding how the mind works and its influence on our behaviours.

Creating success in life is actually very simple. One of my favourite quotes is “Luck is a matter of chance but success is a matter of choice”. From what I’ve learnt through reading, my own experience and working with clients who want to become more successful in career, relationships, finance or some other area of their lives, these are some of the simple principles to creating success. Here are 7 simple things every individual can do to help create success. Read more →

Can you guarantee goal success?

Have you heard the saying ‘Fail to Plan – Plan to Fail’. Things do happen at times even though we don’t have a strategic plan written down but putting some planning into our goals certainly increases the potential for success. Every successful person knows that. The person who is called an overnight success knows that is really true there has been months possibly years of planning and strategizing.

Let me share with you the Goal Planning strategy we use in the Dare to be Your Best 12 week coaching program.

If you follow this simple 6 step plan and strategy you are GUARANTEED success with every goal in life whether they be financial, career, health or some other personal goal. Read more →

Nothing happens without action.  It is almost a ridiculous statement isn’t it? Of course nothing happens without action. But not everyone moves into action. We see that all the time with family members, work colleagues and friends. There are several reasons why people don’t take action.

FIVE REASONS why people don’t get started

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All things are possible – the biggest hindrance to that becoming a reality are the limitations we  and others place on ourselves.

“Anything is possible”. This statement has been made by numerous religious leaders over the centuries. You will also read this in an almost cliché fashion in 1,000’s personal development books and hear it in multitudes of seminars around the world. But how true is that ‘anything is possible’?

I don’t believe all things are possible.

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Before I started the Dare To Be Your Best program I was at a fork in the road in my life both professionally and personally. The idea to go into Private Practice had been rattling around in the back of my mind for over a year and an uncomfortable and sad foreclosure in a previous employment situation had left me wondering if now might be the time to do so. I decided to commit to the coaching program and use this process to help me discover and plan for what it was I really wanted from life.

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Why would you want to reinvent yourself?

It was an interesting experience summarizing the ten reinventions I’ve had in my life. I’d never detailed that before. It became clear to me that some reinventions were a definite choice, others created by circumstances out of my control and some happened by chance. Here’s what I learned writing that piece.

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My name is Cindy Latta, and I had just turned 45 when I decided to do the “Dare To Be Your Best” programme. After just completing an incredibly significant “life goal” of sorts, I felt like I needed direction and understanding into who I was and what motivated me in other areas of my life.  The “life goal” I mention was that I had just undergone gender affirming surgery (which is often known as Gender Reassignment Surgery).  While I think I had managed to answer a lot of the questions about who I am, I still had some that I couldn’t figure out.  It was like I had “fixed” one of my squeakiest wheels and now I was aware of other areas that I needed to work on.  That’s where Anthony and his amazing program came in.

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