The Psychology of Success

In my previous columns, I explained that the first ingredient of success is peace of mind. Peace of mind is achieved by creating a vision of your perfect future. You begin unlocking your potential by envisioning your life, as if it were exactly how you would want it to be. Then, you work backwards from ...

During many of my columns, I’ve described how you can reach your full potential, which is the primary goal of martial arts. I’ve described how, as when you are learning intricate steps of a complex kata or form, success is simply a matter of applying the right techniques everyday. All esteem is built on a ...

I admit my first goal was not to be a world champion. I actually reached the success of being number one in the world because that goal was set for me by Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee.  My original goal for myself was to be ranked in the top 10 fighters in the country, because back then ...

Any factor that you would consider important to your happiness can be placed in one of seven categories. These Seven Ingredients of Success are consistent with all of success and happiness.You must start with your vision of a perfect future. You begin unlocking your inner powers by “seeing” your life exactly as if it were ...

    It has been said that men and women start to become great when they begin to listen to their inner voices. Your intuition is your direct connection with infinite intelligence. Intuition is so powerful that the greatest men and women of history have written and studied it for thousands of years. When you ...

  Some skills are peripheral to success. It’s nice to have them, but they don’t make much of a difference. There are other skills, however, that are absolutely essential to fulfill your potential; and you must develop them to a fairly high level, if you are to achieve all of your goals. One of these ...

    All of life is a risk. You take a small risk when you drive to work or walk across the street. You take a larger risk when you start a business or invest a sum of money. You take a risk whenever you venture into the unknown that cannot be exactly determined. The ...

    Your leadership success and the success of your team will be determined by how well you foster the five qualities of productive work teams throughout the stages of your team’s development. The first quality is shared values. Ask your team to help you list your shared values on a large board or flipchart. ...

    Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives. Of course, everyone you ...

The Law of Cause and Effect             The Law of Cause and Effect says that for every effect in your life there’s a specific cause. If there’s an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and repeat the causes. If there’s an effect ...