Cultivating Your Idea Field for 2010

Last year, 2009, I failed spectacularly at making a lot of money with all my internet ventures and little schemes and tricks to make money.  At least, it sometimes felt like failing as I didn’t achieve what I set out to achieve.  The truth is I didn’t fail at it, I just paid a lot [...]

10 Reasons Why Certain Success Technologies Do Not Work For Some

I wrote this post as a return to a post Lisis and Steve Aitchison started about the concept that says “Find your passion and the money will follow.” The many comments that ensued on both blogs included the disillusionment brought on by snake oil sales men selling self development concepts like the one above that [...]

Christmas And My Newly Published Book

I sincerely hope everyone had a great Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wanted. We had a great family Christmas and my wife and I cooked for 10 of the family , we watched Jamie Oliver’s ‘Christmas with the family’ series and took inspiration from that. I made the stuffing, the gravy and the [...]

Your Secret Power of Instant Influence

When you think of your personal power of influence, how do you see yourself? Do you feel that the things you say and do have much of an influence on the people around you? Would it surprise you to learn that you actually have at your disposal the power to change the mental state of [...]

How To Write Headlines That Grab Attention

This is the follow up to ‘The Art of Writing Great Blog Posts’ series Not all great blog posts get the recognition they deserve. There are literally thousands of blog posts out there swimming in a sea of social media that haven’t gained their owners the credit they deserve. However, 1 great blog post does [...]

The Most Powerful Productivity Technique Ever

This might be one of the shortest posts I have ever written, but there’s a reason for it.  The reason is that the technique I am about to share with you is so simple, yet so profoundly life changing that it need only be explained within a few sentences. We are all looking for ways [...]

The Key To Become Charismatic

A lot of people want to become charismatic. It’s a sexy trait and a sexy word, even if most of us couldn’t define its meaning exactly if our lives depended on it. Yet we want it, because we associate it with things like power, fame, influence and appreciation. Within this phenomenon lie a problem, and [...]

Statistics For 2009 And Looking Forward To 2010

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As it’s coming toward the end of the year I thought I would give a quick update on stats and what’s in store for 2010. First of all I would like to thank every single one of you for being great readers and great members of the CYT community. I really do appreciate your feedback, [...]

Ask The Coach 13 – Stop Being Manipulated

This is the 13th session of Ask The Coach. The main aim of this weekly session is to ask you, the reader, to ask a question to the coach by posting a comment on this post and each week myself and Ayo Olaniyan will attempt to help you by answering your questions. This weeks coach [...]

7 Ways to Make Your Life More Meaningful

What a person needs is not a relaxed state, but rather to strive and struggle for a worthy goal. ~ Victor Frankl Most of us want to lead a happy life. That’s natural, because pleasure is more attractive than pain. But should happiness be the ultimate goal in life – as the Positive Psychology movement [...]