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Image Credit | narticle Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn We all get busy in life with work, children, partner, family, boss, friends and so much more. It can be difficult to juggle everything, and usually because we try to meet the needs of everyone else, we end up neglecting our own needs. Trying to fulfill our many responsibilities can create much stress and overwhelm to the point where you are caught in what can only feel like a tornado. When this happens you are caught in a vicious cycle where you keep trying to meet the needs of others. This causes stress, anxiety, worry and can affect your relationships, your performance at work, your health and overall wellbeing. When you bounce from one situation to another you are not truly living but merely surviving. If you want to live a life of true happiness you must break this cycle. You must change this situation and become more intentional about building a positive life where you can be happy and success...

Image Credit | Vixendaily Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Achieving extraordinary success is not a walk in the park. A lot of people work hard to achieve success but in the process neglect their relationships with their family and friends. In my studies of successful people I’ve realized that although they work hard at achieving their dreams, they also try to ensure that their lives are rich in relationships. Relationships with our loved ones matter a lot. There is no point working hard for 18 hours a day for many years to climb to the top of the mountain, only to realize that you’re all alone with no one to enjoy the fruits of your labors. Here are four characteristics many successful people exhibit that have helped them maintain positive, healthy relationships with their friends and families as they pursued their dreams : 1 . Creativity in business and personal life Super successful people show a high degree of creativity in their work and life.  Creativity is...

by Andrew Festus Image Credit | O.C. Tanner Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Why do you visit sites like Addicted2Success.com? Is it because you are a naturally productive person who is never derailed, and you want to lend a hand to us lesser beings?  Or because you often struggle staying productive? Perhaps building positive habits is a challenge for you, and you hope to learn how to defeat that multi-headed hydra we call procrastination. I’m guessing it’s not benevolent pity that brings you to this site, but the desire to improve yourself. In fact, the majority of us deal with these challenges, and have had to teach ourselves the strategies to keep ourselves on task. It’s as if we have to coax and whip ourselves to move towards the success we are after. The rise in popularity of productivity blogs and websites begs the question, “Why are we so unskilled at getting things done?” “Accountability breeds response-ability.” – Stephen Covey What Happened to Us in ...

by Festus Andrew                  In my third and final interview from The Pause Fest Conference , I sat down with Kate McKibbin, who is the founder of the Drop Dead Gorgeous Daily Blog . Kate is an expert in building blogs from nothing and through her own sites, she was able to quit her day job within 12 months, and make multiple income streams. Kate is so knowledgeable in the blogging world that she started an online course called Secret Bloggers Business to share everything she knows. She was able to make a substantial amount of money from these blogging courses in a very short period. Check out my interview with Kate on YouTube below. Here are 5 key takeaways from the interview: 1 . Start your blog lean The temptation to go onto Freelancer.com and hire the most expensive person you can to help you build the best-looking blog from scratch is something you should avo...

by Andrew Festus Image Credit | Preston Smiles   Former model & rap star turned motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and life coach, Alexi Panos is on a mission to spread positivity to all people across all walks of life. In this podcast she shares valuable insight on how her past life experiences drove her to become the person she is today.  She also talks about the importance of a positive mindset , overcoming excuses and how to deal with lifes challenges with a smile on your face. Press ‘Play’ to listen to this podcast interview and learn how to live a life with no excuses:  

by Andrew Festus Image Credit | newstatesman Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Emails are piling up, you’re behind on your bookkeeping, and your messy desk isn’t going to clean itself. You keep telling yourself that you’ll handle these mind-numbingly boring—yet important—tasks… some day. As you wait for motivation to strike, the boring tasks just keep accumulating. You’re overwhelmed. You need help. You’re thinking about just throwing out your to-do list , and dealing with the consequences later. Or maybe you’ll hire a personal assistant that you can’t quite afford. Don’t despair, you can motivate yourself to finally get these boring tasks out of the way. Then, you’ll be able to focus on the more interesting parts of running your business. Here are 3 ways you can motivate yourself to get those boring tasks done : 1 . Dedicate a Day to Your Boring Tasks Some people recommend doing boring work first thing every morning and then rewarding yourself with more interestin...

Image Credit | MOBE Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn While a to do list is a crucial part to a successful day, building a don’t do list is likely to have much longer and further reaching benefits to your success. Where to do lists are all about the tactical things you need to work through in a given day or for a project, a don’t do list is all about the strategic things you’re going to cut out of your life. With those things out of your life you’ve got room to get the most important tasks of the day done. Once we are specific about calling out the things we’re not going to do in a day, it gets much harder for the urgent but not important tasks to consume huge swaths of our day. A don’t do list helps ensure that we have a default no to so many commitments and thus the margin we need for our important tasks . If you want to be more successful by building a don’t do list, here are 3 questions to ask yourself : 1 . What saps your energy for the day? The first place to s...