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The 7 Greatest Enemies of Success
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs: Email this article to a friend. Success is everyone’s dream but not everyone’s experience. You must plan success like anything else; the beginning of that plan should be the elimination of the enemies that hinder you from reaching your desired goals in life. Below are the 7 greatest enemies of success: 1. Procrastination. 2. Preparation with little action 3. Negative attitude 4. No people skills 5. Poor financial skills 6. Blaming others 7. Not recognizing opportunities Procrastination I suppose just about everyone has procrastinated at one time or another. Actually,…
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The Parable of the Talents and Personal Development
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend The parable of the talents is a great teaching of Jesus on morals. It was given as an exhortation to his disciples. In the parable, each servant was given a different amount of money based on his or her qualifications to manage it. While a talent in Greek is a measure of weight, it is interesting to apply the parable to the English word talent or ability. Different people are gifted with different talents. Some are far more gifted than others, but the…
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What is Your Greatest Need for Personal Growth?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend The answer for the question “What is your greatest need for personal growth” is given by a reader of Yahoo questions and answers: “To stop psycho-analyzing everything and just be happy with things the way they are…” Is that the answer to something as important as personal growth? I do not think so! I think it is important to be content with what you have materially, but in terms of personal growth, we should always want to become our very best and not…