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27 years of having an affair

4 Keys to Achievement on this journey called Life.

5 Rules of Success

A crisis is normally just a problem that is throwing a tantrum because it has been ignored.

A job is something that is made for you.

A journey of a thousand miles will never be started.....

A key skill in creating and maintaining good relationships is communication.

A picture paints a thousand words yet it takes only one word to paint a picture. - Vol 1

A pat on the back has the effect of filling the tank of enthusiasm.

Acceptance is the Great Healer

Acting on Your Ideas

All about relationships

All things are created twice.

Always take the Time to consider the long term consequences of your actions.

Apologise with sincerity.

Appreciate that which you have while you strive for that which you would like to have

Are you going somewhere, or are you just going in the hope of finding somewhere?

Are you a "follower" or you a "supporter".

Are you a 'growing up' or are you a 'given up'?

Are you a giver or a trader?

Are you a 'self support system' or a 'self sabotage system'?

Are you accountable?

Are you doing what needs to be done? - (Vol 2)

Are you doing what you should be doing?

Are you getting better or are you getting left behind.

Are you going somewhere, or are you just going in the hope of finding somewhere?

Are you hiding behind your past?

Are you making a 'scene' because you want to be 'seen'?

Are you providing an essential service?

Are You "Shoulding" your future into non existence?

Articles on Purpose - Index

Attitude Determines Performance

Miscellaneous Articles

1,000 Marbles

21 Success Principles

3 Days To See

A Beautiful Flower

A Box Full of Kisses

A Date with another Woman

A Letter to Santa

A Little Mixed Up

A R20.00 Note

A Teacher learns to teach.

Abraham Lincoln Didn't Quit

Abyss No More.

All About MOMS

Angel on Highway 109

Angels In The Post Office

Attention Deficit Disorder.

Attitude Is A Choice

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Miscellaneous Articles

Breathe deep and fly high

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Call to Creditors

Change is an INSIDE job.

Change your attitude towards your job or change your job

Change your life from making a living to making a difference.

Character - Articles index

Character Counts

Cherish the living, before you honour the dead.

Children Learn What They Live With

Choices, choices, choices

Choose, from today, to look for the good in everything.

Choose the image that you want then live it

Choose to live 'INSIDE OUT' rather than 'OUTSIDE IN'

Clarify the INTENT of the task.

Create the day you want.

Miscellaneous Articles

My Articles

Daily Inspiration

Daily Wisdom

Delegation - The ART of

Develop an attitude of acceptance.

Develop an attitude of positive expectancy

Display an Attitude of Gratitude.

Do everything that you do as if it were for you.

Do what ever you do as if it was important.

Do what you can with what you have.

Does your life make a lie of your stated beliefs.

Don't Awfulise or Generalise. Rationalise

Don't compete. Create.

Don’t do it again.

Don't Do list

Don't find your 'NICHE' find your 'PASSION'

Don't fix the blame fix the problem.

Don’t make your relationship work, make it fun.

Don't settle for average when excellence is an option.

Don’t steal from your employer during the World Cup.

Miscellaneous Articles

Do you REALLY need email?

Driving Tips

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Each person in a relationship should strive....

Either everything is miraculous or nothing is miraculous

Enlightenment in 3 easy stages - Acceptance.

Enlightenment in 3 easy stages - Awareness

Essential vitamins for the mind

Vitamin A = ATTITUDE - Why is attitude so important?

Vitamin A = ATTITUDE - Develop an attitude of acceptance.

Vitamin A = ATTITUDE - Develop an attitude of positive expectancy

Vitamin A1 = AWARENESS

Vitamin A2 = ACTION

Vitamin B = BELIEF

Vitamin B = BELIEFS - AM - IS - ARE

Vitamin C = COMMITMENT

Vitamin C = CONFIDENCE

Vitamin C = COURAGE

Vitamin D = DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE

Vitamin D = DESIRE

Vitamin E = ENTHUSIASM

Every 'BIG' success is made up of many 'small' successes

Everyone wants to win, but so few are prepared to do what it takes.

Everything I do, I can do better

Experience is merely your interpretation of an event

Miscellaneous Articles

English - EISH!

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FAITH... The only way to overcome FEAR.

Familiarity breeds complacency

Familiarity breeds Complacency - Environment

Familiarity breeds complacency - Relationships

FEAR.. The only way to overcome it is with FAITH.

Fill your boots

Flying the FLAG

Forgive and Remember

Forgive and remember! - 2

Forgiveness is the ultimate act of self-love

Freedom Day

Funny Thing About Ideas - They Won't Work Unless YOU Do.

Miscellaneous Articles

My Articles

Give wisely, with consideration for yourself as well as the recipient.

Give yourself a ‘presidential pardon’

Going the distance does not mean that you will reach your destination.

Miscellaneous Articles

God Lives Under The Bed

Great Truths About Life

My Articles

Happiness lies in these three words – ACCEPTANCE - GRATITUDE – ENTHUSIASM

Happy birthday if today is your birthday.

Happy New Day

Happy New Year. Or is it?

Hard Drive Crash

Hard work doesn't pay!

Have you got a master code?

Healing your "Wounded child"

Help I'm trapped in my job

Heritage Day (National Braai Day)

Hiding behind your past

Hindsight is 20/20

HIV/AIDS stops here!

Honest Intent Vanishes with Acquired Integrity Deficiency Syndrome

HOW are you being WHO you are being?

How can I make a difference?

Miscellaneous Articles

Hands

HEARTPRINTS

How To Stay Young

My Articles

I’m so grateful I have this job

I asked, I learned.

I can control my attitude therefore I can control my life.

I can’t do it!

I will accept full responsibility for my actions

I will accept the gift of life.

I will acknowledge the importance of my actions

I will choose to be loving - (Vol 2)

I will choose who I want to be

I will do everything as well as I can

I will drop my need to be right

I will love and respect myself

I will monitor my self talk

I will respect my environment

I will take charge of my future

I will treat myself and my job as important - (Vol 2)

I wish you enough

If a thing is worth doing,

If we would only invest as much energy...

If what you are doing isn’t giving you the result that you want, stop doing it and do something else.

If you believe

If you do not know where you are going, how will you know if you are going in the right direction?

If you fail to plan. - (Vol 2)

If you go to work just so that you can get paid, you will soon resent your job.

If you spent as much time doing something...

If you think you can’t, think again!

If you treated your friends the way you treat your familyhow long would they remain your friends?

If you want to be a winner then you must think like a winner,

If you want to be happy then live now.

If you want to grow, you've got to let go.

In your tongue lies the power of life or death

Index - Articles on Purpose

Is it normal to be worried about being fired?

Is it worth it?

Is what's eating you making you sick?

It 'ain't' over till you quit

It all starts with you

It can’t be done

It is always wrong to be right at someone else's expense

It is bad enough that society relegates you to a position, it becomes a tragedy when you accept it.

It is easier to complain than it is to do, but it is better to do than it is to complain.

It is more important to know who you want to be, than it is to know who you are.

It's not what happens to you. It's how you respond to it.

It is OK to be disappointed.It is not OK to be discouraged.

It must be real to you before it will be real for you

It is not what you've got, it is how you use it, that counts.

It's OK to be "Just You" as long as you are being the "Best You" that you can be

It's the start that stops most people.

It's time we took responsibility

Miscellaneous Articles

I bargained with life for a penny

I've learned…

I Went To A Party

I wish for You

I'd pick more daisies

Ice-cream for the soul

If A Dog Was Your Teacher

If everything was easy

If tomorrow starts without me

If You Were Busy...

Interpretation.

My Articles

Just for Today

Judge the message not the messenger

Jumping to conclusions

Miscellaneous Articles

Judge For Yourself

My Articles

Keep Watch

Knowledge is not POWER

Knowledge is not POWER - But without knowledge there can be no POWER

Miscellaneous Articles

Keep Your Goals in Sight

My Articles

Articles on Love

Learn to be a good loser

Learn to be led by imagination instead of controlled by memory

Learn to like yourself! You will find that it is contagious.

Learn to Love and Honour your Bills

Learn to Respect your body

Learn to set "Character Goals" before you set "Material Goals"

Lessons learned from burning junk.

Lessons learned from cleaning out my garage.

Lest ye become as little children.

Let me know how I am doing

Life is about the journey not the destination.

Life is for living and the living of it is now.

Live each day as if it were your last because one day it will be!

Look for the good in everything.

LOVE = Life - Optimism - Variety – Emotion.

Love yourself enough

Miscellaneous Articles

Laughter

Learn to live YOUR life

Learning the importance of your actions

Let It Go

Let's infect the world with Smiles

Letter to Santa

Life Support Call Centre

Love Is?

Lucky

My Articles

Majority Rule Sucks! - (Vol 2)

Management Quotes

Make today the best day of your life.

MISSING YOU

Most of us think that we will live forever, but none of us do.

Most things that we think are impossible...

Miscellaneous Articles

Mean old Mom

Mom Job Description

My Comfort Zone

My Articles

New Here/New You

National Braai Day

National Braai Day (Heritage Day)

Never bring others back to earth, give them wings and help them to fly.

Never bring your children back to earth, rather give them wings and help them fly - (Vol 2)

Never expect Anyone to do For You what YOU should do for yourself.

Never let where you come from, or who you are, stop you from getting to where you want to go.....

Never say or think anything that you do not sincerely wish to be true

New Year or New You?

No-one NEEDS to drink alcohol

No Problems Only Challenges and Opportunities

Miscellaneous Articles

Nails In The Fence

No Matter What Happens

No Santa?

No Truer Two

My Articles

Only fools blindly accept, or reject, a subject they have not studied

Oops! Your character is showing

Our most priceless possessions are free, therefore we take them for granted.

Miscellaneous Articles

Obstacle or Opportunity

One Teacher Can Make a Difference

My Articles

POWER Questions

Problems & Worries

Purpose

PACT - The power of a

Personal Development for Lazy People

Picture what you want not what you fear

Plant a trouble tree.

Positive thinking won't let you do everything, but it will let you do anything, better than negative thinking will.

Powerless. Or are we?

Practise Positive Visualisation

Praise - The Power Of

Problems are inevitable, suffering is a choice. (Vol 2)

Proudly South African?

Miscellaneous Articles

Pass it on

Persistence

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Questionable Quotes

There are so far no articles that have the letter Q as the first letter of the title. as soon as I find one I'll add it.

Miscellaneous Articles

My Articles

Random Thoughts

Rather than try to remember your happiest moment, learn to recall and cherish all your happy moments.

Realise that your "reality" is merely your interpretation of the events.

Recipe for success. See it – Believe it – Plan it – Do it

Relationship test

Religious Intolerance

Rules of Success

>> Rule 1 - Be Decided

>> Rule 2 - Get Started

>> Rule 3 - Be Present

>> Rule 4 - Be Persistent

>> Rule 5 - Be Flexible

Miscellaneous Articles

Raising The Flag Of Humanity

Recipe For A Happy New Year

REMEMBER

Remember To Smile

Resignation

Rose

Running In The Rain

My Articles

Salaries vs. Inflation

Sales Tips

Seek your sense of significance in your own actions and contributions.

Set Great Goals For Great Relationships.

Set yourself up for success

Small steps

Sometime, somewhere, somehow and by someone, a start must be made.

Somewhere, Somehow, Sometime Someone must make a start.

Spending. The 5 Stages

STOP ROAD ABUSE

Stress Tolerance

Stretch yourself gently but consistently

Strive for constant and never ending improvement.

SUCCESS

Success - Rules of

>> Rule 1 - Be Decided

>> Rule 2 - Get Started

>> Rule 3 - Be Present

>> Rule 4 - Be Persistent

>> Rule 5 - Be Flexible

Success - What is it?

Sufficient unto the day are the cares thereof.

Miscellaneous Articles

My Articles

Take it easy – Stretch yourself gently but consistently

Take time to celebrate your achievements, no matter how small they may seem to you.

Take the time to consider the long term implications of your decisions and actions.

Take time to enjoy life. It is later than you think.

Terminal Illness

Thank Goodness It's Friday

Thank you for being at work today

The 5 Stages of Spending

The ART of Delegation.

The Bad News. The Ugly News, and The Good News

The best thing that you can do for the poor is not be one of them.

The best time to solve a problem is before it starts. - (Vol 2)

The best way to be interesting to others is to be interested in them.

The biggest room in the world is the room for self improvement (Vol 1)

The Calf Carrier

The death of a child.

The Extra Ordinariness of being Ordinary.

The fact that it has never been done before is no excuse not to attempt to do it.

The Frustrated Driver

The greatest gift that you can give your children....

The greatest investment you can make is in yourself.

The greatest thing about the future, is that it is never too late to change it.

The Hot Dog Man

> The Beginning

> Growing

> Growing continues

> Setting the Tone – The Team Talk

> Maintaining the Tone – Creating Pride

> Giving advice – becoming a Coach

> Maintaining the Tone – Building the Team – Part 1

The Human RACE - (Vol 2)

The missing chocolates.

The moment that you are born...

The only failure in life is failing to attempt.

The only way to overcome FEAR is with FAITH.

The pain of repayments continues long after the pleasure of ownership has faded

The paradox of life.

The power of a PACT

The POWER of CHOICE

The Power of CONSCIOUS Choice

The Power of Opinions is in the power you give them. - (Vol 2)

The Power of Praise

The POWER of PROGRAMS - (Vol 2)

The power of purpose

The Purpose of Life

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.

The REAL cost of what you buy.

The Rock

The Rules of Success.

> Rule 1 - Be Decided

> Rule 2 - Get Started

> Rule 3 - Be Present

> Rule 4 - Be Persistent

> Rule 5 - Be Flexible

The smallest light dispels the darkness.

The "To Don't Do" List.

The TWO most important words

The way you see the world is a reflection of your inner state.

The weekend is here

The wisdom of life

The wisdom of life - You will not always get what you want.

The woodpeckers inside cause more damage than the storm outside.

There always has been and there always will be plenty of money.

There are no unimportant people.

There are others worse off than you.

There is nothing ordinary about the living of each day.

This year, be sure to LIE, CHEAT, DRINK, SWEAR and STEAL more than you did last year. - (Vol 2)

Thoughts on Sales

To discover your purpose you have to live purposefully.

To Do Lists

To Don't Do List.

To get a sense of fulfilment learn to look 'in here' instead of 'out there'.

Today is the best day of your life.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life

Training on the Job.

Treat everyone, especially yourself, with dignity and respect

Treat everyone with courtesy, dignity and respect.

TRY

Miscellaneous Articles

Talking Shop

The 8 Cow Wife

The Calf Path

The Caretaker

The Cracked Jar

The Emperor's Seed

The Folded Napkin.

The Guy In The Glass

The Job Description

The Keeper of the Spring

The King and His Four Wives

The King and his Three Sons

The Man with Vision

The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee

The Meaning Of Life

The "Middle" Wife

The Mouse Trap

The papers that everyone kept

The pastor’s ass

The Pickle Jar

The Plan

The power of giving and the Law of Creation

The Seamstress

The Second Step

The Seven Wonders of the World

The Speeding Ticket

The Starfish Thrower

The Strongest Dad in the World

The Taxi Driver

The Trouble Tree

The Value of A Smile

The Value of Time

The Wisdom of the AGES

The wooden bowl

To Have Succeeded

Today Is MY Day

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UBUNTU is dead. Long live UBUNTU.

Understanding Forgiveness.

Understand the Nature of the Relationship

Understanding WORK.

Understanding WORK. (part 2)

Understanding WORK. (part 3)

Understanding WORK. (part 4)

Understanding WORK. (part 5)

Understanding WORK. (part 6)

Miscellaneous Articles

Ugly

Unconditional Generosity

My Articles

Vitamins for your mind

Valentines Day

Miscellaneous Articles

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Wanted : People Power

Watch

We are like angels with only one wing. We can only fly when we are helping someone else to fly.

We should strive to live by the virtues that we wish others had.

We teach people how to behave towards us.

Wealth is more a state of mind than a state of pocket.

Wealth Notes

Wealth Principle 1 - There always has been and there always will be plenty of money.

Wealth Principle 2 - We are all potential millionaires.

Wealth Principle 4 - Your only real security lies in constantly providing a service that is needed and that others are prepared to pay for.

We've got a beautiful country.

What are you doing to deserve your place on the team?

What are you stuck with?

What Can I DO?

What ever I do to anyone else I have to do to myself first

What ever you want more of in your life, you must first give more of and be worthy of receiving.

What ever you want more of, you must be and you must give more of.

What footprints are you leaving?

What is a parent's role? (Vol 2)

What is it about you?

What is, or has been, is seldom, if ever, an indication of what may be.

What is Success?

What is your "Walking Stick"?

What one thing can I do today that will make a positive difference?

What problem am I, or could I be, the solution to?

What we call lies are often just the other persons version of the truth.

What will it take?

What Would You Do?

What would you do if you did not know how old you were?

What you give, determines how happily you live.

When are you wealthy?

When last did you celebrate your paycheque?

When one door closes another always opens.

When you are in a gutter you have 3 choices.

When you are in a relationship you don’t have to go blind you just have to be faithful.

When you were born you were given the gift of life.

Where are you?

Where does God come from?

Where ever you want to go, you have to start from where you are.

With your thoughts you make your life.

Who are you wearing?

Who is....?

Who is packing your parachute? Whose parachute are you packing?

Who is wise?

Who says that you can’t teach an "Old Dog" new tricks?

Who’s job is it?

Will someone please find South African Patriotism!

Winning is not everything!

Wishing you a great festive season

Wisdom Drops

With my background and my past can I really change and become the person I want to be?

Work Place Notes

World Peace Day

World Aids Day

Would I be happy to pay my salary for the work that I do?

Miscellaneous Articles

Wash. Biol. Surv.

What It Means To Be Poor...

What's important, the cup or the coffee?

What will matter?

When I was young and free

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There are not yet any articles that begin with X so this index is empty, but keep checking, I might find one. If you know of one please let me know at johan@motivate.co.za

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You are a three dimensional being.

You are engineered for success, designed for accomplishment and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

You are unique

You are who you think you are.

You can only do remarkable things, if you have remarkable things to do!

You can have whatever you want, as long as you are prepared to do whatever it takes to get it.

You can stay passionately in love all your life

You can take responsibility for your life or you can make excuses for your life.

You cannot be tempted, yet you are often tempted.

You cannot "DEMAND" your way to wealth unless You are DEMANDING better performance from yourself!

You cannot demand respect, you have to earn it.

You cannot feel on top of the world if you are carrying it on your shoulders.

You cannot have 'rights' without corresponding responsibilities.

You cannot solve a problem by worrying about it.

You cannot think yourself out of a habit that you have behaved yourself into.

You deserve a better life.

You do not get paid for what you are going to do!

You have 2 problems - Money and Time

You might not be doing what you like, but you can learn to act as if you like what you are doing. - (Vol 2)

You must believe that you are special before you will be.

You must do what you can with what you have in order to discover what you can do with what you have!

You should not expect a different life unless you are prepared to change.

You will not always get what you want.

You will only do remarkable things, if you believe you can do remarkable things.

Your beliefs will either limit your potential or unleash your potential.

Your life is a work in progress

Your life is in your hands.

Your mind is like a fertile garden. Whatever you plant will grow, so only plant what you want to harvest.

Your past cannot hold you back. It is you who won't let go!

Your "reality" is merely your interpretation of the events

Your title might give you authority, but it is your behaviour that earns you respect.

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