How to Succeed in Sales: Brian Tracy’s 10 Guidelines

What Is the Secret to Living a Happy Life?

Are you struggling to get sales? What can you do to increase your sales success rate? To improve your sales success rate so that you end up in the top 20 percent of salespeople—or even the top 5 or 10 percent—you must consciously approach your job with a desire to improve. Fortunately, you can greatly improve your performance by following some guidelines that have helped many others improve their sales performance: the best way to succeed in sales is to do what successful salespeople do. Here are 10 common guidelines to achieving sales success.

How to Overcome Envy: 4 Ways to Avoid the Envy Trap

The 25 Cognitive Biases: Envy Jealousy Tendency

Do you know how to overcome envy? Why is it important to do so? Sometimes a healthy interest in others takes a nasty turn, and it becomes envy. Learning how to overcome envy is vital because envy can cause harm to you and others. Author Rick Warren outlines four ways envy does damage—and four ways to avoid the envy trap. Keep reading to learn how to overcome envy—and why you should.

Personal Evangelism: Your Unique and Shared Missions

Personal Evangelism: Your Unique and Shared Missions

Do you practice personal evangelism? Are you fulfilling the Great Commission? As a Christian, personal evangelism is your service to unbelievers. This service comprises your unique mission and your shared mission with other believers. Pastor Rick Warren outlines four parts of your unique life message that you’re called to share. He also identifies four mental blocks that can hold you back from your shared mission. Keep reading to learn how you can help the Church fulfill the Great Commission by engaging in personal evangelism.

Need Direction in Life? Try the Ancient Art of Wayfinding

Need Direction in Life? Try the Ancient Art of Wayfinding

What is wayfinding? How can it help you find direction in life? Wayfinding is an ancient art that prompts you to follow clues. To find direction in life, the clues are involvement, energy, and joy. A Wayfinding Journal can help you plan your daily life by keeping an activity log and reflecting on what you learn from it. Keep reading to learn how to use wayfinding to get direction in life.

Create Your Life Compass and Find Your True North

Create Your Life Compass and Find Your True North

Do you have a life compass? How can it help you live a more coherent life? A life compass is made up of your life philosophy and your work philosophy. It helps you gauge your life’s coherence—agreement among your identity, your beliefs, and your actions. Ultimately, it helps you go in the right direction while staying grounded. Continue reading to learn how to use a life compass to find your true north.

How to Develop the Heart of a Servant

How to Develop the Heart of a Servant

What is the heart of a servant like? Do you have one? When you serve the church, you want to make sure that you’re doing it for the right reasons—in a way that honors God and serves as an example to others. You need to have the heart of a servant. Pastor Rick Warren outlines five characteristics and five attitudes of a servant’s heart. Keep reading to learn how you can develop the heart of a servant.

Tame Your Need for Approval: Stop People-Pleasing

Tame Your Need for Approval: Stop People-Pleasing

Is your need for approval in overdrive? Are you a people-pleaser? If your need for approval gets in the way of healthy relationships and being your true self, it’s time to break free from that trap. Pastor Rick Warren explains how people-pleasing causes harm, and he shares three truths you should keep in mind. Read more to learn how the need for approval does damage—and how to stop people-pleasing.

Living a Moral Life in the World That Hails Narcissism

Living a Moral Life in the World That Hails Narcissism

What are David Brooks’s 15 guiding principles for living a moral life? How can you work to become a better person in a world that celebrates narcissism? In his book The Road to Character, author David Brooks shares his 15-point humility code. His code covers topics such as becoming more selfless, admitting your flaws, seeking help from others, and more. Continue reading for Brooks’s 15 guidelines for living a moral life, organized by theme.

The Crooked Timber: Embracing Our Sinful Nature

The Crooked Timber: Embracing Our Sinful Nature

Why does David Brooks agree with Immanuel Kant’s sentiment that humans are “crooked timber”? What does Brooks mean when he says we should embrace the idea that humans are sinful by nature? In his book The Road to Character, author David Brooks asserts that humans are sinful by nature. Brooks discusses Immanuel Kant’s “crooked timber” morality and the fact that humans are meant to confront their sins in order to grow and build character. Keep reading for David Brooks’s take on Kant’s concept of crooked timber and sin.