Why Should YOU Attend The Annual YTB Convention?

Somewhat reluctantly I decided to attend last year's YTB convention in St. Louis with Dawn and Tanya, my wife and daughter. I had been working day and night on setting up a new Internet business. How on earth could I take the time to spend four days in St. Louis? What would I gain from doing so?

While in the Chicago area a few weeks before the convention I spoke with Denton Taylor, one of my new YTB friend's. He told me that four RTAs would be receiving bonuses worth about $1 million or more at the convention. This made me decide to take action and prioritize the convention ahead of anything else. I wanted to be there!

After we were home again after the convention, Dawn told her friends that she became a better person from attending the YTB Annual Convention than from going to church for a whole year. That' a pretty strong statement! Read more...

Cultivating Your Self-Esteem: By Brian Tracey

Your self-esteem is probably the most important part of your personality. It precedes and predicts your performance in almost everything you do. It is the energy source or the reactor core of your personality, and how much self-esteem you have determines your levels of vitality, enthusiasm, and personal magnetism. People with high self-esteem are more positive, more likable, and more effective in every part of their lives.

Everything that you do or say or think will affect your self-esteem. Your job, therefore, is to keep your self-esteem high and positive on a continuing basis.

Probably the best definition of self-esteem is this: the level to which you respect and value yourself as an important, worthwhile person. People with high self-esteem feel terrific about themselves and their lives. When you feel really good about yourself, you tend to be the very best person you can possibly be.

Your level of self-esteem is really your level of "mental fitness." It's a measure of how healthy, hardy, and resilient you are in dealing with the inevitable ups and downs of daily life. Your self-esteem determines how much peace of mind and inner contentment you experience. It is also closely linked to your health and levels of energy. People with high self-esteem are seldom sick and seem to have an inexhaustible flow of energy and enthusiasm that progressively moves them toward their goals.

How much you like and respect yourself also determines the quality of your relationships with people. The more you like and enjoy yourself, the more you will like and enjoy others, and the more they will like you. In fact, when your self-esteem is hurt in any way, the very first thing that is affected is the way you get along with people.

To perform at your best and to feel terrific about yourself, you should be in a perpetual state of self-esteem building and maintenance. Just as you take responsibility for your level of physical fitness, you need to take complete responsibility for the content and quality of your mind.

I have developed a simple formula that contains all the critical elements of self-esteem building, and you can use it on a regular basis to assure maximum performance.

This formula is comprised of six basic elements. They are goals, standards, success experiences, comparison with others, recognition, and rewards. Let's take them one at a time. Read more...