(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) The Boss You have only one boss and every person from the president of the largest corporation to the shoeshine boy has the same – he is simply the customer. I want to tell you a [...]

(An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) I read a great Greek poem by Cifi Cavafy titled “Ithaka,” and in it were reminded that it is the voyage and the adventures on the way that count, not the arrival itself. Old [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) The Fog of Worry (Only 8% of Worries are Worth It) According to the Bureau of Standards, "A dense fog covering seven city blocks, to a depth of 100 feet, is composed of something less [...]

When a child is born, he or she comes equipped with certain basic drives that psychologists have been listing for us for many years. And to my mind, one of the most interesting of these basic drives is the one we might call the drive to go on--the virtually indestructible tendency on the part of [...]

(An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) A clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Cornell University, Ari Kiev MD writes: “In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals, has proved to be the [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) The $25,000 Idea Now how do we separate the important tasks from the unimportant? Did you ever hear of the single idea for which a man was paid $25,000? And it was worth every penny of [...]

Mary Pickford used to say, “Don’t look at the sudden loss of a habit, or a way of life, as the end of the road; see it instead as only a bend in the road that will open up all sorts of interesting possibilities and new experiences. After all, you’ve seen the scenery on the [...]

(An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Dorothy Van Doren, in “Words to Live By”, chose some words of Saint Francis of Assisi. She chose the words “I would finish hoeing my garden.” These words were Saint Francis answer, when someone [...]

(An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Many years ago, I discovered Professor William James' wonderful little book On Vital Reserves. In it, he says that everyone knows what it is to start a piece of work, either intellectual or physical, [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) The Habit of Success Do each day all that can be done that day. You don’t need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) What is Your Intermediate Goal? Did you ever see Jack Nicklaus play golf? He was a golfing phenomenon never before seen in the world of golf, winning more major championships and money than any other golfer [...]

(An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) If you’re going to be a big success as a human being, you have to fit into one of two groups or belong to both of them, it seems to me. So let’s talk [...]

Transmuting Thoughts into Reality (An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Will power has been called persistence. It’s the knack of staying with something. The sustained effort necessary to induce absolute faith. Persistence is an essential factor in the procedure of [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Falling Isn’t Failing Mary Pickford used to say, "Don’t look at the sudden loss of a habit, or a way of life, as the end of the road; see it instead as only a bend in [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Is Your Personal Corporation Growing? Every person is, in reality, in business for himself or herself in that each is building his or her own life regardless of who happens to write his or her paycheck. [...]

The $25,000 Idea Simple Ways to Effective Goal Achievement Excerpt from How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds by Dr. Robert C. Worstell from notes on the talks of Earl Nightingale The $25,000 Idea Now how do we separate the important tasks from the unimportant? Did you ever hear of the single idea [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) A Time to Risk or Sit In 1965, Robert M. Manry, a copy editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, sailed from the United States to England in a 13-foot sailboat – 3,200 miles across the North [...]

A Winning Attitude (An excerpt from the besting series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Our attitude will determine whether we tend to be lucky or not. People who expect to be lucky, who expect good things to happen to them more often than bad, actually [...]

How s the World Treating You? (An excerpt from the besting series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) We live in a world of words. We have a word for everything, and some of these names and labels mean a great deal to us. Words such as [...]

We Get What We Expect (An excerpt from the bestselling series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) I ran across a quotation by Norman Cousins I thought you’d find interesting. He said, “The prime fallacy of pessimism is that no one knows enough to be a [...]

Advice for the Fearful (An excerpt from the besting series How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Dr. Joyce Brothers has some good advice for the fearful. She points out that everyone is familiar with fear. Normal fear protects us and provides a warning signal indicating the [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) A Commitment to Laughter One of the enriching blessings of growing older all the time is that it has a way of improving one’s sense of humor – or at least it should. The person without [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) The Profile of a Creative Person REACH FOR IDEAS The creative person realizes that his mind is an inexhaustible storehouse. It can provide anything he earnestly wants in life. But in order to draw from this [...]

(An excerpt from the bestseller How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds, based on talks by Earl Nightingale) Four Techniques for Creative Revolutions To spur your mind to new action, think combination, adaptation, substitution, and rearrangement. What are some of the best techniques for using our creative faculties more effectively to solve problems, make [...]