Are You Short-Changing Your Value?

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When it comes to figuring out your true value, there’s really no easy calculation. Well I did hear of one way. Apparently if you were to break the average person down into their most basic elements such as oxygen, hydrogen and carbon you’d have enough to make about $1.

But is anyone actually going to go around and say that their life is worth only $1. Of course not, your life is worth much more than that. But this does raise an important question: what is your true value and are you short changing yourself?
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The 5 Important Risks You Need to Take for a Full Life

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Life is a lot like a poker game.  Players put down their money and take a chance at either winning the jackpot or losing their shirts.  There is both an element of luck and skill involved, but essentially it all comes down to what you’re willing to risk.

But let’s back things up a bit and examine the people who simply watch the game.  They’re not willing to put the risk involved to see what happens.  And that’s where the metaphor ends.  You have a choice about playing poker, the game of life though is much different.
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4 Essential Leadership Skills (As Quoted by Leaders)

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There’s no doubt that leadership skills are important. I’ve needed leadership skills in just about every job I’ve held. In fact, those skills will become even more important to me once I graduate and become a teacher.

But if you look beyond the role leadership skills play in the workplace, you’ll see that they are just as important elsewhere. At any moment, you could be put into an emergency setting where you need to direct people and take action. So in effect, anyone might need to take up the role of leader at any moment.
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7 Ways to Push Past Your Limits and Realize Your Goals

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The only thing stopping you from reaching your goals and dreams are your limits. It’s when you meet your limits that you feel resistance and things you want seem harder to achieve. Whether it is fear, doubt, physical abilities or some other mental block, it can present a huge barrier to getting what you want.

Unfortunately most people can’t work past their limits and give up. So how far you get in reaching your dreams is very dependent on how good you are at overcoming this obstacle. Fail to push past your limits and you’ll leave your dreams unrealized. Work through them and you can make any dream or goal a reality.
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Are You Remarkable or Forgettable?

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If I were to meet you at a party, would you be someone I would remember? Depending on the size of the party, that might not be such an easy task. As you meet people throughout the night everyone tends to get grouped together. Names become much harder to remember. And as the night comes to an end, you might just be one person among many that I’d met.

But every so often you start talking to someone who just has that spark of personality that commands attention. They get noticed because you want to remember them and know more about them. They’re the kind of person who at the end of the night, you want to hang out with again.
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Why Most Travel Fears Are Ridiculous

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Last week I had a conversation about travel with someone who had never left the country before. I asked her if she ever thought about traveling abroad and she said she would love to except there was a big problem holding her back. Her big problem was that she wasn’t a good swimmer.

I’m sure you’re wondering what she meant by that. I was too. So after a little more prodding I found out that she was referring to the Italian luxury cruise liner that sank a few months ago. She was afraid of taking a cruise and ending up in a similar situation where she would be in danger because of her inability to swim.
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4 Questions that Will Instantly Make You Smarter

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According to one source, the average person consumes about 34GB of information every day. That’s an interesting thought alone, but it makes me wonder just how much of the information is faulty, ill-informed or just plain wrong.

Fortunately misinformation is often faulty for similar reasons and errors in logic can be exposed by asking certain questions. Instead of accepting information at face-value, you can use questions to become smarter about what you accept as true. It can be a powerful way to turn you from a passive receiver of information and into an active user of it.
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