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Building Success HabitsThe Ruler Deep Dive with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzS10 E37 The Ruler Deep Dive |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese The hero’s journey is often seen as preparation for leadership. In modern life, we become the Ruler by taking complete responsibility for our own lives – not only for our inner reality, but also for the way our outer world mirrors our reality. When we have become too comfortable and stop growing, our world feels like a wasteland. We must allow new life and the budding new hero within us to take a new jour...2022-10-1309 min

Building Success HabitsYour Life Story/Your Life Myth with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzClaiming Your Hero’s Story Identifying your own great story (or stories) helps you to find something of your own specialness in a way that helps you understand the significance of your own life. No one but you can tell this story because you are the only one who knows what you are here to do or to learn. E41 Your Life Story/Your Life Myth |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”---Albert Camus Finding the great story that informs your life is a sacred task. To know y...2022-09-2912 min

Building Success HabitsRecognizing Your Script with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzS10 E42 Recognizing Your Script |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “If we own the story then we can write the ending.” – Brene Brown Each of us has a script that has been devised in childhood as a response to what others told you about what your abilities and options were. Transactional analysis tells us that we can actually have a “script” and ”counterscript. Liberation comes when we recognize our scripts and can see if they breed positive results. Our scripts are heavily determined by outside influences. If we are named after a famous general or the toys we were given were g...2022-09-2912 min

Building Success HabitsSteps to Write Your Life Story with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzS10 E43 Steps to Write Your Life Story |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Life is like a blank book, you write your own story not others.” – Zihan Zheng If your hero's story seems to be a confining Myth to you, you may want to reinterpret what the Myth could mean to you. Many people find that they have two major stories active at the same time: a script and a deeper, more empowering myth. While it may be ideal to know our own Miss once and for all, it is unlikely that we will do so. Our understanding of our li...2022-09-2912 min

Building Success HabitsFinding a New Story with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzS10 E44 Finding a New Story |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Be brave enough to write your own story… And then rewrite it.” – Maria Shriver There is no way to be happy except to live out your own deep, great story. The development of the Ego requires us to develop and act out our formative story. When we experience initiation, that story begins to fail us. It is simply not adequate to guide us in the new territory we have entered. During this time, we feel conflicted, cursed with an inner struggle between two conflicting stories, and cognitive dissonance, until th...2022-09-2913 min

Building Success HabitsThe Responsibility To Be Conscious with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE21 The Responsibility To Be Conscious |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The key to growth is the production of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” — Lao Tzu All Selves are fundamentally wounded when Ego and Soul are disconnected from each other. Most of us have experienced calls to the quest - great loves, passions and losses; internal and external suffering and conflict; and opportunities to create and miscreate our own lives – but if we take them in stride without recognizing their Soul purpose, we may not find the miracles.. Transformation happens when we wake up and experience wonder instead...2022-08-1812 min

Building Success HabitsQuestions Asked To Find The Self with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE22 Questions Asked To Find The Self |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”― C.G. Jung On our journey to finding The Self, meaning is revealed when we open our Souls to living life from a deeper level. This deeper level is found in the questions we ask ourselves. The first question to ask is what to do with our Call and with our lives. The second question is to uncover what ails us. Revealing this shows our readiness to be healed. The third...2022-08-1812 min

Building Success HabitsExpressing Ourselves In The World with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE23 Expressing Ourselves In The World |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that creates it.--Albert Einstein When we commit our lives to the service of our deep Soul purpose, we can never go back to life as we knew it. There is a loss as well as a gain. The issue for us today is not simply to create the unified Self - connecting Ego and Soul, heart and head, male and female - but also to express this Self in the everyday business of living our lives. Th...2022-08-1812 min

Building Success HabitsThe Self And Inner Balance with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE24 The Self And Inner Balance |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness.” Eckhart Tolle Good news! We are not forever stuck in the loop of expressing ourselves in the world to experience transient unity and then returning to suffering. If the Self were only the Ruler, the cycle of suffering and redemption might be endless. Fortunately, this stage also incorporates the Magician, the Sage and the Fool into the journey. On the psychological level, each of the four Archetypes is an aspect of the integrated Self...2022-08-1812 min

Building Success HabitsThe Hero’s Journey Soul Initiation - Becoming Real with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE18 The Hero’s Journey Soul Initiation - Becoming Real |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.”----Horace Mann Initiation begins in childhood with our first experiences of confusion, suffering, intense love, longing and frustration. The story of Pinocchio is a well-known example of this process. He starts out as a wooden puppet and transforms into a real boy. On the symbolic level, living life only at the level of the Ego is like being a robot, toy or other inanimate object. We feel a burning desire...2022-08-1112 min

Building Success HabitsShifting Soul Perspectives on The Hero’s Journey with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE19 Shifting Soul Perspectives on The Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Always trust your instincts, they are messages from your soul, they are that inner part of you that strives to make you whole.”----- Anonymous When we let go of everything in our lives and consciousness that needs to die, and we are open to what needs to be born, we learn to feel the awe and wonder that our own willing participation in these cycles can bring. It is difficult for our Egos to understand Soul suffering in any form. The Innocent wants...2022-08-1112 min

Building Success HabitsArchetypal Influences on Soul Development with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE20 Archetypal Influences on Soul Development |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”------ Rumi The four Archetypes most active on the journey to becoming real (like the puppet Pinocchio became a real boy) are the Seeker, the Destroyer, the Lover and the Creator. Together they help us experience meaning and authenticity in our lives. Each parallels a different element or aspect of the Soul. The Seeker seeks enlightenment and transformation but initially is very controlled by the thinking process of the Ego. T...2022-08-1113 min

Building Success HabitsSoul Initiation on The Hero’s Journey with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE17 Soul Initiation on The Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda The purpose of initiation is to help us recognize the meaning and significance of the experiences it symbolizes in our own lives. The uninitiated do not lack the experience of Soul, but they fail to recognize its power and meaning. The Hero’s Journey is an initiation into the realities of the Soul Journey. This journey requires us to establish and let go of control over our l...2022-08-1112 min

Building Success HabitsRecognizing Shadow Forms Along the Hero’s Journey with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE9 Recognizing Shadow Forms Along the Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations that come too late.”― Joseph Campbell. All of the 12 Archetypes are present in every one of us but sometimes we push them down and do not allow them to express themselves in our lives. This activates the negative forms of the Archetypes. When we feel the negative forms of the Archetypes show up in our lives, we tend to want to push them down further because we are afraid they might be opening the door t...2022-07-2812 min

Building Success HabitsThe Shadow Side of Hero’s Journey Archetypes with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE10 The Shadow Side of Hero’s Journey Archetypes |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.”― Joseph Campbell. In episode 9 we explored the Shadow Forms of the Guides. When we repress any of the Archetypes they tend to show up in shadow form. In this episode we will learn what behavior the Shadow Sides of the Archetypes reveal. Early on in the journey we might try to slay the dragons. Really what needs to happen is we need to reframe the negative talk and b...2022-07-2812 min

Building Success HabitsAddictions & Compulsions on The Hero’s Journey with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE11 Addictions & Compulsions on The Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.”― Joseph Campbell. We can become addicted to behaviors and thought patterns as well as to substances. Any time an Archetype possesses us, the result is addictive or compulsive tendencies. What behavior a person is addicted to depends on which Archetype is dominant, but all of them limit our lives. The fewer Archetypes active in their positive form in our lives, the more prone we are to addictiveness. The following lists behaviors and attitudes that we can become addicted or attached to when we...2022-07-2812 min

Building Success HabitsPreparation For Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz S1O E5 Preparation For Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz“If you’re going to have a story, have a big story.”– Joseph Campbell The first four Archetypes ( Innocent, Orphan, Warrior and Caregiver) help us prepare for the journey. We start the journey as the Innocent and learn optimism and trust. At some point there is a “fall” and we become Orphans who feel disappointed, abandoned and betrayed by life (especially the people who were supposed to care for us) but teach us to care for ourselves and to stop relying on other people. Ironically, the orphan feels so powerless and helpless that its best strategy for survival is to find othe...2022-07-2112 min

Building Success HabitsThe “Journey” Stage of Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE6 The “Journey” Stage of Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.” --Maria Nemeth At some point we begin to want more and yearn for something beyond ourselves. This activates the Seeker who begins the search for meaning and purpose so we answer the call to begin the journey. Once we embark on the journey, we encounter some sort of suffering. The Destroyer takes away things that seemed essential to our lives. This is an initiation through suffering but it also ac...2022-07-2112 min

Building Success HabitsRecognizing Guides Along Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE4 Recognizing Guides Along Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, Many are strong at the broken places”.------Ernest Hemingway Archetypes are our inner guides and come into our lives to bring a task, a lesson and ultimately a gift. Although we are heroes at every stage of the journey, how we define and experience heroism is affected by which guide of the 12 archetypes is most active in our lives, culturally and individually. Each of the 12 archetypes is both a guide on the journey and a stage within it. When one or mor...2022-07-1312 min

Building Success HabitsHero’s Journey Defined |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE2 Hero’s Journey Defined |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey—- Kenji Miyaz Heroism is about having the courage to act on a vision and take steps out of our comfort zone to begin a new journey. Along the way we will slay dragons, rescue victims in distress and find and bring back treasures. At the end of the journey is a happy ending waiting for us to share with others. Spoiler Alert! The happy ending is usually short-lived. As soon as we return from one journey, we ent...2022-07-1312 min

Building Success HabitsHero’s Journey Requirements |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE3 Hero’s Journey Requirements |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The hero’s journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of yourself.”----- Joseph Campbell Starting the journey requires you to leave behind the illusion of your insignificance. It requires that we leave behind a shrunken sense of possibilities and choose to live a big life. We can live big lives only if we are willing to become big ourselves and in the process give up the illusion of powerlessness and take responsibility for our lives. Initially we may start the journey with a desire...2022-07-1312 min

Building Success HabitsEmbarking on Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE1 Embarking on Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “A hero is someone who,in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers,goes ahead and overcomes anyway”. —-Christoper Reeve A great model for living life to the fullest is found in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself and your purpose. When we do this, we feel more alive and are more effective in the world. The hero’s journey is about finding the treasure of your true self and then returning to give your gift to help transform...2022-07-1312 min

Building Success HabitsResponse Is Good. Over-Response Is A Bad Habit with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE37 Response Is Good. Over-Response Is A Bad Habit |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 1. “Every intention is a trigger for transformation.”-- Deepak Chopra 2. Outside triggers happen to each one of us throughout the day. The external stimulus from our environment suddenly changes our intentions. For example, you might be sitting quietly preparing to do some work when all of a sudden the phone rings. When we get a phone call, most of us rush to answer it without even thinking. This outside stimulus moves us into action without us even thinking about it. 3. The point is this...2022-06-2712 min

Building Success HabitsScars Are Helpful Until They Aren’t |IBGR With Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE33 Scars Are Helpful Until They Aren’t |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “No matter how long it takes to heal ... we share the same scars ... - Author: Daniel Yanez Scars are intended to be helpful. Sometimes scars can be disfiguring though. It is easy to see how a facial scar can alter a person’s looks. What we don’t see are emotional scars left when we receive emotional injuries. We form these emotional scars for self protection. But they can also harden our hearts causing us to become callous to the world and withdraw into a protective shell. T...2022-06-2312 min

Building Success HabitsS9 E30 Be Aware of Negatives - But Don’t Focus On Them |IBGR With Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE30 Be Aware of Negatives - But Don’t Focus On Them |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Focus on the positives, and soon the negatives will disappear”. - Anonymous We would be lying if we said that following the Success Habits we share will remove all negativity from our lives and from our results. The truth is, we will all continue to experience the negatives. The difference is, failure-type personalities focus mostly on the negatives. What we focus on we get. The more we focus on what we don’t want, the more it shows up. We need to be aware...2022-06-1612 min

Building Success HabitsS9 E23 Success is Found In the Present Moment |IBGR | With Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE23 Success is Found In the Present Moment |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.”― Bryant McGill. If we want to be grounded we need to give all our attention to the present moment. When we worry about the future we swing the pendulum to one side. When we fret about the past the pendulum swings to the other side. When we give all our attention to the present moment we are grounded Plan on what you want for the future, prepar...2022-05-2113 min

Building Success HabitsThe MultiTasking MYTH |IBGR With Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE24 The MultiTasking MYTH |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.” - Susan Cain Picture this … you are concentrating and only trying to “do” the task in front of you. But you catch yourself thinking in the back of your mind about all the things you should accomplish today, or this week, and you are unconsciously trying to mentally accomplish them all at once. This habit is particularly insidious because it is seldom recognized for what it is … mu...2022-05-2112 min

Building Success HabitsYou Are A Creative Being |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz With Donna KundeE22 You Are A Creative Being |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.” — Bruce Garrabandt We all have the same success mechanism within us and it will work to solve personal problems, running a business, selling goods the same as it will with the creative arts like music, dance and writing. The Success Mechanism within you can work the same way to produce “creative doing’ as it does to produce “creative ideas.” Skill and success in any area comes not from painful and cons...2022-05-2112 min

Building Success HabitsThe Importance of Perspective (Decide What You Want - Not What You DON’T Want) With Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE18 The Importance of Perspective (Decide What You Want - Not What You DON’T Want) |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ― Stephen R. Covey It is the job of the conscious mind to decide what you want by selecting the goals you tell it you want to achieve. It is easier to determine what you don’t want than what you do what. As humans, we have a strong desire to move away from pain. This is a survival mechanism. The problem occurs when we set goals in a similar...2022-05-1312 min

Building Success HabitsExamine and Re-Evaluate Your Beliefs Or Stay Stuck |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz“Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can.”- Bob RossOne of the reasons that the power of rational thinking goes unrecognized is that it is seldom used!It is important to remember that both behavior and feeling spring from BELIEF. To get to the root cause of a belief that is responsible for your feelings and behavior, ask yourself “Why?” Then ask yourself “Is this belief based on an actual fact or on an assumption or a false conclusion?”In order to really examine beliefs, ponder the following questions: Is there any rational reason for such a belief?Cou...2022-05-1312 min

Building Success HabitsWhat Rational Thought Can and Cannot Do! With Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE17 What Rational Thought Can and Cannot Do! |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Never make crucial decisions when angry. The rage that clouds judgment fades and only its consequences linger thereafter.”― Stewart Stafford It is important to remember that our automatic mechanism can function as a FAILURE MECHANISM just as easily as it functions as a SUCCESS MECHANISM. The difference depends on the data you give it to process and the goals you set for it. It is a goal striving mechanism and will find a match for whatever data you give it. Many of us subconsciously and unknowingly set FA...2022-05-1312 min

Building Success HabitsThe Role Imagination Plays in Your Success - Imagination ALWAYS Wins with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzThe Role Imagination Plays in Your Success - Imagination ALWAYS Wins |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Seneca We act, or fail to act, not because of “will” like many believe, but because of imagination! We always perform based on what we believe to be true about ourselves and our circumstances. We will never outperform our self-image. What creates our self-image? What we imagine to be true about ourselves. Even your nervous system gets involved in imagination. It can’t tell the difference between an imagine...2022-04-2812 min

Building Success HabitsPerception Determines Action and Behavior with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE10 Perception Determines Action and Behavior |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”― Albert Einstein The human brain and nervous system are engineered to react automatically and appropriately to the problems and challenges we are faced with. For example, you don’t have to stop and think before deciding to run from danger. It happens automatically. There is the truth of things and then there is our perception of the truth. This is slightly different from the conc...2022-04-2812 min

Building Success HabitsWhy Not Imagine Yourself Successful! with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE11 Why Not Imagine Yourself Successful! |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. – Jamie Paolinetti Why not imagine yourself successful. What a thought! How much time and energy we spend imagining everything that could go wrong. What if we put even half as much energy into imagining all that could go right! Mental practice makes perfect. If we picture ourselves performing a certain way, it is almost the same as the actual performance. Mental rehearsals are a first step to enforcing our imagined success. Mentally pi...2022-04-2812 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Find Your BEST Self with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzHow to Find Your BEST Self |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. – Nelson Mandela “Who do you want to become?” That is a much different question than “what do you want to achieve.” There is no achievement without first becoming the person who has it. What needs to change? If you were to divide your life into sections, which section needs the most attention? Finance, Family, Career, Recreation … Awareness of what needs to change is the first step to finding your best se...2022-04-2812 min

Building Success HabitsA Healthy Self Image is the Key to Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE1 A Healthy Self Image is the Key to Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” Joyce Brothers Self image is built on our own beliefs about ourselves. Most beliefs about ourselves have unconsciously formed from our past experiences of both success and failure, humiliations and triumphs and the way other people have reacted to us especially in childhood. The beliefs become a picture and become “true” to us. We don’t question their validity and act as if they are true even if they are not. We can change our s...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsAll Results Are Consistent with Self-Image with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE2 All Results Are Consistent with Self-Image |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin We always act like the person we believe ourselves to be and can not act any other way regardless of conscious efforts or will power. We believe we are a failure. We will find a way to fail despite good intentions. Our self image becomes a foundation for our entire personality, behavior and circumstances and our results and experiences then seem to verify and strengthen that i...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsThe Self-Image Can be changed with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE3 The Self-Image Can be changed |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Accept what is. Let go of what was. Believe in what will be”. - Anonymous Most people fail to change their habits, personality, way of life or self image because they focus all their efforts on changing their outside world. Positive thinking can only take us so far. We have to change the image we see of ourselves. Positive thinking is only a patch or a crutch added to an old self image. We literally need to SEE ourselves differently in our mind’s eye. It is impossible to thi...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsGOALS Are IMAGES - Their Success or Failure is Determined by Our Self Image with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE4 GOALS Are IMAGES - Their Success or Failure is Determined by Our Self Image |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “See it, believe it, achieve it. ” — Lori-Ann Muenzer The subconscious mind is a creative, goal seeking machine. It is impersonal and works automatically to achieve goals of success or failure depending on the goals YOU set for it. Give it “success goals’ and it functions as a success mechanism. Give it negative goals and it acts just as impersonally and just as faithfully as a failure mechanism. The key “goal achieving image” is our self image. It must have a clear-cut go...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsWe Have A Built-In Success Mechanism with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzDiscover Your Success Mechanism Every person has a success seeking mechanism within them. It is impersonal and works according to the information it is given. There is a law in the universe that says if one thing exists, so does its opposite. That means that every person also has a failure mechanism. The key to activating our success mechanism and using it to achieve our goals lies in the information we give it. Let’s explore ways to activate our success instinct on our way to goal achievement. E5 We Have A Built-In Success Mechanism |IBGR | Donna Kund...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Identify Your Success Instinct with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE6 How to Identify Your Success Instinct |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life—and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan All living things have a Success Instinct. A squirrel doesn’t need to be taught how to thrive. It automatically knows how to prepare for winter and when to begin the process. Nobody has to tell the squirrel to gather nuts or where to store them for winter. Likewise, a bird does not need to be taught to fly or how to navigate the skies. It doesn’t need a GPS t...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsHow Your Success Mechanism Works with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE7 How Your Success Mechanism Works |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.” Henry Winkler Your brain and nervous system work much like a computer and when they are working together towards a goal, they become what is known as a “Success Mechanism.” Learn to trust your Success Mechanism and allow it to do its work. Don’t jam it up by becoming too concerned or too anxious whether or not it will wo...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsTwo Types of Success Mechanisms and How to Make Them Work For You with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE8 Two Types of Success Mechanisms and How to Make Them Work For You |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” —John Wooden Your brain finds answers to problems in one of two ways. The first way is to know that the answer exists and scan the environment, rejecting one answer after another, until the object is found. This type is similar to an interceptor missile or autopilot on a plane. The second way happens when the answer is not known and our ob...2022-04-2012 min

Building Success HabitsGaining Power Through the “Master Mind” with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE46 Gaining Power Through the “Master Mind” |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present." - Yanik Silver The term “Master Mind” as we are using it is “the coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.” The human mind is a form of energy, a part of it being spiritual in nature. “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a thi...2022-04-0712 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Multiply Your Business Brain Power with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE47 How to Multiply Your Business Brain Power |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Wasting brain power ruminating about things you can't control drains mental energy quickly. The more you think about problems you can't solve, the less energy you'll have leftover for more productive endeavors.” Amy Morin Our brain can be compared to an electric battery. It is a well-known fact that a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. The brain functions in a similar way. A group of brains together provide more thought energy than a single brain, just as a group of b...2022-04-0712 min

Building Success HabitsThe Power of Positive Emotions in Business with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE48 The Power of Positive Emotions in Business |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.” ― Shannon L. Alder Success is shy and elusive. The power of positive emotions, when mixed with faith, desire and persistence and applied through a plan set into action leads to the success you want in your bus...2022-04-0712 min

Building Success HabitsDesire Is the Starting Point - Meditation Is The Finishing Touch with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE44 Desire Is the Starting Point - Meditation Is The Finishing Touch |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Learn to be calm and you will always be happy” – Paramahansa Yogananda Everything has a rhythm. We start with desire and then along the way we BECOME the person over time who has the success we want. Sometimes we need to slow down in order to move forward. Mediation is the tool that slows us down long enough to see the next step in the staircase. True success comes with understanding .. understanding ourselves, others, the laws of nature and ultimately the recognition and un...2022-03-3113 min

Building Success HabitsThe Capturing Source of Inspiration with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE43 The Capturing Source of Inspiration |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.” – Steve Southerland There is a part of us that knows things beyond our five senses. This is the place of inspiration. It usually comes quickly and must be captured in the moment. When hit with inspiration, it is important to write it down or it will leave as fast as it came. Know where inspiration becomes active for you and prepare ahead of time as best as possible. It typically hits in an inopportune place because we are...2022-03-3112 min

Building Success HabitsS8 E42 Create Your Dream Team…and Then Become Them! with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE42 Create Your Dream Team…and Then Become Them! |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.” — Tara Stiles The next best thing to be truly great is to emulate the great. Do this by feeling and acting like the members of your dream team! Human beings imitate what they see. There is a study that showed when you are in rapport with another person, you actually start mimicking their mannerisms. We have been taking on other people’s mannerisms since we were children, but never had a choi...2022-03-3112 min

Building Success HabitsThe Meditation and Success Relationship with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE41 The Meditation and Success Relationship |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The goal of mediation is not to get rid of thoughts or emotions. The goal is to become more aware of your thoughts and emotions and learn how to move through them without getting stuck.” – Dr. P GoldinThe sixth sense is also known as our creative imagination. It is also known as the place through which ideas, plans and thoughts flash into our mind. These flashes are sometimes called hunches or inspiration. We have a “receiving set” of new ideas. This receiving set is called our sixth sense...2022-03-2512 min

Building Success HabitsThe 2 Biggest Fears That Block Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE38 The 2 Biggest Fears That Block Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.” - Stormie Omartian The six basic fears are Fear of Poverty, Fear of Criticism, Fear of Ill Health, Fear of Loss of Love of Someone, Fear of Old Age and Fear of Death. Fear of Poverty is the most destructive fear because it paralyzes the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, discourages initiative, leads to unce...2022-03-2412 min

Building Success HabitsThree Enemies of Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE37 Three Enemies of Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” - Winston ChurchillIndecision is the seedling of fear. Indecision gives way to Doubt. Indecision and Doubt blend together to become Fear.The “blending” process is often slow. That is why the three enemies of indecision, doubt and fear are so dangerous. They grow without us even seeing it happen.Don’t be deceived by the habits of these three subtle enemies. Sometimes they are hidden...2022-03-2413 min

Building Success HabitsThe Disaster of Destructive Thinking with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE39 The Disaster of Destructive Thinking |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.” - Willie Nelson Fear gets translated into worry through indecision. Reach a decision to not worry and most of the hard work is already done. We can kill the habit of worry in all forms by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing life has to offer is worth the price of worry. With this decision will come poise, peace of mind and calmness of thought which will bring happiness. You have the power to feed...2022-03-2412 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Protect Yourself From Negative Influences with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE40 How to Protect Yourself From Negative Influences |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “NEGATIVE THINKING IS THE ONLY PROBLEM IN LIFE.” “The biggest problem any of us ever face is our own negative thinking.” - Anonymous You can protect yourself against negative influences of your own making or as the result of the activities of negative people around you by using willpower to build a wall of immunity against negative influences in your own mind. Napoleon Hill says, “Recognize the fact that you, and every other human being, are by nature, lazy, indifferent, and susceptible to all suggestions which harmonize...2022-03-2412 min

Building Success HabitsUse Your Imagination to Create Red & Blue Oceans with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE33 Use Your Imagination to Create Red & Blue Oceans |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great because they developed the faculty of creative imagination.” - Napoleon Hill. Red ocean strategy helps survival in a competitive market where organizations choose to grow aggressively rather than tap into an unexplored market space. A blue ocean is an analogy to describe the wider, deeper potential to be found in unexplored market space. A blue ocean is vast, deep, and powerful in terms of profitable growth. We c...2022-03-1012 min

Building Success HabitsEvery Great Business Idea Starts “With an Enchanted Kettle.” with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE34 Every Great Business Idea Starts “With an Enchanted Kettle.” |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz Lessons from the old kettle… The old kettle, the wooden paddle, and the secret message on a slip of paper were incidental. The old kettle has converted a small southern city into a thriving business district. Gold from the kettle supplies good paying jobs around the world. “Whoever you are, wherever you may live, whatever occupation you may be engaged in, just remember in the future, every time you see the words Coca-Cola, that its vast empire of wealth and influence grew out of a...2022-03-1012 min

Building Success HabitsImagination Is The First Key to Your Success Mechanism with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE35 Imagination Is The First Key to Your Success Mechanism |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein We always act, feel and perform in accordance with what we imagine to be true about ourselves and our environment. Your nervous system can’t tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience. Truth determines Action AND Behavior. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true. We therefore act and feel, not according to what things are really like, bu...2022-03-1012 min

Building Success HabitsSuccess Is In Your Head with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE36 Success Is In Your Head |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.” – Neville Goddard Why not imagine yourself successful? There is power in role-playing. Use mental pictures to close more deals. Practice finding your “best self” to start every day. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, mental pictures, mental, how to make our mental pictures come true, mental imagery, pictures, mental pictures / pure, kind kid – mental pictures, mental picture editor, how to make...2022-03-1012 min

Building Success HabitsYour Subconscious Mind and Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE29 Your Subconscious Mind and Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.” – Kevin Michel Conscious mind and the five senses. We are taught at a very early age to live life through the five senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hear. That is good for survival but not for living to our full potential. Subconscious mind and the six intellectual faculties. Imagination - Imagination is probably the most powerful of all the faculties. Nothing has ever been created that was not first imagined. Intuition - Intuitio...2022-03-0312 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Create New Success Habits - It’s Not What You Think with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE30 How to Create New Success Habits - It’s Not What You Think |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. -Earl Nightingale The 21 Day Lie - energy can’t be created or destroyed. We replace the negative habit’s energy with positive energy habits and need to continue to supply the positive energy or the negative habit re-emerges like a weed. There are two ways to create a new belief. One way is “Repetition over time.” We can build new “habit muscles” by co...2022-03-0312 min

Building Success HabitsThe Power of Emotions to Drive Your Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE31 The Power of Emotions to Drive Your Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Emotions have immense power. This power can propel you towards your dreams and goals, or sabotage and ruin your life. Choose wisely how to use the power of your emotions.” ― Stan Jacobs The habit-forming part of you works harder towards a goal when you apply feelings and emotions to the idea. Positive and Negative emotions can’t occupy the mind at the same time. There are seven major positive emotions. Desire Faith Love Sex Enthusiasm Romance Hope There are seven major negative emotions. Fear Jealousy Hatred Rev...2022-03-0312 min

Building Success HabitsIs Autosuggestion Influencing Your Success? with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE32 Is Autosuggestion Influencing Your Success? |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Any idea, plan or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetitive thought” - Napoleon Hill Dominating thoughts (positive or negative) always produce results. Guard your thoughts and only permit positive thinking. Concentrated energy can start a fire. Similar concentrated effort turns desire into a burning desire. You can become the master of yourself and your environment by learning how to influence your own subconscious mind. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, subconscious mind, subconscious, reprogram your subconscious mind for success, subconscious mind power...2022-03-0312 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Transition From Follower to Leader with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE21 How to Transition From Follower to Leader |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way and goes the way.” – John C. Maxwell First, decide if you want an active leadership role in your company. With leadership comes more compensation and more responsibility. If you think about it, most great leaders started as followers. At some point, there was an activating event that allowed them to assume the role. However, not everyone who has the opportunity to lead will take it. When assuming a leadership role, look for occasions to men...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success HabitsThe 11 Leadership Secrets with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE22 The 11 Leadership Secrets |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Leadership is an action, not a position - Donald McGannon Here are 11 Leadership Attributes every leader should possess Unwavering courage Self Control A keen sense of justice Definiteness of decision Definiteness of plans The habit of doing more than paid for A pleasing personality Sympathy and understanding Mastery of detail Willingness to assume full responsibility Cooperation TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, leadership, leadership training, leadership qualities, leadership tips, leadership habit, leadership types, leadership skills, leadership traits, leadership styles, leadership advice, leadership behaviors, qualities of...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success Habits10 Major Causes of Leadership Failure with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE23 10 Major Causes of Leadership Failure |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. - Mitt Romney The ten major causes of failure in leadership Inability to organize details Unwillingness to render humble service Expectation of pay for what they “know” instead of what they do with what they know Fear of competition from followers Lack of imagination Selfishness Intemperance Disloyalty Emphasis of the “authority” of leadership Emphasis of title TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, leadership, leadership training, leadership qualities, leadership tips, leadership habit, leadership types, lea...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success HabitsKnow Your Own Self Worth When Marketing Yourself with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE24 Know Your Own Self Worth When Marketing Yourself |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter rucker In order to market yourself you have to know your strengths and weaknesses. Capitalize your strengths and get help where you are not as strong. It is one thing to want money - everyone wants more - but it is something entirely different to be worth more. Ways to make yourself worth more include personal growth and development, coaching and technical skills training. Your value is your ability to know what y...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success HabitsTime to Launch - You Are Fully Resourced! with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE25 Time to Launch - You Are Fully Resourced! |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Every product comes with a time limit. If you delay your product launch, somebody else could launch a similar product in that time, making your product outdated and taking a big chunk of your market share.” ― Pooja Agnihotri Knowledge is only potential power. The fine line between learning and success is ACTION! It is important to stay current on certifications and keep improving in your specialty, but don’t get so caught up in learning that you lose your vision. Try this … LEARN → DO → LEARN →...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Position Yourself as an Expert with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE26 How to Position Yourself as an Expert |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions.” – Eric Hoffer There’s not much room for humbleness when you are trying to position yourself as an expert. Some of the best ways to position yourself as an expert include testimonials and social proof. Time to toot your own horn! Fear is the enemy of greatness and stops us from sho...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success HabitsFear is a Speed Bump on Your Way to Awesome with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE27 Fear is a Speed Bump on Your Way to Awesome |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Until you confront the fear, the past is the only future" - William Eastman Start with a plan and then 10x it. A tree never limits its growth on purpose. Be the tree! Your future is yours to create. Learn from the past but don’t continue to live in it. That only leads to depression. Don’t let current circumstances dictate your future either. Tomorrow does not have to look like today. Plan the first step to a desired future and th...2022-02-2413 min

Building Success HabitsDon’t Forget About YOU on Your Way to the Top with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE28 Don’t Forget About YOU on Your Way to the Top |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.” – Napoleon Hill There is a big price to pay for your success. But that doesn’t mean we should neglect ourselves. Self care on the journey is important so your best self crosses the finish line. Schedule vacation time, weekly sacred time, and other activities in order to stay human. It’s easy to get caught up in work when there is so much to do. Appreciate where you are right now an...2022-02-2412 min

Building Success HabitsThe Power of a Made-Up Mind with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE20 The Power of a Made-Up Mind |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The energy of the mind is the essence of life. -- Aristotle Thought, backed by a strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely know what they want and generally get it. Indecision is a habit that usually forms in youth and stays with us until we decide to replace it. Definiteness of decision always requires courage. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, how set goals and achieve them, how to achieve go...2022-02-1012 min

Building Success HabitsThe Value of a Decision Depends on The Courage Required to Make It with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE19 The Value of a Decision Depends on The Courage Required to Make It |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”― Michelle Obama Many great decisions have been reached by taking great risks, often while risking the chance of death. The stronger your desire, the easier it is to make tough and risky decisions. Socrates’ decision to drink the cup of poison rather than compromise his personal beliefs was a decision of courage. What it also did was give future generations the right to freedom of thought and spee...2022-02-1013 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Live Life by Demand, Not by Default with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE18 How to Live Life by Demand, Not by Default |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them.” ― Napoleon Hill TOUGH COACHING MOMENT: Many people live their entire life as Sheeple. You have a mind of your own … use it to reach your own decisions :-) It’s not enough just to tell the world what you intend to do. First you have to show it. Thoughts only become things when we make decisions and then act on those decisions. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kund...2022-02-1012 min

Building Success HabitsMaster Procrastination Now with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE17 Master Procrastination Now |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “ Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.” - Anonymous Procrastination is the opposite of decision. Get good at making and following through on decisions and there is no room for procrastinating. Procrastination is the mind’s way of protecting ourselves from fear and anxiety of future events. Allow yourself a small break to regroup and then do the thing that is holding you back. Think of procrastination as a lack of anticipation that good things will follow. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz, procrastination, how to...2022-02-1012 min

Building Success HabitsSix Definite and Practical Steps to Achieve Goals with Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr.E16 Six Definite and Practical Steps to Achieve Goals |IBGR | Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land amongst the stars. - Les Brown Six Definite and Practical Steps to Achieve Goals 1. Fix in your mind your exact desired outcome 2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return 3. Establish a definite date when you intend to receive your desired outcome 4. Create a define plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once 5. Write out a clear, concise visualization statement including steps 1-4 6. Read your written statement aloud twic...2022-02-0312 min

Building Success HabitsNobody Is Ready For a Thing Until They Believe They Can Acquire It with Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr.E15 Nobody Is Ready For a Thing Until They Believe They Can Acquire It |IBGR | Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr. “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves.” No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. The state of mind must be belief, not hope or wish. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Network, Donna Ku...2022-02-0312 min

Building Success HabitsBurn Your Bridges For Success with Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr.E14 Burn Your Bridges For Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr. “When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War Any person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, which is essential to success. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR Networ...2022-02-0312 min

Building Success HabitsDesire Is the Ability to Convince Yourself You Will Have It with Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr. E13 Desire Is the Ability to Convince Yourself You Will Have It |IBGR | Donna Kunde, Londina Cruz & Michael Pope Jr. “Somewhere in the journey to faith is the heart's desire." Gary Comer, Soul Whisperer Can you imagine yourself living the life you choose, having the things you want and being with the people you desire? Until we can see it in our mind, we will never have it in the real world. The successful application necessary to convince yourself you will have it calls for sufficient imagination. Lukewarm desire brings about lukewarm results. Use your imagination to fan the flam...2022-02-0312 min

Building Success HabitsFaith, Emotion and Goal Achievement with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE9 Faith, Emotion and Goal Achievement |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Faith is the ‘eternal elixir’ which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!” - Napoleon Hill Faith is the visualization of, and belief in the attainment of desire. As we are using the term, faith is an emotion, more than a religious feeling. Faith, along with love and sex are the most powerful of all the major postive emotions. Faith is the chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration and translates...2022-01-2813 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Cure Bad Luck with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE10 How to Cure Bad Luck |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Have faith in yourself.” - Napoleon Hill All thoughts that have been emotionalized (given feeling) and mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart. The subconscious mind and your built in servo mechanism will always turn your dominating thoughts into their physical equivalent by the most direct and practical means available. A mind dominated by positive emotions becomes favorable for the state of mind known as faith and can, at will, give the subconscious mind instructions which...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsThe Disaster of Negative Thinking with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE11 The Disaster of Negative Thinking |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Negative thinking definitely attracts negative thoughts” - Norman Vincent Peale. Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down, according to the way you set your sails of thought. The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thoughts. It works with the material we feed it and begins at once to find a match in order to translate our thoughts into reality. Just like electricity can turn t...2022-01-2813 min

Building Success HabitsThe Self Confidence Formula with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE12 The Self Confidence Formula |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “With confidence you have wong before you’ve started” - Marcus Garvey The self confidence formula is a strong belief in yourself and your abilities. This new habit of self confidence comes by repetition over time. Autosuggestion and positive thinking are the vehicle to get there. The more we focus on our small wins the more self confidence we gain. Demand of yourself persistent, continuous action towards the attainment of your goals and step by step you will see its attainment roll out before your eyes.2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Develop Persistence with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE8 How to Develop Persistence |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz Champions keep playing until they get it right - Billy Jean King There are four simple steps that create the habit of persistence. They don’t require special education or intelligence… Only time and effort are needed. A definite purpose backed by a burning desire for its fulfillment A definite plan, expressed in continuous action A mind tightly closed against all negative and discouraging influences A friendly alliance with one or more people who will encourage you to follow through with both plan and purpose ...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Overcome Fear of Criticism with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE7 How to Overcome Fear of Criticism |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Paralyze resistance with persistence” -Woody Hayes Most people allow relatives, friends, and strangers to influence them to the point that they cannot live their own lives - because they fear criticism. Fear of criticism allows others to wreck our lives and sabotage our dreams. Recognize that negative influences often work on you through your subconscious mind which makes them difficult to detect. Keep your mind closed to all people and sources who discourage you in any way. TAGS: IBGR, IBGR N...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsTake the Persistence Inventory To Determine What Is Holding You Back with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE6 Take the Persistence Inventory To Determine What Is Holding You Back |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable - Paramahanas Yogananda There are 16 symptoms and causes that determine exactly where we lack persistence. Take inventory of these symptoms and causes that stand between you and your success and achievement Failure to recognize and to define clearly exactly what you want Procrastination, with or without cause Lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge Indecision The habit of relying on excuses instead of creating plans and so...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Train Yourself to Be Persistent with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE5 How to Train Yourself to Be Persistent |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated” Maya Angelou Persistence is a state of mind, which means it can be cultivated. Like all states of mind, persistence is based on definite causes. In the book Think and Grow Rich, there are eight factors to develop persistence. The most important step to develop persistence is definiteness of purpose. Master these eight factors to train yourself to be persistent Definiteness of purpose - knowing what you want is the fi...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsPositive and Negative Emotions Have a Role in Your Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE4 Positive and Negative Emotions Have a Role in Your Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it.” - Rhonda Byrne All emotions create a vibration in the body. That vibration connects with like vibrations to attract or repel people and resources. Every thought produces an emotion. Negative emotions have very powerful vibrations and tend to run rampant if we are not intentional and mindful about monitoring our thinking. Be very mindful about which emotion gets the most time in your thoughts. It is e...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsThe Brain is the Broadcasting and Receiving Station for Thoughts with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE3 The Brain is the Broadcasting and Receiving Station for Thoughts |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “If you realized just how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” Anonymous The choices you have are an expression of your awareness. In order to find more choices, we need to raise our awareness. That is done by what we allow into our awareness through outside sources. The subconscious mind is the sending station and the conscious mind is the receiving station of the mind. The brain is just a muscle to allo...2022-01-2812 min

Building Success HabitsAttitudes → Feelings → Actions = Results with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE2 Attitudes → Feelings → Actions = Results |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The only disability in life is a bad attitude” - Scott Hamilton Attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior. Our Attitude (our thoughts) about something creates feelings (good or bad) and those feelings determine what actions we take. Ultimately, those actions give us our results. If we want to change our results, all we need to do is change our thinking. Once we change our thinking, it will cre...2022-01-2813 min

Building Success HabitsThink Your Way to Success with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE1 Think Your Way to Success |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.” -Napoleon Hill The fastest way to turn thoughts into things is by mixing the thoughts with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire for their transformation into physical form. Success comes to those who are success conscious while failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious. Pay attention to your thinking. Negative thoughts can take you away from success faster than...2022-01-2112 min

Building Success HabitsFollow through even when it hurts with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE28 Follow through even when it hurts |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “You cannot manage your life if you do not manage yourself.” - John C. Maxwell Self-discipline is the secret sauce that puts you ahead of the pack. The willingness to continue in the spite of problems is the quality of a winner. Life continually gets busier and more complicated. You can’t have any more hours in the day but you can make the most of the time you do have. Self-discipline is where time and priorities meet. Reflect on what excuses have become “normal”. Write the...2021-12-0712 min

Building Success HabitsOvercome Distractions and Be Aware of Time with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE27 Overcome Distractions and Be Aware of Time |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “If you spend all of your time on highly productive tasks, by the end of the day, you will have ‘crowded out’ all the unproductive activities that might have distracted you from your real work.” - Brian Tracy Do the first things first. Knowing your priorities is the best way to overcome distractions. Successful people are time conscious. They know how to spend the time they have and they understand that every minute matters. Ask yourself, “Am I doing unimportant or convenient things at the expens...2021-12-0712 min

Building Success HabitsDo the Thing & Then You Get the Energy to do the thing with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE26 Do the Thing & Then You Get the Energy to do the thing |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Discipline is like a muscle. The more we train it, the better we become in developing it.” - Anonymous People have written extensively about how to be successful. The problem is that we live in a microwave society that wants to see results in 30 seconds or less. In addition, culture says we should do what we feel and wait for inspiration. Emerson says to do the thing and then we get the energy to do the thing. Motivation gets us s...2021-12-0712 min

Building Success HabitsNo more excuses - Do it Now with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzE25 No more excuses - Do it Now |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” - Gandhi You are the boss of you. Discipline is the commitment to do what you should in a consistent way. Everyone sees people’s success without realizing that 90 percent of what leads to it is unseen, but that 90 percent is what makes it possible. Wishing doesn’t get you there. Luck is not a strategy. Discipline is the way to move your...2021-12-0712 min

Building Success HabitsNine Principles of Highly Productive People - Evaluate & Adjust (5-9) with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzEpisode 24 Nine Principles of Highly Productive People - Evaluate & Adjust (5-9) |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “When you can't change the direction of the wind - Adjust your sails”. H. Jackson Brown Jr. In episode 23 we explored how to increase your productivity by first getting really clear on your vision and staying focused on moving forward. In this episode we will take a look at step 5-9. Once we begin working towards our vision we need to continually evaluate our progress and adjust our course along the way. Sometimes that even means creating a “To-Don’t List.”...2021-12-0712 min

Building Success HabitsNine Principles of Highly Productive People - Vision (1-4) with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzEpisode 23 Nine Principles of Highly Productive People - Vision (1-4) |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “This life is your one chance to make it happen. Don't let fear, doubt or a few setbacks stop you from reaching your goals. You can do this!” - Anonymous In the next two episodes we are going to talk about how to increase your productivity using a 9-step process. It takes both perseverance and productivity to get the results we want in our business. Let’s explore steps 1-4 now. Here are the first four steps Visualize the Pe...2021-12-0713 min

Building Success HabitsThe Hero’s Journey to Entrepreneurship with Donna Kunde & Londina CruzEpisode 22 The Hero’s Journey to Entrepreneurship |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.” Civil Rights activist Benjamin E. Mays Joseph Campbell coined the phrase “The Hero’s Journey” and it seems fitting to apply the hero’s journey to today’s episode as we explore how to respond to the different stages and the results we c...2021-11-1912 min

Building Success HabitsHow to Be A Highly Productive Business Owner |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina CruzEpisode 21 How to Be A Highly Productive Business Owner |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “Everything worthwhile in life - everything you want, everything you desire to achieve, everything you want to receive - is uphill.” - John C. Maxwell Productivity can be increased dramatically and immediately if we are highly intentional about it. It can be increased the most regardless of the level of giftedness a person has. If you are willing to work at it you can be successful at becoming more productive. Think of productivity as either climbing a hill or slid...2021-11-1912 min

Building Success HabitsS7 E20 Success is Learning to Be Comfortable Letting Go of Yesterday Donna Kunde & Londina CruzEpisode 20 Success is Learning to Be Comfortable Letting Go of Yesterday |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz “We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We all can do things we don’t even dream we can do.” Dale Carnegie When we work hard at something we usually have a hard time letting it go. We become emotionally attached to it. Often, if we took time to evaluate it, we would see that there is a better way or it has outlived its usefulness. Consider this: It is easier to let go of somethin...2021-11-0812 min