Posts by Noah St. John
Why Self-Help is Mostly Shelf-Help
Americans spend over $11 Billion a year on “self-help” products. But I call it Shelf-Help — because that’s where most of it goes… on the shelf, along with all the other stuff you’ve bought. If you’re like most of my clients, you’ve spent anywhere from $5000 to $50,000 in the last few years on “shelf-help”.…
Read MoreSimplify Your Life, Streamline Your Business
We don’t live in the Information Age; we live in the Information Overload Age. There is simply too much information: too many interruptions, too many channels, too many emails for us to handle on a daily basis. Ironically, when we have too many choices in life, our stress level goes up, because now we have…
Read MoreAre You Still Stuck on Affirmations?
Traditional success coaches are big advocates of “affirmations” – repeating statements that you’d like to be true. For example, a classic “affirmation” is: “I am rich.” Okay. Try it. Say “I am rich.” What just happened? Did you hear a voice in your head that said: “Yeah, right!”? The problem with “affirmations” is that they…
Read MoreHow to Make Yourself Luckier
When I discovered “success anorexia” and Afformations in 1997, I knew that I had finally found my Because – the reason I was here on Earth: to teach people how to stop keeping themselves from success and manifest their desires faster and easier. Only problem was, I had no idea how I was going to…
Read MoreWhy I Hate the Bamboo Story
If you’ve been to a “motivational” seminar or heard someone talk about success in, say, the last 10 years, you’ve probably heard the “Bamboo Story.”
Read MoreLove Is the Final Answer
There are only two ways to go through life: coming from Love and coming from Fear. Coming from Fear simply means believing in “not enough” — that there’s not enough money, not enough opportunity, not enough health, not enough love, not enough food, not enough water, not enough energy, not enough good people. It’s easy…
Read MoreYou Have More Courage Than You Think
My fiancee Babette and I recently rented the “Karate Kid” movie starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.
She really really wanted to see it, but I was pretty sure it was going to be cheeseball. I never saw the original, and was fine with missing this remake.
Read MoreThe Ultimate Formula
Customers are the lifeblood of your business. Without customers — people who buy your product or service — you really don’t have a business, do you? Duh!
Read MoreShelf-Help
Americans spend over 11 billion dollars a year on “self-help” products. But I call it shelf-help — because that’s where most of it goes… on the shelf, along with all the similar products they’ve bought.
Read MoreAfformations: The New Affirmations
You’ve been told to use “affirmations” like “I am rich” that actually leave you more frustrated than before. So try “afformations” instead.
Read MoreThe Secret Code of Success
I had just gotten off the stage at a major marketing conference when the founder of a nationally known software company (you’ve seen their commercials on TV) came up and said something that stopped me in my tracks:
Read MoreThe Afformations Method
Traditional success teachers are big advocates of “affirmations” – repeating statements that you’d like to be true. For example, a classic “affirmation” is: “I am rich.”
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