Hello and Welcome! I’m Dana McManus and I’ve dedicated the last 25 years to identifying the success secrets and essential characteristics of exceptional people.

This site is dedicated to helping you develop these essential skills, successful attitudes and empowering beliefs that can truly empower you to take charge of your life and achieve the dreams and success you deserve.

As I continue to build this site out, I’d like to point out five important “Principles for Personal Growth and Change” that I’ll be referring to throughout this site. The following is a summary of these principles…

1. All human beings form beliefs that underlie their performance.

Individuals act, work, and perform according to the truth as they believe it to be. What they have learned in the past influences the choices and risks they take today. Their beliefs lead to their attitudes, to their feelings, and finally, to their performance, which leads them either toward accomplishing their goals or falling further behind.

2. All human beings establish personal beliefs through repetition of thought.

Before anyone can make changes in their habit patterns, they need to know how they formed their current beliefs. Your spoken or unspoken thoughts to yourself are sometimes called “self-talk.” This selftalk, when repeated over and over is stored in the mind and becomes the “truth” as each person perceives it. If you repeat what others say, you begin to believe what they believe. Just because 50 people believe the same thing, does not make it true for you.

3. All human beings have barriers to change.

We all have developed comfort zones (areas where we feel safe). These perceptions (the way we see things) and paradigms (previously formed patterns) are personal roadblocks to change and success. They keep you from seeing things clearly.

4. All human beings resist change unless pain is sufficient.

Pain drives change. If you are satisfied with where you are, then there is no pain to drive the change process. Pain comes from having what you do not want or from not having what you do want.

5. All human beings must make changes in their habits in order to grow.

We are all creatures of habit. Our “positive” and “negative” habits influence about 90-95% of all that we do. Habits can be changed by substituting a new thought or behavior on a daily basis for a long enough period of time to bring about change.

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So ask yourself these questions. A “yes” answer to any of them is our invitation to let me help you discover your hidden personal power.

- Is my life more run by things I have to do, as opposed to the things I want or chose to do?

- Do I often feel there is something holding me back from a much more satisfying life?

- Do I often know what I should be doing, but have a hard time actually doing it?

- Do I routinely run out of time, energy or patience by the end of the day?

- Is my career or business more of a job than a passion?

- Is there less meaning in my life, career, relationship, or business than I would like?

- Isn’t it time to turn things around and reclaim my passion?

… Think about it!

Until next time, live passionately and expect abundance!

Dana

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