Anybody who has visited my website at Motivation & Self Esteem for Success or has read any of the many articles I have written will realise what a proponent I am of reading books and educating yourself. If you want to become successful at anything you simply must do this, in my opinion.

However, not everything you learn and/or read is of equal value. As the world’s store of information becomes exponentially greater, almost by the minute, you must learn to become more and more discerning about what you read and believe.

With this in mind, I believe you need to understand five basic things:

1. - Find out what you are interested in,
2. - Look for information on subjects of interest,
3. - Search for constants to confirm your understanding,
4. - Filter out needless information and garbage from real knowledge,
5. - Act only on what you believe to be the truth.

To demonstrate the above points I have devised a little mystery for you. I hope you will find this not only a stimulating exercise but also a bit of fun.

Listed below is a set of 16 clues to a murder investigation involving the occupants of five consecutive houses. They are all you need to solve the mystery of “Who Killed Who.”

The “Who Killed Who” Murder Mystery Clues:

1. - The Motivator plays bowls on Saturday.
2. - When facing the houses, the house with the blue roof is immediately to the right of the house with the grey roof.
3. - The man in the middle house plays golf twice a week.
4. - The woman

From what I have seen and experienced, to quit is the greatest
temptation during the first year of working at a home-based
business. If smoking was like working at a home-based business,
the occurence of lung cancer would be dramatically reduced.

It is a known fact that a majority of the people that undertake
a work at home business do not achieve real success. There are
several reasons for this, but one of the primary reasons is that
these people get frustrated and do not allow themselves enough
time to succeed.

In the early going, one of the most difficult things about
developing a new home based business is dealing with the emotional
roller coaster that can result from the highs (successes) and lows
(temporary setbacks) you are almost certain to experience. Once
you have done the research and decided on a particular home based
business opportunity, you really need to focus on persistence and
realize that any real business will not just automatically become
successful in a matter of days or weeks. You should be prepared to
give it your best sustained effort for at least 6 to 12 months in
order to begin to build a solid business base and begin to see
some good income.

Highs and lows were something that I began to notice when I first
started a home based business. I have many years of top level
management experience in “traditional” corporations and have
experienced lots of business cycles (corporate “ups and downs”),
but the natural “ups and downs” that occur in

In the early nineties I had the opportunity to work with some of the most famous movie stars in the world. As a manager and personal trainer of Kathy Smith’s health club I experienced first hand the secrets to the stars. Here are a few things they did to look like they do:

1. They never ate: One out of every four I would say had some sort of eating disorder. If they ate they thought they would get fat, or worse yet, NOT get the job!

2. They would only workout when they needed a job: They only thing that motivated them to exercise was how much the next job would pay them.

3. They had great plastic surgeons: If the weight didn’t come off naturally, they had a backup plan.

4. They exercised everyday only to crash and burn in the end! The only way they new how to go about it was full out for as long as they could.

5. They all had personal trainers: None of them had the motivation to do it on their own.

While you may be saying right now, that I am only joking about the five, but I am not. For the majority of the movie stars in LA this was a way of life. Now for a few, here was their secrets:

1. They cross trained: They put variety into their workout plans.

2. They never ate a lot of white flour foods: Most of their foods came out of the ground. Mostly natural foods!

3. They were