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Noah St. John

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Noah St. John

How to Make Yourself Luckier

By Noah St. John | 04/15/2011

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…

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Why I Hate the Bamboo Story

By Noah St. John | 03/17/2011

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.”

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Love Is the Final Answer

By Noah St. John | 12/1/2010

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…

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You Have More Courage Than You Think

By Noah St. John | 11/16/2010

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.

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The Ultimate Formula

By Noah St. John | 10/25/2010

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!

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Shelf-Help

By Noah St. John | 09/6/2010

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.

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Afformations: The New Affirmations

By Noah St. John | 08/3/2010

You’ve been told to use “affirmations” like “I am rich” that actually leave you more frustrated than before. So try “afformations” instead.

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The Secret Code of Success

By Noah St. John | 05/23/2009

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:

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The Afformations Method

By Noah St. John | 03/14/2009

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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Lower the Bar

By Noah St. John | 05/24/2008

To succeed in business and your personal life, you often hear that you need to be more competitive – that you need to keep “raising the bar.” But is that really necessary… or even a good idea?

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