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- Through the Tunnel - by I was at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia. I had just been told that I had a "blockage" in my spinal cord, from the fourth to the seventh cervical vertebrae at the level of the neck, that had been responsible for the symptoms I had been experiencing. My right arm was paralyzed, my legs ...
Views: 926 - THE 4 C's of Business Success on the Internet! - by *Content* is the delivery on the implied promise that you make to an interested party who comes to your site, opts-in to your ezine or visits your e-pub (electronic publications). If the information that you are providing is not current, relevant, frequent and significant, you aren't likely to ...
Views: 3811 - THE 4 C's of Business Success on the Internet! - by *Content* is the delivery on the implied promise that you make to an interested party who comes to your site, opts-in to your ezine or visits your e-pub (electronic publications). If the information that you are providing is not current, relevant, frequent and significant, you aren't likely to ...
Views: 818 - Put Pizzazz Into Your Own Personal Presentation - by The age-old maxim is true: You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Impressions are powerful things - they shape how others see you and interact with you. To add pizzazz to your personal presentation, remember 10 points:
It's all about common sense and good manners. The ...
Views: 1344 - You Can't Sell Anything If You Can't Sell Yourself - by What makes some sales professionals standouts and others merely competent? I'll give you a hint, it's not the products they are selling.
Top sales professionals have an edge. They know how to develop sales presentations that deliver not only the benefits of their products, but the best of ...
Views: 1014 - Ten Tips for Successful Negotiating - by The ability to negotiate successfully is crucial for survival in today's changing business world. Negotiation is fun if you know what you're doing. So for all you busy execs, here are Ed Brodow's Ten Tips for Successful Negotiating:
1. Develop "negotiation consciousness."
Successful ...
Views: 5205(1 vote) - Community after Tragedy - by One Friday in November, I began a journey from New Jersey to downtown New York City to visit old work friends. It was my first visit since the tragic September 11th attack. Although I've traveled this same route--the commuter train to the Hoboken station from 1996-2000--there were now, of ...
Views: 1142 - Penta’tude – the five ‘tudes of your success - by In 1941 Major General Hugh ‘Pat’ Casey designed the Pentagon in only three days. Construction began thirty days later and sixteen months after that on January 15, 1943 this now world famous office building was completed. The Pentagon is the headquarters for the United States Department of ...
Views: 1127 - Working 80 Hours a Week--and Not Complaining - by Working Eighty Hours a Week—and Not Complaining!
To remain competitive, every employee needs to put in a good 100 hours a week working on assigned goals. That's impossible, you say. There's no way your staff will accept anywhere near that workload. And with budgets so tight, you can't afford ...
Views: 1535 - Intuition, the Key to Agility - by You are facing a tough choice about which direction to go in a workplace problem. Management wants the results immediately (meaning that your work should have been done yesterday), yet you don’t nearly have all the information you need to make a comfortable decision. You will have to take a ...
Views: 659 - Beginning Your Journey of Joy - Finally, Love and Acceptance for Women (and Men, too!) - by These four principles are essential in beginning your journey of joy.
PRINCIPLE ONE:
God loves you and created you to know Him personally.
God's Love: "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" ...
Views: 1288 - Making Your Divorce A Little Easier - by Divorce is a turbulent time. As such you may find yourself thinking and doing things that you would not normally do. Often times you will hear somebody say, "I just don't know this person anymore. They are right. Most people do go through some sort of metamorphosis during their divorce. The most ...
Views: 1105 - Your Mind, The Millennium & YOU - by We are at a very critical time in our evolution as human beings. Almost every person on the planet who has spent at
least some time studying our own potential can agree with that. We are less than one year away from the New Millennium. It is truly an excited time to be alive, and yet at the ...
Views: 2932 - Old-Time Physical CUlture - by Humour me for a moment and suppose you have just hit your thirty-fifth birthday. You’re not getting any younger, but who is? You struggle out of bed while trying to remember a time when getting up in the morning wasn’t such a struggle, or you may struggle to remember anything at all at that time ...
Views: 2680 - An Alternative Therapeutic Intervention to Reduce Aggression and Other Behavioral and Emotional Problems - by An Alternative Therapeutic Intervention to Reduce Aggression, Emotional Outbursts and Other Behavioral and Emotional Problems
Abused males and delinquent males who are emotionally disturbed are often placed in a residential treatment facility for therapy. The purpose of this study was two ...
Views: 1179 - An Alternative Therapeutic Intervention to Reduce Aggression and Other Behavioral and Emotional problems - by Abused males and delinquent males who are emotionally disturbed are often placed in a residential treatment facility for therapy. The purpose of this study was two fold. First, the authors wanted to compare Children's Protective Service (CPS) residents to Juvenile Probation (JP) residents in ...
Views: 2923 - Unconditional Love (starting with you) - by Gay Hendricks says in “The Learning to Love yourself Workbook? Humans tend to demand from others what we are most unwilling to give.
Isn’t that funny. We expect and demand someone to give us what we are not willing to give. Unconditional love. If we expect that from someone to make us feel ...
Views: 21113(5 votes) - Success and Communication - by Everything we do in life requires communication. Personal and business success often hinges on how well we understand others and how well they can understand us. If one of the objectives of communication is achieving a shared understanding, what can you do to become more effective when ...
Views: 1129 - I can't afford a publicity/public relations campaign -- can I? - by It's a phrase I hear over and over again from many entrepreneurs, small businesses owners and inventors: "I'd love to hire someone to launch our publicity campaign professionally, but we can't afford it, so I'm just going to have to do it on my own."
Over the past several months, I have been ...
Views: 786 - Heal Yourself With Wheatgrass Juice For Your Eczema Diet - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2007 from Evelyn LimYou may find that certain foods can trigger or worsen your eczema. At the same time, there are other foods that can help improve on the condition of your ailing skin. Wheatgrass juice is a drink that you may wish to add to your eczema diet as it has been shown to be great for the skin. Some ...
Views: 6642 - Spring Salad - Choosing the Right Spring Fashion Colors - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2007 from Sandy DumontDon’t Dress Like a Garden Salad! Every spring, designers satisfy our yearning for sunshine and warmth by presenting us with fashions and home furnishings in a seasonal array of effervescent spring and summer colors. Overnight, it is as if the planet is populated with walking garden salads in ...
Views: 2174 - PR/Publicity Tips - by There's no denying that the Internet is allowing more and more entrepreneurs to start their own businesses and effectively market their new products. However, there seems to be an increasingly common misconception when these businesses try to generate media attention and publicity for their ...
Views: 880 - Shepherds Of The Night/How Your Dreams Help Point The Way - by Susan is dining in an airport café. A loud speaker suddenly blasts a warning that a harsh military regime is due to arrive momentarily. Frantic, Susan jumps up and begins to bury her food under the dirt floor, determined to cover her tracks. Doing so, however, it dawns on her that the food’s ...
Views: 1282(1 vote) - JOURNALING BECOMING POPULAR FORM OF SELF-THERAPY - by In a world where Prozac is a household word, people are searching for alternative ways to combat depression and anxiety. Many are finding that journaling is a successful form of “therapy” and often as cathartic as talking to a professional.
As recently as April 26, 1999, Newsweek ran an ...
Views: 4025 - Why Me Lords? Thanks! - by Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it!
As long as I can remember I wanted two things: to become the vice president of a company (I am not sure why I didn't wish for anything higher?) and to own and operate my own business. I had no specific order of events in mind, but those were ...
Views: 1013 - On Truth and Lies - by ON TRUTH AND RELATIONSHIPS:
The big game of relationships is life. The relationship between ozone and skin cancer, between kindness and wisdom, between a mother and a son, between two lovers, between mass its speed and its gravitational balance. Everything in this universe is based on ...
Views: 2048 - Answers in the Face of Death - by After months of chasing treatment options, of refusing to give up hope but finding none, she is gone and he is reeling.
The couple - Jess Doherty, 41, a television producer, and Rebekah Morris, who was director of KLRU-TV's advertising and public relations department - have left a legacy ...
Views: 1401 - 3 "Feel Great" Ways To Decrease Your Back Pain Today! - by Did you know that there are foods that can actually Make Your Back Pain Worse?
People who have back pain reported that they felt much better after they stopped eating the following foods:
* Anything containing caffeine including coffee, tea and sodas.
* Red meats
* Anything containing ...
Views: 2731 - Understanding Anxiety - by Anxiety may consist of a feeling of agitation or yearning to
face a certain situation that is ill anticipated and/or impending. In essence, it can best be described by a person suffering from a state of mental unrest. The level at which anxiety is felt depends on how the person chooses to react ...
Views: 2178 - The New Epidemic: Anxiety -Panic - Depression - by Question: More people seem to be suffering with anxiety attacks than ever before & I'm one of them. I hate the idea of living my life on medications, but without them I'm afraid to leave home. It bothers me that I can't get a handle on this part of my life. My medical tests show I am in good ...
Views: 1028 - Why Take Astrology Seriously? - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2007 from Peter BrentsAstrology provides an interesting roadmap that can help you "decode" some of the mysteries of your life, your relationships, other people, your individual pasts, your unfolding future, and your personal destiny. If you look at that list carefully, you'll see a tremendous wealth of material ...
Views: 1122 - The Magic of Positive Thinking - by Yes, there is magic in positive thinking! In aviation, the word attitude means the angle at which the plane meets the wind, whether the wings are level with the horizon, and whether it is climbing or descending. The pilot who fails to take responsibility for the attitude of his aircraft is in ...
Views: 850 - Service With a Smile - by Successful salespeople have the ability to turn the customers they serve into advocates. They don’t directly ask for assistance, they do it by “going the extra mile” when providing service. It is only natural for satisfied customers to refer their friends and business associates to someone they ...
Views: 1068 - Prospecting - Building an Advocate Army - by The single greatest concern facing all salespeople is prospecting for new business. As a commission salesperson, your livelihood is directly dependent on your ability to prospect effectively. Do you consistently ask for referrals? To be successful in the sales profession you need assistance from ...
Views: 990 - How Will You Be Remembered? - by Have you ever wondered about your own funeral? How many people will attend and what do you imagine they will say about your life? Recently I read a story about a man named Alfred who had the rare opportunity to read his own obituary. Apparently the newspaper in Alfred’s hometown mistakenly ...
Views: 1227 - Dealing With Depression - by Andrea Yates shocked the nation when she admitted to systematically drowning her five children in their Texas home. This 36-year-old mother had previously been diagnosed with depression and consequently was prescribed antidepressants. Depression is an ancient and prevalent mental condition that ...
Views: 2270 - Are You a Bridge Builder? - by There are two kinds of people in this world, those that build bridges and those that don’t. Bridge builders are mentors; they share their experience and build bridges of encouragement and hope for others to cross. They are people of tremendous character and strength that give unselfishly of ...
Views: 931 - Adversity Gives You Strength - by How can you stay motivated in the midst of turbulent times and a sluggish economy? How do you persevere when many companies are reducing spending and customers seem to be holding on to every last penny in fear of an economic downturn? Every challenge you encounter in your life comes with the ...
Views: 1184 - The Truth About Lying - by There are some people who can’t tell a lie, many who can’t tell the truth, and unfortunately, most people can’t tell the difference. Can you tell when someone is pulling the wool over your eyes? As children, we were raised to tell the truth and taught that honesty is always the best policy. We ...
Views: 11468(2 votes) - Yin Yang Relationships - How to Find YOUR Perfect Partner - by Yin Yang is the ancient, Chinese symbol for balance. It depicts the strong attraction and complementary nature of opposites. Just as magnate and metal attract, while oil and water repel, we too are subject to these laws of nature in our relationships. For example, we have all met people for whom ...
Views: 2883 - Overcome Objections and Close the Sale - by Unfortunately, the first two orders many new salespeople receive are “get out and stay out!” It is human nature for your prospect to procrastinate when asked to make a decision involving money. Studies indicate that a prospect will say no on average five times before they actually buy. As a ...
Views: 932 - 5 Tips for Building Trust and Rapport - by Have you ever had a sale that didn’t close and you weren’t sure why? Chances are you lost the sale because you didn’t establish sufficient trust and rapport with your prospect. Once you have developed trust and rapport you’ve actually got the hard part behind you and you’re probably going to ...
Views: 2835 - The Power of Belief and Expectation - by While you may not always get what you want, you will always get what you expect! Belief is the most powerful state of mind because your belief system defines and shapes who you are and determines your potential. I believe Henry Ford was correct when he said, “Whether you think you can or think ...
Views: 986 - The Art of Motivating Salespeople - by When the tide comes in, all the boats in the harbor go up! The long-term benefit of an incentive program is to coax your sales force out of their production comfort zone. Once a salesperson stretches to a new level of personal production, their self-confidence and expectations skyrocket. ...
Views: 1406 - 6 Powerful Prospecting Tips - by Sales is a contact sport and prospecting for new business is the name of the game! You will never meet a salesperson that failed because they had too many prospects to talk to. For the majority of salespeople, finding new customers is without a doubt the most difficult and stressful aspect of ...
Views: 984 - Recruit Your Way to the Top! - by Essentially, a sales manager’s primary job is to recruit, train and motivate their sales force. Of these three vitally important responsibilities, recruiting is the least understood and by far the most challenging. When you recruit the right person you will find that they are eager to train and ...
Views: 890 - Show and Tell - by Do you look for ways to involve your customer during your presentation or do you just babble on hoping you might say something that will generate a sale? Regrettably, unsuccessful salespeople display poor listening skills and have a tendency to talk too much. They use a “show and tell” sales ...
Views: 824 - Develop Your Elevator Speech - by You might be wondering what on earth an elevator speech is and why you would want to develop one? Simply put, your elevator speech is a concise, powerful statement clearly defining what you do, and presented in such a way that it creates a desire for more information. I call it an "elevator ...
Views: 1659 - Show and Tell - by Do you look for ways to involve your customer during your presentation or do you just babble on hoping you might say something that will generate a sale? Regrettably, unsuccessful salespeople display poor listening skills and have a tendency to talk too much. They use a “show and tell” sales ...
Views: 890 - Why is Coach Bobby Knight Explosive? - by Bobby Knight is presently the head basketball coach at Texas Tech. Prior to being hired by them Bobby Knight spent twenty-nine years coaching basketball at Indiana University. In those twenty-nine years he coached many successful basketball teams and in fact, brought three NCAA basketball ...
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