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- Attracting with Gratitude - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2013 from John SteelyThe Law of Attraction works in either three or four phases, depending on your perspective. Regardless of how you approach the Law of Attraction, the last phase of its operation is you receiving what you have attracted. The key to this phase is that you receive the result with an attitude that ...
Views: 1293(1 vote) - Starting the Life Coaching Process - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2015 from John SteelyWhen someone talks to me about life coaching, they often ask me where it starts. “Where,” they say, “do you begin? After all, life is such a huge topic, how do you pick your starting point?” The starting point of a coaching program is determined by what can be called The Gap. Since gaps are ...
Views: 1258 - How to Be a Successful Adult Student – A Willingness to Try - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2010 from John SteelyWhen looking at a potential course of action, most people are torn between two positions: an eagerness to do something better and a fear of failure. Sadly, most people choose to emphasize the fear of failure. This is the driving force behind insurance, behind the “CYA” maneuvers, and behind ...
Views: 1242 - Using Rewards to Achieve Resolutions - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2013 from John SteelyWe all have goals and resolutions that we start on; the problem is persevering until the goal is reached or the resolution is achieved. We get discouraged, we get distracted, we quit, we change direction; all of these are part of life. When you are creating a plan to reach a goal or achieve a ...
Views: 1242 - Confidence and Success - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2013 from John SteelyOne of the necessary actions for success is taking risks; the old saying “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” is very true when it comes to reaching goals, to achieving success. However, not everyone is willing to risk their security, real or imagined, for a chance at being successful. In order ...
Views: 1235 - The Fallacy of The A - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2016 from John SteelyAs a teacher, I have observed students for many years. Over and over again, students are more stressed over test grades than any other grade, and this stress is caused by a lack of perspective. Tests are not the most important grade in a typical course; in fact, they are often not given the ...
Views: 1214 - Treating a Resolution Like a Goal - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2013 from John SteelyResolutions and goals are closely related, and while there are some differences, those differences occur more in the creation and planning phases and less when implementing either. This would indicate that the same skills and abilities that help implement goals would also help reach ...
Views: 1210 - Why Write Goals Down? - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2013 from John SteelyMany people, in many places, teach how to reach goals. Among the practices taught, writing goals down is one of the most repeated instructions. There is ample evidence that written goals are attained more often than goals not written down, and this fact is all that is given to explain why to ...
Views: 1208(1 vote) - Just Getting Started With Confidence - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2013 from John SteelyWe all want to be confident: confident in our work, confident in our thinking, confident in our relationships. We feel that we are lacking in confidence, sometimes to the point of fearfulness. We hold ourselves back, telling ourselves that we will move forward when we are more confident. But ...
Views: 1093 - Understand Your Strengths - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2014 from John SteelyJohn Maxwell says that when you put together a plan of action to reach a goal, to accomplish something significant, you need to focus on using your strengths, not compensating for your weaknesses. When a coach of an athletic team is planning a game strategy, he looks at each player for what they ...
Views: 1067 - Using an Agenda to Help Classroom Timing - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2011 from John SteelyI have had any number of fellow teachers come to me and say "I just did not have the time to cover the material today"; in fact, I have said that myself. It is very easy for the entire class period to slip away before essential material is covered, material the student needs to complete the ...
Views: 1056 - How to Begin the Path to Financial Freedom - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2009 from John SteelyWhen I talk to my students outside of class, many of them agree that financial freedom is a great goal. Unfortunately, when we continue the discussion, they don't know what they mean by financial freedom, and, even if they do know what it means, they have very vague ideas on how to get there. ...
Views: 1001(2 votes) - Success Habit: Working with an Accountability Partner - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2013 from John SteelySometimes we are more successful meeting commitments to others than to ourselves. This fact is the basis of what is known as using an accountability partner. What an Accountability Partner is Not An accountability partner is not a boss. Such a person does not pay us or reward us. We ...
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