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- Can’t See Your Way To Completing Your Goal? Then It’s Time To Check Your VISION - by Have you been having trouble achieving a specific goal? Are you allowing other less important things to get in the way of accomplishing what you really want? Then this is the time to do a VISION check. Just as it is important to get our eyes checked regularly to assure that we will be able to ...
Views: 861 - Failure ... Is Only Feedback - by Does the thought of failure send a cold shiver down your spine? Failure is the thing most of us spend the greatest amount of energy trying to avoid. What is failure?
In reality, when you strip away all the emotions attached to the word, failure is only feedback. Failure means that we tried a ...
Views: 3356 - 12 Commandments of Goal Setting - by Many professionals have a basic idea of what they want to achieve in their careers. They may want to close more sales, earn a higher income, or move into a different job. However, somehow they do not achieve the success they desire. Why? Why is it that intelligent, motivated, hard-working ...
Views: 849 - How To Master The Art Of Verbal Communication - by When we communicate verbally with others, either in a conversation or in a presentation, our usual goal is to have people understand what we are trying to say. In order to accomplish this, we should remember the acronym KISS (Keep It Short and Simple). When we talk to others, we assume they will ...
Views: 1007 - Triumphing Over Tough Times - by Right now many people are facing tough times. Life as we once knew it has changed and we may find ourselves confronting situations we have never dealt with before.
While we might not be able to control things that are occurring in the world, we can control how we react to what is happening. ...
Views: 652 - Writing a New Page - by Each new year is laden with possibilities like the pages of a new journal. At the beginning of a new year, many of us make resolutions. However, we often make the resolutions quickly with very little thought as to what is or isn’t working in our lives. As a result, the resolutions usually fail, ...
Views: 563 - Having Trouble Motivating Others? Try WIIFM - by Recently my fourteen-year old son Matt dressed up as Santa Claus and attended a Christmas caroling event for one of my professional organizations. Was my son excited about the idea of spending one of his evenings singing to seniors instead of being with his friends? Not really. Then how did I ...
Views: 773 - What’s Wrong With You, Why Don’t You Understand Me? - by Recently while waiting for our lunch to be served in a nearby restaurant, my husband Michael and I were discussing our son’s upcoming science fair project. Michael was describing the steps that my son should follow to complete the assignment. While Michael was going through this elaborate ...
Views: 6975 - What Are You Waiting For? - by It’s the new millenium. Are you ready to finally realize your dream? I’m talking about the desire that you carry deep down inside of you that you attribute to some adolescent fancy. It’s the dream that isn’t practical and can’t possible be fulfilled. Well, it is possible to fulfill it and the ...
Views: 988 - Living on Purpose: Achieving Balance Between Work And the Rest of Your Life - by Many of us get so caught up in day-to-day pressures that we often find ourselves reacting to external demands rather than designing lives that really fulfill us. While in today’s economic environment we face many stresses in our jobs, it is still possible to create balance between our work and ...
Views: 928 - Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone - by Many professionals have attained a high level of competence in their particular fields. They have learned a lot in their careers and they have a good sense of what works and what doesn’t. Some individuals have become so good at what they do that they can successfully perform their jobs “with ...
Views: 1009 - TIPS FOR MY KID - by “TO YOU”
· Believe in yourself
· Always be yourself
· Express yourself
· Never resign to be less
· Never stop thinking about tomorrow, Never!
“TO YOUR FAMILY”
· Teach them to believe in themselves as an individuals, then as a team
· Have a religion which settle basements on them and will ...
Views: 1047 - Money, safety or fear? - by For the most of us, money means fear and for others it means safety, but all the difference depends on our families concept of money. For my family money means, sorrow, anguish and fear. I grew up lacking financial literacy, we never discussed the monetary issue at the dinner table or better ...
Views: 1701 - MEDITATION - THE ESSENCE OF DHYANA - by THE MEANING OF DHYANA:- The real menaing of dhyana is to turn your inner senses on the right tract, to become stable in your nature and not to indulge in excesses.
PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL MECHANISM OF DHYANA:- The first and foremost thing in dhyana is to be cautious, not to let it deivate from the ...
Views: 1213 - Physician, Heal Thyself - by Through words, through music, and pretty much any tool I can conjure up, I try to incite people to reach towards what they want in their lives, inviting them to relax into their own dreams and happiness. And I try to do that in my own life as well, both because I want to live that way and ...
Views: 691 - Committing Fun – Creatively Building Relaxation Into Your Life - by Through words, through music, and pretty much any tool I can conjure up, I try to incite people to reach towards what they want in their lives, inviting them to relax into their own dreams and happiness. And I try to do that in my own life as well, both because I want to live that way and ...
Views: 1047 - The Aliveness Experience: How fiercely alive are you? - by How Alive do you feel? What is your AQ or ALIVENESS QUOTIENT? Is it a 10? These were the questions raised by “The Aliveness Experience”, a program I stumbled upon on the Internet.
They told me I could have more energy, more passion, feel more alive, and express my fiercely alive and authentic ...
Views: 1350 - Time Management Is All About Relationship - by Why are young children immune to the stress and anxiety of time pressure? Sure, they don't have a lot to do and they are not pressured by everyone around them to produce on a deadline. Consider the possibility that there is a more basic reason.
Time has not yet become the child's adversary. ...
Views: 737 - Are You a "Struggler?" - by CEOs, executives, and managers everywhere are recognizing that the old systems just don’t work anymore. Most people find that working harder actually decreases their productivity. The solution? Let go of the "old" and build a new effectiveness model.
Let’s begin with the distinction between ...
Views: 1070 - Two Ways to Feel Fear - by Franklin Roosevelt once said, in a speech on the radio, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
He was dead right. And for the next few minutes we're
going to look at why he was right, what FEAR really is,
and how it can be turned into something strong and
productive for you with ...
Views: 1218 - A Quick Course in Creativity - by This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions.
Let's examine what creativity might look like. Here are
some of the ways in which ...
Views: 835 - Create Your Own Security As You Create Life Changes - by Self-change is a personal phenomenon. In order to accomplish it, you'll need to have firm notions about
HOW YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN SECURITY rather than relying on others to provide it for you.
There are four elements to this.
1. DEVELOP A BROAD OVERVIEW.
Instead of sitting inside your own ...
Views: 804 - Like it or not, in this life…The Name of the Game is Change - by Most of us fear change, because - as we've all experienced - most change seems to be imposed upon us, originating outside of ourselves.
The only thing that each of us can really change is OURSELVES.
A rule to remember: "The only thing you can change is YOU."
Therefore, unless you ...
Views: 791 - Going with the "Flow" - by This whole idea of change is founded on a single principle:
CHANGE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND.
First comes a desire or need to change. Then comes an
attitude that permits it. Then come behaviors that lead
to it and support it. And finally, change happens -- or at
least you realize that it has ...
Views: 607 - Been There; Done That - by “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
General Colin L. Powell
In October 2000, I bought my first Internet marketing program to promote. I paid $20.00 for the program; $179.40 for an autoresponder for one year; $64.99 to be ...
Views: 747 - Selling In The Midst of Terror Tuesday - by The economy is not some esoteric thing. We are the American economy. It is we. Each and every one of us.
We must rally together for our country and continue to spend. Do not hold back. Even I considered, at first, taking back a large purchase I made the day before terror Tuesday. I have ...
Views: 856 - The Real Truth About CVs, Resumes and Job Interviews - by 1. The Secrets of Interview Success
By Gerard McLoughlin
As a candidate you should be able to express yourself with clarity and precision. To do this you must make adequate preparation, anticipating likely questions and rehearsing your responses. Your answers should appear spontaneous. At ...
Views: 1062 - A Powerful Vocabulary Will Change Your Life - by Studies show that your word-power determines your earning power, your skill in self-expression determines your status in life.
The link between your vocabulary and your income is universally recognized. Researchers have discovered that college students with the lowest vocabulary scores usually ...
Views: 4661 - The real 'Sign "of your "nature" - by Sign your way to greatness!
Did you know that the scribble you casually slap on a letter, cheque or credit card docket can give insights to your personality? And did you know that your handwriting can tell a different story about the real you?
Your signature — or sign of your nature — ...
Views: 1966 - What I Learned From A Parakeet - by I want to tell you about the lesson that I learned from my parakeet. Yes, I did say that I learned something from a parakeet. I suppose that it is possible that I have too much time on my hands. Moving on...
My parakeet is named Yazzie. Yazzie is Navajo for small or little. Yazzie is just your ...
Views: 777 - FABS Part 1 and 2 - by Have you heard of the FABS? The FABS are quadruplets; they are not identical but they are very, very similar! The FABS are: Fear, Anger, Blame and Shame. This quartet love to arrive, uninvited, at people's houses and literally stay forever. They will certainly stay as long as you allow them to; ...
Views: 757 - Sorting Emotional Laundry - by This week has been a real roller coaster at my house. A lot of emotional dirty laundry is piling up at my door. As much as I would like to not answer it, that isn't realistic. Avoidance of troubles is not the answer. I long ago learned that it you let that stuff pile up, soon you won't be able ...
Views: 953 - Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome - by We all went through a traumatic event last week. Something unthinkable happened, and it touched us all in ways that we never dreamt were possible. We have all been filled with feeling of grief, horror, and extreme sadness. That is normal and expected in the face of the events of last week.
Now ...
Views: 2174 - Leap?And The Net Will Appear - by In 1994, my life hit rock bottom. My husband was addicted to crack cocaine, my 17 year-old son had just gotten his 15 year-old girlfriend pregnant, we were about to get evicted from our home, I contracted a life-threatening illness with no health insurance and my Mother died very suddenly, and ...
Views: 926 - Connecting To Your Personal Power - by When you see the words “personal power? I wonder what you think. The word “power?has such strange connotations these days: power lunches, power ties, power bars?the word has become virtually meaningless in today’s society. Unless, of course, you feel power-less, or you are the one with all the ...
Views: 856 - Swimming Upstream... - by One of the biggest lessons that I have learned in this life is how futile it is to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Life is never going to go exactly the way that you want it to. Something is always waiting to pop up and bite you. The more that you ...
Views: 928 - Swimming Upstream... - by One of the biggest lessons that I have learned in this life is how futile it is to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Life is never going to go exactly the way that you want it to. Something is always waiting to pop up and bite you. The more that you ...
Views: 568 - The Personal Touch 1 - by There is a simple art to networking and the good news is, should you choose to put forth a conscience effort to improve the way you communicate, networking can and will become second nature to you, it is really just that simple. A personal touch big or small makes a big difference in how others ...
Views: 724 - Navigating Troubled Waters - by "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love." - Sophocles (BC) .
But it isn't always so easy!
Many difficulties in a friendship, including marriage, can be put to the back by the simple act of resignation. Some ideas of one may never suit those of the other, and ...
Views: 871 - Happiness is Like a Butterfly - by "Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." - Chuang-tzu (BC)
Happiness is inside us, in our minds, in our thoughts. It is not external material things or experiences, but the enjoyment of our thoughts and feelings. This is good because our thoughts, and therefore our happiness, are ...
Views: 1395 - Worry - by "A god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
It does a lot more than that, Benjamin! The harm that worry causes in our lives has been well documented by ...
Views: 978 - Divine Discontent (The Urge to Create) - by Hidden deep within our spirit is an urge, while encouraging in nature it produces a fiery and constantly distractive undercurrent that cannot be quenched in part but must be extinguished entirely before we realize "the peace that passeth understanding".
It was placed there by the comforting ...
Views: 1209 - Making a Difference - by Making a difference in our life and the lives of others does not require special skills, experience, education, social status, age or sex requirements or any other society-labeled qualification. It calls only for a sincere desire to do so.
You may be a bank teller, hotdog vendor or sales clerk ...
Views: 772 - Living 'ON' Purpose - by We live in an instant world where events are beamed to us as they happen, pain relief is guaranteed within minutes and immediate results will enhance our life if we use a breakthrough product. Rapid change occurs at blinding speeds, which allows no room for thought. We must act or lose ...
Views: 1054 - Elnner Guidance and Success: The Path of Least Resistance - by Acquisition is Not Success!
Ever since I can remember I have been entrepreneurial. As a child this creative urge expressed itself in music, art, dance and a variety of money making ventures. As I grew into a young man I was often told I was a born salesman and soon my attention was directed ...
Views: 898 - YES, YOU CAN EXPECT A MIRACLE! - by What would constitute a miracle in your life? . . . A million dollars? . . A great family vacation? . . A new car? . . A physical healing? . . Someone's love? . . a 50-pound weight loss? Whatever it is that you consider your miracle, KNOW THAT IT CAN COME TRUE!
This is not necessarily meant to ...
Views: 1028 - Creating Relationships That Work - by Couple Getaway Weekend
"Our relationship is so much better because of the time we spent with you Bill and Linda. We are experiencing new and different ways to make our love grow. It has made such a difference. This makes our bond even more precious."
- - Lance and Annabelle Wallnau
Want to ...
Views: 959 - Making It Happen! - by ABSTRACT: Have you ever wondered who you really are? Take a moment and reflect on yourself as a person. Be brutally honest. Consider who you are and how you live. Are you where you want to be? Who controls your personal power? Is decision making easy? What is your level of stress? How do ...
Views: 636 - Managing the Human Machine - by ABSTRACT: Would it be terrific if you could really live your beliefs and values? Is a higher quality of life important to you? Can you see the advantage of being self empowered? Are you looking forward to blending your vision and purpose with your: team, partner, coworkers, family, community...? ...
Views: 629 - STICKS AND STONES! - by Have you ever heard the old saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!"? How true or false is that statement in your life? I don't know about you, but when I was a kid it hurt when other kids made fun of something I really liked to do. It was even worse when ...
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