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- How To Conduct Your Own Research and Use It To Make More Sales - by I received an email from a prospective client the other day. It was disturbing. The message stated, “…my customers aren’t buying and I don’t know what they want anyway. I’m adding new product lines all the time but nothing seems to work.” I could feel her frustration.
In my reply to her, I ...
Views: 965 - Stir the Soup - by When was the last time you radically changed your approach? That you tried something different in your career, or in your personal life? Most of us get into the proverbial "comfort trap," where we become comfortable with the way things are and do the best we can not to "rock the boat." The ...
Views: 965 - The JUMBLE Complex - by As you sit there reading the words that are on your screen, you have thoughts and feelings in response to what it is that you are reading. And as you continue reading this you might be surprised to find that your curiousity begins to grow as you continue reading this again and again. You’ve came ...
Views: 965 - Advances in Cancer Diagnosis - by Being a health information provider, it seems only fitting that we make people aware of how serious an illness Cancer is, and hopefully share some news too. The American Cancer Society states that in the year 2000, about 1,220,100 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed. This is the second ...
Views: 964 - All in A Dog’s Way Can Make You More Sales - by Dogs are great teachers of how to sell easier and better. And if you think about a dog’s life, it’s an easy one. Some dog behaviors can serve as models for do’s and don’ts for salespeople.
Dogs mark their territory.
Do what you can to stand out in your industry or in your working geography. ...
Views: 964 - Discover What You Really Want - by To be effective in achieving your goals it is absolutely important to make them something that you really want. But how do you do that? Often uncovering your desires and dreams is a bigger challenge than making them come true.
One of the ways to spot what you want is answering the questions ...
Views: 964 - How Security Camera Systems Work - by Security camera systems work via closed-circuit television (CCTV). This CCTV differs from broadcast television because all of the components of the cameras and televisions are linked with cables or alternate direct means. CCTV can be viewed in real-time, and there is no need to broadcast a ...
Views: 964 - Advice and Dating Tips for Single Men on Making Single Women Feel Romanically Attracted to You - by The most important thing you can do to make single women feel romantically attracted to you is to make her feel special. Women are a lot less interested in the way you appear to her than in the way to make her feel about herself.
It's very important to make single women feel special and ...
Views: 963 - Anxiety! I Have It. I Don't Want It. Now What? - by In anxious situations, you will react emotionally, cognitively and behaviorally. The following are examples of how you might experience these situations:
Feelings: anxiety, intense fear and nervousness
Thoughts: automatic negative thoughts
Behaviors: blushing, dry throat and mouth, ...
Views: 963 - Cats Always Go To The One With The Nasal Spray - by Are you allergic? If so, doesn't it seem like cats always go to the one with the nasal spray? When you say to yourself, I hope so-and-so, cat doesn't come near me, guess what? Here comes the cat. Why?
Because your brain glosses right over the *not* in your sentence and heads for the real meat, ...
Views: 963 - Personal Power Through Public Speaking - by I believe that the ability to stand up and speak in public can literally change your life. Why do I believe this? Because it has changed mine. Here is what public speaking can do for you personally and professionally.
1. It builds confidence. When you experience the thrill of holding an ...
Views: 963 - Seeking Wisdom - by Is wisdom something that is magically acquired with the passing of years, a gift received for a fine education, or is it something with which we are naturally born and just lose along the way?
Wisdom is the knowledge that we don’t know everything, that happiness doesn’t come from amassing ...
Views: 963 - Sexuality and Spirituality - Strange Bedfellows Or Natural Partners? - by Sex. Possibly the most loaded word in any language, and with good reason. Sex reaches deep down into who we are at our core, and tells truths about us that are undeniable. Freud tapped into this over a century ago, and his insights still reverberate across the decades, and did a lot to break ...
Views: 963 - Teens...when do they end? - by That was what I asked my Dad...I had just turned 13. And the same question springs to my mind, as I am on the threshold of 20s. Where is that dividing line, that lakshman rekha that separates teenage and beyond...As we go from 19 to 20, we are suddenly expected to become responsible, sincere, ...
Views: 963 - The 4 Steps to Successful Goal-Setting - by Successful people have always had clear, focused goals that guide them to greatness.
It took Thomas Edison thousands of attempts and thousands of failures over many years to invent the electric light bulb, but he new exactly what he wanted, and his goal kept him going until he achieved it The ...
Views: 963 - Three Minute Therapy: Special Promotion - by ON NOVEMBER 29, 2007, YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE YOUR THINKING AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
Purchase Three Minute Therapy at Amazon.com today, November 29, for $14.93, and you will receive bonus gifts of extraordinary value! AND you will receive a ten minute session with the ...
Views: 963 - What Matters? - by Beyond food and shelter, our next greatest need is to matter.
-David J. Walker
What can I do? Where do I start? How do you matter?
What would our contribution be, in some way, to making a difference? How would we go about helping the life of another person? How can we best help ourselves? ...
Views: 963(1 vote) - Challenge Life - by As I talked with my 85 year old Grandpa Eddy the other night he told me that he still likes mowing his lawn. "I mow the front first. Then I take a break and mow the back. I look at it as a challenge not a chore," he said. Then he added "When mowing my lawn becomes a chore and I have trouble ...
Views: 962(1 vote) - Surviving Work: A Family Affair - by For anyone who does not know the term "family-of-origin", it comprises our immediate family members - mother, father, siblings and perhaps grandparents. These are the people from whom you learned the safest way to react to life situations. For each person in this family, you created a set of ...
Views: 962 - I Don't Like To Think About Depression. It's So . . . So . . . - by Thinking about depression is . . . Well, it's . . . It's depressing.
If I wanted to think about love, I'd have a much better thought pattern than if I thought about depression. If I thought about the weather, I'd normally have a better thought pattern than if I thought about depression.
If I ...
Views: 961 - Magnetic Fields as a Form of Energy Medicine - by Just imagine, reaching into the body and healing an imbalance without touching anything. This is what medical magnetic fields do. This is the essence of energy medicine. These magnetic “waves” are the future medicine. Magnetic field devices becoming available to the public deliver fields to ...
Views: 961 - New Method Proves Successful For 6 Heart Disease Risk Factors - by Are you one of 71.3 million Americans who currently has some form of Cardiovascular Disease? If so, a new version of acupressure may bring important improvement in 6 of the important risk factors. It is called Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and has proven successful in clinical cases for ...
Views: 961 - OPTIMAL HEALTH - by Without your good Health, nothing else matters. . .
OPTIMAL HEALTH IS ACHIEVABLE!
Never before has scientific evidence been so clear and strong that the greatest of all doctors is Mother Nature herself, and her medicines of choice are 100% safe vitamins, minerals and supplements. This remedy ...
Views: 961 - Be Unreasonable (Excerpt) - by Businesspeople of the world, now is the time. Your tried-and-true ways of getting things done are running out of gas; they no longer provide the outcomes you seek. Because your old ways of behaving sometimes appear to work, you think they will work forever. Unhappily, that is just an illusion; ...
Views: 960 - Developing A Quiet Life In The Midst Of Turmoil - by One of the most important things you can do in life is to simply find time for yourself. By this, we don't mean opting out of society or "spacing out". Value yourself enough to give yourself time to simply be, without any expectation of goal or result. Paradoxically, by doing this, we can often ...
Views: 960 - DIGESTIVE ENZYMES MY HELP YOU TO FEEL BETTER - by Enzymes are catalysts. They change food to usable form and are produced in the mouth, stomach, pancreas, liver and the intestinal tract. The three categories are: l. Metabolic enzymes - work in blood/organs. 2. Metabolic Digestive Enzymes - work in digestive organs. 3. Food Enzymes, in all raw ...
Views: 960 - Energy: The Current of the Universe - What We Think is What We Create - by An excerpt from The Art of Conscious Creation, How You Can Transform the World
by Jackie Lapin, Founder of United World Healing
Imagine an Earth in the throes of peace! People of every culture and race respect each other, help each other, and work together for the good of humans, animals, and ...
Views: 960 - THE BIG HOLE IN YOUR DAY - by We all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. And if you multiply that out and my math is correct (I assume it is because I've done this a few times), that gives us a total of 168 hours per week. And the thing about time is that it can only be spent, it cannot be saved. (Did you ever have ...
Views: 960 - Am I lucky? You bet! - by Q: I get so angry when people tell me how lucky I am. Don't they realize how hard I'm working? I try to stay away from people who believe you have to be lucky to live your dream.
A: Yes, I know the feeling. When I took a year off to play, when I moved to New Mexico, when I took a special trip, ...
Views: 959 - 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: 959 - Indian System of Education - by The education system of India is getting more politicised day by day. It is the politicians who decide whether English will be taught in schools, whether or examinations will be held for primary students and whether tuitions by government schools teachers will be legalised or not. The story ...
Views: 959 - On Having A Mentor - A Lesson from Alexander The Great - by It would seem that Alexander was a devoted reader of Homer's great epic poems, The Odyssey and the Iliad; particularly the latter. The Iliad deals with Ancient Greek ideals of hero, warfare and glory in the context of the war against the city of Troy. Alexander, it would seem, read these stories ...
Views: 959 - THE HEALING POWER OF SOY'S ISOFLAVONES - by Numerous reports indicate that, because soy is high in isoflavones, it can prevent illness and promote good health. Isoflavones are a class of phytochemicals, which are compounds found only in plants (phyto means plant). They are also a type of phytoestrogen, or plant hormone, that resembles ...
Views: 959 - Using the Internet to Find Health Information - by The Internet has opened many doors for people with a multitude of information swirling around, waiting to be accessed & downloaded. While a sizable amount may be deemed junk by those unfamiliar with the net, anyone must agree that there is a ton of good as well out there. A key area of good net ...
Views: 959 - Conscious Life Design through Empowerment - by What happens when you tell yourself, "I can create my life exactly the way I want it, in all dimensions--work, family, relationships, community and the larger world"? How does your inner voice respond? One way to discover this is to divide a sheet of paper down the middle. On one side, write ...
Views: 958 - Discrimination - The First Law of Success - by As the author of personal development publications distributed world wide, I am frequently asked why certain people seem to succeed at practically everything they attempt. This is probably the most asked question I receive. My response is "I definitely can tell you, but you're really not going ...
Views: 958 - Money - The Lie Revealed - by It's probably not what you're after at all (and you
think it is).
When you're clear on WHY, and HOW MUCH,
getting money can be easier, and much more fun.
Focus on the REASON for money! What lifestyle do you want?
How much is enough?
Suppose you got clear today that your ultimate ...
Views: 958 - Parenting Your Aging Parents - Questions and Answers - by Parenting Your Aging Parents
?Copyright 1999 by Francine and Robert Moskowitz
Dear Francine and Robert:
My mother is planning to be re-married next month. She is an 81 year old woman who has lived alone quite well for several years since my father's death from cancer. Also, Mom has a ...
Views: 958(1 vote) - The Amazing Powers of Self Hypnosis - by I want to share a success story about hypnosis for weight loss. There are so many, but this one stands out in my mind and touches my heart. I was working in the summer of 2004 with a young lady named Jen. She was 19 at the time and was scheduled to undergo gastric bypass surgery. This surgery is ...
Views: 958 - 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: 958 - Be Thankful For What You Have Got - by Did you know that the 911 equivalent in the UK (999) now has call waiting? I hope that you never find out for yourself. Have you ever had to resuscitate someone? I sincerely hope that you haven’t. Have any of your family spent time in hospital? If they have, I hope it wasn’t for long.
Well, I ...
Views: 957 - Forget Being Free of Depression - by A friend once remarked I was a wonderful role model for how to live a great life despite suffering from depression. At the time, I was unable to see the value in that since, the ultimate goal is to be depression free - isn't it? Suffering from depression means we’re flawed, right? It means ...
Views: 957 - How one woman created her own support group - by With divorce on the upswing and the original family foundation being divided, there is a growing population of single parents needing support and information on surviving the breakup of the classically acceptable family unit and the reincarnation into the new single parent lifestyle. With ...
Views: 957 - Industry Pro Interview – Increase the Buying Frequency From Your Customers - by Kevin Clark (“Mr. Entrepreneur”) is a high-energy champion for those who want to start a business or get more profit out of their business. He’s a regional winner of the prestigious Entrepreneur Of The Year Award and was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
Pretty impressive, don’t ...
Views: 957 - This Spring: Dig a Pond! - by This is the time to plan for spring gardening projects and a water feature is a wonderful addition to any garden. This article is meant to help with the planning and building of the garden pond. Building a garden pond is a family activity that is fun for everyone. Parents, children, grandparents ...
Views: 957 - Can a Relationship Start Without the Home Phone Number? - by Women Don't Lie - Men Don't Listen
Dear Doc,
Sometimes a woman refuses to give me her home phone number for "security reasons" (i.e. she wants to keep away the weirdoes and stalkers), but she is perfectly willing to meet me at a restaurant first and usually does. I really prefer to call the ...
Views: 956 - Do The Thing You Fear - by Easily said, isn't it? But not so easily done?
What if you knew that when you give into fear, that action will set up a path in your brain to be fearful next time, so that next time it's easier to be afraid? That would give you incentive to be more courageous, wouldn't it?
Even more, what if ...
Views: 956 - Four Ways to Replenish your Creative Spirit - by WHAT WERE YOU JUST THINKING?
Daydreams are fertile ground for the imagination to soar. As you sit absorbed in a problem, notice when you get lost in a day dream. What were you just thinking of? Your unconscious is a rich source of images, ideas and experiences that lead to new connections, and ...
Views: 956 - New Centre for Truth and Art, London, UK, invites members - by An Invitation to join Open Space, a new home for Truth and Art, London, England
“Emptiness is the way forward, and the way back, and the way in, and the way out. Emptiness is where we arise and where we disappear.”
Open Space is looking for more members prior to its launch. It seeks to focus ...
Views: 956 - Relationships - by One of the things that strikes me about relationships is that this is an area of great challenge for very many people, and that we are currently having to look at our thinking about relationships in a way that people of our parents' generation didn't have to.
Last weekend, I completed the ...
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