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- The Next Best Thing - by I'm the first to admit that I spend a lot of time helping people focus on goals. How to define goals, set goals, and get goals.
But goals are not the be-all and end-all of personal development.
They're just another useful tool we can use to help us get from where were are to where we'd like ...
Views: 760 - This Side Of The Rainbow - by I recently took a ride to the video store to select my evening’s entertainment. A dramatic thunderstorm was passing over as I made my way across town in the middle of late afternoon rush hour traffic.
The sky was dark and the rain was coming down in torrents. I made my way into the store ...
Views: 760 - Thoughts Run Our Lives - by The major function of our subconscious mind is to take orders! What kind of thoughts are we sifting through our subconscious on a daily basis? When we worry about having enough money, love, work, we're we're not giving orders...we're focusing on "lack" which will surely produce more of the same. ...
Views: 760 - Want To Relax and Sell More? Nurture Your Creativity - by Often you try one tip, then another, then a few more, only to see your business holding steady or slipping backward. Unfortunately, only the most savvy entrepreneurs see the real problem that his holding them back.
You can't be successful until your true, inner creativity is free. While this ...
Views: 760 - Eight Ways To Great Days - by If you need a little help on the way to success, try on these eight steps.
Although there is no such thing as instant success, research in peak performance has uncovered working techniques common to any high-achiever. Success is predictable. I'm committed to the belief that you can have more ...
Views: 759 - The Top 7 - How Well do you Speak? - by The ability to speak well can enhance your career, clinch a sale, sell a point of view and increase an executive's productivity. Coach Sandra Schrift, founder of the first national speakers?bureau in San Diego, shares a few insights on making a presentation.
1. The most important objective of ...
Views: 759 - Top 7 Steps For Creating Unlimited Success This New Year - by New Year's is traditionally a time for resolutions--when we vow to live our lives better than we have in the past. Unfortunately, we treat our resolutions as wishes made on stars. We declare them and then simply hope they'll come true. Well, it takes more than wishful thinking to change our ...
Views: 759 - Beware of the Man in the Mirror - by The biggest pitfall facing hiring managers today is hiring in their own image. Here is how to hire sales people who can do the job, not just get the job.
BY MIKE PIERCE
With the advent of sophisticated testing, electronic background checks and other objective tools available today, one would ...
Views: 758 - Love it or Lose it - by A lot of people have lost their jobs due to offshore outsourcing. There is a deeper spiritual issue at play here. Many people who worked in these “Level 1” support positions took the job because it was there. Were they really happy about the work they were doing? Sure, it paid the bills, but did ...
Views: 758(2 votes) - How to Tackle Challenges That Make You Feel Overwhelmed - by How To Tackle Challenges That Make You Feel Overwhelmed You have most likely heard it said, many times over, that the best way to tackle a large project or task, is to break it down into small tasks. There is a saying that I saw on a small poster many years ago that read, “Life’s hard by the ...
Views: 757 - Interlude: Reflections on Relationships - by A dear friend, who unexpectedly arrived in Chicago for an interview, and I recently met over gnocchi and ravioli. The impromptu occasion was a wonderful opportunity to exchange updates on the life events and new awarenesses that had gelled over the past few years since we had last seen one ...
Views: 757 - WHY DOES SHE ALWAYS BRING HER KID ON THE DATE? - by Hi Doc,
I am smitten with a beautiful redhead who has a three year-old daughter. She told me from the beginning that she wasn't looking for anyone because she didn't want anyone telling her how to raise her little girl. Apparently, she had had a bad relationship with her daughter's father, ...
Views: 757 - Calling Your Energy Home - by Do you have the energy to sustain a full and balanced life (what I often refer to as "your bigger game"), or do you sometimes suspect that if your dreams came true you would be too tired or scattered to sustain them?
Two reasons we run short of energy are leakage and lack of focus. These ...
Views: 756 - Everything I ever needed to learn about - by NO! Not me ! I wasn't ready for this; I am only 47 and way too young. The day that I always feared had become a reality. My son actually wanted to play baseball during the summer of '99. I had heard horror stories about what became of parents who drag their kids to little league baseball games ...
Views: 756 - Allergies Take Over Phoenix - by Hostages held by Pollens and Molds!
This might sound like a tabloid feature, but sometimes it seems too close to truth. What can we do to fight these problems without buying into the local drugstore and all their expensive "remedies"? This article will have two parts. Natural easy ways to fight ...
Views: 755 - Flying to the Top - by It started out well enough. I was talking to my two older brothers about the last six months of my life. We do not see each other often. In fact, twice in a calendar year is amazing! I got very excited at the prospect of telling them all that has been happening in my life. There have been so ...
Views: 754 - So What? - by * So what if I am confused, I can seek clarity.
* So what if I feel overwhelmed, I can always change my point of focus.
* So what if I am upset that I didn’t know that sooner, I know it now.
* So what if that didn’t turn out okay, I gained new knowledge and wisdom from it.
* So what if I ...
Views: 754 - The Value of Creating Your Own Journal for Your Thoughts, Feelings and Experiences - by The famous guided imagery expert and author of the "Goddess Within," Susan Castle, is quoted as saying,
"Journalling helps you grow, and flow. It helps you get in touch with who you really are...your essence. It helps put you in touch with the Dreamer in you. It nourishes your Dreamer. ...
Views: 754 - Dream Interpretation for Healing: An Exercise In Patience and Self-Love - by "The greatest book of study is that of your own, written by the soul upon time and space - that of your dreams."
~ From the book Season of Changes, Ways of Response
Using your dreams for healing and soulful direction is a process in patience and self-love that is well worth the time and ...
Views: 753 - 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: 753 - Pain - a tool for growth - by A few months ago I had a miscarriage.
As the doctors preferred it to be the natural way I had to look at pain (physical and emotional) straight in the eye.
With each contraction, pain took over my whole body for a few seconds. Once this wave was over a wave of emotional pain took its place. ...
Views: 753 - The Mindset of “Job Security” Can Be Killing Your Best Resource - by When it comes to managing knowledge, learning from past mistakes, and capitalizing on the hidden knowledge and the wisdom of people, organizations historically have not done that well. Instead of building human portals and mediums that connect and unite people, and creating safe environments ...
Views: 753 - Make sure Affiliate Programs pay you for every Sale - by When joining an affiliate program there are many decisions you have to make. Unfortunately, few people query what kind of tracking software the program uses. To overlook this can prove costly, and means you may never be credited with 5% - 10% of your affiliate sales.
A good affiliate program ...
Views: 752 - How To Offer Individual Praise Without Undermining Team Efforts - by A lot of discussions lately are centered around teamwork and leadership. This is especially an issue after all the leadership scandals that have been brought to light in corporate America this past year. Due to major layoffs, and the loss of exceptional brainpower, there is a huge need for ...
Views: 751 - Little Known Way To Gain Trust, Drive Traffic To Your Site And Generate Instant Sales - by The short story I'm about to tell is responsable for thousands of dollars in sales. Are you interested ?
I was watching a show on TV today when the station suddenly displayed a little circled white 'P' in the botom-right of the screen (signalling something was to be advertised)
The hosts ...
Views: 751 - THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE - TAKING THE PRESSURE OFF YOUR BODY - by “Stand up straight!?“Pull your shoulders back!?As children, we were told to have good posture. Yet we were seldom taught effective ways to accomplish this. Indeed, we were often not even told just what “good posture?is.
The consequences of this information gap can be seen all around us: stiff ...
Views: 751 - Give Up to Get Love - by Many times when people want to attract their ideal partner, they often make a list of things to do -- action steps, if you will -- that will help them meet "the one." They add new activities into their routine, join dating services, write singles ads. They may start an exercise program or buy ...
Views: 750 - Real Estate Agents: The Top 10 Strategies for Dealing With First-Time - by Depending on your marketplace, up to 75% of the buyers are first-time home purchasers. If you're looking for some strategies to reduce "first-timer jitters," try the following.
1. Recognize that "first time jitters" are almost always due to fear. When clients are fearful, ask them if there's ...
Views: 750 - Compassion, Part 2 - by Having compassion toward others is a gift of connectedness you give yourself and a gift of presence you give others. While difficult to define, compassion is a way of being, and you will see the definition emerge among the three concepts presented here.
1. Compassion involves seeing others as ...
Views: 749 - Focus Your Light - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
Remember when you were a kid how you could make paper catch fire by focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass? You'd look over your shoulder at the sun, get the angle of the rays just right, and move the magnifying glass until you could see a small circle of bright ...
Views: 749 - How DO you become successful on the Internet? - by Everyone on the Internet is looking for the ultimate get-rich- quick scheme. At least that is what the people selling the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme would like you to believe.
Which one is the 'ultimate'? Well, if you hear them tell it, theirs is, of course.
"Turn $5 into $50,000,000,000 ...
Views: 749 - How to Develop, Listen To, and Trust Your Most Valuable Resource - by Your intuition has incredible power to "see" and "hear" and "feel" beyond your normal 5 senses' abilities. What I mean is that your hunches, those little messages that we all receive, have incredible ability to fuel our Life's Dreams and help us move beyond our so-called limitations.
Your ...
Views: 749 - 9 WAYS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF LIVING YOUR LIFE PURPOSE - by You have finally clarified what your life is about, you know who you are and what your life purpose is. You have even created a life purpose statement. Now what? How do you get the most out of the work you've done. How do you have your life purpose shape your life? This list will help guide you ...
Views: 748 - Self Growth - by In various writings about emotional issues in people’s lives, you have probably seen reference to the term polarity, as well as the term shadow. One way to notice when we have a polarity within our own life situation is when we have a fixed negative viewpoint about our situation. When we do, it ...
Views: 748 - The Personal Touch 1 - by Most of us spend several hours each day communicating with others through the medium of our voice. Our voices contribute much to how we impact our world.
In the same way that no two snowflakes are the same, everyone has their own unique and wonderful vocal qualities. Our voices tell the world ...
Views: 748 - First Date Checklist: - by First dates sometimes offer a range of emotion from thrilling to terrifying! Here are some tips that will help things go smoothly:
#1: Be on time! Timeliness is expected, but being late (or too early) makes a bad impression. If you can't help being a little late, call before the expected ...
Views: 747 - It's More Than Just Learning - by American author Alvin Toffler said, "The illiterate of the future are not those that can not read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn."
By now we should all be aware that in order to improve one's position in life, we must continue to learn new things. But in order to ...
Views: 747 - What's Hard to Find, But Always With You - by To create a wonderful life, you first need to make a choice: will you use your thinking to help yourself to the happy, fulfilling life you wish for, or will you allow the often haphazard, random ideas we gather over time to non-consciously run your life for you? What you think leads directly to ...
Views: 747 - Taking Responsibility – A Step Toward Progressive Leadership - by Recently, I was asked to facilitate a meeting and offer coaching to 20 executive members at a company’s strategic conference. As I sat quietly and observed everyone in the room, I began to notice that all conversations seemed to revolve around placing blame.
Can you picture the setting? A long ...
Views: 746 - Top 10 Lessons every person should know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - by Saturday, December 29, 2001 was my Birthday. I thought I would do something different this year. I want to give YOU, as a gift from me, the Top Ten Greatest Lessons I have learned so far in Life. I hope you enjoy them. Let me know what you think.
1. If your life is a mess, it is your ...
Views: 746 - Smile Power - by There is power in a smile. The simple act of moving the corners of the mouth upward has the ability to touch the hard hearted and lighten heavy burdens.
Smiling is both evocative and affirming. A smile evokes a response from the one smiled at and affirms their place in the universe. A smile ...
Views: 745 - The Positive Power of Quitting - by I'm a big believer in quitting. I think it's a good thing. You should do more of it.
Yes, I did say quitting and -- yes -- I did say you should do more of it!
Sound odd? I'm not surprised. Maybe it's that neat-o 'survival instinct' of yours kicking in. Or maybe after years and years of ...
Views: 745 - TOUCHING - by Have you touched anyone today? A few weeks ago, I started to think that I'd like to write an article entitled "Touching". At that time, I had no idea how to go about it, but the title kept parading in my mind. That same week, a friend of mind called me to let me know about a great event that had ...
Views: 745 - 10 Secrets to Becoming a Catalyst for Personal Transformation - by 1. Make living on purpose your only way of being. No matter what role you are playing, job you are taking, always be endeavoring towards your larger vision.
2. Reach inside when you hit obstacles. Instead of looking outside yourself, playing a subtle blame game, go deeply within yourself. ...
Views: 744 - Feel - by Recently I had a conversation with a friend about relationships.
She told me she does not have a relationship and has not had one for the last few years. I asked her if she was complete with her divorce and the relationship right after that. She said she had no feeling left about her old ...
Views: 744 - In A Rut? - by Question: ``I feel like I'm stuck in a rut. Any ideas on how to get out of it and move on?''
Answer: Most of the time when we are ``stuck in a rut'' it's because we are thinking very habitually; the same thoughts stream through our minds over and over again. The same things bother and frustrate ...
Views: 744 - 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: 743 - Flipping The Switch - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
So, you work from home. Good for you! No boss looking over your shoulder, no wasting time commuting to and from the office, no-one setting your hours for you or telling you what to do. No one to care if you're wearing your rattiest clothes or don't take a shower before ...
Views: 743 - Giving It A Personal Touch - The Secret To TRUE Success - by Okay, so you want to be an online professional. Great!!
Professional: (adjective)
2: exhibiting a courteous, conscientious, and generally businesslike manner in the workplace 2 a : participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs.
Looking ...
Views: 743 - Love it or Lose it - by A lot of people have lost their jobs due to offshore outsourcing. There is a deeper spiritual issue at play here. Many people who worked in these “Level 1” support positions took the job because it was there. Were they really happy about the work they were doing? Sure, it paid the bills, but did ...
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