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Snapshot Management: Leaders under the Spotlight Use Emotional Intelligence - By Reldan Nadler- Are you stuck in the dance of guilt? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Nigel LewisThe Dance of Guilt What is guilt? Have you ever realized how you react to guilt? Most of us do what I call the dance of guilt. Life is so much about moving towards or moving away from anything and everything. When we feel guilty we often retreat into the moving away from stance. We withdraw ...
Views: 2610(2 votes) - Being a Friend in Need - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2011 from Eduard EzeanuA solid friendship is born when you can help the other person in need, and the can do the same for you. Learn to be a friend in need and you will strengthen your relationships. You don’t know how strong a friendship really is until it is tested. The classic test a friendship encounters is ...
Views: 1616(2 votes) - Buddhism, the Brain, and a Bad Boss - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2013 from Nina HamThere’s nothing more frustrating and disheartening than feeling that your boss is undermining your efforts to do your best at work. Maybe it seems intentional, maybe it seems just who s/he is. Whatever the origin, the toll on your morale and performance is heartbreakingly wasteful. What to ...
Views: 1863(1 vote) - Caution! Child Under Construction: Getting it right the first time - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2010 from Brian WalshA friend of mine is a construction contractor specializing in tiles. During a recent conversation, he was complaining that his previous job was problematic because it was a renovation rather than new construction. When he removed old walls and plumbing, he uncovered many examples of shoddy work ...
Views: 1679(1 vote) - Changing Behaviour the Easy Way - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2010 from Clive MillerIn Groundhog Day Bill Murray keeps playing out the same situation, over and over, never finding a way to make the outcome different. Do you ever keep making the same mistake? I sometimes have to make a mistake many times before I begin to change my behaviour and react differently. Traumatic ...
Views: 1699(2 votes) - Character Education is Personal Growth for Kids - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2009 from Patrick McMillanSocial and Emotional learning builds character traits that provide kids with benefits that last a lifetime and lessons from Personal Growth and Positive Psychology can change the future and our kid’s lives. From Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and Samuel Clement Stone to Zig Zigler, Tony ...
Views: 4196(2 votes) - Color Personality Test - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2012 from Thomas M TurnerThe whole point of a color personality test is to measure your personality. By doing something as straightforward as picking your favorite colors, it is possible to actually determine not only your present state of emotions, but so much more. For instance, a color personality test is said to be ...
Views: 6195(1 vote) - Compete Where You Can Win - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2010 from Elizabeth FreedmanCompete Where You Can Win: Quit Beating Your Head Against the Wall and Go Where the Love Is By Elizabeth F. Freedman www.elizabethfreedman.com info@elizabethfreedman.com Why is selling ourselves – whether it’s to a prospective employer or client - so tough? Whether you’re looking for ...
Views: 987(2 votes) - Coping Strategies for Hard Times - by Submitted on May 04, 2009 from Sonja WinburnIn times like these, when people in workplaces everywhere are feeling such strain from a lack of resources, and intense stress caused by such uncertainty, it helps to stop and consider. These times can accomplish growth in each of us and although it is burdensome, it can be viewed in a positive ...
Views: 1342(1 vote) - Defence Mechanism: Reaction Formation - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2013 from Oliver JR CooperThe ego mind uses defence mechanism for protection and to ensure its own survival. There are many of these available and this will often depend on two factors. This can be: the type of experience that one has and how one interprets the experience. Reaction formation is a way for the mind to ...
Views: 2691(1 vote) - Digging up Unresolved Emotions and Feelings - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2007 from Kathleen HoweI speak to people everyday about the importance of emotions and feelings in our daily life. Most of them are completely numbed and all they can do is nod their head while reading my words or simply sigh when I’m finished speaking. They’re knee deep in symptoms of mental illness; depression or an ...
Views: 8634(1 vote) - Do You Need a Good Slap! - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2010 from David SamuelLet me tell you what frustrates me. The frustration comes from my own limitation to help people in a certain position, I simply do not know how to get this type of person past the point they are stuck at. This is not to say I do not know how to fix the problem, because I have a pretty good ...
Views: 2413(2 votes) - Do You Pull The Plug On Your Own Productivity - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Sharon MelnickAs you know, you have approximately 60,000 thoughts a day, but a single one can pull the plug on your productivity for the whole day (or week). For example, I had a client who who sold insurance. He got a referral to meet with the person who heads a big union. Can you imagine, get to ...
Views: 1152(2 votes) - Do You Set Yourself Up to Succeed? - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2013 from Layne SchmidtWe recently brought a wild horse into our family and my mate has been applying a training method called Natural Horsemanship. This method encourages the trainer to observe where the horse is at in their understanding and begin the teachings from there. For example, our new charge had never ...
Views: 1415(2 votes) - Does the world know the real you? - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2010 from Claude WarnerThe world could be described as the community where the human family lives. The question is, how do you live in this world? Who is the you that the world gets to know? Is it the real you, where how you live on the outside is a reflection of you who are on the inside, where your ...
Views: 1373(1 vote) - Easy Self Improvement Tips Need More Than Information - by Submitted on May 08, 2011 from Fred wilsonIn life we are consistently flooded with a similar theme of self improvement tips and how to be the best person you can be. Often there is a repetition of the same content in the area of self improvement, and although that is valuable, it does not really offer anything essentially different. ...
Views: 1585(1 vote) - Effective Tips for Organizing Your Work Day to Increase Productivity - by Submitted on May 01, 2011 from Machen MacDonaldWhat would you do differently throughout your day if you only had time to experience joy and success? I often hear how so much energy and effort is being directed at what people don’t want rather than what they do want. Like anybody, I can get caught in that trap from time to time as well. ...
Views: 1428(1 vote) - Emotional Collapse: Can Childhood Trauma Cause Someone To Be In An Emotionally Collapsed State? - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2021 from Oliver JR CooperAlthough someone’s emotional self should support them, giving them the strength that they need to handle life, this might not take place. Instead, this part of them could do the complete opposite. Therefore, if they were able to take a step back and to reflect, they may find that, in general, ...
Views: 525(1 vote) - Emotional Dilemmas - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2012 from Mark Earlixwww.healerMarkEarlix.net EMOTIONAL DILEMMAS Emotional dilemmas, either the drama or trauma creations in our daily living as we are going through them, are truly meaningless. Through, these dilemmas in our life we will eventually take on their true meaning and healing only as our dilemma is ...
Views: 1888(1 vote) - Emotional Intelligence - Benefits for Leaders - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2009 from Byron StockFor more than a decade, people from all organizational levels and from a broad spectrum of industries and businesses have participated in programs to help them enhance their Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills. While the participants' various roles have presented them with quite different ...
Views: 1431(5 votes) - Emotional Intelligence…Paving Way to Success - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from JobsBridge PublisherLet me begin with a short story… Brian and Martha were classmates in their high school. While Brian was voted the most popular student for his friendliness and charm, Martha was not so popular but she was an intellectually brilliant student with high hopes for her future. She found it ...
Views: 1213(2 votes) - Emotional Maturity, Spiritual Values and Corporate World - Part 1 - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2011 from Rajneesh Jain“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity” - Dale Carnegie Rajiv, a highly qualified and experienced software developer, had been a star contributor in ...
Views: 1699(3 votes) - Evaluating Bahria & Hamdard University - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2011 from Vanessa LaneEducational sector in Pakistan has faced many ups and downs due to instability in economy and less funding in education from the government sector. But the evolution of educational institutes has continued due to extreme efforts put forward by private sector to make Pakistani Youth compatible ...
Views: 1624(2 votes) - Everything Is A Test - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2013 from Lars KingThis is a short but sweet mindset shift that can dramatically improve your life. It definitely has changed the quality of my life for the better. Normally, people go through their lives and get pushed and pulled around by their emotions, causing their moods to be a direct result of what ...
Views: 1629(2 votes) - Honey, you choose - what powerful words! - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2010 from Lindsey DawsonNice men have always tried to get to grips with what women want. You can imagine, in ancient times, your caring cave man squatting over a beast he’s just speared and wondering anxiously if his missus wants the kidneys as well as the chops because he really, really wants to please her. On the ...
Views: 1188(1 vote) - How Do I Know the Right Way? - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Barbara AlexanderSometimes it feels like we are speaking a completely different language... even when we think we understand each other! A woman asked me to help her with her horse the other day. She was new to horses and so excited to be learning about her own energy and how she and her horse could have a ...
Views: 2026(3 votes) - HOW DO YOU KEEP GREAT STAFF? Make them feel special - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2013 from Harvey DeutschendorfHOW TO KEEP GREAT STAFF Make them Feel Special The secret to employee retention is not to try and reinvent the wheel, but emulate the practices used by organizations that have been very successful at keeping their staff. Two such organizations are Marriot Hotels and Southwest ...
Views: 1487(2 votes) - How is Your Emotional Intelligence - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2013 from Anne Dranitsaris and Heather Dranitsaris-HilliardWe believe that through focusing on their personal development, people can learn to handle emotions intelligently, and in doing so increase their ability to succeed in personal and professional relationships. Emotional self-awareness is the core of emotional intelligence. Knowing one's emotional ...
Views: 1925(1 vote) - How Successful Are You? - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2009 from William Cottringer“Success is the progress we each make in our private, lifelong journey of learning, growing and improving into our best selves.” ~The author. There are currently as many “tests” to measure success as there are personal definitions of it or criteria for defining it. Where do you go to ...
Views: 1546(1 vote) - How to be an Emotionally Self-Aware Leader - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2015 from Helen AttridgeToday’s C-level executives are faced with business stresses that were not even imagined by their predecessors. Complicated business environments have leaders dealing with rapidly changing markets, technologies and workforces as well as tightening budgets, compliance issues and much more. A ...
Views: 801(1 vote) - How to Deal with Depression, Abandonment and Anxiety: We All Need Healthy Self-Mothering - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2010 from Laura FrisbieHow to Deal with Depression, Abandonment and Anxiety We don't know how to deal with emotions because we've never been around people who do know. We don't even know that we don't know. Most of us are emotionally illiterate. We have no power to change anyone or to make them happy. We lose ...
Views: 2863(1 vote) - How to Deal With Difficult People - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2012 from Talent SmartDealing with difficult people is never easy. You can't do this successfully unless you have and approach that enables you, to control what you can and eliminate that you cannot. You are in control of so much more than you realize when it comes to dealing with difficult people, and your emotional ...
Views: 2593(2 votes) - How to Discover and Live your Life’s Purpose and Heart’s Desire - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2011 from Alfred HeathThe terms “life’s purpose” and “heart’s desire” are loaded ones to many people: most think of a singular calling and an overriding passion, the stuff of dreams, and to the pragmatists, pipedreams. For some, life seems not worth living without the hope of fulfilment through a career or an ...
Views: 2129(1 vote) - How to Protect Yourself from Acidic Thoughts - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonIf you are suffering from your own toxic thoughts or happen to be the focal point of another person's acidity you will appreciate how uncomfortable either of these circumstances can make you feel. The former you can more readily control; or rather, you should upon the face of it find it easier ...
Views: 1044(1 vote) - If We Stop…We Get Stuck - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2011 from Larry CraneIt Worked So Good…We Stopped Doing it Following, is a recent email received by Larry: “I purchased the Abundance Course about 18 months ago. I found a peace that I never had. However, after some time, I recently decided I would re-learn the whole course again (kinda forgot about it) and am ...
Views: 2335(1 vote) - Is Your Job Making You Sick and Cranky? - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2009 from Gael DrumWe know that living in the 21st century can be similar to sitting on a rollercoaster zooming along at an incredibly frantic pace. It can be a challenging task to pull on the brakes and slow the rollercoaster down, refuel it, and attend to its maintenance, so it can run at its optimum level. Work ...
Views: 1468(3 votes) - Keeping Self Promises - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2010 from Clive Miller"I am the captain of my fate, I am the master of my destiny" wrote Henry Ford. You may not hanker after his fame or even his fortune, but to have made a difference? Wouldn't we all like to leave a wake behind us? To steer our ship we must have a destination and an idea of how to get there. ...
Views: 2576(1 vote) - LEADERSHIP Knowledge is a Tool! - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Elizabeth McNallyAs a leader, you will be called upon to solve a variety of problems. People will seek out your expertise to enhance performance and productivity. Your people skills will be sought out to facilitate, even mediate at times. Your wisdom will build your reputation and increase your responsibility ...
Views: 1698(1 vote) - Learn Three Self Improvement Tips On Improving Self Confidence - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2013 from Ewen ChiaDo you have a desperate need to improve your self confidence? Stay tuned as I share these three self improvement tips on how you can do so. Every grown man and woman ought to be confident in his or her actions. However, I do know that not everyone may be confident. There could be a number of ...
Views: 1623(2 votes) - Letting Go: What Does Letting Go Mean To You? - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2013 from Oliver JR CooperWhen it comes to living life in the present moment and being free from attachments to the past and to specific outcomes in the future; letting go is often spoken about as the ideal. And through letting go, one can then allow life to flow. Also, as a result of this, a lot of the stress that can ...
Views: 2028(1 vote) - Powerful Questions - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2011 from Karen KleinwortWhen we journey through life in a state of consciousness that is more awake and more aware, we begin to see the power behind the questions we ask. When we are able to ask not just the right questions but powerful questions, we open ourselves to achieving greater results and success. I ...
Views: 1798(2 votes) - Relationships: Is Your Emotional State Controlled By Other People's Moods? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2019 from Oliver JR CooperAs to whether or not it is a good idea for someone to go along with another person’s emotional state can all depend on what state they are in. If this person is happy, embracing the same state is likely to have a positive effect on ones wellbeing. On the other hand, if this person is angry ...
Views: 597(1 vote) - Relationships: Why Do Some People Feel Unattractive When A Relationship Ends? - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2013 from Oliver JR CooperThe desire to feel attractive is normal and something that the majority of people want to experience. Here, one can then feel a sense of healthy control when it comes to attracting the kind of man or woman that they desire. And this is also likely to lead to one feeling accepted and approved of ...
Views: 2317(2 votes) - Resilience - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Michelle MayurMy garden is my pride and joy and it broke my heart to see the beautiful plants being cooked in place in the extreme heat over summer. Combined with the drought conditions, many of these plants appeared to die completely. Then the miracle happened. The inner Resilience of these plants refused to ...
Views: 1539(3 votes) - Self-Awareness: The Great and Powerful Oz - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2013 from Valencia RaySelf-awareness helps us wake up to aspects that are already present within us - we just don't see them. The blind spots of our society's conditioning over time can cause us to focus on what is allegedly 'wrong with us'. Sure, we all have shortcomings that challenge us to grow. These behaviors ...
Views: 1070(2 votes) - Seven Steps to Eradicate Fear of the Unknown - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2010 from Lalitha BrahmaEntrepreneur, is the one who assumes the responsibility and the risk for a business operation with the expectation of making a profit. It takes courage to be an Entrepreneur. To assume the responsibility and the risk for a business operation, he needs to learn to conquer fear. Conquering fear is ...
Views: 1957(4 votes) - Should You Blame Yourself for Everything That Happens to You? - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2011 from Troyann WilliamsEarlier today I received an email from a friend who is having a very difficult time financially and I felt that I must write to you about it because I have a message for you that many of you need to hear. My friend was laid off from his job over a year ago and has been making stock trades in ...
Views: 1839(2 votes) - Social Media: Are Some People More Concerned With Looking Good Than Doing Good? - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2017 from Oliver JR CooperIn the past, if someone wanted to be seen as a good person, they would have had to behave in a certain way. This is down to the fact that their behaviour would have been what defined them. As a result of this, it wouldn’t have been enough for them to say the right things; they wouldn’t have ...
Views: 1092(1 vote) - Social Media: Can Social Media Stop People From Having The Ability To Delay Gratification? - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2017 from Oliver JR CooperOn one hand, there is instant gratification and, on the other hand, there is delayed gratification. When it comes to the former, one way of looking at it would be to say that this is something that comes from the child part of them. The reason for this is what when one was younger, they ...
Views: 1088(1 vote) - Spiritual guidance for 2011 - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2011 from Elissa HeymanOf all the scenarios about how we get our act together in time to save ourselves and the planet, my favorite comes from African elder Malidoma Some’s initiation story, about his conversation with the earth itself. About the 13th day of his 30 day initiation ceremony, while he was covered in the ...
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