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The New Year means different things to different people. For some, it inspires change for the better, for others it’s just another year, and the rest of us fall somewhere in between.
For the inspired, great successes will ensue. For the pseudo-inspired, great intentions will ensue for about ... Views: 1112
There are so many ways to create a successful business, sometimes it can be confusing. Everyone seems to be an expert, selling the best way to get there, the easiest route, the fastest path. But all of these methods and strategies are often missing the most important key to your success.
They ... Views: 1111
What is Small Business Accounting? Accounting Information adopts different methods in small businesses thus giving rise to Small Business Accounting. Small Business Accounting is basically the art and science of maintaining proper and precise accounts of a concern that have employees ranging in ... Views: 1100
I have a confession. I’m a Photoshop® wannabe. In case you don’t know it, Photoshop® is the premier software program for digital photography. It has more features to tweak, enhance, and distort photographic images than you can imagine.
As much as I’d like to master this program, truth be ... Views: 1097
Yes, it is true: if you want to succeed in today’s economy, you need a Ron Paul on your sales team. You’ve heard me say it over and over: this economy has changed, it is a different time and it calls for a different type of sales person. This is what I call a "Trust and Value Economy". If you ... Views: 1097
Nowadays, it is not unusual for someone to believe that certain people should be punished for what their ancestors did. When someone has this view, it can be due to what they have picked up from the education system and the mainstream media.
This doesn’t mean that someone like this will ... Views: 1095
Achieving home business success is something that many people want, but not everyone will achieve it. There are a lot of reasons that explain why some succeed where many others fail, and very few of those reasons have anything to do with being lucky. Success comes from taking the steps to ... Views: 1092
Warning: If you're after some hard-hitting, life-changing, mind-altering, insight, wisdom and enlightenment from yours truly today... then check out one of your other favourite writers.
Seriously.
This is certainly no Personal Development piece... social commentary perhaps.
A little ... Views: 1085
Your personal integrity is dependent on you living according to your values. If you commit yourself to a values-driven life, you'll attract people of similar values and people who'll support and encourage you to continue to live accordingly, which will only increase the standards to which you've ... Views: 1083
The other day a client emailed me with an update and ended with "So thanks for the crappy assignment. It was great."
The comment reminded me of the several hundred individual conversations I'd had at a festival just the weekend before. I was asking people "What If…You Could Love Your Life ... Views: 1083
For people going through a divorce, their lives may perhaps seem busier than ever before together with the excess difficulty that divorce brings. Counseling for divorce is one thing that can be incredibly advantageous for those moving through this sort of a hard change but for a great number, ... Views: 1082
“I need more____________” You fill in the blank. Members. Clients. Money. We’ve all experience this at some point in the marketing of our ministries—the point of panic because what you need is greater than what you possess. So what do you do?
Let me tell you first tell what not to do. Don’t ... Views: 1079
Have you noticed how when you are in that kind of high from a new relationship, that all sorts of things start happening for the good? We have the tendency to claim it was because of this new person in our lives. We tend to give our power away to the relationship.
As I contemplate about what ... Views: 1074
We moms have a tough path to walk as we help our daughters navigate the sometimes choppy waters of growing up girl. It's our job to protect our children and do our best to keep them safe and healthy, yet we also have to allow them to grow, stretch and learn from their own mistakes. It's a fine ... Views: 1073
Every person who has performed amazing feats, discovered something useful for the world, entertained us through their artistic or athletic expression, and who live what most consider “the life” are no different than you in numerous ways.
The one way they might be different, though, is that ... Views: 1071
Passionate Purpose, Vibrant Health! A 30-Day at home Experience with Dr. Margaret Paul
The next course will start on April 15th, 2020,
and is offered only once a year.
Are you ready to discover your calling, and have the health and vitality to pursue it?
Passionate Purpose, Vibrant ... Views: 1056
Responsibility brings power.
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." -- Gail Sheehy
Time spent on my personal co-creative process of recovering a life that I knew was meant for me opens my eyes to truths on a continuous basis.
One of these truths is that for my ... Views: 1051
When Michael Steele, the hapless chairman of the Republican Party, lost his bearings and called Rush Limbaugh's style ugly and incendiary, everyone knew it was the truth. But it was a perfect example of an inconvenient truth. The right wing has long used ugly, incendiary speech the way baseball ... Views: 1049
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment” ... Jim Rohn
You’ve heard a colleague or an employee described thus: “She’s one take-charge lady, or “He’s a self-starter.” or “She makes it happen around here.” Making things happen, as these people are known for, cannot occur if ... Views: 1048
When I was in my third semester studying for my Doctorate in Human Sexuality, I went to the Florida Sex Therapy Institute to complete a Certificate in Sex Therapy. Dr Susan Lee, my teacher, introduced me to her clients I bumped into and her counterparts as ‘Dr Lee’.
My first reaction was ... Views: 1047
Doesn't it feel great to receive commendation for the work you do? There's nothing better than knowing you've truly made a difference in someone's life or business and have helped them reach a new level of success.
Even better than your personal feelings is the fact that receiving positive ... Views: 1040
Truth or Consequences
When I was seven, I moved for a brief time to Columbus, Georgia with my family while my father went on active duty for the Army. I was a new kid in a new school and wanted to make friends quickly.
One day in music class, the teacher asked if any of us knew how to ... Views: 1032
It’s all real. Every last psychedelic hallucination. The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Leprechauns, all of them. They are as real as you are. They are especially as real as the one who believes in them. It’s the magic of believing that allows for the creation of all things. It has been ... Views: 1031
I was in a golf tournament a couple of weeks ago – first time I have golfed since last year. The weather was good, the company agreeable, and the course in excellent condition.
Now, to understand the point I am going to make (and yes, there is a point), you need to understand that I ... Views: 1028
In free Gmail account, Google shows little texts ads targeting any keywords it finds in your emails. Most businesses maybe see this satisfaction. extremely low for business promotion because you can't send or received videos or long size documents to customers for ... Views: 1025
In this New Year, many of us have noble goals such as, to stop smoking, to continue a college education, to learn snowboarding, or even, to take the dog to training school. And how proud we are when we excel at the new skill or the dog learns to sit successfully! However, how many of us are ... Views: 1023
Power is the ability to create explosive results from the potential that lies within people and things. Think about the power within a stick of dynamite or maybe an automobile. When you press the pedal, the power that lies within the vehicle is ignited. Similarly, the power within a rocket ship ... Views: 1018
“Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?” Marianne Williamson
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If Not You, Who? - by Eric Taylor – SelfGrowth.com’s Chief Inspiration Officer
Dear High Achiever:
I’M CERTAIN you’ve heard this quote before, especially if you are in sales or have ever been to a motivational seminar. Ironically, I’ve never asked the audience at one of my seminars these two questions …so here they are for you in writing.
If not you, who?
If not now, ... Views: 995
BEING THE OYSTER: An Alternative to the Blame Game
It's easy to label someone a "troublemaker" or a "problem." For one thing, it gets us off the hook. We're not to blame; the other guy is. For another, it fuels the idea that the power to change our lives lies outside of us. If the circumstances ... Views: 990
What in your life is illusion? What in your life is reality? These questions are not as easy to answer as we might expect, for many things that we have been assuming are real are anything but. Our fears are a good example. Many of the fears we carry with us--fears that drive our daily ... Views: 987
If you happen to be going through a divorce and looking into divorce therapy or have been experiencing difficulty with your marriage, it will probably be positive to find out a common cause of divorce so you could possibly much better cope with your divorce or potentially stay away from it. ... Views: 987
When it comes to disability insurance for individuals, there are two major kinds you need to know about. Knowing what is good and bad about each major type can make a big difference if you ever need the coverage they offer.
Short term disability income insurance is available immediately if ... Views: 981
Maybe more lights? No. Perhaps some more camera? Nope. We all know that where the rubber meets the road is through our ACTION.
As much as visualizing and mental rehearsing is vital, without action, its all for not. We still live in a physical world where physical action is the keystone is ... Views: 979
SEARCH FOR A SOLUTION
By: Kelly Williams
Over the last few years, the sick feeling inside of my stomach has grown in intensity each and every time I encounter a person on the street asking for food, money or work. If I have food with me, I give it. If I have nothing, I acknowledge the ... Views: 973
Have you had – or taken – the opportunity to evaluate yourself in terms of the ten major causes of failure that we listed yesterday?
If you found this task onerous or found it difficult to be honest with yourself, you might consider asking someone who knows you well to go over the list with ... Views: 972
This topic is something that comes up all the time. Why isn't this working for me I feel like such a failure? Failure is a temporary inevitable situation when you taking a risk or learning a new skill. Think about it, when you first learned to drive a car no one expected you to do it perfectly ... Views: 969
Achieving business success online pretty much involves the same amount of work and dedication as it would offline but the significant difference is the investment needed. For this reason working online has open the doors for serious entrepreneurs who would not have had the financial strength to ... Views: 962
I blame…myself? Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right.
The blame game, as my wife used to to call it WAS one of my favorite games to play. LOVED IT. “That wasn’t my fault, it was your fault.” Or, “If you didn’t do that, I wouldn’t have got all screwed up.” It’s a classic game. You’re always ... Views: 960
There is often the debate on what has the most effect on how a person ends up. Is it how they were brought up? Is it the events that happen in their lives? Is it the circumstances that surround them? While these factors may have some impact, the thing that has the ability to change your ... Views: 959
Things look pretty messy out there. Many seem to be having a crisis of some kind… a financial, health, family or spiritual crisis and likely a combination of these. How will we get out of our crisis? Will the bailouts work? How about health care reform? How can we care for our families when ... Views: 956
I keep typing the word succeed.
I can’t help it. When I write about entrepreneurship, about achieving goals and doing the things that matter – it seems the word I have to keep coming back to is success.
We are here to help you succeed…
Here are some success strategies…
But before I ... Views: 951
A checking accounts is some thing that everyone needs. Whether or not you've a continual position, collect monthly checks from a pension, or just bring in cash periodically, you wish a safe and sound area to set your cash when you might be not shelling out it. In addition, you will need obtain ... Views: 949
It is a part of life’s tragedy – and unfairness – that millions of men and women earnestly try, work hard, and yet fail while only a few people succeed. The old saying that “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” seems true.
In preparation for his book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon ... Views: 944
Successful online marketers as a rule generally begin their 'entrepreneurial' journeys with realistic expectations. As you begin to build your business these expectations will help you overcome the frustrations and setbacks commonly experienced early on. You must first realize overnight riches ... Views: 942
In the same way that a knife is neither good nor bad, it could also be said that social media is the same. With this in mind, if the former causes harm it will show that it is being used in the wrong way, and, if the later causes harm it will also show that it is being used in the wrong way.
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REMOVING THE SAFETY SPACE BETWEEN YOU AND LIFE
By
Bill Cottringer
In a recent movie, "Lions for Lambs," the truth of life was pursued to the end from three different directions by three great movie stars, who probably weren’t acting: Tom Cruise, the ambitious politician, Meryl Streep, the ... Views: 939
Want your children to perform better in life and enjoy more success?
Here are ten tips that will help you to motivate your children to perform better…
1. Shower praise and encouragement on them. This is a great way to inspire your children to perform better.
2. Provide safe and supportive ... Views: 938