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When working with my executive coaching clients, or presenting to a group of leaders, I am struck by how often people identify with what they do versus who they are and what they have to offer. In the extreme they spend more time selling their employers than themselves. Good for Company X, bad ... Views: 1495
Recently a person commented that I was just after “the dimes.”
When I said I was actually just following the Divine, somebody else said it was clear I was just after “the dollars.”
The two comments got me thinking about money, motivation and perception. I decided I would share some of my ... Views: 1495
Please allow me to first clarify that I am not involved in network marketing, so the intent of this article is not to pitch you on a business opportunity. I did however spend nearly a decade working for one of the largest direct sales companies in the world, so I’m very familiar with the ... Views: 1495
While there will be times where will be important for someone to focus on the needs of others, there will also be times when this isn’t the case. This is not to say that one will need to spend half of their time being focused on other people’s needs and half of their time being focused on their ... Views: 1495
Working online is undoubtedly the business plan for the future. Online Network Marketing - Lets You Achieve Your Dreams And Goals. The internet is used by so many people for so many different things nowadays that there’s really nothing but profit out there to be made. One of the emerging ways ... Views: 1495
Are you someone who loves to attend personal development courses? Well, you are in luck because I am just like you. I don’t mind people calling me a course junkie, because I know that I have personally benefitted from many of these. Today, I would like to share with you a bit of my life’s ... Views: 1495
At some point in our lives, we have all experienced low self-esteem. For some, this could be to a lesser or greater degree. Whatever the case, the purpose of this article in the first instance, is to provide a nine point strategy for boosting self-esteem.
The information provided here should ... Views: 1494
Have you heard people talking about positive thinking, telling you to change your attitude and wondered what exactly they meant? Surely thinking positively is not always possible? There are some things that are negative no matter how you look at them?!
That is true and positive thinking is ... Views: 1494
Self control is a conscious choice that we have to make. It has to be a definite choice because sometimes control is very difficult to maintain. In other words when you choose to be in control you have to have a made up mind and determination. If you don’t learn how to exercise control and do it ... Views: 1494
Are you a member of the Low Self-Esteem and Self-Worth Club? What you’re about to read may inspire you to cancel your membership.
One of the times you feel low self-esteem and self-worth is when you’re around someone you believe, according to your perception, has more going for them than you ... Views: 1494
Who am I? To answer this, we must first learn to become more aware of ourselves. To be aware, we need to step outside ourselves and objectively watch ourselves in action. We live most of our lives by habit. These habits keep us stuck in self-limiting patterns. Once we identify these unconscious ... Views: 1494
Start your life with a decision.
The starting point is to decide and then go. It is by deciding and then going that you are creating the new roads of your new life.
It is by deciding and taking action by start going that you create success for both you and others.
Your only job is to pay ... Views: 1494
In life we meet up with people with whom you have very little in common. At random times you find yourself sharing the same room at which stage you are forced to acknowledge the existence of that person. Striking up a conversation can be difficult, small talk won’t help, especially if it is ... Views: 1494
Introduction
When you hear the word “anatomy”, what do you think about? Do you think of the body and what you actually see? How it’s made up, the structures, what’s there? Sometimes even with visible anatomy, if someone has an illness or sickness, they may have to go in for an X-ray or an ... Views: 1494
Can a healthy serving of humility free us from ourselves?
After a decade of working in human rights and traveling the world, one thing that always strikes me upon re-entry to the United States is just how solidified our identities are.
Our role in society, who we hang out with, how we ... Views: 1493
Fear is an acronym for – False Evidence Appearing Real and this can be applied to all our fears. We all have them – so what is it you’re afraid of?
Is it -
• Fear of public speaking – identified as the No 1 fear for most people
• Making decisions
• Changing jobs – or any change
• Growing ... Views: 1493
I’ve been the director of a women’s organization and conference for 17 years, and providing opportunities for women to find their passion, dreams and their voice is an important mission for me. I’ve learned many lessons on this path of helping other women, but none quite as powerful as the road ... Views: 1493
If you really want to learn a new skill and master it, then the best way is to really study the area and use some highly effective tips to help you get started.
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." -Jim Rohn
Basically, the more you learn about the ... Views: 1493
After working with people for over 10 years, I have found that what happens to us is not as important as how we process what has happened. As children our parents and other adults tell us white-lies or keep secrets from us in order to protect us. This creates confusion between what we feel ... Views: 1492
Are you living in the Moment? How exactly does this work and what is the meaning of “Being In The Moment?”
Brings up quite a few questions doesn’t it! Let’s start with an explanation of what this means. Living in the Moment is all about living like there's no tomorrow. Being aware of ... Views: 1492
Do you know the self-development you need in order to reach your goals? Do you have an ambition that you’ve not fully initiated? Perhaps you’d like to stop a bad habit, build a new skill, or simply improve your performance. Or perhaps you would like to help someone else achieve their ambition. ... Views: 1492
Our minds are always busy thinking about things. We sometimes think about what all we have to do. We may think about what someone else has done. We may form opinions about others in our heads or talk back to someone in our minds. We tend to think things we really wouldn’t say out loud.
If we ... Views: 1492
When someone asks me how to live The Secret, I’m usually taken aback, though it’s not for the reasons you might think.
Ever since The Secret came out, I have immersed myself into practicing it day in and day out that it feels like second nature to me. It’s like asking me how I can walk or ... Views: 1492
Old habits die hard, as the saying goes. And one habit that most of us share—and find difficult to both notice and shake—is our tendency to run “on automatic.” Unconscious patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are often the silent saboteurs of self mastery in our ... Views: 1492
Are you happy at work? Do you have passion for the work that you do? The notion of passion was something that mystified me early on in my career. I was usually happy at work but the feeling of passion eluded me. In fact up until I retired from AT&T, I only got brief glimpses of what got my ... Views: 1492
At last count there were 58 million search results on the word ‘gratitude’ in Google. Clearly, gratitude is something that is relevant to many. Whether your perspective is from the Law of Attraction, or your own spiritual practice, gratitude is undoubtedly a ‘gift of the spirit.’
Yes, it can ... Views: 1491
I love the work of Joe Vitale. He has opened my mind and my heart. One of the things he talks about, is how we have to disassociate ourselves from our thoughts and understand we are not our thoughts.
He says it’s a bit like us being the sky and our clouds being our thoughts and that we can just ... Views: 1491
Throughout life itself, from cradle to grave — and especially often in the world of self-help and (confidence) coaching — we’re often told to love ourselves. And yes, we totally should.
Questioning this principle seems counter-intuitive. Why wouldn’t loving yourself be a means to an ... Views: 1491
Is your inner brat taking over your job? Everyone has an inner brat. It’s the part of us that’s still a two-year-old. It lives on in the dark recesses of our minds, no matter how much we’ve accomplished.
The inner brat gets furious at the slightest inconvenience. It feels entitled to get what ... Views: 1491
Making a life change is a time consuming and difficult task. Making a change is probably the hardest thing to do because to do so requires that we change the way that we think and operate. Our habits and our outlook on life have been ingrained since birth and they are hard to change. Fundamental ... Views: 1491
When corporations or celebrities make a major gaff, many individuals assume they call the spin doctor to clean up the mess. While there are a few bad apples in every industry, a true professional lives by 4 key words to maintain ethics in their public relations practice. These are the ... Views: 1490
We're all faced with making hundreds if not thousands of decisions each day. From choosing the time I get up to what I want to wear, whether I should have breakfast or not, how I'm going to spend my day, or what my attitude will look like - we make choices from morning till night that impact the ... Views: 1490
As we go through life we will find there will be times when others are upset with us about what we have decided to do. We will find others have opinions about what we should be in life. We will find there will be others who want us to do what they believe we should do. When this happens, there ... Views: 1490
Balance has always been important to me in my life. For most people, the balance between work time and personal time is, unfortunately, weighted too heavily in the direction of work.
It is more common than ever before to have a two-income household with both parents working just to make ends ... Views: 1489
I took care of a man in my clinic the other day who had retired a few months before. He had worked hard all his life; he was honest, hardworking and raised children that were fairly successful. He was in my clinic because he was depressed. He was depressed because he felt like he no longer had a ... Views: 1489
You know you’re not trying very hard unless you experience the bad times during your journey. The bad times are there to help you grow and make you better than you currently are. They are what you learn from the most and what will adjust your beliefs and behaviors.
That’s why I don’t believe, ... Views: 1489
When it comes to living ones truth, feeling supported is incredibly important. For if one doesn’t feel supported when comes to their own needs and wants, there is the chance that they will deny them.
This could take place at certain times, or it could be something that has become a way of ... Views: 1489
If someone was asked what the meaning of life was, they may say that it is to be happy. And as human beings are programmed to seek pleasure and to avoid pain, it is not going to be much of a surprise to hear this.
When one is happy, they are going to feel good, and this experience is going ... Views: 1488
While it is relatively easy to notice what is taking place in the outside world, the same can’t be said when to comes to what is taking place within ones inner world. From the moment one is born, they’re going to pick up information about the world and this is likely to continue until the day ... Views: 1488
If you want to be a cool person who other people like, respect, and gravitate toward, there are just five key things you need to do to make that happen.
But before I tell you what they are, let's first define what or who a cool person is.
And the best way to do that is to first reveal what ... Views: 1487
The leader of an organization is the standard bearer for what “right” looks like. He would not be in a position of leadership if he did not represent what the organization values and, presumably, wants more of. Naturally, followers seek to emulate the leader because of the prominent position ... Views: 1487
Craig’s church is in crisis. He has five elders, and two of them have made his life as Pastor of the church absolutely miserable over the last year. He thought they were spiritually mature when they ordained and installed them as elders a year and a half ago. They were managers in their ... Views: 1487
Monks are great inspirations for simplifying your life. In fact, most of them live their life based solely on that principle. However, people don't exactly have direct access to these monks since most of them live in temples and monasteries.
If you want to know how to go about simplifying ... Views: 1487
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve put off until tomorrow what I should have and could have done today. It wasn’t until I learned how to overcome the tendency to procrastinate that my life began to change drastically for the better. Soon I began to have more energy, significantly greater ... Views: 1487
Trust: The Stuff That Holds Relationships Together
By
Bill Cottringer
“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
~Epicurus
Successful relationships are built on unconditional ... Views: 1487
It was 4:45pm and the requirements review meeting had already gone fifteen minutes beyond the scheduled end time. Joe was becoming agitated. He needed to get out the door at 5:00 pm exactly in order to pick up his daughter from soccer practice. The meeting was not showing any signs of wrapping ... Views: 1486
During the boom we scrambled and harried ourselves through deadlines and endless demands for more—more of anything that was shiny, comforting or electronic. Now on top of the deadlines, we worry about salary freezes and layoffs. Challenges don’t go away; they only vary with different economic ... Views: 1486
"Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny."
We all have habits. We try to kick and break our bad ones, and form and reinforce those that are good. We have habitual ways of eating. Ever try to eat using your non-dominant hand? We have habitual ... Views: 1486
If one was to look into what was taking place in the news, there is a strong chance their inner experience would change. This is something that will take place regardless of whether they were to read something or if they were to watch something, for instance.
As a result, they could end up ... Views: 1486
Hundreds of books have been written about getting rid of these voices because we all know they don’t serve any useful purpose. Even if those who spoke to us originally in this way were trying to be helpful, at this point they exist only to torture us. But I don’t know a single person who has ... Views: 1485