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- 6 Steps to Living in Possibility - by As I sit down to write this article, Winter Storm Emily is causing quite a "stand-still" here in the New England states. Meteorologists are predicting up to two feet of snow in some areas, like here in Connecticut.
I went into work this morning only to discover we wouldn't be opening due to ...
Views: 800 - A Powerful New Way to Use "Why" Questions - by To start making dramatic changes in your life, transform the way you use questions that begin with "why." IBM Founder Thomas Watson, Sr. is quoted as saying "the ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." "Why" questions are uniquely powerful in that ...
Views: 712 - Step Out - by Living your successful life requires you to step out. I remember as a teenager, right out of high school, learning this valuable lesson. Now - 15 years later - my life is the result of habitually stepping out.
The scene is Naval Recruit Training Center in San Diego, Ca. There I am, standing ...
Views: 587 - A Season of Growth - by Here in New England, you don't need a calendar to know it's the first week of October. The trees tell the story quite well as their leaves change from shades of green to the bright vibrant shades of orange, red and yellow. At the peak of the fall foliage season, it's truly a magnificent sight ...
Views: 697 - Top 5 Strategies to Make Your Mark on the World - by Would you like to make your mark on the world? That's the theme of my new website (http://www.michaeldpollock.com). It's also the focus of my coaching practice from this point on.
I could give many reasons why you'd maybe want to make your mark on the world, but chances are you don't need a ...
Views: 767 - Facing the 3 Giants That Hinder Your Success - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2007 from Michael LeeIn arguably the turning point of the inspirational Facing the Giants movie (see the video clip at www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vB59PkB0eQ), the coach asks the captain of his football team, Brock, to do the death crawl on the field. Brock had resigned himself to losing the next football match, so the ...
Views: 1108 - The Power Of Feedback - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2007 from Michelle SimmsWe all receive some sort of feedback in our lives, on or off the job, everyday. How we receive it, however is an extremely important adaptive skill; our success at this skill seems to be linked to our past experiences. If such an experience was painful or humiliating for us in the past, we are ...
Views: 909 - "The Secret" and Beyond: The Five Most Common Mistakes in Mastering the Law of Attraction - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2007 from Beth Banning and Neill GibsonDid you love the movie "The Secret" and have been trying to practice what you learned? Are you experiencing any frustration or confusion about how to effectively manifest your dreams? If so, the tips in this article will help you to make the secret behind the law of attraction less of a ...
Views: 790 - Life is a Lemon - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2007 from Vivek RaySqueeze a lemon, and it will produce a juice, too harsh to be palatable. But it forms the basis for lemonade, the world’s oldest refreshing drink. Like a lemon, life is full of sour things. It is full of challenges, hardships, pain and suffering. But in all this is hidden the seeds of greatest ...
Views: 763 - 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: 636 - Complain Your Way to Success - by Learning how to complain effectively can be a great asset to your career. The steps are simple -- understand the problem, come up with a solution and present both the problem and the solution to your immediate supervisor in written form. So let’s take the steps in more detail:
1. Understand ...
Views: 757 - What I Learned from "Monsters, Inc." - by Despite the ribbing of my friends, I went to see the new Disney film, "Monsters, Inc.," this weekend. It's the movie about the monsters who scare children at night. Surprisingly, the monsters are just as afraid of the children as the children are afraid of them. Havoc ensues when a "poisonous" ...
Views: 775 - 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: 922 - The Sport of Coaching - by Coaching it's not just a game of sports any longer. Companies like Microsoft, Intel, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, etc., are utilizing the hottest thing in management these days. The coach, a coach is someone who has the skills to play consultant, friend and therapist.
Over the last several years, a ...
Views: 851 - Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - Part Three - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - Part Three (by 'Skip' Ross with Carole C. Carlson) Submitted by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Success, Personal growth, Motivation, Life purpose, spiritual, spiritual gifts, inspiration, Skip Ross Web site: ...
Views: 775 - The 1-2 Punch of Success...Energy and Passion - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2007 from John RowleyThe most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm (Passion) to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. James Whitcomb Riley When you have the energy to fuel your passion, success is sure to follow close behind. The 1-2 ...
Views: 1862 - Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - Part Four - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - Part Four (by 'Skip' Ross with Carole C. Carlson) Submitted by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Success, Personal growth, Motivation, Life purpose, spiritual, spiritual gifts, inspiration, Skip Ross Web site: ...
Views: 620 - Success And The Factor No In The Wealth Equation - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2007 from stanley joshua kudoloThe word NO is a functionality to express the negative of an alternative choice or possibility. It is also an instance or an act to refusal or denial of something by its use. When choice is mentioned, then one of the greatest virtues of humanity is at the fore. The power of choice is undeniably ...
Views: 627 - Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - Part Two - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - Part Two (by 'Skip' Ross with Carole C. Carlson) Submitted by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Success, Personal growth, Motivation, Life purpose, spiritual, spiritual gifts, inspiration, Skip Ross Other Articles are available ...
Views: 589 - Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" (Part One) - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: Summary of the Book "Say 'YES' to your Potential" Part One (by 'Skip' Ross with Carole C. Carlson) Submitted by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Success, Personal growth, Motivation, Life purpose, spiritual, spiritual gifts, inspiration, Skip Ross Other Articles are available at: ...
Views: 2388 - Keeping Perspective When Life Smacks You Up - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2007 from Joshua UebergangIt is extremely difficult keeping perspective when life hits you hard with a problem that appears insurmountable. A problem so big you feel it will be the end of you. The events we experience radically change our perspective where one moment you feel on top of the world and the next moment a ...
Views: 941 - THE LAW OF SUCCESS - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2007 from Bill BartmannSuccess or failure is not determined by genetics, geography, environment or heritage. It isn’t a function of race, religion or creed. While I will agree that some situations and some environments make it more challenging than others- it isn’t those factors that will ultimately ...
Views: 629 - "Say 'YES' to your Potential" - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: "Say 'YES' to your Potential" Submitted by: Craig Lock Category (key words): Success, Motivation, Life purpose, spiritual, spiritual gifts, inspiration, Skip Ross Other Articles are available at: http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles.html (Personal growth, self help, writing, ...
Views: 664 - Oh, Migosh, I'm Going to Succeed! - by That realization can put fear and joyous expectation into us at the same time. What? you ask. How could anyone be afraid to succeed. Well, it's like this.
There's a part of us that wants to express life at our highest and best and a part of us that fears the challenges we'll confront and the ...
Views: 1493 - The Most Destructive Illusion about Success - by Have you ever put your heart and soul into a project, just to see your very first attempts to make it succeed miserably fail?
If you have, you are no different than me and most other successful people.
Despite that we all are attracted to the "overnight success stories" we see on television ...
Views: 1367 - Internal Competition Can Kill Your Organization - by Competition is believed to be the driver of the Western Economy. Most Western countries believe that competition produces innovation, stimulates thinking, and it is simply characterized by many as the engine of capitalism. In a similar fashion, “internal competition drives business results” has ...
Views: 1058 - Recession Protection: Learn To Brand Yourself For Better Job Search Success - by After the feverish storm of abundant jobs and wealth, corporate America has started seeing and feeling the negative sense of what almost always follows “boom times??a recession. Companies of all sizes are laying people off. So how do you make yourself more appealing to recruiters when everyone ...
Views: 782 - Use Your Knowledge Skills To Improve Customer Service - by We live in an increasingly service-oriented economy. A better phrase might be an “attention-oriented economy? No doubt you already understand the importance of serving your customers well in order to retain their repeat business and referrals. However, the key factor that seems to be ...
Views: 851 - Focus On Soft Skills: A Leadership Wake-up Call - by The rules for succeeding in business are changing daily. Yet people are still asking for the magic formula that contributes to a successful organization. Is it talented, knowledgeable people plus innovative products? That's a great start, but something vital is missing from this equation.
More ...
Views: 825 - 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: 659 - Expectations At Work Can Destroy You if You Don’t Communicate Them! - by by Carole Nicolaides © 2002
http://www.progressiveleadership.com
Expectations have a powerful impact on our emotions, behaviors, and most importantly, in our performances. Have you noticed what happens when you expect no raise or promotion at work? Most likely you will not get them! The ...
Views: 678 - Your Strengths Are the Path to Excellence - by What is the one strength that - if you worked on it - would make the difference in your profession? Is it your ability to draw pictures? Translate feelings into beautiful visual images? Take words and put them into persuasive sentences? Are you especially clever with numbers? Can you sing ...
Views: 786 - Master the Art of Communication. Part 1 of 2- Using Your Passion To Make A Connection - by by Carole Nicolaides © 2002 All Rights Reserved http://www.progressiveleadership.com
One skill that we should all develop further is effective communication. Communicating clearly to your employees, co-workers, friends, and family is a critical part of your success and your ability to improve ...
Views: 728 - 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: 659 - 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: 650 - The 7 Deadly Sins Of Progressive Leaders - by Thousands of years ago and miles away in Ancient Greece, Heraclites, a wise man known in the west as “Heraclites the Dark”, said, “Although this truth [self-awareness] is eternally valid, men are unable to understand it. Not only before hearing it but even after they have heard it.” His words ...
Views: 1036 - Control Your Emotions and Reach the Top! - by Socrates knew it all along. If you want to succeed in life you must “know thyself.” This is the first step for everything and for anybody who wants to make a difference in his or her life. The ability to listen to our own emotions, wants, desires and needs is as important as listening to others. ...
Views: 705 - Why Most People Will Never Reach Their Goals! - by Customer service is the foundation on which businesses are created. Unless you understand your customers and treat them with respect, you will go out of business. That is a well-known fact. However, too often leaders fail to see that creating high quality products, or delivering excellent ...
Views: 4193(1 vote) - Creating A True Collaborative Environment By Honoring Your People - by We all know the benefits of creating a collaborative teamwork environment. Where we often fall though is in creating and sustaining such a united front. We often hire the brightest people, inspire them to be the very best that they can be and then we forget to do the simple things that will ...
Views: 1534 - Your Happiness Depends On You ?Not Your Circumstances - by People are just about as happy as they make their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
There are literally thousands of self-help books on this topic and yet I regularly see more and more people who are unhappy. People are still looking to find happiness from anything and from anywhere but ...
Views: 962 - Heightened Perception - by I walked into a warmly lit room in the company headquarters. The space was long and rectangular. In the center of the room was a very expensive timber and glass coffee table. The whole place had the scent of prestige, money and power. If this room had a name, it would have been known as "The ...
Views: 3987 - Breathing Freely: The Hidden Key To Vibrant Coaching - by Some experts estimate that we take more than 20,000 breaths each day. Based on that figure, we breathe in and out about 833 times per hour and 13 times a minute. In every coaching session, you are either breathing in, breathing out or holding your breath. So is your client.
How you and your ...
Views: 680 - What's Your "Missing Experience?" - by One of the things that I listen for when I coach is what I call the “missing experience,” an important, life-enhancing experience that is absent for the client. What I mean by that is, the experience itself has yet to take place in their nervous system and body--so they don’t know what it ...
Views: 796 - Accelerate The L.O.A. Force In Your Life By Uniting Your Conscious Desires And Subconscious Mind. - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2007 from raymond mooreWhatever it is you want to achieve in life, prosperity, abundance or the fulfillment of your dreams, you'll be glad to know that the attainment of these things are possible for those who learn how to apply the Universal Law of Attraction. This law states that anything you want in life, you ...
Views: 776 - Receive... and you shall be given more... - by Has someone given you a compliment lately?
It could be a simple straightforward statement such as "What a beautiful shirt you're wearing".
I guess they did.
What was your response to the compliment?
Something along the lines of:
Oh, it's an old one...
Oh, it was cheap...
Oh, it's my ...
Views: 591 - LORETTA CLAIBORNE - by Earlier this year, there was a wonderful Movie of the week telling the story of Loretta Claiborne, a young African-American woman who has mild mental retardation. Claiborne, born partially blind, unable to walk and talk until age 4, was raised by a no-nonsense and loving single-parent mother, ...
Views: 2371 - MISPLACED PASSION - by You're married. You're very married. Or you're in a serious committed relationship, either way, you know you shouldn't be doing this. "This" being an incredibly HOT passionate affair you are completely caught up in, despite
your best intentions.
You only meant it as a one-night stand, a "Gee, ...
Views: 714 - Money Woes - by "Money makes the world go 'round" may be a great song title, but all it seems to do in your household is make things come to a screeching halt. It's the holidays, and you can't believe you and your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend are fighting about money - again. She goes out and buys this ...
Views: 544 - What is coaching? - by Simply put, people want more out of life. A quality of life, if you will. They are turning to external sources namely coaches, to assist them in achieving their personal goals and outcomes. Coaches have ventured beyond the boardroom when selling their services. Individuals at all levels and ...
Views: 628 - IMAGE VERSUS ESSENCE -The Turn On Switch for Presenting - by Most of us are taught that there is a certain way we are supposed to be when we stand up in front of a room to present our message or material. To be the perfect presenter, we have to know our material completely and deliver it with ubiquitous grace and style. We believe we must be taken ...
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