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- Overcoming Negative Emotions - by One of the many lessons I have learned in my life, and continue to learn, is that my thoughts create my emotions, and my emotions create my behaviors, and then it circles back around. Once this cycle begins it seems almost impossible to stop. If my thoughts are positive in nature, the results ...
Views: 15180(2 votes) - Riding Above the Waves of Life: The Key to Success in Business and Life - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2016 from Leon EdwardRealistic Optimism: Riding the Tides of Life To New Heights. Success comes to those who want it, and who can visualize themselves succeeding. This is used by psychologists, hypnotherapists, and sports trainers the world over. It's the key to most martial arts success. And, more and more ...
Views: 1041(1 vote) - The Emperor's New Clothes - Providing Negative Feedback - by In the fable of the Emperor's New Clothes, a couple of con men convinced the king that they had magical cloth, which only the wise could see. The king hires these men to make him the most magnificent suit of clothes, declaring that anyone who cannot see this material was a fool. The king was ...
Views: 9996(1 vote) - Point/Counterpoint on Coaching - by In response to Dr. Cathy’s Goodwin’s article, ”The Free Coaching Session May Cost You Plenty,” I want to talk a little about coaching from the standpoint of the coach.
First let me say that I respect the field of consulting, but I don’t really know what consultants do. I have no right, ...
Views: 814 - How To Make Yourself A Successful One-of-a-Kind Resource In Your Industry - by A touch of background first: A successful, journeyman level speaker, serving associations and corporations, I routinely received fees of $3000 to $5000-6000 for 1 to 3 hours of programs. I got 1 or 2 bookings a week.
What does this mean to you: Start by being truly outstanding at what you do. ...
Views: 642 - How to Make Yourself a Successful One-of-a-Kind Resource in Your Industry - by A touch of background first: A successful, journeyman level speaker, serving associations and corporations, I routinely received fees of $3000 to $5000-6000 for 1 to 3 hours of programs. I got 1 or 2 bookings a week.
What does this mean to you: Start by being truly outstanding at what you do. ...
Views: 730 - 7 Ways To Capture Wisdom From Your Coach - by A coach is a modern-day mentor. In Greek legend, Mentor was a friend of Odysseus. As advisor, sage, and counselor he was entrusted with the education of Telemachus, the son of Odysseus.
A coach is a faithful, wise, devoted advisor and teacher. A coach is a loyal resource. A coach engages ...
Views: 679 - Been There; Done That - by Submitted on May 06, 2007 from Richard MarkerBeen there; done that. Richard A. Marker “Why?” A long time colleague and friend asked when I told him I was going to attend a presentation he was making. “You know and teach this; why do you need to be there?” My colleague was being kind, but it is true that I have achieved a certain ...
Views: 837 - Quit Flogging a Dead Horse (or in my case, a big chocolate lab) - by Submitted on May 06, 2007 from a bEver tried a key in a lock and found it wouldn't open? What did you do? Did you continue to force the key, twisting and turning, praying the planets would align and the lock would magically open? Chances are you tried a bunch of different keys until you found the one that worked, am I right? ...
Views: 1410 - 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: 624 - The Contrarian Millionaire How to Distinguish Between Myths, Realities - by Claude Intro: If you think I was a little outrageous and controversial in prior issues of Success Stories(C) prepare yourself because I am downright contrarian in this issue. Why, you may ask, do I choose this style or technique for getting my point across? It's because someone better tell you ...
Views: 807 - The NEW Unabridged Claude Diamond Success Dictionary - by Let's face it folks, we all want basically the same things in life health, happiness, enough money to buy a Slurpy(TM) and a New Lincoln Town car every year. The world, however, is getting to be a complicated place to get to all this success. So I am writing an unabridged Claude Diamond Success ...
Views: 873 - The UnConventional Millionaire - by Claude Introduction: I don't know about you, but I am really sick and tired of hearing the same old garbage about "How to achieve Success and financial freedom". If writing your goals down, repeating your positive affirmations, having a positive attitude when you had a lousy day is the Path to ...
Views: 2448 - Twelve Outrageous Secrets of Success Your Guru never told you, But Your Mentor Will! - by Don't read this if you're looking for touchy-feely, warm and fuzzy, hug a tree, you and me, personal achievement psycho banter. There is plenty of that nauseous stuff around to get us through the 21st century. (If you don't believe me go to any garage sale/flea market in Southern California and ...
Views: 1047 - To be, or Not to be (Average)? - by When is hate OK? When it's the feeling you have toward average.
Let me make this point clearly and without reservation. I hate average!
What is average? My dictionary describes it as being about midway between extremes. Being not out of the ordinary. Common. You know, "Average".
To me ...
Views: 790 - Be Your Material - by Once long ago, when asked by a reporter if he had a message he wanted the world to hear, Ghandi replied, "Yes. My life is my message."
Whether we like it or not, this statement is just as true for you and me today as it was for Ghandi then. Our "presence" that we express is far richer and ...
Views: 756 - 7 MUST-HAVE conditions to goal setting. - by Submitted on May 04, 2007 from Emmanuel SeguiThe three keys to living without limits have always been the same. They are clarity, competence, and concentration. Goal setting will help you live without limits. Learning how to set goals is an art. Learn why setting goals is a necessity. Here are 7 Must-have conditions to set goals. 1. State ...
Views: 816 - Thriving Through Major Life Changes - by 1. Identify the payoffs and price of staying where you are. There are certainly good reasons you have for not already having made a transition. Do some soul searching with trusted allies or through journaling to uncover what payoffs you’re receiving for not making the change. At the same time, ...
Views: 1673(1 vote) - Fear Factor: it’s more than just maggots! - by Submitted on May 02, 2007 from Teresa PoolFear Factor: it’s more than just maggots! Question: If you take 40 gallons of putrid smelling cod liver oil, thousands of maggots and cow hooves, and put them together what do you have? Answer: A huge mess. Fear Factor contestant Sean Cashman figured that out the hard way when he participated ...
Views: 1077 - Over 40? Learn to Envision and Live your Perfect Vocational Day - by Submitted on May 01, 2007 from Craig NathansonHave you ever thought about what your perfect work would be? How about the pattern of a typical work day for the rest of your life? What daily routine would get you excited and bring joy and happiness to your work? This didn’t come with the job description The problem with job ...
Views: 582 - Are You A Real Positive Thinker - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2007 from Vivek Ray“No positive thinking can get you anything, But it can get everything better than negative thinking can” - Zig Ziglar Positive thinking is a favorite topic of most self help books and inspirational speakers. So, much has been written and said about it that I had started feeling that I can get ...
Views: 590 - Pioneer A.A.'s Most Ignored, Forgotten, yet Critically Important Resource Part One - by Let's meet the woman Bill Wilson and others frequently called the "Mother of A.A." (See Dick B., Anne Smith's Journal 1933-1939: A.A.'s Principles of Success, 3rd ed, pp. ix, 10, 54, 137, 139; Sue Smith Windows and Robert R. Smith, Children of the Healer, pp. 29, 43, 152; Women Pioneers in ...
Views: 800 - Five Ways You Can Help - by In light of what happened on September 11, we all have been struggling with ways to cope with this tragedy. The Expanding Light would like to offer the support we (Ananda Sanga) have been given from our community, to you, our larger spiritual community. These are some tools to deal with this ...
Views: 576 - I Want To Be Somebody New - by How You Think...Determines How You Act How you act....determines how others React to you.
We receive back from others the kind of treatment and respect we think we deserve.
If a person somehow feels inferior or inadequate, they will act that way. ...
Views: 761 - 10 steps to clarity and purpose - by Have you ever been dreaming, and in your dream, you were aware that you were dreaming and therefore, changed the course of your dream? Life is no different. We can change course in any moment. We can wake up in any moment and live the life we were meant to live.
We are the creators of our own ...
Views: 4554 - Discovering What You Want for Your Life - by I often recommend that life planning be based upon an individual's personal vision and purpose. If you are going to handcraft a life of choice, you'll need to know what you want so that you can make the choices that take you there. The trouble is that many (most?) of you cannot name what it is ...
Views: 668 - Handcraft Your Life of Choice - by Now more than ever in human history do we have the opportunity to deliberately handcraft a life of choice. This is particularly true in developed countries, and this capability continues to spread faster than ever as our world communication systems connect people to a planet-wide community.
As ...
Views: 690 - THE SUCCESS SERIES - by compete. Some people use competition
as an excuse not to do it. They say, "I just can't compete with those people,
there's no use in trying." What keeps people from putting their plans into
action? The big reason is: FEAR. It paralyzes, it saps your energy, it
creates imaginary difficulties. ...
Views: 6574(1 vote) - How Much Do You Plan to Earn In 2007? - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Irena WhitfieldDid you ask this question and have your answer for this year? I know it looks a bit too traditional to force you into a new year resolution. But it's an obvious truth that most people don't rush into changes and into action. They look for 'a reason' so long that they never change and continue ...
Views: 979 - Reverse-Engineering Your Future - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Philip CallaghanThere are many ways of creating new methods and strategies for doing things well. One form of innovation is to take a powerful strategy from one area and apply it usefully in a completely different one. In that spirit, I have borrowed a concept from the field of engineering and will present you ...
Views: 1013 - What You SAY is What You Get, How to Speak Your Way to Success - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Jack CanfieldWhat You SAY is What You Get How to Speak Your Way to Success by Jack Canfield, America's Success Coach In the previous issue of Success Strategies, I talked about how in order to be successful, we must first define what success means to us, and that means getting CLEAR about what you want, ...
Views: 856 - 7 Tips to Attracting What You Want - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Jack Canfield7 Tips to Attracting What You Want by Jack Canfield We all aspire to be, do and have great things. Yet most of us simply aren’t creating the results we want. We don’t have enough money, romance, success or joy in our lives. But what we need to understand is that greatness exists in all of us. ...
Views: 841 - Survival Techniques for a Workplace that Just Won't Stop Changing - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2007 from Eugenia TripputiHow many times have you found yourself in a conversation during which your mind is wandering at best or preparing the answer to yet-to-be-said statement at worst? I am sure we can all relate to this snapshot of 21st century reality! Nevertheless, we hear this trendy phrase repeatedly: ...
Views: 665 - How Do YOU Measure Success? - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2007 from Vanessa VinosQuality of life is nowadays measured by the amount of money you make. Success is defined by the kind of car you drive; by the neighbourhood you live in and by the “toys” you own. After all, he who dies with the most toys wins. True or false? In contrast, the people of the remote Himalayan ...
Views: 973 - Tell the Universe What You Want! - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2007 from Mary AyersSo what is the Law of Attraction? Simply put it states that whatever we put our attention on expands. It’s easy to notice the truth in this. For example, if you were going to buy a certain kind of car you tend to notice all the cars on the road that are like that one you are thinking ...
Views: 1288 - The Top 10 Best Ways to SCREW-UP The Law of Attraction! - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2007 from Mary Ayers1. Keep whining about how your stuff isn't coming. Continue to notice several times during the day how much different your life would be “if” you had the things you are wanting. Talk about how this Law of Attraction stuff really doesn’t work because if it did you would have ...
Views: 723 - The Ultimate Baby Boomer Bummer - by Medicare drying up, 401 K’s down, what more bad news can there be for middle-aged adults? The Somatopause, that’s what. The sa-mot-a-what?
The somatopause (sa-mot-a-pause) is the name scientists give to the metabolism slow-down, and loss-of-energy condition that begins in the mid-30s. For the ...
Views: 1716 - Importance of a good Coach - by Have you ever wished someone would:
Recognize your true potential?
Empower you to fully develop it?
Devise an action plan for you to achieve it?
Mentor you to fulfill it?
That someone is your personal coach!
That is the secret to the taking your personal performance to the next level. ...
Views: 3654 - HABITS: OUT WITH THE BAD - IN WITH THE GOOD - by Many of us would be greatly surprised to realise just how big a part habit plays in our lives. We are all creatures of habit and much of what we do depends on these to a greater or lesser degree, for often they save us the problem of consistently making decisions. Without habits every thought ...
Views: 5768 - Conversing for Maximum Attraction - by So you spotted someone you'd really like to know.
Maybe you're in bar. Maybe you're at the gym or Laundromat. Perhaps someone you see from work. Or maybe, even, you're out socially.
So, now you've got to do something scary, and unpredictable. Create a conversation that could launch a great ...
Views: 774 - IS SILENCE REALLY GOLDEN? - by IS SILENCE REALLY GOLDEN?
DEAR Dr. OSCAR. Why does this happen to me? "Someone introduces themselves to me. I tell them my name. Then suddenly I realize I can not recall their name."
MY RESPONSE… "Simple, you didn't forget their name - you never really heard it in the first place. Your focus ...
Views: 651 - Penta’tude – the five ‘tudes of your success - by In 1941 Major General Hugh ‘Pat’ Casey designed the Pentagon in only three days. Construction began thirty days later and sixteen months after that on January 15, 1943 this now world famous office building was completed. The Pentagon is the headquarters for the United States Department of ...
Views: 957 - Are You a Bridge Builder? - by There are two kinds of people in this world, those that build bridges and those that don’t. Bridge builders are mentors; they share their experience and build bridges of encouragement and hope for others to cross. They are people of tremendous character and strength that give unselfishly of ...
Views: 776 - 7 Reasons why it is so hard to REALLY spread the Word of Success - by It is the oldest and most proven way, word of mouth, and still, even Jesus' story must yet reach all corners of the world, although he performed miracles.
Many of us are performing frequent miracles, and turning our own lives around, while helping hoards of others. Still, people just look at ...
Views: 735 - Rendezvous with Success - by Why this series of Articles? Lot of motivational articles is written on net.Infect everyday I read at least one or two new articles, then why one more? Why to expand the list? Permit me to give you just a little background.
Other day, my conversation with bookstore owner unveiled a surprising ...
Views: 765 - Gateway to Greatness - by Since from the beginning of earth, from the dawn of human race, the society itself has divided into two parts. The division was quite natural, no one has made it, but it was automatic. The division was of winners and losers, of Great person and an ordinary man. Every one admires, appreciate and ...
Views: 665 - Why Are Affirmations Important? - by Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
- Victor Frankl
As you read this on the screen of a computer, compare the way the computer utilises information to the way the ...
Views: 2771 - Mirroring - by What if events and conversations in your daily life are a direct reflection of where you are in your inner life?
Recently I had a conversation with my mother. As she was speaking, I thought, "She's not acknowledging me." It really bothered me, and my feelings were hurt. The next day as I was ...
Views: 559 - The Slam Club - Want To Change Your Life? Change Your Friends - by The Slam Club is informal, existing any time two or more Slammers convene and compulsively denounce other people, places or things. Malcontents pervade our society, routinely sabotaging the good feelings normal people exchange. I call these killers of good feelings Slammers and their social ...
Views: 699 - What Fuels You - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2007 from Shawn DriscollThis has been a challenging month for me on the home-front and so I’ve been thinking about energy—how to have more of it to get through my (sometimes long) days. Have you ever known someone who’s always a bundle of energy and you end up feeling more energetic after being with ...
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