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- THE STRATEGIC THINKING MINDSET - by Textbooks on strategic planning describe actions taken in the marketplace by competing companies to gain competitive advantage. Major types of strategies are catalogued and given various names by different authors. Often these strategies and tactics are so bold and innovative that they "change ...
Views: 3103(1 vote) - The Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself in Specific Situations - by As we encounter a situation, our mind-set greatly affects our outcome. Asking ourselves the right question can help us to look in the right direction, and so find the right answer.
1. When meeting someone new - What can I learn from this person?
2. When a situation distresses you - Is this ...
Views: 1261(1 vote) - Thousands Have Been Laid Off But Millions Are Being Made! - by Read the headlines in any newspaper; catch on your evening news; millions have lost their jobs and many more are expected to be laid off, downsized, or just plain fired! This national, financial cleanse has forced people to look at self-employment as their only option of survival.
A lot of ...
Views: 1247(1 vote) - Who Are We, Really? - by Whether I’m gazing at a majestically sculptured building, reading of a startling medical breakthrough, or soaring over the earth during a transcontinental flight, I’m always awed by the genius of humanity.
The world is millions of years old, and yet, in only a comparatively short period of ...
Views: 1281(1 vote) - Assumptions – The Hidden Sales Killer - by Assumptions can kill a sale. In my sales training workshops, I frequently discuss the importance of not making assumptions about a person before, during, or after the sales process. Participants frequently nod and tell me that they NEVER make assumptions. One person (Doug Maquire, ...
Views: 901 - Do You Elevate The Buying Process? 8 Techniques For Selling Your Way To The Top - by “I doubt there is a suggestion more frequently made to sales professionals than “sell higher,” says Bill Stinnett, CEO of Sales Excellence and the author of Think Like Your Customer. “Participants in my workshops ask more questions about this than all other topics combined.” Selling higher ...
Views: 897 - ENJOYING YOUR SEASONS OF LIFE Action Steps to Not Just Go, But GROW Through! - by SUMMER-LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST!
How can you tell if you’re in a summer season?
1. You have lots of energy to tackle projects.
2. You enjoy life and see the positive in everything.
3. You have higher self-confidence.
4. There is more balance in your life.
5. You no longer allow the stress to ...
Views: 1097 - "Balance" is a Myth - by Balance is a myth. There, I said it out loud. To many, this is heresy. But let me say it again: there is no such thing as achieving balance in one's life. It cannot be done. Balance, as we tend to use the word, is a concept constructed as an ideal in theory, but as a self-defeating goal in ...
Views: 701 - "Even Tiger Woods has a coach" - by What do Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and several Fortune 500 executives have in common. THEY ALL HAVE A COACH. Coaching has come a long way since the late 1980's. It is not just Tony Robins and high priced seminars anymore. It seems that every fifth person you meet these days is ...
Views: 1263 - "Feng Shui for the Office - Maximizing Productivity, Power, & Prosperity" - by Barbara, a small business owner, sought the advice of a Feng Shui Consultant to find a new office. The day after Barbara cleaned up the entrance to her present office and hung a mirror and a Feng Shui crystal in the entranceway; she received a large order from a customer and won a paid vacation ...
Views: 999 - "Heaven on Earth" Astrology and the Flower Essences - by Heaven on Earth: Healing with Astrology and the Flower Essence Remedies
by Barbara Schermer
Astrological Consultant, Flower Essence Practitioner
The T-shirt slogan, "I'm out of Estrogen and I have a gun" would have been apt in describing my emotional state in the fall of 1996. A particularly ...
Views: 2867 - "It Was Just Like In The Movies....." (Sept 11th 2001) - by One of the things that struck me forcibly about the events of September 11th 2001 was the terrible resemblance the attacks bore to a Hollywood blockbuster disaster movie. It was quite uncanny......
Desperate terrorists seize passenger airline planes and plunge them into the WTC towers. The ...
Views: 1368 - "Learning From Fido" (or, the real gurrrrus online) - by If dogs were teachers we would all learn a great deal about life, love, and work including the internet.
I received a simple e-mail message from one of my online friends recently that pointed out some of the traits of dogs which are positive. admirable, and worthy of imitation.
For example: ...
Views: 889 - "Organize to Simplify" Monthly Financial Checklist - by 1. Select a monthly or twice-monthly date for handling all paperwork, and to meet your financial obligations. You may find this works better if you select one day a week and stay on top of things that much better.
2 Gather all supplies and equipment before you sit down to deal with the ...
Views: 967 - "The Healing Power of Love" - by First we must become quiet deep inside. What comes from God is eternal. If we have faith even as small as a grain of mustard seed, nothing shall be impossible for us to attain. As I think in my heart, so I am. Out of our heart comes life. If I can begin to hallow our Father's name "as" it is in ...
Views: 3475 - "Within You" - by You are a miracle. You have within you incredible power and beauty. Your inner power and beauty give you the freedom to find success, peace, love, self-confidence, and the joy of aliveness. The moment that you awaken to this fact is the moment that you begin to experience the miracle. It does ...
Views: 2939 - "Working With Resistance" Some Thoughts On Healing - by This past week, I had the opportunity to work with several new clients who were each feeling intense emotion suffering. The personal situation, and nature of their feelings were quite different for each of them, however there was one common experience that all shared.
They were all greatly ...
Views: 2202 - * THE BEATLES' TOP 10 REASONS TO HIRE A PERSONAL COACH * - by Do you want to know a secret?
There's a hot new group of folks out there called personal coaches that will help you reach your professionals goals while ensuring that you are living a very cool life as well.
Please please me by reading on to discover the Top 10 reasons how working with a ...
Views: 669 - *** 3 Sales Tips to Surviving an Economic Downturn... - by Shhh…can you hear that? That growing noise you hear is either our once strong economy coming to a screeching halt or the sounds of economic experts offering up their noisy opinions. As a former Macroeconomics professor, I know if you ask 5 economists their thoughts on the direction of the ...
Views: 2450 - *** Addiction & Recovery: Addiction, A Suitable Case For Treatment? - by Today most people take for granted that addiction is a condition that requires medical attention. However, it is only relatively recently that addiction has been treated by the medical profession at all. A hundred years ago addiction was not a term that many people would have recognized and, ...
Views: 979 - *** Basic Principles of Hermetic Astrology - by A correctly calculated chart of the sky for the date, time and
location of a person’s birth is the focal point of scientific astrology.
This chart maps the life pattern of the person for whom it is
calculated.
A Birth Chart (which is also known as a horoscope -- NOT to be
confused with ...
Views: 6360 - *** Create Outrageous Success With These 10 Secret Leadership Skills - by What does outrageous success look like to you? It means your wildest dreams coming true doesn’t it? Lots of money, your dream home. Maybe owning an expensive, super-fast car, traveling to exotic places, or getting the absolute best schooling for your kids. And of course, along with ...
Views: 907 - *** Developing Your Psychic Gifts Through Connections To Your Past Reincarnated Lives - by Many do not understand that we are all gifted in a number of areas. It is if we choose to develop the gifts or not and if we choose to develop them to use them with understanding, responsibility and wisdom. As we develop our gifts and abilities we can further our expertise in different areas and ...
Views: 2892 - *** Finally, Achieve The Goals You Set - by “If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. “
Henry Ford
Are you ready to change your life and achieve the goals you really want?
Maybe you have already used goal setting tools and defined what you wanted to achieve. Perhaps you've
• Set ...
Views: 1912 - *** Fitness And Exercise: How To Stop Battling Frustration To Lose Weight - by Women who battle frustration and silently scream from failed weight loss attempts, poor health, and lack of will power are not alone. It's not all about exercise and diet. If your spirit isn't with the program, even the best discipline might just lead to injury or worse yet feeling you failed ...
Views: 1224 - *** Follow Your Heart - by There are four great ways to apply the Law of Attraction in your life:
1) Letting go of the negative with The Sedona Method
2) Giving without wanting something back in return
3) Getting Into Action
4) Following your heart.
This article is the third in the series on applying the Law of ...
Views: 1002 - *** Getting Into Action - by There are four great ways to apply the Law of Attraction in your life:
1) Letting go of the negative with The Sedona Method
2) Giving without wanting something back in return
3) Getting Into Action
4) Following your heart.
This article is the second in the series on applying the Law of ...
Views: 1375 - *** Growth Hormone and Hormones: The Right to Aging Well for Men and Women - by You will become Older but do not become Old…
Picture yourself in twenty-five years right now…do you see OLD or OLDER? A revealing question don’t you think?
One we often deny…
Because OLD speaks of a loss of freedom, lack of dignity, disease, no sex, no fun, no making ...
Views: 2356 - *** How To Build Muscle Based On Your Body Type - by Ever wonder why some guys can train in the gym day after day, month after month, year after year, suck down raw eggs and protein powder and pop every bodybuilding supplement pill they can get their hands on...and BARELY see any progress?!
And what about the guy who seems to go to the gym, just ...
Views: 5335 - *** International Worldwide Forgiveness Day - by August 3rd was designated as International Worldwide Forgiveness Day by the visionary, Robert Plath. His vision was it would be a day that would evoke the healing spirit of forgiveness worldwide. He created the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance in 1996 to empower that vision.
Each year on this ...
Views: 3269 - *** Letting Go and Moving Forward - by Let's face it. Many of us choose to hang on to things that at some point have hurt us, angered us, made us feel sad, or depressed us. If we choose to hang on to them, we will never move forward and we could even create physical or medical damage to our bodies. To prevent this from happening we ...
Views: 1065 - *** Massage Therapy - The Key to Healing and Health - by Massage therapy has been in use for a long time. Chinese documents dating back more than 3000 years denote its use. In recent years, massage therapy has grown in relevance, popularity and significance as a viable alternative to more traditional treatments. Adding to the legitimacy of massage as ...
Views: 1883 - *** Personal Training Has Evolved: What is Functional Resistance Training? - by At 3D PTS functional training runs through the core of everything we do, and I wanted to share with you today why we think it’s important, why we think it’s important for personal trainers, and the benefits for you if you’re training or being trained.
The buzz word in the gym ...
Views: 2017 - *** POSITIVE ENERGY (Book Excerpt) - by Are you forever in a rush, staving off exhaustion? Are you desperately overcommitted, afraid to say “no”? Do you have fang marks from being bled dry by energy vampires? Does the onslaught of violence in the news leave you drained?
A hidden energy crisis threatens our world. Our high ...
Views: 1661 - *** The Benefits of Massage for Animals - by Animal massage can benefit all animals from companion pets such as cats and dogs to horses and livestock and even zoo animals. The benefits of massage for animals mirror those for people, including decreased stress and improved circulation.
For many, pet massage sounds like a luxury for ...
Views: 4824 - *** The Enlightened Marketing Strategy Missionaries Use - by My fiancé Christopher and I were hanging out Saturday afternoon when the doorbell rang. I wasn't expecting anyone but was pleasantly surprised to see two Mormon missionaries there.
I say "pleasantly" because, although it's not my faith tradition, I've always found the missionaries to be ...
Views: 1069 - *** The Law of Attraction Brings Gifts - by There is a lot of talk these days about The Secret and what we might be attracting into our lives. Some celebrities are attracting situations that give them the opportunity to enter rehab and clean up certain aspects of their lives. Paris Hilton is a good example of someone who has the ...
Views: 1767 - *** Top 10 Tips to Infidelity-Proof Your Relationship - by Infidelity can sneak up on even the most solid partnerships. According to an infidelity poll conducted by http://www.WomanSavers.com of 6,330 women, 92% believe that emotional affairs lead to physical affairs, whereas only a mere 7% believe they do not..* Source: ...
Views: 2445 - *** What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming? - by You can use a computer, but....
Perhaps you've managed, over the last ten years, to learn how use a personal computer, and now you are computer literate. But how much do you know about what's going on inside yourself and others? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is about just that.
Knowing ...
Views: 1538 - *** Why You Can't Lose Weight: Seven Blocks to Successful Weight Loss and How to Overcome Them - by If you’re like me, you’d sooner write a nutrition book than follow one! If you’ve read at least one nutrition or diet book in your lifetime, then you probably know what to eat. You may even have it down to a science: a cup of this, four ounces of that, two tablespoons of this, ...
Views: 982 - *** You Can Succeed in Sales - by You have the ability right now to learn what it takes to earn whatever income you want. That’s a pretty strong statement, but don't discount it until you've read the rest of this article.
Do you know that the majority of today’s leaders in business were in sales at one time or ...
Views: 1786 - ***Body Language and Parenting - by Being a parent is not an easy job at the best of times. While we all want to do the best for our children, we sometimes inadvertantly allow the pressures and frustrations of everyday life to show themselves when we talk with our children.
Children are incredibly perceptive to our moods and ...
Views: 4477 - ***Held Hostage at Home! - by It was a lazy, rainy October Saturday morning in Texas. I had slept in ‘til 8:45. Sleeping in is a rare thing for me these days. Even on the days I can, I rarely choose to because I can hardly wait to get up and meet the day. Life is so full!
I slipped out of my pajamas and into my favorite ...
Views: 2576 - ***Imagination is Power! - by John Lennon entitled a song “Imagine.” Thoreau once said: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.” Neville once said: “Imagination is the very gateway of reality.”
Are you waking up to a new way of being? Can you feel something rumbling deep within you, ...
Views: 1175 - ***Learning How to Thrive after Divorce - by Divorce. Separation. Gloomy concepts for most people. Sharing the news that "I'm getting a divorce" is the kind of pronouncement that can cause a hush at even the liveliest cocktail party. About 50% of all marriages end in divorce, and one in three Americans are already part of a blended family. ...
Views: 2998 - ***Making Sense of the Dating Process - by Dating is a process with a beginning, middle, and end. Very importantly, the process is different depending on why you are dating.
If you are Dating to Find Your Ideal Partner, be crystal clear; the more you know what you want, the more likely you will be successful finding your ideal partner. ...
Views: 1842 - ***Most Dangerous Relationship Mistakes of Career and Take-Charge Women - by Family research offers relationship advice for today’s no-nonsense women who are more vulnerable to suicide attempts, eating disorders, domestic violence and affairs gone wrong.
An in-patient ward for depression and suicide attempts was the last place 36 year-old “Amber,” a ...
Views: 2685 - ***Relationships: 5 Resolutions to Keep to Create Successful Relationships - by Relationships can be our greatest joy, or our greatest challenge. Often they are both! With a world going through significant economic restructuring and transition, many people are re-assessing what is truly important to them. After all, will we assess our lives with the question of "How did my ...
Views: 2389 - ***The 10 Most Important Things to Know About Aura - by Whether you are a sophisticated aura reader or simply curious, have I got a list for you! After you go through these 10 most important things, count up how many are new to you. This short list could change your life.
1. Not Just Color
How often have you heard misleading phrases like, "See ...
Views: 5670 - ***The Energy Game - by “The Game of “Life” …is an ‘Energy Game’ …between the Tools/Rules of Energy!
Your TOOLS (from conception) are 23 pairs of chromosomal (color/light body) memory banks that ‘come together’ to play the Game of Life by the RULES (Laws of ...
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