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- Act as If - by We can only control our attitude and actions. Each of us has a choice each minute, of each hour, of each day, how we will think and act. The bottom line - “what we give out will surely return, be wise” Try a smile or kind gesture. It only takes a moment and will show results immediately. ...
Views: 581 - Make a Place for Your Illness and Put It in Its Place - by "A place for everything, and everything in its place."
That may be a fine idea if you're eyeing the clutter on the living room floor, or a pile or two of old magazines and catalogues collecting dust in a corner. But what has it got to do with coping with illness? Plenty.
Illness is never a ...
Views: 581 - Making It Happen! - by ABSTRACT: Have you ever wondered who you really are? Take a moment and reflect on yourself as a person. Be brutally honest. Consider who you are and how you live. Are you where you want to be? Who controls your personal power? Is decision making easy? What is your level of stress? How do ...
Views: 581 - Vitamins and Herbs / What's the Harm? - by With each day more people are turning to herbs and vitamin supplements to ease their pain and/or enhance their overall health. People are taking control over their own health and we're telling the medical profession that they are NOT the only answer. We are pressuring our doctors to become more ...
Views: 581 - Advice and Dating Tips for Single Men on Making Single Women Feel Romanically Attracted to You - by The most important thing you can do to make single women feel romantically attracted to you is to make her feel special. Women are a lot less interested in the way you appear to her than in the way to make her feel about herself.
It's very important to make single women feel special and ...
Views: 580 - 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: 579 - Getting to Know You - by Your new boyfriend? Hey -you know this man almost better than you know yourself. You know his favorite color, his shoe size, what time he gets up in the morning, how he likes his coffee, his mother's maiden name, when he last voted and what he ate last Thanksgiving. You know which side he likes ...
Views: 577 - Change Your Mind, Change Your Life - by Several years ago I was dealing with severe sinus problems, felt drained all the time, never seemed to be enjoying what I was doing, even what I previously would have called fun. I had no energy to pursue the career I wanted. I blamed my situation on what was happening with other people in my ...
Views: 574 - Managing the Human Machine - by ABSTRACT: Would it be terrific if you could really live your beliefs and values? Is a higher quality of life important to you? Can you see the advantage of being self empowered? Are you looking forward to blending your vision and purpose with your: team, partner, coworkers, family, community...? ...
Views: 574 - About self-help - by Are we all talking about the same thing when we talk about self-help? I don’t think so.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines self-help as follows: “The act or an instance of helping or improving oneself without assistance from others.” Note: “without assistance from others”. This is very ...
Views: 573 - Earning Your Own Respect - by Be careful to not become so caught up in getting ready to live that you forget to live.
Imagine a football team that becomes so involved in planning their strategy for the big game that they forget to leave the locker room to go on the playing field, or the student who never applies the ...
Views: 573 - BUILDING TRUST IN YOUR LIFE - by Without trust, you can't be willing to sacrifice, cooperate or commit yourself. You want to be appreciated for what you contribute. Building respect for individual differences, where one person can relate to another's interest - even when they disagree - is paramount to developing a respectful ...
Views: 572 - Quick setup of your business - by Which course must be taken to setup your own internet-business? This is an often asked question by people who want to start selling their products and services on the internet, but don't exactly know how to act efficiently.
Related to this question are simple and practical things such as: How ...
Views: 569 - That Free Coaching Session May Cost you Plenty! - by Suppose you're a successful business owner. You value a long-term coaching relationship to "stay on track" and have a sounding board. If you tend to procrastinate or lose focus, partnering with a coach may mean the difference between staying in business or going broke.
But suppose you want to ...
Views: 569 - HANDLING STRESS (Part Two) - by WHAT TO DO ABOUT STRESS
THE 30 POINT PLAN
1. Be positive- see problems as opportunities. Have goals and visions. Have a positive mental attitude.
2. Play sports and step up your exercise.
3. Talk things over with someone.
4. Determine what causes you stress and try to eliminate it.
5. ...
Views: 568 - A resolution method that works - by At the end of each year, it is traditional to make a New Year's Resolution. With such "agreements", we commit ourselves to resolving personal issues, yet more often than not, fail to keep these commitments. The concept in itself is a good one: to make an assessment of our lives, to contemplate ...
Views: 564 - 7 Surefire Steps to a Positive Attitude - by Attitude, as you have heard many times, is everything. That theory has been written in thousands of books, spoken to millions of people, and driven deep into your mind. Why? It's true.
Your attitude is your own personal filter for everything that happens to you, around you, or within you. What ...
Views: 562 - You Can't Direct the Wind But You Can Adjust the Sails - by © 2004 - Dan Hamilton - All rights reserved
Dear Friend,
Today I would like to provide you with a newperspective and new insights to help you defineeffective marketing strategies and tactics that willinsure the growth of your online business.
First of all, let's take a look at the meaning ...
Views: 558(1 vote) - Top 10 Instructions For Creating Your First Business & - by Have you ever heard of "Dream Boards" or "Treasure Maps"? They are a visual picture of the dreams you have for your life and assist you to turn those dreams into reality! Here is my take on them:
1) Purchase a large piece of paper, such as "oak tag" or "poster board" in whatever color you'd ...
Views: 557 - Add a Teaching Gig to Your Marketing Toolkit - by How can you gain credibility and exposure for you and your business, reach a motivated audience, develop a far-flung network, hone your presentation skills -- and get paid to do it? Many executives and entrepreneurs have found an answer: they teach classes in adult education programs.
Adult ...
Views: 556 - Plan your Performance Review Before you Start the Job - by When you start a new job, you probably realize the first three months are critical to your long-term success. Everybody's eye is on the "newbie" as you learn the ropes. "Does anybody want to go to lunch?" is the wrong thing to say in a run-during-lunch or never-leave-the-desk culture.
You may ...
Views: 552 - New Year's Resolutions--A Great 2006 in 4 Simple Steps - by ===========================================================
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In this article, I'm going to share with you 4 ...
Views: 551 - The magic of transformation - by When I was a kid, my mother took me to a beautiful Walt Disney's movie: 'The Awakening Desert'. One of the scenes showed a huge cactus suddenly transformed into a flowering phenomena. I never forgot how, within seconds, all the buds emerged and turned into colorful, open flowers. What I did not ...
Views: 550 - Mindfulness: More Important Today than Ever - by Remember, counsels Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, that this moment is the only time over which you have dominion. The most important thing in your life, therefore, is the thing you are doing at the moment. The most important person in your life is the person you are with at the moment.
And if ...
Views: 549 - THE FOUR EMOTIONS THAT CAN LEAD TO LIFE CHANGE - by Emotions are the most powerful forces inside us. Under the power of emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic (as well as barbaric) acts. To a great degree, civilization itself can be defined as the intelligent channeling of human emotion. Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, ...
Views: 549(1 vote) - Acknowledgement - a tool for transformation - by One Monday afternoon, whilst receiving a massage, I was laying on my back, listening to my masseuse. Acutely aware, despite her young age she stated: "Maybe you should look at what you have instead of what you don't have yet." I opened one eye, carefully, "what point am I missing here?" She ...
Views: 548 - Going with the "Flow" - by This whole idea of change is founded on a single principle:
CHANGE IS ALL IN YOUR MIND.
First comes a desire or need to change. Then comes an
attitude that permits it. Then come behaviors that lead
to it and support it. And finally, change happens -- or at
least you realize that it has ...
Views: 547 - Love it or Lose it - by A lot of people have lost their jobs due to offshore outsourcing. There is a deeper spiritual issue at play here. Many people who worked in these “Level 1” support positions took the job because it was there. Were they really happy about the work they were doing? Sure, it paid the bills, but did ...
Views: 545(1 vote) - Kicking "But" - by Consider the difference between these two sentences:
“I want to create and present a workshop, but I’ve never done it before.?
“I want to create and present a workshop, and I’ve never done it before.?
Can just one little word make a difference in the way you feel and whether you move ...
Views: 543 - Lose Your Career and Find a New Life - by I hear from many people who feel trapped in a career after fifteen or twenty happy, productive years. It's been a good ride, they say, but now it's time to jump off the train. They want to fulfill a creative dream, recover from burnout or just try something new. The old challenge is now a "been ...
Views: 542 - THE TIME TO ACT - by Engaging in genuine discipline requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don't need to be hasty if it isn't required, but you don't want to lose much time either. Here's the time to act: when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong.
Let's say you would like to build your ...
Views: 540 - Winds of Change - by Which way is the Wind blowing? Is it to your back moving you in a desirable direction, or is it in your face, messing up your hair and your future?
A Sailing ship depends on getting this right to reach it's destination, shouldn't you too?
There are vehicles that exist that are within your ...
Views: 540 - A Word of Consciousness - by How highly do you prioritise your responsibility toward sustaining the well being of our planet, or do you bypass this issue as the concern of others than that of your own?
When you envision the state of our environment, for example, in the next 20 years, what image is it that you perceive? A ...
Views: 535 - THE ENCHANTED SELF(R) A POSITIVE THERAPY - by In my years as a psychologist, I have come to believe that most people seeking psychotherapy are unhappy not only because of earlier hurts and traumas, as well as present frustrations and problems, but because they cannot access earlier happier moments often enough, resulting in not being able ...
Views: 527 - The Beat Of Your Own Drum - by Society has dictated our behaviors since day one. Look at how the electronic and print media influence what we think, and the choices we make. The majority of attitudes and behaviors we carry through life are "learned," because we aren't born with them. We "learn" the differences in skin color, ...
Views: 525 - To Gain Freedom, You Need a Safety Net - by When I talk to people about moving to career freedom and becoming a free spirit, I sometimes get the question: "Does this mean I should give up my job and move to Montana?" Or people ask: "Should I quit my job to start a business?"
Imagine that you decide to walk across a room on a high wire. ...
Views: 525 - Time is of the Essense - by THE PROBLEM...
Divorced, widowed and elderly women often prolong, delay or withdraw from a contract due to indecision and uncertainty of their unknown future. What could become an asset, frequently becomes a disaster. Most women are not prepared for their new life, let alone making the ...
Views: 523 - Making a difference in the workplace - by Have you been lately into a local supermarket?
Have you noticed how many brands of breakfast cereals are on the shelves?
How many different brands of breakfast cereals are you actually eating?
Few!
If so, why do we need all this variety? The truth is - we don't! Our society is absorbed in a mad ...
Views: 521 - The Worst Advice for New Entrepreneurs - by When I started my business, the guidance was awful. I call one advisor "the coach from hell." There was lots of misguided psychobabble mixed with self-serving suggestions of expensive resource.
I encourage clients to use their own intuition as a filter to evaluate all advice. I also advise ...
Views: 516 - Today, Tomorrow and the Tomorrow After That... - by During the events of last week, I, like you, have experienced many emotions -- horror, sadness, anger, gratitude and deep concern for the brave and generous men and women who are doing the difficult work that must be done.
To those who have lost family and loved ones, I express my deepest ...
Views: 515 - Look Into The Looking Glass - by We are taught from a early age what is good and what is bad. We define ourselves on on actions good and bad. People tend to focus on the bad and that is how they feel This leaves us twisted. We must define for ourself what is good and bad no one has the right to judge oneself, yet they do and we ...
Views: 510 - Swimming Upstream... - by One of the biggest lessons that I have learned in this life is how futile it is to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Life is never going to go exactly the way that you want it to. Something is always waiting to pop up and bite you. The more that you ...
Views: 507 - UNTITLE - by We often hear of small actions that can make a dramatic impact on our lives. Here are ten such things which, if done with determination, will produce a revolution for you physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and financially!
1. Drink Pure Water
Our bodies are 70% water. Drinking ...
Views: 499 - Top 10 Online Job Search Mistakes - by The Internet has made job searching easier and more complex at the same time. Currently, there are nearly 50,000 websites devoted to job searches and careers. You can now send your resume to thousands of potential employers with the touch of a button. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s a new world. ...
Views: 497 - Writing a New Page - by Each new year is laden with possibilities like the pages of a new journal. At the beginning of a new year, many of us make resolutions. However, we often make the resolutions quickly with very little thought as to what is or isn’t working in our lives. As a result, the resolutions usually fail, ...
Views: 493 - MULTIPLE SKILLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - by I find it's important to not walk into the 21st Century without multiple skills. But what I also find is that if you are already in sales, network marketing or have an entrepreneurial business (or plan to in the future), you can gain the needed skills for the future while you create your income ...
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