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Clarifying Your Intention
As we get closer the end of the year we start to cast our thoughts and desires toward the coming year. Want to have a full sense of enjoyment and satisfaction in life? Then you need to know what you want to experience. What outcomes would you like to be participating in?

Your LIFE PURPOSE and how to add value to your life
Life Purpose is your destination; this destination does not change through time, it adds value to your life and the lives of those you meet along the way. Mission Statements are plans or short term goals made with the intention to grow and move forward. This article explores how to discover your Life Purpose and and how mission statements can be used to strengthen you life style.

Necessity is the Mother of Intention
The road to failure is as they say, paved with good intentions.

Lesson #3: Grow a Thick Skin
“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going,” says Lucas about encountering pessimism. “Put blinders on and plow right ahead.”

Lesson #1: Be Ruthless
“We have no intention of failing,” says Murdoch. “The only question is how great a success we’ll have.”

The Source of Oracle’s Wisdom: How Ellison Achieved Success
“There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong,” says Ellison. “‘Why did you climb the mountain?' ‘I climbed the mountain because it was there.’ That's utter nonsense…You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.”

Lesson #2: Strike Out A New Path
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success,” said Rockefeller.

Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Li Ka Shing Quotes
Li Ka Shing Quotes

Lesson #1: Look To A Need That Is Right Under Your Nose
“Before Baby Einstein, I was an English major in college and after that I was a teacher in high school and left when I had my first baby,” says Aigner-Clark. “At that time, there was nothing that existed that was fun educational videos for babies. That is when I realized that there was a need in the market place and best of all I was my own customer.”

Julie Aigner-Clark Quotes
Julie Aigner-Clark Quotes

A Star Is Porn: How Jameson Rose From Rags To Riches

“When I started my career, my intention was to become the best. I had big plans and a lot of determination,” says Jameson, “but sometimes even I think this is beyond what I could have ever dreamed.” Jameson might not have been able to predict her success, but she was able to achieve it nevertheless. How did this woman who was the victim of abuse at the hands of others and drugs, become one of the most popular adult entertainment stars in history?

Three “A’s
An empowered leader makes being accessible a priority. Some ways that one can be accessible is by holding regular office hours, open corporate meetings, walking around the organization periodically just to create a bonding with the staff and employees. A huge key is simply regularly returning phone calls and emails; being accessible requires a sincere intention to be open and available to others.

The Myth of the Management Myth
On a plane yesterday I read a truly awful new article in The Atlantic. Called "The Management Myth", it is nominally about how management theory is a waste, MBAs are dangerous, philosophy rules, and consultants are nasties.

Daily Disciplines for Effortless Success: Six Steps for Activating "The Secret" in Your Life
The first step to using Law of Attraction as presented in the movie The Secret is to clarify exactly what you want. Remember—determine, write down and talk about what you do want, not what you don’t want. Be as specific as possible. Once you have clarified what you want, do the following each and every day.

Altucher: College is "Abhorrent"
I love my friend James Altucher dearly -- and not just because his hair makes mine look half-decent, nor because he pitched in and helped last week at the Money:Tech conference -- and his column in yesterday's FT is another reason why. Blunt, smart, contrarian, empirical and irreligious, those are James's calling cards.

Throwing Caution to the Winds
I am often asked whether entrepreneurship comes easy to me. The answer is yes and no.

Lying as a Form of Control
Did you learn to lie as a child to protect yourself from rejection? Are you still using this form of control, which is undermining your self-esteem? Discover how to heal lying.

Wanting and getting and having and giving
It has been said that there are two broad kinds of people in the world - givers and takers. The givers ask what's in me for you? The takers ask what's in it for me? I think we are all givers and takers. Intention is what differentiates. The poet Gita Bellin says "Success depends on where intention is." I couldn't agree more.

Increase your Impact by declaring your Intention
Take 7 simple steps to achieve the outcome of your choice

Create the Mindset for Business Growth
Opportunities to expand are dependent on your focus, whether present, past or future. Consider your goals imagining how you would be different, how your business would change and how your life will be affected. Allow yourself to step into that vision now, as if it had already happened. Notice how you are feeling as you are doing this. Tune into the details. What you see and feel is important.

Personal Gravity Part 2 - Filters
Listening isn't just about staying quiet to hear the other person all the way the end of their thought. Listening also demands that we hear others' words with no personal filters associated with that communication. That's a much taller order than simply shutting your mouth until the appropriate time to speak.

How to Get Results from Inside-Out

Would you like to be able to get results you want without having to take constant massive action, getting overwhelmed and exhausted in the process? The success secret I teach my clients is a process that helps you to get results from the " inside out". We all have dreams, desires, and goals that we aspire to right? That's a good thing! Our desires help us to focus our attention, which leads us to take inspired actions and enjoy the results. Perfect, right?

Networking

Although technology has become increasingly important in recent years, the importance of relationships in business has not changed. Upon reflection, it appears that we have taken the following path. Technological Era --> Industrial Era In fact, it has been predicted that over the next ten to fifteen years, we will see a new era emerge; that being the era of the relationship in doing business. It is estimated that the relationships we have in business with our customers and within organisations will be the key differentiator for businesses worldwide. Technological Era --> Industrial Era --> Relationship Era

Put An Issue On the Table
Every day we find ourselves having to work through issues that come up in our relationships. Opportunities to express your concerns or opinions are never too far away. But, do you act on those opportunities or shy away from them? What is the one thing you should do to improve the quality of those relationships?

"Do You Have the X Factor?"
Many of us watch talent shows on TV like the X Factor and feel that, while we admire those who are talented, we are not in the same class. Well, you are. You just need to get a few things right.

You don’t have to make Negotiation a part of every sale

I often get requests by sales mangers for negotiation skills training for their sales people when in fact upon further investigation their people usually need consultative selling skills training first. You cannot negotiate effectively if you cannot sell effectively first. Both are processes which need to be learned and applied in the correct order. However over 90% of sales people follow no logical process when selling or negotiating leaving their sales at risk. So to clear up the confusion between selling and negotiation I thought it might help to examine when you sell and when you negotiate.

Self-Coaching Tip: Look at the Expectations Behind Your Intentions
Surprised to find that any feelings of lack or fear could, without any effort on our part, completely affect the rest of our day.

How to Do a Lousy Job at Business Networking Follow-Up
Neither the salesperson or the prospect wants to be inundated with follow-up that doesn't serve to advance any decision or relationship. More of a spiel, more talk about "me, me, me", less and less additional value will assure you not to get any response.

No Time........Really??

I love to pay attention to the language I use and also the words my clients choose. Being aware of our own language provides a window into where we may have blind spots, fears or beliefs standing in our way. I often catch my clients using the phrase, “I just don’t have time.” It’s a sentence that suggests that we have no power over how we spend our time. And the truth is, we do. Certainly there can be negative consequences to choosing to spend our time in one way over another. And avoiding those negative consequences can drive our choices, but, at the end of the day, we are choosing!

Difference between being honest and opinionated

There is a difference with being an honest person and labeled as opinionated. There are many times that your opinions are important, useful, and helpful and I’m sure appreciated! Our opinions come from our own life experiences. Each person has their own individual perceptions, beliefs, cultural and religious experience and overall life experiences. And, we need to be open and respectful to another perspective. A few things for you to ask yourself are: 1. Why do you feel it’s necessary to share your opinions so frequently? 2. Do you respect others? 3. What is your intention when sharing? You may not be intentionally trying to upset anyone. Others may feel you are being opinionated when you add your opinions regularly on top of others. For example, if someone in your book club is sharing their thoughts about the book and you

Reacting too soon from your emotions

The way we choose to communicate is important. You are not responsible for how others interpret your information, but you are responsible for your method of communication. We want to be considerate of others and have our intention be understood at the same time. There is a lot more going on than just our words. Our emotions behind our words, our intention behind our message, our vocal tones, and our body language will affect the way our message is received. There is a difference between responding versus reacting. If you react too quickly from your emotions it doesn’t give you a chance to discern or internalize and you are allowing your emotions to control you. To respond in an emotional mature way, take some time to BE RESPONSIBLE and process your emotions. If your tone is “harsh” during many of your communications, it’s possible tha

How to structure your business to protect your intellectual property

It was only after Dean signed one half of the shares over to his General Manager that he realised what he had done. The intention when he sold those shares was to give away half of his Auckland business. However, what Dean had inadvertently done was give away half of his dreams and aspirations for the brand which he had spent five years building up from scratch. A simple step taken before the share sale could have avoided this problem, but Dean was now looking at buying back the shares from someone who didn’t want to sell.

Yes You Can Compute Success and Turn Circumstances into Opportunities
It is normal to want to have a life that is fulfilling, happy and abundant. Hanging on to old perspectives and attachments to beliefs that are based on being right rather than happy are limiting, self destructive and keeps you trapped and living a mediocre life when you can have an extraordinary life.

The Productive E-mail Process (PEP)
One of the most important efficiency structures in your business is being productive in your e-mail inbox and managing large amounts of e-mail. As someone who receives hundreds and hundreds of e-mails per day, I knew that I had to create a process that worked and a process that kept me super productive.

The Missing Keys to Great Negotiation Skills
Improve your negotiation skills and drive more dollars to your bottom line. Enhance your ability to achieve your desired outcome by understanding these basic negotiating skills.

Self-Coaching Tip: Pre-Tend to Your Future
From a very early age, we have had the ability to visualize or tap into our kinesthetic body. We called it "pretending."

Self-Coaching Tip: Change the Questions You Ask Your Self
Sometimes knowing about the Law of Attraction gets me into trouble. I begin to measure my spiritual growth by what I'm attracting into my life.

No Matter How Big, or Small.

It was three nights ago, I couldn’t sleep, as is often the case on warm nights. New York in August feels like a wet blanket fresh out of the oven. It’s hard not to sweat just bending over. My fiancée had gone out to her parents for the night, and the quiet in the house was peaceful, but incomplete. Truth be told, I just can’t stand to be away from her. Television didn’t do it, 25 minutes of baseball highlights later, still restless. A few books I’m in the middle of didn’t provide any repose either. I wondered, why the unrest? An incessant pebble of anxiety was rolling like a marble through my stomach. It was 1:30am; I sat in my backyard trying to enjoy the serenity of the calm hot air, barely rustling a tree.

(11) Questions To Answer Before Starting A New Business!

What is your intention for your business? One could say to be successful and make money of course. How do you intend to do this? How does it happen? How much time will it take? Who will you become in the process of building your business? This is the important question and the answer. Let’s assume you have never owned a business yet, you really have this burning desire to work for yourself. You have done your research and decided on a business to build, yes build.

If You Want To Be Happy and Successful Don't Become A Lawyer
No wonder lawyers have the highest incidence of depression among professions and are the most inclined to resort to drugs and alcohol to manage stress. According to this survey, the majority of lawyers have a warped view as to what makes you successful...

Dare to Dream Bigger than You Ever Have
Are you short-changing yourself? Do you hold back on how big you let yourself dream? Is it time for you to super-size your goals and dreams? You know the adage-life gives us what you ask of it? It's really true.

Book Review: Influence: Science and Practice
Robert Cialdiniâ€™s book is all about â€œclick, whirrâ€ â€“ how weâ€™re programmed as humans, how marketing can leverage the programming, and how as individuals we can overcome the programming.

"Leading Works Better Than Selling."

Our research found that that harder one pushes to make sales, the harder it is to grow a territory. This article covers several reasons "leading works better than selling." Also, borrowing an effective sales strategy from top performers can change your whole mission on a call. It ensures your efforts are magnified with top performers' work values. And replicating top performers' practices of dealing with common sales challenges can help you, like them, outperform counterparts and trends with 31 percent annual sales growth compared to 5 percent for the status quo.

Intention: Is Your Life Magical?
At the beginning of the New Year we are bombarded with the concept of making resolutions and goal setting to try and make the things happen that we have decided we want.

The Zen of Ease
Effortless success in your business is also as much a state of mind as a set of specific actions that you need to take to experience higher income, fewer work hours, more freedom, time, energy, etc. This article explains why.

Google Analytics – What is it?

Importance of Web Analytics is increasing day by day as more websites of the same niche compete for a similar or unique goal. Webmasters now have access to lot of quantitative data that can help them find answers for all “What” on their website. What pages are visited, what products people buy, what browser they use and many more micro details information. There are many web analytics tools available online and Google Analytics is one among the leading Analytics tools we have for years.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies: 7 Steps to Make It Easier for You to Be Resilient
Have you ever had trouble keeping it professional and not taking things personally? This article gives you some great tips on how to maintain your resilience.

How I Found A Lucrative Income Opportunity
How I found a lucrative income opportunity is the story of how I turned around my financial fortunes thanks to the economic down turn of 2008.

Ten Ways to Greater Ease in Life
For many of us, including me, a life of greater ease is most appealing. Yet ease runs counter to our stress-producing, complex culture. As a result, it’s essential to increase its presence in our lives.

How to Share Power in a Relationship: The Five Cs of Co-Creation

As a species, we are gradually moving from self-centered, adversarial uses of power to collectively sharing power for the mutual benefit of everyone. We are shifting from a paradigm characterized by "me or them" to "me and them." We are lifting ourselves into the realm of co-creation. It's going to take more than good intentions for us to pull this one off. We're all going to have to learn to think and behave differently in our business-as-usual routines.

Got a Leap of Faith?
If you answer these questions for 21 days, you will increase your Intention to succeed. When you write the answers you activate your Big Three senses - Visual-Auditory-Anesthetize (sense of touch)

Ma$$ive Prosperity
What's the best way to attract massive prosperity? If you knew, you'd already be doing it right? I'm going to suggest that most people have the formula right under their nose and don't even know it.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies - 7 Mistakes Real Estate Agents Make With The Law Of Attraction
Have you been struggling with how to make the law of attraction work for you? This article gives you some great tips on what to avoid.

Increase Sales by Removing the Chains of Emotional Bondage
To increase sales does require a lot of emotions. However, some of these emotions may be keeping you from your sales goal. Learn how many thoughts you have and how a recent article marketing challenge demonstrates those chains of emotional bondage.

Good Intentions Are Never Enough
In this sobering short Oliver describes the danger of beliving 'Love in your heart' is enough to give your family the best.

What to do with a "cold" lead

We have a client who has so many requests for quotes on his desk he is way behind on filling them. At first this seems like a problem we would all like to have. So many leads we canâ€™t get to all of them! But there is a down side to this story. Our client has no way of sorting the leads into those that are â€œhotâ€ and need immediate attention; and those that are â€œcoldâ€. Maybe these cold leads are from qualified people, but who knows when they are going to close.

Work-life Balance "Putting on the Brakes"
"Putting on the Brakes", first published in Atlantic Business Magazine, advocates that enjoyment-based decisions are the key to work-life balance and provide coaching questions from business coach Karen Kelloway to help get you there.

Credibility Starts With Your Name
Establishing credibility online, especially if you wish to operate as an internet marketer, has some similarities with the real world. The first thing to think about when launching yourself onto the online world would be your online name. Seems an easy enough concept.

Saying Yes Always Means Saying No
In this short look at family work tension, David Oliver helps us look at the implication of saying yes too often and provides practical kesy to saying 'No'

Real Estate Marketing Strategies - How To Stay Positive In Today's Market
Have you been struggling with all the negative energy around you, but not sure how to eliminate it? This article gives you some great tips on how to remain positive.

Are you changing for good?
This article details the six stages to changing your life as outlined by the authors of "Changing For Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward." These stages will help you overcome obstacles, tackle bad habits, and create new good habits.

How Persistence Creates Success
Most people are strong starters but weak finishers. Only 1.7% of the population finishes projects. Isn't it funny how this statistic matches identically with the percentage of successful people? To learn how to become more persistant for greater success, read this article carefully.

The Art of Listening
Really listening to someone and caring about their feelings is a great gift, but it is important to understand when listening is appropriate and when it is not.

Interest Rate Hike Shocker!
The article discusses the current economic condition and how it came to be. It outlines what steps need to be taken to right the wrongs of previous administrations and their policies, and it discusses how a higher interest rate would benefit the U.S. by bringing capital flows back towards the Dollar.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies - Taming the Inner Gremlin
Are you letting your inner critic get in the way of your business? Focus on the positive! Here are some tips to empower you and help you attract more clients.

How Many Bananas Do You Have?
What my bread machine taught me about creating books, articles, speeches, methodologies and other forms of your intellectual property.

Qualities of Peak Performers
For more than 25 years I have worked with people in various stages of achieving their success. I have studied their behaviors and actions, the choices they made and which of them succeeded to become Peak Performers in their lives.

The Power of Certainty is Extra Special in Getting Extraordinary Results
Who among you can climb more than one mountain at a time? Visualize that if you can! Imagine having one foot on one mountain and the other foot on a different mountain with the intention of reaching both mountain tops. Pretty ridiculous wouldn’t you say! How can you be certain you will reach the summit of either mountain when you are divided?

Intention is Everything!
Setting an Intention each morning changes your whole experience.

The Importance Of Finding Your Target Market When Creating Website Traffic
Creating website traffic is the best way to earn internet income. Instead of wasting your time advertising to anybody and everybody, start focusing on your target with your internet home business.

Empower your Life for Leadership
In a world that has been overwhelmed by mismanagement, greed and unnecessary waste, it’s now more important than ever that we help re-build our world in a positive way.

Balance for small business owners
A brief discussion on creating balance for the life of a small business owner.

Smart Women Give it Away!
This article is about the power of giving samples of your product away as a Free Sample in order to grow your business. This marketing tool is a simple, easy to use Strategy and perfect for women entrepreneurs to use. First determine who your ideal client is and then design ways to share your product or service with those people.

Become a Better Version of Yourself
Setting your intention on becoming a better version of yourself in business is a sure fire way of producing desired results quickly. This article tells you the best way of becoming a better version of yourself.

What’s Guiding Your Decisions - Your Head or Your Heart?
Learn ways to discern when you are making decisions with your head or your heart which affects your results!

How to Make Money By Writing Your Own Part-Time Website
Nick Usborne, web copy expert and author of "How to Write Your Own Money-Making Websites" explains why it's so simple to make money from a website talking about something you love.

Trust: Where Is It Lacking In Your Relationships?
What does it take to be trusted? Ask 100 people and you'll get 100 answers. The reason is that the concept of trust is complex; and whilst we are often clear about whom we trust (and don't trust), we're often much less clear about why. Are you ready to learn about three very critical elements of trust? Learn how to foster trust in your own relationships.

IDEA for 2009
It's not enough to have a vision you have to dare to push past naysayers and obstacles, expect that you will succeed and act with intention. Many times people who have a great idea fall short of their success not becauase the idea wasn't good but because they didn't follow through with the rest of what it takes to realize their vision.

Whats all the fuss about Twitter
Twitter, it seems is everywhere at the moment. You can’t listen to a radio show or turn on the TV without hearing something about it - and you’d be forgiven for believing that everyone is using it at the moment.

Different times call for different action
Strategic partnerships based on marketing and sales collaboration.

How Much Face-Time Does Your Website Need?
How much time does it take your website to deliver your marketing message? Assuming the site traffic you generate is the least bit interested in what you have to say, how much of what you're saying do they remember, or more to the point, how much do they need to remember?

Succeeding With Clear Intent
This article looks at the need to develop clear intent in our lives and how this can move us beyond struggle and fear to help us fulfill our humanity while we are creating success in the world

Smart Women Believe

This article is about creating belief as the first step to realizing all of your goals and dreams. Many times we take that leap toward a big goal with a lot of action steps and it does not work out the way we had hoped. You must first believe in yourself, believe it can and will happen. A lot of times we “hope” something will happen. It’s essential that you believe in yourself and then take bold, courageous steps to make it happen with belief as a solid foundation.

Is Six Sigma Still Relevant in a Dynamically Changing World
The following is the overview of a just released white paper on Six Sigma, Lean and Integrated Enterprise Excellence with a corresponding link to download the paper itself (as the work was funded there is no charge to obtain the paper). I am certain that it will inspire a spirited debate - and that of course is beneficial to everyone.

Every Time Without Fail Focus Trumps Intention To Increase Sales
Much is written about intention. Yet, is intention that powerful when it comes to the goal to increase sales?

Employee Warnings: One Strike and You're Out
If an employee's performance needs improve, it shouldn't take a full quarter to find out whether he or she can pull it off or not. A better system can be structured so that you get the information you need about an employee's ability to turn it around sooner, rather than later.

Entering the New Year with a Heart Connection

It’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of our day, consumed at times in our own anxious energy, possibly feeling pressures from others, or narrowly focused on accomplishing our own tasks. When this occurs, we may face negative consequences. Our selfish energy will be perceived as such. Before taking action, we must take a minute and ask “What is our intent?” “How can we connect from our heart to achieve our task?” “What type of energy do I want to be in this moment?”

Online Marketers Making a Beeline for Package Promotional Services

When the Internet first began to be perceived as a channel of marketing and business, entrepreneurs started choosing various methods of promoting their products. However, most of the methods that prevailed in the 1990s were single point agendas. People who marketed through emails focused only on email marketing and people who marketed through articles focused only on article marketing. Rarely would an entrepreneur go ahead and make a mix of various Internet marketing methods. The reason for this was the difficulty involved in focusing on various operations at the same time. This would eat into the prospects of the business website, but implementing a whole range of marketing services meant a lot of expenses.

Stop Living on Auto-Pilot
When we discover who we really are, we stop living on auto-pilot and start to live with intention, focus and purpose.

Work Life Balance: C.P.R. for a Balanced Life
Do you feel over-worked and under-appreciated? Are you struggling to balance work & family? Are you too busy taking care of everyone but never have time for yourself? Whether you want to have more balance, more inner peace, or more time for yourself, I offer these tips in my signature workshop "C.P.R. for a Balanced Life".

Stress Management: Pressure-Proof Your Holidays
The holidays are fast approaching. Are you feeling stress and overwhelm, instead of joyful anticipation? I'll share 5 key strategies to help you pressure-proof your holidays, so you can ENJOY instead of ENDURE your holidays.

Effective Workplace Communication
Communication is an extremely powerful tool for success which, when effectively engaged in, creates strong relationships, harmonious working conditions and allows us to share the best of ourselves with students and colleagues.

COMMUNICATE YOUR PROSPERITY INTENTION

If you have chosen prosperity as a way of life, understanding and communicating that intention is an important tool for living in prosperity. It will help you bring your inner intention of prosperity out into the world. Knowing how to communicate that intention is sometimes the first obstacle people face in making conscious life changes. This article gives you concrete steps for communicating your prosperity intention authentically and effectively. Remember, great results take a strong commitment.

COMMUNICATE YOUR INTENTION
If you have decided to make the changes necessary to build a perfect life for yourself - as you define it - you need to bring that inner intention out into the world. This is often the first obstacle people face in making conscious life changes and can sometimes stop change dead in its tracks. Great results take a strong commitment.

Insights Journalling: How (and Why) to Write a Journal

Journalling is one of the most valuable tools for gaining insight into who you truly are at your core and growing confidence. Whatever major change you seek – whether it’s in your career, relationships, athletic performance or any other area that matters to you – you simply can not move forward with purpose and intention unless (and until) you begin to understand the inner workings of your own personality.

Business and Entrepreneurship Passion not required
What’s the deal with passion and business? I often hear people say, “To be in business requires passion”, “Entrepreneurs need passion to be successful”, or “You won’t make it in business without passion.” The list goes on and on. My intention in this article is to discover if passion is truly required for business (or life for that matter).

Stress-Free Selling® - Eliminate Stress in Sales

A sale is stressful when we approach Prospects with the intention of making a sale and the fear of not making a sale. To compound matters, Prospects are afraid we are going to manipulate them. They are afraid we are going to sell them something. . . something that's not in their best interest. Prospects accept appointments reluctantly (which is why we have difficulty getting them on the phone in the first place) and are pre-armed with a litany of excuses (aka objections) to get rid of you. It is this dichotomy of goals (you want to make a sale and Prospects want to protect themselves) that creates stress. Imagine if you both want to meet. Imagine if neither feels the other is going to try to force anything on him. Imagine you both feel the only acceptable outcome is the satisfaction of your Prospect's goals.

Taking Down Walls
Our walls or protective shields are the focus of this month’s article. The use of the word “protection” here is different than what would show up in an insurance policy, house alarm company, or in an article about practical ways to prevent physical harm. What is being explored here is the use of ‘protection’ in the feeling sense.

3 Easy Steps to Get You What You Really Want
If you are the type of person that lets life get in the way of your success, then you need to read how the intention mechanism can free you of all your excuses, and quickly get you back on track!

Top 3 Techniques to Train Your Sales Reps
One size doesn't fit all, so your training methods may not inspire the best performance from your reps. So what will? After training over 22 thousand sales associates and business owners, we understand how a team can dramatically increase their results. We reveal our top 3 techniques.

New Zealand Public Sector eSourcing: Transparent Procurement encourages Competition & Investment
It is widely accepted that procurement transparency promotes competition, and that competition is a good thing for economic efficiency and growth. On a national level, it is also interesting to note the positive correlation between transparency and Foreign Direct Investment.

How To Promote Your Business For Free By Hosting Your Own Online Giveaway

Have you ever wanted to find a unique way to market your website or business or services, or thought of joining a "free" online marketing cooperative known as a Giveaway? Have you visited online giveaways or seen them advertised and thought they were a great idea that you would like to try yourself; but just were not sure how or where to begin or what to expect? Well come along with me and I'll take you step-by-step on my journey as I start and run my very first Old-Fashioned...MyLadyWeb's Free Gift Giveaway event. You can learn from my triumphs and mistakes and decide for yourself if freely and cooperatively marketing your business and that of others through participating in—or even hosting—your own online giveaway is right for you.

How Not Having a Marketing Funnel Hurts Your Practice Without You Knowing It
Not having a marketing funnel in place is hurting your business in several ways – whether you are aware of it or not.

THE ART OF THINKING
Good thinking requires discipline. It requires discipline not to allow distractions to interrupt our thinking. It requires a disciplined mind that does not allow stray thoughts to hijack the process and carry us away so that we end up daydreaming rather than thinking.

POSITIVE THINKING
Reframe your thoughts to state things in the positive, as our brains capture any thought whether positive or negative.

Two Small Letters, One Big Word
Over the years I’ve learned a lot of lessons the hard way, including contract and deposit policies to (at least partially) protect me from con artists and deadbeats. That said, one of the most important skills I’ve had to develop has been the proper and ample usage of the word “no”.

Sell Them What They Want

Imagine you’ve decided you want a red mustang. You can just see yourself zipping around corners hugging the pavement. You see heads turning in admiration as they watch you whiz past. You can almost feel the wind in your face as you cruise along with the top down. You envision heads turning staring at you and your red hot car when you stop at the traffic light. You know they’re thinking if only it could be them.

4 Vital Negotiating Behaviours
A skilled negotiator will create high levels of rapport and be sensitive and empathetic to the people they are negotiating with, yet can still be hard on the issues. The ability to separate the people from the issues and recognise that negotiations, are often fraught with emotional intensity can help sharpen the focus on the interests of the other party to better balance perceptions.

Managers Build Trust And Respect By Letting Go
You are the manager. You are the big boss. You have more stripes than the others do. That means, as the big boss when you attend meetings and other attendees are less senior, you maybe restricting the thinking, the talking, the debate. Why?

Becoming A Selling Machine
Discover the 10 steps that will transform you into a selling machine. Why be ordinary, when you can be extraordinary?

Sales Digging In Progress: Get Prospects to Listen to You
Salespeople often wonder, “What can I say in an introduction to get a prospect to listen more to me?” Dogs are masters with getting their masters to listen. Here are two dog lessons to learn how to introduce yourself to get what you want.

Eliminate Conflicting Intentions
If consciously and outwardly you have the intention to achieve something – anything – but subconsciously (internally) you feel or believe just the opposite, the intentions are in conflict and cancel one another out. The consequence is that you get average, mediocre results.

Stress-Free Selling® - The Fastest Way to Build a Relationship

The Fastest Way to Build Relationships is Not to Work on the Relationship! Contrary to the belief that building relationships is paramount in the sales process, Jenaé Rubin, president of Sales Powerhouse, believes: A good relationship is the natural outcome of everything done right. Many salespeople approach the process thinking "I have to develop a good relationship with the prospect. So, they start by asking "friendly" questions that have nothing to do with the business relationship. People see right through this sales “strategy.”

Gold Medals? Or Alligators?
Some clients want to buy what you offer to chase after gold medals. Others are running from alligators. Make sure you’re selling to both.

Intuition, Impulse, Magic
Earlier today I was lying on back at my chiropractor's office. I had my eyes closed while he was doing some muscle testing and adjustments. A thought entered my mind, "I wonder if my zipper is down on my shorts." About 3 seconds later he says, "Did you know your zipper is down?"

Managing Your Money: The Adventure
I know this article is long, but I feel it is worth the time to read it. The process is so simple, and it can work for everyone with immediate results and a lot of joy.

Words That Evoke Resistance

It has come to my attention, more than once, that most people state their intentions with somewhat of an "I hope this happens" kind of feeling behind their words. When I am asking a client what their intention is (or said another way, "What is the desired outcome?"), I'm really wanting to know what they are committed to having happen. I do not want them to wonder if it will or won't happen, I want them to expect it to happen.

May The Force Be With You
I was never a fan of the Star Wars movies. I couldn't really see what all the hype was about, so I never saw any of the movies until a couple of years ago. A friend told me I had to watch them, all of them. He said I would love them. He was right! It was actually the character of Yoda who I fell in love with and his lessons about the "Force."

Choosing and Claiming It!

I’m going to share with you a very subtle but powerful distinction that may well change the rest of your life. If you have been reading this newsletter for any length of time, you know that I say over and over again that there is great power in setting your intention. If you want anything in your life to be better, different, now, all you have to do is ask. Yes, and there is so much more to it than that

Getting Money Faster

The title of this article sounds like the subject line of a spam email! I'm going to give you all some nuts and bolts about how to attract money faster. My business partner, Eva, calls the "how" a four-letter word. It's because we're so busy figuring out how we will make things work out, that many times we end up in resistant or stressful way of thinking. The other hard part about figuring out how something will manifest itself, is that if you can't figure out the how, you think it can't possibly happen.

Simple Success Secrets
Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money!

How Well Are You Keeping Your Focus on Increasing Sales?
Keeping your focus on increasing sales may sound a little odd to you. You’re in sales or own your own small business of course your focus is on sales, or is it?

Do You have a Selling Attitude?
Don’t confuse a positive attitude with a selling attitude if you want sales success. You can have the most positive attitude of anyone in your field yet absolutely stink when it comes to results.

Three Ways to Reduce Stress and Enlighten Up
When all is said and done, everyone wants the same thing: to be happy. The demands of work and life often make it difficult to reach that ultimate goal. Here are three simple but powerful ways to reduce the stress in your life and enlighten up.

How you must be like the wise old German Shepherd
You have got to have a back up plan to survive and prosper

Prayers That Are Always Answered
Prayer can be a touchy subject, often because it is so easily misunderstood. Once we can connect with its essence, its essential role in life becomes clear.

How do YOU Solve the Problem?
How to solve the problem We all approach problem people and situations in our own peculiar way - why? Perhaps it is to do with our mindset or the way we view the world. Our natural urge is to judge and evaluate a person's actions and behaviour based on our values and experience.

Dealing with Employee Terminations
Make sure you set a time table for the departure of your employee. Allowing someone to linger who is unhappy and who produces poor work will continue to be detrimental.

Are you a Spiritualpreneur?
Are you feeling like there is a better way to do business? Does opening to greater levels of success excite you? Do you feel a sense of connection that guides you? If so, you are part of a growing movement of Spiritualpreneurs who want to leverage universal principles and experience peace regardless of difficult situations.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 7 of 7)
To be in touch with The Golden Principle of Replication involves an entirely different way of approaching your own learning and growth.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 6 of 7)
Countless books have been written on how to create a greater sense of spiritual awareness. People have made long journeys and sought out gifted teachers who have achieved some fame in developing their spiritual awareness and teaching others the secret. The key to spiritual awareness is no dark secret. It is, essentially, to develop the art of deep listening.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 5 of 7)
Let’s talk about Selling Experience! · Would you like to have a better selling process? · Would you like better results? · Would you like to avoid having to sell at all?

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 3 of 7)
Have you ever thought what it might be like to have more control over what you are experiencing in your business? Wouldn't it be great to decide who your ideal clients are, and then have them actually appear? Wouldn't it be great to decide how many hours you want to work, or how much money you would like to make, and have it actually happen?

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 2 of 7)
Discover the Power of Your Beliefs: How Your Beliefs Influence Your Feelings, Your Actions, and Your Experience. You can: · Create the business of your dreams. · Move to a more advanced level of consciousness and income. · Learn the secret of using energy principles in a grounded process for yourself and your clients.

How to Untangle Your Energy to Manifest Greater Business Success
This is a transcription of a coaching session that shows an example of how to use the order form process to realize your vision and your desires for the goals that you want to accomplish.

Activating the Order Form
A powerful exercise that can help turn your vision for your business into reality.

Love and Work: The Pleasures of Our Lives
Long ago I read a book that featured one of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s most famous theories. Freud said that man has two basic needs: love and work. As a young woman, I had already figured out the universal need for love, but the idea that ‘work’ was equally as important was a big ‘aha’.

The Evolutionary Language of Business Coaching
Following 16 successful years as a sales executive in Corporate America, I transitioned into a new role as a Life and Business Coach. At the end of my second year of training, I realized I had learned a whole new way to communicate and relate with other people.

Have You Been Praying To RecessionProof Your Business
If you’ve been saying ‘I want to recession proof my business’ or ‘I want to feel secure no matter what’ then there is something that wants to be activated in you.

Rule 3 Clarify Your Objective
This is Rule #3 from a series of articles on "21 Ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising without Spending an Extra Cent."

Fake It Till You Make It?

A friend sent me an e-mail after reading my blog last week about AHAs. In the blog, I shared seven realizations, including: Whatever I judge myself for, others will pick up on it, whether I try to hide it or not. So I may as well stop wasting my energy pretending anything. She expressed confusion because she is also familiar AA’s philosophy of “Fake it till you make it.” She wondered how I reconcile “faking it” with being genuine.

Are Business Plans Obsolete?
Women entreprenuers are often reluctant to write a business plan. This article looks at whether or not it's important to have a business plan in a light-hearted way.

6 Ways to Use Rebates and Incentives for Increasing Sales!
Rebates and incentives are two of the most common methods used to increase your company’s sales. Unlike other advertising strategies, rebates and incentives speak for themselves. Thus, as long as they’re done properly, rebates and incentives are one of the most cost-efficient marketing solutions you can use for your company.

Click-Triggers, Content and Appealing to Emotional Impulse
Emotional triggers are the source of conversion, there is a person behind each computer monitor and mouse (aside from spiders, bots and scripts) which essentially perform three mental decisions when introduced to an ad, link or search result (1) Evaluate and Assess the Value (2) Act on the Proposed Impulse and Click it or (3) Ignore the Stimuli and Move Along.

Using Facebook To Generate Leads
Social networking sites were originally formed with the intention of building friendships and networks of like minded social contacts. However, there is no avoiding the fact that these same websites also offer businesses the opportunity to improve their exposure and increase their search engine rankings.

Checklist of Provisions for an LLC Operating Agreement
This outline presents 20 areas of LLC ownership, operation and management that should be addressed in the operating agreement.

How To Improve Site Credibility
Site credibility helps determine how successful a website will be. A site considered to have a lot of credence within a particular area will be able to sell more products or services, promote more affiliate links, and even sell their own services at increased rates.

No More Wrong Steps How to Make the Most of Each Step You Take for Your Business
My first call with a new branding client, Janie, a down-to-earth realtor from Atlanta, GA, began like hundreds before, with Janie saying, “After spending 18 months and $12,300 on designing my logo, collateral, and website, I’m not any where close to communicating my business the way I want to. I’m afraid all my decisions to this point have been wrong and I’m afraid to make anymore.”

Sustainability is an outcome of intention, heart and mind set, and action
All outcomes are preceded by process. A key process for any outcome is intention, feeling, thinking, and action. Achieving sustainability is no different to any other outcome.

Five Important Questions To Ask When Your Confidence and Faith is Shaky
It’s normal to have those times when self-confidence wanes, fears and doubts creep in and faith gets shaky. Learn how you can shift from doubt and fear to confidence and action.

How Can I Help You? Building Powerful Business Relationships That Sky Rocket Your Success
Adopting the intention to help others succeed is a sure-fire way to create your own success. Learn why.

Business Life Success Tip The Value of Self-Investment
There is a direct relationship with who you are on the inside and what you do outside in the world. Failure to see the value of investing in growing yourself as a person, as well as growing your business, will affect your outcome - guaranteed. You might be losing more than you can imagine.

How To Use Your Right Brain When You Cold Call
Unlock the power of your right brain for cold calling success!

7 Ways To Sell and Retain Your Integrity
Making more sales while retaining your integrity -- is it possible to do both?

A Brief Guide To Social Media Optimization (SMO)
SMO, or Social Media Optimization, is one of the latest Internet marketing strategies. Social media websites have become vastly popular, with the dawn of Web 2.0 being seen as the dawn of the social Internet.

Embracing the Shadows

In Western Civilization it is common to ignore our challenges, our innermost issues-the beliefs and feelings that truly hold us back from enjoying all of the love, peace and beauty we deserve. When we don't look at our own "shadows" we miss wonderful opportunities to grow, and to accelerate our growth by leaps and bounds. When we dare to take a risk and to explore our shadows, we build courage and faith. As a result of our efforts, we experience a sense of release-igniting personal and spiritual empowerment.

Creating Synergy With Others
Do you find that you tend to use "forced action" in your work? Do you feel like it's more of a struggle than a pleasure to work? Do you like to be "in control?" Find out some easier ways to joyfully accomplish your goals.

Government Releases Proposed Laws and Plan for National Employment Standards

This week (11 February 2008) the government released the Bill containing its proposed amendments to the Workplace Relations Act. If the Bill passes into law it will usher in the transition to a new system of industrial relations and workplace law. The Bill contains matters that had been foreshadowed in pre-election statements and announcements by the new government since it came to power last year.

Recognition and the Underperformer
I am frequently asked, "should you recognize underperformers?" The short answer is only if you want them to perform. However, this is a delicate issue that requires a bit of careful handling. This article will help you develop a strategy for dealing with underperformers.

Bumping Into Your Organization’s Values
If you asked employees to recite the organization's values could they? More importantly do those values instantly determine their course of action? This article will help you better integrate your values into the culture.

Integrating Purposeful Reflection and Performance
So simple, yet so overlooked. PURPOSEFUL REFLECTION is one of the most important ways to enhance performance on both a daily and long-term basis. This article explain how and why Engaging in purposeful is a competency that all managers and leaders should strive to master for themselves – and for their organizations.

12 Product Page Conversion Strategies That Shant Be Ignored

Product pages maintain considerable strategic importance for ecommerce websites. Your visitors enter your product pages not only with an intention to buy something (the most desired end action) but to also learn, research and compare what you have against a competitor. In addition to this, product pages also serve to help buyers find relevant pricing information, delivery costs, warranty and/or return policies and a whole lot more. To be effective, your website must implement product pages that are able to satisfy each of your visitor's needs. But information isn't enough either. While providing necessary information, these pages must be convincing enough to entice your visitors to move through the purchase process -- on your site rather than on a competitor's website.

Action and Speed Creates Results
Taking action with speed sets successful entrepreneurs apart from those that dawdle, and therefore stay in mediocrity. Small business owners and entrepreneurs have the edge in this regard. They can take action with speed, because they, unlike many larger organisations, can decide quickly and then move forward...

The Value of Setting Intentions

My belief is that the distinction between setting an intention versus setting a goal is that goals can sometimes be in the land of “should” or come from a place of need. Intentions are all about identifying what is our heart’s path. For example, a goal might be framed by such language as: “I should lose weight. Eat healthfully. Exercise regularly. Change my career. Take care of myself. And then I’ll feel okay about myself.”

The Franchise Buying Rules Have Changed
It used to be that franchisors would advertise wisely, talk only with prospects that proved a high level of interest, and award the franchise to the most able. That still happens today, but the rules of the game have changed; the franchising world has entered The Intention Economy.

Creating Boundaries or Barriers – Where do You Hang Out?
What I’ve seen as a professional coach is that much of our personal power (‘claiming our life as our own’) relies on setting clear boundaries – listening to our own values, asking for help, and knowing what we want and don’t want. There’s an art to setting boundaries that do not become barriers to love and closeness.

5 Winning Ways to Confident Body Language
Five easy steps to improve your body language and appear confident.

Bouncing Back from "Bad" Feedback
Feedback is someone's perception of you, it is not you. You get to evaluate its accuracy and meaningfulness. What you do with the feedback is up to you. You can evaluate it, act on it or ignore it. If it comes from a supervisor or employer, you may be required to make changes, but you can choose how to approach it.

It Takes More Than Marketing to Attract Big Bucks
Marketing is an action. Action doesn’t create a result. It’s all about what is driving the action. You need to be fully into it before, during and after the action for it to create the impact that you want.

An Intention Experiment
I want you to try an experiment this week. If you succeed, a few very good things will happen. If you fail, you can always try again, so you have nothing to lose. The experiment is about intentions.

Do your own thinking, Don’t let others do it for you
Have you come across a situation where in you wanted to do one thing, but you ended up doing just the opposite just to please somebody else? I happened to come across one recently, and this time instead of being a victim, I decided to be a victor and corrected it. Read on to find out how.

The Nature of Growth Oriented Enterprises: Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises in the southern and eastern African region

Categorizing an enterprise as "growth oriented" implies that there is an intention within the top management of the enterprise to grow. An initial assumption, when the current research was undertaken in 1999, was that being a growth-oriented enterprise per se does not imply anything about the size of the company. A self-employed person may have started an enterprise with the intent to grow, whereas an existing enterprise of twenty people may think they have grown enough.

Energize Your Life
Is it time for you to get plugged in and find some more energy?

The Secret Life of Coaches
How clients use other subjects to distract themselves and their practitioners from getting to the real problems.

2008: Choose a Theme, Not a Resolution

When I began to write this article, I decided to go back to basics and check out the dictionary definition of “resolutions.” I got “A thing resolved on, an intention”. To me, the word “intention” is preferable to “resolution.” Somehow intention resonates with the idea of “definitely going to do,” whereas “resolution” has more of an air of doing something because it is good for you, and that’s not always the most inspiring. So, I decided to focus on New Year Intentions. I think for intentions to work, they need to have the following three elements.

Is time passing you by?
It can be shocking when time passes you by and you still haven’t done the things you meant to, perhaps failed to achieve some important goals or not fully realised your ambitions.

Stressed To The Max: 5 Tips to Reduce Stress in Your Life
I'll bet that you can identify something generating stress in your life right now that you've been carrying for a while ... something that was probably stressing you a month ago, or even a year ago. So what are you prepared to do about it? Here are five tips to help you reduce stress.

How to Know The Difference Between Intention and Attention?

Along your fantastic life journey, you will no doubt come up against many obstacles, and take many detours. Many tools exist to help you get back on track and remain there, if you know the difference between Intention and Attention then these can be supremely powerful tools for you to utilize. The power of Intention creates and the power of Attention maintains our focus on our creative Intentions.

The Biggest Mistake Business Owners Make
I love to watch business owners get fired up about their projects and planning. But here is where they fall down, they think productivity is the way to make a successful business happen. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Creating Synchronicity in Your Life
Synchronicity is the coming together of two of more events at just the right time and place. Find out how to take control of your life in order to start creating more synchronicity and to move towards a more compelling positive future.

Determination
Add power to focus.

Did You Forget Your Magic Wand?
People often poke fun at the thought of having a magic wand. But the fact remains that most folks aren’t picking up their magic wands often enough. If you’re not asking for what you want internally and externally on a moment-to-moment basis, the greatest your life will be is ‘fine’.

The Power of Writing a Statement of Intention
This article expresses some thoughts about intention, distinguishing a principle of intention from a technique to enhance the power of intention. Understanding both the principle and the technique is helpful in any situation.

Centering: Purpose and Phrases for a Group
This article suggests ways to talk about how to focus group participants for more meaningful meetings and other group experiences.

Centering: Purpose and Phrases for a Group
This article suggests ways to talk about how to focus group participants for more meaningful meetings and other group experiences.

Setting Intention and Reaching your Goals with Ease
The power of intention, when focused and consistent, can be a powerful tool to help you reach your goals. Use this method to set the wheels of intention rolling before even getting out of bed in the morning.

There's Support in Numbers!
My intention, over the next few years, is to make a ton of money – with money comes freedom and part of that freedom, for me, involves 'giving back" – wherever and whenever I can! That's my dream and that is my intention.

Wealth Creating System Step 9 - Visualising Your Future
All millionaires are firm believers in the power of intention - our ability to focus our minds on a vision of the future and unleash an unstoppable force within ourselves for its achievement! You must now begin the process of programming your mind to pursue what you want with greater intention than ever before.

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