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Is It Important to you to be Healthy?
How important is your health to you? You might be surprised to discover how many things are more important to you than excellent health.

Overcoming Anxiety: the Importance of Emotional Mindfulness
So many people avoid their true emotions because of the anxiety they engender. This desire to avoid can lead to unhealthy behaviors like addictions and result in emotional distance from those closest to us. Learn healthy ways to manage and overcome your discomfort with your emotions and the feelings they bring up.

What Is Emotional Dependency?
Are you emotionally dependent? Use this checklist to find out, and discover how you can attain emotional freedom.

Can't Say
Are you afraid to say "no" to others? Discover where you got this fear and how to move into personal power and emotional freedom.

Have a Forgiving Spirit

There are many things that prevent us from accomplishments. As we know the list is miles long and is constantly added to. Any excuse we want will be supplied to us. All we need to do is procrastinate a few minutes and a world of reasons not to begin will arise. There is no cause to make a list we each have our own. The problem I see today is one that may not seem prevalent and often hides behind others we use. It is the anxiety and resentment that comes from not forgiving.

Overcoming Anxiety: 4 Steps to Living the Life You Want
When we try to avoid our feelings, we often turn to defensive or even destructive behavior to keep them at bay. But, in order to reach our full potential and lead the life we truly want, we must learn how to open up to our feelings, confront and tame our fear, and, if we choose, share our experience with others.

How Fear Tricks You into Seeing the Tree Branch as a Python

We all experience fear, and right now fear is escalating around financial security. When anxiety heats up, so do we. Where does this fear come from? A little journey down memory lane will help you get perspective on the source of your fears around money. It’s time to be vigilant, and not let the old stories drive your fear; write some new, creative stories. Follow the OUT technique to look fear in the eye and move forward with courage and dignity.

Leadership Strategies: Telling the Truth
Being a new leader naturally brings some anxiety and tension and of course, you want to be the perfect leader. This article gives some guidelines for creating a trusting relationship with the folks you're leading, whether you're a new leader or seasoned-expert leader.

Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James L Wilson
Every business person faces stress and fatigue. Every business owner and entrepreneur faces stress and especially in these tough economic times. So – maintaining our health can be a key to being able to continue giving our best to our business, ourselves, our families and our customers.

Healing Emotional Dependency
Are you tired of tap dancing as fast as you can to get the love, attention and approval that you believe you need to be okay? Learn how to move beyond emotional dependency and into personal power and emotional freedom.

Healing Love and Approval Addiction
You CAN heal from love and approval addiction! Discover if you are love and approval addicted and begin to understand how to heal this.

The Surprising Harm Of Being Around Negative People

The words someone else speaks or the actions they take in your presence can change the actual structure of your brain! How you choose to spend your time and who you choose to allow into your sphere of influence matters greatly. Experiencing negative situations or negative people not only changes the structure of the brain, but memories of those interactions get stored in the cells of the body and remain long after the event took place.

The Secret to Less Anxiety over Business Cash Flow
To reap any significant earnings from your enterprise, you need to plan your business spending and a budget is crucial to business success.

21 Tips for Conquering Speaker Anxiety
21 Strategies and Tips for Conquering Speaker Anxiety

Help Your Online Home Business Stay Afloat by Using a “Funded Proposal” System
A cause of a great deal of anxiety for many beginner online network marketers is the possibility that they will run out of money before they start generating any cash from their MLM program.

The Secret to Emotional Healing
Are you ready to heal your anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship problems, and experience emotional freedom? Discover the secret to deep emotional healing!

Graduating to What
If you are a graduate, especially at the college and university level you may be filled with a mixture of pride and anxiety.

Unemployed, Great! Time to Find Out who you Really Are
This article gives resources to those who find themselves unemployed. I also help to encourage those and to provide them with a positive outlook on their futures as opposed to massive anxiety.

Lesson #1: Think Like An Athlete
“You have to have a great tolerance for pain!” exclaims Schultz in reference to the qualities that make a successful entrepreneur. “You have to work so hard and have so much enthusiasm for one thing that most other things in your life have to be sacrificed.”

How to Never Forget Anything Again
The human brain is a wonderful thing, but it’s a bit faulty as a tool for remembering things. Luckily for us (and for our frazzled brains), technology has stepped in to help out.

Business Coaching How to Plan
A look at how planning a coaching session can be detrimental to the outcome the client needs.

What Will They Think? - Love and Approval Addiction
Are you love and approval addicted? Are you constantly worried about what others think of your looks and/or performance?

Frustrated? Let Go of Your Emotional Energy
Article of 974 words describing how to understand, accept, handle and heal your emotional energy

The Art of Manifestation: When It Is Loving to Be Controlling
Is it ever loving to be controlling? Yes! Discover the kind of controlling that is loving and leads to manifesting what you want in life.

Sports Psychology
When the chips are down, the athlete often cannot share his/her inner fears, anxiety and anger issues with the coach or their parents. Now the athlete has a new ally…the professional Sports Psychologist (also referred as the professional Sport Psychologist).

Regular Exercise Reduces Patient Anxiety by 20%
The anxiety that often accompanies a chronic illness can significantly interfere with the healing process and adherence to the treatment plan. But regular exercise can significantly reduce symptoms of anxiety, a new University of Georgia study shows.

Athletes and Sports Psychologists
When the chips are down, the athlete often cannot share his/her inner fears, anxiety and anger issues with the coach or their parents. Now, the athlete has a critical ally…the professional Sports Psychologist (also referred as the professional Sport Psychologist).

Managing your Stress
Just as the world’s economy weakens the entire global economy, stress and anxiety can weaken your entire body so learning to deal with stress is an important part of maintaining your well being and protecting your health.

Beyond Misery Junk!
Are you ready to move beyond misery? Learn about the junk that may be causing your misery.

Outstanding Presentations Start in the Mind: Five Presentation Skills Secrets for Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking
So what do great speakers do to prepare themselves to be great presenters? They prepare their minds to give a great presentation. That’s right; it all starts in your mind. How can you develop a great speaker’s mindset, overcome your fear, and start giving outstanding presentations? The following are five secrets for overcoming your fear of public speaking and giving outstanding presentations.

Peace Of life Through Online Marketing!
Peace of life to live the life that you choose without the financial anxiety felt by most today. This is a brief story about one such person and how he was able to get his mine into production on the internet. "Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave"

Positive Words Create Positive Actions

In our society today we tend to accentuate the negatives instead of the positives. One example is the “alarm clock” we use to wake ourselves up in the morning. Realistically, when we hear an alarm it generates fear or anxiety. When somebody robs a bank, an alarm is sounded; when there’s a fire, someone sounds an alarm. Perhaps waking up to an alarm helps explain the profusion of negative words we use. If you rethink the issue of your clock you will realize that it is really giving you an opportunity. When you hear it ring, you have the opportunity to get up and go. A whole day full of possibilities is available to you once you hear your “opportunity clock.” If you can’t hear it ring, that might mean you’ve gotten up and gone! That could be bad.

Conquer Fears and Start Living Life On Your Terms

We've all been afraid to try something new at one time or another. Why is that? And it seems as we age, our fear controls more and more of our willingness to try something new. We prefer to forego a new experience because we want to avoid whatever bad thing we think could happen. Or maybe the anxiety is just too stressful for us to even contemplate facing our fears. Whatever the reason, we justify that trying something new is not worth the risk. You are the one who determines the outcome of your experiences. If you know your experience will be completely positive - there is nothing stopping you from doing it.

How to Eliminate Workplace Negativity

As mere humans, we are bound to make mistakes such as say things that may not be perceived well, or perhaps make a decision that can affect themselves and several fellow employees negatively. Unfortunately, with workplace negativity these small issues, if not handled accurately, can fester into bigger issues within the entire organization. The extra time and effort spent to correct, an already festering negative environment could be conserved if small efforts are made to identify, and eliminate the small sparks. In this astronology article, we will find the identifying marks of a festering negative culture, and list the many ways organizations can overcome the dilemma.

Taking a “Processing” Break
What do I mean by processing? Evaluating, judging, blaming, comparing, worrying, 'trying hard' to think one's way out of a problem, analyzing, getting caught up in the why’s - all are ways that, as humans, we can process with our minds.

The Confidence to Let Go
It’s a challenge to really let go of our own private agendas. In working with clients, I often explore each opposite: “I want it my way” and “I let go”. These two points of view can fight it out within all of us and show up in our relationships with others.

Compelling Reasons for Your Salespeopole to Go Mobile

Good Sales Managers know how important it is for their salespeople to uncover needs. But it goes way beyond needs. As I detail in Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball, it requires that your salespeople learn about their prospects' compelling reasons to buy. Not just their needs. The issues, problems and frustrations - and even the consequences - that would cause them to spend money and spend it with your company, instead of your competitor. But it goes well beyond compelling reasons.

Live at 5 – Handling The TV Interview

Business or personal, everyone seems to love a great scandal, solid news (as long as it's not their own). As flat as organizations are today any executive, manager can be reached for an interview. The most stressful is when you're sitting/standing with a TV camera facing you and the news person wants information, answers. Few professional newspeople (print, radio, TV, web, blog) are out to dig up dirt just to get the information...honest information. We're fortunate. We've had several years of being the interviewer (early in our career) and four confrontational interview courses. Done right the entire news interview experience can be good for the organization and you. The problem is you always have your best responses right after the interview. There's no retake in an interview...any interview.

How to Manage Change - Tell Your People Why the Need For Change
How to manage change - and at the speed of change? How to deal with the turbulence? This is challenging and of all the current strategies for managing change it's a perspective that is increasingly relevant in the current climate.

Smart Women Love, Give……and Have Fears
This article is about fear and how it keeps us stuck and trapped in our current situation. It offers tips and solutions on how to “manage” fear and move past it so you can accomplish your dreams and goals.

5 Solutions to Getting a Good Night's Sleep when You have ADHD
Getting a good night’s sleep when you are an adult with ADHD is not an easy task. The reasons vary from not being able to switch your mind off to the medication you are taking. If you have trouble sleeping, then no caffeine near bedtime and no stimulating brain activities two hours before bed are all tips you are familiar with. This article addresses other strategies for a good night’s sleep.

C-Level Selling Tip 9 - Overcoming Executive Intimidation
Powerful people make everyone nervous, but if we don’t deal with it as sales people, we’ll be stuck with subordinates that stall our progress and mislead us on what it will take to win the sale, project or contract.

Anti-Procrastination ACTION PLAN
Life is full of exciting choices. It’s easy to get distracted and do the fun, enjoyable tasks, and leave the boring or difficult ones for tomorrow. The problem is that every day there are new enjoyable things to do and tomorrow never comes.

Marketing Strategies: 7 Powerful Tips to More Confidence
Do you let your lack of confidence get in the way of creating your success? Learn how to flex that confidence muscle! This article gives you some great tips on how to build your confidence.

Focus Speeds Up The Buying Cycle
What we focus on in life expands. Face it, life right now is busy, and with so much uncertainty and fear in our economic environment it is easy to get distracted. If you want to ease the stress in your life, take the edge off the anxiety and just bring the fun back into your everyday life, then learn to focus.

In the Thrall of Procrastination

The last weeks of August are bittersweet for me as I say farewell to summer, my favourite season. I experience September as a month of new beginnings, likely harking back to my school years – but without the new erasers and pencil crayons. In this month’s newsletter I share some insights about to-do lists prompted by an impromptu closet makeover. I hope you enjoy the results of cleaning out your to-list and getting it ready for the ‘new year’ as much as I enjoyed cleaning out my closet.

The Fearless Factor by Jacqueline Wales

We've all heard the saying that life is a jungle and that idea is a big part of The Fearless Factor by Jacqueline Wales. She shares her story of what happened in her life, the trials and addictions that she went through and how she ultimately faced her fears and created the life that she wanted. This information is good for anyone facing fears, but for women or men who want to own their own business - the content of this book can be invaluable in their journey to success personally and in business.

OBSESSION, Why It Is Good For You And How To Use It To Your Advantage
Do you remember having a song in your head that you just couldn't get rid of it, then you walk into a store, and low and behold, the same song is playing? - Or, how about that constant thought that doesn't seem to want to leave you alone, and when you wake up in the morning, there it is again, and you wonder, what the heck?

Managing Stress

Meditation, or stilling of the mind, significantly reduces stress and the detrimental effects on your mind and body and keep you in the present moment and free from anxiety. It is proven scientifically that even small amounts of meditation daily can cut down on the negative effects of stress. Quieting your mind will eliminate the thoughts and emotions that cause stress and increase your sense of peace.

The Groovy Mermaid Finds Treasure In Legitimate Work From Home Opportunity
While more and more people find themselves with time on their hands, they are taking a more innovative approach to the unemployment problem, and are deciding to work from home. This can be quite a nerve-racking endeavor, and along with all the other unknowns in the entrepreneur arena, there is also the added anxiety over finding a legitimate work from home opportunity.

I am Not Going to Chase a Woman from Zimbabwe up a Power Pole to Tell Her About My Business Opportunity
Are you in the unenviable position of working for a large company that does not value the employees on it's payroll? Is your situation precarious and are you anxious about the future? There is a perfect solution to this problem and I will share this with you in this article.

Does Psychotherapy Work?
Discover what kind of psychotherapy or counseling works and what doesn't, so you can stop wasting your time and money on what does not work.

How Beliefs Can Sabotage the Sale
Many times as sales people, our personal beliefs can get in the way of our success regardless of what we are selling and at what price.....read on..

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.

Six Steps To Creating More Productive Staff Performance Evaluations
Conducting a performance review can be difficult, for both the employer and employee. However, done correctly, the review process can be productive and key to employee retention. This article provides some helpful tips related to preparing for and conducting effective staff performance evaluations.

When Should You Take It Personally?
There are times when it is very important to not take another's behavior personally, and times when it is personal. Learn the difference in this article.

Marketing strategies: Procrastination and the Fear of Failure
Is procrastination one of the things that gets in the way of your success? This article gives you some great tips on how to overcome those non-productive habits.

Lead On: Leading By Self Expression
There's nothing extraordinary about leaders. They simply know how to make it easy for others to work and interact together.

Home staging anxiety may never go away
The Staging Diva, Debra Gould, encourages aspiring home stagers to push through their fears and build the business of their dreams.

Want to stress less and enjoy life more? These simple stress management strategies will get you started.
We all have stress, but how we handle that stress can greatly affect our physical and mental health. In fact, a few simple changes can mean the difference between a long, happy life and a short, miserable one. Here are some stress management strategies to help you on the journey.

The huge cost of hesitation
I knew that being hesitant in the sales arena was a no-no, but I didn't know just how much business it could cost.

Exceptional Prospectors

Over the past 14 years, my team has conducted thousands of psychological assessments and interviews with both managers and salespeople about their prospecting and sales behaviours. Our research has consistently revealed that salespeople often experience their greatest difficulties, dissatisfaction, and anxiety at the prospecting stage of the sales cycle. Meanwhile, Sales Managers repeatedly express their frustration that they cannot find salespeople who are competent, confident, and motivated to prospect for new business. Prospecting requires sales people to establish contact with people who might buy your products or services. Whether it is phone, face-to-face or group prospecting, inbound or outbound, nothing gets sold until you get in front of and/or talk to potential buyers.

Want to Escape the Rat Race?

Do you get anxiety on Sunday nights dreading getting up in the morning and going to work? Are you sitting on your couch on the weekends wondering how you got here? Do you think, "I just can't do this job one more day?" Is your future summed up by "I finally have 3 weeks of vacation?" Well if you answered "yes" to even one of those questions, you may want to explore becoming an entrepreneur. I know what it feels like to want to escape the rat race first hand and have worked hard to find an alternative to allow me to live a life I enjoy. This guide will put you a bit ahead of the curve in learning how to escape the rat race. Learn how to do this the right way and take your life back!

Put Your Procrastination COWS Out To Pasture!
Do you want to find out what procrastination C.O.W.S are and how to get rid of them? This article will teach you how to put those C.O.W.S out to pasture!

Leadership Strategy - Remove The Deal Breaker to Success And Happiness

The caveat during transitions, whether personally or new directions professionally, are past beliefs and paradigms fighting against change. The inner saboteurs are in their warring gear standing steadfast to have you believe that it is safer to stay put or you will end up in a worse position. They are determined to convince you that the "right" choice is not to rock the boat otherwise you will sink!

Have You Got The Symptoms?
International author David Oliver defines some of the symptoms of stress

Do You Wake Up Happy or Anxious?
Do you wake up anxious every morning? Discover what might be causing your anxiety and what to do about it!

Your Hero’s Journey: A metaphor for life and business coaching
Did you know you are on a Hero’s Journey? If you are undergoing significant change in your life, you have been called to embark on a journey of transformation, which Joseph Campbell identified as The Hero’s Journey. No hero undergoes transformation alone, and this article describes how coaching can help you navigate the future with more ease, confidence and resilience.

‘6 things you MUST-DO to ensure your family survives a job loss’

Nobody takes pleasure in suddenly becoming unemployed. Just the ‘prospect’ alone can be very overwhelming and stressful. Often the worry or anxiety comes from feeling you have no control over the situation. This is partially true, you may not be able to control what your employer does but you can control to some extent how it will affect you and your family. The reality is, no one’s job is really secure but a layoff doesn’t have to be the end of the world. The key to survival is to be prepared, especially with regards to your finances. Here are some things you can do in advance of being laid off:

Why A Starting A New Business Is A Great Idea in This Great Recession
Starting a new business under any conditions is challenging. Starting one during The Great Recession seems like it would be even more challenging. Right now is actually the best time to start your new business. The efficiencies you'll need to weather today's economy will prove invaluable once things turn around.

Bad News Doesn't Improve with Age
Got bad news to deliver? Start talking! It’s almost impossible for a leader to over-communicate during such difficult times as impending layoffs, leadership shakeups, news-breaking scandals, and mergers and acquisitions. This article provides a cautionary tale of waiting too long to share bad news.

Procrastination to Motivation
If you keep putting it off to later you will never get it done. Procrastination is one of the most common obstacles to achievement and yet it’s a skill that so many have mastered. But procrastination results from a mistake of the mind. Correct the mistake and fuel yourself with motivation toward your goals.

What should I do with my tax refund?

Do you remember the good old days when spending our tax refund frivolously wasn't such a big deal? Our jobs were stable, house values seemed to be on a never-ending climb and the stock market was booming. Things were looking pretty good. Well, we are all feeling a little less wealthy these days; our portfolios have been beaten up, the wealth in our homes have taken a blow and on top of all that, we are worried about our jobs and the stability of our income. There is a lot of insecurity or fear out there and so spending our tax refund on a great vacation or a new flat screen TV may not be the most financially savvy thing to do. So what should we do with this year's tax refund- spend it or save it, invest it or splurge?

What should I do with my tax refund?

Do you remember the good old days when spending our tax refund frivolously wasn’t such a big deal? Our jobs were stable, house values seemed to be on a never-ending climb and the stock market was booming. Things were looking pretty good. Well, we are all feeling a little less wealthy these days; our portfolios have been beaten up, the wealth in our homes have taken a blow and on top of all that, we are worried about our jobs and the stability of our income. There is a lot of insecurity or fear out there and so spending our tax refund on a great vacation or a new flat screen TV may not be the most financially savvy thing to do.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies: The Biggest Mistake Real Estate Agents Make And How You Can Avoid It
Are you letting outward circumstances control your business? Take control! Here are some tips to empower you and help you avoid the big mistake.

Keys to Confronting Well

Most people fear confrontation. The thought of speaking up – especially during a conflict or uncomfortable situation – can be almost paralyzing. However, the ability to effectively confront tough issues by clearly stating what you think, feel, and want can be one of the most valuable interpersonal skills a person can possess. The ten keys listed below can help prepare you for those difficult conversations.

The Six Worries of A Spare Room Tycoon
This is a story of my friend Mariann Schick, a fellow spare room tycoon.

Your First Client Is Yourself
Finding new customers is like kissing thousands of frogs. Doing all that kissing is a royal pain in the behind but no entrepreneur can afford to stop doing it.

Why You React to Certain Customers and How to Stay Positive
Have you ever started off a day feeling great, then…WHAM…out of no where, you find yourself in a foul mood? You wonder, “What happened to put me in this mood?” Learn why certain situations in sales and business can affect your mood. Use your new knowledge on "conditioning" to control your reactions and improve your business relationships.

Do you have a Truly Profitable Mindset?
With all the negative talk about the economy in the media, it's no wonder we're all concerned about the growth and vitality of our business. Use these three quick tips to keep your mind focused on what truly matters so your business thrives no matter what!

Do You Feel Anxiety When Speaking?
There are hundreds and hundreds of articles around the Internet helping you to overcome the fear of Public Speaking. You may have seen some. And the vast majority help you overcome the fear of getting onto the platform, standing up and actually starting to speak.

Is Fear Running Your Life? How To Find Your Courage Amidst Adversity
Terrorism, recession, identity theft, melting ice caps, corporate downsizing, and various predators. Every day headlines bombard us with reasons why we should hunker down, play safe, avoid risk and settle for less than what we want out of life. This is why every day we need to be vigilant of fear mongering, mindful of the oppressive impact of fear and discerning of which ones we pay heed to.

Creative Avoidance
How many of you procrastinate when it comes to contacting leads, calling customers, prospecting, or following up? Have I hit a nerve? You are not alone, it is in our nature to avoid confrontation because of our fear of rejection. Our primary job as salespeople is to attack that fear head on and convert “NO’s” into “YES’s”.

Tips to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking
Most people equate public speaking with large audiences packed with experts just waiting to challenge every word you say. The truth is, everyday public speaking is just the opposite from an adversarial environment. So why do so many people fear doing it? If you quake in your boots at the mention of public ppeaking, The Speech Wiz has three tips to share on overcoming this fear.

Ask, and You Shall Receive
“Ask” is a powerful word because it calls upon another person’s most noble motive—to serve. As a result, I’ve found that nearly all people will give when asked. You may recall the greatest teacher said, “Ask, and it shall be given you.” I believe you can get almost anything you want … if you ask.

THE MASTERY OF HARDSHIPS
"Life is Difficult, and when we come to accept that life is difficult, it no longer seems so!" (Scott Peck) It is a bit of a paradox but true happiness, as in intrinsic, in fact is a resulting symptom of a life well spent in solving problems and overcoming hardships.

Do Your Prospects Have a "Crush" on You?

Do Your Prospects Have A "Crush" On You? Here's the deal lady. When sales are sluggish it can be very easy to drop your "customer filter" and start taking any old business that knocks on the door. Sometimes those prospects want to pay you far less than you're worth - and sometimes those prospects are just not the right fit (but you're tempted to take the biz anyway). Because this can very dangerous to your profit margins, time, energy and possible frustration levels - let me give you a Sales Diva warning.

Boosting Your Profits in This Recession - Part 1

There are two types of responses a business owner may have to this recession. One is to panic, which fills your mind with fear, doubt, worry, anxiety and bitterness. The second is to get better. If you are serious about surviving and thriving past this recession, you need to get serious about getting better in all aspects of your business. But, first things first - you need to start by knowing where exactly your business is strong and precisely where it needs reinforcement. Whether your goal is to increase your total net profits by $10,000 or by $10 Million, you need to isolate individual values that collectively contribute to that goal. Remember that performance measured is performance gained.

Take Charge to Create a Healthy Financial Future
An article of 1670 words detailing the beliefs systems that operate currently in our society that are leading us down the wrong path and will need to change if we are to build a healthy future economy

How to Get a Prospect's Attention with Good Sales & Marketing
Starting a business relationship is one of the most difficult tasks in sales, but it's not rocket science. The key to prospecting successfully is twofold. First, you need to know what potential clients are looking for. Second, you need to know what low-cost platforms can be used to deliver it.

Business in 2009 - Do you really need to be a Fortune Teller
No know really knows how the overall economic climate will play out over the coming months and possibly years. What we can say is that individual businesses will be defined by the decisions they make and the actions that they take.

10 Steps to Make 2009 Your Most Successful Year Ever
It's the first week of January and you have goals, a plan, some anxiety over the economy and good intentions. As you go about your work this week, what will you do that will not only make 2009 better than 2008, but make 2009 your best year ever?

Leadership Lessons: Automatic Happiness
The push for us to be happy is at an all-time high. It may well be because we are still dealing with an economic downturn that causes people to feel anxiety and sadness and often depression. So, the big question is "Can we be trained to be happy?"

Stress Solutions: Pray, Plan, and Practice
Stress in life and business is at epic proportions in America today. Here are simple solutions that you can implement right now and begin reducing the stress in your life.

Are You Making These 4 Mistakes?
Discover the 4 mistakes you might be making that are causing your life and relationships to not work in the way you want.

NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (Don't Do It)
DON'T DO IT! At least don't do it now. Why do what, for the most part is expected as a part of the New Year's paranoia. What is this obsession anyway with making resolutions as a part of welcoming in the New Year?

THE CONSCIOUS ENTREPREUNER
Millions of entrepreneurs around the world are awakening to the new approach to business... a “conscious” or “spiritual” approach to business! But, here’s the problem, it’s nearly impossible to find books on this topic. Because it’s so new, there isn’t a lot of information available that INTEGRATES consciousness/spirituality and business specifically for entrepreneurs

About Worrying
Simply trust, instead of being overwhelmed with worry.

Rays of Sunshine
Learn how to become a master of everyday communications with these 7 rules of interpersonal relationships.

Stress Management: Fast Track to Calm

Does your life look like a race car running at cut-throat speed and, to your horror, the brakes are broken? Do you feel like you are perpetually in a hurry, even when you are not in a hurry to go anywhere? Do you feel like all the items on your to-do list are dancing around in your head, and you can't seem to concentrate on any of them? Do you run around like a chicken without a head all day, and still feel like you will never "catch up?" Then this article is for YOU.

Performance Appraisals: Critical Conversations

No one likes performance appraisals. Managers hate giving them. Employees hate receiving them and HR professionals hate policing the process. As one manager explained to me, doing a performance appraisal is similar to getting a root canal: both are painful; neither will kill you; but with a root canal, the trauma is over the next day. And yet, we continue to insist on doing appraisals hoping for different results.

Habits
All habits, good and bad inhibit intuitiveness.

How to Sharpen Your Edge Using Fear
Would you be surprised to learn that, after 35 years, I experience fear prior to sales calls, presentations, training and speaking engagements? Yeah, I'd be surprised to read that too - except I really do...

Nothing Has Meaning Without Love and Connection
Discover a major cause of depression and how you can begin to heal it - today!

SACRIFICE THE SACRED COWS
The assumption that we have to do things because that is the way they have always been done needs to be challenged if we desire to live life effectively.

How To Overcome of 'Not Achieving Goal' Fear

Anxiety is the result of either a) not believing you can achieve your goals successfully or b) having a fear of not achieving your goals. Either can stop you in your tracks when it comes to being successful. If you don’t believe in your goals or don’t believe you can achieve them, your attitude will determine your level of success. And that’s where worry and anxiety come in to roost. If you can see your goals and the small steps you’ll take to achieve them (and have a check-mark system to chart your progress), pull it out and read over it when you begin to feel anxious.

Decisions, Decisions!
Should I take this job or that one? This one offers security but is boring and has little room for advancement; that one offers a chance to grow but carries economic risks. Decisions, decisions! We face choices—big and small—constantly. Even the decision between two good things, such as a vacation in the sun or one on the ski slopes, can cause us anxiety. How do we decide how to decide?

Fear and the Success Mindset.
If fear is your sole motivator, you've already lost, because by definition, even if you become a billionaire, you can't be a success. Who defines success as leading a wealthy, opulent, fearful life?

BE YOUR OWN STRESSOMETER
Learn to recognise your own tell tale signs, physical symptoms are easily recognised i.e. a racing pulse, muscle tension, increased sweating.

The Price of Worry
In the next few days, you'll probably encounter situations that should be approached with a certain amount of forethought, caution, and even skepticism. But if those useful tools of wisdom get blown out of proportion, the result will be worry. At some level we all understand that nothing good comes from worrying, but it's hard to resist because it seems like such a vague, indefinable condition.

Smart Women Create the Right Environment

This article is a reminder about how important it is to create the “right environment” both internally and externally is we are to live a meaningful life filled with passion and purpose. A cluttered environment creates a cluttered mind. We typically are not as creative as we might be if we have an open, reflective environment. This is also true of our internal environment---our self talk. Is your self-talk positive and full of possibility? Do you have relationships with nutritious people? The “right” Environment is key to living our dreams and reaching our goals.

CONGRUENCE AND TENSION

LIFE IS DIFFICULT

In Scott Peck’s remarkable book; “The Road Less Traveled,” first published in 1978, he opens with the now famous line; “Life is difficult.” He then goes on to say; “this is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult --- once we truly understand and accept it --- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF STRESS

Many years ago and much earlier in my career I was Manager of the Employee Assistance Program for the Province of Manitoba. Back in those early days I was confronted with a dilemma in assessing the nature of some presenting problems, which in the end was to change my approach and interest in the way I understood stress and the way in which I was to help support persons who were experiencing the symptoms of stress for the next 35 years. When the cause of a stress symptoms jumps up and hits you in the face like a 2-by-4, (i.e. loss of a loved one) you know what you are dealing with and accordingly, can act to address it. But what if it relates to not living your life congruently with what it is you value, and/or not living your life according to your personality type and finally, perhaps not being able to meet your perceived needs?

Boredom: The Gateway to Creativity

We say we want balance and the ability to have more free time, but when outward demands slow down a bit it seems to create a state of imbalance instead. Is it possible that the absence of drama or urgency causes confusion and anxiety? Are we so used to fixing problems that we don't know how to deal with their sudden absence? We say want to be more productive, but will we really be able to improve our ability to focus on what's important and reduce busy work if we're afraid of the silence?

Priorities Are Out

By definition, entrepreneurs are creative people with a lot of energy and a never-ending stream of ideas. In addition many are in business for themselves with very little support. This means they have to juggle a wide range of tasks each and every week, including some they don't love. To make matters worse, some of the time management guidelines and standards developed twenty-something years ago have caused many people to pack far more in their day than truly possible. There's one truth that can set you free. Read the article to learn more.

Scare Yourself Successful
Everyone fears something. Salespeople fear a lot of somethings. This article shows you how to use your fear to succeed.

Here's How To Embrace Change
Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money!

Anxiety - 5 Tips to Help Overcome It
Anxiety can interfere with, and even dominate our life. Left untreated, it may develop into depression. Whether your anxiety is mild or is seriously affecting your quality of life, it is never too late to take action. Anxiety is very treatable and this article contains 5 practical tips and strategies to help overcome it.

Making the Most of Networking Events
Many people attend networking events, but they don't necessarily make the most of them. This article shows you how to make every networking event a success.

Warm Up to Cold Calling
Cold calling: For many of us, the word "cold" is the key. Just the thought of picking up the phone sends a chill up our spines. Unfortunately, if we approach cold calling with an attitude of negativity, we’ll communicate that attitude to the prospect.

How Dealing with Difficult People affects you?
The difficult person is someone we simply have to deal with. In those situations, we have three options. These options are: 1) Try to change ourselves, 2) Try to change the other person, and 3) Resolve to tolerate the situation – basically decide to put up with them.

What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?
“What would you do if you had no fear?” This is the intriguing question that my friend, author Diane Conway, posed to people. Their answers inspired her to write a book of the same name. Her question inspires me to stop often during the day to ask this of myself. Even when I don’t realize that I’m fearful, I find the question useful because fear has many symptoms and disguises.

When you FEEL good not just think positive, you attract more good stuff into your life

Use your memories and your fantasies and your dreams and desires to create positive and fabulous feelings. It IS as easy as that! Truly! So how do you MAKE yourself feel good when you have negative thoughts or anxiety or sadness from a lost love or fear of not having money? Well, perpetuating on those thoughts will only attract more sadness, anxiety, lack into your life, so guess what? You don't have a choice if you want to be happy!

Are You Wasting Time in Overwhelm
Do have so much to do that you don't do anything?? If so, find out why getting into action is the key to decreasing overwhelm.

Tips for Better Communication
Communication skills can improve your customer serrvice, sales, and ability to manage most effectively. Come ead this article and become exposed to some important business skills that will make a huge difference to your "bottom-line."

What's In A Plan
Create and use a written business plan. It's your road-map to success.

The Transformative Power of Laughter
Laughter makes you feel good. It also releases powerful chemicals in the body that bring about healing. It is an invaluable tool in helping people discover more about their potential. It is something that can be actively taught, to make a difference in people's lives

Decisions Decisions Decisions
Decisions between a clear right and an obvious wrong are easy, but what about the decisions that are not so clear cut?

Courtroom Earth vs. Classroom Earth
When I am coaching my professional clients, in some fashion, I am likely to be asking them, “What risks are you avoiding taking that might very well make you happier?” Together, we examine whatever fears, self-judgments, or limiting beliefs are holding them back, keeping them in Courtroom Earth instead of letting them enjoy hanging out in Classroom Earth.

Do You Chase When Someone Withdraws?
Do you find yourself chasing after someone when he or she withdraws from you? How do you feel when you do this, and what is generally the result?

Help! I'm Stressed and Anxious
Having healthy coping skills can help you get through both the good times and the bad times with flying colors. Since stress is an inevitable part of life, learning healthy coping skills is the lifeline to creating a happy, balanced life.

Dreams Come True Series 4: 5 Attract Your Wealth Strategies

These 5 Manifesting Strategies are based on the Law of Attraction, Setting Intentions and the Art of Allowing. As you practice focused intention combined with energetic alignment, you will propel the manifestation of your desires. For these attraction exercises, it is essential that you get into a highly charged energetic state - feeling gratitude, joy and a sense of completion. Often the exercise automatically creates this high vibration; other times, you may need to help this feeling state gain momentum ahead of time.

Managing Performance: How To Conduct A Performance Review Right

One of the most common questions we get asked is: "We need to do annual performance reviews. Do you have a performance review form that we could use?" While admirable that the need to conduct a performance review is recognized, the purpose is often lost in the frenzy of filling out forms, setting up meetings with employees, and sitting through awkward, contrived discussions with them about their performance. The performance review is about managing and improving performance. It should be a motivating, inspiring process conducted not just once a year, but on a regular basis. In this article, we'll discuss how to effectively manage performance and provide tips for how and when to conduct a proper performance review.

How to Stop the Money Tug-of-War

When your self-concept is at odds with how you feel about wealth, it's hard to imagine yourself building authentic wealth. It can feel like you can either be true to yourself or become wealthy. No matter what you choose, you lose. Even when you know in your mind that a person is both able to live her personal values and be wealthy, you may still feel that you don't or can't experience wealth. All the affirmations in the world won't change that. What does work is to drop the rope. Find out how in this article from the author of The Way of the Accidental Entrepreneur.

Complete Sales Freedom in Two Years or Less
Many sales people tend to always be chasing the next customer and worrying about the next paycheck. The good news is that this is unnecessary and can be fixed forever in two years or less. Sales people can eliminate future sales and income anxiety once and for all.

Making the Most of a Career Transition

Many of you are experiencing major career transitions in your lives at this time. Transition itself is exciting because it offers renewal, adventure, personal growth, and change. However, transition in your career can also lead to financial challenges. Fear of not being able to pay bills, rent or mortgage can easily arise. This article focuses on how you can take steps to overcome fear, as well as profiting from your time to stay energized, and to connect with your dream career. If any area of your life is in flux, you will find at least one of the essential keys listed below that can make your transition an easier and more productive one.

Aligning With Your Prosperity

I have been asked numerous times, if there are practices that can be done on a daily basis to increase the flow of prosperity. The answer is absolutely! Now, that said, each one of you is unique. Therefore, I believe, that along the way you personally will find that some practices and guidelines will work better for you than others. For example, some people are more visual while others are more auditory. That is why I often suggest a combination of tools, such as using verbal affirmations, visualizing and bringing in high attractor feelings. Together they are highly effective. Let’s begin with several daily keys that I have found work well for most Law of Attraction students and for those who have been on the path for awhile.

Change: Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!

Change can exhibit itself in many different forms and in many different ways. A thing, system, process, etc., can be altered, converted or replaced by giving it a different form through transformation, reengineering or reinventing. The reason for change occurring can also be reactive or proactive. The point being, change has become our constant companion in many different forms and from many different directions. Those people and organizations that can develop the capacity to undergo spontaneous change will most likely be the ones who will be best prepared for the future.

Are You or Your Partner Possessive?
Are you and your partner operating in a relationship system that is based on possessiveness?

A Nine-Step Approach For Coaches, Consultants, and Business Advisors to Get All the Clients that You Can Handle
Provides a framework for business advisors to generate business.

Delivering Difficult Messages at Work

Whether the information needs to be shared with an individual, a group or an entire organization, these instances can truly become an opportunity for all parties involved. Opportunity arises when the outcome of the interaction leads to greater awareness, learning, motivation, support and creativity as well as a call to action. In this article you will learn how to deliver difficult messages while at work.

Networking is Not a Dirty Word
Networking doesn't have to be overwhelming, it is a valuable tool that enhances our job search, your career advancement, and enables you to find a satisfying and rewarding career path. Overcoming the resistance to network is crucial to your career.

Worry in the Workplace
Worrying does not serve you at any time. It takes you away from your priorities, diminishes your focus and prevents you from engaging at your full level of competence and confidence. It robs your company or organization of your full capabilities and talents.

Why Do We Seek Approval?
If you are addicted to seeking others\' approval, this article is for you!

Coping With The Unexpected - 6 Practical Tips
Always expect the UNEXPECTED. We never know what's around the corner. It's part of life. Sudden change can be stressful whether we perceive it as negative or positive. This article contains 6 practical tips on how to cope with the unexpected.

Are You Persevering or Enduring

Why try to make a distinction between perseverance and endurance? In both perseverance and endurance, we may struggle at times, feel fear of failure or rejection, or worry that we are not worthy of what we long for. So the distinction between perseverance and endurance can easily get blurred. But perseverance and endurance take us down different roads so they are worth distinguishing. Endurance will lead us to a dead end whereas perseverance, although it may take us down a long and meandering path, offers up surprises, serendipity, and synchronicity.

Are You Fulfilled

Dear Jane, How can I figure out whether I am doing what makes me happy? What are some of the symptoms of unhappiness, or must I wait for a life-threatening situation? I wrote my popular self-help book, Enough Is Enough!, to help others avoid having to go through a life-threatening situation in order to wake up to your spirit’s calling. If you are having to ask yourself if you are happy, then you probably aren’t. Perhaps you haven’t yet had the satisfaction that goes with fulfilling your spirit’s purpose, so you don’t know what benchmark to compare your feelings with. The symptoms of endurance or a less-than-thriving life are discussed in depth in my book. I will give you a short list here that you should find helpful:

ReKindling Your Passion for Your Work and Your Life

Dear Jane, I wake up every morning wondering how I got to where I am today: bored, dreading my responsibilities, and numb. How did this happen and what do I do about it? Most of us have woken up occasionally to a feeling of dread or anxiety, wishing we were facing a different day ahead of us. But if this is how you feel most mornings, wishing you had a different life, you are suffering from burnout. Burnout is the result of enduring for too long and is debilitating to your spirit. The good news is that it’s curable.

Intimacy and Connection - The Aliveness of Life
Do you want to experience intimacy and connection with others, and the joy and aliveness that this offers? You need to start by learning how to love yourself, rather than abandon yourself.

I’ll Do It Later

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." Douglas Adams Let's talk about the P word. Procrastination. If this is you, this pervasive, habit effects every aspect of your life. As a procrastinator you typically under perform, limiting success and the life you want to live. It dampens your ability to take action, creates missed opportunities, and is the single pattern of behavior I see in most entrepreneurs that if corrected would free up log jams of energy and potential. If you're a procrastinator you know in your bones that this is true, yet, it seems like an impossible habit to break.

Reclaim your Life-Live in Balance

Living a balanced life is making a series of adjustments much like sailing. When the winds change you need to adjust your sails. And so that's the way it is with life. Changing course is not easy but if you can recognize the signs sooner that let you know that your life is out of balance, you'll be able to sail in the direction that you want to be going. This involves exploring the vast unknown and its opportunities. And it's about clear boundaries and learning to say "no."

Empower yourself by the choices you make

Every single day we are bombarded by choices we need to make. Ultimately, our lives are defined by these choices. What should you eat? Should you go to the gym? Should you ask for that promotion? This process can be empowering, or on the flip side it can be stress inducing. You may feel empowered because you took control of your choices and their potential outcomes. On the flip side you may feel anxiety because you don't want to take responsibility for the potential results of your decisions. As a result of your anxiety you allow others to make these decisions for you.

Release & Resolve Stress and Anxiety

In the process of recognizing a sense of stress or discomfort, we may observe that many times our reactive state sits in judgment of the experience; right or wrong and/or good and bad. In order to release this deep anxiety, we want to invite in the possibility of sitting with the inner body sensation of the experience vs. the built-in stories and thoughts that arise around the emotional or physical block or discomfort.

Inundated in Intention
It is easy to find yourself drowning in intentions but time does not have to be your enemy. Fulfilling your commitments is not rocket science. Follow these simple steps and you will find that it will be a lot less daunting to fulfill all of your intentions.

Stress: What Causes It and How To Deal With It
Stress is our response to life's pressures - real or imagined. This article explains what happens to our bodies and mood when we become stressed. It also outlines the four main causes of stress and in each case gives practical and easy-to-follow advice on how to avert or deal with stress.

The NLP Approach to Treating Anxiety
What is anxiety really, and how can we effectively treat it? NLP provides insight off the beaten path.

Advice for Happier Performance Appraisals
Anxiety seems the most common emotion associated with Performance Appraisals – but it is possible to create a positive conversation even when the news is difficult.

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