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The Brain of a Leader
The area of our brain that we allow to control our thoughts and actions is a key factor in determining whether or not we are enabling ourselves and our organisations to deal effectively with new technological advances and rapidly changing circumstances. In this article Doug Long explains the default areas of control used by most of us and gives pointers to using a more effective area of control.

Who is Your Worst Critic?

Most of us do not have to look far to find our own worst critic. We just need to look in the mirror. Even though it is not good for our physical or spiritual health, we all tend to dwell on what we need to do better. There is an antidote to the malaise, and it is easier that we think. All we need to do is re-train our minds to avoid dwelling on our deficiencies. Easier said than done? Not really. There are three simple steps you can take that will alter your self perception if you have the will to do them.

“Blue Zone” Leaders grow others

The brain of a leader is one that accepts today's reality but knows that the future can be better. Key to bringing about this better future is the facilitation of growth in other people. Working from his experience of helping those who have been abused and disadvantaged, Doug Long provides some simple behaviours that leaders can use in order to bring about the future we desire for individuals as well as for society at large.

Your Brain - The Ultimate Smart Bomb
The brain is like a smart bomb. A smart bomb is given a target and then as wind and resistance take it off target, it self corrects to hit its target. The difference is, the subconscious takes for truth what it hears the most.

Teaching to the Student Brain
Teaching without even a rudimentary understanding of the biological mechanisms of learning is like trying to navigate without understanding what a map is. If you teach, you need to know what happens in the brain when someone learns. Adult or child, student or someone you lead.

DECISION MAKING: How, Exactly, Do We Decide?
Columbia University is just beginning scientific experiments on my theories of how decisions actually get made, and how, or if, decisions can be influenced. I contend that there is a specific process the brain uses to make decisions, and this can be influenced by sequentially directing the brain to different sub/unconscious criteria.

TOWARD BRAIN HARDWARE OPTIMIZATION
Self-management involves understanding yourself quite well: your strengths, weaknesses, learning style, working style, needs, and values. TOWARD BRAIN HARDWARE OPTIMIZATION examines six learning and performance styles that will benefit self learning and executive functioning.

PATTERNS OF NEW LEARNING
PATTERNS OF NEW LEARNING Some Mind Matters and Brain Business in New Endeavors This article examines aspects of the art and science of change.

Do You Only Use 10 Percent of Your Brain?
Do you have a song that’s really special to you? Maybe it’s “Let It Be” or some love oriented song. There is some reason that it’s a significant song for you. It’s something vibrationally in how they put the song together. It translates into a feeling for you.

Scientist Seeks Seed Capital for Life Perpetuating Device

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) September 17, 2002 -- Interaction Designer Herb Gilliland announces that he is seeking capital for investment into his brain-perpetuating product idea. "Much of the valuable, personal information we hold in our minds is lost at the moment of death. Please help me save this information by designing and marketing brain perpetuation devices for post-mordem cultivation of valuable neurologically stored information," says Herb Gilliland, alumnus from Carnegie Mellon University.

Lesson #1: Keep The Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
“In the 1970s, I filled my ranks with managers from all different walks of life who generally were very savvy to the ways of big business,” recalls Vernon, “and they almost killed us.”

Lesson #3: There is a Danger in Dreaming Too Big

“Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary,” Barnum said. “Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow.’” When Barnum was struggling to find his way in the work world, he did just that – struggle. His early career paths were as varied as could be. From a lottery agent to a store clerk to a newspaper editor, Barnum tried his hand at a number of different ventures. However, he learned the hard way that was a danger in spreading himself so thin. None of the schemes proved especially successful, forcing Barnum to reexamine his priorities, interests and capabilities.

Lesson #4: Test Your Product and Test Your Pitch
Almost every day, some new kitchen widget or another is released onto the market. A select few might become hit sellers, while the rest crash and burn as quickly as they were thought up. However, even where an entrepreneur finds himself with a successful product, rarely has he been able to transform it into an entire business. That is, of course, until Popeil came along.

Men and Body Image
You always hear about how looking at photos of gorgeous models is harmful to average-looking women. Some people say it's bad for women's body image and can lead to eating disorders and emotional issues.

Really Bad Powerpoint

I wrote this about four years ago, originally as an ebook. I figured the idea might spread and then the problem would go away--we'd no longer see thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with bullets. Not only has it not gone away, it's gotten a lot worse. Last week I got a template from a conference organizer. It seems they want every single presenter to not only use bullets for their presentations, but for all of us to use the same format! Shudder. So, for posterity, and in the vain hope it might work, here we go again:

Sheepwalking
I define "sheepwalking" as the outcome of hiring people who have been raised to be obedient and giving them a braindead job and enough fear to keep them in line.

7 Tips to Attracting What You Want

We all aspire to be, do and have great things. Yet most of us simply aren’t creating the results we want. We don’t have enough money, romance, success or joy in our lives. But what we need to understand is that greatness exists in all of us. It is simply up to us to pull it out of ourselves. We all have the ability to create the life we want. We just need to learn how to do it. Here are 7 of my top tips to jump-start your success and start "attracting" what you want into your life.

But What Do I Write On My Business Blog?
Man, do I get tired of the question posed in the title of this post.

Tap into the Powers of Your Brain
Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind. When those statements are the affirmation of your goals, you are certain to achieve them! Stating these goals can be tricky however, and your subconscious mind needs things put a certain way.

Social Graph - The Next Future Overused Phrase

Get ready to start hearing “Social Graph” as frequently as you hear “Web 2.0.” The construct of the Social Graph (and its friend – Social Network) has been around for a while. Now that Facebook has stolen our minds (and help us control our friends), we all are part of a social network. Or nine. Or 721 (that’s my best guess for the number of different services that have a social network that I’m a user of.)

The Semantic Web Can Be Your Friend
Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. I have a small investment in Adaptive Blue (Union Square Ventures is the lead investor), love what Alex is up to, and relish anything that comes out of his brain.

Acknowledge and Appreciate Yourself
With the year coming to a close, it's time to acknowledge and appreciate yourself for everything you've accomplished today, throughout the year, and in life.

How to Create an Empowering Vision Book
You are the author... just add dreams!

If You're So Good, Stop Thinking So Damn Much
Call it the "Nuke" Laloosh rule: People who know what they are doing should just stop futzing about and get on with things. The preceding is the main finding in a fascinating golf-driven (!) new paper in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology:

Perks of a Good, Demanding Job
Does your job make you think too much? Even though sometimes it may not seem like it, that’s a good thing.

Build Rapport Quickly with Mirroring
People like people who are like them – it's built-in to the most primitive parts of our brain. Here’s how to get past this reptilian tic: mirroring, observing your conversational partner’s body language, tone, and level, and mirroring it with your own behavior.

Why Harvesting Your Thoughts Can Make the Difference in Winning and Losing

People go through thousands of thoughts each day. It's just a matter of deciding which things should remain in the brain and which ones are forgotten to be remembered another day. It is very helpful to practice some mental exercises so that you can harvest your thoughts very well and focus on your goals and objectives better. You may find that you can accomplish more things and be really great just by gathering thing in your head.

Clapping Hands Sharpens the Brain in Children
Did you know that this simple activity can boost the development of motor and cognitive skills in children ages 6-10?

5 Steps to Embracing Your Inner Genius
Each of us has within us a spark of genius that we can use to get us closer to our goals and to leading the lives we are meant to live. We simply need to choose to honour those actions and behaviours that are in alignment with that spark. Here are five simple habits that will help you embrace and honour your inner genius.

How to Generate More Sales with Headlines
Here are 4 easy ways to craft compelling headlines for more customers and more sales.

Ten Steps To Take Charge of Conflict

The drama that often accompanies conflict is what gives conflict its bad name. Most of us veer away from screaming matches, stand offs and personal attacks. But, conflict does have redeeming value … especially for those of us over 50. According to Barbara Strauch, author of The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain, we need to present our brains with things that make it wake up, pay attention, and work really hard. To give your brain a workout, Strauch suggests talking with people who disagree with you because it helps you sharpen your own thinking and challenges you. So having conflict in your life can actually make you smarter. To benefit from benefits of conflict, and lose the drama, here is what I have learned about taking charge of conflict.

What If Certain Things Just Don't Add Up?
It's OK when things don't always make sense!

Why not be a player!
Are you working too hard? Maybe that's your problem!

Avoiding Your Feelings? Find out Why and What to Do About It
Do you wonder what's causing you to avoid your feelings and emotions rather than expressing them in a healthy way to get past obstacles? Find out the root cause and what you can do to get beyond those limits.

How to Develop Conscious Habits.
Many of our problems would be resolved if we just formed the right habits and stuck to them. However, we do not bring all of who we are to help us create new habits and we end up abandoning the very habits that we know would make us happier.

How to Handle a Spontaneous Response Successfully - As an Introvert
Have you ever been called on in a meeting to give your thoughts about the discussion but felt unprepared? Or maybe a brainstorming session is almost impossible for you? Even though we know an introvert's brain works differently than the extrovert's, we actually can prepare and plan for spontaneity!

Using Powerful Questions To Be More Positive.
Everyone knows that it is beneficial to think more positively. Yet everyone has challenges with this. Tap into powerful questions to set your mind on positive thoughts.

Business and Marketing: Breakthroughs for Writer's Block
Whether you love to write or not, the written word is still one of the most influential ways to reach your audience, get your message out to the world and give people an opportunity to resonate with you. Staying focused on the energy of your writing will help your writing contain a crisp, clear marketing message that will leave people wanting to hear more.

All Your Business Problems Solved!
Discover how to avoid major problems, solve problems quickly and efficiently. Discover how to increase your personal credibility and power.

C-level Selling Tip 7 – Leveraging Your Golden Network
Leverage your golden network - those that like you, work with you and those who have bought and benefited from you - to find a wealth of high quality leads and beat out competition.

Short and Simple Copyrighting Tips
Since copywriting is another form of sales, learn how to sell. Whenever you have the chance, read books on selling. This will make you see life and the way you approach you future customer or you do you marketing completely differently. You will also find below 5 short and simple copywriting tips which will allow you to achieve a sales person or good internet marketer state of mind.

Why do the Most Successful Entrepreneurs in Home Based Internet Business Use Visualization as Part of Their Daily Routine?
One of the tools the gurus, masters and top performers in the home based online marketing industry use is visualization. As a method to get results and in tandem with a regime of goal setting and action plans they all know the power of this technique. If you were to follow their path and implement a version of this where could that take you and your business?

The Art of Listening-what the 3% Leaders do

We've all done it. Your best friend rings you up and says "Hi Donal I've just come up with this really cool business idea that I think is going to make me a fortune. As he proceeds to tell his tale are you listening intently on the other end until he is finished and maybe waiting for your opinion or advice?.Of course not. You have already formed an opinion what you are going to say or several opinions for that matter before he has finished speaking and how many times did you interrupt him during this conversation?

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.

Resolution Rule #1

Of the 40-45% of American adults who make resolutions each year, most resolve to improve their lifestyle. However, one quarter of those resolutions fall by the wayside within one week and less than 50% last six months. The people who make these resolutions truly want to live better, yet they fall far short of living a healthier, wealthier life. It is easy to find a list of pointers on how to keep a resolution, but these lists are missing, or downplay the most important ingredient you need to keep your resolution. The experts tell you to set realistic goals, plan for obstacles, etc. These guidelines appeal to your rational brain. Human beings are not rational. We are emotional. If you want to accomplish anything important you must understand the emotions involved.

"Think Big To Go Big" "Online Marketing"
Thinking big is what drives you to where ever you want to go. Learn to think big and what you want and take action towards that and see how things change when you actually focus.

Above All – Integrity
Integrity seems to be a diminishing attribute these days. The concept of Karma comes into play in one's ability to continue on a even keal. What are the general principles of success that are based on the concept of integrity.

Online Money - How do you Find the Right Opportunity?
What is it that you expect out of an online opportunity? Three commonly advertised money making opportunities and pointers on sorting the legitimate from the bunk.

Have You Created a Contagious Customer Experience?
There are many opportunities to create a remarkable, memorable, and sustainable customer experience, recognized by your buyers and embraced by your employees. Most businesses have three stages of contact where they can create a contagious customer experience: before customers buy, while they buy, and after they buy.

Do You Want to Know How my Life Changed For The Better?
People are always asking me how I changed my life so drastically, how I changed my life for the better. We all want something different, whether we are searching for an inner happiness or success beyond our wildest dreams, we all want something. Find out how you can change your life too!

10 Ways To Empower Your Communication In Business

"A Piece of Blarney Stone" 10 ways to empower your communication The Blarney Stone is a historical stone, or actually part of the Blarney Castle in Ireland where it was believed that kissing the stone can grant you the gift of gab. Yeah, it seems strange in this day and age, but who are we to question tradition? It's not like I'm saying that Santa Claus doesn't exist (OOPS!). There is so much to know about conversation that anyone, even I, could ever realize. You can go though watching talk shows; radio programs; clubs dedicated to public speaking; ordinary conversations; certain rules still apply when it comes to interaction through words. It may sound tedious, I know, but even though it's your mouth that's doing the work, your brain works twice as hard to churn out a lot of things you know.

Introvert Myth - Introvert and Extrovert Are Only Nouns
The introvert myth continues to perpetuate possibly because of the use of the word almost exclusively as a noun, not a verb. Let's first look at how we commonly use the word as a noun to label people and then on to why it is a myth.

Planning & Goal Setting
The simple “how-to’s” of powerful goal setting so that your goals are achieved effortlessly.

Starting the day
I wanted to write a quick note on what may ask me about how to organize my day. Now, I don't want to give you another colorful graph to prioritize your coffee break and go to the store time.

Have More Energy At Work With These Tips To A Better Nights Sleep

US and Australian studies highlight how fatigue is impacting our quality of life and the quality of work. It is costing relationships and it's costing companies billions in lost productivity. One of the most common causes for fatigue is due to poor or inadequate sleep.Follow these hints on how to overcome the three most common sleeping problems and to get more energy back into your work and your life...

Running a Business - What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
The problem of your business's failure can typically be cured by these three things: Reading, Learning and Seeking.

The Science of Smiling
You have to choose to use an Echt-Smile as your facial expression. It lowers your blood pressure, improves your breathing, and protects your Nervous and Immune Systems. Read to live longer and healthier.

Are Your Thoughts Sabotaging Your Success?
think clearly and positively and watch your actions follow

Yoda needs to follow his own advice!
Decisions come from decision makers and salespeople have to get the conversations going with the top people. Oops, I didn't do that, what happened...

Decisions Making in a Blink
Choices, decisions and actions take take place in nano-second, yet some have great outcomes and others complete disasters. How can one make better instant decisions and choice.

Five Keys to Controlling Time
Controlling time seems to be a continuous challenge for all of us, how can we get more control and enjoy the day and life more. Here are a few ideas that work.

How to Beat a Sales Slump

Have you ever experienced the dreaded downward curve or slump in your sales? Most of us certainly have. If you’ve been through it, you probably have a clear recollection of that lump in your throat, adrenaline-pumping moment when you realize that you need to scramble if you’re going to make your sales goal or quota. The feeling can be overwhelming and can set even the most seasoned salesperson into panic mode.

Business Success -- When it's okay to quit
When is it okay to quit and when should you muscle through it? How do you know if this is the time you should throw in the towel or is this just more of your demons popping up to torture you? Here's a little system you can follow to help you know the difference.

Top 5 Strategies to Improve Your Sales Approach
So you want to win more sales? The local economy is down. Contacts and leads are drying up. More and more competitors are entering an already tight market. What can you do?

Make Sales the Culture of Your Company
Jim shared many entertaining, insightful personal stories of success and failure, including the lessons he took away and how he continues to apply them today. One of my favorite stories was about the day he decided to raise his prices and was convinced that his potential customer would never pay $350,000, for a project he would have sold at $199,000 just one week earlier.

The Impact of Mental Conditioning
Discover how your thinking, mindset, conditioning and programming will make the difference in your short and more importantly long term business success. Read on to learn more...

Think and Prepare for the Future with Strategic Planning
Great leaders understand that the thought and planning process is critical to long term sustainability, future business growth and achievement of goals. In the big picture, this is more important than day to day operations and activities read on to learn more...

The Key to You Team's Success is Communication!
One of the number one reasons companies, organizations, families, churches and sales teams fail or succeed is the quality and consistency of their communication. Learn more, read on...

The Art of Reinvention As a Lifestyle for Soul-Driven Entrepreneurs

We soul-driven entrepreneurial types are an interesting lot... we are compelled to do something that we believe is about who we are as a business, allowing passion and enthusiasm to guide our lives and businesses, following an inner need to pursue truth and express it honestly as we know it, creating our own unique path by being our authentic selves, and all with the desire to make the world a better place for being in it. Even more, we do this in the face of daunting external odds, intimidating circumstances, often on the leading edge of our respective industries and with generally not enough resources to make it all happen. And yet - we do it.

Comfort Zones
“You are either learning or dying” the saying goes. We meet some remarkable people in life. People in their 20’s and 30’s who are confident in who they are. People in their 40’s and 50’s who are alive with passion and commitment. People in their 60’s,70’s and 80’s who are fascinated, open and learning.

Revenue is Down, Let's Fire Sales
Cutting back on your source of revenues is something that needs to be done with a precision scalpel - not a chainsaw.

Stress Tactics and Vents
There are over 24 stress tactics and vents. In this introduction David Oliver gives us the first two!!

Six a day, six days a week
Need a basic but realistic recipe for a balanced diet? Go for six â€˜airplane-sizedâ€™ meals a day, six days a week (no, not the size of an actual airplaneâ€¦but the size of the meals they serve you on board).

Making emotive connections
Many believe humans beings are rationally motivated creatures, and by virtue of the decisions we make, we are more often that not, logical and considered by nature.

Feeling Guilty About Home and Work?
In this sensitive look at Work life effectiveness david oliver helps us lose some guilt and gives some practical ideas

Face it and You Win!
Now, comes the time to discuss the most important part of the success process. Without the understanding and application of Confront, you will feel stuck in confusion and never succeed to your desired level of success. If you are willing to Confront the necessary things before you, you can have it all.

5 Juicy Tips to Quickly Create Headlines that Draw Your Readers in & Move them Towards the Sale (hint: this means more money for you).
These are simply basic suggestions and serve as a guide for juicer headlines.

Take the bite out of cold calling with these helpful strategies.
Few things strike fear into the heart of an entrepreneur than cold calling. But these cold calling strategies will help make the entire process more successful and enjoyable.

Installment 2 of the Top 10 Secrets of small business revealed
The - absolute - undeniable - must have - rockbottom - can’t do without - believe it or not - Top 10 (and beyond) - Secrets of Sustainable Small Business Growth, in good times or bad

Sell Don't Tell
Whether we like it or not, selling and persuasion is going on all the time. This articles explains how to utilise these skills if you are to be a successful Motivational Manager.

How the Mind Works: Understanding Your Mental Software

The complexities of the mind have left thinkers, scholars and philosophers baffled for a millennia. For the past two hundred years the field of psychology has sought to understand why we are the way we are but reviled little as to how the mind works. The latest advances in psychology, cognitive science and neuro science have lead to new models and a whole new science of mind has emerged. We now know more than ever before about how the mind works. And when you know how the mind works, changing it becomes easy.

Article #9 Collecting Shopping Carts at Walmart Just to Put Food on the Table?
Congrats! You are already doing better than 80% of the people who are unemployed! You can become very rich with that little bit if you know how to manage your money. “It requires both sides of your brain to be successful.

Top-10 Secrets of: Sustainable Small Business Growth
The - absolute - undeniable - must have - rockbottom - can’t do without - believe it or not - Top-10 Secrets of Sustainable Small Business Growth In good times or bad

Article #14 Want To End Your Money Worries Forever?

Those of you who have read some of my articles already know I am a big fan of Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad series and so I quote Mr. Kiyosaki a lot. Here is one of my favorites that he uses in his book 'Retire Young, Retire Rich'. Mr. Kiyosaki quotes his Rich Dad saying, "Your brain can be your most powerful asset or it can be your most powerful liability. If you use the right words in your brain you will become very rich. If you use the wrong words, your brain will make you poor." I love this saying because when I literally took it to heart, it ended my money worries forever.

How To Triple Your Affiliate Profits In 30 Days Or Less
Ever wondered how your life would be different if you could make 3 times the amount you're making now? Then read on...

Follow Up is Free and Profitable
Looking for ways to increase sales without increasing expenses? Follow up with the people and prospects you know. Now is the time to be persistent, systematic, and supportive of those who have an interest in your product and service.

When Customers Lie – Don’t be Lead Astray
It's a sad truth, some customers don't tell the truth. They want time to decide, they are not sure about you, or they just don't want to put you on the defensive. Either way, don't get angry, get educated so you can adjust the way you talk to people.

Six unique yet practical sales tips
Practical sales tips such as the six classic closing skills are essential for any business, but there are also mental sales tips which set the real top sellers apart and which very few salespeople use. Here are six incredibly powerful 'Neurobic" exercises to keep your mind agile and open to every new sales opportunity.

Don't Expect Gratitude from All Customers
For customers who pay you and even love who you do for them, you want to stay with them for as long as you run your business. But, for other customers who treat you as their interim "Fire Department," just do your work and let go. You'd be a happier person, not merely a successful one.

How to be more creative in business
As I am in marketing, being creative every single day is very important. In firm's success depends on it. Here are my top 5 ways for staying creative and coming up with innovative ideas on a daily basis...

5 Timestealers You Must Avoid

Gary has a business, employing 7 staff. When he contacted me he was at a point where the stress from his business was so bad, that he would constantly wake up 3 or 4 times a night worried about everything ...his cash flow, staff, lack of clients and the affect all this was having on his personal well-being and family life. He didn't use a diary, had no way of planning and kept everything 'in his head'.Often his staff were idle because he hadn't spent time training them. That ensured the work didn't get done therefore causing Gary to lose clients.

How to Exercise Your Right to choose your thoughts-The Science of Results Oriented Thinking
Thoughts are tools, are you using the right ones for the job?

Create Winning Adverts in 15 Minutes
Why is it that two seemingly similar ads, in the same paper get startlingly different response rates? What makes great advertising copy? Do you need to be an expert copywriter to create brilliant advertisements? Learn how to create winning adverts, in 15 minutes. The secret to writing great headlines is currently sitting in your customer's heads.

What You Think is What You Do (and Who You Are)

Most people when they want to figure things out or change what is going on in their lives tend to focus on the external…the doing. They say to themselves, “What do I need to be doing differently?” When the question should be, “How am I thinking about this situation?” Anything we do in the ‘external’ has its genesis in our brains…the internal. Whatever is happening outside of us in our lives is a reflection of what is going on inside of us…specifically, inside our brains. So if we want to change, we need to focus first on how we think about it…whatever it is. How are we connecting the dots and how can we build new hardwiring so that we can travel a different road to where we actually want to go instead of the old road that keeps dumping us off in the same place that isn’t working for us.

Homeostasis: The Thermostat Within Us
What makes us dig our mental heels in when change is looming in front of us and may even make tings better? What is it that kicks in that drives us to keep change from making things better or worse?

Borrow Some Brains
Of course you don't have all the answers or even the right questions all the time. That's why it's great to have your "tribe". People you trust and respect who don't exactly think like you and will challenge the way you see things. They will also have different pools of knowledge that you can dive into for pearls of wisdom you would otherwise miss out on. So go ahead, borrow some brains today!

How to Develop Successful Marketing Promotion
This article takes the mystique out of creating successful marketing promotion for small business entrepreneurs. It demonstrates methods to develop effective advertising to compete head-to-head with competitors of any size. The article outlines step by step procedures that can be used for any medium. – Read the article.

Simply Speaking Increase Sales Using These 7 Words
Imagine just by changing 7 words that you currently use now as a sales professional you could quickly increase sales. Would that be of interest to you? If you are so inclined to improve your sales skills and therefore your sales results, then read on.

Leadership Lessons: Listen Up!!
When a leader is making a point and wants what he or she is saying to register in another person's brain, the most important thing to do is check out what is said - often what is said is not always what we really hear.

Six Inner Principles of Success
This article goes deeper than many discussions that focus on the behviour and habits that bring success. It looks at the mindset of success and examines 6 inner or spiritual principles that underpin all success, and are based on what are called the Universal Laws of Life.

How Your Brain Can Make You Nuts at Work

Sometimes there is a frustrating moment when you are not sure what you see, hear, and feel is making sense to anyone but you. It is crazy making to check what is going on in a meeting and you are the only one sensing the tension and disconnect. Maybe, just maybe, it is not what is happening in the room at that exact time. Perhaps, it is a memory trace of a past event in your lif,e and there you are, in a sense, reliving it. The scientific term for this is called an engram. Here is an example: You are a toddler and the family is going to the beach for the first time. Everyone is excited about flying from land-locked Oklahoma to Florida.

Your Core Desire for Learning

With so much to learn, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Focus on your Core Desires as a way of defining the direction of your learning. This will allow you to maintain peak interest while collecting information and processing data. If you are learning about things you are not interested in, your enthusiasm will quickly wane. Suppose you have a Core Desire to learn how to ski. Eagerly you seek to accomplish this desire-you buy the best equipment, take ski lessons, and willingly stand in line in the cold. You spend time listening to other skiers reveal the finer points of the sport. You ride the ski lifts even if you are afraid of heights. Because you have this Core Desire, you go all out.

Home Party Plans Tips For Marketing : Deadly Home Party Business Mistake
How does this relate to your home party business? How can a direct sales consultant benefit? Simple. Successful home party business owners are leaders go from communicating to connecting! Remember the discussion about what Oprah can teach us about direct sales and home parties success?

The Job Market is Tough – Does Your Cover Letter Stand Out?
Knock Knock. “Who’s there?” “A unique amazing cover letter” “That’s a rarity - come on in” Your cover letter knocks on the door of the hiring company. When that door is opened does your cover letter get asked to “come in” or is the door slammed shut?

When Was The Last Time You Took The Time To Reflect On Your Past?
Life lessons I have learned as I have journeyed through life. Why not take the time to learn from my experience and then take the time to think about yours.

Time and Tide Waits for no Man or Woman

As the glimmer of morning sun shines through the blinds and I start to uncurl under the duvet, one eye opens then the second, the brain links into gear what day is it??? The start of a new day, new challenges and new mountains to climb. As I make my way to the bathroom and meet myself in the mirror, but all I see is my mum looking back at me!!! Where did all those wrinkles come from? The bags under the eyes have turned into suitcases!!! Even the jowls have started to form; I don’t remember getting this old. Somebody must have put a curse on me overnight and when I find my magic wand everything will be back to normal.

Home Business Expert: Wealth Creation
Analyzing the factors responsible for wealth creation, be it in a home business or otherwise, is always useful because once you have done so, you know exactly what actions on your part can lead to wealth creation.

Create Opportunities in our Tough Economy

Every day we’re hearing about how tough it is out there. Prospects won’t take calls. Budgets are on hold. And yet, I remain optimistic, seeing opportunity all around us. While many clients are halting spending, others are getting creative and looking at their businesses from new perspectives. They are seeking ways to leverage these difficult times and evolve their own companies. They refuse to let the difficult economy stall their growth.

The Brain on Teambuilding
Two companies booked the same beautiful park for their team buiding exercises, what happens next is what makes great comedy.

Top 7 Strategic Tips for Consistent Goal Achievement
What is keeping you from success? These 7 strategic tips may help you gain greater success.

The 7 Universal Laws of Learning
Learning exists within all human beings. The challenge is to make sure that our actions do not snuff the flame.

Driving Guest Loyalty In An Economic Downturn

Yeah, yeah, another article about the same stuff to do in a down economy. Not really. I’m as fed up with them as you are - trust me, probably a lot more since they really don’t address anything that really matters. But this time I was reading, “The Importance of the Customer Experience in a Down Economy” and could not get past the introduction without my brain kicking into overdrive with references for our business.

What to keep in your brain.
This article goes back to that first best personal information manager - our brain - and how that should fit in with your personal information management strategy. There are some tasks at which no gadget or app will ever outperform it - so don't waste time trying. And then what to do with the info the brain is not so good at? We suggest some solutions.

Life is a Marathon
Three time cancer conqueror, Matt Jones, shares winning strategies he learned from overcoming cancer and running a marathon after relearning how to walk. No matter the challenge or goal you face these strategies will help you be successful in the marathon called life.

Successful Home Business Marketing Ideas
So, after meeting so many people running successful online businesses, do you feel like doing the same? Are those dollar signs haunting your brain as well, with the concept of hassle free online business? But do you lack the right ideas for this most lucrative venture? Well, then this is just the article for you.

Perception
Our Perception Is Our Reality!

Jazz Up and Energize Your Vocabulary To Increase Sales
Do you know who Elmer Wheeler was? And why is he important to you increasing sales? Read on to learn more.

Building Strategic versus Tactical Leaders
IQ is your intelligence-your ability to capture information and store it in your brain and then extract it when needed. But all of us have run in to people that are highly intelligent but that lack common sense. So if you are looking for a great leader what are the essential ingredients that make a great leader?

Creating a new inspiring mood
Leonardo da Vinci said “Sometimes genius does best when it works the least.”

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

BELIEF SYSTEMS DETERMINE HOW YOU UNDERSTAND LIFE
We need belief systems in order to filter information and create an understanding of life. These systems serve us well, but they can also get in the way and prevent us from new ways of seeing the world. An awareness of our entrenched beliefs gives us the power to accept them or change them depending on what best serves our achieving a fulfilled life.

How Do You Write Compelling And Successful Headlines?

Headlines are really important parts of our adverts. If you send out a letter, a website, an advertisement, a blog post and the headline is a good one, the subsequent text will be more likely to be read and acted on. However, if the headline is weak, then the chances are slim that anyone will be bothered to read on or act, no matter how good the rest of the item is. So…what makes a good headline?

How Do I Find Clients For My Bookkeeping Business?
When you decide to run your own bookkeeping business, one of your biggest problems getting started is finding clients. If you are smart, you will have a few clients set up before you quit your regular job. But, where do you find these clients?

Beat Procrastination End Today Saying Woo Hoo
Beat procrastination with 5 practical tips to help you end the day feeling great! Learn to take the actions that change your life, get new results, and get the most value from your day.

Increase Sales By Jazzing Up, Energizing and Limiting the Words You Speak and Write
Do you know who Elmer Wheeler was? And why is he important to you increasing sales? Read on to learn more.

Follow up and Get More Business
How many people promise to get back to you with that quote, order, report or anything else for that matter and actually do it? I'd say that most people do not deliver on their promises! Therefore they do not realise that the 'trust' element and their credibility goes down the drain.

Cleavage in the Boardroom
New approach to show your intellectual genius.

Schedule Your Day to Reflect Goals and Priorities - Part 3 - Understanding Your Rhythm
I had a workshop attendee ask me this once: "Do you think that if I buy a bunch of watches, I'll have more time?" Now, he really was not serious, but I think he wished it would work! "Making time" is really not possible. There will always be 24 hours in a day -- at least until someone masters time travel... So in the meantime, here are some thoughts on ho to schedule your day.

Small Business Tips: Think Your Business To Success

Before any action happens in the world, first there is a thought ... an idea ... a stroke of genius. This thought triggers the response into the physical world. So say for example you want to pick up your coffee cup – your brain thinks the thought and then sends electrical impulses and chemicals to your arm muscles which in turn extend and contract to pick up your cup. But your eyes first assess how far away the cup is and how potentially heavy the cup is before you lift it – otherwise you would knock it over or spill the contents. What happens in many businesses is they miss the thought stage – leaping into action before fully have completed the thought action. As a result, mistakes and errors are made which mean re-work and wasted effort.

Why Women Entrepreneurs Differ from Men

“Many people perceive a style difference as the other person’s personal failing.” Deborah Tannen Have you noticed? Women and Men aren’t just dissimilar below the neck. They often act and express themselves differently as well. That is due to changes in an entirely different area than below the belt. It is their brain, which is located above the neckline. In general, she says “slow” and he says “go.”

Email Marketing for Complex Sales Cycles by Winton Churchill
Direct mail and email marketing have gotten a bad rap for many years. But, when the email marketing is executed properly, the results can be fantastic. That is the sort of email marketing that Winton Churchill talks about in this book. It’s not just a simple email being sent from time to time, but it is an email system that gets definite and positive sales results for your business.

The Myth of Multitasking: How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done

Multitasking has become something of a heroic word in our vocabulary. Many executives pride themselves on their ability to “multitask”. Recent job descriptions that I have seen even ask that potential employees have the ability to multitask. A current national commercial sings the praises of multitasking. However, multitasking, as most people understand it, is deceptively counter-productive. Multitasking is tremendously costly. Multitasking hurts us every time we attempt to engage in it.

He Who Hesitates…waits…and waits…and waits…

A favourite quote from Henry Ford ‘Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t: you’re always right’. How does that apply to you and your business? Why do some people work excessively hard and never seem to get anywhere whilst others just seem to be complete and utter money and success magnets!? How many ‘no’s’ and knock backs will it take for you to hesitate...and wait…and wait in your business?

Four Disciplines of Extraordinary Leaders
"The best leaders are great because of the way they think. Extraordinary leaders separate themselves by the way they...

Your Clients Want to Know What You Know
Information products are instant credibility builders. They provide a way for you to generate and pre-qualify leads, bring in an additional revenue stream, and build trust with ideal prospects who will want to hire you for coaching.

STOP! Don't Take Action
Yes, it’s true. I seem to attract clients with issues similar to those I’ve experienced in the past or am experiencing to some degree now. It’s a great mirror and provides me with much insight. The issue I’ve been noticing over and over this last year is addiction to action. And believe me, it’s an addiction.

Partnering for Profit
Doing almost anything, besides meditating, is easier when you have two or more of the right people. So, why do most people invest by themselves or just with their significant other? They don't know how it easy it can be.

#1 Strategy to Reach Your Unreachable Goals
Sometimes it's just plain tough to get sales. There could be a hundred valid reasons why it's happening - aggressive competitors, the economy, ornery customers. Or, the problem could be of your own making. It doesn't much matter though when your goals seem unreachable and you don't have a clue how to achieve them. Stuck is stuck. If you knew what to do, you'd have already taken action.

Driving to Sales Greatness
Get on the road to success and learn in the fast lane Do you love to drive to your appointment listening to your favourite songs, singing at the top of your voice, sounding fantastic, feeling cool, giving people the look when you get the chance. Yes, we have all been there, well, most days. It's time that you changed your daily habit. It's time to THINK and DRIVE.

No More Stagefright = Have Fun Speaking!
Remember, the presentation is not about you. People have come into the room needing to hear the information you have for them. What you need to think about is them and how much they need to hear the information! It helps them and takes your mind off YOU!

Get Outside
It’s springtime, get outside. I mean this literally...

The Right Words For Positive Results
An article of 1143 words describing how language has an extraordinarily powerful impact in our lives, that you should choose your words carefully and focus on what you do want rather than what you don’t want.

The Business Case for Positivity at Work
As scientists study the brain and learn more about how we achieve optimal functioning, the term positivity has finally captured business leaders’ interests.

Positivity at Work
As neuroscience researchers study the brain and learn more about how we achieve optimal functioning, the term positivity has finally captured business leaders’ interests.

5 Lies You Learned at School That Are Holding You Back in Your Business

In the 25 years since graduating from high school, I’ve come to the conclusion that many of the lessons I was taught in school haven’t helped me succeed in my life and business. And I’m not alone. These damaging lies cost people friendships and fulfilling relationships, rob them of joy, and hold them back from having the success in business they deserve. But once you can identify the lessons, you can let go of the old baggage and take off the brakes that have been holding you back.

How to get and keep great staff (2)
Delegating and the Brain....

Five Tips for Using Great Questions
We are always seeking better answers. Yet these only become available through great questions. Here are 5 tips for using great questions to get the answers and results you want.

A Point in Every Direction Is the Same As No Point At All

Ever try to be something for everyone and find no one wants it? Do you have trouble finding the time to focus on your business? Do you do so much for so many that you find it’s difficult to make any financial progress in your business; much less make an indelible mark in the mind of your potential customers? I found myself on that road so many times, that I could be a tour guide for Please-want-me-ville.

Why your great idea will work
It's not the business idea that matters, but the execution. Find out why.

The Neuro-Science Behind Success: How You Can Outsmart Your Brain
So you think you are too old or too set in your ways to change? Not so! Neuro-plasticity research now proves what many have long known: that you are never too old to change, and more so, that you can rewire your brain to think and act in ways that lead to greater success in work, love and life.

People Don't Leave Organisations - They Leave Managers
The workplace of today has very little in the way of career opportunities for staff. The hierarchy has been flattened to the degree where promotion is almost like winning lotto!

Critical Skills Needed To Be A Strategic Thinker, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach

Strategic thinking is a process that defines the manner in which people think about, assess, view, and create the future for themselves and others. Strategic thinking is an extremely effective and valuable tool. One can apply strategic thinking to arrive at decisions that can be related to your work or personal life. Strategic thinking involves developing an entire set of critical skills. What are those critical skills? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers the following list of critical skills that the best strategic thinkers possess and use every day.

Change More Than the Calendar
If you are waiting for the calendar to change your life or your business, you are kidding yourself. My own observation is that these false start dates are nothing more than excuses and actual obstacles to not face reality and take action. No matter your intentions, I think everyone has been guilty of false statements at some time.

AN EXAMPLE OF AN ACTION PLAN

Some helpful hints to enhance the possibility of attainment of goals: 1. Commitment and a planned approach to an Action Plan or a Learning Plan is more likely to achieve results. Goals must be written down. 2. Be expressed in the present tense, as if they were real. 3. Clear and sharp focus on the short steps necessary to achieve the results. To illustrate how this might work in real life, let us take an example of an athlete who wants to improve the speed at which he or she runs 1500m. Here is an example what An Action Plan to achieve the goal might look like:

Are You Risking the Relationship for the Sale - And then Losing the Sale Anyways?
Losing a sale can be disheartening, especially if you lose it for reasons you aren't even aware of.

Confusion - Time to Refocus
Our world seems confused right now! Should we move forward or stay right where we are? Who knows the answers?

Here is A Quick Way For New Managers To Be Successful By Sharing Information
We can share many different things with others, such as material things, money and time, but one of the easiest and most useful things we can share are thoughts and ideas. New managers have a tendency to hold onto knowledge and information thinking it will make them look good or indispensable. It will not - sharing the knowledge or information will make you look great!

Active Listening: A Critical Success Factor

In management and sales, active listening is a critical success factor. A focus on listening can lead to more effective teamwork, higher productivity, fewer conflicts and errors, enhanced innovation and problem-solving, improved recruiting and retention, superior customer relations and more. As authors on leadership development have noted through the years, listening is not just a nice thing to do, it’s essential!

What You Dont Know About KeywordsThat Your Competitors May Know
We spend so much time on keyword research – and rightfully so, it’s the foundation of your campaign. But this new information tells us that we need to tweak the process a little bit to keep up with the ever changing SEO world.

6 Steps to an "Altitude Adjustment"
Do you find yourself experiencing less than stellar results in your life? Is it possible that you may need an altitude adjustment (you'd like to be more successful than you are today)? Learn the 6 steps to shifting your attitude for an Altitude Adjustment.

Future Business Success - What Does Good Look Like?
You know things aren't working out right just now, yet you can't put your finger on quite why. You know that your business could be performing better, but it isn't. It's easy to realise when things aren't going to plan and a great first step is to get really descriptive about the future.

Effective Working Practices In Your Office Space
Whilst many of us work in offices where the organization is responsible for most things, decisions about effective working practices in our work area can be reduced by what we are allowed to do. Yet there are a number of steps we are able to take that we do have control of. Things like...

3rd TIDE Innovation Series
The 3rd TIDE Innovation Series is slated for the 22nd of November 2007 at the Grand Regency from 5pm-7pm.

Your Coaching Clients Will Never Let You Go If
There's no greater excitement and satisfaction than seeing your calendar fill with clients. It's a feeling like no other - except - the experience of having the same clients continue booking time with you and turning to you for more! Can you imagine your clients, not only coming back for more but being happy to pay you higher rates too?

New Eyeballs
What if you could order a new set of eyeballs with a magic power to see new opportunities to improve your performance on a daily basis? We all have a system at the base of our brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS) that can be used to give us this insight, if we understand how to use it.

Lessons from The Breakfast Club

Have you ever tried to look better on the outside than you were feeling on the inside? Do you ever abandon your truth to please others? If you weren’t afraid of losing someone’s approval, acceptance, or love, if you didn’t feel that you had to choose between abandoning yourself or being abandoned by someone else, wouldn’t you be authentic all the time with everyone? Wouldn’t you stand up for yourself more? Whenever I am challenged to please others at the expense of being real, I think about Anais Nin’s eloquent quote, “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Stop Working & Start Thinking

“Work harder” – “Work more hours” – “Put your nose to the grindstone” – “You have to pay your dues” – “Climb the ladder of success.” Do all of these sayings sound familiar? These common phrases often espouse ideas that become anchored as limiting beliefs in your brain. Here’s the shocking news; these phrases often put into motion a cycle of struggle and failure. These common teachings may have kept you from having the kind success you desire. The missing ingredient is not your work, it’s your thoughts.

Change Habits to Change Life- How to Shift Habits and Attain New Results
It is mind boggling that no one has ever told us to check in on our habits to see how they are serving us when ultimately they create the results we are getting day after day. Learn how to shift habits to attain new results.

Finding Inspiration
Creative people are often asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" or "Where do you get your inspiration?" What people usually mean by these questions is, "How can I find my own inspiration?"

Boost Your Emotional Intelligence
This article presents a new slant on how to increase your Emotional Intelligence. It focuses on how the brain works.

Sales Development isn't rocket science, it's neuroscience!
Customers buy when they are understood. So the successful salesperson shows customers that he or she understands them by giving them what they expect and more. Neuroscience ‘Brain Mapping’ helps people to identify the customer’s need and establish rapport with then more effectively.

Your Attitude
Changing your attitude is not always easy, but it is usually possible. Your attitude is one thing that you can control, and it can have a huge effect on the quality of your life. In this article, I explore a simple technique for managing attitude.

Neuroscience And The Natural Leadership Talents Of Women
In 2010 women made up only 12.5% of corporate board members. This was up from 9.4% in 2004 but the rate of increase is too slow. At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK!*

Neuroscience and Gender Differences

One remarkable difference between genders is the way that men and women tend to think. Psychologists report that when women cogitate, they gather details somewhat differently than men. Women integrate more details faster and arrange these bits of data into more complex patterns. As they make decisions, women tend to weigh more variables, consider more options, and see a wider array of possible solutions to a problem. Women tend to generalize, to synthesize, to take a broader, more holistic, more contextual perspective of any issue. They tend to think in webs of factors, not straight lines, so I coined a term for this broad, contextual, feminine way of reasoning: web thinking.

Situational Emotional Intelligence

One's Intelligence Quotient, or "IQ," describes the ability to think and learn complex concepts. It is usually a fixed quantity, and we have only minor ability to influence our IQ as we develop. Emotional Intelligence, or "EQ," is the ability to understand emotions and the skill to use that knowledge to control ourselves and others. EQ is a skill that can be learned, and we can increase our EQ throughout life.

Intuition – The Gut Brain for Business Success
Are you missing opportunities to increase sales and your business success? By the way, how is your intuition?

Its All In Your Head by Roger Hamilton
How can our "flow" and whether we are in, or out, of our flow change the pace of time? How do we find our "flow"? The answers have been around for thousands of years, and it's simpler than you think.

Friend or Foe the Importance of Creating Great First Impressions
We often refer to the brain as having two hemispheres: the left, largely responsible for logic, and the right, predominately responsible for creativity. This description fits what we know to be the cortex or new brain; however, there is a third dimension, the hypo-thalamus or pre-historic brain, which is in fact the brain stem and is solely responsible for instincts.

The Male Brain - Hardwired to Fail?
The male brain is hardwired differently from the female brain. Until now, it's been the males' turn to shine; but things are quickly changing.

Not Lazy, Dumb, Nor Nuts - Now What?
Did you have a Study-Buddy in school? Your brain needs one now to make the most of your career. Your brain changes for the better when you are part of a team. It's based on the latest scientific research.

Nurturing Nature-Does Your Brain Need a Workout?
Millions of brain cells die every day. If you are not replacing them with new healthy cells your brain will atrophy like any other muscle. Learn how to grow new brain cells and keep your brain healthy.

The Power of Memory Supplements & the Basic Memory Mechanic A, B, C's
Amazing perfect combination for increasing that amount of information brain encodes. Memory Supplements and Basic Memory Mechanics can boost, energize and stimulate brain to encode important and relevant information. You should consume memory supplements that are of high concentration and potency to boost, energize and stimulate brain to encode information in brain.

Health Habits: Supplement Your Brain
Guess what! Your brain does not operate on its own… it’s attached to the rest of you. If you keep your body healthy, your brain will be healthier too, and you will be giving your brain a better chance to help you stay smarter and live a longer life of abundance and vitality....

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