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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.

5 Minutes of "Doing" Nothing

As a coach, I work with numerous over-achieving clients, who are super "doers". Yet, amidst all the success, they desire more balance in their lives and are intrigued with the idea of "being" more. BEING meaning...connecting more to yourself...or your soul. Perhaps you, too, desire more balance and more of that divine connection to YOU. The good news is, it’s easy to begin integrating "beingness" into your life. And, every client who has embarked on this exercise has experienced an immediate positive impact.

Exercise: The Natural Work Stress Reducer

Do you ever feel stressed? Nahhhh...none of us do, right? We don’t get stress headaches or have problems sleeping or get overly tired. We don’t even get those tense muscle pains in the back of our neck, shoulders, or back. And, we never ever get depressed or edgy, right? But do you realize that these are all symptoms of stress and if you don’t try to manage your stress it could lead to even worse problems such as high blood pressure, ulcers, heart attack, or damaged relationships? What’s the best solution for stress? Exercise! Together, Robin and her co-author Linda Gravett, PhD, SPHR will share insight from a workshop they do titled Martial Arts Strategies for Managing Stress.

DE-CLUTTER YOUR LIFE
De-Cluttering our lives can be an extremely liberating exercise. There are many types of clutter than can hinder us having the quality of life we want and deserve.

DO YOU KNOW MUCH VALUE YOU PROVIDE? IF NOT, HOW CAN YOU BE MORE EFFECTIVE?
How do you determine value? A relatively easy exercise is to start with a value stream map. Provide a graphical representation of the process flow, and then above it map the information flow that enables the process to occur. This will allow you to understand not only the activity of the service or product but also the flow of information or material as it makes its way through the value stream.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO IMPROVE, YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR MATH
In a previous exercise, I just discussed the Measure phase of DMAIC and wanted to let you in on something, I left a little bit out. I think the average person hates math, especially marketing people. I only gave you a slight introduction, mostly for you to evaluate the process. Even if you only use "Tribal Knowledge" you will be better off going through the exercise.

How do you determine value?
How do you determine value? A relatively easy exercise is to start with a value stream map. Provide a graphical representation of the process flow, and then above it map the information flow that enables the process to occur.

Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem
As a result of this exercise, you will change the shape of your Pillar. You should be able to shorten your cycle in some and as a result decrease your expenditure in the marketing process. Others, on the other hand, may be lengthened and a total different approach may have to be utilized.

A Business Network Makes You Powerful – Article 5 of 8
With proper planning and strategy, you can populate your network with the right type of people in a reasonable amount of time. People who make the effort to constantly develop and nourish their networks will find that it is fun and rewarding. The following are 7 ways to build your network whether you are in sales or just want to further your career.

10 Tips on How To Stay Focused – An Entrepreneur’s Training Guide
My dad always said, 'Plant your feet, keep your hips and shoulders in line with the plate, bat back, eyes on the pitcher and stay focused!' It's hard for kids to stay focused with all the distractions, but it can be hard for entrepreneurs as well. If you're willing to plan a schedule to accomplish a series of tasks, acknowledge the importance of concentration during the whole process.

Jenny Craig Weight Loss
The Jenny Craig weight loss program is one of the most widely recognized weight management programs in the industry. Why is that so? And how does it all work? Depending on how much you want to lose, your lifestyle, and your own personal characteristics, there are a number of different programs clients can sign up for.

Instant Intimacy
Whether your goal is to sell more widgets or make more friends, you'll be more successful the quicker you can connect with people. And of course, the more intimate the connection, the better. So let's discuss how you can capitalize on the many brief interactions at your next conference or social gathering.

Fired or Fat
If given the choice, would you rather get fired or get fat? It looks like most Americans would prefer to take their chances in my boardroom.

How To Create An Advisory Board
“How do I go about creating an advisory board for my business?”

Styles of Leadership
I think the candidates on last season's The Apprentice were the best we have had so far. They were intelligent and resourceful, and most of them possessed strong leadership skills.

100 Ways to Succeed #81
100 Ways to Succeed #81:P>C

Balance - Take More Time for Yourself!
Most of us are busier than ever. Our lives are full of things to do, places to go, people to meet. All of this in the name of "getting ahead." But there comes a time when we need to question "is this really success?"

The 10 Most Common Words You Should Stop Using Now
Words are thoughts. The better we choose our words, the more we hone our thinking machine, and just like software, it’s a case of GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Thinking hard is pointless if we don’t use the right tools.

What Are You Afraid Of?
Fear is the most basic of human elements and plays a major role in business success and failure.

Ask Yourself Seven Questions
To be successful, you need to ask yourself some tough questions. Here's a great exercise to get you thinking about your dream job or business. Commit to your answers by writing them down. These Seven Steps to Success come from Dr. Mark Goulston, author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work.

Build Your Foundation
My biggest issue has always been my lack of focus, so one of my New Year's resolutions is to step back in so many places, particularly my businesses, to assure I have the solid footing and grounding I need.

Three Steps to Getting Your Goals Back on Target
We're more than a month into 2009. Is anyone experiencing goal drift? Here are three steps to get yourself refocused and enlist your network to help you.

Exercise in Freedom
The highest form of that creativity is displayed when they give for free what they ordinarily sell. HotMail attracted more than ten million customers for its free email service. Now, that service is supported by advertising. By ending each free email from the sender with an offer for free email for the recipient, HotMail used word-of-mouse to the ultimate.

Make Change Stick with the Dial Up/Dial Down Game

At my company we have an exercise we call "Dial Up/Dial Down." We use it to push each other to constantly develop our strengths and improve on our weaknesses. We introduce it to clients too. You can use in your own office, in your family, with a buddy, or in any kind of group that cares about each other's success. You can do it alone, of course, but it's not nearly as effective when there's no one to hold you accountable.

The Rhythms of My Life

I was in a board meeting yesterday with a company planning a major commercial release of their product “at the end of summer”. We managed to turn this into 8/31/09 at 11:59:59pm pacific time (since I don’t believe you can release something unless there is a time/date stamp associated with it.) As part of this discussion, we spent some time discussing the notion of a daily / weekly / monthly rhythm for both the CEO/CTO as well as the product team.

Franchises that Cater to Consumers’ Summertime Needs see Business Heat Up

Anticipation seems to fill the air in the summer as people of all ages look forward to spending time with family and friends, taking in the sunshine and enjoying a taste of freedom. As consumers embrace all that summer brings, businesses that help people make the most of the season are experiencing increased demand. From well-known lodging franchises like Choice Hotels International, to health club concepts like Anytime Fitness and moving franchises such as Two Men and a Truck, numerous businesses featured on Franchise Solutions’ business directory cater consumers’ summertime needs.

A Strategic Vision Exercise
Hereâ€™s an exercise that Iâ€™ve found helps people think about vision.

Avoid Hollow Core Values
When youâ€™re defining an organizationâ€™s core values, itâ€™s critical to avoid making them sound hollow by inserting, for example, your own personal values for those of the organization, or making the exercise too cute.

One Minute Mindfulness Relax-Refresher - Resilience at Work

Stress is a very powerful force that involves awareness, attention and energy. It can be managed and empower you. If you let stress control you, the resulting distress can be harmful to your body, mind, and spirit. Learning to become more "present," will free you to be more flexible and creative. Mindfulness reduces stress and promotes resilience. You can become more resilient, enjoying better health and well-being. Most of us have busy lives today full of a never ending list of things to do. There is little time for self-reflection making sure that we are doing the right things based on meaning, purpose and values. Taking a few brief meditative breathing breaks throughout the day can help you create a new story of hope and possibility. The following exercise can help you re-energize and become more fully engaged.

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.

Ten Tips to Get Healthy and Fit
Do you desire a healthy life, but feel like the road to that lifestyle is an impossible one? The truth is that a life of vitality and energy is within your reach. If you're willing to take a few simple steps toward your dreams, they can become reality. And this can happen quicker than you might think!

PARAPHRASING A FAMOUS QUOTE CAN GET YOUR POINT ACROSS MORE QUICKLY LIKE: 'IT’S THE VELOCITY, STUPID'

To sell a concept, entrepreneurs often have to come up with ringing phrases or resort to slogans to get their point across. Here’s how one communications expert was able to get the idea behind his invention across that it’s not WHAT we eat, but HOW we eat that causes us to over eat. So paraphrasing Bill Clinton’s famous line from the 1992 presidential election--"It's the velocity, stupid," helped promote his invention, which enables overeaters to slow down enough to get the message they’re full.

Are You Selling What Your Customers Want to Buy?
How to make sure your customers know you have what they need.

Creating a Toronto Tagline
Rapport is invited to submit one clever statement to sum up Toronto’s DNA. Though rushed and free, a fun exercise and good exposure, we agreed. Read the full article to find out how we arrived at ‘Toronto... It’s Where the World is Going.’

How You Can Get Your Salespeople to Do What They Don't
Please read this article the way I intended to write it. First, what it is not. It is not an article about how I lost 40 pounds. Nor is it an article about why I lost 40 pounds. Instead, please read this as an article about how to get people to change.

Brand Positioning Sessions = Clarity

Brand positioning sessions are important steps in providing clarity when creating a Positioning Statement. The client is asked a number of questions about what they actually do, their ideal clients, how they find them, their goals, what makes them different. It reflects goals to strive for and is the bedrock of everything going forward – the website, all design and marketing tools. Lists of words that describe the client turn into a bunch of tag lines, present both the agency and client with several options and an opportunity to collaborate on their branding. Client and agency collaboration in branding sessions brings clarity to the client as to what their positioning statement should be and how to brand it.

When Sales Goals Change but Behavior and Results Don't
Suppose that you need your salespeople to find significantly more new business. Perhaps you've wanted this for a while but it's only recently that you communicated this to your salespeople. You've changed the goal but after a month your salespeople's behavior and results haven't changed at all.

How Do Companies Retain Their Under Performing Salespeople?

Yesterday, while reviewing the findings and answers from a Sales Force Evaluation with a client, the conversation turned to the possibility of replacing some of their reps. As we began to talk about the 5 factors, they wondered how they were able to retain these people who, for the most part, weren't very good and weren't a very good fit for the roles they were in. Three of the factors came up big in explaining why the tenure of their 9 salespeople:

How to take your thought leadership campaign to market: One – strategic business imperative
This is the first of a series of six articles on how to take your thought leadership campaign to market

Thought leadership is powered by three key principles
Thought leadership rests on three key principles: It is a PR rather than an advertising led exercise; It is about sharing information and content, and: It should produce a sound business outcome.

Top Tips to Make Your Social Networking Marketing Video Tutorials Red Hot
Isn't it great that social networking marketing video tutorials can generally convey information to viewers that just words could not do alone? Social networking websites promote and are so involved in marketing so many types and topics of information that one can basically learn how to do anything with video tutorials.

Get me a woman

Some of you may be wondering why my blog is called “Sell like a woman”. First, Sell like a woman is not a feminist manifesto nor is it a male bashing exercise. The creation of the title was inspired by an increasing body of research overseas showing that woman are often outperforming men when it comes to achieving real and sustainable results in sales and effective sustainable client relationships. This led me to begin my research project and the book I am now writing, also called “Sell Like A Woman”. I have always been curious about women and their success in sales and wanted to explore the concept here in Australia and develop some Australian-based research as well.

CHALLENGE YOUR BRAIN
There is lot of evidence which suggests that repetition is not good for the brain health, but novelty is.

Smart Women Get Away
This article is about making plans to get away so you can develop a new perspective on your life. Changing your environment by taking a trip from 24 hours-1 month can create a whole new positive outlook on your life. It is essential that we take that time to honor ourselves and gain new insight.

Depression and ADHD

Did you know that one out of four adults with ADHD suffer with depression? This is a higher rate than for the rest of the population. Depression can have a mysterious cloak around it, however, it helps to know that there are two types. “Primary Depression” is hereditary and you can feel depressed without there being a trigger or reason why you are depressed. “Secondary Depression” is the result of a trigger, perhaps because you are struggling with ADHD, repeatedly feeling like a failure despite great efforts to live up to society’s standards of what is “normal.”

Groundhog Day
February 2nd is Groundhog Day. The tradition is that if the groundhog sees his shadows, there will be six more weeks of winter.

Giving Employees a Test Run Before Hiring

Be gone with staid interviewing questions, behavioral “what ifs” and real-life simulations. Just put the candidate to work and see for yourself firsthand whether he/she is actually what he/she claims to be. Not that all other techniques should be done away with entirely, but at least with a pre-hire trial approach, decisions don’t need to be solely dependent on a set of variables that are tenuous at best.

Staying Motivated In Your Home Business
Are you having issues with staying motivated in your home business? Well, do not fret because it happens to everyone. Motivation is something that everyone needs whether you are just starting in your online home business or are already a seasoned entrepreneur, you need a certain internal drive to get you going consistently.

What Are You (Really) Selling?
It is every sales person's job to distinguish his or her products and services from those offered by the competition. And in a business world crowded with competitive offerings, an attempt to accomplish this by selling features and price most often fails. BMW makes cars, but they talk about (sell) performance and prestige! Volvo sells safety. What are you selling?

Did Google screw up big time; or did they just transform B2B Social Media into a MUST-DO-NOW?
When your customers and prospects start their research in anticipation of buying something, they go right to Google, right? Do they find you? Unfortunately, probably not. They only find you or your company when they specifically include you in their search. Do you want to rely on them to do that? Are you crazy???!!!

7 Sure Fire Steps to Be More Creative
To be successful in business these days, whether you work for a company or for yourself, you must be able to come up with new, bright ideas to make the business more successful. Every man-made object in the World began as an idea in someone's head, and because the idea was turned into action, we are able to benefit from someone's thoughts.

Are you believable?
Being believable is not just getting people to follow you - it's also their willingness and peace of mind during the process. Being believable is easier to achieve when you truly believe in what you are selling - so sell something or be a part of a business that you truly believe in.

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

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

Attracting Ideal Clients/Customers
This article focuses on one important aspect of your business –who you serve. Here’s an exercise I did when I first got started and if I find myself attracting people who are not ideal for me to serve, I revisit my vision to get clear again.

Self-Coaching Tip: When You're in a Hurry, Slow Down
The other morning, my son, Jonathan, and I overslept. We awoke shortly before he was due at school. While I sleepily got dressed, Jonathan began rushing through the house, trying to put on his clothes, eat his breakfast and gather up his schoolbooks, all at the same time.

Improving the Quality of Your Life
Imagine if we could live our lives completely free of stress. Now wake up and stop dreaming, because you can’t. No matter what job you have, no matter where you live, you will have stress in your life.

Reacting too soon from your emotions

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

Make Writing a Priority, Not a Pain
Whether you're working on a book or an article marketing campaign, writing is like exercise. And if you want it to really work for your business, then you need to make writing a priority, just like going to the gym or your yoga class.

If Nature Castigates Those Who Don’t Masticate, Could It Also Misshape Midriffs of Those Without Knife and Forklifts?
Is Knife and Forklift a modern form of Fletcherizing that entrepreneurs in particular might consider adopting?

Five 30-Second Emotional-Spiritual Techniques to De-Stress at Work
To reduce the effects of stress in the workplace, take an emotional and spiritual, as well as a physical break, at least every two hours, preferably every hour. Here are five de-stressors you can do in thirty seconds each...

A Culture of Leadership
One thing is certain though, for any organization to be successful in the current business culture of "get more done quicker, better and with less", everyone has to be thinking leadership. Leadership isn't an "It's all about me" game, it's a "how can I grow the people to higher levels of competence" game.

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?

Do you know when your next big idea will hit you?
A simple idea of collecting thoughts and ideas and organizing your day. Habits that built an empire for Andrew Carnegie, the world's richest ever man.

The Focus on Fitness Franchises
With all of the over-indulging that occurs during the holiday season, it is little wonder that people flood gyms and fitness centers to undo the damage that weeks of revelry does to their waistlines. In fact, as the number of health-conscious consumers grows, fitness franchises, personal training studios, gyms and other health-focused businesses are flourishing.

3 dead easy ways to get extra traffic – number one
Every internet marketer and blog owner loves traffic. For the internet marketer more traffic can mean more revenue. For the hobby blog owner it means a bigger ego! In either case more traffic is always welcome.

Name That Brain!
Tips to Sharpening Your Mind And Memory.

Before I Write Your Web Copy, Please Put Your Head in This Vice
As a web copywriter, getting clients to define their target market in meaningful terms can be an excruciating exercise in patience and endurance. We are asking you to wholeheartedly commit to a well defined target market so we can wholeheartedly commit something special and compelling to the blank page before us. Read more about how easy this can really be.

If You Walk For Exercise Then You're Probably Wasting Your Time

Time is important for any entrepreneur wanting a healthy work life balance. So you do not want to waste your time on time-consuming exercise programs that produce very little in terms of results. Many activities promoted by companies as part of their corporate health and wellness programs like encouraging employees to walk for exercise produce little health benefits to their employees. Quite simply, if you are not huffing and puffing, then it's not exercise...

The Network Marketers Guide to Successfully Placing Free Classified Ads Part Two
This is the second part of a step by step guide to placing free classified ads on-line to help the new network marketing business owner beat the frustrations of posting ads on the internet. I have hopefully eliminated many of the difficult obstacles that are put up in front of anyone trying to use this particular technique.

All Opportunities Are Not Created Equal
When reviewing an opportunity, most sales manages will ask about the odds to close. When asked about odds to close, most sales reps have a ready answer. Most often, it's wrong; based on some mystical gut feel, but it sure does makes everyone feel better - like authentic planning, prioritizing and time management actually occurred.

If I Say Live a Healthy Lifestyle Will You Run The Other Way?
It's quite normal to run the other way when someone talks about living a healthy lifestyle. It sounds boring and probably a lot of hard work. You are mistaken, why not find out how Living a Healthy Lifestyle helped me?

What Is Data Mining ?
Data Mining is the art of exploring new, useful, and profitable relationships in data.

Establish Your Gameplan According To Your Passion
What are you passionate about? Why does your business exist? Answer these questions and you will have the basis for your gameplan.

A Simple Exercise
How will you spend the rest of your days? Trading time for money or living life on your terms?!?

Good Decisions, Bad Decisions

Why is it possible for two identical businesses in the same market selling the same products and services to the same prospects have radically different outcomes? There are two key reason; First, staff and how the employees of the organizaton do their jobs, second, the quality of the decisions being made on a daily basis. I'm not foolish enough to believe anyone is capable of making the right decision every time, but there are times when the right choice is just not that hard to identify. When those decisions face us, it is imperative we do the proper due diligence and make the RIGHT decision. This article talks about some of the core reasons bad decisions get made, and talks about how to avoid getting caught in that trap. Enjoy!

What Is A Sales Process, And Why Should I Care?
A sales process is simply a series of steps that a person goes through before they give you money for your product or service. Many businesses, though, never stop and think about these steps, they just figure that if they advertise, they should make more sales. At least, that is what they have been told.

3 Simple Steps To Become An Internet Marketing Specialist! ~MILLIONAIRE SECRET EXPOSED
Do you want to be an Internet marketing specialist earning six or seven figures a year? A lot of people do, but because they don't kow these simple steps to becoming an Internet marekting specialist, those thoughts will always be a dream. Find out the 3 simple steps that has created millionaires in this short article by Omari.

Self-Growth Equals Striving to Reach your Potential
Growth is all about moving to reach our potential as fully-functioning fully-alive human beings. The major keys in this article, i.e. why we should never compare ourselves to others, shows us how to do this. It also gives tools to broaden our perspective of ourselves and thereby stop being self-limiting.

5 Ways To Keep Fit While Working At Home
When you work at home, there are many great benefits. However, staying fit is not so easy when you work out of your own home. It's very easy to spend a lot of time working at your computer and often you just don't find the time to get the exercise that you need.

Tha Approval Trap Solution
If the approval trap is major stressor number 1 what can we do about it. Oliver shows us exactly what. READ ON

Stress Is So Good For You
In this challemnging alternative view of stress, Oliver explores the long term ben efits of appropriate stress.Including The Papyrus Principle

What Do You Work For?
What do you really work for? Discover in this short inspiring Insight from david Oliver how most of the highest paid executives earn less per hour than a clerk in a grocery store. It's a shock read more...

Working For Money
What do you really work for? Discover in this short inspiring Insight from david Oliver how most of the highest paid executives earn less per hour than a clerk in a grocery store. It's a shock read more...

How To Use Google Adwords
Internet marketing promotions seems to be similar to weight loss diet programs. There seem to be many options available but most of them don’t work. Out of the list of options that work and one of the most used ones is Google Adwords.

I Miss Upward Feedback
Looking at benefits of upward feedback programs.

Fat burns faster if you light a fire under it – how to keep your metabolism ‘firing’ to burn fat more effectively.

Ever been told that your metabolism is ‘fixed’? That you were either born with a fast or slow metabolism and that you’re stuck with whichever one you got? Or that your metabolism slows with age? Do you really understand what your metabolism is? Think of it this way – your metabolism is your body’s engine, and the foods you eat are: * used for energy to fuel your engine, or * stored as fat, or * eliminated as waste.

Writing Tip: The harmful effects of Rambling Rose
Most people use what we can the Rambling Rose writing process. They type as they think through the content. When people do this, there are predictable outcomes for the writer, the draft and the reader.

Move your 'but', then move your 'butt'

Stop making excuses and exercise – Move your body daily. How many New Year resolutions did you make this year? Focusing on fitness and health made it into the top ten most common new year’s resolutions with only spending time with family and friends to beat it. When we did some research with GU Health 2 years ago 76% of people said that they would exercise each day and yet the reality was that only 22% really did and 71% said that it was a lack of time that stopped them from doing it.

So What
Learn how to make sure your customers aren't thinking "So what" during your sales presentations.

I've got a business idea - what's next?
One question I get asked a lot goes something like “I’ve got an idea for a business. I need to get finance from the bank, buy stationery and equipment and do some research. I’m not sure how to plan everything that I need to do.”

Can You Take a Baby Step?
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the big picture or larger goal. Even breaking goals down into milestones and individual tasks can leave you feeling stuck. When you begin to feel that way, just think about taking baby steps.

Trust&Faith vs Fear&Doubt
People often behave exactly how we expect them to behave with us. If we trust, they are trustworthy.

Evaluating your recruitment process
Getting recruitment right first time saves money, time and much angst. Continually evaluating your recruitment process is how you will achieve this. This article tell you how.

Smart Women Are Plugged In
This article is about looking at our lives in a more positive way. It’s about making a decision to see the silver lining in all areas in our lives. Finding people who motivate and inspire you can be really helpful. It’s about having a new mindset and looking at life in a different way if you are currently challenged or experiencing some difficult situations.

Planning past the crisis
We need to give people a reason to get back on board. This article talks about using our current negative economic experience as a means to greater clarity and then developing strategies to move toward the results we desire in a careful, measured way. Success doesn't usually happen in giant leaps. Success is a process of small, intentional steps. The first step is gaining clarity.

Improving the Quality of Your Life By Andrew Rondeau

Imagine if we could live our lives completely free of stress. Now wake up and stop dreaming, because you can’t. No matter what job you have, no matter where you live, you will have stress in your life. What causes you stress is different to what causes me stress. What you stress about is different to what I stress about. The amount of stress you can cope with is different to the levels I can cope with.

How To Make Sure Your Sales Letters Get Read
This is what separates sales letters and marketing emails that get read from those that go in the trash.

Does Your Business Have a Mission Statement?
A Mission Statement gives your business focus . . . unified direction . . . and defines your culture. It's also a key part of the branding process.

Headlines -- 3 Tips to Writing Headlines That Make the Sale
Want to know the secret for creating promotional materials that make sales? It starts with the headline. So how can you craft a headline that persuades your prospects to keep reading? Here are 3 tips to get you started.

Sell More Stuff - It's Important!

In my last article, I referred to an excellent booklet called “Selling in a Down Economy” by Robert Miller of Miller Heiman, as US Sales performance consultancy with a strong pedigree. If you missed it, the article can be found on my website. This time, I’d like to dig deeper into the sales activity I touched on and that Robert discussed in his article and I’ll give some specific guidance on things you should be doing.

Considering a Business Partnership...Consider This First
Business partnerships can be difficult. This article describes the process for creating a successful business partnership before you "tie the knot" by managing your expectations and building in safeguards so that disagreements don't stymie the business.

STRESS & How to become Stress-Free Quickly !
This article is a first aid kit against stress. It provides fast solutions to handle and get rid of stress.

Sometimes its one slice at a time …
Rather than going at a large task head on, breaking it down into pieces can relieve stress and provide a clearer timeline to where you want to go. Check out the powerful steps you can take to reach those larger goals.

Business Success Strategies -- Are You On a High or a Low?
At Alex Mandossian's Teleseminar Secrets Reunion, we did a "timeline" exercise. Alex started it by charting his highlights and lowlights from the past 20 years. It was fascinating to see this laid out for us and to know even someone like Alex was in the abyss at a couple of points. Even more importantly, I learned 2 important takeaways I wanted to share with you.

Harnessing the power of dreams to create wealth

“Hey You at the back of the class stop day-dreaming and pay attention!” Which one of us did not hear that phrase repeated many times in our school days? Having dreams and aspirations is an essential part of any successful entrepreneur’s makeup. But what do they do to utilize the power of those dreams? This article gives you some tips on using visualization, to achieve your goals. First to be successful in business, you need to define your personal definition of success. What is success for you? Which goals do you need to reach to be successful?

Assign marketing budgets that break the bank!
That's right, break the bank with profit. Profit is achieved by maximising your margin on increased sales. Spending money on marketing wisely will mean your costs can be contained, while sales revenues increase. But how do you do that? This article discusses why measurement of everything, marketing that you do, is so vital.

In 17 steps, Create Marketing Messages that will Double your Sales
You know what your products do and how they do it, but do your potential customers know? Do they know what your solution enables them to do? And most importantly do they know how to put a value on it. If your potential customers can not put a value on what your product will give to them, they will probably think it is too expensive.

Vikings with Machine Guns: Is your Unique Value Proposition, unique in your customer's eyes?
Pretty powerful combination you might think. What would Brian Boru have done faced with 10th century marauders wielding 20th century weapons? He would not have had a hope! That is what dynamic imagery does for advertising and marketing. It provides an unstoppable combination that is guaranteed to get results. So what's missing?

CRM: Who are your most profitable customers?
By knowing the answer to that question, you will discover how to multiply your profits. Let e ask you another question, if you knew who they were would spend most time with them? Now be honest, have you ever thought to really look at who your most profitable customers are, what similar characteristics they have, what made them be your best customers.

Home Business Expert: Top 5 Ways To Grow Your Business With SEO
SEO or search engine optimization is a great thing because when well done, this exercise can take your website to the top of the popular search engines and that too for highly popular keyword searches.

Effective Business Marketing Is Not Rocket Science
A business marketing plan does not have to be lengthy, academic or take a long time to put together. This is definitely a case where size does not matter!

SPEAKING TO BE UNDERSTOOD
MUMBLING

Five keys to business success
Many people think business success is all about being in the right place, knowing the right people, and having the right knowledge. All that helps, but truly successful people share these five traits.

How do you do what you do?
Give people a short discription of what you do.

Write Your Strengths
Like your goals, you need to WRITE your Strengths.

- Business Development Training - How to Beat the Fear of Meeting People

Recently I presented a business development training session at a conference. The audience were managers from all across Australia. I gave them a 2-minute break and asked them to get up and talk amongst themselves. It can get scary when we have to meet new people.But – from a business development perspective – it is extremely selfish when we are not brave enough too reach out to people we don’t know.

What do you do?
What do you do? And how do you answer that question? Develop a Conversation about your business that has the other person interviewing you and asking you about, well, YOU!

Re-Organizational Chart

Most small businesses start with a good idea, an individual with a skill set who turns the idea into a revenue producing business, some investors or personal savings, and patience and perseverance. The founding father or mother wore many hats at the beginning and over time handed these hats to individuals who were hired to help as the business grew. Sometimes growth came so quickly that there was a rush to judgement as to how many and who to hire as well as their areas of responsibility. This was a good problem to have because sales were increasing and the dream of growth was coming true.

Enhancing Your Self-Image

Success is an inside job. Even if your body and mind are ready, willing, and able to learn and do whatever is necessary to get the job done, a negative self-image may stop you. Although we create many outward images of ourselves-so we can interact with or impress others and sell our ideas or services-we only have one self-image. The way we view ourselves determines the level of success we attain in anything. To achieve more success, some parts of our sense of self will have to change.

Where Are You Looking For Success?

Success is not found somewhere out there-success resides inside, for each of us. You already have what it takes to succeed in life. You were born with all you need. Your birth certificate doesn't come with any guarantees of success, but when you were born you came fully equipped with talents, abilities, desires, and choices. As you grow and progress through every stage of life, you discover that there are things you really want-things you now have your heart set on. As you identify those things and make wise choices, your success is assured.

Who Should Your Sales Force Call On
It's not always obvious. If your company sells oil drilling rigs to oil companies, then your salespeople know who to call on. If your company sell luxury cars to wealthy people, you know where to find your prospects. But what if you sell products or services that could be sold to a much broader range of customers or clients? Who should your salespeople call on then?

Leadership Excellence Isn't Achieved Without Failure
Making a resolution and being committed to it doesn't mean you won't fail. Inherent in moving toward a bigger dream is failure. The question is how committed are you to your resolution of developing your leadership skills, having a better job, working toward a promotion, becoming an entrepreneur, taking better care of your health and having more love?

part 2 of How to reduce your anxiety, depression etc in these times
part 2 of of how to deal with stress, anxiety and energy in these challenging timespP

Formula for Sales Templating

Sales templating is a technique that can help you develop a consistent sales process regardless of the background of your individual salespeople. What is sales templating? It is the technique by which you document the steps of the ideal typical sale. Sales templating allows you to capture the best practices and nuances of each of your salespeople to create a model sales process that all of them can follow. In addition to making your job as manager easier, sales templating will improve the performance of your sales force. By creating an overt, step-wise sales template or process, you give the salesperson the means to maintain control of the sales situation.

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.

Are You Using this "Power Tool" in Your Business?
The Power of "Thank You"

Leadership Tip: Dream On

Remember when you were a kid and the first evening star began to beckon in a slowly dimming sky? Were you the kid who said "star light, star bright, I want the wish I wish tonight?" Did someone tell you to stop being "so childish" or were you supported in wishing your dream? It has been said that without vision the people will perish. When we stop looking toward an ideal that we are reaching for the world becomes flat and stale. In all leadership development programs there needs to be a module on keeping dreams alive.

3 Obstacles to Producing High Talent Teams
Success is a team sport. In this era of connectedness the lone hero is a thing of the past. And yet, one person can make a difference in the success of a project, a division, a company. There are three major obstacles that must be considered when you lead a team or coordinate projects. They all are a combination of individual behaviors and how these behaviors react in a system of relationships.

Ideas To Drive Your Online Business Upward
A lack of growth after a period of time is something that nearly every online business has experienced at some time or another. If you are not doing the correct things it is not uncommon for an online business to reach a plateau and even drop backwards.

The Art of Being Present: How to Manifest In The Moment
Many people think that they're living in the present moment, but if you really stop to think...are they? Are you? What can you do to make sure that you're present? Here are some simple tips to get you in the moment...and get you living better because of it!

CONFIDENCE BOOSTERS

As you're probably only too aware, our confidence and self esteem are very variable - more of a wavy line than a straight line. Some days we feel we could conquer the world and other days we just want to hide under the duvet! We can miss opportunities because we allow fear and self doubt to get in the way. We undermine our confidence by taking things too personally and by trying to second guess what others think of us. I love the phrase: "What you think of me is none of my business!" And Eleanor Roosevelt famously said: "No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission."

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

WHY AND HOW TO MAKE MAKING CHOICES THAT ARE IN YOUR BEST INTEREST A DAILY OCCURRENCE

The dictionary defines choice as “the act of choosing; selection; the power, right, or liberty to choose; option; an alternative”. We sometimes hear ourselves or others say, “I have no choice,” when really what we mean is “I feel obligated.” There is always a choice. Sometimes one must choose between two unattractive alternatives and often times making the choice that is best for you carries with it repercussions from friends or coworkers, but that isn’t the same as actually having no choice at all. I encourage and challenge you not to confuse hard choices with no choices.

Accentuate the Positive: What’s Already Working in Your Life?

In this article, rather than add to your "to do" list with more ways to improve your current situation, I thought I'd take a different approach that is ultimately simpler, more effective and much more enjoyable. I ask you instead: What is already working well in your life? Even if you feel you have a long way to go before your life is exactly how you want it, I invite you to take a look around at what you already have and do that is perfect or near perfect for you right now.

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

Most Frequently Requested Help
What do you think is the most frequently requested plea for help? Overcoming Objections? Handling Stalls and Put-Offs? Closing? Getting Appointments? It's getting calls returned.

Accentuate the Positive: Motivate Yourself with an Attitude of Gratitude

So often when we think about our lives, most of us tend to look either back at the past and its accomplishments and failures or we look forward to what we will start doing or stop doing in the future. Although it is not necessarily a bad habit to review goals met or not met and formulate goals to work toward and attain, I want to suggest that you also take the time to look at the present moment and concentrate on all the things in your life, right now, for which you are grateful.

A Toasted Bagel and Five Minutes to Understand the Impact of Sales Training
Salespeople may be like children, but in training they're more like bagels in an oven.

Should You Talk About the Economy In Your Marketing?
Is it a good idea to talk about the economy and get into the fear and negativity, or not? The answer isn't quite so straightforward.

How are you doing in these times? Want Better?
part on: Focus on one of the four aspects of energy

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?

8 Critical Listening Skills Factors for Managers
As a manager, your listening skills play a vital role in a lot of real life situations, especially your workspace. How well you listen to your employees can have a big impact on the kind of work output you achieve. Yet listening isn't that difficult, when you know the tricks...

3 Simple Reasons that Will Help You Sell More
Before you can sell anyone anything they must first have an unfulfilled want. Why do so many salespeople act in defiance of this simple truth? It’s a sure recipe for a lot of hard work with little to show for it. It’s an exercise in frustration, and a waste of time.

Entrepreneurs don’t take risks
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur? We often hear that being an entrepreneur requires taking great risks. I would like to explore a different point of view.

IDENTIFY AND ARRANGE AN APPOINTMENT WITH A CENTRE OF INFLUENCE
How to generate a regular flow of new customers through networking with different influential people. How to grab the attention of potential business clients.

The IACCM Global Collaborative Platform: Delivering The Power For Change (IACCM Profile)

“The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) is a non-profit foundation recognized as the international authority on the role of contracting and Commitment Management in the global networked economy. A leader in research and innovative learning techniques, IACCM works with corporations, public and academic bodies to provide thought-leadership and understanding of “best practice” contracting and relationship standards. IACCM defines organizational models and skills to ensure integrity, trust and the collaborative trading relationships that are necessary to support the continued development of the global economy.” From The IACCM web site

What are Your Real Priorities?

So many people, when they think of clutter, think of piles of stuff laying all over the place, but we can clutter up our schedules and life choices too. As you are determining your goals, start with identifying your priorities. If your goals are not aligned with the things that are truly important to you, then, what is the point? I realize that sounds simplistic, but for many it is an exercise that really helps.

Are You Financially Responsible With Your Business?
Where do you spend your time? Where you choose to spend your time directly reflects the financial outcome for your business. Today, I'll focus on ways that you can evaluate and adjust how to spend your time so that you can positively impact your bottom line.

When Making the Right Choice Goes Wrong
When was the last time you examined your core values? Do you even know what they are? Are you aware of the extreme influence they have over your daily decision-making processes?

Business Planning for Small Business

Every great invention, every work of art, every new innovation all starts with a thought. Thoughts are the most powerful forces in the universe – with the right thoughts and right focus you can achieve anything that you want to in life and in small business. So how do you tap into this power? In business just like in life you need to start with the end picture in mind. What do you want your business to do, be or achieve? Without this clarity all you will get is mixed results and muddled outcomes.

Leadership Characteristics - Taking Responsibility

Let’s talk about individual responsibility. There are three types of people – those whom nothing is ever their fault and it is always the fault of someone else (their mother, the government, computers, management etc). Then there are those for whom everything is their responsibility. You can recognise these people by the harried looks on their faces and the need to please and ensure that everyone is happy. Then you have the middle group – those people who know their boundaries, own what is theirs and let the rest go.

The Job Alternative
This article addresses various ways to earn a living other than a 9-5 job.

How NLP Can Give You the Edge at Work
Certainly there's a lot of garbage talked about NLP, and NLP has been used in unethical and distasteful ways. But if you strip out the hype and apply some critical intelligence, here's how it can over-deliver for you in the workplace.

5 Secrets to Attracting More Business Whenever You Open Your Mouth
Are you comfortable with your 30-second sound byte or "elevator speech"? Does it stimulate emotions and positive responses in others? Or, does it fall flat and rate a "0" on the interest scale? Learn about a 5-part formula you can use to create a 30-second sound byte that'll get people saying, "Yes!", I want to work with you!

Sales Planning Basics
Sales planning should be your number 1 priority if you want to succeed in sales. Success is no accident, you have to plan for it. Learn how now!

Coaching the Sales Person
What is coaching and why should you develop the skill? COACHING is a face to face exercise to help you analyse and improve the performance of the sales person

Managing Sales Motivation - Find the Motivational Drains
Most sales people need motivation. Motivation comes in many different forms. One way to motivate your team is to identify areas that are draining their motivation. This article will help you find the drain and plug it to regain motivation.

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.

Five Steps to Elicit Outcomes
By asking the right questions, you can learn how to elicit the outcomes or results the customers are seeking. The previous exercise told us how they bought in the past; this exercise will help us discover how they will buy in the future.

JOINING FORCES TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MARKETING DOLLAR
How to make the most of your marketing money

DID I REALLY EMPLOY YOU? - Post Interview
Mistakes that can be made in an interview

Motivating the late, the lazy and the terminally uninspired
How to delegate while also growing your staff

An old refrigerator will show you how to INCREASE YOUR PROFITS
INCREASE YOUR SALES IMMEDATELY When you are selling to your customer talk to them about the benefits. Never talk about the features unless you talk about the benefits too.

10 Top Business Assumptions that cause you to lose money
Stop maiking Bad Business Assumptions and your sales & profits will grow

People Shop Price. They Buy Value
It is great to sell VALUE because you have two different groups of value to sell. One- The value of your product. Two- Your value. Your uniqueness.. USV's - Unique Selling Value -- What is unique about you that is not unique about your competition?

Mirroring Your Mentor’s Success
Copying or mirroring is a very powerful tool that many successful people have used to reach where they are today. There is nothing wrong in copying your mentor as this will enable you to acquire a mindset and attitude to achieve success. Learn how to effectively use this skill.

The 7 magic ingredients to become a winner at selling

There is only one main ingredient you must have to become a successful salesperson and that is SELF BELIEF if that is missing is your toolbag you are in for a hard slog. I have witnessed it over the years with numerous sales people who have then gone on to become very successful, unfortunately there are plenty of others who just dont have it. Self belief is somthing you need to grow inside you, so here are the 7 magic ingredients to become a winner.

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!

Laying the Groundwork for Manifestation
"You always have a greater sense of what you do want, when you are experiencing what you don't want". This is an exercise to help you clarify your vision for you what you want in your business. Transform your feelings and experience into a miracle of manifestation.

Narrowing Your Franchise Search
Searching for franchises and business opportunities is easy. Narrowing the search to a manageable level, however, takes some discipline. There are more franchises out there than you would ever imagine. Finding the right one for you will take some time, research, and contemplation.

What Attracts More - Selling or Helping?
It’s been said that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care, and it’s true. The interesting consequence is that when you take your focus off of selling and place it on helping, you’ll attract more clients, generate more referrals, and sell more insurance.

The Use of Goals - Friend or Foe?
As a society we are achievement driven and recognised for our tangible contributions to the world. At work we are rewarded for achieving specific objectives. Public organisation are required to share their goals with the world. The penalties for failing to achieve them are collapsing share prices and reduced investment. The message is clear - it is good to achieve.

Lessons from the Gym that Can Help Your Business
It's been a difficult journey toward becoming fit, but it reminded me of a few lessons that apply equally to building a business. The following are a few of the lessons I have learned from the gym.

Rule 21 Listen to the Market
This is Rule #21 in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars.

How to Cure Your Marketing Headache
Many times business owners get stuck when it comes to marketing because they feel uncomfortable doing it. They are afraid of being seen as pushy, intrusive, or fake. What if you could change the way you think about marketing by connecting to your true intention for doing it in the first place?

Be Your Best By Copying The Best
Boost your confidence by pretending to be someone else...

Using Analytics with Direct Marketing to Ride Out a Tough Economy -- Part 3
This is the third in the series of how to be more effective in a tough economy. And, this article will give you some good ideas on all of the elements of each campaign to take a hard look at to hone in on the best direct marketing strategies.

Using Analytics with Direct Marketing to Ride Out a Tough Economy -- Part 1
This is the first article in a series on how to be as smart as possible in a tough economy in terms of your direct marketing. Not only does it make you more successful in an economic downturn, it prepares you well for when the economy turns around with a boost to your success.

How to give your family a wellness makeover

In this day of cell phones, pagers, blackberry’s and emails you think it wouldn’t be hard to reach someone in your family but the truth is it is more challenging than ever… to reach them in a way that keeps you connected. So, how do you stay connected? How can you turn the abundance of quantity in to quality time? How can you give your family a ‘makeover’ in a meaningful way as if you just showed up to your favorite spa for a few hours of a meditative makeover?

10 Ways to Generate An Optimal Working State
Energy is the source of life. Our body produces and harnesses it. When we are fresh and energized, we can do much more than when we are fatigued and drained. Here are some ways to stay energetic and alert for the stresses and challenges of this new, year.

Why don’t my goals work?

It is not unusual for me to meet with someone who has an incredibly detailed outline of their goals. It is sometimes layed out in a PowerPoint presentation with pictures and symbols. To the outside world it looks as if they have a very focused and productive guide for the future…BUT, they will say to me, “These are the same goals I have had for the last 7 years. I have made no progress towards these goals. What is the problem?”

Double Marginalization and the Point of Ideal Price Viability

Referencing my last post (Double Marginalization and the Decentralized Supply Chain, August 9, 2007) double marginalization “DM” is defined as the “exercise of market power at successive vertical layers in a supply chain.” The problem that arises as a result of DM is tied to an impetus to mark up the product’s price above marginal cost. The sequence of mark-ups “leads to a higher retail price and lower combined profit for the supply chain.” In short, DM drives the paradoxical outcome of higher buy prices with lower sell profits.

21 Pairs of C Words to Consider
A casual comment by a presenter at a conference we were facilitating led us to quickly build these word pairs for you to consider. Think about each pair, the tension between them, the relative merits of each, and which you value more (and apply) in different situations. We believe you will find this exercise as enlightening as we did.

Costs and Benefits of Being In or Out of Integrity
Learn the costs and benefits to being in or out of integrity in your business and personal life.

Sure-Fire Tips to Turn Off Your Negative Mental Chatter
Negative self-talk can be painful and distracting. Learn three strategies to interrupt your inner chatter so that you can refocus your attention on your priorities.

How To Get More Done By Sleeping
..... Having enough quality sleep is vital if you want to stay alert and be more productive. ..... How often do you avoid the warning signs of fatigue and force yourself to carry on working yet not achieve much at all?

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.

You Get What You Reward
More often than not an organization says one thing in its literature, on nicely formatted signs in hallways and conference rooms, but unfortunately does not practice what it preaches. As your organization decides what it wants its culture to be, look closely at what it will reward. Remember…You get what you reward.

Career Tune-up: Maintaining your Professional Path

As 2008 begins, it’s the perfect opportunity for a Career Tune-up. The New Year provides a natural time to evaluate how your career progressed over the past year and to determine what you want for the year ahead. Investing time in assessment and planning will enable you to have a greater impact on your professional development. The Past Year When you review your career milestones of the past year, you’ll want to take a candid look at what worked and what didn’t work for you, your clients and your organization. Defining this will help you to make decisions about next year.

The Easy Part
Have you ever noticed that the easy part to making changes in your life is the decision? Deciding to do something is the easy part. Putting that decision to action is a little tougher...

Maximise your PR with Thought as well as Action
How a PR pause can help you plan effective PR goals.

Here Is A Method That Is Helping New Managers To Gain More Time
How many times have you heard individuals say, “I don’t have time to do that” Hundreds? I meet people everyday who say, “I don’t have time to… If you are a new manager you need to find the time - here is how.

How Leaders Improve Performance

To improve business performance, leaders need to pay attention to both developing their leadership skills and developing the organisation. This article explores how these are inter-related and provides an integral understanding of what affects the performance of an organisation. Questions are provided to help illuminate the readers capability as they explore the 4 quadrants of the leadership and organisational development landscape, together with an excerise to help develop their awareness and skill.

MAKING MONEY WORK FOR YOU
Money makes the world go round – so the saying goes – yet people rarely seem to make their money go round very well for them. And this, by-the-way, is true no matter how much or little someone is earning. This article looks at our beliefs about money, money management, credit cards and how to budget.

LOOK BEHIND BEFORE YOU LOOK AHEAD
Now is a great time to look back on the past year and gain some perspective on where you’ve come over the last twelve months and what you’ve accomplished. It is also the time to create a realistic personal vision for 2008. A personal vision is more predictive of success and satisfaction than socio-economic background, intelligence or educational level.

Make Change Easy Get Involved
The level and intimacy of involvement in change makes a big difference to how people are able to respond. Taking 'control' of change can be fruitful, enlightening and, yes, enjoyable. If you are undergoing change, think it through, and then think how you can enable your people to get involved too...

Next Steps to Success
What happens when progress slows right down - and nothing happens between you and your team? There is a stifling stench of paralysis. It's time to ensure you have next steps in place. Read on for more...

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...

Delegation for Business Leaders - How Letting Go Works

# To create the time for the specific role of a leader, as much as possible of the day to day delivery must be handed over. This level of delegation is very important, not only to create the space for the leader to develop visions and longer terms strategic goals, but also in encouragement of key individuals who will both be challenged by new activities, but will also be developed for the future benefit of the organisation.

Time Management Accomplish More By Doing Less
Effective time management is a step by step process that takes determination and a long-term commitment. However, it is essential that you do not try to take on too much, too soon. In this article I advise you on how you can manage your time effectively.

Give up excuses!
So, we all have excuses in life that we fall back on time and time again. Maybe because of difficult upbringings, or hardships, certain beliefs have laid their imprint on you. Excuses keep you from venturing forward, in that they keep you safe from possible heartbreak. Having an excuse excuses you from facing the truth, while keeping you in your comfort zone.

6 Step Formula to Creating Your Own Coaching Sales Copy
Creating copy for your website, blog and marketing materials does not need to be hard! Even a 12 year old can do it! These six steps can take you from "clueless" to a writing/copy machine. Don't wait - get started now!

Success Or Failure?
Successful people just seem to get a lot more done in a day than unsuccessful people. The main reason is successful people keep the main thing the main thing. Success is not an accident.

Phenomenological Perspective: That which you believe will become your reality.

Finding balance between work and life, begins with deciding that you want to live a balanced life and becoming aware of that which needs to change. The power of the mind and the things we allow ourselves to focus on can become the pivot point our lives revolve around. Discover ways to release your mind from all its worries and change your perspective to a more positive light. To really let go of things, we must let go with our mind first. Then our heart can follow suit.

The Art of Selecting Promising MFIs
The key question for MicroStart is whether it can equip and motivate those in charge of MFI selection to choose "small and promising" rather than "small and weak."

5.11 Rights and labour law reform: Working Out of Poverty
Development of a programme to eradicate child labour and the linkages to improved access to schools. Data on child labour require a special approach, given that it is often hidden.

Five Keys to Setting Attractive Sustainable Goals
We’ve all been there. How many of you have set up new year’s resolutions only to discover that you have slipped after the first week or been to a workshop and sworn that this time you are really going to achieve those dreams you have had at the back of your mind? The following article gives you five keys on setting goals that will keep you motivated.

Work-Life Balance should be Life-Work Balance - what do you reckon?

We hear so much these days about the work-life balance, but isn't that bit of jargon putting up a barrier right from the start? Surely life and all that it entails should be the priority, work is merely part of life. A major part of life for many people I know and I don't mean to diminish its value, by the way. Walt Disney kind of summed this up when he said: "We don't make movies to make money. We make money to make movies."

6 Tips Toward Achieving Lifetime Fitness
We all want to be healthy, thin, be fit, and have lots of energy. But to have to EXERCISE for that? Do I really have to??

10 Tips for More Energy Everyday - Simple Lifestyle Changes to a Healthier, Happier You
It’s late afternoon, you still have tons to accomplish, yet you can’t keep your eyes open. Your focus is gone, and all you can think about is how you will possibly get through the rest of the day. When you do get home, you’re too tired to enjoy your family, cranky and irritable, and all you want is to have some dinner and collapse in front of the TV. Sound familiar?

Adjusting To Working Full Time At Home Online
Once you have decided to quit your full time job and work at home full time on your online home based business, it is important to plan your days so that you get into a routine as soon as possible, otherwise you could be easily distracted with your new found freedom.

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Author Sarah Ban Breathnach can become your daily coach moving you forward in a most positive way throughout an entire year, at the end of which you will be a happier, more organized, more disciplined person, leading a simpler life.

Developing Personas to Help You with Targeting

Create personas for your target audiences to better position your marketing efforts. It will help you decide where to spend your ad dollars, and what types of messaging you use. Break down your customers or guests into different categories and create fictitious lives to represent each group. Decide everything from their age and gender to where they get their news and what kind of car they drive. This is a creative and helpful practice that my agency recommends highly.

Start Living a Healthier Lifestyle and Become an Everyday Champion: It Can Make the Difference in Your Life
What is a champion? Many people think of a champion as someone who just won a contest. I think of a champion as anyone who accomplishes a worthwhile goal. Let me tell you about two people who were champions for their health. By improving their health, they became more productive.

A Me As Priority Self Care Plan
3 Stress Defense Strategies for Women in Business It seems as though the new year was just yesterday, but here we are almost half way into it! How are you doing with stress management? Maybe it's time to take a deep breath and review these 3 easy pointers that will keep you moving ahead with energy and enthusiasm for the rest of the year.

Jack LaLanne
My short article on Jack LaLanne, America's fitness guru, was published in Mazon Associates, Inc. February 2012 company newsletter, Building Bridges. Information for the article was obtained from various internet searches. I hope you enjoy reading about this entrepreneurial icon.

Here's An Exercise To Use With Your Team
In this article you will learn an exercise to use with your team.

How To Avoid Arguments
In this article you will learn how to avoid any arguments you come across. To find out more read on....

Exercise and work
When you work it can be hard to fit in enough exercise to stay healthy and alert, but it is possible to get some exercise while working.

A SHARPER MIND/BRAIN --(To Reduce Stress Level)
Many studies have underlined the importance of exercise in reducing stress level. Studies also show that aerobic exercise is an excellent way of keeping our brains young and healthy.

Be Creative With "Hidden" Exercise
You should do everything you can to make time for your health. But if you truly can't take on a regular exercise regimen, be creative. Find ways to get your heart rate up - at least a little - by finding hidden exercise in your everday chores....

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