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Who's Responsible?
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| It seems no matter what the situation or problem someone always wants to know, who’s responsible. |
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Who Do You Want To Be This Christmas?
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| What kind of person do you want to be this Christmas? You get to choose! |
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Leading from a Position of Fear or Security
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| Leaders, do you lead from a place of fear or a place of security? In my experience, leaders typically tend to lead from one or the other. The leader dominated by fear is afraid of failing, fears that people are out for his or her position, or struggles to delegate and trust others (including God). The leader dominated by a sense of security trusts his or her abilities, is confident in his or her position and has faith in other people (including God) |
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Three Little Words
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| There are three little words that have a lot to do with building trust in an organization.
At first you will think these three words actually lead to the destruction of trust, but in the hands of a great leader, these words can become the most compelling force for growing trust. The words are:
I am right.
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Leadership Assessment #4 – Lack of Fear
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the absence of fear. |
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Leadership Assessment #21 – Build a SAFE Environment
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to build a safe environment. |
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Choice or Habit?
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| When life delivers a plethora of unexpected and unpleasant surprises, it can be easy and automatic to react negatively. Many of these reactions are unconscious and engrained in us as human beings. Throughout our lives, most of us are taught and conditioned to react to disappointments with sadness, unkindness from others with anger or defensiveness, heavy traffic with stress and frustration, illness and death with fear, and our mistakes with judgment. If I listed twenty activities, most would agree on the "common way" to react to each situation.
But, who says this is how we "should" be reacting? Is there an alternative choice? Is there a more effective way? Or are we truly helpless victims to life's circumstances? |
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Overcoming Anxiety: the Importance of Emotional Mindfulness
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| So many people avoid their true emotions because of the anxiety they engender. This desire to avoid can lead to unhealthy behaviors like addictions and result in emotional distance from those closest to us. Learn healthy ways to manage and overcome your discomfort with your emotions and the feelings they bring up. |
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Poison To Entrepreneurs
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| There is a poison out there that effects entrepreneurs and everyone is susceptible to it. |
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Can't Say
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| Are you afraid to say "no" to others? Discover where you got this fear and how to move into personal power and emotional freedom. |
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Helping Your Aging Parents Help Themselves (Step Two)
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| "THE 2-STEP PROCESS TO AGREEMENT" consists of 1) helping your Vicky-D's (your aging parents) determine what they want and 2) helping them get it. A process by which, rather than you trying to convince them to do what's in their best interest, you help them convince themselves to want to do what's in their best interest - ideally the same thing! |
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Procrastination- 4 Essentials to Break Through
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| We have all experienced the great feeling of working through to a goal step by step. We have also experienced those times when we put something off that could make a positive long-term impact in our life. Here are 4 essentials to grab when you feel stuck. |
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Overcoming Anxiety: 4 Steps to Living the Life You Want
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| When we try to avoid our feelings, we often turn to defensive or even destructive behavior to keep them at bay. But, in order to reach our full potential and lead the life we truly want, we must learn how to open up to our feelings, confront and tame our fear, and, if we choose, share our experience with others.
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Choices, Choices, Choices...
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| Choices confront us daily, even minute to minute. Some love the plethora of choices, and some may shrink in fear of them. When faced with the inevitable action to choose, it can be very confusing and lead many to indecision, or even worse, inaction. This article provides the top five methods to making the right choices and making the most of the opportunity to choose. |
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Elder Caregiving: How to Help Family Members with Denial
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| Family members get so frustrated that their aging parents or their siblings are in denial. "How can they not see it?" Some people think those in denial don't see the situation clearly because they don't want to. I don't think that's it. |
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5 Skills For Patching Broken Trust
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| The best way to patch broken trust is to reduce fear and restore employees' confidence in the reliability, integrity and fairness of leaders and the organization.
This article reviews five skills that serve leaders when diffusing employee distrust to mobilize productivity.
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Risk: Making the leap
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| As a collaborative team value, the ability to take calculated and well-reasoned risks is a foundation for building an effective organization with the capacity to learn about itself, to expand and grow.
When fear is present, however, growth and forward momentum stagnate. This article looks at organizational behaviors and practices that both encourage and discourage an employee's willingness to take appropriate and well-reasoned risk.
Risk is the fifth of six values that build collaboration in groups. Without risk being t6olerated at the cultural level, many organizations penalize people for thinking. |
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Five Leadership How-Tos for Recession Survival
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| We're in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades, and many people in leadership positions haven't seen anything like it before. As an executive coach, I know that leaders often make decisions out of fear of what could happen instead of crafting a plan to ensure that everyone stays on track through the bad times. Surviving a recession can feel a bit like sailing without sails, so here are a few tips to help you stop, think and weather the crisis. |
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3 Secrets for Amazing Entrepreneurial Leadership
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| Here are some ideas to take your entrepreneurial leadership skills to the next level in a smart and quick way that will benefit you both at work and at home. Read on to learn how to distinguish real fear from perceived fear; how to control emotions so they will not rule us; and how empathy does work for us. |
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Have you got a heart
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| Like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, we all need a "heart". Not the pump thing that keeps us going, but something more subtle. This heart is the seat of our emotions, of empathy and of love. We need to recognise its existence and to find a balance between our heart and our head. Only with this balance will we find harmony in our lives. |
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Marketing Strategies: Are You Afraid to be Successful?
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| Is your mindset holding you back? Learn how to face the fear and fulfill your own potential! This article gives you some great tips on how to switch your focus. |
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6 Proven Ways to Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
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| Cicero, renown world speaker and philosopher said, "I turn pale at the outset of a speech, and quake in every limb and in all my soul." Read Exodus to learn about Moses' fear of public speaking. John Dryden described his fear of public speaking this way, "Whenever I speak a cold sweat trickles down all over my limbs as if I were dissolving in water." I know how it feels to have running stomach, sleepless nights and disappointed audience.
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Marketing Strategies - 7 Tips to Motivate Your Sphere of Influence to Refer to You
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| Are you afraid to ask for referrals? Learn how to face the fear and pick up the phone! This article gives you some great tips on how to deal positively with your sphere of influence. |
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Recession Proof Your Lifestyle
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| Millions of people around the world have been deeply affected by the current state of economy; many who never thought they would become victim to a recession. Sadly, many of these people have had to make serious life changes like selling their homes, moving away from their families to find work and giving up vacations. Luckily, there is a way to maintain your current lifestyle and even improve it without the fear that it's going to be ripped up from beneath you.
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Fear
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| Fear is FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL |
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Home Based Business/Brick and Mortar Business Start up Cost Comparison– The Astounding Difference in ARI (Average Return on Investment)
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| A great concern for many entrepreneurs looking to begin their business ventures is the initial start up cost and the fear of not having a return on their investment. What many entrepreneurs do not have an understanding of is the ability to know what the ARI (Average Return on Investment) will be on a home based business compared to a traditional brick and mortar business. |
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Are you pinching your flow of abundance?: 4 kink-relieving techniques
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| This article speaks to a four-letter word that is not a swear word. But you may still be ashamed to bring it up, and it could be having a serious adverse effect on your abundance. Learn 4 techniques for relieving the kinks in your "abundance hose". |
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LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVING SOMEONE ELSE'S DREAM
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| Are you working for someone else's dream when you have one of your own? For years I did and didn’t like it. In fact it made me crazy sometimes, I even thought myself a coward for not acting! |
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Fear vs. Courage
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| Fear has no strength of its own only that which we choose to give it. How is this strength passed on to fear? By re-directing our focus from our courage to our fear. That’s when the deflated fear, laying in a dark corner somewhere in the back of our mind, starts a full inflation so it can step into the bright spotlight at center stage. |
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Why Would Anyone Want To Step Outside of Their Comfort Zone?
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| Successful Entrepreneurs understand the importance of continually stepping outside their comfort zone.
Why is this important? Let's first take a look at what occurs within the comfort zone. |
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Goal Achieving Process Part 2: Dreaming Big Dreams
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| The next step in the goal achieving process is dreaming big dreams. This is my favorite part of the process because it unlocks my inner child and opens up my creative faculties. We are all creators of our experiences, so why not make them as big and exciting as possible? Big dreams help you tremendously with goal achievement, especially since big dreams give you power and enthusiasm. When obstacles get in your way and things don’t go according to plan, big dreams make up for it with energy and enthusiasm. Small dreams don’t really give you any kind of power. |
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11 Activities for Building Confidence to Grow Your Business
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| Most people fail because they give up too soon. Don’t get discouraged if you know in your heart that you are on the right path but frustrated that you aren’t moving as fast as you’d like. Now is the time to focus on your inner energy and your confidence muscle. In this article, I give you eleven activities for strengthening that confidence muscle so that you maintain your energy, focus and momentum and can manifest your dreams. |
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Is a Fear of Phoning Killing Relationships?
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| It is surprising to note how many people have a fear of calling someone to avoid embarrassment. Too often, it is especially ESL (English as a Second Language) learners who really shy away from calling when they should. This article is about a lost opportunity due to such a situation. |
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Buying a Business Without the Emotion
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| This article deals with how fear can keep us from making the right decision and how to overcome the fear. |
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The Marketplace of Fear
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| Much of today's marketplace malaise is being blamed directly on fear. The fear of the unknown, the fear of new taxes, the fear of new regulations, etc. all have been cited as causes for the continuing worst economic period since the Great Depression. Real or imagined this fear has caused a paralysis in our business communities and delayed the inevitable recovery.
Realistically many of the causes of this fear are out of our control but that is no reason for us to give up trying to grow our businesses and help others grow theirs. The big problem is that most of the decision-makers and/or leaders across today’s business spectrum have only known growth and prosperity. The last period of real economic difficulty occurred in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
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Facing Fear- Taking Actions that Stretch You
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| Ignite your career, boost business, enhance relationships, etc. by getting comfortable with stretching out of your comfort zone daily. Obtain 5 essential perceptions to take on as you face fear plus ideas for how to strengthen your courage muscle daily. |
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Does Success Change You?
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| Imagine this scenario... You spend years working hard to succeed. During these years, you have some success, mixed with lots of false starts. But you never really reach the level of success you dream of. And then something shifts. Everything begins to work, and your fame and fortune take off... |
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Faith vs Fear
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| This article shows how important mental attitude is to those who want to be successful. Gaining control of one's thoughts can determine the height of one's success. With the Divine's help we can do all things, if we believe. |
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Why Tough Times Are The Perfect Time To Move Forward And Thrive!
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| What do most individuals, companies and even countries do when tough times come? Most take shelter and try to ride the storm out. Fear takes over and decisions are made from a less than useful state of mind. Procrastination, which is a decision, becomes the norm. But not everyone. Some bold souls see great opportunity in the challenging circumstances and take action to move ahead. Soon, they find themselves ahead of the storm. That's when their momentum really picks up... |
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Article Marketing and How to Always Have Ideas
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| One very recent question I got from someone that was considering article marketing had the fear of running out of ideas. While I have been doing article marketing for some time now, it is very rarely I get stumped on ideas. I have had a few conversations with other article marketers and they seem to get stuck once in awhile also. |
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Are You Addicted to Fear?
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| Fear and ego are a formidable force and continue to provide rational reasons not to do things.
Once addicted our fear and ego begins to dominate our destiny.
Eventually we overuse fear to the point of addiction. |
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Powerful Communication: Apology Do’s and Don’ts
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| Article explaining the importance of the appropriate delivery of an apology and tips on what to do and what not to do when it comes to apologizing |
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Thomas Watson Quotes
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Lesson #1: Do Your Homework
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| “Do your homework and know your business better than anyone,” says Cuban. “Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.” |
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Lesson #2: Don’t Take The Shortcut
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| “There are no shortcuts,” says Cuban. “Everyone tells you how they are going to be ‘special,’ but few do the work to get there. Do the work.” |
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Lesson #1: Don't Follow the Crowd or the Market
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| “When there is a crisis, that’s when some are interested in getting out,” says Helu, “and that’s when we are interested in getting in.” |
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dskin Provides a Cure for 'Lendaphobia,'
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| dskin Provides a Cure for 'Lendaphobia,' and Eliminates The Fear of Lending Video Games, DVD and Music Discs to Friends & Family a New Survey Reveals 75 Percent of Americans Won't Lend Discs to Anyone; 94 Percent are not willing to take chances when lending discs. |
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Hey Boss!
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| Perhaps a full or part-time assistant is needed to handle the administrative duties that often keep the owner/operator away from his or her “real” job. Others have no option but to “share” the real job with another qualified professional. This entire issue is further complicated by the fact that home-based sole proprietors tend to be a guarded group. The fear of loosing control and even clients is paralyzing. |
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Fear of Failure
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| Dick Costolo, the CEO of FeedBurner, has another awesome post up titled Too Many Companies?? |
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Change is Good
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| Sometimes we love change and sometimes we hate it. Regardless, it always takes a little bit of courage to leave something familiar and try something new. Why is change difficult for most of us? Because change necessitates that we move out of our comfort zones. |
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No Fear of Referrals
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| People are often worried about being put in an uncomfortable situation in which someone they just met is asking them for a business referral -- particularly if their new acquaintance is a salesman asking for a referral to one of their friends who could be a potential client. |
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Go For Your Big Dreams!
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| Remember when you were a kid and felt you could set the world on fire? Millionaire? Sure. Hollywood star? Of course! Astronaut? Easy. Best-selling author? No problem. World traveler? Start packing. |
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Ringtone Branding - Another way to spread the brand
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| Ok, this one might not be earthshattering, but it's kind of fun. Sound is a great way to build brand recognition - think about all the jingles over the years that you could not get out of your head. |
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Two kinds of 'don't know'
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| I don't know French. I can't play the piano. I have no clue how to catch a bony spinefish. This is the first kind of don't know. Stuff you don't know because you haven't been taught it yet. Books are awfully good at solving this problem, so are good teachers. |
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What Are You Afraid Of?
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| Fear is the most basic of human elements and plays a major role in business success and failure. |
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Failure Is An Option
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| My friend Dave sent me a hysterical Onion article titled Failure Now An Option. I hate the phrase "failure is not an option" - of course it is. Some choice quotes: |
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More People Moonlighting
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| Whether or not you believe we’re in a recession, a lot of people are taking a hit to their wallets and bank accounts and have to deal with it in some relatively old-fashioned ways. |
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10 Tips to Banish Your Public Speaking Fear for Good
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| Last week’s tip, Three Steps to Kick Social Anxiety, broke traffic records on the web site. No doubt about it: Meeting new people puts us out of our comfort zone! You guys had a lot to say about public speaking. In fact, there were so many good tips in the comments, many from professional coaches, that I used them to create a new post: 10 Tips to Banish Your Public Speaking Fear for Good. |
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A Closed Mouth Never Gets Fed
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| I don’t watch a lot of television, but this one commercial sticks out to me about a kid who was born with seemingly ultimate confidence: asking girls out for dates even though he’s clearly shorter and younger; graduating college when most graduate high school; performing open-heart surgery in a crowded concert hall with a ballpoint pen. But when it comes to negotiating a fair price for a new car, he’s frozen in his tracks. |
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Confidence Deficiency?
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| How's your confidence level? Do you have those moments when your confidence flies out the window and you are overcome with a fear of your next move? Most of us experience this feeling at some time in our career. Here's a secret to managing that fear. |
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Maximizing the Law of Attraction for Business Success
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| You are finally at a place where you have taken crucial steps in your business and are ready to make a big change. Deep down in your heart you know this is what you were meant to do, you can literally feel yourself being pulled in this direction. When you are connected to your heart, it all comes together and flows easily. There is clarity in your heart. This is the direction for you to go. |
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THINGS YOU MIGHT FIND DIFFICULT
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| “Love means never having to say you’re sorry!” You may or may not be old enough to remember that line from the movie; “LOVE STORY,” which believe it or not came out all the way back in 1970. I suppose the rationale for what was meant here was that love is unconditional and therefore does not require apologies.
Combining love with apologizing seemed like a good lead into what I wanted to write about this month. Life presents us with all kinds of challenges and at times there are a number of things all of us find difficult. Two of those in particular that many find difficult are; saying we’re sorry and telling someone we love them! |
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Getting Past Fear of Failure and Growing a Successful Business
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| When it comes to growing a business, every entrepreneur is bound to make mistakes along the way. It’s easy to let your emotional self get frustrated, fearful and freaked. But you can’t let a couple mistakes-no matter how painful-keep you from being successful… |
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Are You Stalling Due To Fear?
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| We’ve all experienced fear in our lives. Most of it though is not beneficial to us. I know you’ve had this feeling…It starts in the pit of your stomach, you feel a little queasy, you start to notice your hands shaking a little and maybe you’re breaking into a cold sweat. Fear is overcoming you. How do you know? You decide to not go ahead with whatever it is you were doing when it started and you start to feel a little better. Fear got it’s way and you stopped the exciting new venture you were about to leap into. |
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9 Simple Solutions for Procrastinators
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| Procrastination isn't about laziness. It's about fear. It's about perfectionism. It's about being overwhelm. We all experience it, and there are some tricks to help you get moving again.
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Adversity – Mountains – and Fulfilling Your Dreams
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| Adversity offers opportunities to stretch beyond where you are to new dreams and not be swept into the negativity of fear, guilt, blame or self-doubt. The new dream may be one that has been stored in the “someday” folder, but needs to be opened with fresh eyes that say, “This is the time to do something about making my dream come alive.” |
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Do you have the Courage to ASK?
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| When I speak to audiences around the world, I always ask, “Why don’t people have the courage to ask for what they want?” The answers are fear of rejection, fear of losing face or fear of being embarrassed. All of them live with the fear of what may happen because they do not have the courage to ask.
For now, let me explain a few things about asking. Firstly, it takes courage to ask but if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Am I right?
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Is Fear Stopping You from Moving Forward?
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| Many people have great ideas and plans, but they let fear stop them dead in their tracks. Is fear stopping you from moving forward?
After losing over five years of my life in fear of what other people would say, and as a teenager hiding because of my acne; I realized that I had some major catching up to do. I had a choice to make. I could be like everyone else and think about it, or I could just do it.
But what happens when most people think about doing something?
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Eyes Across the Room
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| Having tried the new fangled thing of internet dating, with less than great success, undeterred I decided to go back to tried and tested measures, a bar!
Spending time going through the wardrobe, trying everything on before even looking into the mirror, with the odd slurp of vino to help my judgment! Just knowing "it does not feel right", my debut into a bar with music and full of strangers, is like preparing for the opening of the Olympics. Some kind friends have said "come out with us", (all couples of course, but I am very grateful for their invitation).
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To Dream the Impossible Dream
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| "To dream the impossible dream, to right the unrightable wrong that is my quest"
What happens when your dream is somebody else's nightmare?
Having made my debut into the Costa Blanca Social Scene, (quite successfully - I felt), well I did end up at home, in one piece, (maybe a bit wobbly), I was enthused to participate more. So, during these two weeks I have made a concentrated effort: 1 party, 2 Business Meetings, 5 bars (not all with vino), 1 tarot reading (I need all the help I can get) and a meal out with a friend (not male).
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The Art of Manifestation: When It Is Loving to Be Controlling
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| Is it ever loving to be controlling? Yes! Discover the kind of controlling that is loving and leads to manifesting what you want in life. |
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Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle to Sports Success
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| The fear of making a mistake, looking foolish or being embarrassed by losing overcame your natural aggressiveness and the trust you had in your game plan and style, which worked well for you in the first set. Why does this happen and what can you do about it? |
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Keeping Fear Alive
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| As an example of how pervasive the word fear has become in our daily lives, on the front page of this morning’s (10/11) Los Angeles times, two story headings caught my attention. One said “Cost Fears Cited in Fire Delay” and the other screamed “Fear and mistrust rule in high-stakes Iraqi politics.” |
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Is Fear Really a Great Motivator?
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| The idea behind Provocative Selling is basically to scare the heck out of your customer by creating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about their business and its future. Since when did fear become the primary motivator for customer relationships? |
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Merger Miseries 7 What a Rip Off
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| This article addresses the timing issue of mergers and acquisitions. Many mergers are handled at a pace that would make glaciers melt. A better plan is to figure out what needs to be done and get it over with rather quickly. This article describes why that works better. |
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The Tool that Moves People Forward Faster
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| Salespeople, managers and negotiators that know this secret, get more sales and more wins more easily than others. |
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Will you Stand up for the Truth?
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| I've been struggling this last week with a sticky situation. Actually as I write that, I realize it doesn't have to be a sticky situation. It's only sticky because of fear. My own fear, which has been fueled to a flame by the fear of others. |
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Taking the Fear Out of Marketing so You Can Really Grow Your Business
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| I’m a full-time marketing professional and I still suffer from fear of marketing sometimes. Typically I’ll be trying or launching something new and suddenly realize I’m procrastinating about some of the marketing tasks. Here’s how I get back into action… |
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THAT SLOW-ECONOMY-PROOF BUSINESS YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
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| While economy is in the doldrums,PR may be the perfect business to be in. |
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Positive Words Create Positive Actions
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| In our society today we tend to accentuate the negatives instead of the positives. One example is the “alarm clock” we use to wake ourselves up in the morning. Realistically, when we hear an alarm it generates fear or anxiety. When somebody robs a bank, an alarm is sounded; when there’s a fire, someone sounds an alarm. Perhaps waking up to an alarm helps explain the profusion of negative words we use. If you rethink the issue of your clock you will realize that it is really giving you an opportunity. When you hear it ring, you have the opportunity to get up and go. A whole day full of possibilities is available to you once you hear your “opportunity clock.” If you can’t hear it ring, that might mean you’ve gotten up and gone! That could be bad. |
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Conquer Fears and Start Living Life On Your Terms
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| We've all been afraid to try something new at one time or another. Why is that? And it seems as we age, our fear controls more and more of our willingness to try something new. We prefer to forego a new experience because we want to avoid whatever bad thing we think could happen. Or maybe the anxiety is just too stressful for us to even contemplate facing our fears. Whatever the reason, we justify that trying something new is not worth the risk. You are the one who determines the outcome of your experiences. If you know your experience will be completely positive - there is nothing stopping you from doing it.
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How Planning the Work (and then Working The Plan) Can Catapult Your Marketing Success
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| A marketing plan is vital to the success of your business. Without a plan, even the best intentions may never be realized. You must plan the work and then work the plan, or your goals will not be accomplished. They key is to not only have a plan but to implement that plan. Here’s how. |
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Anger Rising
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| Anger is a feeling that is or has been a challenge for most of us to accept and express in healthy ways. Collectively, we receive a multitude of messages about anger being ‘bad’ or ‘negative’ or ‘wrong’. |
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How to Close the Deal Your Salespeople Can't Close
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| Sometimes, when your salespeople are trying to close a sale, the deal stalls, gets put-off, or simply doesn't close. This is followed by, well, follow up, leading to more put-offs. There are many reasons why this happens but for the purpose of this article, let's simply assume that the prospect has every reason to buy and the salesperson did not do anything glaringly wrong along the way. Simply a closable opportunity that hasn't closed yet. In situations like this, there are usually two things going on: |
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The Confidence to Let Go
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| It’s a challenge to really let go of our own private agendas. In working with clients, I often explore each opposite: “I want it my way” and “I let go”. These two points of view can fight it out within all of us and show up in our relationships with others. |
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There are always options ...
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| If you have ever been caught in a situation where it seems like there are no options the reality is that there are always options!
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Your Salespeople Can't Even Do That?
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| Salespeople, struggling with sales 101 type issues, don't let anyone know for fear that they would be perceived as inept, which, it turns out they are. |
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Personal Growth - Failure Consciousness versus Success Consciousness
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| After hearing a number of recommendations for the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, I downloaded a copy to listen to in the car. One of the first things the book says is to take it one chapter at a time, really absorb each one and integrate the ideas slowly, making them your own. Having to spend the next 2 hours in the car I initially scoffed at listening to just one chapter. The first profound statement hit me as the book unfolded in the first chapter. It said ‘the goal of this book is to help you move from a failure consciousness to a success consciousness’. I did indeed stop the book after the first chapter and give it some thought, which quickly made me realize how much of my life I have spent with a failure consciousness. |
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Make Money with Feel the Fear & Do It Anyway¡K¡K..by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
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| Tips on How to Build a Successful Business Online Even If You are New. |
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Managing Your Emotions after a Layoff
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| An article of 1072 words offering coaching tips and describing the three phases and corresponding emotions to expect after a layoff |
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3rd of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
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| This is the third in my series of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions.
#3 - MOTIVATION
Motivating your salespeople comes down to getting them to:
1. Do what they won't do on their own;
2. Change their behavior;
3. Do more of what they are already doing;
4. Have more of a sense of urgency;
5. Over Achieve
More... |
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7 Steps to Financial Freedom
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| Through my years of experience as financial consultant, and interviews with numerous successful people who have achieved financial freedom in their lives, I have developed a simple and practical method to help you create financial freedom – and abundance in your life as well. Financial freedom means different things to different people. The steps I am sharing with you will guide you to develop your own roadmap toward the ultimate freedom in your life.
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Transitioning From an Employee Mindset to a Business Owner Mindset
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| "Most of my 30 years as an employee in the corporate job culture was spent helping business owners run and build their businesses.
In corporate America, you work hard and do your best for your entire career.
You commute, work long hours, ignore your family, acquire excess stress, work to ensure that you keep your job AND that you save for the future of your family and your retirement.
All of a sudden you find yourself asking - what am I doing here? And how can I build a better life financially for myself and my family?" |
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Marketing Strategies: 7 Tips to Thrive in Today's Economy
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| Do you let depression about the economy get in your way? Learn how be successful no matter what the circumstances! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive. |
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Self-Coaching Tip: Look at the Expectations Behind Your Intentions
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| Surprised to find that any feelings of lack or fear could, without any effort on our part, completely affect the rest of our day. |
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Life Interrupted: How to Successfully Handle Unemployment.
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| Tips for successfully handling unemployment. Staying positive. Finding yourself in the midst of turmoil |
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Discovering A Leader's Defining Moment
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| Defining transitions are the greatest opportunities to live life doing what you are meant to do. Unfortunately for most of us, it takes a boulder to get our attention to move on and follow our destiny. The boulder usually is a loss of some kind or someone. Even though a relationship or event may not be a pleasant one, we know what to expect from it. What lies ahead during change is uncertain and scarier than the present experience. But when our thoughts are focusing on what's making us unhappy we actually attract more unhappiness. It is hard to believe that we would attract what we don't want, but our thoughts are energy in motion attracting more of the same.
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It's What You Don't Say that Runs the Show
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| I learned so much from my first life and business coach; lessons that I'm still using today in both my business and in my life as well as with my own coaching clients, some 20-plus years later. Now that's lasting value. (Thanks Judy B.)
One of the most valuable lessons revolving around communication was the principle -- "It's what you don't say that runs the show." To say it a bit more accurately, it's those things we feel like we can't say for fear that we'll get into trouble with the other person that end up shaping the relationship and often in ways that ultimately are unhealthy for everyone involved.
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Focus Speeds Up The Buying Cycle
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| What we focus on in life expands. Face it, life right now is busy, and with so much uncertainty and fear in our economic environment it is easy to get distracted. If you want to ease the stress in your life, take the edge off the anxiety and just bring the fun back into your everyday life, then learn to focus. |
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Asking for a Raise
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| Asking for a Raise |
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Five Tips for Creating C-Level Selling Confidence
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| One of the most powerful tools for C-Level Selling, selling to doctors or any influential people is confidence. So here a 5 tips to help you build your confidence. |
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Sneaking Up On Commitment
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| Forever can be a long time. For many of us the idea of
committing to something forever can be very intimidating and
bring us a lot of fear in recognition of our past failures.
This was certainly the case when my wife and I first met.
One of my fondest early recollections of Ann was during a
workshop on Prosperity Money when we first met. One of our
assignments was to list 100 things we wanted to do, be or
have. Ann was sharing with one of the participants in the
hallway prior to our workshop. I overheard her say that on
her list were two items: a committed relationship and a
romantic relationship. As a way to enter into the
conversation I asked her why those were 2 separate items.
Wasn't it possible to have a committed and a romantic
relationship as one? |
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The Fearless Factor by Jacqueline Wales
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| We've all heard the saying that life is a jungle and that idea is a big part of The Fearless Factor by Jacqueline Wales. She shares her story of what happened in her life, the trials and addictions that she went through and how she ultimately faced her fears and created the life that she wanted. This information is good for anyone facing fears, but for women or men who want to own their own business - the content of this book can be invaluable in their journey to success personally and in business. |
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Marketing Strategies: 7 Tips to Creating Success From the "Inside Out"
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| Are you letting life happen or actively creating your success? Learn how to build your foundation! This article gives you some great tips on how to create your success. |
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Multiple Streams of Income – The Marketer’s Dream
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| According to a recent survey, over 80% of the population is committing a serious lifestyle error. They are banking their entire livelihood on a single income. If that one income stream is disrupted, they will face a serious financial situation. |
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Speaking to Grow Your Business: Why You Need to Conquer the Fear
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| When I do workshops on marketing ...and mention that speaking is one of the most effective strategies for building a list of contacts who can’t wait to buy from them, most people in the audience look at me with that “no way in hell am I gonna do that” look.
What is it about speaking that makes it such a powerful marketing tool? Listed below are 3 benefits of public speaking.
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Building A Practice On Purpose Series Part #4 Identifying the Fear-based Culture of Your Business
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| In the personal life coaching I do as a Life On Purpose Coach I work with my clients to help them uncover their Inherited Purpose. This is the fear, lack, struggling to survive-based force that shapes people's lives especially whenever we feel threatened which for most people is quite often in today's times.
One way to think of a business is that it's a group of people who have come together for a common cause or purpose. For a veterinary practice that is generally to offer services to pets and their owners. So, it makes sense that when a group of people come together that their individual Inherited Purposes also come together to form a fear-based culture of business. |
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What We Can Do to Transform our World On Purpose
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| I recently read an interview of Marianne Williamson as she discussed her new book, The Gift of Change. During the interview she talked about the happenings around 9/11 and that we had an opportunity to engage in an authentic inquiry into such questions as, "Why do these people hate us?" Unfortunately, instead, we then turned away from the inquiry and chose a path of fear instead.
But perhaps it's not too late to engage in the inquiry again. As I started to do this for myself what came up was quite interesting.
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Motivated to Change
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| Article of 1132 words explaining how to motivate yourself to change by identifying your pain and envisioning your pleasure. |
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Do You Have Permission to Excel?
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| Your current abilities depend largely on how you experienced four important developmental factors as a child in relation to your budding skills. These four factors, Permission, Promotion, Protection and Power greatly influence the feelings we have about various skills whether it be joy, fear or even dread. The skills that inspire power and strength are most likely to bring the most joy and fulfillment and are worth your happiness to discover and develop. |
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The Silent Treatment
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| Do you use the silent treatment to control? Are you at the other end of someone who punishes you with the silent treatment? |
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CULTIVATING KINDNESS
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| This is the time when we should be mindful of being kind to others. They may be fearful as well and in the same mind frame. Being kind will spread positive energy that will not only help others but will come back to help you in such a huge way. When we are busy making sure that we have what we need, we can work from a place of fear. This is not in alignment with the Universe and will work against you in your effort to be okay. |
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Have you taken action on your marketing yet?
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| I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day about our newsletters. He said he received them and I asked him whether he found them useful. He said he did, but mentioned that 70% of what I included, he already knew. |
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Pay Yourself First
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| Compound interest is the key to building wealth. Simply put, it means investing some money, earning interest on your investment, and then leaving both the interest and the principal in place so that you begin to earn interest on your interest (as well as on your principal). |
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The Law of Attraction Can Work For You or Against You in Your Home Based Internet Business
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| The law of attraction is an incredibly powerful force which impacts our lives every day even if we are unaware of it's existence. We can either use it to become better human beings or we can ignore it and attract negativity into our daily existence. Those who know the value of giving understand how the process works. |
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Be A Student
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| The wonderful thing I am learning about “learning”, and I am hearing it from many different locations all at once, is simply this; When you truly enter into an attitude of learning, rather than one of thinking that you know it all, and you give yourself permission to be open to other people’s ideas and suggestions, the frequency of learning opportunities becomes infinite, and your potential of greater success becomes assured. |
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TRUST
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| It is popular amongst successful entrepreneurs to talk about certain intangibles that make for good business. Intangibles such as leadership, innovation, persistence and follow- through. I say this, because I too speak of these things, both passionately and often. Their importance goes without questioning. Each cannot be given, and consequently must be earned. Each is intrinsically valuable in and of itself, and may stand as a singular example of character. |
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How By Being in the Bottle Is Keeping You From Reading The Label and Growing Your Sales
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| Being in the box is a common analogy. How about being inside the bottle? If your goal is to increase sales, what is more productive, reading the label from inside the bottle or outside the bottle? |
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Yes You Can Compute Success and Turn Circumstances into Opportunities
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| It is normal to want to have a life that is fulfilling, happy and abundant. Hanging on to old perspectives and attachments to beliefs that are based on being right rather than happy are limiting, self destructive and keeps you trapped and living a mediocre life when you can have an extraordinary life. |
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Five 30-Second Emotional-Spiritual Techniques to De-Stress at Work
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| 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... |
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Digging Yourself Out Of A Deep Hole Of Fear, Lack and Struggle
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| Purposeful Point: No matter how deep a hole of fear, lack and struggle
we find ourselves in; it is possible to return to our true purpose.
Here are a few ways to bring our lives back on purpose.
It can happen to the best of us. We're cruising along in our lives
having a merry old time of living true to our life purpose where our
thoughts, decisions and actions are consistent with our vision for
what's possible, our core values, and even with the essence of our
very soul, when suddenly we hit a bump in the road. Some of those
bumps can be huge and can send us into a deep hole of fear, lack and
struggle.
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4 Marketing Basics Will Get You to 6-Figures and Beyond
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| There are four key areas where many business owners let fear make their decisions for them instead of tapping into the grace and ease of Divine Guidance. Discover a simple checklist for quieting fear and self-doubt to create a 6-figure (or beyond) business. |
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Empowerment, keep your power.
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| How women keep their power in business and life. |
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What Do You Need, A Mentor Or A Coach?
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| I don't know about you but I have been trying to get answers to this question. I have used these two words loosely and interchangeable. They are coach and mentor. Is there a difference between these words? Confusion again?
There are several definitions for the words mentor and coach.
A mentor is a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
A coach is to give instruction and advise. |
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How Are You Dealing With the Recession in Your Business?
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| As a business owner, we have an entirely different set of worries when something like the recession hits. Not only do we still have to maintain momentum and attempt to still drum up sales, we also have to worry about our families and ensure that no matter what happens, we'll still be able to provide for them. |
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Online Webinars - Events Worth Putting on Your Calendar
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| Online webinars are internet based events. Events in and of themselves have advantages for the business owners that promote them. An event like a webinar has a set schedule. Anything with a set schedule is more likely to draw in people with a higher level of commitment. |
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FEAR and RISK? What is holding you back?
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| Don't drop that egg!
While at the Nashville Zoo with my granddaughter, we watched as the zookeeper offered to let small children hold an ostrich egg. These amazing eggs are approximately 24 times the size of a chicken egg and weigh about 3 pounds. But rather than embracing a once-in-a-lifetime experience, almost without exception the parental caution was - "Now, don't drop that egg." |
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The Synapse of Trust
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| I have an interesting analogy about trust between people. I would like to read your thoughts on this way of expressing trust. Do you agree? What would you add? Please reas this article and let me know your opinion. |
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Start Home Business To Be Recession Proof
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| Every body knows we are in the middle of economic downturn,people have lost hopes,their futures are in a bleak.But the truth is you really dont need to rely on the government to solve your problems,you can take care of yourself and you wouldnt even know that there is recession,simply by being an entrepreneur. |
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A Great Adventure For Learning
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| Knowledge was quite proud of himself while arriving at school that warm sunny morning. He had gained some new information that he was sharing with everyone. In the teachers lounge, Knowledge was very excited while he told Wisdom, the principle what he had learned. |
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Hurricane Bill Wimped Out, You Don’t Have To
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| Now just because Bill wimped out doesn’t mean you have to.
What I mean by that is that working online there are lots of setbacks, warnings and precautions. |
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Are you arrogant or is it healthy self love?
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| There is a difference between thinking positive, loving thoughts about yourself and being arrogant. According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of arrogance is, “a feeling or an impression of superiority manifested in an over bearing manner or presumptuous claims.”
Arrogance comes from a place of thinking you’re better than others which is a place of judgment. And, this stems from fear, insecurity or ignorance. This it’s not genuine self-love.
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Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession; Building Relationships
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| In the online internet based industry it is very easy to forget that we are still in the people business. People by the millions from all over the world want to create their own profitable online business. They all have fears and concerns. Which system do I choose? Which MLM is more reputable? The list goes on and on. But the biggest fear or concern that they all have in common is; the need to be associated with caring and honest people. |
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How To Make A Ton Of Money With The One Tool You Already Have
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| Everyone wants the good life. What distinguishes a person who is successful from those who struggle? It is not a expensive tool, or money. It is something that everyone already has in their own possession. You will be glad to know you can get success today with applying this simple technique. |
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What if a Home You Stage Fails to Sell?
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| Expert home stager, Staging Diva, offers advice to home stagers concerned about what happens if a home they stage does not sell. |
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Do You See Opportunity or Crisis?
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| What if adopting a positive viewpoint changes our crisis into opportunity? |
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Marketing strategies: How to Stay Positive No Matter What
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| Is your mindset getting in the way of your success? This article gives you some great tips on how to find and keep positive energy in your life. |
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How To Be A Fearless Leader
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| To be a leader means you should be brave and fearless, this however is easier said than done. After all, everyone has their own set of fears and leaders are no different. Despite your existing fears however, there are ways of becoming a fearless leader and a good one at that. |
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How To Drive Your Business
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| When you first learned to drive a car (or bicycle), you probably looked at the road immediately in front of you. You were looking for potholes, the edges of the road, and other obstacles/hazards that you were heading for... |
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Thriving And Not Just Surviving Is The Key To Growth In Network Marketing
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| As a society and a culture we are programmed to survive. Not to thrive. For growth in network marketing this applies as much as anything. It’s all in your head. |
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Success and Fear
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| What you fear has no power until you give it yours.
When we fear something we are handing our personal power over to that which we fear. When we’re afraid of circumstances, situations or loss, we’re really giving our power away to the circumstance, situation or the loss.
So, whether we’re facing health issues, the bank manager, a hungry tiger or an uncertain tomorrow, we only become powerless when we surrender our power.
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Eating Sacred Cows
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| The ability to change and deal with change can challenge the best salesperson or leaders. Here are specific ideas that will help you move others through change. |
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Guarantee Your Success In Network Marketing Jobs! ~PART 2
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| To guarantee your success in network marketing jobs isn't an easy task. It takes a certain type of person and certain step to do that. A group of elite millionaire online entrepreneurs shared the steps with me and now I'm going to share them with you. Enjoy part 2 of this powerful article by Omari Taylor and learn exactly how to guarantee your success in network marketing jobs or any online business. |
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6 Ways To Be A Success At Failure
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| Whether you want to be a success or a failure is your choice. Sometimes being reminded of our behavior allows us to see how we are sabotaging our our success through a failure mentality. Do these six behaviors describe you? |
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Do I need to learn tips for Public Speaking?
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| It seems to come as a surprise to many that giving an effective presentation or speech is one of the key ingredients for a successful career – so you may want to learn some tips for public speaking.
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Make No Mistake, We Should Make More
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| Mistakes are anathema in our business culture, and actually our culture-at-large. Unfortunately, they are also a critical element of most successes, especially entrepreneurial ones. This article examines why and how we should embrace mistakes. Make no mistake, we should make more. |
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The Benefits of Heresy, or "What I learned from my summer reading"
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| There is more to life than mindlessly following the herd. But that is what we've been conditioned to do. There is incredible power in stepping outside the fold and becoming a heretic. Experience it for yourself. |
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Profitable Online business Ideas and the Recession; Increase Your Income
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| In these economic hard times everyone senses a high degree of fear and unrest. The typical reaction most people have is to “tighten your belt!” Many people will seek a part time job. Others will cling ever tighter to the job they have. Cutting corners and shaving the family budget is surely the norm. All of these things are a typical reaction. But is there another way? |
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Kid Business
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| Three Tips to Accessing Whatever and Whoever You Want. |
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Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession: Keys to Success Part 2
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| In the last article we discussed the need for change. Without the willingness to change, nothing will change in our life and circumstances. We can want change or things to change all we want. We can want change or desire for changes in our life till we are blue in the face, but nothing will happen till we take a step towards that change. You hear people all the time talking about wanting things to change in their lives, but sadly nothing ever does. Why? They seem to want things to change. They agonize over the things going wrong in their life, but nothing changes. In truth, things usually get worse. |
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Selling Doctors - Fear of the Doctor Is a Sales Person's Biggest Challenge
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| Sales people must realize that just because they are stuck with the subordinate, it doesn’t mean the subordinates control the decisions of what to buy and from whom. This article explains the situation and resulting problems. |
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Why Waste Another Day Wondering if Home Staging is Right for You?
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| Expert home stager, Staging Diva, encourages aspiring home stagers to stop putting off following their dream of being their own boss in a career they love. |
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Stop Being A Telephone Coward!
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| Chris Randolph, author of "The Sales Edge" and several other books on professional selling, marketing, internet marketing, personal development and motivation shares a couple ideas on how to overcome the fear of the telephone, sometimes called "call reluctance". |
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Cold Calling is Dead! Long Live Cold Calling!
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| I hear so many sales people making all sorts of excuses or giving reasons for not picking up the phone to prospective clients to find out how they might work with them. The common sense phrase 'If you take no action, nothing will happen' seems to be wasted on them! |
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How to Share Power in a Relationship: The Five Cs of Co-Creation
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| As a species, we are gradually moving from self-centered, adversarial uses of power to collectively sharing power for the mutual benefit of everyone. We are shifting from a paradigm characterized by "me or them" to "me and them." We are lifting ourselves into the realm of co-creation. It's going to take more than good intentions for us to pull this one off. We're all going to have to learn to think and behave differently in our business-as-usual routines.
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Keeping the Love Alive: Maintaining Good Feelings in Any Kind of Relationship (Part 1 of 2)
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| In general, our culture confuses sacrifice with love, teaching us the virtue of loving others more than ourselves. So we attempt to demonstrate or prove love with sacrifice, and we get upset or feel unloved if others won't sacrifice for us. Yet sacrifice is a wheel that crushes everyone who gets on it. |
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Welcome to the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
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| No one said life’s rules would be easy to live by, but there is something you can do to help you through the peaks and valleys. You can create your own rules to live by. Your first rule would be to get out of your own way so you can begin to see and live the type of life you ought to be living. Your second rule would be to make a solid commitment to yourself to never look back only forward and your third rule would be to believe in yourself making it impossible for anyone or anything to deter your missions. |
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Crazy Talk or Clear Communication?
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| Most people have learned to hide their feelings. They've learned to be guarded because dropping the mask and being emotionally honest can lead to feeling vulnerable. In the heat of the moment, it can be hard to see how honesty and vulnerability might be good, how completely disarming they can be and how important they are to building trust and compassion. |
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Discover the Benefits from the Most Ignored Resource
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| My observations, for the last ten years, on what resources are available for personal and professional growth, and how people use them have led to one key conclusion. To a great extend, people don't succeed because they ignore the most available and accessible resource-other people's experience.
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Motivating Others
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| People are self-motivated. The task is to find out what needs and values motivate the individual internally, or more importantly, how to select people who will be naturally motivated by what the environment and job offers. Check out the list of questions to ask.
It is an interesting paradox that as a parent, manager, supervisor, or owner, you can stifle motivation, but you cannot create it. If a person has been motivated in the past, but is not now, something may be going on at work or home which is stifling the person’s motivation. |
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Wealth Creation
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| Six Steps to Financial Freedom |
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Loyalty and Leadership - 8 Ways to Earn The Loyalty of Your Employees
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| Loyalty, like respect and trust, is not automatically yours just because you're a manager. You have to earn it. Why is it important in your role and what can you do to start earning it? |
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What would your sales-role and business be like with less fear?
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| If you remove fear from your sales-role and your customers experience your business will transform magically and only limited by your vision. Furthermore, if you can help your customers find or apply a sense of meaning to their lives the same magic applies. |
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Your Service Pricing: Get Ready For the Recovery
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| Wondering how to price services as the econmy recovers? Have you been pricing your services below value just to get and keep clients? 8 essential elements to raising your service prices as the economy recovers. |
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Two Minute Truth: HOW to AVOID DEATH in a TOUGH ECONOMY
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| Learn one quick strategy for surviving a tough economy! Um.... not appropriate for the very sensitive animal rights activist or the chronic excuse maker! |
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A-Z of sales success!
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| B is for Beliefs |
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A-Z of sales
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| C is for Confidence! |
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Credit Card Debt Settlement - Top 5 Things to Know
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| Negotiating settlements is one of the fastest ways to reduce large portions of your credit card debt permanently. Although there are many companies advertising on radio and television to work for you in settling your credit card debt, it is possible to do it yourself without paying additional fees or a percentage of the amount you save to a third party.
Here are five major points to keep in mind when settling your credit card debt. |
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What Makes Your Business So Special?
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| The one question every business, branding, and marketing consultant asks is "what makes you special; what makes you different?" If you want to grow your business and get to the next level, defining what makes you special is a good place to start. Most businesses are copycat companies, selling the same thing, in the same way as most of their competitors, making for a real challenge in providing an adequate answer to the "what makes you so special?" question. But fear not, it is easier than you think. |
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How Working From Home Has Changed My Life
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| Learn how I became an entrepreneur working from home and how it has changed my life |
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Is Fear Making Your Decisions?
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| Did you ever notice how comfortable you can become with fear? So comfortable that you don’t even know that Fear is making decisions for you? |
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Choosing A Path
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| Reading in the airport while waiting for a flight to Houston, a housekeeper was tidying around me when approached by another facilities employee. After a few minutes of easily overheard chit-chat, she received coaching from her now apparent supervisor.
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Relationship Breakup: Heartbreak and Healing
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| Are you suffering from the heartbreak of a broken relationship? Do you feel like you can't live without your partner? Discover the likely cause of this heartbreak and how to heal it. |
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Face it and You Win!
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| 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.
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Why Managers and Supervisors ARE NOT the Best Communicators During Times of Change
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| Most of the programs fail to manage change within organizations...Here’s why managers & supervisors are not the best face to face communicators during times of change.
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Breaking Barriers To A Better Life
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| In this article, I would like to share some ideas of what might be holding you back from a better life. We'll briefly look at the subject of "barriers" and I will reveal some simple steps on how to overcome the obstacles in your life. |
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Adjusting To The Moment Can Be Dangerous
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| Many people adjust their lives moment-to-moment rather than setting forth specific plans and sticking to them. Obstacles will always come on the way to your goals and it is up to you to stay disciplined, without fear, and maintain focus on what you want.
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Addicted to Disaster
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| A person can become addicted to most anything. Besides drugs and alcohol, addictions can be toward different foods, television, people, work, spending, internet (especially email), fear, and one of the most addictive things for the majority of people--disaster! That's right. Most people are addicted to disaster, their own or other people's. |
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Anger is Fear Based
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| You cannot be angry without being afraid of something. If you want to resolve your anger, locate the underlying fear. This article will help you to identify and handle the underlying fear. |
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Eliminate the Fear of Speaking
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| Feeling nervous before you speak in front of a room full of people is quite common among the majority of people today. It may help if you understand why the body goes into a complete fearful state when asked to give a speech. Below are 4 strategies to eliminate the fear of speaking and gain confidence. |
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Nine Ways to Guarantee Business Failure
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| Discover the nine "sins" business owners commit that lead to their own business failure... including how the Law of ACTION assists the "Law of Attraction"... how (and where) sales are made... and more down and dirty business truths. This quick article is built on Michelle's own experience and that of her clients, but greatly assisted by wisdom found on the back of a Starbucks cup AND the first man to profitably combine RATS and FOOD.. the founder of the Chuck E. Cheese empire! Enjoy! |
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Take the bite out of cold calling with these helpful strategies.
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| 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.
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Are You Marketing With Adrenalin?
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| Someone recently asked me if the only way to cause people to react emotionally to your marketing message is by using fear (fear of the unknown, loss, death, family, job, etc.). |
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Trust&Faith vs Fear&Doubt
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| People often behave exactly how we expect them to behave with us.
If we trust, they are trustworthy. |
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Recession Rescue -- Lessons Learned from Dan Kennedy
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| Don't panic. Yes we're in a recession. Yes the government is doing crazy things. Yes we have pirates and pig flu and everything else. But you shouldn't be panicking because it's very possible for us to not just survive but thrive. |
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There's a new breed out there
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| Is it just me, or does there seem to be a new breed of people out there – I’m noticing them when I’m driving around. Several times over the last few months, I’ve had people crossing the road when my car is coming quickly towards them. |
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Why Is it Difficult to Change?
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| This month a lot of changes are on the horizon and I thought it might be interesting to tackle the subject of change and why it is difficult to change. |
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How to Overcome Fears and Obstacles
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| While everyone has fears and obstacles, some people have a harder time overcoming their fears compared to others. This can prevent a great deal of personal growth, including job and career possibilities, finding more satisfying relationships, and even a better quality of life.
Living with too much fear is bound to give you less energy and more frustration. After awhile, fears can even feel bigger than life, leaving you little room to grow. Fear can cause you to fear paralyzed, incapable, and constantly frustrated. |
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Intention is Everything!
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| Setting an Intention each morning changes your whole experience. |
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Run And Hide
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| You have choices during these tough times. You can run and hide or be bold, brazen and brave - it's up to you! |
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Paralyzed by Fear
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| Fear can be a useful tool or a crippling enemy in the work environment. Read on to find out how you can turn your fear into a useful, profitable, and conquerable tool. |
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Can Honest Copywriting Succeed?
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| Honest copy is more effective than "hype copy" if it treats the reader as intelligent. Readers will believe honesty but see through hype. And yet, a good honest marketing piece can be just as captivating as hype, with none of the negative baggage. |
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To Thine Own Self Be True - It's Better for Business - What Arthur Andersen Would Say to His Company
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| What Arthur Andersen would have said about the ethics scandal that destroyed the company he founded...and why saying no to the wrong client or request can jumpstart your business. As a child, you probably heard, "to thine own self be true." |
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Five Easy Tips To Repel Money
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| Everybody talks about the Law of Attraction. Attract Money. Manifest wealth. Blah blah blah blah blah. You can chant and vibrate all you like, but good luck becoming a money magnet when money finds you repulsive.
Got too much cash? Here are five easy things you can do TODAY to repel money faster than you can say Fannie Mae and AIG:
1) LET PEOPLE OWE YOU MONEY
Remember that $5,000 you lent to your cousin/sister/nephew/friend? Forget about it. You don’t want to make waves, right?
Wrong.
One of the most foolish, money-repelling actions you can take is to loan money to people who have been irresponsible with their own. If they didn’t respect their own money, they aren’t going to respect yours… and when you allow people to disrespect your money, YOU’RE disrespecting your money. When money isn’t respected, it leaves. |
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CONFIDENT NETWORKING - how to talk to anyone, anywhere at any time
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| Networking can be a daunting task when individuals fear what has often been termed "making small talk". This article provides the basic communication skills together with a proven formula for ensuring that an individual can talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime about anything. |
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Values: Your Compass for Life - Part II
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| While there’s no guarantee that your offspring and heirs will follow your example in life or wholeheartedly embrace your beliefs, methods or values, don’t underestimate the impact you can have on your family. It’s always worthwhile to make the effort to pass a compass for life to the next generation. Here are some practical ways you and your loved ones will benefit from living by clearly defined values. |
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Learn How to Be Happy
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| An article of 1198 words explaining how the path to happiness is to identify and eliminate the things that feel bad and identify and include the things that feel good |
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Daily Anxiety
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| For independent professionals who work alone, finding a way to handle isolation and daily axiety is key to sanity. |
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A Walk in the Woods for An Entrepreneur
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| A story of how Helen Solomons finds peace and realization as an entrepreneur during walks in the woods. |
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How To Make Your Business Message Go Viral
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| I am often asked what tricks people can use to get their video or product announcement to go “viral” (spread online quickly). In almost all cases, people are trying to make an entertaining message get passed around like a funny joke... |
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Leadership Tip - Stop Choking Dreams With Fear & Doubt
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| Most people walk around with submerged dreams filled with fear and doubt. We all have dreams of something better: A better career, a better relationship, a better environment, a better lifestyle, a better financial portfolio, or whatever we want to improve in our life. Just because we want something better doesn’t necessarily mean there is something wrong with what you have - it just means you are following the natural course of life. You are meant to evolve and grow. Nothing, nothing stays stagnate. Yet most people keep trying to get something better using the same thoughts and skills from the past. |
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Overcome Excuses And Achieve The Success You Dream Of
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| Excuses are driven by fear and negative emotions that keep us from realizing our ambitions. That's why you need Excuse Busters! By learning to control these fears we need not make excuses. Being too busy is not an excuse, nor is not having the money or having the relevant qualification. |
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Time to Re-Finance or Buy a Home?
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| Veteran Financial Planner goes through the bold moves by the Fed and the Treasury and explains how they will affect you! |
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Efficient Ordering
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| Ordering is a critical part of maintaining a lean and efficient inventory for your store. A few simple best practices can help you keep track of this to save time and money. |
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Do you communicate effectively inside your company?
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| The customer has gone out the door; he has just placed a large forward order for delivery next march. Can you be sure that he will get what he expects? Is your internal communication up to scratch? This article gives you some tips. Your company is only as strong as its weakest link - but it is up to you to check the strength of them all regularly! |
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Is your marketing painful?
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| Marketing a business (or in my case a health care practice) needs some pain. We need to remind our prospects of why they need to use our services, and give them the option of chosing us. Pretty, pretty marketing just won't do! |
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The Boomer Survival Guide
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| If the name of the game is 'Life', then 'uncertainty' is how it's played. All the other illusions are merely debilitating distractions along the way. |
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Sales Tip - Stupendous Sales Results Accent Tremendous Value and Avoid Horrendous and Hazardous Actions
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| Salespeople get more sales with a focus on the only four words in the English language, which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. |
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Desire Rain
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| Deep within your being is your higher self. It is the creative force within you that’s responsible for bringing abundance into your life. It does not know of any bounds and cannot be contained. It is boundless and eternal. Within this higher self is the spark of thought and creation. This is where our desires are born. Our desires explode with potential and promise. It rains down upon our thinking mind and throughout our entire consciousness. It is here that it is ready to be released upon the universe. Once it is unleashed, it alters and forms our life and our reality. It is what bends the Universe to our will. |
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Captivate Buyers in 5 Words
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| Write Headlines that Really Sell |
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How To Grow Your Business By Ignoring Bad News
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| People need to eat. Those people are both your customers and your employees. You, as the business owner, marketing professional, or generally responsible businessperson, have a role to play to ensure that you and those around you continue to eat. The question, though, is how can you continue your business when everywhere you look you see bad economic news.
Ignore it. |
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It’s Never Too Late To Succeed In Life
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| Are you past forty, fifty, or heading to sixty and you haven't achieved your dream
of a successful, rich, and independent life? Are you now afraid that age is catching
up on you fast and you might never be be able to taste success in your life
time? If you are, I have good news for you. Age is never a barrier to
success, and the success stories of George Burns and Colonel Sanders
will definitely fire you up! |
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Keys To Success: Four Step Plan To Move From Employee To Business Owner
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| A lot of people start out as employees and hope that one day they would be able
to gain financial success and control of their lives by owning there own business.
But unfortunately, they never do. I'm sharing with you in this article success keys
that will enable you to transcend from an employee to a successful business owner.
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Borrow Some Brains
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| 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! |
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Do You Feel Anxiety When Speaking?
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| There are hundreds and hundreds of articles around the Internet helping you to overcome the fear of Public Speaking. You may have seen some.
And the vast majority help you overcome the fear of getting onto the platform, standing up and actually starting to speak. |
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Revising the Forbes Message of the Day for the Sales Force
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| The Forbes Success Calendar for 2/25/09 said, "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of our living. Out of our overconfidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." - Bruce Barton
I think this quote requires a serious revision - for the sales force and for the company.
First, let's make it shorter. |
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How Sales Is More About Playing the Odds Than You Might Think
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| Are you one in 10 or one in nine? Will you change your behaviors when confronted with facts, fear or force? What are you willing to do to increase sales? |
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Is Fear Running Your Life? How To Find Your Courage Amidst Adversity
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| Terrorism, recession, identity theft, melting ice caps, corporate downsizing, and various predators. Every day headlines bombard us with reasons why we should hunker down, play safe, avoid risk and settle for less than what we want out of life. This is why every day we need to be vigilant of fear mongering, mindful of the oppressive impact of fear and discerning of which ones we pay heed to. |
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Want to Skyrocket Your Career During This Recession?
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| Tips on how to thrive in your career despite an economic recession |
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What are You Really Afraid of?
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| You were not born afraid of spiders, monsters under your bed, rejection, aliens, bankruptcy, flying, speaking in public, loneliness or anything else you can think of. |
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What Do Men in China Do?
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| A secret of men's lives in China. |
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FEAR: Overcoming The Single Biggest Factor That Holds People Back
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| Fear can trap us in lives of quiet desperation that leave us thirsty for purpose, hungry for depth and disconnected from the unique potential that lies within us. New studies in brain plasticity have proven that by doing what scares us, we can build our 'courage muscles' and take our careers, relationships and lives to new levels of success. It ultimately comes down to making a courageous choice. |
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The Art of HAVING and ATTRACTING The Money You Want In Your Business
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| When I say, “Think Abundance,” the first thing that comes to most minds is the lack of money flowing around and the fear that nothing is coming in. When I say, “Think Abundance,” around my wealthy clients (meaning they already feel they have plenty of money), I find they think about life experiences and love – not money. |
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Building Bares All - Property Insurance
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| Originally published Jan 27, 2009 on my website, i discuss the importance of building construction when choosing a location for your business |
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Top 10 (Easy) Ways to Ask for the Business
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| Forget spiders, snakes, and being naked in public--the scariest thing for most of the small business owners I know is asking prospects for business! If popping the sales question is one of your greatest fears, take heart.. |
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Taking Control of the Fear
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| “Successful salespeople know what to do. And they do what losers refuse to do.”
Why is it that in any sales organization, a small number of sales people out sell the rest by a substantial majority? The average sales person does not do what the peak performer is willing to do. It’s all about action! |
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I Want To Hold Your Hand
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| I talk with many sales people who have expressed frustration about their prospect’s current state of mind. We have all agreed that there are buyers out there, although fewer than in the past. They also aren’t acting like “buyers”. Prospects are faced with a degree of fear, either real or perceived, about the state of the economy. Although they have a real need, have the resources, and the job security to commit to a purchase, their interest quickly wanes.
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What Changes Are You Avoiding In Your Life?
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| Change is a constant in our lives and yet so often we resist it. As human beings, we are wired to avoid change because any type of change, even change for the better, involves a level of discomfort in some shape or form. Find out what comfort zones are and why it's good to step out of those zones and meet those changes head on. |
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Sales Tip – Sales Grow When Fear Drops and Creativity Rules
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| Salespeople can get a selling edge, even during an economic down turn, by dropping their fear and kicking creativity into action. |
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Seven Key Words for Success
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| These seven words, when used properly, hold the key to finding answers and solutions to every problem, obstacle, or barrier you will encounter. When you are faced with a problem, look at this list to determine what you need to do or be to solve it.
1. Change
To make things different in your life, you have to make one or more changes. Change happens all the time, and there is nothing we can do about it. Few things in life are static or permanent, and the "status quo" is never permanent. There are only two things in life that never change: truth, and the fact that everything else changes. Regardless of your background, you can become more. |
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Three Rules for Relational Success
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| To create closeness and intimacy with other people-male or female, young or old, family or friends-apply the following three rules in any circumstance.
1. Be willing to trust that others will not hurt you. You must take the risk of being let down, ignored, manipulated, judged, or hurt. Even if it is risky, share your real feelings. The closer you are with someone, the more of you they can see. When you are close to someone's heart, or they to yours, you can see each other's concerns more easily. This can be risky when you don't know what they will do with what they see. That is where trust comes in. |
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Negativity is Like a Cancer
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| Negativity is evident in many workplaces, and it really saps the energy of an organization. I believe negativity is like a disease that will spread if not managed well. The analogy is developed in this article along with several antidotes to negativity. |
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How to Take Proper Action
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| The Success Attitude formula makes achieving your Core Desires simple.
The Success Attitude formula shows you how to unlock and open the door of opportunity.
Success Attitude = (Core Desires + Direction) X Proper
Action + Persistence
Without proper action, you can't obtain your Core Desires. A Latin proverb says, "If there is no wind, row." I add, "Row with both oars, but first untie the boat from the dock." The Conquering Force is the power that causes you to take the proper steps, no matter what the risk or how many obstacles you encounter. |
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Accounting Software- A Business Model
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| Business owners can have much better control of their accounting and operating software if they own the source code. Software developers can provide the control by offering the source code that includes the general accounting and the clients' unique application. |
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Boosting Your Profits in This Recession - Part 1
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| There are two types of responses a business owner may have to this recession.
One is to panic, which fills your mind with fear, doubt, worry, anxiety and bitterness. The second is to get better. If you are serious about surviving and thriving past this recession, you need to get serious about getting better in all aspects of your business.
But, first things first - you need to start by knowing where exactly your business is strong and precisely where it needs reinforcement. Whether your goal is to increase your total net profits by $10,000 or by $10 Million, you need to isolate individual values that collectively contribute to that goal. Remember that performance measured is performance gained. |
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Take Charge to Create a Healthy Financial Future
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| An article of 1670 words detailing the beliefs systems that operate currently in our society that are leading us down the wrong path and will need to change if we are to build a healthy future economy |
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Why Fearbased Selling Is A Bad Bet
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| If you’ve worked to make your product or service the best it can be, and you’re still using fear-based marketing, shift your approach and see what happens. People will want to work with you, not out of fear, but because they trust you; you solve a problem for them, you’re reliable, you make them feel good about their purchase. They want to work with you, or buy your product out of trust, not fear. |
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Fearless Business Growth: Making 2009 Big, Bold and Profitable ... Even in a Recession
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| Are you or your company becoming a"shrinking violet" in this economic downturn? Do you find yourself controlled by a "wait and see" attitude, hoping the future will magically get better? Do you realize that, if you don't put the brakes on this no-win thinking and behavior soon, 2009 will be more of the same ... or worse? I am challenging every executive and entrepreneur to go against the "herd mentality" paralyzing the business world and drive your own reality in 2009. In this article are 7 "must do's" how. |
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DON'T LET THE RECESSION SCARE YOU.
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| Don't be scared of the business downturn. Focus. Stay positive and optimistic even if and when things look like they are falling apart. Things will get better. |
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Franchise Opportunities many don't know about.
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| One of the most common question I am always asked is "What's Hottest business out there?" The reason people ask that, is because everybody wants to be on board when the next "Best Thing" comes out. Today, I am going to tell you how to be the first to bring the "Next Best Thing" to your area, your city or your country. There are two opportunities available with Franchises that most people do not know about: Master Franchisee and Area Developers. |
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Do Customers Really Buy Price?
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| We hear it all the time... but is that what they really buy? |
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Three Tricky Questions On Trust
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| Trust is a very interesting subject. It is central to good leadership and a critical component of any good culture. Yet, trust is an enigma. This article asks three probling questions about trust that will get you thinking. |
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Leadership Development: FUD to FUN
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| The FUD Factor tends to sneak up just around the time of the changing of the seasons. This is where at work you may be falling short of what was projected for the first quarter.
FUD FACTOR: fear, uncertainty and doubt have a way of making the lights dimmer, the tinsel less sparkly, the bells sound tinny, and the gifts not just right. There is a certain need to be perfect, to be disappointed if we come up even just a few inches short of what we think should have happened. We are hard on ourselves; and way too often, we are also hard on those around us. |
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How to Sell in a Recession
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| During these times of shrinking budgets & revenue you can with turn them to your advantage by providing your customers with effective solutions to make them more efficient. |
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Your Intuition is Speaking. Are You Listening?
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| The voice that says “YES, this is the right decision”, “No, let’s pass on this”, or even “Hmm, let’s mull this over a bit.” In each instance your voice within advises you to take action, even if it is in-action. But do you really listen to it, or do you scoff at the idea that you actually pay attention to your inner voice? |
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Yearn, Learn and Earn Through the Art of Pretending
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| Yearning is the catalyst to learning what you yearn to do, be and have and then earning an income from what you yearn. There are so many professionals in careers where they choose to learn based on the income potential rather than looking at a career more in alignment with what they really wanted to do. Unfortunately, this brings more suffering and stress in spite of the financial rewards. |
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Learn How to Make FEAR Your Ally
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| Do you fear the unknown? Or perhaps you are completely aware of the things that make you fearful. Did you know that fear is the major cause of failure? It is not failure itself or the action taken to pursue an idea or dream, but the inaction that is the result of fear.
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Practice Landing Your Next Client
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| In an exclusive interview with web copy expert, Nick Usborne, Rebecca Matter, Vice President of Marketing for AWAI, shows you step-by-step how to pitch your services, negotiate your fees and land clients. |
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Your Setbacks and Cynics Don't Define You. Your Responses Do
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| The people history recorded as the most accomplished were not born with some super human like resilience that shielded them from disappointment, self-doubt or misgivings. Each had to wage their own inner battles with fear as they worked to overcome the obstacles that lined their path to success. What they ultimately learned was that your setbacks & cynics don't define you. Your responses do. |
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