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E-Mail Tip #11 - Create a Set of Rules for Your Organization
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| It is amazing how some organizations live in a perpetual state of e-mail overload when there is a very simple way out? This article suggests each group create a set of rules to use. My experience is that doing this can cut the volume of notes from 30% to 50% very quickly. Wouldn't your group benefit from all that extra time? |
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10 Paths to Accessing Peace
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| Accessing peace is essential to expanding our ability to receive and live fulfilling lives. Therefore, the quicker and more easily you can return to peace, the better. Below are 10 strategies to utilize when you would like to consciously increase feelings of peace inside of you, whether you are in turmoil or already at peace. |
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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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Mortgage Pre Approvals – Examining the Importance
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| For those of you that have never owned a home before, you likely do not grasp the importance of mortgage pre-approvals. It is a crucial facet of making the purchase of a home go faster and less stressful. While the outset of shopping for a home can be thrilling, it loses its attraction when you continually get let down with high prices you cannot afford. By starting your housing search with a pre-approval, you will know exactly how large of a loan you will be able to acquire. This means, once you pass the information to your Realtor, that you will only be shown homes you can actually afford. This is beneficial in saving you time and minimizing frustration. |
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Develop These Attributes For Achievement
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| Have you ever noticed that some people achieve significantly more success than others? And that they do it with less effort and frustration?
There are abilities or skills that we can develop in ourselves or our people that help lead to this. In this article you will learn about 5 powerful attributes that can lead to higher achievement when developed. |
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Avoid Jack In The Box Meetings
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| This article is about some frustrations that occur in meetings and how to avoid them. It highlights one symptom where people get up to leave a meeting only to be called back into session for another issue. I call these Jack-In-The-Box Meetings. |
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Commit to changing your life THIS MONTH
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| Do you have habits, issues, situations and people in your life which continue to cause you upset and frustration? Are you stuck in a rut continuing in the same old patterns where nothing changes? Are you feeling hopeless and frustrated that things will never improve? If so, I ask you, how many more months; years are you going to continue with these issues?
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Do You Get Frustrated With Others?
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| Do you believe that your frustration with others is being caused by them? Discover the real reason for frustration. |
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Fear Tears Frustration
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| You too have a Negative-Nellie in your head that can be a great source of fear, tears or frustration in your business. The key to achieving your goals is to persist and do it anyway. |
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Lesson #1: Never Compromise on Your Goals
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| “Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.” |
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Lesson #2: Know Yourself
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| In order to succeed, you need to know what you are good at. A talent, according to Lucas is “a combination of something you love a great deal, something you can lose yourself in – something that you can start at 9 in the morning, look up from your work and it’s 10 o’clock at night – and something that you have a natural ability to do very well.” |
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Lesson #2: Build A Powerful Brand
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| In 2005, Branson said his goal was to turn Virgin into “the most respected brand in the world.” Branson is not far off from achieving his goal. Virgin was recently found to be one of the UK’s top three favourite and most respected brand names and both the brand and the man behind it are known throughout the world. |
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A Passion for Fashion: Wang Gets Down to Business
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| Wang’s work schedule as a design director for Ralph Lauren was far less hectic than it had been at Vogue, allowing her more time and freedom to engage in other pursuits. One of those pursuits just happened to be falling in love. |
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The Entrepreneur As Systems Thinker: Getting Down to Basics
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| In my last article, I discussed the unique quality that makes world class entrepreneurs different than simply owners of businesses. I said that true entrepreneurs are Systems Thinkers. I then went on to define that peculiar quality of systems thinking that true entrepreneurs are blessed with. (If you have not read that article, please do so. It will provide you with a platform of understanding to better relate to this article: Getting Down to Basics of Systems Thinking.) |
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The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists
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| Venture capitalists are simple people: we've either decided to invest, and we are convincing ourselves that our gut is right (aka, “due diligence”) or there's not a chance in hell. While we may be simple, we're not necessarily forthcoming, so if you think it's hard to get a “yes” out of venture capitalist, you should try to get a conclusive “no.” |
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CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO MONEY FOREVER!
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| Most of us were never taught how to win the money game and if we were, most likely we were taught by people who weren’t very good at it. – T. Harv Eker |
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A Rose By Any Other Name
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| Here is something different for milestone Tip 100. I hope you will forgive - actually, appreciate - the personal nature and length of this message. My dear aunt passed away last week and the experience taught me a few life lessons I'd like to share with you this holiday season:
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The Formula that Changes EVERYTHING
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| It seems that everywhere you turn these days, you hear people talking about the economy. |
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Even George Washington Almost Got Canned Once
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| Did you know that in 1777, there was an effort to force George Washington to retire from the military service? I didn't -- until I took a look at Mark McNeilly's George Washington and the Art of Business: Leadership Principles of America's First Commander-in-Chief. |
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The 5 Things People Really Buy
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| No matter how many shiny, cool features and benefits you cram into your marketing messages, brochures and presentations, you better find ways to help the prospect get what they really want. And, no matter if you sell heating and cooling services, legal services, hand painted greeting cards, or consulting, at the end of the day, your customers all buy some variation of the same five things. |
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The Magic Formula to Better Results: It's Your Response that Counts
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| In today's economic times, when everywhere you look there’s a rumbling of great uncertainty, I think we should all take a pause (and a deep breath) to think about our lives.
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The Importance of Listening in Communication
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| At first glance communication with another person
seems relatively easy. This month I had two different experiences that
showed me how tricky it is to understand what a person does or doesn't
say. Taking the time to listen to others is important whether you are
lawyer, a manager or an employee. |
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Yoga Thinking to Improve a Bad Week
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| You can get beyond frustration, anger, sadness and other difficult feelings by observing what is happening in your mind and with your feelings. It is pretty simple to liberate yourself! |
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Breaking Through the Frustration of An Entrepreneurs Addiction to Work
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| Giving up is not an option for an addicted entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs have succumbed to the temptation, however. Ancient wisdom tells us that anxiety is fear of the future and frustration is actually a good emotion. Frustration in thought is merely indecision. Should I do this or do that? Should money be my end goal or something more spiritual? |
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Building Trust When Your Boss Sucks At It
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| Building an environment of high trust is a lot of work. It can be even more difficult if the bosses above you in the organization have no clue as to how to build trust. This article deals with the common phenomenon of a clueless boss. |
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Change in Mindset
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| The economic downturn has created a sense of disillusionment and frustration among thousands who find themselves standing on the outside of the employment gate. The key to change is not to sit and wait, but to take affirmative steps forward by, first, examining how you think and what you do. The key to success starts with reformatting your mindset to focus on what you can still accomplish. |
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Developing a Proactive Sales Strategy
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| In today's economy customers have less time to meet with you and they are much more skeptical which results in anxiety, stress and feelings of frustration on the part of your sales force. This leads to a reactive mindset instead of a proactive mindset. A sales person's mindset is powerful and it has a direct impact on self-esteem, levels of expectations and ultimately leads to poor performance, call reluctance and an attitude of complacency. Opportunities are missed and relationship equity with many customers may suffer.
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Employee Frustration in a Customer-Based Organization
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| By now we all must have heard of the infamous Steven Slater formerly of JetBlue, whom made a vivid exit from his place of employment after reaching his breaking point on the job. While many employees who have had their fair share of frustration on the job applaud his approach…many wonder what caused a man who had a 20-year career in customer service to end it as dramatically, and unexpectantly as he did. In this edition of Astronology, we take a look at the customer-based frustrations employees face. |
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Top 10 Rules for Getting Your Salespeople to Follow Your Sales Process
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| Sales Management's number one priority is to assure that their salespeople don't fall into old habits, take shortcuts, get lazy, or avoid steps in the sales process where they aren't as skilled or comfortable. Once your customized, optimized, integrated sales process is in place and introduced, my top 10 rules for all things sales process, strategy and tactics are: |
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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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Why not be a player!
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| Are you working too hard? Maybe that's your problem! |
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Accountability Factor for Clients and others
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| Have clients be accountable would be a heven sent for many salespeople, here is how you can make it happen for you. |
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Making your 2010 Goals Work
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| How avoidance can cause goals to be useless. How to overcome the avoidance. |
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Home Based Business - Negative Consequences of Setting Unrealistic Goals
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| Home based business owners need to understand the importance of setting realistic goals and then focusing all their efforts to achieve them. Without goals you will not have any way to measure your success. You will be like a ship at sea without a rudder. Without goals you may not be able to achieve targets or assess your potential as an entrepreneur. Goals provide an opportunity to test your skills and business acumen required to run a home based business.
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Why 97% Of All Marketers Will Never Become A Top Producer In Their Primary Business!
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| Let's face it, Internet marketing is not an easy game to play. It appeals to the masses because it appears simple yet very lucrative. People see the stories of the average person making millions online and immediately think to themselves, "If they can do it, I can do it". This is absolutely true but unfortunately when you enter this game you really have no idea what you are getting yourself into. The dreams of living in the fancy house and driving the expensive cars come to mind, excitement and urgency are some of the emotions that they feel. But once the initial "work" is started all motivation is lost and those once positive emotions turn into frustration and doubt. This article will explain how I was able to become a top producer in my primary business. |
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Handling a Bad Hire, Part 1
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| Sometimes it doesn’t become clear until a person has actually started working for a business that she simply doesn’t fit with the team. Whether she doesn’t do what she’s supposed to, takes too much responsibility or just has a personality that doesn’t mix, a business owner, as team leader, must decide what to do. This article outlines the different ways different types of female entrepreneurs may handle the situation. |
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5th of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
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| This is the 5th in my series of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions.
#5 - DEVELOPMENT
Development is the ongoing development of your salespeople. It includes - and goes beyond: |
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Loving The Frustration of Building an Online Business
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| I know building an online business has moments of frustration. I've got a few tips to help you see the good in the frustration. |
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Be Consistent & Keep Your Customers Happy
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| One of the things that frustrate me the most as a customer is inconsistent service standards, inconsistent procedures and people’s inability to deal effectively and honourably with different types of people. If left unchecked this leads to confusion, frustration, wasted time, wasted effort, impaired brands and reputations, lost revenue and lost customers.
These issues don’t seem to be as much of an issue when you deal with very small companies because usually everyone knows what everyone else is doing and how it should be done even if it is only via word of mouth. However as businesses expand and get on board more people to work in the front line you, as the customer can’t always expect to get the same person to deal with then the challenges begin. |
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Put An Issue On the Table
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| Every day we find ourselves having to work through issues that come up in our relationships. Opportunities to express your concerns or opinions are never too far away. But, do you act on those opportunities or shy away from them? What is the one thing you should do to improve the quality of those relationships? |
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Should I fire my bad clients?
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| Run a mental checklist over your client base right now. Who fits into the ‘good’ client list and who falls into the ‘bad’ client list?
It all really depends on what you define as good and bad.
As we know not all clients are good for your business. Some clients are a wrong fit for your business but could be a good fit for someone else; therefore in of themselves they are not necessarily ‘bad’.
However, others are just downright bad for your business. |
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Making the EXCEPTIONAL Normal Part 3 - Employee Perspective
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| Now that you have a sense for what the Making the EXCEPTIONAL Normal system can do for you and your company. Let's see how employees feel about it. |
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How Do You Deal With Disappointment?
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| I am sure that you have had your own share of disappointments. Perhaps you are working through one
(or several) right now. Disappointment is an emotion we feel when we don't get the outcome we want or expect. How are you going to deal with disappointment? |
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Dealing with Job Search Discouragement
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| You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t feel discouragement while you are unemployed. We attach too much of our worth and self-esteem to our jobs and consequently, when we are “in between opportunities,” it’s natural to feel anxious at times. |
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The Priorities Game
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| Each one of us is a valuable resource and we all have gifts we are meant to use in service to others. There are demands on our time constantly. How do we pick and choose where we will use our time and energy? It’s tough!
The Priorities Game can help. I use it with many of my clients. Just apply these few simple questions to any demand on your time before you make a decision. You will be more intentional about your choices. Follow through based on your answers and you’ll experience more focused energy and peace. |
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Where You Can Turn Frustration and Being Flippant Into Big Dollar Business?
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| The lonely old potato chip, today it is a Billion dollar industry.
Started out of frustration. |
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Motivation or Sales Process?
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| Many people are looking for a quick fix when it comes to..... |
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Fire Your Boss Fast With a Online Home Business Opportunity
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| Do you go to work frustrated everyday? Do you barely have money to pay your bills? Are you tired of getting up so early that you can't have breakfast with your family? Well I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be that way. And in this economy it's only going to get worse. With the current economic state of our country right now having a job is the worst possible thing! Many people are turning to online home business opportunities... |
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Pirates of MLM Network Marketing! Don't Let Them Rob Your Dreams! ~Part 2
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| There are two MLM network marketing pirates that are stealing people's dreams and their chances of success online. One of them is unknown to most people and the other is usually not taken seriously. But yet they are the biggest threat to your dreams and success. 97% of people online are failing because of one of these or both of these MLM network marketing pirates. Discover how to guarantee your success and prevent these MLM network marketing pirates from stealing your dreams and potential to succeed in your online business. |
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Pirates of MLM Network Marketing! Don't Let Them Rob Your Dreams! ~Part 1
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| There are two MLM network marketing pirates that are stealing people's dreams and their chances of success online. One of them is unknown to most people and the other is usually not taken seriously. But yet they are the biggest threat to your dreams and success. 97% of people online are failing because of one of these or both of these MLM network marketing pirates. Discover how to guarantee your success and prevent these MLM network marketing pirates from stealing your dreams and potential to succeed in your online business. |
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No one knows the troubles I have seen
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| My recent experiences with a technical support call center have left me wondering what we might be doing that’s getting in the way of our success - processes we follow because "that’s the way things are done here". What 'scripts' should we change to improve understanding, increase creativity or improve our effectiveness? |
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Annoying Customer Behaviors
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| If you're looking for a way to distinguish yourself from your competitors, take a look at your customers' annoying behaviors. |
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Resolving E-mail Battles
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| E-mail battles are a common problem in most organizations. There is a cure for this problem. I outline it in this article. |
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E-mail Tricks to Save You Time and Reduce Notes
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| Most of us are overloaded by e-mail traffic. This article has three small but very effective ways to reduce both the time wasted and also the volume of notes. Take a look, and see if these ideas will work in your office. |
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Self-Coaching Tip: Focus on the Energy of Your Intentions
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| Years ago, in a staff meeting, Martha described all the obstacles and setbacks her team had encountered while starting a new project. She was frustrated and tired. Her energy was low. Soon, everyone in the room was tense, shooting down ideas and suggestions, frustrated by our own inability to find a creative solution to the stalled project. |
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Can a Manager Be Too Nice?
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| Managers can make or break motivation and productivity for employees. Having the right employee in a management position is crucial for any company. |
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Do You Think CEOs Flying Blind in their Executive Jets?
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| The Global Financial Crisis is proof positive regarding the unlimited power and potential that our business executives have. This is an immense power and potential for doing good, or bad! |
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Time-Out
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| When young children misbehave, many parents, teachers and caregivers insist on a time-out. Think how much better your workplace would be if you initiated the same approach. No, not for your boss or coworkers, but for yourself. |
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Dealing with the fear of Failure as an Entrepreneur.
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| A quick how to deal with the fear of failure. |
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The Answer to Your Prayers
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| Article explaining the importance of staying patient and focused on your goals after your expectations are not met. |
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Management actions that speak louder than words
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| Do as I say, not as I do. This doesn't seem to work in parenting and it doesn't work in business either. Communication, despite knowing it to be a problem, continues to be a challenge in most organizations. Typical results-driven managers mistakenly feel that once they have said something once, everyone should have heard and understood the message and be willing to implement immediately. In the absence of plentiful and repeated communication, most messages in an organization are communicated non-verbally through the actions observed. In fact these non-verbal messages define the organization's culture over time. Here we identify four management actions that transmit plenty of information to the organization about what is valued and not valued. |
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Sales Management Training Tips: Sales Coaching vs. Admin?
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| After my last blog 5 Ways to Gauge Your Sales Managers’ Coaching, I heard from several clients. One VP of Sales loved the article and asked for copies for his Directors of Sales. Two heads of sales from different companies liked the post but did not want to send it out to their frontline sales managers because of my comment (see below) that coaching was more important than administration. Neither wants their sales managers to feel that it is OK to spend time in the field and avoid administration.
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Keys To Wealth and Success (Part 1)
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| This is not sexy, but you need to hear it. it is one of the biggest silent killers of wealth and success. |
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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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10 Best Home Based Business Success Tools – No. 4: A Big Dream That Fuels Your Engine
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| Have you pursued opportunity after opportunity and met with failure and frustration every time? Are you currently struggling to get out of the starting gate on your latest business venture? Have you watched the training videos, gotten pumped by the motivational gurus, and still no results? This has been my story. They tell you to set goals for how much money you want to make or how many people in your downline you need. I have learned the hard way that it doesn’t matter what dollar value I assign to my goals, they just aren’t enough to motivate me without a dream.
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So You Want To Work From Home
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| For People who are looking for the opportunity to work from home, it has endless opportunities that can put you in the three percent if your head is in the right place.
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Direct Marketing Excellence explores… Effective Recruiting
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| Recruiting is the lifeblood of any direct marketing career. So why should you write off 80 percent of your prospects? |
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Professional Firms feeling the sales pinch
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| Professional Services Firms are struggling when it comes to keeping and finding business. This on top of the fact that many have to come to grips with the fact they need to sell. The market has definitely changed. You cannot sit there aggressively waiting for the phone to ring anymore.
In speaking with one partner from a well respected law firm, he vented his frustration at the lack of action being taken in his firm by partners and their teams in terms of driving the push to find new business in current and new accounts. He stated that some teams were just sitting around with no work to do and no one knows what to do about it. |
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If You Walk For Exercise Then You're Probably Wasting Your Time
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| Time is important for any entrepreneur wanting a healthy work life balance. So you do not want to waste your time on time-consuming exercise programs that produce very little in terms of results. Many activities promoted by companies as part of their corporate health and wellness programs like encouraging employees to walk for exercise produce little health benefits to their employees. Quite simply, if you are not huffing and puffing, then it's not exercise... |
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Have More Energy At Work With These Tips To A Better Nights Sleep
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| US and Australian studies highlight how fatigue is impacting our quality of life and the quality of work. It is costing relationships and it's costing companies billions in lost productivity. One of the most common causes for fatigue is due to poor or inadequate sleep.Follow these hints on how to overcome the three most common sleeping problems and to get more energy back into your work and your life... |
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Get Injured Workers Back To Work Quicker By Avoiding This Mistake
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| If you want injured workers to get back to work quicker you must ensure that they DO NOT APPLY HEAT to the injured area... |
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Why You Shouldn't Ever Apply Heat To Your Aches And Pains
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| Incorrect management of aches, pains and injuries can also cause severe pain to the balance sheet of many companies through the days at work lost to key individuals. Unfortunately a commonly used and commonly prescribed treatment for aches and pains can aggravate and prolong your pain and time off work... |
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Winning the Battle in Your Mind
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| An article consisting of 1059 words explaining how to increase confidence |
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Taking Stock of What's Happening
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| There's a lot going on these days. People are stressed, no two ways about it. I'm observing a 'tired' group of executives whose staff are looking to them to 'fix' things. Well, no one has a magic wand, or... does everyone have a magic wand? |
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An Entrepreneur's Frustration
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| Because we work from our homes, the rest of the world seems to have a sense that we are “not really working”! |
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5 Ways to Gauge Sales Management Coaching
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| Most sales leaders would agree that coaching is the most impactful activity a sales manager can do to drive sales team performance. Studies reinforce this by showing that above-average coaches deliver 20 percent more sales.
The challenge?
Sales management coaching is the weakest-performing activity among managers. How do you know if your managers are effective coaches? Here are five ways to find out.
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Leadership Tips to Manage, Resolve and Prevent Conflict
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| Conflict causes a lot of stress and yet conflict is essential for effective organizations and relationships. Instead of simply managing conflict, we recommend the managers lead conflict and enjoy the tremendous gains that come from constructive conflict techniques. |
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Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Easy
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| The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause the majority of aggravation and frustration. Here we examine how to help an easy-going manager achieve what needs to get done. |
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The Steps to Follow for Successful Conflict Resolution
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| The higher up the ladder of success that you climb the greater your problem solving and conflict management skills must become. Here is some very sound advice to follow in order to work towards more positive outcomes when faced with managing conflict. To learn more read on... |
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Leadership Tips to Create Greater Accountability in Your Organization
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| Accountability becomes mission-critical in challenging times. We need everyone in our organization to take ownership of results and make things happen. Creating an environment of accountability rests with management. Based on our 22 years of experience in organizational development and leadership training, we have discovered that managers systematically remove accountability. As a result the manager themselves ends up shouldering all the responsibility and stress. Here are some practical ideas to create greater accountability in your organization. |
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Do Sales Lead Management Software Systems Really Work?
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| How do you generate leads? How do you turn leads into sales? What if the leads start pouring in? How do you keep track of them, sort through the window shoppers to find the serious buyers, and not let any good leads fall through the cracks? |
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Exceptional Prospectors
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| Over the past 14 years, my team has conducted thousands of psychological assessments and interviews with both managers and salespeople about their prospecting and sales behaviours.
Our research has consistently revealed that salespeople often experience their greatest difficulties, dissatisfaction, and anxiety at the prospecting stage of the sales cycle. Meanwhile, Sales Managers repeatedly express their frustration that they cannot find salespeople who are competent, confident, and motivated to prospect for new business.
Prospecting requires sales people to establish contact with people who might buy your products or services. Whether it is phone, face-to-face or group prospecting, inbound or outbound, nothing gets sold until you get in front of and/or talk to potential buyers. |
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The Two Most Devastating Vanity Goals
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| There are two common goals that are promoted in American society more than any other to the point that people believe they are concrete and valuable goals to achieve. Most importantly, most devastating, is that these goals are so superficial and irrelevant, but negatively mind altering, that a person or business cannot do anything but fail trying to meet them. And if they are achieved, they are done so at the peril of a person's character and integrity. These are called "vanity goals", goals that should be avoided at all costs if you want your personal and business lives to succeed and make a difference. This article describes the two most common vanity goals that have caused the most destruction by far in our society. Free your mind of these and you lay the course to achieve real purpose. |
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Don’t just sit around on the Internet, put your web site to work.
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| So your business has a web site. Great! As we’ve said before, “It’s a credibility issue—these days a business is expected to have a web site.” But wait a minute, what’s the site doing for you?
Sure, your web site is helping your customers get to know, like and trust you by building awareness, providing information and shortening the selling cycle, but could it be doing more? YES!
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If you thought recruiting staff was easy, try recruiting franchisees!
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| Recruiting franchisees is complicated. Franchisors are looking for a very special individual who has the drive to run his or her own business. And there are numerous other problems to overcome! |
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Filling the Sales Pipeline?
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| The bottom line is that if you want to be able to sell consistently, if you want to have those million dollar and beyond sales careers, if you want to avoid major frustration and wheel spinning, blanketing the earth with emails, voice mails or even phone calls is not the answer. |
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Back to Basics
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| Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply take a test proving what you know and that customers would then flock to you based on your test results? |
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Top tips on how to manage flexible workers
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| Flexible working is all the rage and many companies are using it to get round the recession. It saves on overheads, helps recruitment and retention of experienced staff and reduces absence. But what are the barriers and how do you manage flexible workers? Here are some tips on how to make flexible working work for you. |
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Do People See The
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| Much like Susan Boyle, the vast majority of people are toiling, waiting and attempting to pay their dues, hoping that their big break will soon come. But is anyone really looking past your outward cosmetic exterior, in an honest attempt to see the "real" you which lies within? |
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What If You Hate Long Sales Copy?
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| You've heard using a long copy sales page will increase your small business' sales and help you land more clients--but what if you groan every time you come across one on the internet?
I'll confess, I used to hate long copy too until two factors that changed my mind. Read on to find out what they were--as well as three ways to create a sales page you'll like..that creates results you'll love. |
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How To Take Inspired Action
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| Inspired action comes from the higher level of creativity, trust and wisdom that you arrive at when you take the time to focus and vision. |
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Dealing with Blind Spots
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| This article deals with learning how to avoid blind spots by helping a client or team member gather all the necessary information they need for the task at hand. |
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Procrastination to Motivation
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| If you keep putting it off to later you will never get it done. Procrastination is one of the most common obstacles to achievement and yet it’s a skill that so many have mastered. But procrastination results from a mistake of the mind. Correct the mistake and fuel yourself with motivation toward your goals. |
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The Empire Strikes Back?
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This week I came across the expression ‘Vigilante Consumer’ for the first time. It seems that consumers are starting to strike back at companies that make it difficult to deal with them when they have a problem.
You know what I mean? They have the attitude that they are perfect or at least doing the best that is physically possible to be done and you have a problem that shows a mistake has been made or that the system has failed. You want to explain the problem and nobody listens!
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A Marketing Tool that Works Day and Night — 24/7
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| You expect a business to have a telephone. Well, these days, a business is expected to have a web site as well—it’s a credibility issue.
And although it’s a complicated subject, once launched, what could be easier than using the internet to spread your marketing message, educate your prospects, and convert prospects to clients?
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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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Sales Force Alignment with Market Strategies
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| Most companies differentiate between inside and outside sales; domestic and international sales; products and services; equipment and consumables, etc.
But if you are into breaking down processes, approaches, market strategies and positioning, there is more to it than these obvious differentiators... |
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Feeling Stuck? Read This…
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| Big successes often seem like foregone conclusions.
In reality, most entrepreneurs (read: creators) who appear to have unique genius suffer through the same frustration as the masses of unknowns. They simply test and persist a few steps further.
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The Never-Fail Recipe for Ads That Work Like Crazy
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| It’s always surprising to us to see so much advertising, especially in print, which does not work. It simply doesn’t contain the ingredients needed to successfully communicate with customers.
If you make a cake, you don’t leave out any ingredients — right? Then why leave out an important part of your advertising message?
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Build A Healthy Corporate Culture
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| Building a healthy corporate culture is key to the success of your business. In today's society, everyone wants their work environment and employees to be like family. While this is a great idea, your business should be careful with approaching this concept. You want to build a happy and successful family, not a dysfunctional one. "How do I go about doing this," you ask? Well read on! |
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Coping With Job Loss
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| We’ll all be retiring eventually, but what if you lose your job before then? What if your company is down-sizing because of the economy and your specific job causes you to be laid off? Here are some helpful tips to guide you through the frustration and helplessness you may be feeling.
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Ideal Jobs for Baby Boomers
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| Seventy-eight million baby boomers will be considering retirement in the next 5-15 years and they are reinventing what it means to be "old" and still working. Now is the time to think about what it is you truly want in your working experience to make this transition easier and without confusion or frustration. |
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Resolving a Bad Relationship at Work
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| The average full-time worker with two weeks of annual vacation spends up to 250 days or 2,000 hours each year on the job. Unfortunately, many employees spend this time interacting with co-workers they don't get along with, making their work situation almost intolerable. |
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When Customers Lie – Don’t be Lead Astray
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| It's a sad truth, some customers don't tell the truth. They want time to decide, they are not sure about you, or they just don't want to put you on the defensive. Either way, don't get angry, get educated so you can adjust the way you talk to people. |
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Is Goal-setting bringing you down?
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| Do you have a habit of continually setting goals and not reaching them or feel that whenever you set goals you’re setting yourself up for disappointment, frustration and guilt? The problem could be that on a deeper level you do not take the whole goal-setting thing seriously and tend to set goals without first visualising a clear picture. |
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Top 10 Tips for "Team Building" Success
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| The Apprentice television show revolves around the premise that a stable of young talent is trying to get a job with Donald Trump. In their endeavors they are challenged with weekly assignments. Be a leader. Sell product. Manage people. Ultimately, their goal is to win. But along the way the most successful candidates also learn something else. And that is without a team, your personal success is limited at best. |
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Are Your Customers Asking For Too Much
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| It happens. You've trained a customer to ask for everything (and for a low price) and guess what?
Now they expect it. And now you're feeling overwhelmed, swamped and, quite frankly, a little green around the edges because their latest request has almost made you weep with frustration. |
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Is Something Weighing You Down?
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| In any professional relationship, issues inevitably arise from time to time that have the potential to create tension and conflict. It’s not the issues themselves that are the main cause for relationship breakdown but how you go about resolving them. Many of us struggle to effectively speak up about the issues that cause feelings of resent, frustration or downright anger, with the end result that what isn’t talked out gets acted out … in cheap shots, innuendos, moodiness or the “silent treatment," but these things often worsen the problem. |
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The Need to Achieve
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| The need to achieve is one of the more visible needs in our society. It fuels performance in the worlds of sports (Gold Medal anyone?), music, politics, media and certainly, business. We all have a need to achieve. At one level or another, everyone wants to succeed at something.
An unfulfilled need for achievement leads to frustration, disappointment and a decreased sense of self-worth. Just think of a simple goal of getting to work on time and the silly red traffic light that prevents you from achieving that goal. Yep, you know the feeling, but these are not feelings we want our team (or ourselves!) to have.
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How do we get anything done?
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| After 23+ years of studying people, both inside and outside of companies, I am frankly stunned that we accomplish what we accomplish. Why? Because we live in a world that is governed by a set of rules, that we are mostly unaware of, which are much more set up for us to fail than for us to succeed. I’m going to address some of them with the hope that you will begin to see how you and the people around you set themselves up for frustration, disappointment and even failure.
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Mars and Venus – Part IV. What makes sense to buyers?
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| Did you ever feel that the person you were speaking to was living on another planet? Did it ever cross your mind that they might think the same about you? This is what can happen if your communication with your customer is not in synch with their sense of reality. |
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Why People Buy
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| One of the main questions I get asked is "How do I get people to come to my web site and buy my product?". It's a good question, but the wrong one! The question you need to ask first is "what product will people buy?" |
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Different times call for different action
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| Strategic partnerships based on marketing and sales collaboration. |
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Brand-Personality Self-Analysis
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| Marketing is difficult because it is unlike any other business discipline. Most of our business day is filled with left-brain tasks that may be complex but are for the most part logical and procedural in nature whereas marketing and branding are right-brain activities governed by that hated enemy of rational business thinking, psychology. |
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How to Avoid the 95% Failure Rate Home Party & Direct Sales Business!
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| Home Party Consultants: Want to succeed in your home party business? Find out Why There is a 95% Failure Rate With Home Party & Direct Sales Business and How to Avoid the 95% Failure Rate Home Party & Direct Sales Business! |
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The perfect sales call
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| 15 things to consider when making sales calls |
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Why an Outstanding Resume is Not Enough to Get an Interview: Reason 2
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| Many people think that a powerful, well written résumé is sufficient to give them the edge needed to secure a job interview. While an outstanding résumé is absolutely necessary, it may not always be sufficient. This is the second in a series of short articles which outlines the factors, other than your resume, which could determine whether you will be amongst the chosen few from the multitude. |
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7 Tactical Reasons To Use Mini Campaign Websites
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| How many websites should your company have?
That's a question that comes up often in discussions with clients, but perhaps the idea never crossed your mind. Why would any company need more than one website? Not to be glib but the answer is as many as you need, but how many is that?
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Ask, and You Shall Receive
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“Ask” is a powerful word because it calls upon another person’s most noble motive—to serve. As a result, I’ve found that nearly all people will give when asked. You may recall the greatest teacher said, “Ask, and it shall be given you.” I believe you can get almost anything you want … if you ask.
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The Laws of Execution - How to Systematically Get Things Done - Five Part Series - Part One
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| SERIES PART ONE: Too often we talk about habits and changes that need to be made in our lives and careers, but the corrective actions to be executed die at the discussion table where they began. Nothing is accomplished and the circle of frustration continues with little positive results. How do we change this? It all starts and ends with you. . Start with these practical ways of creating systems to begin closing the gap towards the person you want to be:
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The Laws of Execution - How to Systematically Get Things Done - Five Part Series - Part Two
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| SERIES PART TWO: Too often we talk about habits and changes that need to be made in our lives and careers, but the corrective actions to be executed die at the discussion table where they began. Nothing is accomplished and the circle of frustration continues with little positive results. How do we change this? It all starts and ends with you. . Start with these practical ways of creating systems to begin closing the gap towards the person you want to be:
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The Laws of Execution - How to Systematically Get Things Done - Five Part Series - Part Three
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| SERIES PART THREE: Too often we talk about habits and changes that need to be made in our lives and careers, but the corrective actions to be executed die at the discussion table where they began. Nothing is accomplished and the circle of frustration continues with little positive results. How do we change this? It all starts and ends with you. . Start with these practical ways of creating systems to begin closing the gap towards the person you want to be:
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The Laws of Execution - How to Systematically Get Things Done - Five Part Series - Part Four
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| SERIES PART FOUR: Too often we talk about habits and changes that need to be made in our lives and careers, but the corrective actions to be executed die at the discussion table where they began. Nothing is accomplished and the circle of frustration continues with little positive results. How do we change this? It all starts and ends with you. . Start with these practical ways of creating systems to begin closing the gap towards the person you want to be:
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The Laws of Execution - How to Systematically Get Things Done - Five Part Series - Part Five
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| SERIES PART FIVE: Too often we talk about habits and changes that need to be made in our lives and careers, but the corrective actions to be executed die at the discussion table where they began. Nothing is accomplished and the circle of frustration continues with little positive results. How do we change this? It all starts and ends with you. . Start with these practical ways of creating systems to begin closing the gap towards the person you want to be:
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Self Management is Critical for Handling Problems
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| An article of 1193 words explaining how to choose a better, more effective, and professional path when dealing with unmet expectations from others. |
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How to Have Automatic Persistence
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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
In your journey from your home in California to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., you already have the direction you need and are taking proper action as you start the drive. Still, without persistence, you won't make it. After all, it's a long drive, and very real and valid obstacles can keep you from getting there. But if you really want to get there, if it is a Core Desire, you will do what is necessary. |
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Education Based Marketing A Case Study Where $50 Delivers $5,000 Sale and a Free Lunch
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| The tried and accepted sales rule is never give anything way for free. In today’s global market place, this rule is now defunct, irrevelant, kaput! Read this case study and learn how $50 turned into a hundred fold. |
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The 7 Most Effective Ways to Recruit, Retain and Motivate Your Youngest Generation
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| How to make your organization more productive |
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Home Party Plan Secrets The Top 3 That Home Party Direct Sales Companies Dont Want You To Know
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| Are you one of the 95% Of new Home Party Plan Consultants failing in their home party business?
Let me introduce you to the PAT Principle Of Party Plan Success proven to increase home party sales and direct sales profits. |
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Focus on Five Areas Today to Close Business Tomorrow
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| All too often, salespeople focus on the wrong elements in their attempt to increase sales. They turn their attention to the features, benefits, and value-added aspects of their product or service in an attempt to differentiate it from that of the competition and ultimately convince prospects to buy. While these elements may eventually play a part in the presentation (more on that later), it is not the place to start.
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Win More Sales By Losing Someday Beliefs
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| If you are in sales, you may have had this thought: Someday I will do…. Exactly when did someday become an actual day of the week. Have you considered that this one belief is keeping you from your goal to win more sales. |
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The Brain on Teambuilding
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| Two companies booked the same beautiful park for their team buiding exercises, what happens next is what makes great comedy. |
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Turning a Difficult Customer into a Customer that Comes Back.
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| I really hate it when things don’t go as they should and you have to spend time and effort sorting it out. I have hanging onto a phone line being told that “my call is important”, when I have far better things to do. |
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Money (and a Nice Boss, Benefits and Career Development) … That’s What I Want
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| Learn new strategies and tips on how to land your dream job |
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CREATIVE POWER OF SLEEP
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| There is evidence that suggests that sleep deprivation can lead to loss of IQ, memory, and the ability to reason. |
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Sanity Saver - Systems Work
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| When someone tells me that they feel scattered, stressed out and less effective than they'd like to me, my first suspicion is that they probably don't have the systems in place that keep them feeling in control of their business. |
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Emotional Energy is Our Engine
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| Emotional Energy can be equated to the engine of a car and must be right-sized our problems occur. |
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The Dinosaurs Dead The Dinosaurs Dead Has Network Marketing MLM Died
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| No Network Marketing has finally just stepped into the present and is laying a foundation for the future... |
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7 Secrets to Co-creative Success
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| Did you make a New Year’s resolution in January to make this your best year ever? Now, that the year is almost gone, you’re probably questioning what’s going wrong and why your dreams are not beginning to manifest! |
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Keeping Promises Builds Your Reputation
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| How many times have businesses promised to get back to you about your inquiry, quote, order (or anything else) and actually done it? |
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A Target Market the Key to Selling More
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| As long as you think you can sell to anyone you can expect a difficult future. Your future will be one where you’re always scrapping to find someone you can talk to about your offer. A future where no one is really interested in what you have to say. |
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Improving Your Management Communications Skills - What's It Worth?
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| A manager needs to have good communication skills. It is one of the major elements of communication. One of the most vital skills in any manager or supervisor's portfolio of skills. But why? What are the benefits of being a good communicator? Read on for more... |
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Handling Irate Customers Allow Them to Vent
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| Understand that customers are irate because what they thought was going to happen didn't: they're "hurt." When you know a customer is upset, immediately give them permission to vent their frustration; and they will want to - you can count on that!
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Real Work at Home Jobs: 6 Ways To Stay Motivated
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| Wanting to start a real work at home job or business is no longer a new concept. Hundreds of people log onto the internet each hour to search how they can work from home. However you are intrigued by the idea of making money without leaving your property, doesn't mean you will have the motivation to actually put in the work.
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How to Deal with Skepticism & Get Sales Success
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| Skeptics are a hard nut to crack. They have strong doubts about what you’re saying, and as long as those doubts exist they won’t buy. Overcoming a potential client’s doubt about whether what you have to offer will work or work for them is a challenge you can win. |
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Are You Living The Law of Attraction Yet?
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| Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in the middle of something happening that you don’t want, and you just can’t figure out how to change it? Here’s the first clue, shift your focus to what you do want… |
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Email With Integrity - Reaching for Inboxes in a World of Spam
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| This paper outlines the following information:
Table of Contents:
* Introduction
* Defining Spam
* How Spam Affects your Earnings
* Double Opt-In Versus Single Opt-In
* Why Double Opt-In Is The Right Choice
* Common Questions About Spam
* Maximizing Email Deliverability
This paper is designed for a quick over view and understanding of the issue as a individual sending email as part of your business process. |
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Some Working Moms Home Business Ideas
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| If making money on the Internet was so much easier for moms to do then working a full time job, we would see more of them doing it. In this article were are going to take a look at a few obstacles that a working mom's home business can present to their family. |
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4 Vital Negotiating Behaviours
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| A skilled negotiator will create high levels of rapport and be sensitive and empathetic to the people they are negotiating with, yet can still be hard on the issues. The ability to separate the people from the issues and recognise that negotiations, are often fraught with emotional intensity can help sharpen the focus on the interests of the other party to better balance perceptions. |
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3 Simple Reasons that Will Help You Sell More
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| Before you can sell anyone anything they must first have an unfulfilled want. Why do so many salespeople act in defiance of this simple truth? It’s a sure recipe for a lot of hard work with little to show for it. It’s an exercise in frustration, and a waste of time. |
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Branding Fiasco Better be who you say you are!
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| Our experience as customers offers great instruction into the concept of branding. Join Eileen as she takes an unforgettable journey through "voice mail heck" while trying, in vain, to give a company more of her business! |
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Don’t Let your Smile Run Away from Your Face --- The Piano Man
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| There is a song called The Piano Man that uses the phrase - "The smile ran away from her face." That phrase reminds me of the look on many Sales Managers faces as they discuss sales training at their respective company.
The least effective and the most expensive method of training sales people unfortunately is also the most common! Although a new sales person may have experience, simply providing product training for your line card is just not enough. The marketplace demands that sales people provide more than product knowledge, a product catalog and a price list. If that is the type of training you provide, chances are it is the root cause of management frustration, low productivity and high turnover not to mention lack of profitability. Training sales personnel appropriately can be expensive. |
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Coaching the Entrepreneur
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| Entrepreneurs are some of the most challenging yet rewarding clients a professional coach may attract. They possess unique traits and if understood and appreciated can make for the most rewarding coach/client relationship. Many coaches fail to appreciate the unique qualities of an entrepreneur and how to approach the client relationship. |
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The Reasons Why Most People Will Never Find Online Success
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| There is no such thing as a real get rich quick opportunity. If someone tells you that you can start with no money and no experience and make hundreds of thousands of dollars overnight they are lying to you and you are a fool for believing them. Yes, you can make lots of money in a short period of time as an Internet marketer, but you're not going to get rich this week unless you hit the lottery or your rich uncle dies. |
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Sales Manager = Sales Training Success
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| Launching a sales training initiative without the UPFRONT buy-in and participation of your line sales management team is pure folly. In fact, if your sales management team does not believe that they own the sales training, just stop. Stop now. |
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Consistency – the Key to Success
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| Author Rob Rush discusses how sometimes the consistent delivery of customer service or customer experience trumps the ability to deliver a "Wow." Before you can occasionally launch the long-ball with some regularity, you need to become a consistent singles hitter first. |
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How to Get Over Being Angry
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| One of the things I’ve been hearing in my recent Comfort Zone to Confidence Zone programs is that participants have gotten stuck feeling angry – angry at a frustrating boss, anger at an ‘ex’, frustrated with a difficult family member, etc. |
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Are You Making This Costly Marketing Mistake?
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| After all, what happens when the reader is searching for the phone number and their doorbell rings, or their kids barge in? They are on to other things instead.
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A Time To Sell?
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| A look behind the scenes of major buying decisions to identify what differentiates the more successful sales approach from the less effective. Do sales of business critical solutions require smarter methods? |
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Coaching Tip: Stop “Shoulding” Yourself
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| How often do you begin statements inside your head or out loud that begin with words like: I know I - should, shouldn’t, need to, have to, supposed to…? These words create constriction and the illusion that you have a lack of choice. The ability to have choice and make our own decisions is an important freedom; a part of having free will and spiritual growth. Without the freedom to make choices we can feel powerless and hopeless. |
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Work Less, Earn More
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| How do you work less and earn more if you are paid for the time you put in? The only way is to be a business owner or sales professional. Business owners go into business for many reasons but in the end we all want to earn enough to have the freedom to do what we want, when we want. |
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Unlock Your Natural Abilities to Increase Sales
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| Many of the myths associated with sales are believed simply because they’re repeated so often. Others have fortunately been debunked. At one time people didn’t think women could sell. |
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What's Your Money Style?
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| We all have a different style when it comes to our relationship with money. I'm not talking about your fears or stories about money. Your fears are a whole other box of worms. When I refer to style, I mean how you would relate to money if you had never been influenced by another persons style or fears. |
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What Success Means to People
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| Many people get frustrated because they feel they are not achieving success. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most common reasons is that people measure success by what others have. Instead, measuring success is about looking at your own skills and opportunities. It is about what success means to you in your own mind rather than someone else’s.
Discover a different definition of success.
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7 Reasons Why Business Owners Need a Business Coach
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| 7 Reasons why your business will benefit from having a business coach. 11 Questions to ask yourself and the business coach your interviewing during due diligence. How to make the best match for one of the key business decisions you will make during the life of your business. |
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Focus on Your Talents
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| Most people are focused on where the opportunities are and then try to fit themselves into that mould, without giving appropriate thought to their own unique talents and abilities. However, that's not always a great idea. Because today's business playing field is slippery, time is a commodity you don't have, the future is unknown, and security is a thing of the past! In this environment it is important to remember to try differently, rather than trying harder! |
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Mistakes Happen!
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| Most of us have made mistakes in the workplace. They happen! Some are small and can be easily rectified. Others may seem larger, impact other people and projects, and may cause embarrassment, frustration and self-doubt. What do you do in order to rebound from an error and continue moving ahead professionally? |
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Selling from Good to Great
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| Here’s what you can do to take your selling from good to great! |
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How To Effectively Use Business Mentoring
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| If you are running a small business and you get frustrated when things seem to be going wrong you’re not alone. Every successful businessperson experiences some level of frustration. The distinction between successful business owners and those that continually struggle is the way they handle their frustration. Learn how a mentor can not only help you to handle frustration, but thrive during difficult times. |
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How to keep motivated when the going gets tough
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| Running a business has its challenges as well as its rewards. Many people find it hard to keep motivated especially when things go wrong or the unexpected happens. Read Sue Stockdale's top three tips for how to remain motivated when work gets difficult! |
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Your Voice of Choice
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| I am a voice specialist. I am a voice specialist because I believe the world needs to hear from all of us. Due to stage fright and confidence issues- some of us are not getting our message heard!
I just professionally audited an acting class in Los Angeles by a colleague who is one of the world’s most famous acting teachers. His clients win Academy Awards. Today he was teaching a class of future stars in the making. The students were exciting actors with top notch talents and abilities, they chose challenging material, and had given lots of committed thought to their acting intentions and character development.
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Home Base Business - The Secret To Successfully Starting A Profitable Business
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| Who are the ones that succeed in creating a profitable online home business and what are they doing that others fail to do. The road to success is like climbing a mountain. If the mountain was smooth no one would ever get to the top. So what does it take? |
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SEM Industry Standards Nonsense or Necessary
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| Does the search engine marketing industry need standards? Should there be an industry body to oversee these standards? Kalena Jordan of Search Engine College presents both sides of the debate. |
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How Dealing with Difficult People affects you?
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| The difficult person is someone we simply have to deal with. In those situations, we have three options. These options are: 1) Try to change ourselves, 2) Try to change the other person, and 3) Resolve to tolerate the situation – basically decide to put up with them. |
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Home Staging Training Courses: Make the Right Decision for You
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| I receive many emails from people who are completely confused by the various home staging training programs available. With so many options, I can understand the frustration. However, once you know the right questions to ask, you can make a well-informed decision. |
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The Dreaded "To Do" List
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| Most of us have one, yet rarely are they used in the right manner. I’m referring to that dreaded to do list. More often then not, instead of creating organization, they create overwhelm. What does your to do list look like? How do you manage the beast? |
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Fake It Till You Make It?
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| A friend sent me an e-mail after reading my blog last week about AHAs. In the blog, I shared seven realizations, including: Whatever I judge myself for, others will pick up on it, whether I try to hide it or not. So I may as well stop wasting my energy pretending anything.
She expressed confusion because she is also familiar AA’s philosophy of “Fake it till you make it.” She wondered how I reconcile “faking it” with being genuine. |
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Five Ways You Could be Wasting Your Time
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| They always say that the teacher teaches what they most need to learn. Lately I've had a number of my coaching clients who are struggling with using time effectively. As a result they feel the frustration of not moving forward as quickly as they could. |
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Can the Law of Attraction Ideas in "The Secret" Really Help You Succeed?
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| Actually I've been talking about the law of attraction for some time. I just called it something different–the Entrepreneurial Mind Set. It's extremely powerful, but just like anything else worthwhile, you have to work at it. |
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This President Is On Track To Double Sales
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| How often do business owners express frustration about an area of their business that appears to be blocking accomplishment of a key goal? Mr. Mario Lapointe, president of SMT-ASSY, a Montreal firm that services the electronic industry felt just that way, although he was very positive about the long-term prospects for his business even considering the increased competition from Asia. Mr. Lapointe decided to work with me to take his business to the next level, which in his words was to double sales within 12 to 24 months. |
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5 Secrets to Control Information Overload Before it Controls You
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| Are you swimming through miles of papers, close to drowning in hundreds of emails. You're not alone. In fact, information overload is the new buzzword in the 21st century.
Technology has changed drastically in 20 years but our minds haven't advanced that much in a few thousand years. This means that we have a lot to read, comprehend and act upon in our day to day lives.
Find out how to control the overload before it controls you. |
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New Eyes Transform Results
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| “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”~Marcel Proust
In this article, we’re going to turn your problem on its head. We’re going to create dramatically different CONTEXT for your “problem.” Take your story and turn it around to its opposite. In essence, create an opposite belief. You may wish to create two or three of them.
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Does your game face need a face lift
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| Is there a game that’s frustrating you now? It may be an industry slump, a challenging new employee, lack of clarity on another direction. You can’t change the fact that you’re where you are. At the same time, the past doesn’t have to predict the future. This article is about what new game can you create now, that will give your game face a lift? |
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Is a Low Investment Business Franchise Opportunity For You?
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| Many times it’s easy to find yourself un-satisfied with your current job situation. Frustration or seemingly mindless activity at a desk job can be rather dull and even boring at times. If you find yourself wondering if there is something that could be a little more exciting, a little more meaningful and a little more profitable in your life, than perhaps you should consider a small business franchise opportunity. |
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Improve Your Communications by Taming those 800-Pound Elephants
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| With time demands, constant interruptions and continually conflicting priorities, business communications is challenging enough. And when you have an issue or a personality involved that you cannot directly speak to, but can only tiptoe around the "elephant in the room", any attempt at communications may only get you more off track and cause more harm than good. With a few communications tips you can learn how to tame those 800 pound elephants and create more effective communications that improve your work relationships and help you get the job done. |
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Is Working at Home Really for You?
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| Having a business that you run out of your home can be very rewarding if gone about the right way. Unfortunately many will give up before beginning to reap the benefits due to many reasons. A large number of the businesses that fail can be traced back to step one - the decision of a.) Whether you are the type of person that should work at home and if so, b.) What type of business you will run out of the home.
Working from home can be a dream for some, and a nightmare for others. Not everyone is cut out to run a business and be their own boss. Some don't have the discipline or persistence to follow through. It is crucial to recognize this in yourself right from the start.
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8 Tips to Help you Start a Successful Home-Based Business
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| When starting a home-based business, what you don't know can hurt you. Here are some basic tips that will help you make building a home-based business a reality. |
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Why don’t my goals work?
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| It is not unusual for me to meet with someone who has an incredibly detailed outline of their goals. It is sometimes layed out in a PowerPoint presentation with pictures and symbols. To the outside world it looks as if they have a very focused and productive guide for the future…BUT, they will say to me, “These are the same goals I have had for the last 7 years. I have made no progress towards these goals. What is the problem?” |
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Dreams Come True Series 4: 5 Attract Your Wealth Strategies
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| These 5 Manifesting Strategies are based on the Law of Attraction, Setting Intentions and the Art of Allowing. As you practice focused intention combined with energetic alignment, you will propel the manifestation of your desires.
For these attraction exercises, it is essential that you get into a highly charged energetic state - feeling gratitude, joy and a sense of completion. Often the exercise automatically creates this high vibration; other times, you may need to help this feeling state gain momentum ahead of time. |
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Being Your Best
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| Learn 5 tips that will help you be your best in your business and in your life! |
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Is It Time To Press Your Reset Button?
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| Have you reached the point in your life or business where you just want to stop everything and start over? If you’re feeling that way there’s good news - you have a reset button and can press it anytime you like. |
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The Power of Now
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| The intention of goal setting is to look toward the future and think of and plan for what you desire. Goals provide hope. My definition of hope is “Having Optimistic Predictions & Emotions.” However, goals can create your biggest stumbling block to getting what you desire.
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Hidden Sales Presssure: 7 Ways To Make It Go Away
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| Everyday, people from all over the world send me their selling challenges.
This one just came in from Julie in Atlanta, Georgia: |
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How to Create a Compelling Vision for your Business
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| Your company’s vision statement is the statement of its potential and of what you want your business to become. Your vision statement should be meaningful to you and your organisation. It should be shared will all of the employees in your organisation in order to create a unified direction for everyone to move in. Crafting a vision statement is a challenge for many business owners, so I have included several strategies in this article for you to make this process easier to complete. |
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Can't We All Just Get Along?
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| Do you ever find yourself saying these words above? If you’re frustrated by foremen, supervisors or crew members who just can’t get along then it’s time to resolve these workplace conflicts now! After all, have you ever stopped to consider what it’s costing you to let these problems linger? Consider this fact. A survey of 150 senior managers at America’s largest 1,000 companies found that today’s managers spend almost one full day each week resolving staff personality conflicts! How much does that cost your bottom-line? Plenty! Read on for our 7 steps to improving staff personality conflicts. |
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Clear Goals Need Clear Roles
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| Job descriptions evolve over time. But all employees, new or old, need to have a clear understanding of their role in a company and what is expected of them. New hires need a starting point for their position. Long-term employees may need guidance about what their continuing role in a company ought to be.
In this article, we discuss the importance of defining job role. |
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Rolling with the punches or rolling out?
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| In today’s workplace, you will find an array of employees, with different cultures, background, ethics, attributes and characters, to name a few. These folks are asked to melt their knowledge and expertise into one pot and aim for a single objective—the employer’s! We will all agree that amidst the single objective that is aimed for, each individual and single entity is looking for their best interest. Growing their own skills, following their own career path and forging their way to the top. |
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Retrieving Your Relationships From the Rubble
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| In his new article, “Retrieving Your Relationships From the Rubble,” psychologist and author Dr. Gary Bradt shows your readers that mending their connections is less about changing the other person and more about changing from within. By using the tools Dr. Bradt offers, your readers will not only mend the business and personal bonds that might be struggling, but will find an enhanced respect and understanding of each friendship they already have. These tools include:
· Preventive maintenance: treat those you know best like strangers
· Swallow your pride and learn how to say ‘I’m sorry’
· Repeating your point won’t get you heard, but listening to theirs will
· Figure out who wants it more and then let go
· Have goals together and you’ll grow together
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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Micromanagement.
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| Are you constantly checking the work of your team members? Are you a perfectionist?
I define micromanagement as:
Often unintentionally, a micromanager delves into too much detail. Rather than allowing people the responsibility and freedom to do their job, the micromanager monitors and reviews every task. This obsession with detail causes resentment, affecting staff performance in a negative way.
Micromanaging causes frustration. In the end, it can provide the impetus for staff to leave. |
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The Single Greatest Revelation For Your Success
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| There is always enough money and time for what's important to you. It's true. Think of it this way. If you want something badly enough you will figure out how to make it work. It’s amazing what we rationalize from limiting beliefs, old habits or just a plain lack of self-awareness. |
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TRUTH TALKING – HOW TO SPEAK YOUR TRUTH
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| Do you struggle to say what you mean? Do people get upset and angry when you've said something - that you thought was the right thing to say? Truth Talking is a powerful tool that teaches you how to communicate with grace and ease so your message is heard. |
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PAPERWORK Making molehills out of mountains
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| Are you feeling overwhelmed by your mountain of paperwork? Does it take you ages to find what you need because it's lost in a mountain of paper? Here are some tips to help you get back on top. |
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Anger Solutions at Work: Why Customers Get Angry
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| There is a host of reasons why customers become angry. This article explains the most common causes of customer anger, and what you can do to not only diffuse their anger, but to win their loyalty for life! |
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Web Hosting Solutions
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| When it comes to web hosting solutions, one of the most pressing questions I’m always asked is how much storage space and bandwidth will be needed for a site. My advice, first of all, is ask that question before you sign up with any one hosting company in the first place. If you realize too late that you need more – or less – than the company offers, you might not be able to get yourself out of the contract. |
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Lao Tzu - Give A Man A Fish...
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| This famous saying, steeped in thousands of years of wisdom, is a valid today as it was then, yet why is it so vital, especially in the fast-paced and technologically wired world we live and work in today? |
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Time Management Accomplish More By Doing Less
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| Effective time management is a step by step process that takes determination and a long-term commitment. However, it is essential that you do not try to take on too much, too soon. In this article I advise you on how you can manage your time effectively.
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Good Boss Bad Boss
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| What kind of boss are you? The kind that brings out the best in his staff, or the kind people talk about behind your back? If your staff was interviewed about the management in your organization in general, and about their boss (you) in particular, how would you rate on a list of the 10 worst bosses they have ever had? Read on to find out how to deal with good bosses and bad bosses, and what kind of list you belong on! |
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Needs vs. Wants : A Business Owner's Biggest Struggle
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| As a business owner you have so many roles to play and so many things to do. Sometimes it is difficult to find the energy to do everything you need to do. You start to wonder if it's worth it and that mistake will ruin your business. |
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Entrepreneurs Business Brokers and success
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| A few important issues to consider when looking for a Business Broker to help you buy or sell a business. |
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6 Step Formula to Creating Your Own Coaching Sales Copy
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| Creating copy for your website, blog and marketing materials does not need to be hard! Even a 12 year old can do it! These six steps can take you from "clueless" to a writing/copy machine. Don't wait - get started now! |
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Seasons and rainbows
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| Business can be both seasonal and cyclical. In big business this isn\'t so much of an issue but for small business this can create huge problems. Small business owners and entrepreneurs need to understand these seasons and cycles then use them for their own benefit. |
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Fewer, Shorter Meetings
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| Wouldn\'t you love to have fewer, shorter meetings? For most of us, meetings are the most frustrating parts of our working life. How come we don\\\'t take the initiative and manage them better? The ideas are simple. |
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Are You Fulfilled
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| Dear Jane,
How can I figure out whether I am doing what makes me happy? What are some of the symptoms of unhappiness, or must I wait for a life-threatening situation?
I wrote my popular self-help book, Enough Is Enough!, to help others avoid having to go through a life-threatening situation in order to wake up to your spirit’s calling.
If you are having to ask yourself if you are happy, then you probably aren’t. Perhaps you haven’t yet had the satisfaction that goes with fulfilling your spirit’s purpose, so you don’t know what benchmark to compare your feelings with.
The symptoms of endurance or a less-than-thriving life are discussed in depth in my book. I will give you a short list here that you should find helpful: |
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Stop Working & Start Thinking
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| “Work harder” – “Work more hours” – “Put your nose to the grindstone” – “You have to pay your dues” – “Climb the ladder of success.” Do all of these sayings sound familiar? These common phrases often espouse ideas that become anchored as limiting beliefs in your brain. Here’s the shocking news; these phrases often put into motion a cycle of struggle and failure. These common teachings may have kept you from having the kind success you desire. The missing ingredient is not your work, it’s your thoughts.
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Business Management: The Advantages of a Strategic Enterprise Office
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| Having a Strategic Enterprise Office (SEO) that services the entire organization, with a consistent message and methodologies is shown to be more successful than creating a number of Project Management Offices (PMOs) across the organization. |
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Work At Home Online Business Tips
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| It can be a bit of a juggle finding enough hours in the day around your day job to successfully start and build a work at home online business, so herewith some tips to make your online home business building process smoother. |
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Time Out
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| If you would like to improve the effectiveness of your meetings, this brief article will give you a way to do that. |
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The ONE Next Step
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| If you’d like to get a big juicy project moving forward and have a great time doing it, today is your lucky day. Your first step is to bring to mind that project that sits incomplete but nagging the corners of your mind daily. Are you willing to take that one step today? |
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Other frustration Related Articles
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Becoming More Disciplined
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| For many, trying to be more disciplined often ends up as a series of false starts, frustration, self-loathing and Ben and Jerry's binges. What can be done to help you be more consistent? |
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How to avoid objections during your sales presentation
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| Handling customer objections at the end of the sales meeting can cause you a lot of grief and frustration and sometimes lose you the sale, well here is great tip on how to avoid this ever happening to you. |
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How To Effectively Use Business Mentoring
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| If you are running a small business and you get frustrated when things seem to be going wrong you’re not alone. Every successful businessperson experiences some level of frustration. The distinction between successful business owners and those that continually struggle is the way they handle their frustration. Learn how a mentor can not only help you to handle frustration, but thrive during difficult times. |
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Execution - The Power of Getting Things Done.
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| The biggest frustration in life is - all talk and no action. We are all goal setting machines and like to know we are making progress. Maximum progress is directly proportional little to no frustration |
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Master Your Game: Expectations That Generate Results
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| Practicing the three steps of setting expectations will reduce your frustration as a leader and will increase the probability of achieving your desired results. |
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Where You Can Turn Frustration and Being Flippant Into Big Dollar Business?
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| The lonely old potato chip, today it is a Billion dollar industry.
Started out of frustration. |
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Loving The Frustration of Building an Online Business
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| I know building an online business has moments of frustration. I've got a few tips to help you see the good in the frustration. |
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Do You Get Frustrated With Others?
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| Do you believe that your frustration with others is being caused by them? Discover the real reason for frustration. |
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Breaking Through the Frustration of An Entrepreneurs Addiction to Work
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| Giving up is not an option for an addicted entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs have succumbed to the temptation, however. Ancient wisdom tells us that anxiety is fear of the future and frustration is actually a good emotion. Frustration in thought is merely indecision. Should I do this or do that? Should money be my end goal or something more spiritual? |
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5 Things NOT to Sell Online
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| This knowledge can save you many hours of frustration and potentially thousands of dollars. |
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