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Recovery or No Recovery? That is the Question.
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| James Dicks examines the discrepancies of what economists are telling us about a possible technical economic recovery and what the American public is actually experiencing. |
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Five Tips for Creating a Healthy Balance in Your Life
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| My mother once said that "The older you get, the faster time will fly."How true that is! Perhaps this is why people try to cram as much into their day as possible. However, when you become too busy and forget to set aside adequate time for yourself, it will take its toll on you physically, mentally, and/or emotionally. Signs that you should slow down can include, but are not limited to, frustration, anger, a short temper, exhaustion, depression, skin rashes, and illnesses. This article provides five tips on how to create a healthier balance in your life. |
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How To Achieve Your Desires With A Goal Achievement System - Part 1
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| Have you ever gotten really excited about that million dollar idea only to end up going nowhere? Often times, the idea itself was not what had resulted in failure, but a lack of a systematic process to take that idea and turn it into a reality. This is like driving your car across the country, and never filling up your tank with gas. You will only make it a certain distance, and you will never reach your final destination. What I am about to teach you is a way to create "mental gas stations," with the Goal Achievement System (GAS). The GAS will allow you to refuel your motivation and allow you to achieve extraordinary results that you did not know were possible. |
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4 Common Denominators of High Performing Teams
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| There are four common denominators of high performing teams. When these elements are present, teams are almost guaranteed to be efficient and rewarding for the members. The elements are: Common goals, Trust, Good Leadership, and a Good Charter. If your team has these four elements, chances are you are enjoying the benefits of working on a high performance team. |
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Readt Set Grow ... Your 2010 Plan
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| Ready Set GROW... That's right GROW! Do you have a personal growth plan for 2010? As we begin the New Year, it's imperative that you know where you want to go in life and that you have a plan to achieve it. College Football Hall of Fame Coach, Lou Holtz, says, "To succeed, you've got to have a vision and a plan."
Did you know that most people spend more time planning their family vacation than planning their life? How about you? Have you ever outlined all the goals and achievements you would like to accomplish in the next year or five years? Are you crystal clear on the one target you would like to hit in your lifetime? Have you ever taken the time to set your goals and create a plan to make them a reality?
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Defining Success
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| We all want to be successful in life. Success has meaning to us in a very personal way. Some people long for financial freedom to be able to live out their lives in relaxation with enough money to pay the bills. Other people define success in terms of power, they want to have a large span of control. Still others think being successful means having excellent personal relationships and love in their lives. there is another definition of success that is provided by two very learned men.
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Beginning to Attract Abundance
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| Each of us has the ability to attract abundance. In fact we do it all the time and are not even aware of what we are doing. When we focus on something, conscious or unconscious, we are attracting that very thing toward us. |
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Breaking Down Goals For Success Into Manageable Steps
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| Chunking. This tool is a valuable resource for helping to develop the mindset for marketing success. It is extremely versatile. Chunking is effective with breaking goals down into easy manageable steps for success. You can also use chunking to clear blocks and work through resistance. |
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Make Your First Move
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| James Dicks examinies the challenges of reaching your goals and that a positive and determined approach to all thiings will assist you in attaining the things you want/need in life. |
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Learn to Set Goals for Your Online Income Business Success this New Year
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| At the start of each New Year people all around the globe set New Year's resolutions that are vague and based on negative intentions. Of course these are discarded before January comes to a close. If you own an online income business and intend making a success of it in the New Year then you need to set goals and plan your strategy accordingly to get the results you want so desperately. |
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Emotional Muscles
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| EMOTIONS are a huge element in our lives. They affect how we experience the world... and, each emotion serves as a unique filter for our life's experiences. Sometimes it feels that we're at the mercy of our emotions. I'd like to suggest how we can take greater control of our lives by more consciously choosing some of our emotions.
I believe emotions play a powerful role in helping us achieve our goals, dreams, and in creating fulfilling lives. The more we "feel" an emotion... the more we attract that into our lives. Simply put....joy breeds joy. Stress breeds stress. Peace breeds peace. Essentially, it's Law of Attraction. |
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Turn Your Resolution Into Success
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| Many people set resolutions and then just don't follow through on them. There are many reasons for this. Here is a sure fire method of making sure that you accomplish what you set out to do! |
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Goal Realization
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| Every year about this time, New Year's Resolutions become popular. Many people THINK about setting goals, and a few people actually write them down. An even smaller percentage of people do what it takes to achieve them. So, what is the difference between those who REALIZE their goals, and those who don't? |
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A Proven Set of Principles to Guide You in the New Year
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| How many of us have set New Year’s resolutions or goals for our lives that all too quickly are forgotten or put aside until the next year? The following set of principles will help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions and much more. |
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Five Steps for Success
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| Most successful people follow (either consciously or unconsciously) five simple steps for whatever they do. |
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Think Positively - Reduce Stress and Get More Out of Life
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| Studies have shown that being optimistic or pessimistic can affect how long you live and how well you live your life. Discover ten ten activities to assist you to think positively and hence get more out of life. |
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Resolve to stop making resolutions!
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| Did you know the average New Year’s resolution lasts 72 hours or less? -about the same length a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again. |
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7 Quick & Easy Tips to Stay Motivated and Achieve Your Goals
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| How many times have you set yourself goals, only to find that you simply aren’t motivated enough to carry them through? Ideas and goals are totally ineffective if you don’t take action, so here are 7 tips to spur you on to achieving your goals!
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Growth is a Constant Process
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| Growth is always a challenge but there are lessons to be learned along the way. There is no reason to resist it. Just accept it and embrace the process. |
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Make Your 2010 Goals Work
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| A key element that pushes some forward to success and holds so many back. |
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Evaluate Your Personal Finances
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| James Dicks examines the importance of balancing your personal financial portfolio and investment opportuinities on a regular basis. |
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The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again!
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| The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again.
Do you know long does the average New Year’s resolution lasts? 72 hours-about the same period a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again. Make goals instead.
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Defeat can only lead to success if you learn and take action
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| Everyone suffers from defeat now and again, but it is what you do or think when you are defeated that makes the difference. Leaders look at defeats as lessons, take away from them what you have learnt and put them into action. |
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The Need for Strategic Planning
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| Every company should have a strategic plan, no matter what the size. In fact, it is often more important for small firms as they tend to lose focus very easily. |
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The Challenge of Investing
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| James Dicks examines the challenges of investing in 2010. |
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Time to Gear Up: Make 2010 Your Year
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| Finding the resolve to give even more to getting what we want. Promise yourself now to make 2010 your year |
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New Year, New Plan
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| James Dicks examnes the importance of developing a strategy that can help your investments in 2010.
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A Leader is Born Every Minute...?
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| Are leaders born or developed? Leadership is not for the lazy. It comes from having a want and a deep desire to excel and bring others along with them. |
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What is Your Personal Definition of Success?
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| Many people only want to succeed in one area of their life. Others want to succeed in every area of their life. Still others define success monetarily, while even more define success in the materials (toys) they have gathered. |
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What To Do At Your Next Networking Event
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| Here is a brief guide to help you make your next networking event your best networking event. |
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The Mastermind Group-The Key Group To Form For Your Business:
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| Creating the Mastermind Group. How great that would be if there were say five people in your or my life that were devoted to accomplishing each others well thought out, well developed and envisioned goals. |
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In Hot Pursuit of Your Dreams
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| Do Your Dreams Get you moving in the morning? Running out the door to get them done? yes? Great Keep on Keeping On! No? maybe you need to pick something else, another dream, that sets your heart flying, your feet swiftly running and your mind buzzing till the chicken come home! |
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The Essential Ingredient in Achieving Your Goals
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| An article of 924 words describing how to achieve your goals through commitment |
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Blitz Those Tolerations !
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| In order to untap your brilliance and allow your full potential to shine, it's important that you first realize what things in your life you are tolerating and then start to get rid of them. |
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Marketing Strategies: 3 Simple Tips for Creating Your Ideal Income this Year
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| Creating your ideal income is all up to you. Learn how to imagine, eliminate the obstacles and take action to make it the best year ever! This article gives you some great tips on how to increase your power to be prosperous. |
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Exciting Goal Setting!
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| Many people groan when the hear the word ‘ Goal Setting’ as it seems a unnecessary and dull process. I am going to share with you a fun, inspiration goal setting process which will keep you motivated and help you stay on track towards your goals. Setting a goal is really important and will increase your chances of long term success and will also assist keeping you on track on a daily basis. It is also a process, you may be glad to hear, which involves sitting down for 30 minutes and no rigorous exercise. |
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Developing Positive Mindset and Goals in Online Business.
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| Operating an online business without clear goals and a positive mindset can be a formula for disaster. A simple exercise can help with both. |
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Master Your Game: Introduction
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| Welcome to the first edition of Master Your Game, a monthly newsletter distributed by Catalyst Business Coaching.
The objective of Master Your Game is to assist you in being the best you can be in whatever game you choose to play. When you master your game you will feel a greater sense of joy and success.
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Setting Strong Boundaries- A Key Ingredient in Goal Achievement
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| Experience the elation and fulfillment of achieving a goal you can be excited about by setting boundaries when you set your goals. Learn how to set boundaries to add the structure and commitment to maintain focus day after day thereby improving your end results. |
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How to Stay on Track to Your Goals – As Focused as Going to Disney World
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| Staying on track to your goals is not as hard as it seems. It just takes learning the strategies we use on other goals, such as planning vacation, and applying them in the same way. Read on to learn the techniques that lead to that exciting “I did it!!” moment when you achieve your goal. |
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Trading Toward the American Dream
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| James Dicks examines the differing aspects of achieving the American Dream in the 21st Century. |
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Realize Your Goals
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| My all time favourite quote is "You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true" Richard Bach.
Every time I remember it I feel incredibly empowered and excited. It means that anything my imagination conjures up can happen. The other day I rented a DVD called 'Man on Wire' and it shows beautifully how true that quote is. |
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High Goals, Outstanding Performance and Success
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| Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers are goal oriented. They set high goals, and do whatever it takes to achieve them. Then they set higher goals and do what they must to achieve them. They do this day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. If you want to become an outstanding performer, you need to constantly challenge yourself by setting high goals. Aim high, and you'll be surprised at what you can accomplish. |
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Plug Into Your Personal Vision to Pull You Forward
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| This past week I had some interesting conversations with clients and friends about feeling stuck, uncertain, overwhelmed or frustrated about changes they’re trying to make in their life. |
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6 Business Coaching Tips
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| Do you have a routine to follow with each new business coaching client, or new team member? These are the steps I follow, to ensure that I don’t miss an important step in laying the foundations for their future success, and the success of our coaching. |
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GOAL Setting for the Key Areas of Your Life!
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| If Goal Setting (and Getting) is capable of making you more effective in your business, then surely it makes sense to apply this same skill to every important aspect of your life.
In this template, we provide you with a system for setting those personal Goals that will make sure that, once attained, your Financial Freedom is but the means to enjoy the things that really matter in your life.
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Leading Like TIGERS: A Successful Team Building Model
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| Teamwork thrives in a collaborative culture and tends to have problems in individualistic and internally competitive cultures. This article discusses a collaborative value system that supports an organizations vision, mission and core values through teamwork and the concept, "If we in, I win." |
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Together We Can
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| After the events of September 11th, we saw individuals throughout the United States and the world come together as one - red, white, and blue. The differences in our personalities, race, gender, nationality, religious beliefs, etc. still existed but our very diversity became a way to show the terrorists that we are all different in many ways but still unite as one - red, white, and blue!
Wouldn't it be nice if we could harness that same energy in our companies so that we worked together as one (but without the tragedy)? You can!!!
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5 Activities That Separate Successful People from the Rest
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| I have been observing the activities that separate top successful people from the rest across different industries, and have noticed that they have common characteristics. Although one can argue the number or variety of traits they share, I’ve noted five traits you can model if you want to join the ranks of the top 10% of successful people. |
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Why Dedication to Lifelong Learning is a Key to Success
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| Jim Rohn said it best that you should “Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” The most successful people in any industry will tell you that they spent a considerable amount of time honing their skills and working on their personal development. |
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Are you a saver If not you will be
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| James Dicks examines the need to change our financial lifestyles from a credit oriented society to more of a cash structured populaiton. |
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Beware of Job Scams
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| James Dicks discusses the possibility of being scammed on the Internet when look for a job online. |
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Buy and Hold No More
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| James Dicks looks at the Buy and Hold strategy when investing and why it may not be such a good idea anymore. |
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Chicken or the Egg Is it SAVE jobs or CREATE jobs
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| James Dicks examines the "supposed" effects of the Obama Administration's stimulus package |
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Communicate with the people you owe; it’s a win-win for everyone
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| James Dicks explains the benefits of being honest with your creditors, even when the answer is not what they want to hear. |
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Compartmentalize-How do you do it?
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| James Dicks explains how he handles all of his problems through compartmentalizing |
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Customer Service and the 21st Century Business Model
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| James Dicks examines the changing times business is facing when dealilng with their customer. |
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Diversification is the Key
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| James Dicks explains the benefits of diversifying your personal financial investment portfolio. |
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Doing it Debt Free
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| James Dicks explains the importance of the US population paying off their personal debt as soon as possible. |
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Engaging your Employees
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| the importance of an involved employee base |
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Exceeding the Standards
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| James Dicks examines what it takes for business and individuals to make it in today's tough eocnomy |
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Find the RIGHT Job
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| James Dicks examines the U.S. job market in the current economic downturn |
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Guarding Your Thoughts
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| James Dicks examines the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in today's tough economic times. |
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I Made More Money with Bad Credit Paying 18 Percent and 5 Points
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| James Dicks shares his strategies and methods of making money in Real Estate. |
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I Need a Job - Not Stimulus
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| James Dicks presents his own method of solving the nation's economic problems |
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Is 5 Years Long Enough To Get Rich Quick?
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| James Dicks discusses of getting "rich" in the short term and the methods that have worked in his own life |
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It's the Little Things that Create BIG Savings
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| Saving money in the family budget during tough economic times is possible. James Dicks examines methods that any family can incorporate into their monthly spending habits. |
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Know Where You Stand
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| James Dicks discusses the process of recovery once a person loses a job |
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Know Your Credit
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| James Dicks examines the importance of checking your credit report |
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Leadership Traits of the USMC
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| James Dicks examines the importance of leadership development in today's business environment. |
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Lessons of Leadership
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| James Dicks discusses the importance of leadership traits in the business enviroment |
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Looking For The Bottom
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| James Dicks examines the current global economic situaiton and speculates on when a bottom might be reached and improvement may begin. |
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Making the Tough Decisions during Troubling Economic Times
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| James Dicks discusses the challenges facing today's business and employees during these tough economic times |
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Making Your Business Fiscally Fit in Tough Times
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| James Dicks examines the challenges businesses face in today's global recession |
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Next Year I Will Save
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| James Dicks looks at how the American family is changing their habits to save money in their personal budgets. |
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Taking Action to achieve your Goals
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| You can't eat an elephant all in one bite so sometimes we need to chunk down our goals into bite size chunks! |
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Experience a Sense of Accomplishment While Enjoying Your Career
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| Have you asked yourself why some businesspeople appear to attain their goal more progressively than others do? The road to success and accomplishments seem to come within their grasp so easily. While they are periodically bombarded with several problems and challenges, they never allow themselves to slacken their optimistic outlook.
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You Can Be A Leader With A Vision
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| Leaders need a vision to help them guide their followers. Read this article to find out how you are a leader and get some ideas of why you really need a vision. |
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Permission
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| Sometimes we just need to know we can! |
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Top Tips on How to Jump into Personal & Professional Success
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| Jumping high and forward is an inborn talent for survival of the African impala. The impala is known to jump about ten feet high. This high jump propels the impala to land about thirty feet from the spot where it starts. With this ability of vertical and horizontal jumping, the impala survives and thrives in the carnivore-infested savannas of Africa.
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How to Make the Mastermind Group Unlock the Door to Success
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| I came across the concept of the mastermind group after reading Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich. According to Hill, the mastermind group is formed when two or more minds work actively together in perfect harmony toward a common definite object. Hill noted that every successful person in history had a mastermind group that helped him achieve greatness. No one mind is ever complete in itself, so you need to have a mastermind group to help you achieve those objectives. |
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13 Known Strategies that Stop Employees From Screaming
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| Have you ever wondered why people thrive in activities not related to their work but fail to have the same enthusiasm and/or output in what they are paid to do? Their morale is low, no personal accountability and their creativity in minimal from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday...Because the workplace has changed, employees need a new leadership approach to overcome their challenges. Unlike the Kamba women who expected their men to rid the community of the attacking forces, today's employees need the tools themselves. The workplace has become an unpredictable jungle and leadership needs to know why people with talents and experiences are dissatisfied and not using their potential-thus damaging the bottom line.
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6 Proven Ways to Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
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| Cicero, renown world speaker and philosopher said, "I turn pale at the outset of a speech, and quake in every limb and in all my soul." Read Exodus to learn about Moses' fear of public speaking. John Dryden described his fear of public speaking this way, "Whenever I speak a cold sweat trickles down all over my limbs as if I were dissolving in water." I know how it feels to have running stomach, sleepless nights and disappointed audience.
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What Do We Do Now?: Options for Allocating Scarce Resources When You Haven’t Planned Ahead
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| Although advance planning for resource allocation is the ideal scenario, many organizations found themselves caught short by the severe constraints imposed by the economic downturn. What are the alternatives when organizations are operating in crisis mode and there is no “Plan A?” Given the need to make decisions about how to curtail their operations immediately, there are two options that can help in the short-run: (1) increase inputs or (2) decrease outputs - each with several alternatives |
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Guidelines for Allocating Scarce Resources
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| Scarce resources are a fact of business life. In the wake of devastating budget cuts, furloughs, and/or layoffs, however, “normal” levels of scarcity have been exacerbated. The question for many organizations has become, “How do we move forward from here most effectively?” I recommend to my clients that they begin by identifying some crucial information that will guide their subsequent actions and decisions. |
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Inspiration Stagnation
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| When people fail, it’s generally not because they don’t know what to do. It is that they don’t do what they know.
People who are suffering from the deficiency of not knowing what to do can find an easy and immediate remedy as close as the Internet or their local library. Knowing what to do is relatively simple. Doing what we know separates winners from losers.
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Top Time Management Tips For Time Tight Women
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| Are you a stressed-out time tight woman? Read these top tips to help you tackle your time management problems and create time for yourself! |
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Using Daily Task Lists to Accomplish Your Goals
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| Driving to work in the morning, I would think about my goals. That helped motivate me and often gave me specific ideas about what tasks I should accomplish that day. I'd walk into work meaning to complete those tasks ... but by the end of the day, many of them were not done.
What happened?
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Business Plans: Uses and Abuses
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| “Some men see things as they are and say "Why?". I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw)
Do you ever dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality.
Many of you will have thought about writing business plans to make your dreams come true and been put off, thinking them either too hard to write, not necessary, or feeling that they are not really needed as the plans are already in your head. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals.
In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process.
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Just Like Magic
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| The great thing about being in sales is that we all have an opportunity to raise our game, increase our success, and reap the short-term rewards of our efforts. All we have to do to sell more is to work a little harder or think a little smarter, or get a little luckier. Alternatively, try a little magic.
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12 Questions Critical to Achieving Sales Plans
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| As we sat down with CEOs at the beginning of the year it became obvious that most organizations have "dreams" instead of "goals." The difference between a "dream" and a "goal" is an action plan. |
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15 Ways to Motivate Your Employees
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| In today’s business environment, it is essential that we find ways to make our organizational resources more productive. In many organizations, the most prominent and expensive resource we have is our people. As a result, a lot of time is spent on creating processes and conditions that drive and motivate our employees. If your are spending a lot of money on motivation speakers and seminars, stop wasting your money. Read this article and find out the proper ways to motivate your employees. |
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7 KEYS TO BEING A GREAT NETWORKER
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| Why is it that some people seem to know everyone at functions and get what they want so easily in business while others seem to waste their time week after week? I have found that that there are 7 keys to successful networking. |
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State your goals the SMART WAY
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| The first step in successfully executing a goal is to state it properly. You know your goal is well stated when anyone who reads it knows exactly what you are trying to accomplish and in what time frame. The better a person states the goal, the easier it is to create the action plan. An acronym commonly used for stating a goal properly is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistically high, and Time-based). |
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The Incredible Benefits of Setting AND Achieving Your Goals
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| There is no way around the fact that a person must master the skill of goal-setting if he or she wants to scale the lofty heights all great achievers have climbed. |
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Face Your Fears and Live Your Dream Life
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| Fears are the result of not having faith; not having confidence. Faith and fear cannot exist in the same room at the same time. Before we tackle the gambit of fears, let’s offer a solution to the number one fear – the fear of public speaking. This fear is almost always due to not being prepared or not having confidence. Much of this fear can be overcome with practice, practice, practice. |
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4 Steps to Make the Big One Happen
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| We all have those things we've always wanted to do, but for whatever reasons just haven't accomplished. Learn how to keep yourself focused and clear on the overall goal and objective as you move along towards achieving your dreams with these four simple steps. |
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5 Components to Playing Your Game
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| Whether it is to find true love, create perfect health or develop financial abundance and stability … know what you want. Having a powerful, short and clear purpose will keep you powerful, direct and clear in achieving it. Find out how to use these five guidelines to achieve what it is you really want. |
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6 Parts to UnReasonable Success
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| Going beyond what you know you can do is the first step of being "UnReasonable." Learn how to take your business to the next level by setting unreasonable goals and following these six simple steps for success. |
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Building Fires - What Leaders Do
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| Teaching, demonstrating and motivating through positive reinforcement are just a few of the examples of what leaders do to encourage the greatness in those they mentor. When properly done they can build followers into fiery leaders themselves. We can draw many parallels between developing the character of a leader and building a fire. |
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Change your career path it’s never too late to try something new
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| Have wanted to change your career path but been too afraid to take the plunge? Then when you finally did, struggled to find the right opportunity? This is an account of someone who took those steps and hopes to help others to get it right ! |
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Staying positive in business – Drive away the negatives
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| Do you ever feel that you cannot cope with the pressures or failures that are ruining your business? Do you find it difficult to get into the right mindset to carry on? Here is an article to advise on some measures to help you to stay positive and focused to achieve your goals and make your business a success. |
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Live the Dream - Share the Dream
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| Live your abundant life, if that is what you want. Present yourself as if you have already achieved the financial success that you desire. By doing so, you will give off the aura, the image, that you are already a successful person. You will find that things come your way easier when you act successful. People see you as a person that can get things done, a person who knows where they are going, etc. Success, or the mannerisms of success, begets success. |
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Choice & Accountability: The Bedrock of Superior Performance
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| Employees who resist taking personal accountability for their work and career success cost organizations a lot. This article speaks to staff members, offering three ways to operate in a fully accountable manner in their own job. |
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How to Build Accountability in Your People
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| Every manager wants his or her employees to take on personal accountability for their work performance. Here are seven concrete actions you can take to foster that sense of responsibility in your staff. The benefits of this include greater productivity, confident, engaged employees who more rapidly reach their full performance potential, and less stress on you because you know you can count on them. The big bonus benefit is that you will have more time to focus on tasks that are strategically critical to the success and growth of the enterprise.
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Raise Your Gaze: Staying Energized in the Daily Grind
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| Presents two remedies when you get bogged down at work. One is to visualize your work completed and how good it will feel. The second is to remind yourself of the bigger picture, of how what you are working on will positively affect others. |
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FACING THOSE SMALL FEARS
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| Too often we allow our fears to prevent us from achieving our goals or living the life we truly want to live. Fears have no boundaries and differ from person to person. We can be fearful of anything ranging from relationships to rabbits! In this newsletter I am going to focus on facing our ' small' fears, the one's which may not have a huge impact on our life but in their own way, can make our life less enjoyable and somewhat ' smaller'.
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Simple Goal Setting
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| Goal setting is a very powerful technique that works! |
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One Bite at a Time
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| So many of us try diets, new businesses, new relationships and much more with a fervor. We rush in with excitement and motivation. What happens? Often, as we lose momentum we begin to stray from our plans. Regardless of whether you are dieting or working on some other goal, it all revolves around keeping track of your goals. |
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5 tips on achieving better work-life balance
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| The success of the new generation of entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals and business owners implies 24/7 accessibility, especially for those in the service and competitive sectors (and who isn't these days). The line between "Not now I'm working honey" and "I'll be right there after I send this last email" gets blurrier and blurrier at home and affects the quality of lives of millions hooked up to perma-technology. In this article, you will find useful, simple and affordable tips to make the best of both worlds and gain a sense of control over your business; why not enjoy yourself more and be fun to deal with! Remember the rested,organized and satisfied mind is a productive, creative and profit generating mind! |
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Perfection Stinks!
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| You can't wait until you find everything, know everything and have the perfect plan.
You have to jump in and take ACTION!!
If you don't, you'll run out of time. If this is you, you are stuck and hurting. Don't do that!!
Get going. Don't wait to be perfect!
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A Clear Goal Creates Momentum
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| Achieving the UnReasonable is only possible when you set clearly defined, measurable goals. Learn here how to fine-tune your goals to make the UnReasonable realistic. |
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Setting the Cornerstone--The Purpose of Your Life
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| Creating the life you love all starts with having a solid foundation, where the cornerstone is to understand your life’s purpose. Learn here how to learn what is important to you and pursue your goals with these four simple steps. |
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TRUTH IN INTERVIEW - Part I
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| This is a two-part article. In PART 2: Help is available! The conclusion includes Interviewing This is a two-part article. The conclusion includes Interviewing Tips and Techniques to better identify High Performers. Locus of Control, a 50-year old psychology will be introduced to improve interviewing effectiveness. This behavioral psychology can provide interviewers with insight to the achievement attitudes and behaviors that are present in ALL Top Performers. By using simple interviewing techniques, Locus of Control can add information that will improve the accuracy of distinguishing the High Performers from the Impostors. |
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TRUTH IN INTERVIEW - Part II
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| From PART I: Somewhere, we learned that if we hire an applicant with the skills we need, the results will be an employee who will do a great job. WRONG! Skills simply means the applicant can do the job, it does not mean they will do the job better than anyone else. Making hiring decisions based on skills leaves job performance a mystery until after the hire. Interview-savvy applicants have made it tougher for interviewers to accurately assess motivation, often causing the misjudgment to favor applicants who are NOT High Performers. |
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Carol Quinn's Interviewer Tip #2
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| Carol Quinn is an advocate for the employer! There are an infinite number of resources directed toward job seekers. These sources offer insight into the interview process in order to help applicants ace interviews. The ultimate decision to hire or not-to-hire resides with the interviewer. Employers pay a huge price for their hiring mistakes. It's time for the interviewer to be armed with the knowledge to accurately select the best. |
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Carol Quinn's Interviewer Tip #1
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| Carol Quinn is an advocate for the employer! There are an infinite number of resources directed toward job seekers. These sources offer insight into the interview process in order to help applicants ace interviews. The ultimate decision to hire or not-to-hire resides with the interviewer. Employers pay a huge price for their hiring mistakes. It's time for the interviewer to be armed with the knowledge to accurately select the best. |
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How Do YOU Create The Outcome You Want?
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| WARNING: There is information ahead that involves looking at yourself as the cause of your own short-fallen results. Do NOT read any further if you're not opening to the idea we always play a role in creating our own experiences and outcomes!! Instead...Keep doing what you have always done and wish for improved results then let me know how that works out for you. |
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Learn To Stay Focused On Your Goal
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| How to stay focused on your goal |
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Success is Unattainable Without Documented Goals
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| Past studies indicate that the top three percent of successful companies all have written goals. Most companies have an idea of what they are trying to accomplish but the question becomes how many of these objectives are actually documented in detail. I mean documented beyond the typical objective of growing sales by X percent. In other words, every goal should have an attendant action plan with the desired results listed for each task, a time line for completion and assigned individual accountability for completing each task. |
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Resolutions - Solutions or Illusions?
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| I am going to run you through the SMARRT goals method I use with my clients for any changes they want to make |
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Start Something that Matters
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| Fortunately for us, in his new book Start Something that Matters, Blake tells us we don’t have to choose. As he shares the story of how he started TOMS, one of the fastest-growing shoe companies in the world, he says we don’t have to choose. And furthermore, we’ll have more success if we don’t settle for less than combining all three elements. I love his chapter titles – the six steps for creating your own life. |
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Four Key Principles for Small Business Success
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| Someone asked me recently, “if you were talking to a group of small business owners today, what would you say to them about finding success in this economy”? I thought through a range of responses, but the one thing I keep coming back to is this, be smart! Hidden in that simple response are four key principles of small business success. |
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Do You Own The Business? Or Does the Business Own You?
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| It's not about the money. I have made this statement often, but today it takes on a new meaning. Today I am not talking about value over price in a sales model. I am talking about why business owners are in business in the first place. At their core, most entrepreneurs and small business owners are in business because they want freedom and opportunity. How sad, then, to know that all too often they end up with neither because their business goals are not aligned to their personal goals or because their life is out of balance trying to make their business live up to their dreams and expectations. |
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Prayer, Faith and Action!
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| There is more to prayer then just asking for stuff. What is extremely important is what you do after you have prayed. |
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Seven Steps to Lose Weight with Twitter
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| You might be saying, "Come on now! The only thing social media does is add to my waistline since I spend too much time in front of the computer."
Well I am here to tell you that's only because you are using it wrong.
I'm not making that statement in an accusatory way. I've fallen into the same trap (as evidenced by my increasingly large physique). :)
We've all rushed out to purchase the "at home" exercise equipment which we've creatively figured out how to use as place to hang our clothes, or as a dust collector.
Come on ... you remember. You decided to purchase the equipment for your home so you could eliminate the recurring fee you paid to the health club. The crazy thing is you weren't using the membership anyhow. |
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Pursuing your own Goals
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| Recently, I made one of my rare and infrequent trips to a retail store. It's not that I don't like to buy things. I simply do not enjoy the process of shopping, so I leave it to others.
While at the store, I took the opportunity to observe people who had selected the items they wished to purchase and were waiting to pay for their items in the checkout line. Some people simply picked the nearest line, stood in the back, and waited. Others roamed back and forth looking for the shortest line and waited there. Then there was the third group of shoppers who constantly got out of one line and got into another, thinking they would save time by getting in the faster-moving line.
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10 Very Necessary Underlying Success Goals!!!
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| These 10 underlying success goals will help you to accomplish your current goals and get them off your list for good! |
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Courage in the face of failure
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| Naming our fears is the first step to overcoming them.The significance of a supportive,caring community in coping with the fear of failure. |
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What Will Your Sales Organization Look Like in 24 Months?
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| Let's face it, with the speed of change revved up as high as it is, developing and executing a five-year plan is nearly impossible to do. While it may be true that changes in technology, the economy, the political administration, and the markets are considerably volatile today (and certainly more difficult to plan for and navigate) I believe that when designing and developing a plan for your sales organization, you clearly need to decide what it is that you want to be “when you grow up.” |
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Small Wins, Quick Success
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| How can you ensure that the "perfect" action plan that you have so painstakingly crafted produces the results you have envisioned? |
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Smart Women Have a Good Eye
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| This article is about choosing collaborations that are “right” for you and your business. There will be many opportunities that come along as your business grows and knowing how to choose the right ones will position you for better business growth. |
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The Truth about Mondays by Linda J Lord
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| The Pitch: How soccer strategies relate to success in business and life. |
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Learn To Increase Your Confidence for Greater Success
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| Confidence is generally thought of a mental state of being “certain.” Confidence could apply to the knowledge one carries that his viewpoint is true. Confidence could also apply to a permanent emotional state of mind, as in self-confidence: having high self-esteem in general and especially when considering a specific capability. Case in point: some people who struggle with self-doubt in most aspects of their life, but who are confident in one belief. Confidence has sometimes been called a “self-fulfilling prophecy”, since those that have it succeed just as they predict, whereas those who lack it fail because they worry too much about not having it. |
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How Did I Land Here?
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| Have you ever had such an exhilerating experience and then wondered how you managed to land there? Yes, there are reasons why you landed there and things you did to help it along the way. So if we can unconsciously do things to create great experiences, just imagine what we could create if we did it consciously! |
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Setting goals for your employees
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| When it comes to setting targets for the financial year, most SMEs think "operations, growth, expansion, profits" and so on. These are all necessary elements of successful planning, but what about setting goals for your employees? Is it necessary, and if so, where do you start? This article can be used as a guide for individual goal-setting and measuring achievement. |
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Creating sustainable competitive advantage; in a modern context
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| We are in the middle of one of the worst modern recessions in living memory and most companies are trying to focus, not just on how to survive, but on how to grow their businesses in the long term. Many companies have suffered from the effects of reduced turnover, increased costs and ever greater competition. It would be easy to be full of doom and gloom and to focus purely on survival but that would be to miss a great opportunity – how to prepare for the end of the recession and what comes next. Not all companies are doing badly! Some of those who were focused and well run have survived and come through the initial crisis relatively unscathed e.g. HSBC and Santander. Do you understand what resources you have and how they can be used to gain future competitive advantage? Can you inspire your stakeholders with your strategic messages? |
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Law of Correspondence
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| It's about getting clear on your purpose, mission and goals and how you think about these things. Do you think positively about success or money? Or is all your self-talk about the obstacles, fears and doubts that will sabotage your future? What you think about, you bring about. |
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Action, Not Confidence, Is What Counts For Career (and weight loss) Success
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| The importance of taking action in order to reach or accomplish goals in your life |
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Planning Is The Key To Career Success
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| The importance of planning your route to success one step at a time |
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How is your self esteem doing today?
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| On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your self esteem? If it requires some improvement, then you are not alone! Most of us can acknowledge that our self esteem could do with a boost, but much of the time, we are not sure how to go about improving it. |
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Sustainable Business is Good Business
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| Sustainability is a worldwide movement that is changing the way we do business. Sustainability is a megatrend that reflects a general shift in thinking or approach affecting entire countries, industries, and organizations. Sustainability is the next transformational business megatrend comparable to mass production, manufacturing quality movement, IT revolution, and globalization. |
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SMARTER Goal Setting That Really Works
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| Many people use SMART goals, but if you want to increase your chance of success exponentially you need to employ the SMARTER method. |
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Problems First
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| Defining success in the work place depends on realistic goal setting and quality control. |
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Some Companies Feel That Having More Than One Profile is Distracting ...what do you think?
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| Some major companies feel that having too much social media can be distracting to your business. I feel like you need as much as you possibly can get your hands on. Read more... |
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From Here, Now Where? What’s Not Working and What Will
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| You know how things are in your business, professional or personal endeavors. You have first hand knowledge of how our economy, that for the most part is still ailing, has affected everything you expect from whatever you do. Your passion, creativity and hope are on hold until “things change.” The reality is, until you ask yourself, “What’s not working for you, what will?” and then implement what will work, nothing will change. Your business, professional or personal pursuits will remain on hold and risk being forced to obsolescence until “things change.” |
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Un-used Potential
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| Millions of talents and gifts come and go from this world packaged within people who never used them. Yet, when you discover and use a hidden talent and/or gift, you significantly enrich your life and the lives of others.
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Top 7 Tips for Overcoming Buffaloes With Others
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| When you or your organization is face-to-face with a fierce buffalo, there is no short cut-just as villagers could not run away or climb trees, neither can you escape from the buffalo trumpeting you your organization. You have a strategy and a team to help overcome the beast. |
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Top 7 Leadership Lessons Learned From Gardening
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| Gardening has tips that can be applied in Gardening has tips that can be applied in leadership strategies, parenting and spiritual issues.
My mother gave me a small plot to garden when I was ten-long before she bought me my first underwear and shoes. It was mine to cultivate, plant and care for my crops before harvesting them. Sugarcane was my crop of choice. I could harvest one at a time without asking for my parent's permission.
At that tender age, I discovered a source of tranquility and moments for creative thinking that are rarely experienced in our fast paced world. Up to 1985, I gardened whenever schools were closed. What many consider manual labor was an interconnection of mental, physical, and spiritual aspects that always left a sense of significance words cannot describe.
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My Father's Leadership
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| Today's decline of the social structures in America that hold families, corporations and other institutes together is largely attributed to ineffective leaders. As I reflect on the importance of quality leadership, I think of my father, Johnson Kituku Musoo.
My father is a living testimony that what you don't have should not stop you from achieving what you want. His mother died before he turned ten, leaving him with a younger brother and sister to care for. I learned about his struggles from other people. I never heard him complain--although I once saw him cry, wishing that his mother was still alive.
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Inspiring People for Maximum Productivity
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| It is amazing to learn and witness an ordinary teacher inspire average students for outstanding performance. There are numerous outstanding coaches who were never star players in their day. And there are the average employees who became leaders and turned organizations around-on the positive side. What one sees among these leaders, regardless of their background, is individuals with a vision, burning desire to turn that vision into reality, ability to communicate that vision to others in a way that inspires positive attitude, determination and action from the listeners.
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7 Must Know Motivators Employees Appreciate at All Times
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| So often when I am contacted to work with a group of leaders I am asked, "What can we do to keep our employees motivated, focused and increasing productivity?" Then that question is followed by the comment, "We have goals that we want to achieve."
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Are You Sabotaging Your Success?
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Many people know what they want to achieve in life but they feel there are more stumbling blocks than steppingstones on their way. They find themselves not doing the things that must be done to get them ahead. Many people, in most cases, sabotage their own dreams with what they are doing or not doing-they can be self-made victims.
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Beyond the Lion's Claws and Teeth of Your Future
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| Vision overshadows inadequacies related to skills, resources and abilities. It has been said, and proven to be true, that what your mind can conceive, and you believe in your heart, you can achieve. "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science" (Albert Einstein). Dreams are the seeds of success. |
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Reaching your ultimate goal
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| Each work experience is a building block that helps to create your ultimate career goal. The success of a lifetime is comprised of many routine assignments which serve as preparation. No job is too menial and all successful people have paid their dues.This story illustrates the importance of never giving up on your dreams. |
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What does that word motivation mean?
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| Merydith Willoughby hears the word motivation bandied far too often. It concerns her on many fronts because people get the wrong idea about what it is. It is clear to her after having worked with many people that being motivated is a small component of success. This article details what else is required. |
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Best Practices for Sustainability and Communicating Sustainability
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| A sustainable best practices program involves a comprehensive and holistic approach that encompasses everything a business does that impacts the environment. A successful sustainability initiative demands the willing participation of employees. Businesses also need to understand how to communicate sustainability in a way that conveys their environmental initiatives while enhancing their internal and external brand.
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How To Determine What You Want In Life
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| What do you really want in life?
Most people don't discover what they want in life until it's time to die - and that's a shame.
Most people spend the best years of their lives watching television or doing things they dislike. An author described humanity by saying, "Most people die at twenty and are buried at eighty." Are you one of the living zombies?
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Green is the new black!
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| Challenge yourself this year! Set yourself some new and exciting goals. Take off your blinkers, and look at what is happening in the wider world. Then see what you can do in your business to make a difference in 2008.
Thinking “green”, being sustainable, and looking after the environment are the buzz issues at the moment in business.
Some of my clients have already embraced these initiatives. One of them has set up “The Green Police” – a project whereby some staff members are responsible for overseeing all the green waste in the organisation. Another has just set his employees the goal of making the business more sustainable in 2008 by cutting their use of electricity and paper at work.
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Want to be a millionaire?
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| I would be a millionaire if I had a dollar for every time a client told me this was their aim.
When I ask my clients what they want to achieve in life it is often to have more money, or to have more time in their day. Admirable goals, but not as easy as they look. They’re hard to achieve first off. |
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4 Steps to Increase The Power of Your Focus
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| Living your life without practicing The Power of Focus, is like trying to hit the bull's eye of a target you can't see. You can spend hours launching arrows, only to miss the target entirely. You become exhausted and frustrated when your repeated efforts don't show the results you are trying to achieve. This is what it feels like to operate without The Power of Focus. Here are 4 steps to help you increase the power of your focus.
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Start Your Own Guilt-Free Revolution
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| Did you set any New Year's resolutions? Did you spend January beating yourself up because they were the same resolutions / goals that were set last year or the year before, or the year before that? If you’ve broken your New Year’s resolution already, or forgotten about the goals you set, you’re not alone! Learn how to throw out the resolutions and forget about pie in the sky and start a Guilt-Free Goals Revolution. |
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The Importance of Human Resources
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| Simple things can change big situations! |
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HOW TO KEEP YOUR RESOLUTIONS AND REACH YOUR GOALS
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| Another year has flown by and here you are at the beginning of another year. This is a time when many people assess their life and make "new year resolutions" or set goals for the New Year. Sometimes they are the exact same resolutions as last year!! Did you make some of these? |
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Achieve Your Goals in these 6 Easy Steps
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| Throughout your life you have made goals and made plans to achieve them, and sometimes you were successful and sometimes not. Every day that passes you are either moving closer to your goals or letting them slip further away. It is something like making decisions, even when you do nothing it is still a decision. |
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Break Through Your Resistance
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| It's almost Spring. Which also means the first quarter of the year is almost over. How are you doing on your goals for the year, for the quarter? Have you neglected or forgotten some of those New Year's resolutions? |
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Why is Being an Entrepreneur so Hard?
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| Why does being an entrepreneur seem so hard? It should be the easiest thing in the world to do. |
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The Magic of Entrepreneurship
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| James Dicks examines the benefits of creating your own small business. |
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You Can’t Get There From Here.
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| You can’t get there from here is a statement that is often made to express the hopelessness people have in their lifestyles. They have dreams but those dreams aren’t worth the effort it would take to realize them. |
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Effortlessness. Want More of it?
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| The word Mastery as we use it today comes from the French word: Maitre, meaning someone who is exceptionally proficient and skilled – the master of a craft. |
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Visualize to Keep your Eye on the Plan
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| Making your goals come alive and keeping a focus on what you intend to create and accomplish, well that can be challenging when life begins to happen and unexpected events occur. Here's how I help my clients keep an eye on their goal plans. |
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Teflon New Year’s Resolutions
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| New Year's resolutions are usually about a change that is desired, but why is it that so many fail at achieving the change? What does it take to create lasting change and make it stick. |
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Goal Getting
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| Get rid of goals and create destinations to where you want to go/be. That's the #1 key to achieving goals.1 |
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The Positive Leader, Put Your Mind To It
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| James Dicks examines the importance of positive leadership |
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Smart Women and the Six Feminine Energies(TM)
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| This article is about women embracing what’s really important to them right now in their lives. It’s key to hone in and take action on what drives you, what fuels you, what energizes you. This is a key to living on purpose and with passion. |
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How to Attract and Keep Productive Employees
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| It's been shown time after time that there is a high positive correlation between employee commitment/productivity and reduced turnover. A stable, low turnover work force produces significantly more. All the secrets are revealed here. |
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14 Pillars to Business-Building Breakthroughs
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| When you set out to build your business, did you know your business was going to break the million dollar mark in revenues in a year? Two years? Five years? Did you set out intentionally to build a business or invest in others? Or did your hobby evolve accidentally into solo-preneurship or a bit bigger business? |
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What stage of growth is your business in?
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| learn how to care for your business and give it the boost it needs |
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Choicepoint- Put your stake in the sand
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| learn how to determine what it is you want and how to get it |
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Goal Setting - Not your Everyday Goal Setting Article!
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| I'm reading a book by David Cameron Gikandi, who was a creative consultant on The Secret. Now, I've written more than one Ezine about how important getting clear on your goals is. |
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A Better Approach with Purchasing Departments
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| A positive attitude is the foundation for profitable long-term relationship with the purchasing department...Make the attitude adjustments that make a difference.
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Strategic Foreclosure
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| James Dicks examines the current state of the U.S. housing market. |
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Smart Women Make It Happen
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| This article is about taking steps to go from where you are right now in your business life to where you want to be in the future in terms of your business. There are some steps that you will need to take in order to create the life you want. This article gives you 6 tools to think about as you get on your journey from where you are to where you want to be. |
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Smart Women, LeBron James and the Need to Be You
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| This article is about being courageous and standing firm in what you want in your life, despite what others may think. It’s about getting creative and making a plan to achieve this dream. You need to give yourself permission to take action on your dreams and goals. |
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Executive Coaching for Creating Goals - Goal-Setting Strategies for Leaders
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| Do your organizational leaders have clearly defined written goals? Research shows that those people who actually sit down and write out their goals not only end up achieving them, but have higher incomes and ratings for overall success and life satisfaction. |
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There's Only So Much Time in a Day
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| In this article we'll start to explore time management. Through this series we'll be looking fro ways to find wasted time that you can use to move yourself in the direction of your dreams. |
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Why do you go to work?
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| Why do you go to work? Is it for the enjoyment, to keep busy or another specific reason?
For years, I have been asking people why they go to work. Everywhere in the world I get the same answer. What do you think that answer is?
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Inspiration Is The Foundation For Motivation
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| Is it possible to motivate someone else without inspiration? The answer to this question is no, inspiration is the catalyst for motivation. |
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To Dream the Impossible Dream
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| "To dream the impossible dream, to right the unrightable wrong that is my quest"
What happens when your dream is somebody else's nightmare?
Having made my debut into the Costa Blanca Social Scene, (quite successfully - I felt), well I did end up at home, in one piece, (maybe a bit wobbly), I was enthused to participate more. So, during these two weeks I have made a concentrated effort: 1 party, 2 Business Meetings, 5 bars (not all with vino), 1 tarot reading (I need all the help I can get) and a meal out with a friend (not male).
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Team Excellence First Ingredient - A Common Goal
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| Teams need a common goal to perform consistently at peak levels. This article gives some examples and technology for measuring whether there is a common goal on your team. |
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Team Excellence Second Ingredient - The Right People
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| Having the right people on a team is fundamental to top performance. Too often we take for granted the players we are given for a team regardless of whether they are right for it or not. That is a mistake. This article describes a process to remove the wrong players. |
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5 Mental Attitudes of Winners
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| If you are serious about changing your career and your life, then get in the practice of working on your mental attitude first. Adopt these 5 mental attitudes of winners to powerfully change your ways of thinking and to permanently change your results. |
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Team Excellence Third Ingredient - Trust
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| Teams need to develop high trust in order to be effective. This is a challenge for any group. There are all kinds of agendas going on with any group when it first gets started. This article takes you through the classic steps. |
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Team Excellence Fourth Ingredient - A Great Leader
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| Every team needs to have a good leader in order to be effective. Sometimes the true leader is an informal one rather than the formal leader. Having a leader that is too strong can lead to problems. This article deals with the function of a leader in creating great teamwork. |
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Team Excellence Fifth Ingredient - A Charter
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| A good team Charter is the best way to guarantee outstanding performance by all team members. The key to a good Charter is to identify the consequences for social loafing up front. This article explains why this is so powerful. |
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Workplace Change in Six Steps
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| Managing change in today’s organizations is not easy. Those companies that get it right win a significant strategic advantage over their struggling competitors. Leslie Allan shows how you can apply a practical change management process that will help you gain success on your next change initiative. |
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Profitable Non-Profits
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| Randy Seitz is taking the traditional approaches of 'non-profits' and turning them on their ear - challenging status quo in every aspect of his operations. I'm inspired by Randy's innovative thoughts on turning a non-profit into a self-sustaining entity. This is a fabulous example of defying Gravity for all of us. |
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Creating the Mindset for Success to Grow Your Business
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| Deserving is an interesting concept. For some it is seen as a right and something positive. Others view it as a negative and feel guilt. When you think about deserving what are some of the thoughts you have? Do you deserve to carve out the time to grow your business? Do you deserve success? |
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Build a Financial Plan “as you see it”
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| My goal is to help you achieve that kind of discipline, so that you can move from where you are to where you want to be. That means slightly different things for different people-there's no "one size fits all"-but that is the fun and beauty of financial independence.
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Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 1
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| I thought, you can go where you want to go and do what you want to do, when you want to do it. What I had to discover-and in fact didn't discover for many years-was that having the money wasn't as important as knowing what to do with the money once I got it. In reality, as it turned out, money was only a tool. |
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First Step-Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 2
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| To take your first step and set your mind on the course to financial success, you must begin to dream. You must begin to envision the kind of life you desire. For some of you, this will be easy, because you have dreamed all your life. For others, it will be more difficult. Why? Some people simply don't know how to dream-they've never tapped into their imagination deeply enough to let their thoughts run free. |
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Stop Worrying about Sales
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| Someone once said that worrying is praying for things you don’t want to happen. What a great saying, and, like all sayings, there’s a lot of truth in it. |
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TIME, TIME, TIME ….IS NOT ON MY SIDE!
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| Many say the WORLDS GREATEST ROCK N’ ROLL BAND is the Rolling Stones! Mick Jagger and the boys once had a big hit whose lyrics went, “Time, Time, Time, is on my side, Yes it is….”
With all due respect to the wisdom of Rock N’ Roll, I believe that the Stones were dead wrong! If they were right then why do so many of my business coaching customers say that they never have enough time to get everything done that they need done. Why do they say that life would be so much better if they just had 25 hours in a day?
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EVERY BUSINESS NEEDS A CEO!
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| The idea of the value of a title in business today is debated far and wide and I agree in most cases titles are important, however for successful businesses in today's rocky business environment are discovering the need for the changing meaning of certain titles or the addition of certain titles to the necessary line up of key employees in their organization. The new thoughts may surprise you! |
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LET’S DANCE!
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| I almost got shot the other day! One of my coaching clients called to tell me about a very successful meeting that they had just completed that ended in them getting a very important new customer. This was a real tough one and one that we had worked on to create a powerful strategy plan to sue in the coming meeting…and the plan worked!We celebrated. I celebrated for my customer...and I think everyone should celebrate any level of victory in business today. It's a great way to stimulate the slow or lost passion in the employees, leadership and even ownership! |
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Hypothetical Hockey
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| With the cancellation of the 2005 National Hockey League season, we could only think about hockey as there was none available to watch. It was an opportunity to think about what might happen if we changed some of the rules and apply the example to organizations that are (to be kind) less than effective. |
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Dreaming is fun, isn’t it? Part 3
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| Someone once said that what the mind can see, the body can achieve. I believe it. I go a step further. I believe that the mind must see it before the body is able to work for it. Look at another realm of human endeavor: sports. When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, he saw it long before he did it. Over and over in his mind, he later recalled, he visualized doing what had been deemed to be impossible. Interestingly enough, once Bannister did what no one else had ever done before, others quickly succeeded in doing it. |
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Principles of Wealth Creation
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| To accomplish your goal of becoming financially free, you will need to master specific principles of wealth creation. No, these aren’t some magical set of principles we found scratched in papyrus scrolls in the ruins of an ancient temple. They’re contemporary, commonsense principles. At the same time, though, they are magical, because they create the basis for a sound foundation of wealth creation. |
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A millionaires dreams
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| Financial freedom is your dream. As long as you can dream, you can continue to succeed. Show me a person who has no dream, and I will show you someone who is poor. A millionaire dreams, and then sets out to make those dreams real. Once you stop dreaming, you stop the magic. That’s because you have created the world you wanted. You stop moving forward, because your dreams have ended. Either you are content to live with what you have or you are constantly frustrated because you don’t have enough-or you learn to dream again. |
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Focus Your Dreams to Make Them Come Alive
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| What will you be interested in after you buy all of those lavish things you always thought you wanted? What’s beyond the bigger car, the faster boat, and the fancier house? Whatever they are, those are the really important things. |
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Where Baseball Meets Business
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| Sometimes I think that we make business success all too hard! In most cases the basics are ignored in favor of the latest new and usually complex strategy, theory or latest best seller unveiling the new secret success silver bullets.
But sometimes, most of the time in fact, if we just slow down and face the fact that the truth may be in the simplicity of the solution. Simple is not always easy. Simple is not always cool or flashy. But, SIMPLE works! In this article we'll briefly discuss 3 key rules that could become your benchmark for future personal and business growth.
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Do You Wear Success Blinders?
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| Women often find themselves in the position of multitasking; trying to complete too many things at once. With too much on our plate, it is often difficult to concentrate on what your high value are and spending the time and focus that they require. The article gives some tips on how to put your success blinders on and increase productivity. |
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Plotting Your Course
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| We cannot achieve our best unless we know where we are heading. We need to set ourselves stimulating and satisfying goals in order to have direction and focus in our working and personal lives. |
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Time to Gear Up: Make 2011 Your Year
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| How to become successful by creating the right mindset |
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7 Tips When Working from Home
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| I remember clearly the forty minute commutes to and from work (though coming home always seemed to take longer) in the days when I wore a shirt and tie, and spent my days ensuring that the corporation I worked for had a profitable year, and the people above and below me were happy so I�d continue to receive that wonderful piece of paper that represented the single source that was my income. My paycheck!
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Smart Women Know Success Leaves Clues
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| This article is about 9 success “clues” that can take your business from “surviving “ to “thriving” The good news is they are low cost to no cost and easy to implement into your business dreams and goals. |
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Do You REALLY apply the 80/20 Principle: Why ignore one of the most important success factors?
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| I can’t remember where I first heard about the 80/20 rule – Pareto’s Principle –a powerful success factor.
About 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. Here are 3 tips for applying this rule to your success. |
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PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 1 – PURPOSE
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| How was this year for you and your business? That’s the question that every business owner is or should be asking themselves at this time of year. Unfortunately a very high percentage of business owners are afraid of the answer so the questions are avoided.
Now is the time that you must, however face the facts. Did I have a good year? Did I have a bad year? What did I do right? What did I do wrong? What can I do better?
Now is the time to ask the question and begin planning. The time to begin planning is not mid January, it is now. This will be the first in a series of article on planning for growth and success in business and your personal life.This article is the first of four that will discuss those critical and sometimes hard to face questions that might separate you from those in business and those going out of business |
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PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 3 – CLARITY IN YOUR BUSINESS (Continued)
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| There are some very specific questions that you need to honestly ask yourself if you want to have the necessary clarity to move your business forward. In Part 2 of this series we discussed the first six. We’ll finish up with the final five CORE questions that are so essential. More than likely patterns will begin to occur and hopefully you’ll have some major “aha” moments. Now that you’re beginning to have some breakthroughs, let’s start challenging ourselves again with our final set of questions. |
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PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 4 – CLARITY/SO WHAT?
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| Already we have discussed eleven key clarity questions that you must have answered in order to effectively and successfully plan for a better new year. But there's a bonus question that may be the most important question. Here we give you that question along with the ultimate acid test to use against all of your answers. Planning for a successful future is absolutely essential to survive, to thrive and to grow in todays business world. Here's how to get it done and get it done right! |
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Goal Setting - The Flip Side; Why We Don't Achieve Them
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| What’s Stopping You? (from reaching your goals)
Over the years coaching salespeople, I’ve come across quite a number of reasons for missing goal. Small ones, big ones, financial objectives, personal aspirations; you name a goal - I’ll show you someone who has achieved it AND someone who hasn’t.
We all have our own deep dark secrets about why we aren’t doing the things we know we need to. People have shared with me over the years lots of different reasons; here is my Top 10 Countdown. |
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Diminished Value and Gap Insurance “Know your Rights”
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| Did you know that if you are in an accident that you can get a second check from the insurance company for diminished value on your automobile? There are numerous financial strategies that can and will assist you and your family achieves financial success. |
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Millennium Development Goals need sound SMEs = More Jobs = Less Poverty
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| Due to the global economic crisis more than 60 million more people, among them millions of small- and micro entrepreneurs, primarily in the less developed countries will be in poverty in this year 2010.Many of the achievements in recent years made to facilitate business of SMEs in the world, to reduce poverty in less privileged economies have seriously been jeopardised by shrinking demand for SMEs export products, increasing prices for energy and food, falling commodity prices, significant reductions in foreign investment and a general liquidity shortage. The strong interdependence among the worlds' economies made this a literally global economic crisis and human tragedy. |
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Goal Setting -- 3 Tips to Positioning Yourself for Business Success in the New Year
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| If you're an entrepreneur who is ready to enjoy more business success next year, I would highly encourage you to take a little time to work ON your business (rather than IN your business) before the start of the New Year.
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The economic implications of global remittances for SMEs
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| Immigrant entrepreneurs (most of them Micro-enterprises and SMEs are also ‘social actors’, who participate actively in transnational activities. For example, in the Dominican Republic, there are hundreds of small- to medium sized transnational enterprises (SMEs),including small factories, commercial/retail establishments and financial agencies. Such ventures are created and run by former migrants, who have returned to the Dominican Republic after acquiring capital and establishing ties with migrant communities in the United States, thus acquiring clients and investors abroad.
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Goal Setting: The Quickest Way to Confidence
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| Do you find yourself struggling between setting goals and just living in the present moment? There's a tricky line to walk between the two. If you're constantly focused on the future and your goals, you may be missing out on wonderful moments in the here and now. I've found a balance that works pretty well for me between goal setting and enjoying the present -it might work for you too. |
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Make Business Ownership a Reality through Franchising
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| If you’re like many people you’ve probably fantasized about how different your life would be if you were your own boss. Whether it’s the ability to be in control of your own success, schedule or future that leads you to daydreaming about being your own boss, you’re not alone. |
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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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Do What You Love
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| I want you to do what you love. That's my mission. And if you want to be paid to do what you love, all the better! Sounds simple huh? Then why are so few of you doing it? Because it's not all that simple after all. |
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Give Your Goal 4 Days
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| There is something quite magical and scientific about 4 days. When you do something once or twice or even three times, you don't yet feel like a "person that does that." |
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Renewal
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| Every New Year's Eve, I go through a kind of renewal ritual. It is my gift to myself for having done my best for the past year, and it allows me to look forward to an even better year to come. I have recommended some form of this for all people who take my leadership classes. It does not need to be done on the New Year; some people like to do this on their birthday or some other specific day of the year. The point is to designate one day to reflect on what you have done, where you are, and what you intend to do in the coming year and beyond. |
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Let This Be Your Year! How to Align Your New Year’s Goals With Your Life Purpose
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| New Year! The perfect time to make new plans, set new goals and dream BIG! There is a positive, invigorating energy that surrounds the start of a brand new year, an energy that helps us let go of the old and stake a claim for the new. Let this be the year when you experience the excitement, joy and prosperity that comes from infusing your business with the wisdom, love and support of your Guides and Highest Self. |
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Enjoy the Holiday Season... because Mayhem is Just Around the Corner
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| Want to increase your profits by thousands in the new year? This is your guide to fufilling your resolutions. |
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SUNRISES AND SUNSETS
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| Let me start by wishing you all a very Happy New Year.
One of my fondest memories of summers at the lake was sitting on the deck at the cottage (preferably screened in) either early in the morning with a hot cup of coffee and a blanket wrapped around me watching the sun come up or late in the evening sitting with a drink and in the old days an occasional cigar, quietly watching the sun go down on another day. It was always at these times I would reflect back over days past and wonder about days to come and where my life would take me and my family.
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3 Keys to Reaching Your Financial Goal in 2011
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| When it comes to setting and reaching these goals, I have found that there is a simple yet crucial 3 step process that virtually assures that I reach any goal. I’m going to lay it out here as it applies to a financial goal, but realize that this method applies to the success of reaching ANY goal. |
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Are Your Habits Supporting YOUR Life?
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| Your habits shape what you do with your precious time. You can decide for yourself which habits you engage in are "good" or "bad". Here are some habits that I find to be dream killers. |
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Achieving goals and aspirations!
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| Bill Wynn, Managing Director of Project Resource Limited offers insight on how to achieve your goals. |
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The most powerful motivation is to come up with your own solution
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| How can coaching help you achieve what you desire? |
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Consistency is Key
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| One of the most powerful methods of maintaining forward momentum in business, or just life in general, is by applying consistent pressure toward achieving the goals that you've set out in front of yourself. It is life's own version of compound interest, and by utilizing it, you can experience some powerful growth in whichever areas you apply it to. |
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Who Cares More-Sales or Marketing?
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| Sales and Marketing share a lot of the same common interests, revenue, leads, conversions, metrics...and the list goes on. So who cares more about these things that both professions should take a keen interest in. Sales or Marketing? Here's my opinion. |
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Coming From Love
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| What is your real purpose in life? You were put on this earth through an act of love, you were loved and nurtured and you grew into adulthood. You may find yourself looking around you and asking “Ok world, I am here, now what?†The key to a fulfilling life is attuning to who you truly are.
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Success is your Baby
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| There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.
Although the lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain, they sent out their best party of fighting men to bring the baby home. They first tried one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After climbing only a few hundred feet after several days of effort, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.
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Your Past does not Equal your Future
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| Your future, along with your personal and professional goals, are not as fragile as you might think. Failure is often the fertilizer that makes future success blossom. Recently, I had this principle confirmed to me via nine Irishmen from the 19th Century.
It seems that in 1848 as Ireland was attempting to break away from England, nine young Irish rebels were captured and sentenced to death. As they were brought before the queen for punishment, Queen Victoria could not bear to have them executed, so she sent them to England's prison colony in Australia.
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Why Setting Goals Do Not Work
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| Your entire life, you hear people say, “You have to set goals for yourself.” I have said it and I know you have too. What nobody told us is goals don’t work. Do you know why goals don’t work? I am going to tell you and you will be saying to yourself, “I didn’t really think about that.” |
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Lessons from the Top of the World
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| Recently, I have been reading quite a bit about expeditions on Mount Everest. I am intrigued by the fact that so many people over the years have been driven to climb the tallest mountain on earth and stand on the top of the world.
While studying the expeditions, I have been amazed at how much time, preparation, and energy goes into getting to the mountain with all of the equipment necessary to make the climb and to set up each of the base camps along the route. An expedition is literally years in the planning stage and months in the preparation stage before an attempt can be made on the summit.
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Keeping On-Course
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| There comes a time in everyone's life when you become extremely frustrated with your progress toward your goal. There are days when you seem to be making incredible strides, and nothing can stop you. Then, there are those days when your best efforts seem to take you nowhere. That is the time to "stay the course."
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Ten Ideas to Help You Keep Your Resolutions Or Goals
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| If you have some resolutions for the New Year or if you set some goals for yourself or your business for the next year, here are some ways to keep yourself on track and focused.
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Are you Positive or Negative
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| Magnetism is a wonderful thing. We often hear that someone "has a magnetic personality", or that they are "full of magnetism", even that opposites attract "like magnets". Why the fascination with magnetism? |
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Be Inspired Not Tired
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| Do you feel like you are just going through the motions and nothing you truly want in life is coming to fruition? Do you feel tired and drained more often than not? Are there things you know you have to get done, but you are lacking the motivation to do them? How about changing things around so that they become "inspired actions", and not "required actions"? |
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