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Self Confidence and Success
A brief overview of the importance of self confidence to success, and some ideas on how to become more self confident.

You need one, I need one: we all need a break

In the current economic climate the mantra is to work harder and harder. This is a global phenomenon and we are told it regularly. There is no time for a break; you just have to keep pushing yourself. Everyone else is doing it - so of course you must follow suit. It's expected that this behavior will impact on productivity in all the right ways and that the organisation will go from strength-to-strength. Those in leadership are not immune from this pressure. It is not only difficult to continue to work harder and harder, it is impossible because there comes a point when the bone has no more meat on it. While sustainable for awhile, over time issues start to emerge. Pressured, exhausted leaders can experience a loss of confidence, self esteem, lack of clarity and mental and/or physical health issues can appear...

Part 3 - Relationships and service

It is absolutely essential for any manager to communicate with and to understand what motivates each individual staff member. This brings relationships to the fore as the most important factor for any manager in any business. We are not just caged canaries or a selection of laboratory rats. We are thinking, feeling human beings, trying to be just that – human beings - not just human doers. We live to express ourselves creatively and to grow and develop each in our own unique way.

How the Gift of Giving Can Bring You Closer to Success

The gift of giving is perhaps one of the most important things you can do to get you closer to achieving success. It’s definitely important to focus your efforts on getting to your goal, but the one problem with goal setting is that you tend to have a “Me” focused attitude. You should focus on the gift of giving, and find a way where you can add value to someone else. Zig Ziglar said it best: “You can have everything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Self Care

Are you ready to make some gentle self caring choices which will raise your self esteem? Practising good self care is a key part of confidence and feeling good about yourself. Self care is not just a idea, it requires you to have a commitment to your own happiness and internal wellbeing. In the stressful world we live in, it really is a nice thought to know that you are going to take care of yourself, no matter what happens!

Self-Respect Can Be Learned!
It is not about how we measure up to the person next to us. Our society of competition pushes people to be at their best and if they have strong self respect then they can weather the times when they do not come in first. However, for many it is a killer of both self esteem and self respect because there can only be so many winners in a competitive environment.

If You Plan to Succeed … You Need to Believe You Will!

I can't tell you how many times in the past where I've said I was going to accomplish something, set out a plan, and didn't accomplish it. Now there were many reasons why I didn't get it done but the biggest reason I didn't is because I simply didn't have a strong enough belief that I could. I've heard the saying a million times: "Whether you think you can, or you think you can't ... You are right! This saying is so true. Think about it for a second...

How is your self esteem doing today?
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.

BEING DUDELESS
How women can enjoy those times being without a man or relationship and feel good about themselves.

Lesson #5: Have a Message
Estee Lauder Inc. was not just about beauty products. Lauder wasn’t just creating skin creams to help get rid of wrinkles or perfumes to make you smell good; there was a deeper message to her products. And, it was a message that helped her successfully sell her products.

What You SAY is What You Get - How to Speak Your Way to Success

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. You have to believe you have the right stuff, that you are able to pull it off. You have to believe in yourself. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-assurance, it is a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes – the abilities, inner resources, talents, and skills to create your desired results.

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

Simplicity & Dignity
A parent or teacher who treats a child with dignity builds the self-esteem of the child and automatically increases the child's performance, which generally improves the child's conduct.

What You SAY is What You Get: How to Speak Your Way to Success
In the previous issue of Success Strategies, I talked about how in order to be successful, we must first define what success means to us, and that means getting CLEAR about what you want, writing it down, and thinking BIG!

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

High Self-Esteem Isn't Always Healthy?
Personally, I’ve never had a problem with self-esteem. I always say that you have to believe in yourself or no one else will.

What do you think of yourself?
Did you know that your self image and the beliefs you hold about yourself are a defining factor in whether or not you'll achieve your goals? Read that again. This means that your self esteem is a direct link to your success. Read that again. This means that your self esteem is a direct link to your success.

Body Image Stress - Aging Insecurities and Self-Image
Are you fearful that signs of aging are going to turn off the right person? Discover what to do about this in this article.

Eyes Across the Room

Having tried the new fangled thing of internet dating, with less than great success, undeterred I decided to go back to tried and tested measures, a bar! Spending time going through the wardrobe, trying everything on before even looking into the mirror, with the odd slurp of vino to help my judgment! Just knowing "it does not feel right", my debut into a bar with music and full of strangers, is like preparing for the opening of the Olympics. Some kind friends have said "come out with us", (all couples of course, but I am very grateful for their invitation).

To Dream the Impossible Dream

"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).

Creating Successful Results with High Self-esteem

Having high self-esteem will give you the edge you need to apply confidence to every situation that demands it. Self-esteem is the combination of trust and belief in your talents and the ability to successfully complete the task at hand. It all starts with a clear identification of your talents, complemented by your understanding of their value. When you can acknowledge the value in your talents, you can acknowledge the value in yourself and that builds your self-esteem. The bottom line is that high self-esteem contributes to successful action because when action is supported by confidence, you encourage the likelihood for positive results.

Enhancing Leadership Skills

Some people look over the screen at their boss and think there but the grace go I. After all being the boss, the leader has to be about the easiest job in the world. What's to do? Sit around ...give orders...check the work...take the credit for succcesses, blame others for failures. Problem is it just doesn't work that way and even the best leader needs to brush up on, improve, hone his/her skills. Here are some ideas and thoughts that may help you become an even better leader than you already are.

Case History - How Not to Hire Salespeople

A company wants to hire 5000 salespeople - but why? 2000 drop out before completing training, and another 2000 drop out during the first 90 days in the field. Another 500 drop out during the first 6 months, and at the end of the year they only have 500 of the original 5000 standing. What would it be worth to them from a cost, time, resources and practicality standpoint for us to simply identify, in advance, the final 500, before anyone is hired?

The Importance of Pride, Self Esteem and Confidence in Selling
My guest on this week's edition of Meet the Sales Experts was Bob Sinton and we talked a lot about the importance of pride, business self-esteem and two levels of confidence:

For Things to Change, You Must Change
Mary is a typical small business owner, she keeps herself busy doing the ‘hands on’ work. In her case it is doing beauty treatments and she told me she keeps doing this because she really enjoys it.

The Importance of Having A Personal Development Plan
A personal development plan provides a framework that will make individuals identify the areas of their strengths and weaknesses and come up with a guide that will optimize and capitalize on their existing skills and capabilities.

Establishing Family Boundaries
The word ‘boundary’ is one that we hear often these days, but it was not always that way. In fact the concept of establishing boundaries within families is a relatively new; and certainly one worth taking time to implement.

Self-Esteem
It’s an issue that crops up for people at every stage of life and can be improved for anyone, regardless of age. It is called our self esteem and can take a battering without warning. I’ll help you to understand and increase your self esteem so that your internal ‘bank account’ of self esteem is always full enough so that a ‘withdrawal’ or battering won’t leave you broke.

C-Level Relationship Selling – 6 Tips for Overcoming Executive Intimidation
Meeting with powerful people makes anyone nervous. Unfortunately, if left uncorrected, you’ll be stuck with subordinates who tend to abuse and hold you hostage. So here is how to correct this executive intimidation situation.

Quit Trying to Change Your Life

Several weeks ago I received the following message from one of our readers. My heart went out to this troubled soul who wrote: "I've come to the point that I believe in nothing, my self esteem is in the gutter, and I don't know what to do with the rest of my life. changing careers and going back to school just seems too daunting. I need the line of work that I'm in to pay the mortgage even though I think I'd rather be doing something else." So I wrote back: "My heart goes out to you. It really does.

Anti-Procrastination ACTION PLAN
Life is full of exciting choices. It’s easy to get distracted and do the fun, enjoyable tasks, and leave the boring or difficult ones for tomorrow. The problem is that every day there are new enjoyable things to do and tomorrow never comes.

Positive ADHD Traits
Just like adults who don’t have ADHD, not all people with ADHD have the same talents and strengths. However, there are a group of positive talents that are often seen in people with ADHD and below are five of them. Give yourself credit for the things you do well. This in turn will boast your confidence and self-esteem.

Battling the Bully - Standing Up for Yourself with Confidence and Assertiveness

I learned at an early age that if you allow people to bully, harass, or cut you down, then they will do so. If, on the other hand, you make a decision to stand up for yourself and not allow the bully to take control, then s/he will move on to someone or something else. This article provides four steps you can take to battle the bullies in your life, with confidence and assertiveness, once and for all.

7 Characteristics of Achievers
Why do some people continually achieve great things, while others merely dream of bettering themselves? Are people born with some sort of "achievement gene", or can you learn to be an achiever? I believe that anyone can accomplish what they desire in life. By being aware of the characteristics of achievers, you really can change your thinking and take action now!

Where Are You In Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs?

As a social work and psychology student, Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs was a theory in which we focused a great deal of time. According to Maslow, there are five levels of needs, ranging from physiological to self-actualization. It is difficult to move from one level to the next without first meeting your needs at the lower level. If you can identify where you are currently at in the hierarchy, it will give you a better understanding of where you are coming from and what you need to do to reach the fifth and final step, self-actualization.

Pets and ADHD

Having pets in your life when you have ADHD is very beneficial not only in reducing unwanted ADHD symptoms, but also for your overall physical health and happiness. While you may be thinking, “but I can barely take care of myself, let alone another living creature,” it has been my experience that adults with ADHD make fabulous pet owners. While they may struggle with the stresses of life, their pet’s health is never compromised. Far from it.

Do You Have Permission to Excel?

Your current abilities depend largely on how you experienced four important developmental factors as a child in relation to your budding skills. These four factors, Permission, Promotion, Protection and Power greatly influence the feelings we have about various skills whether it be joy, fear or even dread. The skills that inspire power and strength are most likely to bring the most joy and fulfillment and are worth your happiness to discover and develop.

Smart Women Have Personal Power
This article is about becoming and feeling powerful about who you are as a woman. Having your own brand of “personal” power is essential. It’s not about material wealth or the ability to control people and situations. It’s about being at peace while begin strong and courageous in the world.

Personal Branding - How To Jump Start Your Home Business

Though it may sound like a high-concept marketing idea, personal branding is actually a very simple way of selling yourself as a package. This can be done in the same way that one would sell a service or product, with identifying the consumer that you will be selling to, and then figuring out how to best serve their needs. With the advent of internet marketing, usually this is done solely online these days. Both image and branding are best done with the help of a marketing professional if one is just starting out. A virtual assistant could be a very valuable tool towards helping a person promote themselves online.

5 Real Advantages of Home based Business
Even if your idea is to have home based small business, the benefits can be wide and deep. When you watch the news on TV or read the headlines on the newspapers, you would realize that more and more corporate are downsizing or even closing due to bankruptcy.

The Silver Lining of Losing Your Job - 8 Upbeat Ideas
Could there be a silver lining to the crisis of losing your job? Actually there are several.

Have You Started On Your Journey Of 100 Things To Do Before You Die?

There have been many books and articles written about 100 things to do before you die. Here is another article just in case you have not heard about it. I think it is important because if we do not make a deliberate intent to do something in life it usually does not get done. I know you have dreams of doing marvelous things in your life but to this point it may not have happened for you. Have you ever thought about making a list of things you want to do, be, see, share, have and travel to before you leave this earth. Give it some serious thought.

Razban Golden Rule 1: The 10% that Changes 90% in Empowering Managers
The 10% can over come 90% concept is desribed here as a trusted way of empowering managers to succeed.

4 Tips for Managing a Mid-Life Career Change
From personal experience I have found that there are only two types of people who change careers in mid life: those who want to and those who have to. And it seems that the “have to” group is in the majority these days. With this in mind, here are four-tips for people who "have to" change their career.

Human Connections
In order to lead a healthy, well balanced life, it is important to have some special people in your life. This makes you feel connected, loved, cared for and valued. We all need human connections to thrive and also to be the best we can be in this world. There are many qualities that make up a good friend. Here are three important ones:

Your Value to Society, the World, the Cosmos.
The value you have of yourself & what you are putting out to the world is more important than people seem to imagine.

You Have the Right to...Be Yourself
You Have the Right to ...Be Yourself! For years we have identified ourselves as "belonging to someone else." Hi, I'm Dale and Rose's daughter. Hi, I'm Robby's wife. Hi, I'm Sara's mom. Hi, I'm Mia's sister. Hi, I'm VP of Marketing for Citicorp. That's not who you are. Whatever happened to

You Have the Right to...Live Guilt Free!

Right #7 You Have the Right to...Live Guilt Free! There's a lot of pressure to have it all, and I believe you can't! What we do have today is more choices than our mothers or grandmothers could ever have dreamed of. And that adds to our pressure and our stress and our guilt. We feel guilty going to work and leaving the children. We feel guilty staying at home and not bringing in an income to help lighten the load of our husbands. We feel guilty not being able to volunteer like we think we should. So what's a woman to do? Easy... Look at life as a Buffet Table. You've got just one plate (your life) and many choices on this table. You're allowed to choose anything as long as you understand that there will be a cashier at the end and a price tag attached. If you decide to go to work, is there a price tag attached to that choice?

Sure Fire Confidence Builders
Knowledge and Confidence, You are the Message

Retirement Is Not The Goal, Entrepreneurism Is

Most working men and women over the age of 50 start thinking about retirement, and many start planning for it. They do their due diligence on investment strategies, position themselves well in their companies, review their estate planning, and so on. While each individual step in retirement planning in amongst itself is sound advice, the main question to ask during this transitional phase in their lives is, "What is the goal?" Retirement should not be the goal. Retirement limits your potential to positively impact the lives of others. Owning a simple yet fully principled internet business where you are the centerpiece of leadership is the key to getting all the benefits of retirement, with the added advantages of residual income and a source of true happiness for you and your family.

Discovering Your True Self-Worth
There is only one way to truly discover your true self-worth and that is by understanding and knowing who you really are. As we grow from youth to adulthood, we are told we can be whatever we want to be as long as we put our minds to it. Well, how many people do you know that have dedicated their lives to a particular profession and that appeared to be successful but aren't happy?

The Dangers and Costs of Pride and Ego
Wise men and women are aware of the obstacles and challenges that stand between them and achievement of their goals and achievements. Discover the role that pride and ego play in your life successes and how increased awareness can make the difference for you. Read on...

Are your self-promotion tactics ethical or not?
Today it's not uncommon for some people to stretch the truth in order to get a job, get a sale, get ahead or just get noticed, but this behaviour raises some important issues about the good, the bad and the ugly of self-promotion... Proactive self promotion is essential in sales today because good work does not speak for itself anymore - You DO. So are your self-promotion tactics ethical or not?

The Image necessary for the Entrepreneur

Your clothes say so much about you. What you wear can tell people “I am confident,” “I am successful,” and even, “I am happy with who I am.” And who doesn't love the feeling of putting on an amazing outfit and leaving the house knowing you’re looking as good as you feel? Everyone at some time in their lives finds themselves in a rut; you may feel that your own personal style is out of date, dowdy, boring or just doesn’t reflect who you want to be! You want to make the most of yourself and be the best you can be every day but don’t know where to start.

Put Your Procrastination COWS Out To Pasture!
Do you want to find out what procrastination C.O.W.S are and how to get rid of them? This article will teach you how to put those C.O.W.S out to pasture!

Faith, Hope And Insanity - The Three Reasons People Turn To Life Coaching
People come to coaching for a variety of issues. Find out why clients issues can be defined into these three areas and how a coach can help a client in each of the categories.

5 Simple Ways to Get Back on Track and Have a Life!

Mary is a typical small business owner, she keeps herself busy doing the 'hands on' work. In her case it is doing beauty treatments and she told me she keeps doing this because she really enjoys it. Her clients constantly told her how great she was, which made her feel appreciated. However it trapped her into staying 'on the tools'. Mary had 5 people on her team, and she struggled with letting them handle her clients.

What Are YOU Good At?

Recently, during a corporate training session at LEGO, I asked a group of professionals to write down 20 qualities about themselves, 20 strengths of their personal brand. One woman looked completely dumbfounded. She stared down at the blank sheet of paper and finally said, "Rahna, that's got to be the hardest thing you could've asked for!" She was stumped. She had no idea what to write and sadder still, she had no idea what she was good at! This is a woman in a very large, very well-known company that conducts annual formal performance reviews....and still she didn't know. Can you imagine?

Tha Damage Of Goals
Yet again Oliver takes an alternative view to perceived wisdom. Most business seminars nwill exhort you to set goals. David Oliver in this outsnding piece of thinking shows just how damaging goals can be.

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

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

If Happiness Is A Choice, How Can You Create It?
Is happiness a choice? If so, how can you be happy? This article provides some steps you can take to achieve happiness.

Why Improve Your Communication Skills?
Ask yourself these questions. The answers you generate may surprise you.

Why Affirmations Are Pathetic
Affirmations are like putting pretty make-up on a canker sore: it doesn’t cover the problem. There’s a big difference between “I want to believe this” and “I DO believe this!” You have to do the real work.

Effects of Bankruptcy - Not the American Dream
Anyone who has ever gone through the emotional pain and stress associated with bankruptcy will tell you that bankruptcy was not something they “planned” or considered to be a part of their future plans.

Paying the price

You don’t get an exciting career, a thriving business and live the life of your dreams without paying the price. The price must be paid in full. It cannot be bartered. Neither can you put on credit or layaway. Your willingness to pay the price gives you the power to make your dreams come true. A refusal or hesitation to do so, ensures that you don’t get to march in the opening ceremonies of life.

The importance of self esteem

Having a good self esteem depends on many factors. Everyone is different; each person will need to identify what self esteem means to them and what they want in life and in their career. We are often fooled by the adolescent rose coloured glasses and many (regardless of age), think that they will live happily ever after. Not surprisingly those who subscribe to this myth are often sadly disappointed and spend a lot of time wondering what happened – why didn’t they get what they want and thought they deserved.

Is Goal-setting bringing you down?
Do you have a habit of continually setting goals and not reaching them or feel that whenever you set goals you’re setting yourself up for disappointment, frustration and guilt? The problem could be that on a deeper level you do not take the whole goal-setting thing seriously and tend to set goals without first visualising a clear picture.

Parenting: What you do that sabotages your child’s success without you knowing it
Every parent would love to have a well balanced and healthy child. What is the largest factor in raising a child successfully?

How to Think Your Way to Success: The Science of Results Oriented Thinking
Learning to think “to be successful,” means learning to think in a different way. In the science of results oriented thinking we learn that thinking is the most powerful tool available to you to help you succeed and create your life with. It is the inventor of all ideas, all riches, all wealth and can even turn a Doctors death sentence into a miraculous recovery.

6 Essential Steps to Career Breakthrough: What it Takes to Make Your Visions a Reality
There are so many people today in dramatic career and life transition, and also thousands of coaches and consultants offering help. But what are the steps that truly work to create real breakthrough in life and work, and open doors for success and prosperity?

Leading in Uncertain Times
What happened?! Almost overnight we have moved from a growing economy to uncertainty in direction and solutions. We can evaluate the what, why and how but it leaves us needing to lead and navigate in unchartered waters. There are five key steps that leaders need to take to move through this challenging time.

How to develop a Can-Do Attitude

One of our most challenging and often most destructive, habits is our tendency to focus on what we can't do rather than what we can. In NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) this is called Away From language. Like most things we do, it’s a learnt behaviour that’s crept up on us and has been allowed to run unchecked, eating away at our confidence and stopping us from doing the things we want or need to do. The problem is it's also one of the most pernicious behaviours going for stifling our creativity and personal development, the good news though is that like all behaviour, if we learned it, we can also unlearn it. Let me explain…

Success and Leadership - The Measuring Sticks of Success

We often use the wrong measuring stick as to our worth and achievements. It is the money stick! We get mesmerized by the glitter of celebrities and the Fortune list of the wealthiest people. We compare ourselves with a system that honors entertainment more than education, more than how we care for our families, or how hard we work. We compare our bodies to bodies that we are told are the bodies to have in order to have happiness. We need to stop comparing ourselves with unrealistic goals. What's good for one person is not necessarily good for you or me.

Career Success Strategies - Interview With Your First Impression in Mind

It takes less than 6 seconds to leave a first impression. It is said not to judge a book by its cover, but come on, isn't it the color, the design, the layout and title that draws us to pick up a book that may be of interest to us? When perusing magazines or CDs we are attracted to the cover. Notice what you make up about a person when you are first introduced to her/him? What are you making up about that person? Spend some time people watching and notice the assumptions you make. Is most of what you hear yourself saying negative or positive?

All in the Minds Eye

I was laying on the top deck of a luxury liner, on a sun bed big enough for a family, with the warmth of the sun making my body feel relaxed (mind you it was aided by the odd vino or two!!), trying to read a book, but the lids on my eyes had a mind of their own. As I was drifting off to that world that is not quite asleep but neither quite conscious, a great feeling of contentment and wellbeing came over me, how lucky am I….what a great place I live in……my work is a dream-so enjoyable…..great friends and romance.

Dust off Your Goals, Air Your Dreams
Recently I was going through some old boxes in my garage and came across one of my first courses that I did in psychology, which was the one that turned a corner in my life. As you can imagine that was a few (well ok many) years ago. As I sat on the floor with papers and bits all around me, I started reading what I had written about my dreams, hopes, worries and life at the time.

Beliefs

We find as we travel through life’s highways and byways that the unexpected usually happens, but through this we learn about ourselves and our own strengths, when life is good and calm we tend to take this for granted rather than thinking of it as part of the overall journey. We have a tendency to expect life to be good and when it is not, the question we ask ourselves is very often ”why me?” and the longer we dwell on it, the longer it seems to last. Learning to take the lessons out of life and believe that we are learning and growing as a person, helps to make these situations much easier to bear.

Step Right up & Take a Chance!
Step right up & take a chance, no I am not urging you to buy a lottery ticket or play roulette. I am urging you to give yourself the chance to take a chance. How many times have you heard somebody say, “Well, I would have done it, but I never got the chance.” Or maybe “nobody would give me the chance to show what I could do.”

Today is the Day

How many days do we wake up and say “today is the day I am going to …..start a diet, stop drinking, stop smoking,” getting out of bed with the best resolve, we start on a mission, but by 11am the cravings, or the little voice in the head is saying just one cigarette or a biscuit won’t hurt. But with great willpower some of us get over this hurdle and get to lunchtime, meeting friends it is hard not to indulge in a glass or two of vino, so our resolve weakens and we say to ourselves, never mind I will start tomorrow!! Then when tomorrow comes we go through the same or similar routine; until our promises to ourselves don’t come to mean much to us, they don’t have much value and we don’t mind breaking them.

Top 12 Qualities of True Business Professionals
Many in the business, education, government and not for profit sectors consider themselves to be professionals. Yet if this was so, why are we experiencing far more poor ethics from the financial meltdown to pay for play to the decline in even professional associations?

CONFIDENCE BOOSTERS

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

A Cost You Cannot Afford to Cut
With fuel costs causing another rapid increase in our daily living costs, its odd that one of the first cuts we make is the cost of maintaining good health - physical and emotional.

Encouragement
Encouragement helps people to be their ultimate potential.

6 Stages of Building Confidence: Learn step-by-step how to Deliberately Raise Your Confidence Level
Use this powerful framework to assess where you are in your confidence level and how to get where you want to be. Begin building your confidence today so you can have the life you love and deserve!

The Most Terrible Feeling of All
Emotions are not just expressions for midlife men, they're the key to unlocking his self-image, his self-esteem, and his self-respect. Midlife can be a very dangerous path.

Right #3 You Have the Right to...Take Care of Yourself!

I have a confession to make. Like many of you, I'm a single mom who's been without insurance - for eight years. In that time I cared for sick and dying parents (they passed away just 4 months apart). I also moved in with my ex-husband and cared for him while he fought cancer (he's now in remission). And I continually care for my diabetic daughter, help with my grandchildren, work on another daughter's ventures, market my business, work, write, and in the meantime take plenty of vitamins, aspirins, sinus tabs, Nyquil, and diet pills. I fall into bed at night exhausted, often only to stare at the TV or the ceiling. I was recently coaching a physician who shocked me with this eye-opener. Years ago, she said, it was the talk of the emergency room when a 49-year-old came in with a heart att

Finding Peace with Yourself
Men and women both have the same opportunities to achieve true maturity. Though it's more difficult for men to make that transition, success offers them even greater capacity for joy out of the contrast.

Respect is the main aspect to life and business
What every person and business owner should remember before they react to any kind of situation. Its the oldest virtue in life yet one that is widely forgot about daily. The fact is its the simplest way to promote yourself or your business. This article is short and to the point but shows us something that for some takes a lifetime to learn.

WHEN LIFE IS HARD
In today’s rapidly changing world, nothing changes quite so rapidly as people. We all have desires, dreams, fears and emotional needs that drive us in our quest to create more of the life we want, trying to attain our own vision of success and that ellusive, tantalising taste of permanent happiness and personal fulfillment.

Anger - the Hidden 'Gotcha' of Midlife
The infamous midlife crisis exhibits a confusing tangle of emotions. At its core, the central feeling is anger. Until that's resolved, you're most likely going to stay stuck.

The Three Legged Sale
Conventional wisdom tells you that if you can sell the leader you will sell the rest of them. That works sometimes. What do you do if the leader isn’t interested in your product or already has something similar?

Sales Success or Dead Cat Bounce?
Who doesn’t want to succeed in sales? And if you listen to some of the so-called experts you’d have to be nearly incompetent not to succeed in sales. The catch is you aren’t getting the whole story.

Recession Proof Your Business (and Your Life)

There have been many articles in magazines, e zines and newspapers over the past few months that provide tips on how to recession proof your business. These tips, if implemented, will help business weather the storm of a general recession in the economy so that the business can enjoy the subsequent up turn in the economy. My articles traditionally explores the parallels between business and personal life and this article looks at how to employ these recession proofing business initiatives in our personal life's.

How To Write Recruitment Ads That Get Great Results
It is surprising how many recruitment ads list out features of a job such as 38 hour week, CBD location and then list all of the tasks to be undertaken in a role. While these features are important, it is just as important in a candidate poor job market to list the benefits of the job.

Self Leadership: Fear + Self Esteem = Your Success Level
Have you ever wondered why some people seem more successful than others? Yes, there are lots of external techniques that can be taught to improve your outcomes … lots of processes and strategies that once applied help to give a foundation for success.

Small Business Tip: Your Self Esteem Determines Your Profits

Money is the last great taboo in society. These days you can ask someone their political views and you will generally get an answer. You can ask someone their religious affiliation and they will tell you. You can even ask them their favourite sexual position and most people will giggle and then come up with an answer. But ... ask them what their credit card debt is or how much they earnt last year and you will get embarrassed mumblings or silence.

Wholehearted performance checklist

"The antidote to exhaustion is not rest; the antidote to exhaustion is ... ... wholeheartedness" - David Whyte We perform at our finest when we are wholly engaged. Whether we are working or playing tennis, we achieve our best (with least effort) when we are fully focused on what we are doing, when we enjoy the task in hand without stress. Yet this engagement can often be missing. For example, our tendency to constantly evaluate ourselves may get in the way. So does our fear of "getting it wrong". For many successful professionals, boredom can be a big distraction)

Have You Had it With Distractions?

What do "The Secret," "The Dip," "Think and Grow Rich," and "Good to Great" all have in common? Techniques to help you focus so you can have what you want. What's the enemy of focus? Distraction. What's makes us susceptible to distraction? Lack of confidence, questionable purpose, insufficient goals, low-grade filters, chemical disturbances, and so on. It's not email! If you suffer from the battle of distractions, you may take twice as long to reach your goals. This part is obvious. But what about the impact on your personal health, your energy and your level of confidence? What else can we learn from today's authors, and when we pay attention to our own bodies?

The Impact of Unhealthy Relationships on Your Salsepeople
What to do when your salespeople are surrounded by negativity at home.

Kick Start Your Self Esteem
Having a low self esteem affects every aspect of a person's life and often when this problem is fixed, many other problems also disappear.

Stand Up For Yourself
Simple techniques for handling the office bully.

Coaching for Sales Success
The Coaching Model is based on several important principles: To improve performance To help sales people gain the ability to self-assess

Fear Free Selling
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Lying on a Nail
Once there was a young woman who didn't like her job. Everyday when she came home from work, she told her husband how terrible her day had been, how tiring the work and how unreasonable her boss. "Leave that job," her husband told her.

Less Than 100
Having an objective for your sales call is just the beginning. Having a back up plan ensures success.

How to Recruit a Fantastic Employee Using a 3 Step System, No One Knows!
Are you working long hours? Do you have few holidays? Would you like to grow your business, but you already work many hours and don't want to work any harder? This article is for you!

Tips on How to Create Effective Employee Incentive Programs
Tips on How to Create Effective Employee Incentive Programs

Say "Yes" to You
An article of 1033 words focusing on how you learn to do things without considering your own feelings, how this way of life impacts your life and your self-esteem and how to learn ways to bring more satisfaction and joy to your life.

Focus On Results Not Personalities
An article of 1053 words focusing on how to get people to work together and be productive, to respect one another regardless of whether they like one another, and to communicate in a supportive and positive manner.

No One Gets To Be Wrong
An article of 1070 words that embraces the concept that no one is wrong for being who they are and offers three tools for communicating more effectively.

Your Emotional Buttons
An article of 703 words focusing on accepting responsibility for, managing, and eliminating your emotional buttons.

Working with Wisdom: A Question of Values
Linda Naiman answers questions about workplace challenges.

Learn the 10 basic steps to change negative attitudes
Negative/ bad attitudes spread like viruses, from one individual to the next and can "infect" entire groups, communities and organizations. Once an attitude virus begins to spread, it becomes an epidemic in no time. Health suffers, productivity suffers, finances suffer, and the relationships suffer.

Keeping Everyone Happy - A Job To Change Or Quit
Taking on the role of "keeping everyone happy" can be an exhausting and daunting job that can be costlier than you think!

The New Communications Tools…Listening, Helping

If you ever have a chance to read some of the PR for PR sake pieces on Web 2.0 you'd swear we now have a new frontier that is tailor made for PR people. A whole new virgin territory that is our to own. A whole new brave frontier where PR will lead and the world will willingly follow. Feels like a great chance for a lot of people -- mobs even -- to take us to the cleaners. There are better options any/every entrepreneur can use to succeed...lurk, learn, listen, help.

How to Avoid Your Personal Life By Keeping Busy
Do you spend most of your week working and wish you could have more time off? It may well be that you deliberately keep yourself busy to avoid having time for yourself... and do you know why? In most instances you either don't know what to do with that time or you're avoiding your personal issues. Check out the featured article this week...it may stir up some hidden truths.

5 Practical Tips to Boost Self Esteem
Incorporate these simple tips into your day to give your self esteem a boost.

A Model For Conflict Resolution
Working through conflicts can be sticky especially when emotions run high. Learn a powerfull model that will help you navigate through misunderstandings and conflict to improve communication and relationships!

Being Your Best
Learn 5 tips that will help you be your best in your business and in your life!

What Makes You Fabulous, Lovable, Wonderfull…..?
If asked the questions: ”What do your love about yourself? What makes you fabulous and lovable?” What would you answer?

Who Else Wants Success By Choosing What They Want In Life
Do you want success....than make a choice

The Power of Attitude

Have you ever noticed how, when some people find themselves in financial difficulty, they immediately start finding and working on solutions to the problems, while others panic, lose hope, surrender to their circumstances and become immobilized? Do you know people who can turn a one-room apartment into a beautiful and comfortable haven that is more appealing and inviting than many mansions? There is nothing as powerful as attitude. Attitude dictates your response to the present and determines the quality of your future. Attitude creates your world, designs your destiny and determines your success or failure in any venture in life.

Reality Check
The real world is highly competitive and moving on with or without you. Life is not fair, everyone has a bad day, life is a constant test, and you will get paid what the market thinks your skills are worth. There are winners and losers in all walks of life, you are accountable for your own mistakes, and the world will expect you to accomplish something significant to increase your self-esteem.

Employee Satisfaction Surveys Stink
Truth is, in many organizations, the doing of the survey is more than enough. Only rarely does anyone get down to what happens next.

Entering 2008 Thriving not Just Enduring

Dear Jane, What do you mean by “endurance” and what’s wrong with it? I always thought enduring was a good thing. As we approach a new year, determined to make and keep our New Year’s resolutions (this time), I want to encourage you to resolve to thrive, not just endure. When I’m interviewed on radio or TV, I am always asked what the distinction is. I use an analogy taught to me by one of my mentors, Brandon St. John, some 25 years ago. When I saw it used in Al Gore’s, “An Inconvenient Truth,” I was both surprised and pleased.

Team Building Rubbish
Taking your staff out to play mini golf, go-carting, to see a movie, or doing some obscure & embarrassing in-house training games is NOT going to create lasting team work, or a resilient work culture. Sure, these activities can be fun and help people to get to know each other, but they won't build a productive and stress-resilient business team. So, what will? ...

The Key to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Dear Jane, I want to make some New Year’s resolutions but I don’t want to set myself up for failure, which I’ve done in the past. How can I make sure that I succeed this time? Most of us use New Year’s resolutions as a way to try to boost our self-esteem. We think that if we lose weight, exercise, or pay off our credit card debt, we’ll feel better about ourselves. This seems logical but it’s actually backwards thinking. Why?

Stress Management: Ladies, Lose The Guilt!
It’s time we women said, “Enough guilt!” What exactly are we trying to measure up to anyway? When is what you’ve done “enough”? How can you get past the guilt that raises its ugly head? The answer lies in discovering what you’re trying to prove.

Failure or Feedback You choose
This article takes a closer look at failure and offers a different perspective. We are always at choice - so choose to see failure as feedback and move forwards with strength and determination.

How to Think Outside the Box

Have you ever heard the saying, “Think outside the box?” Of course you have! It’s a saying that has been thrown around at work and in countless self-help books. Thinking outside the box usually creates unique solutions to the most unusual of problems, but it's not as easy as it sounds. We are all creative, but it can be difficult to tap into the creativity within us if our minds are constrained by pressures, time, or judgment. For this reason, some of us may have difficulty thinking outside the box since it involves going outside of our snug comfort zone...

Defeating Disappointment - Strategies to Overcome Any Obstacle and Succeed

We’ve all been there. We think we’re well on our way towards a specific goal – whether it’s a new career or a new lease on life – when all of a sudden disaster strikes! We have a setback. Perhaps you didn’t capture the heart of your crush, the promotion fell through, or somehow your perfect plan just didn’t work out. Disappointment is only human. However, knowing how to accept, manage, and strategize beyond disappointment is the real key to success! Here are some excellent tips to enable you to stay on track, remain motivated, and defeat your disappointments so that you can overcome them and reap your success...

Don\'t Give Up! 4 Ways to Improve Perseverance
It's very easy to give up when things don't go your way. We've all been in situations where a missed opportunity has discouraged us and made it difficult to persevere. Life is full of challenges. Nevertheless, it's important that you keep trying. Every day you try is another chance for success. Once you accept that you're destined for success, giving up is no longer an option!

Simple Strategies to Defeat Any Challenge

Challenges are a normal part of life. Many people look at challenges and loathe them, but challenges help move us forward. We would stand still without challenges, would never improve ourselves, and would always be the same people we are right now. This knowledge may make challenges somewhat easier to deal with and may even enable you to defeat challenges or obstacles that are standing in your way. So ask yourself: Am I where I want to be in life? If you're not happy, then it's time to take charge...

Gain Strength by Learning How to Overcome Failure

A few years back, Disney released an animated movie called “Meet the Robinsons” that had such a deep impact and meaning. The point of the story is to celebrate each failure you have because it gives you the opportunity to try again. Most people make the mistake in thinking that, just because they failed at something, they should just move on. Or, if they failed it meant they were never meant to succeed at it. Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Get Your Creative Juices Flowing When You\'re Up Against a Wall

Every writer experiences writer's block from time to time. However, writers aren't the only creative professionals that encounter mental blocks. Graphic designers, artists, and chefs also suffer from creative mental blocks occasionally. The good news is that you don't have to lose an entire day's work due to a pesky creativity block. By implementing the tips below, you'll be able to tear down the dam and allow your creative juices to flow freely...

Getting Past Any Obstacles in Life

Some of life's obstacles are much bigger than others. Regardless of the size of the one you might be facing today, though, you can get past it. It may appear to loom, covering most of the future, but it's only the angle from which you're looking that makes it seem so big. You can overcome challenges when you learn to see them differently! Do you tend to talk about how big your hindrances are, rather than discussing how big your abilities are, or how big your Higher Power is? No matter what your beliefs, there's something out there, something valuable, that's bigger than the obstacles you're facing today. Focus on what you're capable of, not on what's trying to hold you back...

How Optimism Can Help You Overcome Challenges and Reach Your Goals

All actions start as mere thoughts. When you set out to reach your goals, negative thinking pretty much ends your journey right there. You end up losing your drive, which you need in order to get anything done. Thinking optimistically can be the difference between easily reaching success and falling short. But how can you start thinking optimistically? There are certain actions you can take that will help you shift your core beliefs. Try these steps in order to set yourself up for success with optimism...

How to Be Open-Minded to New Ideas

If you have definite ideas about how things are or how they should be, you’ve probably had someone tell you to “keep an open mind.” Having an open mind is important to succeed in life. Embracing, or at least considering, new ideas and technologies is vital to our personal growth. Are you willing to consider someone else’s opinion? Can you look at facts that may seem suspect and analyze them without bias? If you’re open-minded, you can be flexible when met with new ideas. It means you can adapt to new experiences. Being able to think critically is a vital component of being open-minded. In our quickly changing technological world, it’s important to keep an open mind in order to keep up and stay current, rather than missing out on all the new things around us...

How to Develop Tough Skin And Refuse to Give Up

Do you give up easily? When you fail to get what you want in a short period of time, do you quickly throw up your hands and move on to something else? The roadblocks you experience on the road to success either lead to ultimate failure or serve as a stepping-stone to your victory. And, the choice is yours. Refuse to give up, and you'll experience victory. Setbacks are a natural part of life. They can derail your train to success if you let them, but their purpose is to build you up. They test your resolve so you can see what you're made of. They show you how bad you want the goal you're after. They show you where a course correction is necessary. And, they help you to appreciate the sweet victory at the end...

Is Negativity Holding You Back?
Negativity always finds a way to creep up in your life from time to time. It's when negativity builds up too much or shows up too often that you have an obstacle to overcome. A negative attitude can hold you back from truly living your life. However, you don't need to feel stuck because you can bring positive thoughts back into your life!

Keeping a Positive Outlook During Trying Times

Are you facing a difficult challenge? It's comforting to know that you can get through tough times while maintaining a positive outlook throughout. When you get in better touch with yourself and understand the ups and downs of life, it makes it easier for you to persevere. When you believe in yourself, you can go farther than you've ever imagined. So your first step is to believe that you're capable of having a positive outlook. Your firm belief in yourself will help banish negative thoughts that try to plague your thinking during trying times...

Maintaining the Enthusiasm to Succeed Despite Struggles

It's a piece of cake to maintain your enthusiasm when everything's peachy. But when challenges arise, it can become increasingly difficult. It's best to be prepared for bumps in the road just because you're bound to hit them from time to time as you go through life. The best thing you can do is work on your skills to boost and maintain your enthusiasm. It's such an important skill to have because it's your driving force that strengthens your will to succeed. The following tips can help you sustain your enthusiasm...

Overcoming Challenges to Reach Your Goal

If the goal you've set is worthwhile, expect some resistance. Any significant goal in your life can only be reached by overcoming challenges along the way. At each obstacle along the way, you can choose to either give up or press forward. You will succeed if you resolve to rise to the challenge, instead of sitting on the sidelines of life. Try these strategies to get past your challenges and achieve your goals...

Overcoming Obstacles to Your Success
In order to be successful, you have to overcome a great many things. Some of those obstacles are created internally. You can overcome these self-created obstacles with a little hard work and determination. No matter what task you're taking on, you can set yourself up for success! Here are some ways to deal with obstacles that may thwart your endeavors...

Overcoming Obstacles

We all encounter obstacles in life whether it's related to our finances, relationships, work, conflict, or illness. There are many things that we desire, but there are always challenges that we must overcome before we succeed. Instead of thinking negatively and giving up on your dreams, why not figure out how you can overcome these obstacles and make them part of your success story? After all, the bitterest of obstacles only serve to strengthen us and make victory that much sweeter!

Positive Strategies to Conquer Any Challenge
Life has many challenges, but do you think you can get past them? Of course you can! Avoid letting other people - or your own thoughts - tell you that you can't do whatever you have in mind. A challenge isn't a problem, it's an opportunity to excel and move forward. But you must see your challenge in a positive light or it may not offer you the forward movement you're really looking for...

Thinking Differently About Problem Solving

All of us from time to time are faced with difficult situations. Sometimes these problems may seem insurmountable. However, there’s almost always a solution. When you can’t figure out the solution to a problem, try to take a different approach to the situation to see your problem in an entirely different light. Looking at the problem from a different perspective can often make the solution obvious instead of impossible. This technique is one of many creative problem solving techniques that can help provide solutions to your trickiest problems...

Tips for Overcoming Challenges to Reaching Your Goals

When you've embarked on the journey toward your goals, you'll no doubt come face to face with challenges. Some will be small and others will loom large. The best way to get through these times is to be prepared for any situation that may be thrown your way. No matter how hard you try, life will continue to be unpredictable. When you learn how to think positively and stay on your toes, you'll find that you're soaring through with flying colors. Here are some tips to help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals...

Why Failure Is Really a Success
When something doesn’t go your way, what’s the first thought that pops into your head? Do you chastise yourself? Or do you reassure yourself that you are growing stronger and wiser with each challenge you face? In reality, it’s not the successes that make you a stronger, more successful person; it’s the failures...

Build Your Self-Esteem By Conquering Challenges

Do you feel as though you’re in a rut? Does nothing feel engaging or entertaining? When you want to make sure you’re still in the right direction and you don’t want to settle for a mundane life, you’ll discover that you need to start challenging yourself. When you take on a challenge head first, you’re forcing yourself to grow. When your self-esteem needs a boost, challenging yourself can help you see yourself in a new light...

5 Simple Brainstorming Techniques

It happens to all of us. We reach that dead end where we simply run out of fresh ideas and we helplessly fumble for solutions that have escaped us. What can we do to get the creative juices flowing again? One of the best strategies to resolve this dilemma is to use a brainstorming session. The basic technique is easy as 1-2-3. These brainstorming sessions can be invaluable when trying to come up with fresh, outside the box, ideas so we can work towards an effective solution to a difficult challenge...

9 Ways to Pick Yourself Up After Failing

Failure is simply a stepping-stone on your way to success. Of course, this doesn't mean that it's easy to deal with or something that should be taken lightly, but how you deal with failure will determine not only your future success, but also how easy it will be to achieve. Everyone has different coping mechanisms and ways they react to failure. However, learning the ways that more often lead you to success can help you enormously! Here are some tips on how to pick yourself up after you fail...

How to Immediately Over Respond to Every Event
By responding to your environment you change. When you change you evolve, and when you evolve you become much more attractive to others and great opportunities...

Are you a Human Being or a Human Doing?

Are you living or being lived? Going within is an often missed key to successful living. Without knowing what really matters to us, without the clarity that comes from self-knowledge, without the peace of knowing our actions are in harmony with who we are deep down, we often find ourselves flitting from action to action. Our focus centers on the "doing" of our lives and not the "being" of our lives.

Are you too old?

Rarely is age really a factor in doing something in life. If you say you're "too young", what you fear is that you don't have enough life experience. On the other hand, saying you're "too old", is often a way to express your fear of limits. Have you bought into the "over the hill" myth and resigned yourself to sitting on the sidelines instead of allowing yourself to give it all you've got out on life's playing field?

Declare Your Independence
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people.

How To Build A Content Site Fast
In this day and age of online marketing, content has been heralded as king, and for good reasons. People flock to sites not because of the flashy graphics nor the astounding features nor the witty domain name of the said pages, but because of the information contained therein that would enlighten them with their queries of the moment.

How to stop your Thoughts from Sabotaging your Success!
Many people have heard and are aware of concepts like positive thinking, praying, visualizing, etc. and are trying to use them to achieve wellness, material and spiritual wealth, peace and more. Unfortunately most people are actually making things worse and sabotaging their progress while practicing these concepts.

You Only Have Two Choices!
You Have Only Two Choices! Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

Why Failure Is Really a Victory
When some thing doesn't go your way, what's the first thought that pops into your head? Do you chastise yourself? Or do you reassure yourself that you are growing stronger and wiser with each challenge you face? In reality, it's not the goods results that make you a stronger, more successful person; it's the failures...

Thinking In Another Way About Problem Resolving
All of us from time to time are faced with difficult situations. Oftentimes these problems may seem impossible. On the other hand, there's almost always a solution. When you can't figure out the solution to a problem, try to take a different approach to the situation to see your problem in an entirely different light...

Tips for Overcoming Challenges to Reaching Your Objectives
When you've embarked on the journey toward your objectives, you 'll no doubt come face to face with challenges. Some will be small and others will loom substantial. The best way to get through these times is to be organized for any situation that may be thrown your way...

Self Esteem
Many people miss the things in their life that they should feel good about. This article helps one focus on their own self esteem.

What Is A Life Coach

Dear Jane, What is a life coach and how do I know if I need one? What I do as a life coach is help my clients recognize and let go of the sabotaging thoughts and behaviors that have undermined their success, joy, and intimacy. We all have sabotaging thoughts and behaviors; sometimes it takes someone else to help us see them and to believe in us more than we believe in ourselves. So I’m also an energetic cheerleader and true believer. I will often see the possibilities for a client’s future before he or she can. My job is to inspire each person I work with to create an extraordinary vision and to become adept with the tools to create that vision.

Finding SelfWorth

Dear Jane, I know I'm self-critical. But how do I stop? My self-esteem is at about a zero and the lower it's gone, the worse it seems others treat me. In my self-help book, Enough Is Enough!, I talk about what it’s like to hang out in Courtroom Earth vs. the Classroom Earth. In Courtroom Earth, we act as our own judge, jury, and executioner. Most of the time, we don’t even realize we’re doing this to ourselves. What about you? Do you beat yourself up for everything? Do you compare yourself to other people? Do you find yourself being driven, addicted to more and more evidence to prove that you are worthy? Then do you end up tired, resentful, frustrated, short tempered, with an even greater urge to control and do?

Success Beyond Success

Can you imagine waking up every day, and feeling successful regardless of what's happening in your small business? That would be a nice place to be - especially with the myriad of details constantly on your mind. Your marketing plan, cash flow, managing time and deadlines. It's normal to sometimes wonder if you'll ultimately be successful, or if you'll have to eventually throw in the towel and go back to being employed.

How to conquer our fear of failure
Our fear of failure is probably the single greatest obstacle to success in our adult lives. We become totally preoccupied with not making a mistake and with seeking approval.

FIVE TIPS FOR DEALING WITH CRITICISM OR REJECTION AT WORK
Everyone who has been employed has had to deal with negative feedback or rejection. Because we tend to merge our identities with our career, it can be a personal blow to our self-esteem when we are criticized at work. Whether it’s a job rejection, poor performance appraisal, or office gossip, it doesn’t usually bring out our best side.

The Heart of Home Business Success
There are many ingredients necessary for home business success, but two critical ones live in the heart of every great entrepreneur.

The Charismatic Performance Model™

Over the centuries we have become addicted to growth through struggle. Pain is often perceived as a necessary stimulus to growth where individuals adopt the view “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” Adversity is worn like a badge of honour because people often call on their inner resources to strengthen their resolve. Resilience is now viewed as an essential component for corporate success. Yet individuals are still resistant to change within a corporate context because they feel in touch with fear. According to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs first introduced in 1943 our basic needs are for survival closely followed by safety and security.

Being in The Zone, being in The Flow is Being Charismatic

This week I delivered a half-day session on Charismatic Leadership to The Ella Foundation, established by Brian Chernett, created to inspire more leaders in the not for profit sector to be more effective and successful. Nearly 30 leaders from different registered charities participated in a way that was subtly different to leaders within the corporate sector. These men and women showed a real passionate intensity for their cause that was truly inspiring. Their minds were open and receptive to my techniques meaning that the exercises we did regarding energy were really advanced because their attitude to learning was untainted by cynicism.

Gain Self Esteem Through Personal Development
Personal development is the path toward improving the person that you are, internally and externally. In order to reach your personal development goals, it is necessary to educate yourself on the various personal development strategies and techniques in order to find out what does and does not work.

Do You Want to Rebuild Your Self Esteem?

Self esteem is all about feeling good about yourself - not just now and then but all the time, especially when you have to face a crisis. They only person who can do it is you. However it can help to have someone prod you into the right course of action. This article outlines a natural self-help process based on the power of pursuing a passionate personal interest. It's my story of how I rebuilt my self esteem a few years ago.

Self-esteem: 5 Ways to Increase your Self-confidence
Is lack of confidence holding you back? 5 practical strategies to overcome low self-esteem including accenting the positive; discarding what limits us; what to do if you're shy.

Human Beings vs Human Doings

Have you gotten caught up in "doing" instead of "being?" It's easy to "do" in modern-day America, where we're constantly bombarded with messages urging us to run out and buy the latest sexy sports car or super-duty truck, or to deck out our spouses or ourselves with the finest diamonds and Rolexes. But as they say, money can't buy happiness (although it CAN alleviate a lot of misery). If you want true freedom, you should take the steps to free yourself of the psychological baggage you've built up about doing versus being.

An Octopus On Roller Skates
Learn how self-discipline can keep you from flailing.

The Silent Career Killer
A lack of self-confidence is dangerous to your career. If you aren’t confident in your abilities and the value you offer, how can you expect someone else to be? In the end, you could very well be passed up for the promotion you want.

The Silent Career Killer
A lack of self-confidence is dangerous to your career. If you aren’t confident in your abilities and the value you offer, how can you expect someone else to be? In the end, you could very well be passed up for the promotion you want.

Commitment
Is it hard to find winners who make and keep their commitments? You bet it is. Here’s the untapped well of winners waiting for you.

How To DeClutter Your Life
In this article you will learn the ways in which you can de-clutter your life.......

People on Purpose
When one lives with a purpose they will know unprecedented peace, power and profit when they discover their own Magnificent Obsession and give themselves permission to win at all costs. Do you have what it takes?

How Badly Do You Want It
Do you want to know whether or not you will achieve your goals? Here are some sure fire ways to find out.

Sales Training London Pyrrhic Victories Ben Franklin said
Use disarming honesty and take responsibility, be curious and assume the other person has a worthwhile point of view that merits your understanding .. to avoid having to justify or defend your position or behaviours. Gently and effectively lead the conversation in this way and you'll regularly get the other person to think it's his idea ....

Steps to rebuilding your self-esteem
Building self esteem is key to being successful and happy in your life. Low self esteem can really hold you back from achieving what you want. Having low self esteem is when you find yourself comparing yourself unfavourably to others, always criticising yourself and your abilities, putting yourself down in front of people, feeling depressed, powerless and helpless.

Self esteem Workout
I am sharing some useful coaching tips and support from my monthly newsletter 'Coaching at Your Fingertips', today tips on how to boost your self-esteem. Self- esteem is about how we view our intelligence, physical ability and our emotional capabilities.

What is your self-estimate?
Your self-esteem is the value which you place on yourself. You can choose what you want that value to be. You can have a low self-esteem, regarding yourself as being worthless, or you can have a high self-esteem and regard yourself as priceless. Nobody else can place a value on you.

My Boss is a "Screamer"
Anyone whose boss is a screamer knows what it feels like to have his/her self-esteem attacked on a daily basis. It is emotionally draining and spiritually de-motivating because tantrums (the things children do when they can't get their way) attack the four elements necessary to build our self-esteem.

3 Tools to Improve Low Self Esteem
Low self-esteem has such a far reaching effect on one's ability to succeed at anything. So I want to provide some tools to help you or anyone you may know begin to build their self-esteem to new heights.

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