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Your life is going reasonably well. You're focused, "on track" and feeling centered...yet all of a sudden your workload triples, an employee leaves, or a significant person in your life becomes emotionally distraught, or perhaps a death or illness surprises the family. Your outside world doesn't have to equal your inside world. Life is always presenting new challenges to strengthen our spirit, expand our consciousness, and foster growth. Learning how to master accessing the "calm" in any storm is worthy goal, but it is obtainable. What is your current "storm"? I challenge you to find your center in the eye of it all.

SPIRIT vs. EGO

Spirit is the "life force energy" that is about experiencing, creating, expressing and connecting in this world, while the ego is more like a "body guard" or "tour guide". The Ego’s job is to keep the physical body safe, and guide your "spirit" through the journey of life. However, it often oversteps its duties and responsibilities. Most people don’t realize the nature of these two individual forces, and continue to struggle between these two energies.

Spiritual Coaching Practice

Confidence, intuition and leadership ability as well as empathy and more energy can be gained from a good spiritual coaching practice. A healthy spirit helps in every aspect of your business and everyday life. How will it help in your business? Next time you walk into a retail store or restaurant note the general attitude of the people working there. I can almost promise you if more than one person has a bad attitude, seems less than friendly or just plain unhelpful, the manager is the same way

The Spirit of Leadership
You can boost your leadership skills and hence your career by understanding this one thing that most leaders miss: great leadership incorporates a spiritual dimension.

Have a Forgiving Spirit

There are many things that prevent us from accomplishments. As we know the list is miles long and is constantly added to. Any excuse we want will be supplied to us. All we need to do is procrastinate a few minutes and a world of reasons not to begin will arise. There is no cause to make a list we each have our own. The problem I see today is one that may not seem prevalent and often hides behind others we use. It is the anxiety and resentment that comes from not forgiving.

Do You Talk More Than You Listen?
Even if you often let others carry on the conversation, there's likely another conversation simultaneously going on inside your head. As the other person speaks, your mind may be racing on with its own thoughts, drowning out all words but its own.

Do You Know How To Really Connect?
You must get connected to everything, to anything--to life, to music, to nature, to your children, to friends, even to strangers. To GET connected to The Flow you must BE the connection.

Is Fear of Failure the Vibration You Feel Most Strongly?
Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night worrying about what if the clients don't show up? Or what am I going to do if... Or maybe just felt that sense of, "What am I doing wrong? Why can't I get a break?"

What Do You Really Know About Labyrinths?
Labyrinths are amazing and versatile tools. People who walk them often experience an almost magical meshing of their analytical or rational mind with their intuitive and spiritual consciousnesses. From this altered state of consciousness, we can amplify our intuition, clarify complex questions, create incredible possibilities, and connect deeply to Spirit.

This Wonderful Recession
Now is the time to express our true spirit and not let the state of our economy get us down. We have the potential inside to rise above any obstacle in our way.

Ice Jacket, Inc. Introduces Best Barwares Device since the Ice Cube
The Ice Jacket, encases a bottle of spirit in ice to create a refreshingly cold and gorgeous "coat of ice”. The Ice Jacket is a unique, one-of-a-kind product that's fun and incredibly impressive. If it is in your bar or at a party, let the ice Jacket keep the drinks icy cold.

Canada’s Billionaire Businessman: How Schwartz Made Onex a Success

Schwartz is 66 years old this year but has no plans of slowing down. As Chairman and CEO of one of Canada’s most successful companies, Schwartz’s goals for the future remain the same as they have for the past quarter century: “More people. More transactions. Larger amounts of capital. Identical philosophy,” he says. How did this son of an auto-parts dealer become one of the Top Ten Wealth Creators in all of Canada?

Lesson #4: Plan Today So You Can Act Fast Tomorrow

Schwab took his company from being a one-man startup to the world’s largest financial services firm in record-setting time. How? Early on, Schwab decided to establish a number of guiding principles that would allow him to make quick decisions. He believed that by following a strict process and adhering to strict requirements, he would be well-prepared ahead of time in order to act with lightening speed.

Lesson #3: Engage with Your Employees
In 1886, Heinz returned from a trip to Germany. It was an eye-opening journey for more reason than one. Along the way, Heinz had acquired a myriad of different business management ideas that he could not wait to get back to America to begin implementing and experimenting with in his own company. One of those ideas related to the management and treatment of his workers.

Lesson #2: Nothing Makes Up for Dogged Hard Work

From the time he was a young boy, Gallo lived and breathed wine. His father’s winery might have never taken off to the degree the family had hoped, but it was still an important introduction into the business for his young son. Once he was at the helm of his own vineyard operation, Gallo still might not have had much in the way of resources, but what he did have was his own manpower, and lots of it.

\"You\'re an idiot if you don\'t start an Internet company right now\"
The following comes from my friend James Altucher's latest TheStreet.com Internet Review (subscribers-only) newsletter. He quotes a highly successful non-Internet entrepreneur friend recently saying to him as follows:

Focusing on the Wrong Thing
I saw the post A Thousand Hall Monitors from Yahoo this morning and immediately thought "why is YPN focusing on the wrong thing?"

Meetings
I had breakfast today with a senior executive who estimates she spends more than 30% of her time in internal meetings.

Ten Rules for Being a Good Conference Panelist
Having moderated many conference panels, and participated on many more of same -- and suffered through even more as an audience member -- I've decided to share some words of advice, even if it's mostly intended to give me something to point panelists to the next time I'm a moderator.

About time we heard what the aging population can DO together
Seems like everyone's always talking about the market opportunities emerging because of America's aging population. It's about time someone stopped talking about their buying power and more about their DOING power!

"How to Be Creative" by Hugh Macleod
My favorite book about creativity is If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.

Go For Your Big Dreams!
Remember when you were a kid and felt you could set the world on fire? Millionaire? Sure. Hollywood star? Of course! Astronaut? Easy. Best-selling author? No problem. World traveler? Start packing.

What Gets Measured, Gets Converted, Gets Results
I'll attribute the title of this post to the legendary Peter Drucker, although, that's not exactly what he said - it does capture the spirit though.

When You Say The Wrong Thing
Recently I hosted a dinner with a great group of friends and people I wanted to meet. One of my guests was a particularly good friend, a guy I care about and respect deeply. Until recently, this guy was a high profile CEO. But due to politics, he was let go - despite the fact that everyone knows he's a total superstar, both in his performance at that company and in every position prior.

Always Do It the Right Way.
Always doing things the right way is the most efficient and productive means of achieving anything, but the way they are done affects our attitude and spirit each time we see it.

Positive Leadership for Optimistic Leaders - The Problem-Seeking Mindset

Do you regularly feel fully appreciated at work? Do you have the chance to do what you do best each and every day? Do you know what is expected of you at work? Does your manager know you and focus you? Fully engaged people at work can answer these questions with a happy yes! Most of us start a job motivated to perform our best, but sometimes working for a poor manager can deflate your career mojo or worse. Positive leaders provide clarity to help people unleash their innovative spirit, improve performance and fully engage.

Building Positive Leadership -The Brain Power of Negativity

Do you feel that company leaders and managers at work appreciate you? Do you regularly have the chance to do your best work? Do you have clarity on what is expected of you at work? Does your manager care about you and provide focus? Fully engaged people at work can answer these questions with a resounding yes! Most of us start a job motivated to perform our best, but sometimes working for a poor manager can adversely affect your motivation. Positive leaders help people tap into their innovative spirit to improve performance. Optimistic leaders inspire people to a better future. They have a strong sense of significance. Do you model servant leadership?

10 CEO's and the Impact They Have on their Sales Forces
I don't mean to paint a picture that depicts CEO's as the problem, but in some companies, they are the problem. In 9 of the 10 examples I described above they were the problem but unlike this article, it happens in only about 50% of the cases, not 90%. So if you are a CEO or know one, what should you do when getting help for your sales organization?

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.

The Secret to Increasing Business Results
There are many paths to being an entrepreneurial business owner, and many of them may feel 'accidental'. Somehow customers find you for something you didn't think of as valuable, or you fall into having a business through inheritance or just doing what's fun as a college kid that just kept going.

Being True To Yourself In the New Year
This article reminds all readers that they will live their most fulfilled and complete lives if they choose to be true to who they really are. Accepting who you are is first, then living out your destiny follows. Your destiny is calling, it's time to answer!

Characteristics of Successful Internet Entrepreneurs

What are the Characteristics of Successful Internet Entrepreneurs? Are you someone who wants to know if you have what it takes to become a successful Internet entrepreneur? There are lots of people who are succeeding at running their own business online these days, and what separates them from the people who try and fail? The truth of the matter is that there are several character attributes of a successful entrepreneur spirit that sets it apart from others, so take some time and consider whether you have these traits or not!

Business and Marketing: Breakthroughs for Writer's Block
Whether you love to write or not, the written word is still one of the most influential ways to reach your audience, get your message out to the world and give people an opportunity to resonate with you. Staying focused on the energy of your writing will help your writing contain a crisp, clear marketing message that will leave people wanting to hear more.

Who Do You Think You Are?
The more you understand your authentic vision for yourself, the more successful you will be and the more effortless it will feel. Ask yourself these 10 questions to get started crafting your perfect vision.

Is Continuous Improvement More Important Than Results?
Could a focus on continuous improvement prove more useful than concentrating just on the results we seek?

Making Relationships a Work of A.R.T.

But if, on the other hand, you forget about yourself and what you can get, and focus on the other person and what you can help them get, they will never let you down. One of my favourite quotes of all time is one by the world famous sales trainer Zig Ziglar. He says "You can get almost anything you want in life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want." Do you know what other people want? Are you willing to help them get it?

4 valuable life skills that make for success in sales and any other role

There are many things written and said about effective sales people, effective leaders, successful entrepreneurs, great teams and so on. Many descriptions are in circulation. There is an overabundance of experts recommending this approach one day and that approach the next. Those of us who want to be effective and successful often follow the advice of those experts however we are at risk of turning ourselves inside out and losing sight of what we are really here to do if we keep trying to bend to the winds and whims of the latest management trends, fads, findings, research, etc.

Your Soul's Deepest Desires Activate the Law of Attraction
Sometimes knowing about the Law of Attraction can get you into trouble.

Make A Decision To Be The Person You Want To Be!
I love to ask questions, especially when it makes us think about our answers. This is one for you. Are you satisfied with any area of your life at this time? If you answer yes I certainly applaud you. You have made a choice that makes this possible. I remember when I was a little girl, tall, skinny and a stutterer. You know how ruthless kids can be.

It's Just a Number
With a passion for seniors and a knack for business, Lucille Green is defying her age and garnering tremendous success as a small business owner well into her 70â€™s.

"Do you Come Here Often?" The ten best (and worst) ways to start a networking conversation

Following a recent comment on my blog, I promised to suggest some good icebreakers to start conversations at networking events. Rather than just share my own thoughts, I thought I would poll a few of you and find out how you go about it. I asked the question on Twitter, on my Facebook page and through my newsletter. Thank you for all of the responses, with a diverse and interesting range of approaches and stories being sent in.

Evolve Yourself to Extraordinary
This is it - no dress rehearsal, no do-overs and no turning back time. THIS is your life! And it can be absolutely magical and extraordinary by understanding and embodying just three key commitments. Make no mistake - it's not for the faint of heart! Read that line again... "understanding and embodying three key commitments".

Be Your Most Unstoppable Self

When was the last time you really, really wanted ice cream at some crazy hour of the day - and actually went to go get it? Or maybe you had an urge to call someone right NOW - so you did it right that second? Or someone stood in the way of you doing something you really wanted to do, so you figured out how to do it anyway? In case you haven't seen the pattern yet, these are all examples of you being unstoppable because the thing you wanted was greater than the thing that could have stopped you.

The Power of Words
The new book—LINCOLN SPEAKS TO LEADERS—contains a Lincoln soliloquy from a one-man play that describes the impact words can have for good or evil.

How To Increase Your Online Sales Anytime
Hold a discount sale on your web site. Use the sale to get rid of excess inventory, gain new or repeat customers, and increase your sales. Most businesses pick a theme for their sale, like a Halloween Sale. Below are six unique sales themes you could use:

Relationship Breakup: Heartbreak and Healing
Are you suffering from the heartbreak of a broken relationship? Do you feel like you can't live without your partner? Discover the likely cause of this heartbreak and how to heal it.

Why Managers and Supervisors ARE NOT the Best Communicators During Times of Change
Most of the programs fail to manage change within organizations...Here’s why managers & supervisors are not the best face to face communicators during times of change.

The Myth of Retirement for the Entrepreneur

There is inside you, from a time before you ever became aware of it, a vision and calling to do something extraordinary. The age of your body cannot touch this spark that calls you to shine. However, the candle of the body may waver, this light of spirit never goes out. Deep down inside you have something remarkable that you’d love to share, accomplish and be. Everyone has this spark, and there’s no end to it because it’s beyond who you think you are. It’s your true nature. It doesn’t matter if you are 20, 50, or 80 years old, you have an immortal purpose and a dream that seeks fulfillment.

Being Present To Your Inner Brilliance
Learn key questions to ask when considering important business and life decisions

Coping With Volatility In Your Business
When the volatility of the world is taking its toll, you may feel you have no other choice but to give in to it. But the truth is, you do have a choice. Here are some steps to consider.

What Changes Are You Avoiding In Your Life?
Change is a constant in our lives and yet so often we resist it. As human beings, we are wired to avoid change because any type of change, even change for the better, involves a level of discomfort in some shape or form. Find out what comfort zones are and why it's good to step out of those zones and meet those changes head on.

Time for Apple to release a 25th anniversary Mac
The Mac turns 25 this year. And Super Bowl Sunday would be the perfect (symbolically, at least) time for Apple to run an ad for a 25th anniversary Mac.

Home Business Expert: How To Advertise Innovative & Fresh Ideas
These days an ever increasing number of moms are deciding to work from home because the Internet is allowing them the opportunity to benefit from the many opportunities that are out there.

An Entrepreneur – Have I Got what it Takes?
I believe that business is equal parts of inspiration, hard work and luck. There is a famous saying “ I find that the harder I work, the luckier I get!”

Exercise Your Charisma Muscle
Charisma comes more easily to some than to others, but anyone who develops these skills can become more charismatic.

Back to School, Part 1/3: Working and Learning – Can They Be Balanced?
How can work and school be balanced? Does the organization gain any benefits from employee’s continuing education? Can an organization assist their employees? If so, then how? If you and your organization find yourselves asking these questions, then this article is for you. Just the first part of a three part series regarding going to school while having a career.

Others Treat Us The Way We Treat Ourselves
Discover how to love the unlovable in yourself and transform how others treat you.

Here's How To Embrace Change
Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money!

Email Magic: How it took Me only 1.25 Days to make a Month’s worth of Income
Back near the end of last year we ran an extremely successful email promotion that made us a boat load of money. In just a few days it tallied up the normal monthly profit. And it only took about 1.25 days to research, devise, and execute. Below, you’ll find swipe files that you are free to use.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 7 of 7)
To be in touch with The Golden Principle of Replication involves an entirely different way of approaching your own learning and growth.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 3 of 7)
Have you ever thought what it might be like to have more control over what you are experiencing in your business? Wouldn't it be great to decide who your ideal clients are, and then have them actually appear? Wouldn't it be great to decide how many hours you want to work, or how much money you would like to make, and have it actually happen?

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 2 of 7)
Discover the Power of Your Beliefs: How Your Beliefs Influence Your Feelings, Your Actions, and Your Experience. You can: · Create the business of your dreams. · Move to a more advanced level of consciousness and income. · Learn the secret of using energy principles in a grounded process for yourself and your clients.

Success Through Your Spirit - The Golden Six-Figure Formula (Part 1 of 7)

Do you want to learn a proven formula that will help you: · Create the business of your dreams? · Move to a more advanced level of consciousness and income? · Learn the secret of using energy principles in a grounded process for yourself and your clients? Success Through Your Spirit: The Golden Six-Figure Formula, is about amping up your belief in your ability to be successful in your work and to help you take the actions to see this become a reality. We get to the root of what is holding you back from being and earning what you deserve.

Activating the Order Form
A powerful exercise that can help turn your vision for your business into reality.

You Always Work for Yourself!
What’s the difference between the owner of the company and the front-line employee? The obvious answer is that the employee works for the owner. Really?

Find a Need and Fill It
If you want to increase sales and grow your bottom line, find something your audience wants and serve them better than anyone else in town. The key to success? It's simple: Find a need and fill it.

Baby-U-Deserve-Getting-Every-Thing (Budget)
What is your reaction to the word “budget”? A sinking, depressed, deprived feeling? You are not alone. Many people audibly groan at the mention of the word. For the vast majority, it connotes scarcity, lack, and limitation—none of which are very pleasurable concepts....

Write “Thank You!” on All Your Checks
It is important for your personal prosperity to take joy in the process of sending people money. As you write the check or pay the cash for your purchase, know that you are creating financial benefits for many unseen individuals who make their living from these transactions...

Party Networking or “Are You George?”
I love advertising my business through networking with other upbeat business people. There are many networking groups in every city—trade organizations, Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, national associations, etc. But you don’t have to restrict yourself to business organizations..

10 Facebook Tips for Professionals
List of 10 tips for business professionals who want to experience the many delights of Facebook without making a fool of themselves.

Business Leadership: Why Spirit has a Place in the Workplace
People often forget that leadership is equal parts heart and mind. You cannot be a great leader if you do not nurture your spirit. Leaders with a strong sense of spirit create a powerful trickledown effect in the business that is reflected in the culture of their organization in a positive way based on integrity, authenticity and community.

Spark Your Innovation IQ & Master Your Power to Create

Spark - Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity & Create Anything" Ting! Author, Arupa Tesolin's new book helps you learn to magnetize and magnify the things you want in life so they come rushing towards you like bees to a flower. Tap the inexhaustible supply of the infinite universe to fulfill your desires. In this article Arupa has a dialogue about the important feminine side of creative power.

Money Affirmations That Make You Money
“Chellie, an editor is interested in your book!” my agent, Lisa, exclaimed happily. “I sent her a bunch of proposals, and she returned all of them to me except for yours! Now she wants to talk to you.” My heart was thumping and my breath came fast...

The True Measure of Abundance: An Extraordinary Life
One of my clients used the expression, “earning a living,” and it struck me that this phrasing is so painfully close to saying “earning a life.” If we equate earning money with earning the right to live, we are likely to find ourselves in what I call Endurance (yes, with a capital E).

Are you in alignment with your business?
For the past three years I have struggled. I mean really struggled. I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. I had built a very profitable business before. One that grew quickly and bloomed into a beautiful success. So what was wrong this time?

There is NO Competition
What’s the competition doing? Who cares! The important thing is what you’re doing, right here and right now.

Discovering and Living by Your Core Values
Core values are essential to keeping your life on track. Do you know yours? Most don't! Would you like to know yours? Here are a couple of quick ways to help you get started in discovering your core values and help you hammer them into a values statement:

Double Your Achievements By Lightening the Loa
Like a light shining through the darkness shed by so many negative reports of how so few people consider anyone other than themselves, and how a sense of community is lacking, I know from experience that that spirit is not lacking and if we give it a chance by sharing and collaborating, whether professionally or personally, it can bring us so many rewards.

Build a Dynamic Business - 10 Steps to Start You Off
What does it take to make businesses perform extremely well? It's when your people work together in incredible ways, to create far more than you might expect...

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.

Your Life Purpose

Dear Jane, How can I figure out what my life purpose is? First of all, you may have more than one life purpose. What may feel important at one stage in life may get bumped down by another priority during a different stage of life. For instance, when you were in your teens, your education, which college you would go to, what you were going to be when you “grew up,” may have been your priorities. When you’re in your twenties and thirties, your focus may be on job advancement, achievement, status, marriage, and family. In your forties and fifties, it may change yet again to self-fulfillment and health. As your priorities change, so may your life purpose.

Are You Fulfilled

Dear Jane, How can I figure out whether I am doing what makes me happy? What are some of the symptoms of unhappiness, or must I wait for a life-threatening situation? I wrote my popular self-help book, Enough Is Enough!, to help others avoid having to go through a life-threatening situation in order to wake up to your spirit’s calling. If you are having to ask yourself if you are happy, then you probably aren’t. Perhaps you haven’t yet had the satisfaction that goes with fulfilling your spirit’s purpose, so you don’t know what benchmark to compare your feelings with. The symptoms of endurance or a less-than-thriving life are discussed in depth in my book. I will give you a short list here that you should find helpful:

Points of Intervention
This section is a walk through the MicroStart process, with specific recommendations. It focuses on the key areas of intervention SUM has identified. SUM's goal is to develop simple, efficient, and meaningful procedures, and these suggestions are offered in that spirit.

What Will Love Give You?
What are your beliefs about what another's love will give to you?

Improve the Quality of Your Franchise Business with Multi-Unit and Multi-Concept Franchises
Multi-unit and multi-concept franchising both provide opportunities for fast, efficient growth. Franchising is an obvious consideration for individuals who naturally have that entrepreneurial spirit. You might be wondering what is means to have an entrepreneurial spirit.

Sacred Space
Whether working indoors or out, spirit is there for you.

The Yukon Spirit: Nurturing Entrepreneurs
What creates the entrepreneurial spirit? Are you born with it or is it determined by your environment? I believe it is both. The environment can help to nurture the spirit within you. One perfect environment to nurture that spirit is the Yukon Territory of Canada. The Yukon is nestled right next to Alaska.

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