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How To Sidestep the Effects of Stress

Stress has a way of jumping out at us at the least expected times - like at holiday time. The stress that arrives unannounced, however, can stress you out to the max and carry right on over to the new year. Don't let it. Learn how to step aside from stress by using this handy checklist.

Concrete Ideas on How to Cope With Stress

Stress is just a part of life and can be found no matter where in the world you go. Is stress merely part of the inescapable human condition? Are we as a species chronically worried and unhappy, or does bad luck simply find us wherever we are? It’s not practical to believe that we are battling against Fate, Chance, or God. Stress does not happen to make our day unbearable. You could say that stress is a natural reaction to an action taken, the consequence of a causative event. For every action there is a reaction and often times the stress that we have to endure is the stress we bring upon ourselves by the choices we make.

Do You Play the Executive Whack-a-Mole Game?

Are you so busy solving problems and reacting to crises that you do not have time to develop the culture in your organization? If so, you are trapped in a whack-a-mole game. To get out, you need to carve out time to work with your group on improving the environment. Benefits - (1) reduce interpersonal conflicts - fewer problems for you to solve, (2) create more empowered employees - more willing hands to resolve issues, (3) lower stress and burn out.

9 Tips to Improve Trust in Virtual Teams

We work in virtual teams more now than ever before. Many people spend most of the career working with people in high pressure situations, yet they have not ever physically met. Here are 9 tips that can improve the effectiveness of virtual teams.

Reducing Conflict between Peers is an Art

Conflict within organizations is a constant problem. It deflects energy away from the vision and causes wasted energy. Conflict between peers is particularly hard to eliminate because the individuals see the world from different perspectives. This article offers several tips to reduce conflict between peers.

Making Stuff Up...

What do you do when you don't have all the information or communication with someone? Something feels "off", AND you haven't spoken directly about it. Maybe THEY didn't return a call or respond to an email, plans to get together never materialized, or were cancelled unexpectedly. Or suddenly all communication has disappeared. Maybe THEY haven't reminded you lately that they "love you", or responded in the manner you had hoped or expected. What do you do?

Emotional Muscles

EMOTIONS are a huge element in our lives. They affect how we experience the world... and, each emotion serves as a unique filter for our life's experiences. Sometimes it feels that we're at the mercy of our emotions. I'd like to suggest how we can take greater control of our lives by more consciously choosing some of our emotions. I believe emotions play a powerful role in helping us achieve our goals, dreams, and in creating fulfilling lives. The more we "feel" an emotion... the more we attract that into our lives. Simply put....joy breeds joy. Stress breeds stress. Peace breeds peace. Essentially, it's Law of Attraction.

Choice or Habit?

When life delivers a plethora of unexpected and unpleasant surprises, it can be easy and automatic to react negatively. Many of these reactions are unconscious and engrained in us as human beings. Throughout our lives, most of us are taught and conditioned to react to disappointments with sadness, unkindness from others with anger or defensiveness, heavy traffic with stress and frustration, illness and death with fear, and our mistakes with judgment. If I listed twenty activities, most would agree on the "common way" to react to each situation. But, who says this is how we "should" be reacting? Is there an alternative choice? Is there a more effective way? Or are we truly helpless victims to life's circumstances?

What Seven Crucial Areas Should You Look At In A Home Based or Online Business?

After reading books The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris and The Sovereign Individual: Mastering The Transition To The Modern Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, I had a vision of what I wanted in a business that would allow me to travel and work when and where I wanted. I wanted simplicity, high compensation, and ultimately freedom, both financial freedom and time freedom. If you're considering a home based or online business, there are seven critical things you should consider in your evaluation. Thinking about the following crucial aspects of a home based or online business will save you much time, money, and stress as you take on a very rewarding career or better yet, adventure.

Don’t Worry Be Happy!

Being stressed is not part of a healthy lifestyle. Not only is stress damaging to us physically, it can also cause us to eat more and exercise less. Stress can be a huge obstacle that gets in the way of our healthy lifestyle goals. What can you do to effectively manage your stress? The following six steps will help you to make changes to have less stress and more happiness in your life.

Overcoming Anxiety: the Importance of Emotional Mindfulness

So many people avoid their true emotions because of the anxiety they engender. This desire to avoid can lead to unhealthy behaviors like addictions and result in emotional distance from those closest to us. Learn healthy ways to manage and overcome your discomfort with your emotions and the feelings they bring up.

Stress and Perspective

Then something seemed to whisper in my ear. This lady was having a stressful day. From her perspective, with what she had planned to do today, this was an interuption. It was unnecessary and stress-producing. From her perspective this was huge. I decided rather than think bad thoughts of her that I would pray for God to comfort her and turn her day for good.

Think Positively - Reduce Stress and Get More Out of Life

Studies have shown that being optimistic or pessimistic can affect how long you live and how well you live your life. Discover ten ten activities to assist you to think positively and hence get more out of life.

Open the Floodgates!

Are people in your organization just biding their time until they can jump ship? Do you believe it? Do you care? You should... These statistics are pretty alarming.

When Your Parents Move in with You

Your Mom and/or Dad has moved in with you. At some point s/he told you s/he wants to pay you something to help defray the cost and you said no. Or maybe when the subject came up and you were uncomfortable and said “let's discuss it later”.

Helping Your Aging Parents Help Themselves (Step Two)

"THE 2-STEP PROCESS TO AGREEMENT" consists of 1) helping your Vicky-D's (your aging parents) determine what they want and 2) helping them get it. A process by which, rather than you trying to convince them to do what's in their best interest, you help them convince themselves to want to do what's in their best interest - ideally the same thing!

Trash or Treasure: De-cluttering That Preserves The Memories

Do you have a "memory box" filled with treasures such as a corsage from your high school prom, your Girl Scout badge sash, old Valentine's cards, a napkin from your wedding, ticket stubs from your first pro ball game, or your baby's first shoes? While this "stuff" may look like junk to others, to you these mementos represent precious memories, the story of your life - what I call the "family fortune".

Talking With Your Aging Parents About Planning For the Future

Have you tried to get your elderly parent(s) to discuss their legal documents only to get the response "Don't worry, I'm leaving everything to you." - or you can't get them to talk at all? If so, you're not alone!

Should You Sign A Nursing Home Admission Agreement?

Admitting a loved one to a nursing home can be very stressful. In addition to dealing with a sick family member and managing all the details involved with the move, you must decide whether to sign all the papers the nursing home is giving you. Nursing home admission agreements can be complicated and confusing, so what do you do?

Elder Caregiving: Oy, The Guilt Already!

Are you giving everything you've got and then some to be a caregiver for an aging loved one and still feeling guilty that you're not doing more? If so, welcome to the club!! Not a club you want to be a member of? Then here are some suggestions that will help you out.

Basic Eldercare Realities

I always say that for the best results, talk early and often with your aging loved so you can resolve your eldercare issues by choice, not crisis. The earlier you start talking, the easier it is to get plans in place. The better the planning, the easier it will be for them and you in the long term.

Caring for Aging Parents: How Do I Know the Right Thing to Do?

I get asked this question a lot from my Generational Coaching clients: When making decisions for my aging parent, how do I know what is the right thing to do? The first question you will always ask is “What is in the best interest of my aging loved one”?

Helping Your Aging Parents Help Themselves (Step One)

"THE 2-STEP PROCESS TO AGREEMENT" consists of 1) helping your aging parent(s) determine what they want and 2) helping them get it.

E-Mail Tip #18 - Stress in Remote Teams

In a global environment, many people work in remote teams. E-mail exchanges between team members can cause great stress if we are not careful. This article gives a classic example of the problem and suggests a remedy.

Overcoming Anxiety: 4 Steps to Living the Life You Want

When we try to avoid our feelings, we often turn to defensive or even destructive behavior to keep them at bay. But, in order to reach our full potential and lead the life we truly want, we must learn how to open up to our feelings, confront and tame our fear, and, if we choose, share our experience with others.

Managing smart or fire-fighting?

So many managers at all levels are principally fire-fighting and simply not planning, strategic and thinking deeply enough to provide the best solutions for their own productivity and for the sustainability of their organizations.

Elder Caregiving: How to Help Family Members with Denial

Family members get so frustrated that their aging parents or their siblings are in denial. "How can they not see it?" Some people think those in denial don't see the situation clearly because they don't want to. I don't think that's it.

Lower Stress At Work Is Just Good Business Manners

Few things within a business are guaranteed to raise tensions, shorten fuses and lower productivity as are simple bad manners and yet, when times get tough and stress rises, good manners are often an early victim. When the erosion of good manners then leaks from team relations into customer relations (as it inevitably must) that, in turn, costs sales - not just immediate sales, but all of the remaining sales you would have made to that client had you retained them for years to come, and the sales of all the other people whom they were miffed enough to discourage from dealing with you in future!

What Does My Family Have to Do With My Work?

If you think you’ve left your family at home when you come to work---well think again. We all bring the roles we played in childhood with us to adulthood. Sometimes they mature but in cases of stress and strife those old behaviors surface again—ever feel like throwing sand at your office buddy? Take a long, hard look at conflict and difficult behavior in the office. Now read on to learn how the situations that offend you remind you of some situations in your past, maybe it’s the annoying colleague who picks on you like your brother or sister. Think about it and notice.

E + V + V + M = L

Ethics + Virtues + Values + Morals = Life (and well-being). Why? There seems to be some confusion about the terms Ethics, Values, Virtues and Morals. Certainly Ethics and Morals are used indiscriminately and are considered interchangeable as are Virtues and Values. Yet they each have a name and therefore a purpose.

Have you become a commodity?

A society that accepts "head hunters", "down-sizing" and encourages people to sell themselves to the highest bidder in the market reduces its citizens to commodities. This has its ramifications in work/life balance or general life harmony.

Hints on managing an ageing multicultural workorce

Research has confirmed the commonly held belief that as people age their ability (and often their desire) to change is diminished and that their thoughts, habits, patterns of behaviour, ideas and perceptions become rigid and limited and that it becomes more difficult for them to change in response to events (‘plasticity’ of the brain is reduced).

All Work-No Life? Organize for Productivity, Profit and Peace-of-Mind (Part 1)

Pain, stress, burn-out, information fatigue and severely eroded work-life balance. These are just some of the syndromes caused by our technologically accelerated society. In this introductory part of a series of articles we ask whether there is any hope of ever restoring sanity to our “crazy” world.

Learn to Organize - Learn to Live

Why is it that "9:00 to 5:00", regular vacations, playing with the kids, reading for enjoyment and the likes are no longer in our vocabulary? Why is it that more often than not it seems like it's all work and no life? Is it just the sign of the times or could our problems, possibly, be self-inflicted?

The Business of Life

There is much more to life than working to make money.

4 Steps for Organizing Your Computer Desktop

You have surely heard the "Clean desk is s sign of sick mind" quotation. You may have even read my article with that title. Perhaps you heeded my recommendations and you might be enjoying the newly discovered color of your desk. No clutter. No mess. Better focus on the task ahead. Now, you glance at your computer screen, your "other desktop" as it were. Start looking for the file, which you saved to your desktop last night. But, where is it? Your screen is cluttered with hundreds of colorful icons, resembling an abstract painting. Looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack?

Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by James L Wilson

Every business person faces stress and fatigue. Every business owner and entrepreneur faces stress and especially in these tough economic times. So – maintaining our health can be a key to being able to continue giving our best to our business, ourselves, our families and our customers.

Moving Forward After Organizational Restructuring

Since the early 1980s, a wave of reorganization has emerged. The plight of displaced employees has received great attention, as evidenced by the many programs for helping them retrain, relocate, increase their employability and regain their emotional stability. Relief comes to an organization after restructuring when everyone assumes that the worst has passed. However, the readjustment process for the remaining employees may become a shocking experience for the organization.

6 Fast and Fun Ways to De-Stress at Your Desk!

Stressed? Busy? Most entrepreneurs are! Want some quick, easy, cheap, and fun ways to calm down during your day at your desk? You don’t have to spend all day at a day spa to chill out. Try these super great ways to relax.

Top Time Management Tips For Time Tight Women

Are you a stressed-out time tight woman? Read these top tips to help you tackle your time management problems and create time for yourself!

The Surprising Harm Of Being Around Negative People

The words someone else speaks or the actions they take in your presence can change the actual structure of your brain! How you choose to spend your time and who you choose to allow into your sphere of influence matters greatly. Experiencing negative situations or negative people not only changes the structure of the brain, but memories of those interactions get stored in the cells of the body and remain long after the event took place.

How To Turn Work-Related Stress Into the Motivation You Need To Succeed

OMG! Wouldn't it be nice to tell your employer "I QUIT!" Not just telling them you quit, but driving off in your car with the widows rolled down, music blasting, and saying to yourself "That's the last time I'm ever working for a paycheck again!"

The White Picket Fence Has Become a Little Grey!

An individual's home, that was the symbol of stability and security, has become the primary center of stress for many home owners. It is no longer a dream for many but a nightmare instead.

5 Common Timewasters You Must Avoid

Gary has a business, employing 7 staff. When he contacted me he was at a point where the stress from his business was so bad, that he would constantly wake up 3 or 4 times a night worried about everything ...his cash flow, staff, lack of clients and the affect all this was having on his personal well-being and family life.

Taking the Ouch Out of Relationship Conflict

Whether you love conflict or hate it-it won’t ever go away. As long as you’re living and breathing, there will be conflict. Understanding the essence of conflict is really good for you. Read on for the road map to resolve conflict quickly and with less pain. Follow the 5 core concepts to make yourself conflict competent.

How to Burn Out Your Employees during Tough Economic Times

Tough economic times can create the perfect storm for job strain but managers have more control over their employees' stress than they realize.

5 Tips to Move Past Business Overwhelm

If you are a small or solo business owner you probably suffer from a disease called “Overwhelm-it is.” Symptoms may include, inability to focus, stress from being pulled in too many directions, not enough time and constant energy drain.

Stretched Beyond the Breaking Point? How to Manage Your Stress Better!

As the economy grinds to a halt, more small business owners are starting to feel stretched - for cashflow, for goodwill, for sanity. The first step away from stress and feeling over-stretched is to consolidate with your support team.

Overcome Stress - Use the Racehorse Strategy!

For many small business owners, stress and exhaustion are a 'normal' part of life. The good news is, it doesn't have to be this way. For a long time I thought "I don't have time" to look after myself properly - there's too much to do if I want my business to succeed. And then someone asked me whether I'd rather run my business like a racehorse or a donkey...

What Is Inside Of You? Peace and Happiness? Or Stress and Turmoil?

Yesterday, I saw Jack LaLanne on a television program. Yes, the 94-year old fitness expert and inspiration to millions and millions of people is still going strong. In the closing remarks for the interview, Jack left his audience with the following thought. “You are responsible for everything you do - both on the outside and also inside of you.”

How Important Is Encouragement To A Home Business Owner?

In successful businesses, systems are in place to ensure the morale of the employees is kept at a high level. When the home business owner needs encouragement where do they go? In reality they need encouragement which means they should find it somewhere if it isn't in place, or establish a system themselves. Regular encouragement is necessary for all aspects of life, business especially.

Food That Harms, Food that Heals

The food industry, drug companies, and insurance companies are intricately tied up in why we have a health care crisis.

Relying on My “Inner Debbie”

In tax season, stress comes with the territory. From working long hours in a compacted time period to balancing 200 clients at once, it is easy to have a stressful day. Balance is a luxury when work is your number one priority. And yet, how many times do we let the little things change a day from bad to worse? Little things that in the overall scheme of life simply are not very important. Debbie Lessin, the tax lady and balance queen, shares her newfound sense of balance this tax season in surviving the little things. From a car that would not start unexpectedly on a cold winter morning to an attack of spring ants to no internet on a Monday morning, Debbie shocked even herself in relying on her "inner Debbie" to let things just roll off her back. By sharing in her story, Debbie hopes that you find your "inner Debbie" to help guide you.

Lessons of the Season – The Mind and Body Connection

This article talks about work/life balance without every really using the words. It's a true life account of surviving a stressful annual work period, with physical ailments cropping up in the midst the last few years. This year, the lesson to truly listen to my body resulted in real changes to the work schedule that one might have thought would have caused more stress, not less. By listening to my body, I was mentally on fire despite being physically tired. As you read the article, ask yourself the following questions - Is your body talking to you? Are you listening? If not, should you be? The mind/body connection is amazing. You simply need to listen and learn.

4 Ways To Effectively Tame Your Stress

Are you stressed? Here are four ways to rapidly and effectively get your stress under control. Learn how to optimize your stress levels so they fuel your progress instead of draining your energy.

Fast and Effective ways for Coping with Stress!

A primary goal with our Life and Business Transformation Programs is to teach our Clients how they can minimize their stress. However, we know that through the Transformation process it is also important to have practical tools and techniques in place that will help them Cope with the Stress that they are experiencing now!

Why Tough Times Are The Perfect Time To Move Forward And Thrive!

What do most individuals, companies and even countries do when tough times come? Most take shelter and try to ride the storm out. Fear takes over and decisions are made from a less than useful state of mind. Procrastination, which is a decision, becomes the norm. But not everyone. Some bold souls see great opportunity in the challenging circumstances and take action to move ahead. Soon, they find themselves ahead of the storm. That's when their momentum really picks up...

Tips To Eliminate Stress Relating To Your New Business

A small business owner or freelancer is the single most important entity for the business he or she is running. Stress should not be treated as a business success barometer. Although having stress at times, helps achieving goals within stipulated time limits, it will affect your life and future performance. Having regular checks and meetings to make sure deadlines are met, delegation of tasks, and team work help in business growth in a stress free environment.

Leadership Strategies and NO to Burnout

Entrepreneurs are constantly reinventing themselves, often on a daily basis. As high energy business people it is often hard to keep up with you. And then the inevitable happens. One day, for no obvious reason brains stop working; not in the sense that you forget how to drive a car, more like creative ideas have flown the coop. When this happens to me I tend to freeze, worried that I'll never have another good, let alone great idea ever again. Did you ever stop to think about the best way to handle these moments of brain drain?

Deal with stress or it will deal with you

An extreme case of stress leading to a breakdown becomes a life affirming experience shared by a businessman who hopes his story prevents others from such suffering.

The healing properties of a spike mat

Lying just 30 minutes every now and then on a spike mat can really help reduce stress, back, neck and shoulder pain and improve sleep.

The clock is ticking

Time management can be stressful and have a negative effect on productivity.Techniques are available to put time on your side.

Back from Hell

Burnout needs to be spoken about widely and respected for the debilitating disease that it can be and the more that is written about it the better. Leaders need to stop, learn and listen and be very clear as to what it is – take note as to whether they are already burnt out, close to the edge and pushing themselves beyond the point of no return. They need to be aware of the other health problems that can be associated with it and not get stuck in any of them. They also need to know how it can impact on the culture of their organization, people aspect of the business and productivity and profits. Education is paramount as to what stress is – that there is good stress and bad stress and that it needs to be respected otherwise a price may be paid that is not warranted or wanted.

Lesson #5: Build a Great Team

“Good employees will energize you and your business,” says Stewart. With over 650 people working for MSLO, Stewart has become a bonafide expert in the realm of human resources. Some have been with her from the very beginning and some have joined along the way, but all of Stewart’s employees share the talent, energy, passion and optimism that Stewart herself has for her businesses.

The 10 Most Common Words You Should Stop Using Now

Words are thoughts. The better we choose our words, the more we hone our thinking machine, and just like software, it’s a case of GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Thinking hard is pointless if we don’t use the right tools.

Higher Gas Prices = Lower Worker Productivity

As gas prices climb higher and higher, the costs hurt people in more places than just their wallets.

Perks of a Good, Demanding Job

Does your job make you think too much? Even though sometimes it may not seem like it, that’s a good thing.

Four Tips to Keep a Company Dinner on Positive Footing

These are unstable times. Though that may not be cause to celebrate, it is the perfect time to invite coworkers into your home - to brighten each other's spirits, find refuge from stress, and - because there's nothing wrong with being pragmatic - save on a giant restaurant bill.

How to Turn Limp Affirmations Into Mantras for Success!

To affirm something is simply to declare that it is true. So, creating and using affirmations should be a breeze, right?

Chill out – without the snow!

We need to cancel Christmas! Stop the world going round - I want to get off! Is this what you are thinking at the moment? Are you running just to stand still? At this time of year we are all in danger of becoming over-loaded. More than ever, it is important to take extreme care over your health and welfare. By taking time out to look after yourself you are investing in a strategy to take you through this busy period.

Winding down to quality time

When you look back on this year what do you see? I think we all agree that it has been tough economically. Politically, there has been a huge change in the USA, with the election of the first black President. Celebrities have waxed and waned – we’ve seen Madonna’s come back tour and her divorce from Guy Ritchie. What about in your life? I hope you can see progress and success in your business and personal life. But how do we measure success? Are we valuing what is really important?

The Reactive Life

Are you living a reactive life? This is how most people live, doing things as a response or reaction to an outside force. They act only when it is required, merely waiting for the next call to action.

Time Management: The Formula for Stress Relief

Better time management is the key to guaranteeing a less stressful and more productive day.

Choosing Powerfully.

A strong value of mine happens to be "showing up". I feel icky inside with the thought of not following through or staying true to my word or cancelling on others. Life can get so hectic and busy that it becomes a real challenge to honor ourselves, despite how down and out we might be. To add to the daily stress, guilt shows its nasty little head in the form of voices that think I'm slacking off.

Workplace Conflict and Being True to Yourself

Stress, tension, anxiety, anger, upset, depression, frustration, annoyance, and wasted time. They all go with the package called being human. They all show up at home, at work, and even at the supermarket. One of the biggest questions I get when folks ask about their own personal situations at work is how to cut the time wasted in attempting to resolve conflicts that don't want to just go away. They are able to see the patterns and even the parts they play in the office dramas. However, I am told that unless they apologize or just let the conflict go, it sits, like a well made snowman on a freezing winter day.

Be Happy and Healthy Take a Vacation

Did you take a vacation this year or skip it because of high gas prices? Americans have always been good at putting off vacations so this year they have a built in excuse. If you passed on a vacation so far and want to be happier and healthier, read this article to learn the reasons to schedule your vacation now!

Working Too Many Hours Is Counter Productive

Employees are working longer and longer hours. Companies need to begin to advocate some down time during the day, the week and the year. It is in the company’s best interest to do so. The stress of all this work leads to health issues both physical and emotional for employees. Companies need to reward their employees for taking all their vacation time annually. With health insurance costs so high perhaps this alone might inspire companies to pay more than lip service to allowing time to relax, regenerate and reflect.

7 Steps Towards Turning Work/Life Pain into Pleasure

Its hard to enjoy life when you are stressed to the eyeballs by a poor work/life mix. Here are seven practical steps you can taking to start turning things around and enjoy getting back in control of your life, beginning from today.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies - Are You Sabotaging Your Own Success?

Do you ever wonder if you could go further? Here are some tips on how to turn the stress to success.

Can You Be Yourself At Work?

Who do you get to be every day at work? Not only is it important to do meaningful work but you must do it in a way that allows you to be your best self. Can you be your authentic self or do you need to change your behavior to fit the expectations of your environment? To get the most satisfaction out of your work you need to work in an environment where you are valued and allowed to be the person you are. If you are required to change your behavior too much you will be under a great deal of stress and a candidate for burnout.

Think Small

Thinking small is much easier to do and fears of achieving don’t arise. To think big causes stress and is hard to deal with, we must always be moving toward a goal and overcoming ourselves. My mind says it’s easier to stay where I am because it won’t be worth it if I do advance.

Life, Conflict and Work

Conflict at work and how to avoid it and resolve it.

Living in a stressful world

If you are not suffering some sort of stress you will be in a minority because most people today are stressed about something.

Improve Motivation - If Something Works Use It

Finding the things that motivate us and keep us on track is the key to success in life. Identifying ways to keep enthusiastic and motivated in the midst of stress or difficulties is the most important element. And, when something works, use it.

Stressed Out Lawyers - Mending Body, Mind & Soul

In the demanding world lawyers face, stress resilience is an essential skill. Managing stress allows you to excel in the workplace while maintaining a well-balanced, healthy lifestyle.

One Minute Mindfulness Relax-Refresher - Resilience at Work

Stress is a very powerful force that involves awareness, attention and energy. It can be managed and empower you. If you let stress control you, the resulting distress can be harmful to your body, mind, and spirit. Learning to become more "present," will free you to be more flexible and creative. Mindfulness reduces stress and promotes resilience. You can become more resilient, enjoying better health and well-being. Most of us have busy lives today full of a never ending list of things to do. There is little time for self-reflection making sure that we are doing the right things based on meaning, purpose and values. Taking a few brief meditative breathing breaks throughout the day can help you create a new story of hope and possibility. The following exercise can help you re-energize and become more fully engaged.

Business Opportunity - The Vehicle In Pursuit of Happiness

Business opportunity and education are the two most common ways that entrepreneurs use to create the financial future that people dream of. They are the vehicles that people most often turn to in their pursuit of happiness. Money does not make people happy but it does relieve the stress of not having any. I watched the movie, "In Pursuit of Happiness", last night. That is one inspirational movie that every entrepreneur should watch before considering a business opportunity.

How to Be Busy Constructively.

Many of us are very busy, with different demands on our time and emotions. Let's look at some ways to manage the stress, maximise our time and get the most out of ourselves and our lives.

Stressed Out America - Resilience in Tough Times

Many Americans are exhausted from working long hours with little time for rest and renewal. A number of unemployed people are emotionally and physically depleted worrying about the past and anxious about the future. Given the tough economic climate, people seem to be adopting a more pessimistic mindset. We all need to learn how to be more resilient and stress hardy.

Eradicate Procrastination - Be Action Oriented

Eradicate procrastination, before it destroys you. You get more out of your day with an action-oriented, do-it-now attitude. When you complete the unpleasant or hard jobs first and act on the big tasks little bits at a time, you trim anxiety and stress while gaining self-respect and self-confidence. After you exert this type of discipline long enough, you will establish a routine and create a new habit. Behavioral studies suggest that if you do something every day for 21 days, it becomes a habit. Be action oriented for the next 30 days and you will master procrastination.

High Risk Endeavor? - Surviving Stress!

When you dive into a high-risk goal, you must learn to deal with a flood of new stresses -- can you handle it? Or will the stress freeze you and prevent action? It is possible to enjoy your life even in the midst of a risky business endeavor. Read on to learn how.

How to Make a Marketing Action Plan

Marketing your business can be overwhelming when you don't know where to start or how to spend your time. Follow these tips to create a successful marketing action plan for your business -- and see results!

Turning around the stress in your business - telling yourself the truth

Is stress something you inadvertently create in your own life? Are you tired of not being able to manage and control the stress and/or the stressors? A simple five-step formula shows you how to make a positive shift.

An Antidote for Executive Stress

There is too much stress in the executive suite these days. I believe it is unhealthy. For sure it is not much fun. One antidote is to spend some time changing the culture. This article has a description of the problem and the benefits of an improved culture.

I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

Long, long ago, at a networking meeting far, far, away.... Well, it really wasn't far away - it was in Santa Monica - but it does feel like ages ago. I went to a networking group founded

Is Insomnia Making Your Life Miserable?

Insomnia can be a miserable ailment and can exacerbate other illnesses and make chronic pain worse. Insomnia can be caused by a multitude of issues from increased stress, obesity, pain, medications, caffeine, nicotine, depression, unresolved anxiety, a change in work hours or shifts, marital and family strife or discord, sleep apnea. or even a spouse or partner who keeps you awake with their snoring. Not getting enough proper sleep can affect us physically, mentally and emotionally. It can also contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

Managing your Stress

Just as the world’s economy weakens the entire global economy, stress and anxiety can weaken your entire body so learning to deal with stress is an important part of maintaining your well being and protecting your health.

Attract More Clients By Dumping the Junk – Your PITA Clients!

By focusing on bad customers, business owners lose the opportunity to use those resources going after and servicing the phenomenal clients they want and need to make money...

How to Use a 30 Day Test to Control Your Worry

Here is a foolproof way to handle your worry concerns. This simple exercise can prove to you once and for all 90% of what you worry about never happens.

The Wellbeing of Staff Wellbeing

Staff wellbeing is presently clearly unwell. And the jury is out on the extent to which business sees value in doing much about it.

Five Ways to Reduce Environmental Stress - Part I

Life is stressful enough without allowing the physical environment - air quality, lighting, noise, and other controllable factors - to intensify day-to-day stress. Especially in the Fall and Winter is where you experience less daylight and more mood swings. The great thing about environmental stress is that in most cases we can control what is in our environment that is causing the stress. Take these five steps to eliminate environmental stressors that might cause stress and tension in your work and home life.

Five Instant Ways to Reduce Environmental Stress - Part 2

It's time for part two of the series to reduce environmental stress in your life. In Five Ways to Reduce Environmental Stress - Part One, I shared with you five ways you can immediately reduce stress by controlling your environment. Now I will share five additional ways for you to make a difference in your life, be more relaxed and productive, and reduce stress.

Dream Big but Start Small: A Recipe for More Business Success with Less Stress

Lots of mindset gurus say you shouldn’t even consider failure as an option. But not everything you do, or launch, in your business is going to be wildly successful. So how do you play big without taking big chances…

Sanity Survival-PATIENCE, NOW!!!!!!

Impatient people are prone to obesity, according to a study at the University of Munich in Germany and the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Impatient types are also shown to have a high risk for hypertension later in life. Follow these four tips to explore your impatience and overcome it!

How Well Do You Bounce?

Life can really suck some days. Have you ever felt that way? Is today the day? I have had my fair share of technological challenges these past few months and I decided to keep notes on just how well (or not!) I was coping with the situation.

Marketing Strategies: Seven Tips to Thrive This Holiday Season

Do you think holidays are something to survive? Learn how to create your joy this season! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive during the holidays.

member initiative

A leader of a team must encourage everyone's efforts

5th of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions

This is the 5th in my series of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions. #5 - DEVELOPMENT Development is the ongoing development of your salespeople. It includes - and goes beyond:

Staffing needs in the Holiday Rush

Let your retail point of sale system save you time and money by reducing your staffing needs this holiday season

Are you really listening?

Ever misinterpreted or missed hearing important information which meant that you missed a vital opportunity? You’re not alone. Listening has always been, and still, one of life’s most vital skills. With so much competing for our time and attention I have found the effectiveness of mine and others’ listening skills are being increasingly challenged.

An Introduction to Home Based Business

The USA is still in the grip of a recession it hasn’t seen since the days of the Great Depression. Layoffs on a massive scale are the order of the day.

Avert a Mutiny

Some people resist change. When changing your practice over to an electronic medical records system, it is wise to act proactively to prevent a mutinous situation among staff.

Live Life to the Fullest – The Importance of Self Growth

Life can quickly go from steady and predictable to fast-paced and stressed in a matter of minutes. As our life evolves, so must we! Whether it is your personal life or work life, self growth and self improvement is an important route to helping you deal with the stress of change and instead accept the natural life alterations ahead.

Life Interrupted: How to Successfully Handle Unemployment.

Tips for successfully handling unemployment. Staying positive. Finding yourself in the midst of turmoil

Stressed Out? Purposefully & Playfully Pivot through the Holidays

“Deck the halls with boughs of holly-- Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. 'Tis the season to be....stressed and overwhelmed - What? That’s not how the song goes. Maybe not, but it sure is how the season seems to go for so many folks. Do you become stressed and overwhelmed during the holidays? Maybe you become confused and befuddled, perhaps to the point you’re frozen in your life - like a deer in the headlights. If so, here's a simple and effective tool that will help -- the Interim Purpose Pivot. You can use it every day, even several times a day whenever you’re feeling off purpose, or as to use a technical coaching term, feeling icky.

Groundhog Day

February 2nd is Groundhog Day. The tradition is that if the groundhog sees his shadows, there will be six more weeks of winter.

Vocation, Destiniy and Work

In this article we will explore the concepts of vocation, destiny and work. We'll redefine them and talk about how confusion regarding these three very separate ideas can cause stress and confusion on our journey towards a happy fulfilling career.

Focus Speeds Up The Buying Cycle

What we focus on in life expands. Face it, life right now is busy, and with so much uncertainty and fear in our economic environment it is easy to get distracted. If you want to ease the stress in your life, take the edge off the anxiety and just bring the fun back into your everyday life, then learn to focus.

The Secret of Making People Like You Just a Little Better.

Anybody that was or is somebody that people look up to or envy in some way, started as just somebody with a dream. They step beyond their walls and challenges. Changing your mental mindset is a challenge but far less of a challenge than most think. Three quick and easy tips to making people like you just a little better.

Fire Your Boss Fast With a Online Home Business Opportunity

Do you go to work frustrated everyday? Do you barely have money to pay your bills? Are you tired of getting up so early that you can't have breakfast with your family? Well I'm here to tell you it doesn't have to be that way. And in this economy it's only going to get worse. With the current economic state of our country right now having a job is the worst possible thing! Many people are turning to online home business opportunities...

New School Year: Lessons from a Middle Schooler

Today is the first day of school in Michigan and I am the new mom to a Middle Schooler!. Time has flown so quickly. It seems like just yesterday that I was holding him in the rocking chair in his room. I remember looking at his little legs and thinking to myself, “some day his legs will hang over mine when he sits on my lap. I can’t even imagine it.” And now here we are, it’s been years since he’s spent any time on my lap. His legs would almost hit the ground, all in the blink of an eye. Where has the time gone? I watch with amazement as he heads off to Middle School with nothing more than anticipation. Hallways to maneuver, new school, way more kids, lockers and classes to find. His elementary school is nothing more than a fond memory and he is ready to move on. I am so proud of him today!

Procrastination - The Symptom not the Cause

Procrastination is one of those buzz phrases that people use often, sometimes with a negative connotation, other times with a shrug and a laugh like it’s just the way it is and they are powerless to change it. Procrastination, itself, is never the issue though. It’s just the symptom. So, I always help my clients figure out what’s underneath the procrastinating behavior. This is where the real opportunity for change exists. Here are some of the main causes of procrastination along with some steps you can take to eliminate the behavior – if you choose!

Stress and Your Health

Some effects believed to be linked to stress have not been borne out by research. Ulcers, in particular, were thought to be caused by stress. Though the acid produced during moments of stress may increase discomfort, contemporary research points more to genetic factors in combination with certain stomach viruses as the likely culprit.

Stress and your Mate

Whether you have a spouse, a domestic partner or just someone who is the current live-in love of your life, living with someone close can cause stress. Note, the 'can' not 'must'. Interacting with someone with whom you have that kind of relationship introduces a variety of potential problems, but those don't have to lead to for either party. Stress results when someone feels caught in a perceived, unresolvable conflict between "I must" and "I can't". They feel there is something they have to do, but are blocked from or don't have the resources to do.

How to spot a potentially difficult client before it’s too late.

Meeting a new client that could ruin your sanity and your business? What signs to look for.

An Easy way of Link Building for your Web site's Link Reputation and Popularity.

Have you ever stressed over link building and thought of it as a major chore? Lot's of people think this way, but link building does not have to be all that hard.

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.

Stress and the Dating Game

Sure dating in this day and age is stressful, what with all the game playing involved even though what women say they value most is honesty, I find that women will often play their own games. It’s no wonder why men are stressed around dating. I thought I would provide some ways to rethink the dating game so that when stress does come up, you are better able to deal with it.

Boot Camp Training for Conflict Resolution Skills

A few hours of conflict resolution training can help work groups and teams to better manage conflict levels in the workplace. Providing employees with a common conflict resolution language and process can pay dividends in maintaining productivity and morale. Eight key skills of conflict resolution are...

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast

He stood, gripping the sides of the counter, his fingers white knuckled from the strain. I'd seen my boss, Mr. Burke, stand there countless times before, studying the inventory, looking for just the right item for the customer, but I'd never seen him like this; his face and neck a livid red, his neck muscles strained, beads of sweat on a brow that only moments before had been dry. I heard Allison, his assistant whisper, "Go get Mrs. Burke." Someone scampered away, relieved to escape the tense scene. I stood there frozen, uncertain what was happening, even more uncertain what to do. After all, I was just part-time help, spending a few summer months between college semesters learning about the real world of business.

Are You Rude on The Internet? It Can Hurt Your Business.

I don’t know about you but I’ve noticed a disturbing trend occurring both on the Internet and in real life. The trend is rudeness. I watched a taping of Oprah tonight (see the CNN breakdown of this show here) that enlightened me to a book, a doctor and a quote that made the light bulbs go off. Dr. PM Forni wrote a book called, “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct” and although I have not read it yet, you bet it will be in my next book store purchase.

New York Home Stager Helps Ailing Home Owner Make Quick Sale

Expert home stager, Staging Diva, shares a story of how Staging Diva® Graduate, Susan Atwell, helped a desperate family sell their home fast.

Why Most People Fail In MLM Multi Level Network Marketing! ~SECRET TO YOUR FORTUNE

97% of people online spend more than they make in their home based business and a majority of them are in MLM multi level network marketing. Why is that? Learn in this article by Omari Taylor about why most people fail in MLM multi level network marketing and how to guarantee you do not fail because of the organization you join.

Eating Sacred Cows

The ability to change and deal with change can challenge the best salesperson or leaders. Here are specific ideas that will help you move others through change.

Winning the Away Game

Persuasion is not always what one thinks it is. It is an away game, yet too many rely on the home court to persuade or sell ideas or products.

How to Clean out the Clutter and Pump Up Your Profits

Have you ever felt totally overwhelmed because you were surrounded by clutter? When you work in a cluttered environment it crowds your thinking and easily distracts you. Not only that clutter wastes your time and your money.

Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life by Dr Judith Orloff

There are many people who are facing a wide variety of stresses, discouragements, disappointments and other events and situations that take an emotional toll on their lives. Sadly, many people feel there isn’t much they can do to help themselves, their loved ones or their business associates who are having a tough time. Or, they feel that medication is the only answer. I’m the sort of person who avoids medication as much as possible, so I’m always on the lookout for other alternatives. I’m also a person who is very concerned about friends and associates who are emotionally fragile or who find themselves in difficult and trying situations. We all know people who have more than the usual problems in their lives. So – what can we do to he

Suffering from Information Marketing Overload

TMI really is Too Much Information sometimes. In a world overflowing with more information we could possibly process let alone implement, it makes me wonder – do I really need to know all of this in order to be successful? How much information does my prospect base need to know as well? When is enough, enough – or too much information – way too much information?

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?

Building A Phenomenal Sales Team Without Going Insane In The Process

Your sales force is the front line of your business. It is not only important to choose your team wisely, it is equally important to know how to keep them.

Ten Ways to Greater Ease in Life

For many of us, including me, a life of greater ease is most appealing. Yet ease runs counter to our stress-producing, complex culture. As a result, it’s essential to increase its presence in our lives.

Pressure Points That Can Help You Manage Stress and Boost Your Energy

Most people under stress acknowledge that they need to rest but circumstances at work or at home can often lead us to believe that the opportunity to really rest is just not practical for the immediate future. So in these situations is there anything is there anything else that you can do to help you manage the stress a bit better.As a stop gap measure during times of stress you can rub some of these pressure points...

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.

Why Entrepreneurs Need To Exercise Differently Than Other People

Most entrepreneurs are aware of the importance to stay in shape, but the challenge is that entrepreneurs typically adopt the same approach to exercise as they do to business. To support your fast paced and intense working life the temptation is to do a high intensity workout at full pace. This is a mistake. Adding high intensity, fast-paced exercise to a high intensity, fast-paced life only serves to amplify the imbalance in your life leading to an increased risk of illness, injury or burnout. I call this being an "Exhaustedpreneur". Exhaustedpreneurs are entrepreneurs whose bodies can't physically keep up with the demands of their work and life. The solution is about exercising in balance. I call it Exercising Right For Your Engine Type...

How to Properly Prepare and File for Bankruptcy

Are you thinking about filing for bankruptcy? This process can seem daunting and overwhelming in the midst of an already stressful time. Here are the basic steps in the filing process:

The Secret to Maximum Motivation

Motivation is the fuel that powers your engine and provides you with the drive and determination necessary to accomplish your goals and make life dreams become reality. For the secrets to maximum motivation, read on...

Taking Stock of What's Happening

There's a lot going on these days. People are stressed, no two ways about it. I'm observing a 'tired' group of executives whose staff are looking to them to 'fix' things. Well, no one has a magic wand, or... does everyone have a magic wand?

3 Ways to De-Stress Your Life & Your Relationship in 2011

Many of us make a toast to health and happiness in the New Year. One great way to improve your health in 2011 is to reduce stress. Here are three ways to de-stress your life and relationship this year.

Achieve Your Goals With This Specific Step!

Ready to finally achieve a goal? It seems like all of us have goals, but actually reaching those goals is harder than most people realize. You may have a deep desire to see a change in your own life. Maybe you want to improve your fitness, increase your income, or live with less stress. But how should you carry out those changes? Beyond breaking your goal down into a step by step action plan, what can you do to actually make your goals more achievable? If you don't want to just dream about them anymore. If you are serious and motivated to actually achieve your goals, this information is designed to help you finally make them real.

The 5 Biggest Sales Management Coaching Blunders

Transforming your sales managers from good to great coaches can have a dramatic impact on sales. In fact, sales coaching is the management No. 1 activity that drives sales performance. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to effectively coach. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect and unless effectively coached or trained managers make all types of mistakes.

Forget Cold Calling!

Why do we cold call? No one really likes it, it rarely works, and just thinking about doing it causes people more stress then actually doing it. Why do sales coaches continue to encourage us to do it? If you want to be successful in today's business environment forget cold calling. Put more emphasis on networking, building referral sources, and continuing to deepen long established client relationships. Work on establishing yourself as an industry expert and resource, increase your visibility through marketing and public relations, and find opportunities to consistently add value to all your relationships. Forget cold calling, invest in relationships and value added information. Makes sales more fun, easy and far more effective!

How the One to Three Speaking Ratio Can Dramatically Increase Sales

Slowing down is critical within the sales process. This slow down should also be reflected of how fast you speak. Possibly using this ratio can help you increase sales.

Reading People

Are you able to effectively read people and make proper adjustments in your approach and selling style? Do you understand what this means, have you experienced the difference it can make in your selling results and do you have the skills to do so?

Ma$$ive Prosperity

What's the best way to attract massive prosperity? If you knew, you'd already be doing it right? I'm going to suggest that most people have the formula right under their nose and don't even know it.

10.5 Biggest Mistake to Avoid in Business

Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders want to put your business on the fast track. Avoid these BIG mistakes to accelerate your business success.

Stepping out of the comfort zone & Building the Business

Making changes is not always easy. Stepping out of the comfort zone is half the problem. Once that's overcome, a person can fly with the opportunities given or sink. It's up to each one of us to decide if we will fly or drown.

Four Keys To Work-Life Harmony At Home and at Work

Whatever stage of life and family you find yourself, David Oliver asserst that these four keys will always hold good. READ NOW

Tha Approval Trap Solution

If the approval trap is major stressor number 1 what can we do about it. Oliver shows us exactly what. READ ON

Pace The Race

Let david Oliver enlighten you with this practical method of stress management. Learn why athletes know it and lemmings apparently do not.

Stress Is So Good For You

In this challemnging alternative view of stress, Oliver explores the long term ben efits of appropriate stress.Including The Papyrus Principle

The 11:10 Rule!

Almost everyone in the US is seduced by the ignorance that lies behind this rule. This is most commonly the biggest cause of stress in family life and few know about it. Read on as David Oliver unpacks this insight

Top Online Business Opportunity

Learn about how the internet has enabled people to get involved in direct online marketing while working from home

How Working From Home Has Changed My Life

Learn how I became an entrepreneur working from home and how it has changed my life

Lower Stress By Increasing Attitude

Stress is something that effects us all in different ways. It's how you handle stress that has an effect on your well being. Here are some thoughts and action steps you can take immediately to change your attitudes and change your stress level.

Stress, stress and even more stress!

I was stopped at a Wawa the other day, just grabbing some coffee and as I started to back my car out, a fellow walk right on the side of my car and I almost hit him. The anger on his face was unbelievable as he smacked my car and yelled a few choice words and stomped off. Now, I know the normal reaction, get out of my car and start screaming. But instead, I backed my car out, drove over to his car and was actually going to say that I was sorry and wish him a better day. I rolled down my window to talk to him, he screamed some more choice words, slammed his door, gave me some hand signals and drove off. I would not want to be in his way today.

Have You Got The Symptoms?

International author David Oliver defines some of the symptoms of stress

Dealing with adversity

Adversity! It sucks. Yet most of us experience it from time to time. Trying to run away from it doesn’t help – ultimately the hole only gets bigger until there is no way out. But by facing it and following some simple steps I’ve found that it can be dealt with. Hopefully the things that have worked for me may be of assistance to you, too.

‘No More Pain’ Article Writing - Use An Article Writing Service

Imagine if you could get rid of the pain of article writing. A stress free day could lie ahead of you. Wouldn’t that be something. No more sitting in front of the computer staring at the screen and wondering what to write. Heaven awaits!

Get a check up.

I get to do a lot of work in Asia and I find it interesting that over there they pay the practitioner to keep them well. If they get sick they don’t pay which is the opposite to our medical model not just in Australia but in most of the western world. They live from a place of prevention and don’t wait to get ill. The biggest change I have made in my life in the last twenty years is that I now life from a place of prevention and enjoy a state of good health and wellbeing.

The Best Ways to Combat Stress

Stress is a major factor of modern life. Some stress is good for us, it heightens our thinking, keeps us on our toes. The key to good health is finding a balance in life. Here are some effective ways to manage our stress and have a healthier, more satisfying life.

Telecommuting Saves Big Companies Money

Telecommuting, or allowing others to work from remote locations, is a great way for your company to save money. It's a fact that telecommuting is a great way to have employees do work, especially considering the fact everyone is more comfortable at home. Needless to say, you won't need that large building with all of those offices since your employees don't need to travel.

Promotion Panic

It happens every day in the corporate world, good individual performers are promoted before they are ready to take on a leadership role. And, if these new team leaders, supervisors, and managers receive any leadership development at all, it is a short training class covering operational procedures and the major employment laws. In a poll, one in five business leaders ranked promotion as the most challenging life event they have had to face – more challenging than the death of a loved one, divorce, or moving. This article offers some advice for newly promoted leaders.

Think Positively to Avoid Stress and Depression

Thinking negatively can have serious consequences if we don’t do something to change it. This article explains how we get into a pattern of negative thinking, and how it affects the mind and body. Iris Barrow gives practical advice on how to think more positively to lift mood and energy levels, become more focused, and achieve your goals. A more positive thinking pattern can help avoid stress and depression. Apply the simple technique consistently and in three weeks, you should notice an improvement.

Are You MAD?

Stress in the business world and our personal lives can lead to poor decision-making. How can we better understand the source of our anger and choose to handle it more productively?

The Danger of Life Patterns

What are your life patterns? Why would you want to know? The importance of this article is in the explanation of how our life patterns determine our success or failure. If you want more prosperity in life and business, make sure you start with changes your life patterns to match those desires.

Building A Phenomenal Sales Team Without Going Insane In The Process

If you are looking to start a sales department or simply build the team you already have in place, there are some things you should do to make sure you hire the right people and take care of them once you find them. Here is a short guide to building a sales team.

Article #10 Can't Take Living Paycheck To Paycheck Anymore?

You may say to yourself, “I can’t take this! Living paycheck to paycheck isn’t working anymore!” and you would be right. That is not the way to live, not to mention the stress of not making ends meet for the daily expenses. I know how you feel; I have been there too. I was thinking, “Why me!” everyday and it put me down, until one day I decided to look up.

How big should your business be?

Many independent entrepreneurs are content to be one-person companies. These people, called the "spare room tycoons," feel that it is more important to be ourselves than to be big, as long as our business is successful and we are prosperous. After all, history has shown repeatedly that one person can change the world.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies: The Biggest Mistake Real Estate Agents Make And How You Can Avoid It

Are you letting outward circumstances control your business? Take control! Here are some tips to empower you and help you avoid the big mistake.

Sometimes its one slice at a time …

Rather than going at a large task head on, breaking it down into pieces can relieve stress and provide a clearer timeline to where you want to go. Check out the powerful steps you can take to reach those larger goals.

A Whole New Outlook In An Instant

Ever meet someone who is always chipper, always has a kind word to say, can be sick in bed but still wears a smile. Why? What makes two people look at the same situation and observe two completely different things? Is it perception or something deeper?

Sales Best Practices: Systematically pursues

Being a successful salesperson requires you take a different mindset, and this article from sales guru Dave Kahle takes a look at finding that right mindset. This is one part of an ongoing series of Sales Best Practices articles.

Leadership Strategy - Managing The Unimaginable

If you are someone who is overworked, stressed out, burned out, under-paid, and underappreciated, then read on to see what successful people do to be winners in their lives.

Three Tips for Balancing Your Life

When your life seems out of control and you've got endless demands tugging at you from all directions, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, fatigued - and just plain stressed!

How Big Do You Need To Be?

Should entrepreneurs aspire to creating another Amazon, Dell, Google, or Microsoft? Or, should we be content as a one-person company?

Leader Interrupted

The concept of leadership within the protection of this book or the walls of any classroom is much different in execution. Too often, leaders understand the factors that promote effective leadership yet still fail to execute at critical opportunities. Why can leaders say (and even believe) the right things and then contradict the very same statement with their teams? Why does leadership theory get diluted in application on the job? How can we develop leaders to execute properly? These simple questions and the answers are in fact a revelation for most organizations.

Heartburn

The rise and fall of Rocky Condino's contracting business.

Are You Still In the Game

Random Thoughts on Life and Entrepreneurship

Are You Operating At Your Maximum or Your Optimum?

The difference between going full out until you crash or establishing a sustainable pace that will take you to the finish line.

5 Timestealers You Must Avoid

Gary has a business, employing 7 staff. When he contacted me he was at a point where the stress from his business was so bad, that he would constantly wake up 3 or 4 times a night worried about everything ...his cash flow, staff, lack of clients and the affect all this was having on his personal well-being and family life. He didn't use a diary, had no way of planning and kept everything 'in his head'.Often his staff were idle because he hadn't spent time training them. That ensured the work didn't get done therefore causing Gary to lose clients.

Fight or Flight: It’s Now Optional

The Fight or Flight response was an important gauge of threat and a vital survival tool for the cavemen over a million years ago. This primitive instinct is still present in all of us, even though, it doesn’t carry the same function in the 21st century. Through specific steps, we can learn to manage this instinct to our advantage. If managed successfully, the Fight or Flight instinct can become an important tool in overcoming stress and daily pressures.

The Secret to Feeling in Control During Times of Change

For most of us, the thought of having control over life inconveniences seems like a great idea; wouldn’t it be great to control traffic, the weather, our family or neighbors? However, rather than actual control over our environment, what we really want is simply a sense of control, to feel like we’re on top of things. This can be achieved by choosing to accept challenges for what they are, setting a clear intention of what we need to do and finding the balance between our level of ability and the challenge presented. By learning to consciously reframe even the most chaotic situation, you’ll find that feeling “in control” is less about making life go according to plan, and more about your ability to focus on what you can control.

Five Principles for Making Smart Decisions

Every day we contemplate numerous decisions. Some decisions are simple, such as deciding which gym class to attend, while are other are life altering, for instance deciding on taking an overseas promotion. Regardless of level of importance, these decisions will have an impact on our lives. Studies have shown that the more choices we have, they harder it seems to make a decision. Making decisions doesn’t have to be a daunting task; there are step we can learn to make smart decisions.

Five Habits of Happy High-Achievers

Falling short of a goal can be tough for some people, while, other people are content with giving their best effort regardless of the outcome. What differentiates those that lament their perceived failure and those that appreciate the experience? Happy High-Achievers - let's call them HaHAs – have learned the secret to play hard and stay content. They are able to maintain their balance, they enjoy the process, they pursue excellence and not perfection and most of all of all they focus on what they can control

Give one away free to your customer - Right Now!

In today's modern society, we are all hell bent in getting as much as we can, in the limited time available to us. So why bother giving things away to your customers? What can you give your customer today, that will make you and the person you give it to, feel great? And you can give lots of them to lots of customers, and it doesn't cost you a cent

Your Recommended Daily Allowance for Relaxation

Stress is the curse of living in modern times. Everyone suffers from stress. And the stress we suffer takes a heavy toll on our bodies, emotions and minds. Feeling stressed out, worn out by fatigue or just simply having a miserable day, the best thing to do is relax.

Relaxing with a Mental PDA - Your 5 minutes Daily Program to Stress Management

We all have this favorite expression when it comes to being stressed out, and I wouldn't bother naming all of them since it may also vary in different languages. But when it comes down to it, I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress. Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.

Retirement - How to make the most of it

Retirement is a time of huge change. It pays to plan for it in advance to gain the most from this new phase in our life. For some it can be a stressful time, and we might struggle with the lack of structure and changed pace of life. Being at home for longer periods, can create tensions in our relationships too. To avoid the retirement blues and look after your relationship as you transition to retirement, read and put into practice some of the 6 practical tips in this article.

7 Key Tactics For The Small Business Owner

For most folks, owning your own business is a dream come true. The freedom of being your own boss and succeeding to the best of your ability are facts of life for the small business owner.

Do You Feel Anxiety When Speaking?

There are hundreds and hundreds of articles around the Internet helping you to overcome the fear of Public Speaking. You may have seen some. And the vast majority help you overcome the fear of getting onto the platform, standing up and actually starting to speak.

Stress free link building

Have you ever felt pressure to build links to your website? I often hear this from new SEO students, as well as experienced professionals. Let's talk about a few stress free ways you can build valuable links.

Savvy Bosses - The Goldilocks Management Mindset

Bosses determine how people experience work: joy versus despair, enthusiasm versus complaints, and well-being versus stress. Most bosses want to be good at what they do, yet many lack the mindset that precedes positive action and behavior.

Why Start a Home Base Business

Small Businesses are everywhere is not a fashion is necessary to see how a working lake that is required and must be done to achieve solid growth and continued with these items that are displayed here. Since the beginning of the Internet to this day beginning with the most basic things to be adding something more complex so that you will develop your business if you wish. I remain at your service for any query.

PASSION to do it will show through

The passion to do anything will make you stand out from the crowd.

What Kind Of Business Should I Start?

This is a question I continually get asked and it is one of the hardest to answer. One of the biggest problems is that people who ask this question are those that have destined themselves to fail – mainly because they miss one important entrepreneurial skill – passion! They are invariably looking for a business that will make them a lot of money for very little effort. So what do I usually suggest?

When, Why and How You Need to Hire a Freelance Project Manager

Most successful outsourcing buyers post their first freelance project to fill a specific skill need or budget gap on a particular project, finding a skilled worker or two and seeing the project completed successfully. Then, as success breeds success, their needs continue to expand and more freelance professionals are eventually hired. Suddenly, these outsourcing buyers find themselves managing a growing remote workteam, which is usually more demanding than anticipated and ultimately a resource stress. If you are feeling overwhelmed by the requirements of keeping your remote workteam in motion on an outsourcing project, perhaps you need to consider hiring a freelance project manager.

Time Management: How to Become a To-Do List Conqueror

Do you always perform at your peak? Do you always provide ample support and attention to the projects and people in your life? Do you always finish your work and leave your job at the end of the day with a clean desk and an agenda for the next day? If you have answered “yes” to all these questions, congratulate yourself and move on to another article.

Great Tips For Work at Home Moms To Stay Away From Stress

Working from home brings ample rewards and perks, but it could also get challenging and difficult, particularly with your kids around. At times you might feel like you have just too much to do and 24 hours just does not feel enough.

Seven Key Words for Success

These seven words, when used properly, hold the key to finding answers and solutions to every problem, obstacle, or barrier you will encounter. When you are faced with a problem, look at this list to determine what you need to do or be to solve it. 1. Change To make things different in your life, you have to make one or more changes. Change happens all the time, and there is nothing we can do about it. Few things in life are static or permanent, and the "status quo" is never permanent. There are only two things in life that never change: truth, and the fact that everything else changes. Regardless of your background, you can become more.

Entrepreneurs - How Can You Start A Business During A Recession?

Starting a business during a recession seems such a silly thing to do. You may have no other choice if you are sitting at home with your redundancy cheque. Or your entrepreneurial spirit may have been stirred up. Disney started during the recessional period of 1923-24, HP started during the Great Depression and Microsoft during the 1975 recession – so it can be done. Here are a few pointers for you.

Fairy Tales

One of my clients told me the following story: "we were sitting in a meeting and it was, to say the least, very tense. The big boss was angry with her leadership team. She wanted the finished proposal for a major, big, gargantuan business deal finished before the sun set that day, right after the meeting. Everyone took a breath and looked down at the table. They all knew it was impossible. The stats had not been delivered yet and there was no way it could be done and done right by early evening, even by late that night.

Work is Best if You "Practice Safe Stress"

Sorry, I can't just make a quick list here. I am going to give you some tips and tolls to practice "SAFE STRESS". However, it cannot be done in a few sound bites. It will take some searching inside yourself to find your specific issues that keep you from personal fulfillment and even financial freedom. This is a time to do some spring cleaning of your old patterned behavior and beliefs that keep you, (you're not alone, they keep all of us) from reaching peak performance and be able to stay there.

Stress and the Sales Cycle

On one hand we are being told that the economy is improving, turning around, doing better. On the other hand we hear our colleagues say that sales are down, services are still being cut back. Jobs are being cut and the jobless rate continues to inch higher. There is the flavor and smell of fear in almost every workplace. If sales are down then what is up? Stress and office conflict are on the increase and the natural tendency to blame and judge is on the rise. Recently a very angry client called me with the following question. Actually, it was more than a question; it was a ten minute rant and rave about injustice and unfairness. It went something like this "He stole my idea. He used my exact words and took all the credit.

Are You Using this "Power Tool" in Your Business?

The Power of "Thank You"

A Nose by Any Other Name

Using humor props to help minimize day-to-day stress

The L.I.F.E. Approach to Positive Humor

Benefiting from our sense of humor

Is Paranoia an Acquired Taste?

In "Don't Bring It to Work" the underlying idea is that when stress hits the hot button we all revert to behavior patterns we learned as kids in our original organization, the family for protection and survival. That is what seems to be showing up around our country in this time of sadness and confusion. The knee-jerk reactions are so similar to ones that we can all remember when disagreements broke out in elementary and middle school playgrounds. We were given detentions, told to behave, but rarely sat down to really look at what started the upset in the first place.

Entrepreneurs – Are You The Victim Of The Time Thieves?

You know the situation, you are working for yourself, but you don’t seem to be making much progress and never seem to have any time to yourself. Do you often say “if only I had more time” .You are a victim of the Time Thieves?

Flipping Out About Money

We all have the right to choose any reaction we want when dealing with a tough situation. I suggest giving your highly charged emotions some way to vent. Writing about them, exercising, or whatever your preferred method is for blowing off steam. Then move forward, one step at a time, into a new frame of mind.

What Are You Tolerating….?

It is amazing what we will tolerate. And why? Simply because we failed to plan otherwise? Well it is time to get the planning started by finding out what you are tolerating...

Are You Making These 4 Mistakes?

Discover the 4 mistakes you might be making that are causing your life and relationships to not work in the way you want.

Say Goodbye to Procrastination……Today

"I'll get it to you later this afternoon" can send a sigh of relief through your body or a shudder of gloom. It all depends on who is making that statement. If you work with a procrastinator life can be full of stress and deep-seated anger. So, what can you do? First thought is to fire the slug! Slow is okay, tardy is often acceptable. However, promises that are made and never kept, well, that is another story.

The Super Achiever Stuck

"Strive for excellence" was the mantra in the alternative school my children attended. It was a high priced, beautifully appointed campus made up of the best and the brightest. Sounds good, huh? Not so fast. Now, years later I see the damage that stress and over achievement cost. You see, all the kids who went there drove themselves crazy being excellent. The translation of the word really meant, did you get all A's and how many fancy Ivy League schools accepted you into the rarified air of the privileged few.

Great Bosses Are Good Coaches

Bosses determine how happy and productive people are at work. They influence employee well-being and stress resilience. Most bosses want to do the right thing and support their people to achieve team and organizational goals.

Tips For Finding A Mommy's Helper For Work At Home Moms

Are you a mother? Do you work from home? If so, there's no doubt that at some time or another you've felt overwhelmed by the amount of work you have in addition to your household chores and mommy duties. Throw in the distractions from the kids that keep you from completing your work and there are days, let's face it, that can be nightmares.

Reminders Put Your Keys in Your Fridge

The other night I was staying at a hotel because I was delivering a workshop this morning. As we always do when I'm traveling, as I get ready to go to sleep my husband and I talk on the phone. He opens the conversation with this: "My keys are in the refrigerator." Of course, that caught my attention and I was curious, so I asked him why he might have chosen that particular location. . .

Stop “Handling” Objections

The key to getting more clients to say “yes” is to remove resistance or stress whenever you sense it’s there, and bending with objections works better than “handling” them.

How to Sustain Your Inner Strength in Business

A tree's strength is found mostly in its roots system, constantly searching for the energy to grow and mature. What you see is the tip of the iceberg. Your strength to survive, thrive and drive your business comes from within you. Here's some tips on tapping into your natural personal energy supply

How Not to Work Evenings & Weekends

Master the discipline of time management and delegation to avoid burn -out and to excel in many wide-ranging things simultaneously...

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.

Work Life Harmony, Rather Than Work Life Balance

Work life balance suggests people are living two lives, one at work and one away from work. But people don't 'work' for five days or more and 'live' for two days or less. Work is just one of many roles that people perform in their week. No matter where they are or what they are doing, day or night, people are carrying personal baggage, problems, responsibilities, personal goals and work goals. Separation of work and personal life roles has become a blur and, to many of us, almost a seamless link. Family friendly policies are now only one aspect of the work life balance issue. Work life balance has become a key factor in attracting and retaining good staff, male and female in a buyers market generated by a shortage of quality skilled staff.

No Pressure - Any Time in the Next Half Hour Will Do

Managing people at work used to be relatively simple - you only worried about what they did during working hours. Private matters were left at home where there was somebody able to look after them while the breadwinner focused on earning the money. And people didn't lead such complicated lives. Boy! Are things different today!

Enjoy Beating Burnout

Ever wondered how some people seem to be always relaxed and confident at work, no matter how much pressure, stress and change is imposed on them? We're not talking here of sporadic bursts of high pressure that take more than the usual effort. This is all the time - over weeks and months, even years. The answers don't just rest in the way they approach their work. It's more about what they do when they are away from work. This article unlocks some answers that are, and always have been, available to everyone.

Are These Two Words Sucking Your Sales Dry?

There are 2 little words that currently cause YOU a TON of stress. In fact, these words make grown women hum and haw, stutter and stammer, look at the ground, look at the sky, and clear their throat a lot. Here's what else happens.

Stress Management: Fast Track to Calm

Does your life look like a race car running at cut-throat speed and, to your horror, the brakes are broken? Do you feel like you are perpetually in a hurry, even when you are not in a hurry to go anywhere? Do you feel like all the items on your to-do list are dancing around in your head, and you can't seem to concentrate on any of them? Do you run around like a chicken without a head all day, and still feel like you will never "catch up?" Then this article is for YOU.

Take the LEAP to Thrive in Lifes Changes

According to Buddha, "The only constant in life is change." So how come most people have such a hard time dealing with changes? I'll share 3 common challenges in dealing with changes, and how to take the L.E.A.P. to thrive in life's changes.

Stress Management: Pressure-Proof Your Holidays

The holidays are fast approaching. Are you feeling stress and overwhelm, instead of joyful anticipation? I'll share 5 key strategies to help you pressure-proof your holidays, so you can ENJOY instead of ENDURE your holidays.

Sales Training – Salespeople Get Uplifted With Jukebox Music!

Salespeople can find comfort in music. Actually, studies prove that listening to music has positive effects from reducing stress to making you smarter. Sellers, put some money in the Jukebox!

TOP 10 WAYS TO BE KIND TO YOURSELF

Ten terrific strategies for treating yourself with more kindness.

Emotionally Intelligent Managers as Coach

Managers determine how people experience work: joy versus despair, enthusiasm versus complaints, and well-being and resilience versus stress. Most managers want to be good at what they do, yet many lack the requisite coaching skills that facilitate positive action and behavior.

Emotional Energy is Our Engine

Emotional Energy can be equated to the engine of a car and must be right-sized our problems occur.

People are hired for their skills and fired for their behavior!

People develop behaviors over time and find them very hard to change, while skills can be taught fairly quickly to a person with the appropriate behaviors.

Stress-Free Selling® - Eliminate Stress in Sales

A sale is stressful when we approach Prospects with the intention of making a sale and the fear of not making a sale. To compound matters, Prospects are afraid we are going to manipulate them. They are afraid we are going to sell them something. . . something that's not in their best interest. Prospects accept appointments reluctantly (which is why we have difficulty getting them on the phone in the first place) and are pre-armed with a litany of excuses (aka objections) to get rid of you. It is this dichotomy of goals (you want to make a sale and Prospects want to protect themselves) that creates stress. Imagine if you both want to meet. Imagine if neither feels the other is going to try to force anything on him. Imagine you both feel the only acceptable outcome is the satisfaction of your Prospect's goals.

Sales Training – Salespeople Sell More With Clean Refrigerators

Could your sales performance suffer from lack of cleaning? Like it is important to clean out refrigerators, salespeople want to clean out their sales performance anxieties.

Balancing Basics for Busy Women

As women, we often attempt to do everything on our own. It seems quicker and less hassle to just do it ourselves. In this way, we are sometimes our own worst enemy. We need help. We need support. It is OK to give up control and ask for it. Balance is basic when we know where to start.

SHYNESS INHIBITS SUCCESS

To succeed you have to overcome shyness.

Save a Tree Create Profitable Products with a Punch that are Downloadable

I don’t know about you, but if you have school age children, they’re getting quite an education on saving the planet and you can’t turn the TV on without seeing that Corporate America has jumped on the Green bandwagon as well. I tell my friends that I’m living in a “dark house” because my son is constantly shutting off lights to prevent global warming; in the meantime, my eyes are being strained!

The Power of Tone Setting

When used in the leadership role, simple human interactions can have extraordinary impact and power in managing morale and productivity. Quite simply, leaders with good tone setting skills will achieve much greater results, improve the loyalty of their team members, work through difficulties easier, create an environment with less stress and deliver greater levels of service to their end customers.

Resolving Employee Conflict

Employees are stressed. Employers are stressed. Everybody seems to be feeling it. It’s understandable and unfortunate, but many people are on-edge. If you’re seeing an elevated amount of conflict in your organization – first, be human and empathetic (that is, after all, a part of this HR role), stand for a minute in their shoes; and second, use some of the following ideas to help resolve the issue.

Tips For New Trainers

I think the most important thing is to make the training fun! Have a good time with the trainee. They are not in the Marines. Lighten up and have some fun. You will find that by lacing the training with fun you will actually take the trainees mind off the hard work at hand and they will actually reach the desired results without the stress most companies put on them.

Handling Business During The Christmas Rush

Although the Christmas rush can definitely bring your business more profit, along with it comes stress and the most hectic time of you. While it is anticipated by many businesses, you'll find that it is a dreaded time of year as well. The last thing you want is to fall short when it comes to handling the Christmas rush.

Environment and productivity at the office

The idea is about how environment influence productivity. What means good and health environment and how can employers assure the best working space.

Tips for Relighting After Burnout:

Eileen discusses our current stressful political and economic situations, provides a list of burnout symptoms and then offers help on how you can regain control. A must read for those who are overwhelmed.

Shut Up, Put Up, and Get Some Quiet Back

Jump off the merry-go-round of 24 hour accessibility to get in touch with yourself and the people you love.

Sales Digging In Progress: Get Prospects to Listen to You

Salespeople often wonder, “What can I say in an introduction to get a prospect to listen more to me?” Dogs are masters with getting their masters to listen. Here are two dog lessons to learn how to introduce yourself to get what you want.

Load Rage

If you are like most people, you are feeling a greater load of things to do and less time to do them. If this does not describe you, check your pulse, you may be dead! Although we are all incredibly busy, the fact is that we are still using less of our total capacity than we think. Nobody can sustain working at full capacity for long, but in truth we can manufacture time to help us deal with the load in more productive ways.

Getting Things Done! The Stress Free Way!

Is it possible to really live a life that is stress free and focused on what matters? It is! But you have to be willing to make some choices along the way. How do you even know if you are focusing where you should? How do you know that you are defining things the "right" way. You cannot live your priorities if you don't know what they are. I'd like to share a way you can work through the process.

How Organized is Your Business? Part 3

Yesterday I asked you how organized your business was. Did you consider your answer? Today I'll share a thought on how you can move yourself to a business more organized. Take Care of Yourself.

Organized Business! How Organized is Yours?

According to the Small Business Administration small businesses make up more than 99.7 percent of all employees. Add to that the latest figures that show small businesses create 75% of the net new jobs in our economy and you can see how important small businesses are. Small Business Owners have a very challenging job. Many small business owners go into an industry because it matches their passion or is something that they are really good at. What many start up business owners do not realize is that it takes a LOT more than being good in a particular industry to successfully run a business.

Overwhelmed? 7 Ways to Regain Control

Are you stressed, overworked or generally feeling overwhelmed? You are not alone. According to a study conducted in 2009, “55% of employees are stressed to the point of feeling extremely fatigued and out of control”. Learn 7 ways to overcome overwhelm, reduce stress and regain control.

The Power of Positive New Employee Inductions

When a new staff member starts with your company, they are joining a dream, a hope of a great future and genuinely want to do the best they can for your company. How you treat the employee on their first day as part of their employee induction sets your relationship with them for the entire period they are with you.

Protect Your Attitude

An important key to high productivity and effective leadership, not to mention sales and marketing success, is to have and maintain a positive attitude. Nothing else will have a greater effect on you than your attitude. Remember the saying, “Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude”? It’s true.

The Importance of Sales Assumptions

Assumptions create fear and these bring about anxiety and stress. Selling professionals live in a volatile world wherein each day emulates a roller coaster ride. Why add more thrills to the experience. Assumptions will plague on creativity and success. Those selling today are professionals developing relationships to illustrate value. Value is derived from great direct conversations; never assumption. If you want to live in failure then assume, if you desire a life of success simply seek truth.

Conducting Job Interviews Made Easy

When you are hiring a new employee you naturally want the best person for the role. In a candidate poor job market you need to realize that while you are conducting job interviews with the candidate, they are also interviewing you to see if they really want to work for you. You need to be on your game – to make sure you leave candidates with a great impression of your company. So, let’s start with the basics. Interviews are not an exact science. They are not meant to be. The best you can do is to try and remove as much of the emotion of the process as possible and balance it with logic.

The Job Alternative

This article addresses various ways to earn a living other than a 9-5 job.

Interview Techniques For Recruiting Your MLM Trainees

If you are in a situation where you want to think about your new multi-level marketing trainees, you'll find the one thing that you need to think about is interviewing them. If you want to make sure that you get all of the money that you need, and as quickly as you can, you'll find that by taking a look around at some good interview techniques that you will be able to stop and really think about whether or not they are right for you.

Stress-Free Selling® - The Fastest Way to Build a Relationship

The Fastest Way to Build Relationships is Not to Work on the Relationship! Contrary to the belief that building relationships is paramount in the sales process, Jenaé Rubin, president of Sales Powerhouse, believes: A good relationship is the natural outcome of everything done right. Many salespeople approach the process thinking "I have to develop a good relationship with the prospect. So, they start by asking "friendly" questions that have nothing to do with the business relationship. People see right through this sales “strategy.”

Stress-Free Selling® - How to Talk About Increasing Prices

Are your rates increasing? Are you concerned about how your customers are going to take it? Are you having a hard time passing along the increase? Follow three simple steps and you will make telling your customers easy:

Stress-Free Selling® - How to Make it About Them

You've heard a million times by now to make your sales About Them. But how do you do that???? Here's one easy way how. Take a look at a recent letter or proposal you wrote. Count how many times you wrote "I" or "we." Now count how many times you wrote "you" and "your." If you're like most people, there are ten times more "I's" and "we's" as there are "you's" and "your's." Reverse that! When you write in "I" terms, you write about yourself.

Stress-Free Selling® - Eliminate Wonder

I don’t like hearing “I’m not interested” or even worse getting no returns to calls or emails after sending a proposal or making a presentation. I’m sure you don’t either. One of the biggest reasons this happens is… you didn’t find out how what you are presenting meets or misses their needs. The good news is, it’s easy to get there. Add this simple process to your tactics: Check In.

Stress-Free Selling® - The Power of Belief

Ah, the power of conviction. If we believe our prices are too high, we create price resistance. If we believe our prices are justified, appropriate, a good value, worth what we're asking, watch price objections dwindle!

Easy Investment Ideas for the Time Starved Entrepreneur

Get up, have a cup of coffee, go to work, get through your day, attend a meeting, go home, make dinner, crash. The next day—repeat the cycle. The only thing between you and a nervous breakdown is a thread. You don’t have time to think about investing.

Do Fewer Women Have Midlife Crises?

Casual observation suggests that women have fewer difficulties transitioning through midlife than men do. For men, it requires a cultural revolution.

Tips to Reduce the Headaches of Being An Entrepreneur

Being an entrepreneur has many advantages but as with most things, it does have its downside. Entrepreneurs tend to be workaholics and they experience their share of headaches. Here are some simple tips to help reduce those headaches.

Coping with Holiday Stress

Forget the day to day stress of juggling family and career - what about the stress of getting away from it all? Yes, even holidays can be a time of stress.

It Doesn't Matter WHAT They Say!

I went to the chiropractor this week and told him my right arm had gone numb and my neck was tight and hurting. He gave me a great adjustment and then told me that my neck was losing its curve and I have arthritis. I’m thinking to myself, “Thank goodness I know that I can heal anything in my body.

Money Madness

Get mad, not even. Have you ever gotten ticked off about your financial status? I mean irritated, frustrated and just down right stuck on it? Darn it, you want to be able to get whatever you want, when you want it. You were not born to be patient, stress about money nor go without.

Getting The Right Team In Place

One of the biggest challenges many of my clients face is having the right people. Prior to coaching I'd often hear: "If only I could find the right people my business would much more profitable." "I'd have less stress." "I spend more time managing my people than getting the work done and more."

#1 Strategy to Reach Your Unreachable Goals

Sometimes it's just plain tough to get sales. There could be a hundred valid reasons why it's happening - aggressive competitors, the economy, ornery customers. Or, the problem could be of your own making. It doesn't much matter though when your goals seem unreachable and you don't have a clue how to achieve them. Stuck is stuck. If you knew what to do, you'd have already taken action.

SwitchedOn Selling Balancing Your Selling Brain

You are about to to do cold-call canvassing. As you reach for the phone, you glance at your desk and quickly decide to clean it first. Then, as you reach for the phone again, you remember that you need to get some things from your car. And after that, you stop and list the things you need to pick up on the way home. The day ends, and the calls are never made. You really did intend to do the calling, but time and time again you just didn’t seem to get to it. Sound familiar? It's not that you don’t know how to cold call-you've taken all of the seminars, read all of the books, and know the techniques. But when you finally force yourself to do it, it just doesn’t go very well.

Universal Alignment

When the Universe is aligned for YOU, you do not want to miss it. Success could be just around the corner--with everything you could ever want just waiting for you. The trick is to be open to these gifts, open to the Universe. So what are you waiting for?

Maybe

When we hear “maybe” from our customers we often believe that it really means “yes.” Learn why it doesn’t and how to prevent hearing “maybe.”

The 6 Steps To Collecting Money Without Guilt

So you've made the sale. Provided the product or service. Sent the invoice. Waited. Waited. Waited. And now your stomach is in a knot because you absolutely HATE having to call customers for cash?

Four Sources of Discontent

An article of 1163 words describing the four sources that fuel discontent and how to manage them appropriately.

10 Tips to Reduce Stress & Guilt

Stress and guilt seem to go hand-in-hand, especially for working parents. Here are 10 Tips that can greatly reduce feelings of stress and guilt creating greater life harmony

How to Juggle Your Work and Life Demands

We live in a 24/7 global society, with endless access to sensational information and subliminal advertising campaigns which goes towards shaping our disposable culture. From a very young age we are generally influenced to keep up with the latest trends, technologies and “must-haves” to appear socially acceptable.

The $100,000 Question

"So, what do you think my web-based business worth?", someone recently asked me. I questioned them about previous year’s income, expenses, traffic, page rank, and the amount of effort they put into the business.

Marketing - It's All in the Packaging!

Is your business a product with a brown paper wrapper? You'll know very easily based on whether you sell your product/services at similar prices to your competitors or you sell it at higher prices because you sell on value and your product has a gold wrapper. Find out how to put a gold wrapper on your product/service so customers love it!

Cut yourself some slack

How many of you feel that you have so many different responsibilities in your life, that you cannot possibly make it all work. You may be focusing on work obligations while trying to keep your household up and running. All of this running around creates a feeling of hopelessness. I have seen it countless times with clients that try to do it all with enormous to-do lists, and in the end they feel like a failure. Sometimes I just need to remind them of the larger picture. When all is said and done, do you really think anyone is going to care that your home is spotless? Rather, what they will remember is how they felt in your presence, the memories you shared.

"10 Ways To Improve Employee Loyalty"

Any successful business owner will tell you that finding quality and loyal employees is very difficult. In most respects this cut throat world that we live in is to blame. No matter how good a company is there is always a place that seems to be better. This is the old grass is greener on the other side of the fence type thought process.

Top 10 Ways To Create An Employee Incentive Program

Any successful business owner will tell you that finding quality and loyal employees is very difficult. In most respects this cut throat world that we live in is to blame. No matter how good a company is there is always a place that seems to be better. This is the old grass is greener on the other side of the fence type thought process. However, it is now more then ever, for a company to hold onto the employees that are producing for them. This is a difficult task considering the fact that some other company is lurking around the corner waiting for you to slip up so they can snatch said employee.

Time Management for Moms Who Work From Home

Working from home is a stressful enough situation in itself, but having children to take care of at the same time can make it even more stressful. Trying to balance children and work and everything else that happens on a regular basis can be very difficult, but it can be made a little bit easier by using time management.

How To Keep & Empower Employees

Smart entrepeneurs have one thing in common: they realize that every night at closing time their best asset walks right out the door. Of course, we are talking about people.

Towers Perrin Study Discounts Workplace Myths;

Work/life leadership expert, author and speaker, Eileen McDargh, analyzes the data and expresses caution when reading the recently released 2007 Global Workforce Study by Towers Perrin.

How Balanced is YOUR Life?

Contrary to popular belief, balance is not an end point destination or a “thing” to be acquired. It is dynamic and always changing. Balance is more of a process not a place. A balanced life will look very different from one person to the next. The challenge is that most people have not given much thought to what a balanced life truly means to them.

5 Tips to Reduce Stress & Guilt

Stress and guilt seem to go hand-in-hand. As a working parent, there seems to be plenty of both to go around! Learn to reduce them both using these 5 simple tips.

OUT OF WORK AND LOVING IT!

An article of 794 words focusing on how to deal with the fear of not working and that by controlling your mind and your beliefs you can take meet this challenge with positive results.

Four Steps to Achieving Balance

Do you wish you had more time to do the things you like to do? Do you find yourself juggling too many things, wishing you could get off the merry-go-round? This can feel like such a powerless place to be. Many people talk about wanting balance but do you know how to achieve it?

11 steps to finding your perfect franchise

Owning a franchise gives you the best of both worlds – the freedom of owning your own business and the peace of mind of an experienced support team. But there are hundreds of franchise businesses out there, so how do you choose the right one? James Greig shares his expertise to help you find your perfect franchise.

8 Tips for Keeping Managing Daily Stress

Do you feel like you have so much to do and not enough time to get everything done? When your life gets crazy, you can’t let the busyness take over your mind. You need to put yourself first to maintain your mental health.

The Fountain of Youth.

Everywhere we look these days there are products and programs to make and keep you looking younger. There is beauty at every age, what has happened to the beauty within??

Why Does Turnover Take Place?

Turnover isn’t a problem - it’s a symptom caused by leadership problems. Fortunately, the problems can be solved, and you have the power to make that difference. Strive to become the best leader you can be.

The Fear Factor

What does fear look like for you? Not many of us like to admit we have any fear. Fear comes in many shapes and sizes. Ask yourself what is the fear? Chances are it is your thinking that got you to...

Intuitive Leadership

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Sales Productivity: Manage Your Energy

What affects our energy levels? You already know the answer to that question. Nutrition, sleep, stress, physical fitness, attitudes, emotions, and environment are the major influencers of our levels of energy. How do you improve these aspects of our life so we maximize our level of energy?

R1 for Business

The enviro 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – are a great place to take some relatively easy steps to help the environment. Reduce is first because it has the most positive impact on the ecology and possibly your business’s bottom line.

Warp Speed or Blow Out

Life is measured by how fast and how much we can get done in a short period of time! Are you burning yourself out?

Work Life Balance

Balance is better understood as flow. For instance, I'm building my business right now. It's been my full-time occupation for about six months, and I've spent a disproportionate amount of time during that six months on my business. Since I've made the choice to pass up a variety of recreational activities -- everything from going to the movies to taking a spa vacation with a friend -- it would be easy to conclude that I'm "out of balance."

Networking for Introverts

Networking is always a popular career topic, and the reason is simple: the people you know and those who know you will have an enormous influence on your personal and career success. If you're an introvert and the very thought of networking makes you want to dive for the nearest rabbit hole, that statement may provoke panic. But keep breathing, because networking doesn't have to be painful -- not even for introverts.

Your Goals for 2008: Staying On Course

How can you insure that your professional objectives for 2008 are not only more realistic than they were in 2007, but also bigger and more in line with your personal values and beliefs?

Barrier to Growth Is Change Stressing You Out by W Vito Montone

Change is on my mind. It is everywhere inside our own businesses. I mean EVERYWHERE. I recently remembered that I want it that way. But... there are definitely times that I forget. How do I forget you ask? Simply, I let stress slip in. But that’s not change’s fault. Somehow change has acquired a bad rep. We try to keep things calm, even, familiar...stress-free that’s the ticket. It’s all change’s fault. Right?

Manifesting Your Revenue Goal

No matter what your current dance is with money, one thing is clear. If you want to increase your profits this year, something has to change. Even if you’re one of those people that consistently up levels your income, you still have to shift your wealth set point to get that money in your bank account.

How to Overcome Job Stress

There are several factors that are issues for job stress. However it is most imperative to begin with you! Some levels of self-mastery are imperative so that you understand the issues that are making you ill while holding you back from personal and professional performance. Let's take a look at some of those stress triggers that lead to feeling overwhelmed.

The Top 10 Ways to Relieve Stress When You Feel Blocked

Not all stress relievers have to rely on using money to pay for massage, etc. There are many quick simple stress relievers that are totally free.

Peace for Profits

Lingering thoughts about revenue can evoke stress even in those who are financially sound. It’s natural to set targets for bigger revenue generation. But when you contemplate the possibility of not making the goal, all chaos breaks lose in your mind.

Help! I'm Stressed and Anxious

Having healthy coping skills can help you get through both the good times and the bad times with flying colors. Since stress is an inevitable part of life, learning healthy coping skills is the lifeline to creating a happy, balanced life.

Today's "rant" - stress

If you are in TV Sales or the TV business you are a competitor. Over stressed athletes usually end up hurt and seldom perform optimally. So why do we think putting more stress on our people will produce better results?

Lessen the Stress for Those Employees You Manage

In a world where it seems just about everyone needs 25 hours a day to get things do, what are you doing as an employer to make sure your employees are not overly stressed on the job?

Being Your Best

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

Busy About

Once upon a time, a prince and princess lived in stressful palace, surrounded by a stressful village, inside a stressful land. They knew it was stressful because everyone said it was. Their parents, the king and queen, worked from sunrise to sunset hearing issues from their kingdom, weighing the requests, and appropriating the collective harvest to the people of their land.

How to Build Great Relationships through Cold Calling

Master the foundation for cold calling success

Why Trying To Get The Appoinment, Can Be a Recipe for Dis-Appointment

Last week, this e-mail from Jack arrived in my inbox:

Double Your Profits and Your Productivity With The Right People

What is the no. 1 asset in your business beside yourself? It's your people. Then why is it they often fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to doing anything to help them improve their performance and look after them? If you want your business to run more effectively and/or make more money then you must invest time and energy into your no. 1 asset otherwise you will eventually lose them.

I am Equal; You are Equal

Claiming Your Life as Your Own becomes especially important during periods of transition. Outgrowing a career, retiring, entering a new relationship, leaving an old relationship to be single again, becoming a parent or residing as an empty nester after raising a family - all of these and more are rites of passage that may throw us off balance and challenge us to reclaim our lives in a new way. That question – ‘Who am I…really?’ – can emerge once again.

A Path to True Clarity

All of our deepest intentions are always realized in our day to day reality. Therefore, it is essential to know that we are clear about our intentions so that we receive what we truly desire. Perhaps you are choosing between potential solutions to a question or a challenge you are currently experiencing. Maybe you are feeling confused by a situation, person, or decision at this time. Or you could be at a major crossroads in your life and wondering-"Which path should I take?"

When Things Go Wrong in Your Business, React!

It’s inevitable that you’ll hit a glitch or two in your business’ life span. But how you react to it will be the linchpin for bouncing back to success. There is no rule in business that says you should be able to handle everything with grace. It’d be nice to be that way but if you’re not, don’t sweat it.

Distress and Eustress. Do You Know the Difference?

When we think of emotional stress, we automatically assume it’s something that is bad for us. Yes, some kinds of stress are associated with health issues such as high blood pressure, headaches, and even weight gain. But not all stress is negative stress.

Al Gores’ Approach to Work-Life Balance

In Al Gore’s documentary on global warming (An Inconvenient Truth), he makes reference to a picture used by the Bush administration to illustrate the conflict between money and environment. In the picture, there is a scale: on one side of the scale, there is a pile of gold bars, on the other the earth. As Al Gore somewhat wryly pointed out…gold is not much use to you if you have no earth. I must say the same thought strikes me when I read about “work-life balance.”

Don't Let Stress Hijack You Or Your Organization

In a challenging economic climate there are many people operating day-to-day in what amounts to a chronic, low grade amygdala hijack. Awareness is the first step in dealing with these attacks.

Networking Saying Hello with Impact

In an age of global competition, today’s information professionals engage in a sport that isn’t found on an Olympic roster. Chambers of Commerce, conferences, and other business meetings form the backdrop for networking, a form of interaction professionals use to build profitable relationships.

Coming up with a business idea

There’s nothing more frustrating than wanting to start your own business, but not having the right idea. Helen Dowling from Exceptional Thinking gives you 12 tips and techniques to help you to come up with that great idea.

Performance Management - By Assuming Nothing

There are times when tackling a difficult situation can be so easy to put off. Yet in those moments we have the opportunity to minimise pain for all concerned. Dealing with the most challenging people issues can be tough, but it is tougher to waste time stretching it out just because you don't fancy tackling it...

The P Word

You guessed it, procrastination! Procrastination by definition is to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done. It also means to put off intentionally and habitually.

Work-Life Balance Tips for Busy People - your starting point

This article offers compelling reasons why work-life balance is crucial for busy people and the dangers faced if this issue is ignored. The article will serve as a starting point and contains a real life story (perhaps similar to yours), statistics from the USA to Australia and finishes with a relevant and personal question.

Needs vs. Wants : A Business Owner's Biggest Struggle

As a business owner you have so many roles to play and so many things to do. Sometimes it is difficult to find the energy to do everything you need to do. You start to wonder if it's worth it and that mistake will ruin your business.

Reasons Why YOU Should be Traveling More

Travel more and you’ll probably be a happier person and live a better quality of life. You may even live longer too. And the memories, oh the memories.

How to build a resilient workforce

In today's business world, CEO's, managers and staff are under great stress to deliver more in less time. They face conflicting demands, long working hours, and constant change in an unforgiving business environment that keeps getting tougher, busier and faster. Companies are finding it difficult to hold onto valuable team members, and business owners are finding themselves working harder and longer, are spending less time with their family, and are burning out. So, what is the solution?

Keeping Your Work Life Engine Purring

Life in today\'s stressful world is like driving a car. The harder you drive your car, the greater its fuel consumption and the more often it needs to be refueled. It also needs regular care and attention to avoid unexpected breakdowns along the way. You are driving yourself harder and harder each day. This article suggests how to ensure you keep your energy supplies topped up, stay resilient and avoid burnout.

5 Healthy Coping Skills for Stressful Situations

Coping skills can and do make a difference and keep you healthier. If you’ve ever wondered what are some healthy coping skills for stress, here are some suggestions:

10 Tips for Mastering Stress Relief

Stress comes in many forms and can be found in many situations and circumstances. Even during the happiest times in life, such while planning a wedding or welcoming a baby, there is a certain amount of good stressors.

Leadership Insight: The Balanced Leader

Workaholics need not apply. Throughout the late seventies, the Charlie Sheen Wall Street eighties, and even through a good part of the nineties, work ethic was defined as living at work, living work and committing every waking moment to work. To be a boss, you had to commit your life to the organization and outwork your peers and potential competitors for promotion.

Sales is the Most Stressful Job There is.

Sales is the Most Stressful Job There is. Wrong. With the correct adaptability strategies, sales can be fun, financially rewarding and emotionally satisfying. As we talked about in an earlier email, selling has nothing to do with your success. Selling is helping others to buy. That is why selling can be so rewarding.

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?

Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work!

Every New Year’s Eve millions of people all over the globe make resolutions for the coming year. Every year they look back disappointed that yet another year has come and gone and their goals haven’t been achieved again. They feel like losers and they lie to themselves again by solemnly pledging to shape up, be stronger and do better next year.

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...

STRESS (Is Yours a Life of Quiet Desperation?)

If you are old enough to remember but not so old as to forget, there was a time not so long ago we were led to believe that with the advent of new technology, in particular the computer, our lives would be so much simpler, that we would have more leisure time to enjoy a much fuller life. I didn’t get the new memo, what happened? I mean come on; we haven’t gone to a simpler, gentler, more leisure filled life. Just the opposite has occurred; the velocity of our lives has reached breakneck speed!

Coping With The Unexpected - 6 Practical Tips

Always expect the UNEXPECTED. We never know what's around the corner. It's part of life. Sudden change can be stressful whether we perceive it as negative or positive. This article contains 6 practical tips on how to cope with the unexpected.

Getting to Gratitude

In celebrating Thanksgiving we are reminded to be grateful and appreciative. Reminding ourselves is useful because it seems gratitude is an elusive state of being. Cultivating more of it would be hugely beneficial. Imagine what it would it be like to be consistently grateful? What would be possible for you?

Difficult People – How to Deal with Them and Survive Them

It can be very stressful living or working with a ‘difficult person'. While we're unlikely to be able to change their behaviour, we can change the way we respond to them. We can develop some coping and self-protection skills. In this article you'll find three practical tips on how to better cope with that tricky family member, colleague or neighbour.

What Separates the Good Marketers from the Great Ones?

What traits and behaviors separate the good from the great? Check out what sales-and-marketing traits will lead you to the top of your profession...

Taking Time for You

Learn how self care can bring more joy and balance to your busy life.

Phenomenological Perspective: That which you believe will become your reality.

Finding balance between work and life, begins with deciding that you want to live a balanced life and becoming aware of that which needs to change. The power of the mind and the things we allow ourselves to focus on can become the pivot point our lives revolve around. Discover ways to release your mind from all its worries and change your perspective to a more positive light. To really let go of things, we must let go with our mind first. Then our heart can follow suit.

Stressed Out or Stressed In?

Start focusing on being stressed in and you can make some positive choices.

Taking Charge of Your Life

What is a Life Coach and how a coach can help you to take charge of your life.

What are you saying?

Start listening to what you are saying?

Gratitude is Attitude

The magic of gratitude is the more thanks you give the more you will receive to be thankful for.

The Current Design of Work No Longer Works!

The current design of work was created at a time when a man went to work and a woman stayed home full time. That was just the way it was. Men could only be completely committed to their work because they had that constant support on the home front. Well, the world has changed. Women now have more choices. It’s wonderful! The problem is that some aspects of work have not kept up with the times.

Dealing with the Stresses of Balancing Professional and Familial Obligations - You can make it easier!

We all wish that we had more time. Life is so stressful these days. Things can be especially difficult if you haven’t been able to swing that flexible work arrangement job that you’ve been dreaming of. If you are spending 50 or so hours away from your home per week you need to find life balance by finding ways to decrease your stress or at least find some ways to live with it! And the motto here is, “just do the best that you can!” Here are some tips:

Anger Solutions at Work - The Psychology of Procrastination

How often do we look at the things we must accomplish today, but we put them off for tomorrow? It is typically the difficult, the challenging, the unsavoury things that we tend to avoid, but they are often necessary to complete if we want to achieve success in our daily lives. One phone call. Sending one email. Finishing that report. Whatever it is that you are avoiding - you can face head on and accomplish in no time, just by making a few simple shifts in your thinking.

Manage Stress by Managing Yourself

First of all, I am not going to begin this article by telling you about how important it is to eat properly, exercise regularly and to look after yourself. You know all that stuff already, don’t you? No, what I am going to give you are five things you can do to handle your stress, Could I suggest first of all, that you practise these when you are NOT stressed? After all, the time to learn any new skill is BEFORE you need it, not WHEN you need it.

Empower yourself by the choices you make

Every single day we are bombarded by choices we need to make. Ultimately, our lives are defined by these choices. What should you eat? Should you go to the gym? Should you ask for that promotion? This process can be empowering, or on the flip side it can be stress inducing. You may feel empowered because you took control of your choices and their potential outcomes. On the flip side you may feel anxiety because you don't want to take responsibility for the potential results of your decisions. As a result of your anxiety you allow others to make these decisions for you.

Purposeful Meditation

Meditation is a powerful tool used by millions of people worldwide as a method to reduce stress, increase spiritual growth and impact overall health and wellness. Unfortunately, there are many myths stigmatizing the art of meditation. Meditation is often thought of as a “clearing of the mind”. This could not be further from the truth. Learn how to be comfortable with including meditation as a part of your daily balance routine.

Top 7 Ways to Prevent Unnecessary Stress at Work

Stress plays a critical role in life. It can help you accomplish work timely and accurately, promote healthy competition, and force you to evaluate problems and formulate creative solutions. It can also hamper your ability to effectively perform your job, thereby reducing your chances of promotion; interfere with your capacity to sustain relationships; and lead to physical illness. So, how do you find balance? Start by preventing or eliminating stress that is unnecessary.

Top 7 Ways to Prevent Unnecessary Stress at Work

Stress plays a critical role in life. It can help you accomplish work timely and accurately, promote healthy competition, and force you to evaluate problems and formulate creative solutions. It can also hamper your ability to effectively perform your job, thereby reducing your chances of promotion; interfere with your capacity to sustain relationships; and lead to physical illness. So, how do you find balance? Start by preventing or eliminating stress that is unnecessary.

Top 7 Ways to Prevent Unnecessary Stress at Work

Stress plays a critical role in life. It can help you accomplish work timely and accurately, promote healthy competition, and force you to evaluate problems and formulate creative solutions. It can also hamper your ability to effectively perform your job, thereby reducing your chances of promotion; interfere with your capacity to sustain relationships; and lead to physical illness. So, how do you find balance? Start by preventing or eliminating stress that is unnecessary.

Top 7 Ways to Prevent Unnecessary Stress at Work

Stress plays a critical role in life. It can help you accomplish work timely and accurately, promote healthy competition, and force you to evaluate problems and formulate creative solutions. It can also hamper your ability to effectively perform your job, thereby reducing your chances of promotion; interfere with your capacity to sustain relationships; and lead to physical illness. So, how do you find balance? Start by preventing or eliminating stress that is unnecessary.

Handling Change in the Workplace: Logical versus Emotional Reactions

People need time and support to adjust both logically and emotionally to change. This article explains how change can impact on staff and provides keys to help them adapt and settle into the new environment. Change can be positive if handled well or a recipe for disaster if handled poorly. Through the use of a case study, the pitfalls and negative impacts are discussed; then follows some pointers for managing change in the workplace and a practical method for accepting change on a more personal level.

Noticing Stress In Your Life

A couple of years ago, I really got it about how not living my truth was causing me stress and negatively impacting my life. I began a very busy job that was both exciting and fulfilling. I was excited about all the opportunities that presented themselves for me in this position. As I became more immersed in the work, I had several ideas about how this position could grow and evolve. I used my creativity and determination to try and bring about all that I believed was possible. It was a challenging time.

Tips on how to keep your muscles loose and relaxed

Work can tend to preoccupy all your attention and cause you to forget that you are a physical being who relies on the proper maintenance of your body. Muscles can become sore, stiff and even injured if they are not maintained properly. In the midst of your busy life, a brief lesson on how to keep your muscles running smoothly so they always work for you instead of against you is nothing short of a good time investment.

10 Ideas for Less Holiday Stress

The holidays are a time filled with great expectations of joy and community along with fears of potential chaos and stress. Visiting family members are one of the highest ranked sources of holiday stress. Other stresses on the list include finding time for yourself and handling diet and food intake over the celebratory period. The key to surviving the possibilities of holiday mayhem is having a great plan. Check out these 10 great ideas on how to have less stress for the holidays.

Stress: What Causes It and How To Deal With It

Stress is our response to life's pressures - real or imagined. This article explains what happens to our bodies and mood when we become stressed. It also outlines the four main causes of stress and in each case gives practical and easy-to-follow advice on how to avert or deal with stress.

Entrepreneurs Burnout – Bin It

No need to live a reduced lifestyle because you dipped into stress and burnout. With a work life balance attitude you'll gain more and in return give more. Life is a wonderful gift and particularly great when you can share your talents and gifts with others. Entrepreneurs have the spirit of community, go and Live Life by Design.

Stop Living on the Breadcrumbs Leftover After Expenses

I used to accept the breadcrumbs. I thought that everyone else should get the money before I did if I were being a responsible business owner. Now I know better. Paying yourself last is just a practice (sometimes hard to break) that will never grow your business.

How To Deal With Stress Its Potential Damage To Your Business According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach

Stress is a fact of daily life and it is especially true in the daily life of small businesses. Small businesses experience a myriad of seemingly unending problems in dealing with employees, customers, suppliers, business partners, bankers, insurance companies and on and on and on. Many small business owners must face these challenges essentially alone or with some minimal support system for assistance. While some people will strive on stress and use stress to improve their performance, there are many others who fold or breakdown under the strain of stress. Dealing with stress is an important strategic goal for you and your business. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers ten (10) strategic steps to take to deal with stress in your business.

Charisma reduces Stress

Watching the news, reading the papers, managing a business, relationship issues, getting the kids to school, money worries and physical ailments can raise our stress levels alarmingly. We need this automatic response to survive a hostile environment yet elevated and prolonged stress can play havov with our emotions, our decisions and general well-being. Interestingly, the higher your level of charisma the less stress you experience.

Enjoy Seven (7) Health Benefits of Expressing Gratitude and Lead a More Productive and Less Stressful Life

Life's challenges can cause us internal conflict, and these internal battles can increase stress and cause us to waste energy. Therefore, each of us must learn how to cope with the stressors of everyday life. With gratitude we find joy in our daily lives. An attitude of gratitude can enhance our lives in numerous ways. People who are grateful tend to be happier, healthier and more fulfilled. Being grateful can help you cope with stress. Therefore, it is essential to practice giving gratitude on a daily basis. Get rid of negativity and let your acts of gratitude change your attitude (sm). A happier you will be a more productive and successful you.

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