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ARTArticle14 Simple Statements That Can Change Your Perspective on LifeDid you know that you can make your life better simply by thinking? Do you realize that by reading some very basic ideas, placed in a certain order, you can raise your awareness, charge up your motivation, and even totally change your life. Your beliefs are powerful. Your thoughts can take you to wonderful and unexpected places in life.ARTArticle3 tips to making empowered parenting choicesAs parents, we want to feel reassured that we are doing the right thing for our children all the time. We have these precious beings, who need us to take care of them, these beings we are responsible for and we don’t want them to get hurt in any way. Knowing how to make empowered choices means knowing how to take care of our loved ones by empowering all of your ways of knowing, especially your intuition. It is an affirming and powerful experience. Of course, the following techniques can also be applied to all areas of our life, not just for decisions that conce
our children.rARTArticle4 Easy Steps To Raise Your Energy levels and Get MotivatedAre you constantly feeling tired and lacking in energy? Do you feel drained at the thought of the things on your to do list? Are you looking for a way to overcome tiredness and loss of energy? What are your first thoughts of the day when the alarm goes off? Do you smile and bounce out of bed? Or do you groan and wish you could have a few more hours under the duvet? Do you feel so overwhelmed that its easier to slumping front of the TV instead of taking action ? How many times do you put something off until tomorrow and tomorrow never comes?ARTArticle4 Time Management TipsTime itself cannot be managed. It ticks inexorably forward. However, we can manage our behavior to make the most of the time we have. All behaviors employed to best utilize time should target one thing: sharpening focus. The more you focus on the task(s) at hand, the more productive you will be, which will also lower your stress. Increased focus is attained by reducing the interruptions and distractions that pull you away from what you’re doing.
Small Changes Make Big Differences
See if these suggestions help you stay more focused during the day:
1. Turn Off New Message Alerts.ARTArticle4 Tips to Better Command Your WorkloadWe entered the workforce well educated, but few entered well skilled. Gaining skills on the subject matter of your job is critically important, but so too are skills for managing how you actually get your work done. Worflow processing and organizational skills focus on the actual completion of your work – how efficiently you accomplish what needs to be done. Consider, also, the perceptions others of have you based on whether you appear in command of versus enslaved by your work.
Concepts into ActionARTArticle4 Tips To Kick Start Your Self EsteemAre you struggling with a low self esteem and self confidence?
If you have answered yes. Please do not despair because help is at hand.
Below are some valuable tips on how to re-gain your self esteem and manage it.
1, Avoid the blame game:
It's almost impossible to appreciate your individuality or to see the good in you if you are constantly putting your self down.ARTArticle6 Simple Tips for Instantly Raising Your Self-EsteemFirst of all, we need to define what is self-esteem. From my point of view and experience, I see self-esteem as a way of thinking, feeling, and acting that implies you accept, respect, trust and believe in yourself. To believe in yourself means that you feel you deserve to have the good things in life. It also means that you have confidence that you can fulfill your deepest personal needs, aspirations, and goals. Self-esteem comes from within where you see yourself as a worthy, secure person who feels capable and able to handle whatever challenges may arise.ARTArticle60 cigarettes a day! How I quit!I thought smoking sixty cigarettes a day was just about the limit of human endurance until I started to wake up at night to “enjoy” just one more!
I took up smoking when I was fourteen and by the age of sixtee
I was a “committed” smoker. Within three years I had managed to ratchet my daily intake of cigarettes to two packs per day, and by the time I was twenty-one, I was up to three packs a day.ARTArticle7 Steps to Creating a Happy & Authentic LifeGetting Real is a very real thing and a very vital part of being successful and happy in our life and our work. If you want to create a happy and authentic life, you are going to have to get real.
What does it mean to Get Real? It means to:
* Live in the whole truth, recognizing that your version of reality is only part of the bigger picture
* Show up as an active, conscious and intentional participant in your life
* Embrace and honor who you are and where you are right now -- and then go from thererARTArticleA chasm has opened up betwee
Advertisers and Customers.Consumers are deaf to the babble of the advertising class.ARTArticleA simple way to begin to create your dreamsA long time ago, yes I know this sounds like a fairy tale, I wrote down a whole bunch of dreams. One in particular came true many years later, much to my surprise. Even more of a surprise was that when I had the opportunity to have it come true, I became conce
ed about actually being able to have it and even thought about not letting it happen. I felt if I got this now, then what?ARTArticleA Surprising Lesson From Reality TVHow you can use the power of empathy
The intense attraction we have toward reality TV is glaringly obvious.
Nothing new here, right? But what is the IT that attracts fans to these shows in the first place? What can we learn here, and how can we apply that to the presenting of our story and products and businesses?
Many think the draw of Reality TV is the belief that anyone can become a Reality TV star - no matter who you are. Sometimes a completely normal-looking individual delights viewing audiences and becomes a superstar (Susan Boyle, anyone?).ARTArticleAccepting What We Can’t Change & Embracing What We CanOne of my favorite quotes comes from Reinhold Niebuhr. He said “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” I think that most people have seen or heard this quote at some point in their lives. It is extremely powerful and life changing once you understand, embrace, and implement it. The purpose of this article is to offer advice on how to implement this philosophy in your life.
There are things in life that you can't change no matter how much you might want to or how hard you try.ARTArticleAccomplishing Your GoalsAlthough unforeseen opportunities may appear as you succeed, a goal is not accomplished unless given forethought and targeted as follows:
1. You decided to do it (answered the question why?)
Unless the why has logic and emotion intertwined it will fall flat. The logic resembles gears in a car and emotion is the energy. If dragging, emotion gives you a jump start to allow logic to do the work needed.
2. It empowers your mindset (produces productivity)
A goal causes action. Action produces results and the accumulation of results accomplishes a goal.
3. It makes you feel goodrARTArticleAlive and Kicking – Take the Three Point Test to See if You’ve Come AliveAlive and definitely kicking, that’s me! I’m not ready to roll over and slump into anonymity passing the limelight to the next generation. It’s not that I want to be famous, particularly in today’s climate where to be up there with the stars is like waiting for the vultures to pounce. I just want to feel ‘alive’.
My favourite multidimensional quote at the moment is:
“Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what makes you come alive and go do that.ARTArticleAn Energy Tool To Bring You Closer To AlignmentEverything is energy. Even medical science measures the electrical impulses in our cells with EKGs.
Stress is energy. Albeit negative energy. Stress is the experience we encounter when the brain sends out electrical signals that lead to an emotion (perhaps anxiety, depression, or anger), a perception, or a behavior that is not appropriate for the current situation. By not appropriate I mean “the fight or flight mechanism is triggered and there's no saber-toothed tiger after you. Nobody is pointing a gun to your head." But we run those chemicals anyway.ARTArticleAppreciate the Simple ThingsLast week my left ear got plugged up and it was difficult for me to hear out of it for about 48 hours. It was scary and challenging. Thankfully everything was okay, it's all clear now, and I'm able to hear just fine out of both ears.
Having this happen was yet another example of how easy it is for me to take something simple, but very important (like hearing), for granted. Sadly, we often don't appreciate the simple things in life until they're threatened, impacted, or taken away from us in some way.
What if we did appreciate the simple things all the time, in an authentic way?ARTArticleAre We The Architects of Our Lives?Are We Actually Conscious?
Just how much of what we perceive as ourselves and our life is actually the result of our conscious, intelligent and knowledgeable decisions, and how much is the result of our automatic and unconscious response to the influences of economic, political and social conditioning? And are we even aware of not only what we are, but how we became what we are? And perhaps more importantly, are we afraid of learning the truth about such things?
We seem to assume so much these days, and some of those assumptions can become real problems.ARTArticleAre you a Stream or a Twisted Garden Hose? Keep the energy flowing between you and your audienceThere’s the old saying: “It is better to give than to receive,” but really, that’s only the half of it, right?
“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process,” said Jim Rohn.
Deepak Chopra, in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, refers to the Law of Giving: “The Universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of the universe.”
While these philosophies are usually associated with wealth and prosperity, they can be applied to your next presentation or media opportunity with great success as well!ARTArticleAre You Choosing Unhappy Over Uncertain?I've been re-reading Tim Ferriss' great book The Four Hour Workweek, which has been expanding my mind and giving me lots of great ideas. In the book, Ferriss states that "most people choose to be unhappy rather than uncertain."ARTArticleAre you stuck in the dance of guilt?The Dance of Guiltr
What is guilt? Have you ever realized how you react to guilt? Most of us do what I call the dance of guilt. Life is so much about moving towards or moving away from anything and everything. When we feel guilty we often retreat into the moving away from stance. We withdraw from life.ARTArticleAre You Willing to Be Uncomfortable?How comfortable are you with being uncomfortable? I know this may seem like a paradoxical question, but it's not. In fact, Michelle and I took a workshop this past weekend where they emphasized the importance of being uncomfortable - related to expanding our growth, success, fulfillment, and more.
Over the past few days I've been taking some real inventory of my own life and looking at how willing (or unwilling) I am to be uncomfortable myself. I notice that in certain areas of my life, I'm quite willing to be uncomfortable; while in others, not so much.rARTArticleArticle Marketing For Traffic and SEOYou have invested a lot of time, effort, and money into your website and you are hoping that it can effectively support your home based business. The quality of the website is above reproach as it is certainly visually impressive. The issue here, however, is whether or not the website will attain the proper amount of traffic needed for it to be successful. Well, if you are willing to put the proper time and effort into effective article marketing such conce
s will cease to be much of a concern.ARTArticleAudience Participation… Through a Camera Lens?Have you ever noticed how some of the best motivational speakers seem to have trouble completing a thought?
It’s not that they don’t know what to say, but I’m referring to the way some will leave a sentence hanging in anticipation of the audience completing it: For example, a speaker might say, “ You’ve got to be hungry like a _______” (He pauses and the audience finishes his thought by chiming in, “wolf!”).
Audience participation in a live presentation not only keeps the listeners engaged and feeds the energy level in the room. It has also been proven to greatly improve retention.ARTArticleAvatars of InfinityEveryone has a sense of self, a sense of “I”, the one who perceives, feels, thinks, and experiences life. Most of us do not distinguish between the things we are doing, the roles we are playing, and who we really are. We define ourselves in various ways and get confused because we identify ourselves with our labels. For example, “I am John Doe” is just a label. “I am a doctor” or “I am a mother” are just the role you are playing at the moment. It is pretty easy to see that these roles are not the real you.ARTArticleBe FlexibleHow flexible are you? For me, it depends - on my mood, how much fear or resistance I have about something, how attached I am to a particular outcome, and various other factors.
However, as I look throughout my life (now and in the past), I realize that the situations, relationships, and experiences that cause me the greatest stress and frustration, are almost always the places where I'm not being flexible.ARTArticleBe UncomfortableBe uncomfortable.
To be comfortable is to be less than you are meant to be.
To be uncomfortable is to stretch yourself to be the best you can be. It is to learn, to grow, to try new things, and to expand your horizons. Uncomfortable is another way of saying living your life to the fullest.
When comfortable we are not growing or engaging fully in life. Yes, we need to be and should be comfortable. Comfort is a rest, a recharging of our spirit and our bodies. We all want a comfortable life of enough money, friends, a place to live, and things to do.ARTArticleBe Your Own CheerleaderI recently saw a wonderful video on YouTube that has been making its way around the internet of a little girl passionately affirming herself and her life in the bathroom mirror ("My whole house is great, I like my hair, I can do anything, I like my family," etc.) If you haven't had a chance to see it, check it out - it's adorable, funny, and a beautiful example of appreciation in action.rARTArticleBe Your Own Communication CoachCommunication is at once easier and more challenging than ever thanks to the availability of high tech devices and programs that can keep us connected to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Now might be a great time to map out a personal communication strategy and review whether your time and energy is being spent creating and delivering the messages you’re actually intending that others receive. Here are some tips for self-reflection and ideas to support you as you act as your own communication coach.
Identify your preferred communication style…ARTArticleBecoming a Change AgentAn Image of a Change Agent - by Michael Wash
The questions that this paper begin to address are the following:
- What are the appropriate development experiences for me as a change agent?
- Where do the experiences that are available now fit?