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ARTArticleDon't Believe Everything You Think - How To Change Misguided ThoughtsRight now, in this moment, you have everything you think you deserve. You are living the life you believe you are worthy of. Your life experience mirrors your internal self-esteem. If you have an unhealthy low self-esteem you will never enjoy the life you dream of. Even if you achieve success in the accomplishment of a desired goal you will self-sabotage until you are back at a level, a comfort zone, that reflects how you feel about yourself. If you have a healthy high self-esteem you will allow yourself to achieve and enjoy what you want and know you deserve.ARTArticleDon't Figure It Out: Live It Out!We spend an inordinate amount of time and energy devoting our literal life essence in an attempt to do, what cannot be done. When we start to shift more and more of that energy over to what can be done, and in alignment with our goals, we are then practicing an incredible power to manifest all that we desire. In this "tell the truth now, tell the truth later" method of success, all of our dreams, with no one and no thing left out, have the greatest possibility of coming true in real time and space. That, more than anything else, is the world I desire to live within.ARTArticleDon't Forget Your Own Personal and Professional DevelopmentAre you prepared to turn life's obstacles into opportunities--and make them your own? Will this be the year when everything falls into place--just the way you envision it?
If you are like most of us, you spend countless hours encouraging your colleagues, staff, family and friends to develop the skills to clarify, set, and achieve their goals.ARTArticleDon’t Sell Yourself Short!I see it all the time, people selling themselves short. Be it on a professional level or a personal level, it happens all the time. It is the wrong job, wrong career, wrong boyfriend/girlfriend, etc. Here are some things to help you.
Don’t give away your power to someone else. Keep it. In other words, never allow someone else to dehumanize you or violate your self-worth.
You have everything that everyone else has; you just haven’t realized it yet. We are all the same. If you are not lazy, and you work hard, you can obtain what everyone else has, no excuses.ARTArticleDress for Success in 2010“First Impressions”
Over the course of my life and career, I have heard the following statement countless times, “First impressions are everything.” What you wear to a job interview, office party or business meeting can have a lasting impact on how you are viewed by others. As a business professional, you need to use every opportunity to project yourself in a positive way. You never know when you will come across someone in a position to further your career.
As we enter a new year, what a great time to take inventory of your current wardrobe.ARTArticleDriving Business Growth Through Strong Leadership (Part 1)6 Powerful Leadership Principles to Bring Out the Best in Your People
As a business growth coach I am often asked the question, “What’s your advice on achieving fast business growth?”
My one line response, “Never try to do it alone.”
Whether you are the CEO or a key manager, the quickest road to fast business growth is through having a team of committed people. Strong development is what will allow you to laser focus on your core areas of competencies and not fall into the trap of wearing too many hats, which will only slow you down.ARTArticleDriving Business Growth Through Strong Leadership (Part 2)Last week I shared my one line response to a popular questio
I am often asked — “What’s your advice on achieving fast business growth?”
“Never try to do it alone” is always my response.
If you enjoyed reading about the 3 powerful leadership principles that helped operations manager Beth to bring out the best in her people, here are 3 more powerful leadership principles from my coaching work with Bob.
Case Study #2. CEO continues to get pulled into every problem that comes up.ARTArticleEcology Is Not Just About BiologyThe ecology aspect is often overlooked in the pursuit of goals or achievements. Unless people have a heightened state of awareness they are generally oblivious to questions such as what happens after they achieve their goal; how does it affect them, their family, financial situation, health and overall future. They fail to ask if the desired change is in line with their values or even the most basic question of all – “Is this what I really want?”ARTArticleEFT for PTSDMy husband’s PTSD was severe. He spent two years in the VA as an inpatient when he returned from Vietnam. Our life was hell. He was often suicidal and suffered from constant depression, nightmares, flashbacks and his anger was scary. In fact he had almost ALL of the symptoms of PTSD.
PTSD is a normal response to very abnormal conditions or situations. War is not normal. Neither are rapes, natural disasters or any of the other situations that are traumatizing and can cause PTSD.ARTArticleEliminating The Fear Of Sales RejectionEliminating The Fear Of Sales Rejection
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Are you in sales? Your answer will be ‘yes’ if you own your own business. But many people dread prospecting because they dislike feeling rejected. This is the first error in sales. Stop selling and focus on solving.ARTArticleEmbrace The Uncomfort ZoneHave you ever been involved in a strength training regimen? If you have, you'll know what I'm saying to be the truth. It's that they talk a lot about, and teach a lot about, and practice, repetitions. They practice stepping it up—so that the next time, you can do more.
They talk about adding weight gradually, so the next time you do more.ARTArticleEmbracing SeparationIt is that time of year when your son or daughter is off to college. It is that moment that makes a parent proud but also a moment that you have been dreading. You can put on a smile to everyone, but deep down you are hurting because they are not close in proximity anymore. Now it is time to beef up on your calling and data plans and learn to Skype if you haven’t learned how to by now.rARTArticleEmbracing the StruggleEmbracing the struggle doesn’t mean to enjoy struggling. It means to learn from the struggle. So often we don’t learn from what we are going through nor do we take the time to enjoy what we have because we are too busy hoping for what we don’t have. Therefore at every moment of our life we are ignoring the present and always longing for a better future not realizing that we are draining the power from the present moment.ARTArticleEmotional Intelligence: From Quiet Desperation to Real HappinessEmotional Intelligence is the mind of the heart, the right-brain in metaphoric terms. Realize that language has its limitations, and speaking in terms of the English language subtleties can be lost - such as having only one word for 'love'. When culture moved away from communicating with images, we also moved away from an appreciation of what the right-brain has to offer us as a human civilization. This is unfortunate, as our feelings are powerful influencers over the quality of our lives.ARTArticleEmotional Intelligence: Mind Has HeartEmotional intelligence helps us to be smarter about our emotion. Emotion is a part of our mind-body connection. It is another expression of our intelligence. Feelings are the effect of our emotional perception. They add color to our lives. I say "perception" because how we look at a situation determines the meaning we assign. Let's keep this simple; there are only two classes of emotion - love or fear.ARTArticleEmotional Intelligence: The Heart of Great LeadershipEmotion and feeling have been given a bum rap. Emotion and feeling powerfully impact our behavior, decision-making, health, quality of relationships and life experience. To ignore them is to attempt to ignore half of our human nature. Navigating them intelligently has a definite leadership and life advantage. I know for sure that to deny this reality is a clear sign of lack of real self-awareness. It will be a giant step forward for humanity to reconcile our fear of feeling and emotion, which is really simply rooted in perception.ARTArticleEncouraging Spiritual Development in the WorkplaceEncouraging Spiritual Development in the Workplace
by Tom Hinton
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The 10,000 Days Foundation
There’s a positive movement taking hold in the workplace. Companies are discovering a new way to motivate, energize and relate to employees by helping them discover and develop their spiritual essence. I refer to this movement as Employee Spiritual Development or ESD.
Not too many years ago, such a movement would have been dismissed as radical or controversial; but, not in today’s self-actualizing work environment.ARTArticleEnjoy Each Day As You CanWe as members of the baby boomer society have seen great icons leave this world. We grew up with these icons, we watched them grow up on television, and they were such an important part of our daily life.ARTArticleESSENTIAL STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOMIn her new book, Own Your Life, 7 Essential Steps to Independence, author, speaker and lawyer Suzanne B. Quinn guides the reader through the seven essential steps to personal and financial security and independence. This article is an excerpt from her book, comprising one of the seven steps.
Goal setting is important, but good financial health begins with a grip on reality. We have to know and acknowledge where we are, before we can establish where we are going.
Start at the beginning – where you are nowr
The first step is to evaluate your present situation.ARTArticleESTATE PLANNING - Why it’s right for everyoneIn her new book, Own Your Life, 7 Essential Steps to Independence, author, speaker and lawyer Suzanne B. Quinn guides the reader through the seven essential steps to personal and financial security and independence. This article is an excerpt from her book, comprising one of the seven steps.
Now we get to the subject that no one likes to talk about.ARTArticleEven More Strategies for Effortless Business SuccessYou may have already my two articles exploring the best strategies for effortless business success. In the second article we explored what success actually means - and in the first, I suggested four specific steps anyone in business - from the "one man band" to the multi-national - can take to achieve the kind of effortless success we're talking about. In this article, I want to add a couple of further incredibly simple steps to the ones we've already covered - add these and your effortless business success starts today.
Let me start by telling you Mike's story.ARTArticleEverybody Needs Somebody SometimesDependence
This week's message is about relationships in the deepest sense. As a very independent, stubborn, and don't-try-to-control-me type person, it's been hard for me to face up to the many many times I needed to depend on others. Yet when I have, there's been a softening inside, a yielding to the truth, and a deeper, wiser taking better care of myself.ARTArticleFace Your FearHave you ever eaten fire? Have you ever walked on burning coals? They call it firewalking. Well, I have-I've walked on burning coals several thousand times. I used to lead empowerment seminars where that was a regular feature of our event. I don't do that today.
Eating fire, yes-dozens and dozens of times. And again, I've taught dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of people to do that.
Most people won't, and certainly the immediate reaction is, "That's not a good idea." See, either way, we know fire burns. All our experience has taught us that fire burns.ARTArticleFacing the Fear FactorDo you know what Billy Joel, Henry Ford and Lance Armstrong have in common? They never gave up. They failed their way to success with passion and persistence. One look at history reveals this is the single most common thread of all successful people - they faced their fear and did it anyway. Whenever we do this we become fearless. Kinda sorta…
After living in Houston for 20 years as a motivational speaker and professional piano entertainer, I was of the opinion that life was pretty good, in spite of pesky hurricanes and high humidity that makes for bad hair days.ARTArticleFAILURE'S NOT AN OPTION. NEVER GIVE UPFAILURES NOT AN OPTION:
NEVER GIVE UP!
So often we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon.ARTArticleFakin' It? Not Really Makin' It?As I was driving along the Malibu coast Paul Simon's "Fakin' It" blared through the radio. I had the volume cranked because I had the top down and was singing loudly and badly along with the song. It's such fun to let go and sing, especially if the sound of your voice could turn wine into vinegar, but I digress.
When I screeched the verse:
"I've just been fakin' it,
I'm not really makin' it.
This feeling of fakin' it-
I still haven't shaken it."ARTArticleFall In Love Again...Never stop doing what you did to fall in love.
Today, many relationships fail because we stop doing what we did to fall in love in the beginning. We get in the relationship, we get familiar with our partner, and then we get complacent.ARTArticleFamily Constellations: Fate Is Not PoliteThe room is filled with people. Old, young, men, women, different styles, different postures, open curious faces, closed sceptical ones, intent, cautious, waiting. Bert Hellinger sits calmly at the front of the large, airy room, the well-known smile resting comfortably on his face. We have come to this place because we all want, each for his or her own reasons, to understand something about the family constellations that are the hallmark of Bert Hellinger's Phenomenological Approach to Systemic Solutions.ARTArticleFearLet’s take a close look at the concept of fear.
Not fun, you say? Fear isn’t your problem, you say? Are you sure? Or is that denial talking?
Like many people, I had unconsciously run much of my life based on my fears. I was always finding excuses for my self-defeating behavior, unfortunate circumstances or bad things that happened to me. I procrastinated and blamed my failures on poor planning, someone else’s timing and someone else’s issues.ARTArticleFear or False Evidence Appearing Real?In this lesso
I would like to explore the following questions. What is fear? What are our biggest Fears? and what fears should we look to overcome first? And Finally, I will present you with a session on overcoming your fears in a way that will probably be different than what you may expect.
OK,lets talk about the F word. The Primal fear is the fear of death and probably more so is the fear of dying forever, if you know what I mean. This is the deepest hardwired fear within every human being on the planet.