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ARTArticleTime And The Success EquationThe Ring That Rules Them All
Few of us understand the importance of time. We take it for granted, and once we take something for granted we no longer give it our attention, we no longer wonder about it and in so doing, we deny ourselves the deeper understanding necessary to take advantage of the power of time. If this idea is new to you then it is all the proof you need that you have taken time for granted and do not understand its importance, especially as it applies to successful achievement.ARTArticleTime Management is a MythTime can’t be managed. It ticks inexorably forward, second by second. The phrase "time management" is really just a catch-all to describe how we get things done. The sum of all we get done is our productivity. Thus, we’re talking about productivity, and, in this case, individual productivity.ARTArticleTips For Raising Self Esteem And Self ConfidenceThe Negative ProgrammingARTArticleTop 5 Tips for Spring Closet CleaningAs a professional image consultant one of the things that always amazes me is how many clothes professionals own that they never wear. Women tend to wear only 25 percent of their wardrobes, and men wear 85 percent of the clothes in their closets. That statistic indicates that women like to go shopping and buy items as an experience and an event, whereas men tend to only purchase what they need. But having all those extra clothes hanging in the closet only interferes with getting dressed in the morning.ARTArticleTop Self Improvement Tools In Bussiness And In Life!I would like to list some of the best books and audiobooks that I recommend for anyone who is looking to have more success in business and in life. At the top of the list would be Tony Robbins, Personal Power, The 30 day program. Let Tony act as a life coach anytime you are needing a quick pick me up or need to overcome any challenge you face in life. Tony addresses health, wealth and happiness.
Napolean Hill, Think and Grow Rich. Read a lifelong study of what has made some of Americas most successful individual, successful.ARTArticleTrain Your Elephant Train Your MindThe Unruly Mind
Learning how to free ourselves from the tyranny of the unruly mind is not easy. Most of us have been the victims of the chaos of our own mind for so long that we don't even recognize that there is a need to do anything about it. What problem? Yet in a very real sense we are slaves to an endless dance of impulsive reaction to the thoughts generated by our mind and the emotions that those thoughts initiate.ARTArticleTrust is Granted Not EarnedHow easily do you grant your trust to other people? What factors play into your ability or inability to trust cert
ain individuals around you? What do people need to do to ea
your trust?rARTArticleVulnerable LeadershipVulnerable and leadership are not usually two words or concepts we put together. Most of us, myself included, have been taught that to be a "good leader" we have to be strong, convicted, and confident. "Never let 'em see you sweat," we've been told.
However, I believe it's time for those of us who want to inspire, motivate, and lead others to step into our role as a leader with transparency, honesty, and vulnerability. As Mother Teresa said, "Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."ARTArticleWant Happy Kids? - Teach them to take their time!I just read an astonishing article. It gives us one of the keys to happiness. And we all want our kids to be happy! What makes people happy? What leads people to say they are satisfied with their lives? Is it money? - NO! It's time. Having time leads to happiness.ARTArticleWant to be Rich? Acquire a Money ConsciousnessIf you’re not presently happy with your financial lot in life, I’m going to suggest that your inability to manage money is the culprit.
As a kid I was always told; “Look after the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.”ARTArticleWant What You HaveRecently someone said to me, "Mike, I read the best book of my life a few years ago. It only had four words in it, 'want what you have'."
As simple of a concept as this is, I was struck by its wisdom and began to think about it in my own life. Sadly, as I thought about it more deeply, I realized that I put more of my attention and energy tha
I'd like to admit on either wanting things I don't yet have or thinking that some of what I have isn't quite good enough the way it is. Can you relate?ARTArticleWe are Designed to be Beautiful MosaicsVirginia Woolf stated, "Arrange whatever pieces come your way, and make it work for you."
I was talking to one of my favorite girlfriends in Califo
ia one recent Saturday night about emotions, feelings, and life happenings. We all go through trials, challenges, joys, happiness, pain, and tears in the course of our lives. We mentioned how we all are broken pieces. Our hearts get wounded not once, but over and over again. The wounds are like broken pieces.ARTArticleWe Are Not Our BodiesI shaved my head again last week. This is the fourth time in the past five years I've done this. As has been the case for me before - it feels both liberating and vulnerable. My hair has been thinning for about ten years (most significantly in the past two or three) and, as I've written about a few times previously, this has caused me a great deal of fear, insecurity, and self criticism. These feelings are not new and aren't specifically related to my thinning hair (although it is definitely something that triggers them for me in an intense way).ARTArticleWe squawk for change – but we don’t really mean it!The sharpest decline in billings, in 2009, occurred. Billings declined 7.5%, now that’s the sharpest decline since 1944!
And cracks are starting to appear in the already complex relationship betwee
Agencies and Clients.
Everybody appears to be getting in everybody else’s business, which is confusing for Clients and creates new competition for Agencies.
One problem is compensation. Go back 10, 15 years ago and people knew how
to pay a traditional Agency, but now it’s very hard. What do you pay to get someone to set up a Facebook page?ARTArticleWhat Course are YOU on?What course are you on?
Are you consciously on any course? Or, are you drifting and going wherever the tide, the winds, and the currents take you?
If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?
Just like your life, a ship can change it’s course by one degree and end up on a different continent. Small changes in course result in huge changes over time.
You don’t have to change the world in one day, nor do you have to become a new person in one day. But, you can make the most important change in course in an instant.
You’re overweight.ARTArticleWhat does the Guru Blueprint course teach?Guru Blueprint runs you step by step from identifying your strengths to developing products around them to launching and selling them online with high profits.
And what makes this possible?
It begins with a video you can access for free from below here. The video will expose you to the huge market open before you, and to a very special format that's going to help you unlock your latent strengths. Dive in to it now.
What follows is a mapping of the markets and audiences that would like to buy products based on your newly identified strengths.ARTArticleWhat Makes You Come Alive?Harold Whitman wrote:
"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Do you know what makes you come alive?ARTArticleWhen Is ASAP?Our 24×7 world has a rash … a rash of ASAP. It’s highly contagious and seems to strike from the top of the organizational chart and move down. Everyone has been afflicted by this rash and most have inflicted it on others.
By Any Other Name
Identifying the ASAP rash is not hard. Here is a list of symptoms:
* It almost always originates in the workplace. However, it has made inroads into some unfortunate home environments as well.
* The problem often appears in its native form - ASAP - but be on the lookout for its other forms, such as Now or Immediately.ARTArticleWhen You Aren't Satisfied With What Is Manifesting In Your Life, Open Your EyesYou have an energetic set point at this very moment. If you're not content with what is showing up in your life, you MUST be able to own your intentions – take one-hundred percent ownership and then you can change it. The Universe is not dropping things on your head because of a past life. You don't need to be a good little girl and give yourself to someone else before you can attract your perfect life. It isn't that way!ARTArticleWhy Be More Creative?"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono
Q. Really, what’s the big deal about being more creative? Why would I want to be?
A.ARTArticleWhy Employees’ Leisure Interests are Good for BusinessRemember the last time a long-term employee left your organization? Remember all the valuable things he/she could do that weren’t required in their job specification? The unofficial event organizer, counselor, mediator, computer whizz, to name just a few. Sometimes the person is remembered more for those reasons than for the work they were paid to do.ARTArticleWhy Get Organized?We sometimes forget our reasons to get organized once we realize it is a long-haul investment. Our reasons like “to make the house look better” quickly dissipate when all our efforts have brought us full circle back to the place we started three weeks ago. If we don’t understand the lasting motivators to get organized, we may become disheartened along our organizing journey.
Experience Peace of MindARTArticleWhy We Procrastinate and How to Beat ProcrastinationWhen the goal is to beat the procrastination habit, it's best to really understand what causes procrastination in the first place...
The art of breaking any negative habit and replacing it with a more positive habit, begins by understanding why we developed the negative habit in the first place.ARTArticleWords Matter by Dena Hurst, Ph.D and Ray Jorgensen, Ph.D, an excerpt from their book, Oracle of the Obvious: Secrets to Common Sense LeadershipBecause they are so powerful, words must be chosen carefully. Words are much more than letters strung together. They are the means by which we convey our thoughts to one another. Words touch all of our senses. They have a rhythm we can feel and hear. They evoke pictures in our minds. They help us recall memories, sights and smells and experiences. Like most other disciplines, leadership has its own language and to communicate as a leader is to speak in that language.
Much of the traditional language of leadership has relied on metaphors from sports or the military.ARTArticleWork-Life Balance Requires ChangeI called my Nanna today. It’s the first time I’ve talked with her in months and the only time in years I’ve called her voluntarily. That is, usually my Mom waits until I’m visiting her, then she dials Nanna up and hands me the phone.
Actually, today was only semi-voluntarily since my Mom left a message on my voice mail this morning “reminding” me it was Grandpa’s birthday. Mom’s good like that, I’m not. You see, my Grandpa doesn’t know he’s 92 today. Hell, he doesn’t even know it’s Wednesday.ARTArticleWriting Yourself Happy“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” - E. L. Doctorow
I have written and spoken many times about strategies for creating authentic happiness, and the recurring theme has always been “Happiness is not something you can pursue; it is who you are”.ARTArticleYour Big Experiment“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.” - Albert Einstein
Over the years it has become apparent to me that for many people on a journey of personal development or spiritual path, the subject of science often doesn't sit very well. It is as if taking a scientific approach to living in the world somehow devalues the ‘art’ of living and finding true fulfillment.ARTArticleYour Inner SummerIt's that time of year again... That time of year when we take time out, time away, time to enjoy nature and all of the beauty around us and within us. Whether we spend summer in the city or in Tuscany, we experience time differently. The summer gives us an inner summer experience of immersing ourselves in the happiness of now.ARTArticle“Sound bites?” Why do I need to know this?You may already be familiar with the term, “sound bite:”
A sound bite is a phrase that can be pulled intact from an original broadcast and re-used in another venue. So what is the value of a good sound bite? Let’s assume that a good sound bite is about 30 seconds long. We know that 30 seconds can still give you time to get your message across, or at least peak curiosity; think of the best “elevator speech” or mini commercial that you may use in a networking atmosphere.ARTArticle“That’s Just how I Am”, Why you may want to change before mainstream media runs away with youPerception of behavior is innate, we have been evaluating behavior and movement since our cave dwelling ancestors relied upon disce
ment for survival. Actually, in some ways we still rely on acumen for our well being on a daily basis, but now we may not even realize what we are doing. Working with my clients on camera there are times when it may be hard for them to understand that certain behavior or even part of their story may be the wrong thing for mainstream media.