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ARTArticleManaging Better Work PerformanceManaging Better Work Performance By Bill Cottringer “Compelling trust is the highest form of human motivation” ~Stephen Covey.ARTArticleMANAGING METAPHORS ABOUT LIVING AND DYING FOR EVERYDAY LIFEMANAGING METAPHORS ABOUT LIVING AND DYING FOR EVERYDAY LIFE Byr Bill Cottringer “Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.” ~M.H. Abrams. Metaphors: Creative communication of words that magically simplify huge, complex realities into smaller, common denominators for easier consumption, ironically exploding into infinite possibilities for application in everyday living.ARTArticleMarketing Mistakes You Do NOT Want to MakeMarketing is something most wellness practitioner’s dread. It can be not only confusing but extremely frustrating as well. The greatest fear is spending too much time and money on advertisements that bring little or no new clients/patients. Marketing your business does not need to be difficult though. If you avoid the following common marketing mistakes you will find attracting and retaining clients much easier.ARTArticleMaster Your Future - Become An Idea Creator"A man with a supply of idea fears nothing for he has become the master of his own fate." - Robert P. Crawford How do you use your mind to create ideas that open the floodgates to other opportunities? One way is to set an intention to create a great idea and then to follow the thought up with action. Did you know that your mind is the most awesome tool in the universe? If you didn't, consider the following, your mind can create medicines that save hundreds of thousands of lives, or it can destroy as many souls by the creation of deadly biological substances.ARTArticleMaximizing Value in Life“What value can I offer today?” I often ask myself this question to put myself in the frame of mind of service. Not that I really need to be reminded that the career that I have chosen for myself as a life coach is one of service, but to put myself in the frame of mind of creating value for others daily. Before I could do that freely, however, I had to understand what value really means.rARTArticleMemorization Vs. PreparationThe Art of Using Notes I’m often surprised that many speakers still fall prey to the fallacy that preparation means memorization — and that bringing notes to the podium might make you appear ill-prepared in the eyes of your audience.ARTArticleMentors Make MagicI like to ask people what it is that they that want in their life. I mean, here's what a seminar offers you: the BMW or Bentley that you want or whatever it is; the house or castle. It offers you the ability to write a check for your children's education instead of sweating, taking notes, and mortgaging your future at a time when you might be nearing retirement. The fulfillment of travel will always come up high. Would you like to visit different countries in the world? In other words, it's everything you want to do, including helping poor people.ARTArticleMillion Dollar Thinking HabitsWhat is a million dollar thinker, anyway? Million dollar thinkers think about things like money and making decisions in a different way from the average person, using both the conscious and the subconscious mind. As an example: suppose you were $10,000 in debt. The average person would focus on the debt, how to pay it, how to get out of it. They may take on a second job to pay the debt. The focus, no matter what, would be on the debt. A million dollar thinker, on the other hand, would take that same situation and look at it 180 degrees differently.ARTArticleMindfulness Meditation: Live in Peace, Not PiecesInner peace is closer than you realize. You don't have to do any thing. In fact, it is your tendency to need to do something that is driving peace of mind out of reach. We have been taught to separate our self into pieces. Be one way at home and one way at office. One way at church or temple and one way with our friends.ARTArticleMLM Lead Generation - Become an Expert Through Article MarketingMLM lead generation does not have to be hard, and article marketing is one of the best ways to get leads to come to you. When you consider spending your money would you rather spend your money from somebody who is considered an expert, or with someone who does not know as much? Considering your position, wouldn't you buy from the expert? Most likely you would agree with most people and purchase from the expert.ARTArticleMLM Marketing Lead - Using Twitter to Gain MLM Success!Anyone who is going to be building a network marketing business online knows that building relationships and building lists of people are two main goals. These include part of the foundation of MLM success. Online, we do this, at least in part, by web 2 . 0 on sites that include MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Here I would like to give attention to Twitter as a means of getting a mlm marketing lead. Twitter is really a relatively new web 2 .ARTArticleModeling Not on The CatwalkWe were having friends over for dinner again. The lovely aroma of food and sound of the wok clanging was like a cacophony of sounds I was used to. Mum was the ultimate entertainer. She loved to cook and did it effortlessly. It was very usual for our family to have friends and family over for meals. As a child I looked forward to hearing that my favourite cousins were invited for a sleepover. It was our little reward that Dad afforded us. The deal was that we had to complete our homework for the week before they arrived on Saturday. That was Dad's strict rule.ARTArticleMoney on the Spiritual BattlefieldWhat is your relationship with money? There's a good chance it has a somewhat sordid tinge to it. Most of us are a bit ashamed to talk about how we really feel about it. We'd rather talk about details of our sexual intimacies, than our real relationship with money. Our deep, intimate relationship with money is really just like any other relationship. And, it is spiritual.ARTArticleMore Strategies for Effortless Business SuccessYou may have already my article "Strategies for Effortless Business Success" - with the emphasis on the word effortless. In this follow up article, I want to explore what I mean by success - because most "normal" people really haven't got the first clue what the word actually means in the context of their everyday lives.ARTArticleMore Than a Pink RibbonIf you have ever had a journey with Breast Cancer, you know that it is much more than a pink ribbon. Many of the women that I have spoken with had resented the pink ribbon at one point or another. “You feel so overwhelmed with everything, the doctors, treatments, medication and then you have people giving you gifts with a pink ribbon on it.”rARTArticleMore Than The Law Of AttractionYou know, when people ask about the Law of Attraction, I tell them, "Oh yeah, it's definitely the truth." But what confuses a lot of people is that they picked up on this one law, and somehow believed it was the whole truth. Now, you know better than that. There are myriad laws operating. For instance, there's the Law of Gravity. You can't pick the Law of Gravity and say that the universe operates exclusively according to that law. No, the universe operates according to it and a multitude of other laws.ARTArticleMotivation and ConfidenceMotivation and Confidencer Motivation is the amount of or level of desire to accomplish a specified outcome. Confidence is the perception of one’s abilities to succeed inrnthe fulfillment of the specified outcome. Both are related to the same outcome. However, and this is a critical distinction, even though both are directed at a future outcome, confidence is generated from past experiences and motivation is generated from anticipation of a future result. Let’s start with motivation. This is something I would say to a student after we have identified their academic goal.ARTArticleMoxie Up! The Secret to Extraordinary SuccessMoxie Up! The Secret to Extraordinary Success What do those who achieve extraordinary success – Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, Bette Midler, Mary Kay Ash, Angelina Jolie, Howard Stern, Danica Patrick, Ellen DeGeneres and Aunti Mame have in common? Moxie Those who rise above mere success to create an extraordinary life have the guts, fortitude, the confident courage to achieve authentic greatness with unrelenting drive and passion.ARTArticleNatural Pregnancy - Strategies to Help You fall PregnantA natural pregnancy is when an embryo is conceived free of fertility drugs, medical intervention or IVF. To fall pregnant naturally lots of chemical and physical transformations happen inside you. For both partners backing up yourself naturally and in a holistic manner can mean falling pregnant naturally. A pregnancy is not be only the mother to be's responsibility and both parents to be can increase the chances of a natural pregnancy by following some simple guidelines. For the male partner, drink and cigarettes can greatly decrease sperm count.ARTArticleNetwork Marketing Online, 3 Ways to Get Your StartMany individuals know and understand the capacity of the internet. Still the question is asked, can you do network marketing online? The answer is a unambiguous, YES! There are so many new opportunities to do network marketing and the internet has only expounded on those opportunities. What were the normal ways people people advertise their network marketing business? They were told to go to their friends and family.ARTArticleNeuroscience of Leadership: Making Change EasierChange is the theme of our times. We can either embrace it and proactively create the change we want to see or allow it to randomly come upon us. Either way, change will continue to be a part of our lives. Neuroscience can help us as leaders to learn how to optimally operate our truly amazing brain. Change is an art as much as it is a science. We need to integrate our whole brain and mind. Both hemispheres are involved in the creative process. We have been repressing and leaving out our 'art' side - the right brain.ARTArticleNever let your career stop!Achieving the Highest Career Heights "Career Development is a continuous process. At every stage of your career, you need a bit of extra push to go further," says Hammad Siddiqui in his latest book Bootstrapping Your Career. Here is how to take your career higher. Are you getting the most out of your life? Get more out of your job, business and life by bootstrapping your career. Developing all you have got to the max and navigating social media for business growth, personal and professional success, enlightenment and satisfaction lie at the heart of Bootstrapping Your Career.rARTArticleNew Book "One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity By Following Your Dreams" Guides Readers Through Stories, Self-Assessments, and Jou alingAre you looking for a vehicle to break through the roadblocks and detours that have sidetracked you on life's highway? Entrepreneurs Tom Ingrassia and Jared Chrudimsky provide a step-by-step guide in their new book, One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity By Following Your Dreams. One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity By Following Your Dreams presents the inspiring stories of sixteen people who have triumphed over seemingly insurmountable odds in order to live into their dreams and achieve their goals. Many are sharing their stories publicly for the first time.ARTArticleNo More New Years Resolutions2009 went fast didn't it? How did you do? Each year millions of people have a reaction to the transition of one year to the next. Some people are happy with their results. Others want something to change. Some people exceeded their goals and are excited for their next results. Others are struggling to make ends meet, find love, drop those extra pounds. Some will be glad the year is over. Some will end the year with regrets. 2010 is being pronounced by many as Twenty-Ten, and is recognized at the beginning of a new decade.ARTArticleNo More StressMost people will always find something to stress them out – their job, their boss, their financial situation, their husband, their wife, their boyfriend or girlfriend, their teenage children, their health, their golf, their holidays! I have one client who telephoned my one day a few years back to tell me that he was stressed out. When I enquired what the perceived problem might be, he told me “I’m stressed out because I’ve nothing to be stressed out about!” Seriously!ARTArticleNo More Stress or DepressionThe World Health Organisation believes that stress will be the biggest killer of the 21st century. UK Government statistics indicate that over 15 million workdays were lost in 2008 due to stress. In the US, the National Institute for Occupational Safety predicts that depression will be the leading occupational disease of the 21st century. The same organisation regularly publishes reports on the affects of stress on heart disease, accidental injury in the workplace, etc., etc.ARTArticleNo Pain No GainThose words were drummed into me by my father so many times, I long ago stopped counting up the reasons why he said what he said. Despite the untruth of them, after a while, they started to sink in. Do anything long enough, and it will become your habit, even the phrases you think with, and that influence the way you feel about your life. For the first forty years of my life, his words determined how I felt, what I did, and how I reacted to circumstances, but not in the way he would have liked them to, I am certain.ARTArticleNo TimeI want you to try an experiment. This will take just 10 minutes. There is something important that will come out of this for you to realize. First, turn your cell phone off and your computer off and leave it off for 10 minutes, print this page out first. You cannot cheat on this experiment. You have to go the full ten minutes. Now, don’t be tempted to grab it and turn it on. Don’t make up excuses about expecting an important phone call or email.ARTArticleNow Moments, Part 1"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed." - Corita Kent Is today's business environment wearing you out, making you wish you had never risked so much to start up or remain in your business? While going to work for someone else in an undemanding, unchallenging, yet stable job may seem tempting, you know you were made for more than that. Let's see if we can help you get back some of that energy you had when you first started your business journey. What if your life was someone else's?ARTArticleOnly You Can Keep You Down!Life has a way of wearing on you. Sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don’t. Regardless if life has knocked you down, or someone has, it is up to you to get back up! One million bad things could have happened to you, but it is up to you to stand back up. When you do get back up, it will be much harder for anything to knock you back down again.

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