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ARTArticleResults: From Hope To HaveEvery path toward achieving any result is a process. An honest evaluation of this process is critical to producing results. Measurements must be made to determine if we are doing what we say we want to do, and achieving what we say we want to achieve. Either we are getting the job done, or it ...ARTArticleResurrecting The Johari Window“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer.
This article is both a description of failing and a prescription of succeeding. Back in the early seventies two therapists ...ARTArticleRetain and Attract Customers in 2012I have noticed a scary decline in the level of customer service offered around the globe, in most businesses, in the past few years. Seems the tighter the economy, the less emphasis was placed on what should have been the critical element for sustainable success – retaining and attracting customers!ARTArticleRisk Taking And The Quality Of Our Livesn I was watching a DVD the other night, The Astronaut Farmer, and it really made me think. As implausible as the actual story was, the myth it portrayed in human terms was of great value. Perhaps the very implausibility of the story was what made the truth behind the myth stand out to ...ARTArticleSales InnovationLife is accelerating. Product life cycles are shrinking. Corporations must re-invent themselves every 3.5 years. Innovation is not a nice-to-have but a must-have. Historically new product development has been driven by marketing or engineering. There are several levels of innovation within new ...ARTArticleSanity Saver #11: Balance Being and DoingRemember when your mother or father said, “If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well”? Well it’s not quite that black and white, especially not today. There are very few things worth doing well and there are an endless number of things not worth doing at all. But in between are numerous ...ARTArticleSanity Saver #8: Set LimitsIn order to restore your sanity you have to know what your bottom line is. You may be wondering, how do you determine this? Surprisingly your feelings, especially feelings of anger, frustration and resentment are messengers that will bring you valuable information.
Anger often signals that you ...ARTArticleSanity Savers For The HolidaysSanity Savers for the Holidays
Sanity Saver#1. Remember What’s Important.
Remind your family members about what the true meaning of the holiday’s are, compassion, generosity of spirit, gratitude and giving. Suggest a gift exchange in which each family member randomly chooses someone for whom ...ARTArticleScheherazade (Shahrazad): Sowing good is never lostDO YOU HAVE A MENTOR?
Mentors can be from the past, present or even fictional. Shahrazad is strictly fictional but I feel she could be real – a composite character of realness, and she is my mentor because for me she is real.
PARALLELS WITH LIFE
Fiction can be so real because it draws upon real life. This is how it was in olden times or with a composite character – it is so real.
DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS
In olden times Kings had the divine right to execute their wives and if the Queen was unfaithful that was high treason and a capital offence.
OFF WITH HER HEAD!rARTArticleSCHEHERAZADE SUCCESSTHE GREATEST LOVE/HATE STORY
The most wonderful love story is the story of Scheherazade. The king had been betrayed by his first wife and he proceeded to take his anger out on a new bride who after the first night would always be beheaded. Some 1,000 women suffered the same fate until a feisty young lady came along, despite protests by her father, and thought she could avoid this grizzly fate.
PERFECT PLANNINGrARTArticleSeal The Deal More Effectively!Seal the Deal more Effectively!
4 Week Blog
Suzi Pomerantz, Executive Coach and author of Seal the Deal, blogs about how sales people can short-circuit the sales process and be more efficient in closing sales.
How do you coach sales reps to be more effective in closing sales?
If by effective ...ARTArticleSecrets To Advertising Your BusinessHave you tried advertising as a marketing strategy to grow your business? Did it work? If not, you may have missed one, or all, of the following components of effective advertising. You must advertise in the right places, place ads the right number of times, and have the right ad.
It is key ...ARTArticleSeek to Soar! - and the inspiration of positive jou
aling"The creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.” - Orison Swett Marden
I want to share with you the magical art of positive jou
aling.
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” and the strange truth about jou
aling is that it brings unexpected and profound treasures. When we journal (and I am not talking about keeping a diary of events, but about free-flowing, expressive writing) we confront those innermost workings of our being. In doing so, we are presented with three powerful gifts:
- ClarityARTArticleSegal's LawSegal's Law says this:
A man with one watch always knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure.
Many have heard this before reading it here. What does it mean, though?
That was the goal I had in mind when I wrote THE MASTER KEY WORKBOOK ...ARTArticleSelf Help Success SecretsThere are many people in the U.S. who have made a concerted effort to do all that they can to improve their lives through self help techniques. The poor state of the economy and incredibly high rate of foreclosures and unemployment seems to have forced people’s hands to try new ways to make their lives better for their families.ARTArticleSelf-Acceptance and Confidence Make Business Networking EasierFace it—social networking is not a new concept; it’s ancient. Human beings are social creatures and in-person contact cannot be replaced in its entirety by online social networking. I’ve thought about this before, and today I read an article in Fast Company on the topic. Skype is certainly closer to in-person networking than any of the three big social media platforms—Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn—yet in-person networking has many benefits. Here are three:ARTArticleSelf-Discovery: Keeping a journalWriting is a good way to get to know yourself, solve your problems, lower your stress level, and balance yourself emotionally. If you are new to this, buy a notebook to begin keeping a journal, not a diary, a journal. What is the difference? A diary reports events and usually makes sense if another were going to read it. A journal, on the other hand, is about your emotional reactions to people and events, insights you have in understanding yourself, lists of your needs, wants, values, and goals.ARTArticleSelf-Esteem in the WorkplaceThe group you work with has a level of self-esteem based on the composite self-esteem levels of the individuals in the group. We each take to the workplace (works the same in families) our level of awareness, which includes such things as our understanding of ourselves and others, our communication skills, our ability to have realistic expectations for ourselves and others, our degree of maintaining a positive attitude, and our ability to stay in present-time and not let past hurts be projected onto others.ARTArticleSelf-Love and Compassion Are Good For You – Finally Some Research!Self-love and compassion are things I have intermittently blogged about for three years now. I typically include the disclaimer that I’m not referring to “narcissism” or “conceit” because, believe it or not, that’s the way it is defined in some reference dictionaries! Finally, some research for the skeptics who are unwittingly killing themselves with all of their self-rejection and “logic-only” thinking.ARTArticleSelf-Love is Narcissism; Really?Self-love gets a bum rap. Why? It’s because of the way we define it as a culture, and since “perception is reality,” we start to believe that this is “just the way life is.” I looked up the definition of “self-love” on Dictionary.com, and it is defined as:
1. the instinct by which one’s actions are directed to the promotion of one’s own welfare or well being, especially an excessive regard for one’s own advantage.
2. conceit; vanity.
3. narcissismARTArticleSet your Mindset for Success Instead of SabotageThe mindset “not good enough” or “not enough” is blamed on our brain as if it is the brain’s fault. There’s a great reason why you want to take responsibility for this and not once again blame it on something you think you cannot control. The reason is you are not likely to change what you believe you can’t control. You can change your brain, your perception of how you see life.ARTArticleSetting The Power Of IntentionOnce we know what intention is, and is not, this distinction allows us to become specifically aware of its location in our bodies. Just like no one puts their shoes up in the same way when they get home, everyone has a different place where they store the energy of their intentions. This ...ARTArticleSetting Your Relationship Up for SuccessA quarter of thirtysomething couples are unhappy in their relationships, a new study shows. Just 51% of thirtysomething couples said they were “very happy” in their relationship, with the remainder saying they were “quite happy” but would like to see improvements.
While ...ARTArticleSeven Great Benefits of ReadingI read something the other day that was extremely disturbing. Apple founder Steve Jobs was quoted as saying…
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, people don t read anymore. Forty percent of people in the U.S read one book(1) or less last year.”
To me, this is a VERY SAD ...ARTArticleSEVEN HELPING PILLARSSEVEN HELPING PILLARSnBy
William Cottringer, Ph.D.nnn“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.” ~Dr. Seuss.nnn We are all born with an innate desire to be successful and help others. There is wisdom in the saying, “you can best help ...ARTArticleSEVEN MANAGEMENT “SINS” THAT WON’T GO AWAYSEVEN MANAGEMENT “SINS” THAT WON’T GO AWAY
Byr
Bill Cottringer
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."rn~Immanuel Kant.
There are seven “sins” that plague all managers from time to time and which even the best MBA trained managers like to deny they exist, at least in their own toolboxes. But the truth is that these “sins” do exist and are not likely to disappear and so they are a very real problem for employees to deal with. Of course it helps to accept and understand two important realities about these seven sins:ARTArticleSeven Simple Reality Repair RulesSeven Simple Reality Repair RulesnBy
William Cottringer, Ph.D.nnn“Reality is what persists and accumulates when you finally see past what you think you are looking at.” ~The author.
The modern science of quantum physics have proved a remarkable paradigm-shifting truth that has enormous ...ARTArticleSeven Things Relationship Counselors Usually Won't Tell YouSEVEN THINGS RELATIONSHIP COUNSELORS USUALLY WON’T TELL YOU
By Bill Cottringe
nn Now I realize that this article is going to rile a few people in the relationship counseling profession, but I will at least try to speak the truth gently and kindly. I have been there, done that and paid my ...ARTArticleSharing The Secret of Single-MindednessSHARING THE SECRET OF SINGLE-MINDEDNESSnby
Bill Cottringe
nn The most important gift a leader can share is the illusive secret of single-mindedness. No organization can flourish with consistent growth, abundant prosperity and genuine success without single-mindedness of purpose and effort. ...ARTArticleShow 'em What You've GotI still remember the smell of that audition room… musty and slightly sweet. It feels like it was yesterday when I went for my first professional audition. The producer had flown out here to the tip of Africa all the way from the United States to come and find the right performers to play the ...