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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Putting your ideas into action
- Ideas are everywhere. Some are small and seemingly insignificant. Others are big giant ideas with the chance to change large portions of our lives. Each idea that we encounter, whether we create the idea, synthesize it from somewhere else, or hear it, is a possible opportunity.A possible opportunity.It doesn't matter how promising, exciting or applicable the idea is, or how big of an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Become an idea collector
- Have you ever gotten a really great idea ? one that you knew would solve a problem, but when you went to apply it, you couldn't remember the idea? Have you ever read a book and then six months later needed some information or an idea from it, but can't recall which book or exactly what the concept was?I've found that people collect just about anything from McDonald's Happy Meal toys to rare...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is nlp?
- NLP Explained.....NLP is the study of how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do. The co-creators' of NLP, John Grinder & Richard Bandler had an insatiable desire to discover and replicate the structure of excellent performers' behavioural patterns and teach others to do the same, short circuiting the years of development and learning ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What dreams will come!
- As the pioneers of aviation took to the air (not skies), in their human powered mechanical contraptions, what must have been said and thought?Complicated pulleys and chain systems enclosing a lunatic, perhaps!Or overly optimistic cyclists with designs above their head, even.Yet they left us with the beginnings of international and inter-planetary travel, its' destinations, phy...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is mans next step like a can of potted meat?
- Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? For years, predictions have indicated that humanity is readying itself for a golden age, a so called new age that is right around the corner just waiting to roll in. According to these forecasts, the air we breath will be clean and our environment pure. Hunger, starvation and disease will be eliminated. Most importantly, we will finally experience the peac...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seeking initiative and innovation? reward failure!
- Based on Proprietary Research"If you want to increase initiative and innovation, you have to encourage and embrace failure. A culture that punishes less-than-ideal risk-related outcomes will stifle both initiative and innovation".Prevailing in the face of intense competition requires companies to be nimble and innovative.An innovative and high-initiative culture helps an organ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Improve your small talk - gain big dividends!
- Do you hate to make small talk? If so, you have lots of company.You may find small talk irritating, predictable, mind-numbingly boring.Yet, learning to play the small talk game can have lots of good benefits. You will have a much better chance of succeeding in making new friends, and advancing in your career if you can master the major art of making small talk.Small talk is th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Life ? the teacher
- You've probably heard the phrase "repetition is the mother of learning" well apparently it's also the mother of teaching. Often it seems, Life ? The Teacher uses the tool of repetition to imprint into our brains the lessons it's needing to impart to us. At least this has been my experience.It has become clear to me that life gives the same tests over, and over and over again until we demons...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Harness the power of skill sets and mindsets
- When you have a problem, sometimes you need a new skill or skill set to deal with it. That was an epiphany generated from listening to a speaker the other day. Everything seemed so clear in that moment. Yes, it made sense.Sometimes when you wrestle with problems, you might not see an immediate solution and you struggle to find one. After a while, you might give up completely, thinking that ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The 99 percent rule
- It's Friday night, you're sitting at a restaurant, and as your meal arrives, the server says, "Now, don't touch that plate. It's hot." What's the first thing you do?Well, 99% of the time you're going to touch that plate, right?I call it the 99% rule. It's closer to 100%, but I give myself a little "out" for those who wish to find a loophole in it.After years of studying human ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Perfectionism - the dangerous trap!
- Just when I have something figured out, along comes another how-to-article telling me how to be or do something better or even change my entire life. No matter where I turn, I am constantly reminded that I am not good enough in more ways than one. I am not smart enough, not rich enough, not slim enough, not efficient enough, not pretty enough, not powerful enough, not "with it" enough an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating opportunity
- An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It's to be skilled enough...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to turn nothing into something
- Excerpted from the Jim Rohn Weekend Seminar-Excelling in the New Millennium)Have you ever wondered how to turn nothing into something?First, in order to turn nothing into something, you've got to start with some ideas and imagination.Now, it might be hard to call ideas and imagination nothing; but how tangible are those ideas? That is a bit of a mystery. I don't believe that i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Let the seeds grow
- The thought that every great thing that has ever happened, been spoken or invented began first with a single idea is not a new one, but one I don't think many people have taken to heart.I find that many people are constantly getting ideas. That is their mind is producing many new thoughts on a regular basis. This is incredible because that means that the seeds for great things are right the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Can we change people?
- There was a class of "challenged" children and many teachers were brought in over time but each one ended up quitting in frustration. Finally, a teacher was brought in and a miracle happened. That class of students ended up becoming a group of happy, well- behaved and good students. What happened?From the time that teacher entered the classroom, she refused to see the children as they appea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Befriend your budget, this yuletide and always
- It is that time of year again. Yuletide?Christmas in the air. Nostalgia, goose pimples and casting off all financial discipline. It was originally meant to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. Joy to the world, and good will to all men?Then the commercial establishment descended and hijacked the season. Coca Cola dug into the archives, fished out Saint Nicholas, dressed him in Coca Cola c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Business ideas ? need a new idea? try changing your perspective
- One definition of creativity states that creative people look at the same thing everyone else does, yet they see something no one else does.But even creative people (which includes all of you, of course) can run into roadblocks every now and then. Sometimes it's not possible to see something different. Sometimes you've just been staring at a problem for so long it's now impossible to look a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accelerate your learning
- Although you may not currently be a student, learning is a life long process. Perhaps you need to learn something new for your job, or you would like to learn a new language before you take a vacation abroad, or you want to "brush up" on math so you can help your children with their homework. For many of us school and/or learning were not pleasant experiences, so we may hesitate to attem...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Imagination
- Imagination is the unreal, real state of mind, where all things are experienced as real. Imagination is powerful and is an intermediary step between thought and word. Thoughts are experienced in the imagination before they are manifested into physical reality.As important as this step is in the process of creating, it is the least explored on a conscious level. It is the easiest step to mov...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - I just want to be free - i just want to be me!
- It was a sunny Saturday in April 2003 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The Carolina-blue sky seemed to kiss the wavy waters as the gentle wind embraced the beach. After enjoying the beach for a while with my 16-year old daughter and husband, one by one, they ventured off to find a spot on the beach away from the water.I stood close to the water barely wetting my feet and totally mesmerized ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Set yourself up for success!
- Set Yourself Up For Success!~ By Fran Briggs Here's a great way to program and set yourself up for success in advance. It is one of many of what I call, New Empowering Habit Plans (TM). A New Empowering Habit Plan is a formula for achieving success in any given area of your life. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Peace alliance vs. fighting a battle
- We read in the press about the "War on Drugs" and the "Battle of the Bulge". Television tells us to fight the flu, legal battles or the war in Haiti. Our doctors tell us we are fighting cancer or in a battle with obesity.These messages leave us in a continuous struggle to survive. Bacteria are smart as they mutate two generations ahead of the latest antibiotic. Bugs and weeds adapt to the l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Starving for intimacy
- Some are seeking love in a bottle. Others look for it on the streets and many are trying to find it in their food.Most of our food is grown on acres of land, sprayed by airplanes, cut by machines, moved by trucks or boats to plants automated to grind, package and ship. It is sent to stores where in bright colored wrappers; we are sold by seduction the richness of this product. We take it ho...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Color your life
- Have you ever arrived at place in your career and wondered how you got there? Have you found yourself stuck, not liking your job, yet not seeing how you can change after investing 15 years at it. Let's take a different perspective and see if you can solve your dilemma through this colorful full spectrum exploration of job and career.Think back to when you began working. You looked at option...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The hidden superpowers of your mind
- The mind is an infinite wonder. It has the fantastic ability to transmute your desires into their physical counterparts. You can do anything that your mind can conceive, as long as you have the belief and will power to back it up. Take the case of cancer patients who were given placebo pills. These are just plain pills that have no healing capabilities.So how did they g...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A french teachers memories: first day at school
- Despite my diplomas that allowed me to teach in state secondary schools, and my requests, I had been appointed to teach to a sixth-grade class. At least, I almost worked in my backyard. The morning classes went smoothly. I knew that my pupils were experiencing many new situations. In primary school, they were all day long in the same classroom with the same teacher, who knew them by their first na...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - New orleans first to experience housing bubble burst
- Are we starting to see the Housing Bubble Burst in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? In New Orleans many homeowner's had their equity literally washed away. They are upside down in negative equity and basically underwater. It appears that the New Orleans Housing marker has gone down the drain. New Orleans experienced significant growth in the past year, prices had increased; many had taken out second...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The army corp of engineers having issues fixing breach
- The Army Corp of engineers is having a tough time filling in the breaches in the levees. They have tried to use giant sand bags to drop into the hole. Three-Thousand pound bags have been dropped into the breach but to no avail. Lake Pontchartrain has a lot of weight behind it and fixing the breach and pumping out the water could take months.I therefore have an idea. Now before you say my id...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bad days and bad timing
- Have you ever noticed how family members always misbehave at the most inappropriate moments? Well, let me tell you, it's not just the little ones that spout off with remarks that make you want to don a cloak of invisibility.My son was just having one of those days. You know those days - when everything goes wrong and you just wish you would've stayed in bed. We all have those days. Some of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dumb luck
- I've never really thought of myself as being funny. I don't have much of a sense of humor at all. My ex-husband used to tell me dumb jokes all the time and I didn't laugh, not even to be polite like everyone else would do. Yet the strange thing is that people who've read some of my life stories have found them to be hilarious. I'm not sure if that's good or bad considering those stories actually h...