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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Aim for your star
- "Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God's universal laws you wi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Embracing excellence
- Joey rises before dawn to pack his lunch, eager for morning to arrive so he can board the city bus that transports him to his job at a souvenir production facility. From 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Joey applies decals to souvenir collector spoons. Much like an artist applying brush to canvas, Joey peels a self-sticking decal from its wrapper, painstakingly centers it over the base of the spoon and ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Invest your inner wealth
- It started out like any other Wednesday - reports to type, telephones to answer, books to balance. When the clock finally struck 4:30 p.m., Lauren locked her desk and wearily made her way to the fast-food café where she waited on tables several evenings a week. As a single mother struggling to make ends meet, Lauren's days were an endless blur of typewriters, ringing telephones an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 steps to derail difficult people - your surefire way to a peaceful resolution
- That one guy at work that always has to be right; your buddy's wife who can't eat anywhere they serve burgers, or the monster-in-law, I mean mother-in-law, with too many opinions for your own good, difficult people, we all know them. So the question is, is there a right and a wrong way to deal with them? The answer is yes, if you want to avoid unnecessary confrontations.First, keep in mind ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 4 underused hot spots for your personal branding iron
- I'll never forget what my mentor told me: "Don't communicate in any way to any person without the stamp of your personal brand."Everyone has a personal brand, whether they know it or not. And everyone has a personal brand, whether they like it or not. But only those who actively and consistently create, maintain and imprint their personal brands on the people with whom they intera...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of storytelling
- Each and every day as we are building our businesses, we all know the key to a successful presentation is a product being sold to the end-line consumer and/or sponsoring a new person. In this article, I am going to show you the difference between making a sale and having customer loyalty in the sales process. In the sales process, you are fighting many different types of animals. For most of us wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - That little bit of extra
- The "little bit extra" is a very powerful concept to put into practice today in every aspect of your life. The difference between being ordinary and being extraordinary is that little bit EXTRA. The little bit extra is what separates average performers from CHAMPIONS!In a sales process, the little bit extra is that one extra follow-up call, that extra sincere thank-you or the extra little b...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Becoming an information filter and a knowledge sponge
- As the title states, "Become an Information Filter and a Knowledge Sponge." On your daily journey to achieve your WHY, you will travel through many different avenues and sometimes you will ask yourself, "Why do I need to meet this person or experience this situation?" The key is to truly understand that you must become an information filter and use your personal God-given filters -- your eyes and ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Context is king!
- If you've been around the Internet for more than two hours, you've probably heard someone say it or write it. If you haven't, you will.Content is King.What they're saying is that the message is what's important on a web page, not spinning logos or dancing exclamation marks. You'll see it trotted out when people ask about new technologies like streaming media and Flash presenta...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Im gonna die my way
- My wife says I have the strangest taste in movies. You see, there are movies I can watch again and again, which she couldn't sit through once. One of them is Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.Dolly plays a country-and-western singer from Tennessee (I know, big stretch, right?) and Sly plays a New York City cabbie.Dolly is under contract to one Freddie Ugo, a lo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is the success lesson in this story?
- One of my clients gave me permission to tell you his story.Jim called me 9 months ago and asked for help.For the last 5 years Jim desperately wanted to leave his 9 to 5 job, but couldn't because the finances weren't there to support his wife and 2 kids. (6 and 9 years old)In February 2001, Jim started reading personal development books and listening to CD's.He got excit...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Nothing is left to chance
- You are going to meet a very important client for lunch. What do you do? If you are anything like Anna the first job is to ensure the outside you is perfect, well dressed, matching clothes, clean shoes, washed in your favourite soaps, perfume. Check yourself many, many times in the mirror, Ask your partner (numerous times)," Do I look right"? "Is everything OK"? Basically, noth...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is coaching for you?
- More and more people have less and less time, but have greater demands both personally and professionally. This situation has resulted in the emergence of personal coaching within four basic areas: Financial, Physical or Fitness, Life or Career and Executive Performance.FINANCIAL COACHES help individuals with the myriad of financial decision facing today's working and retired population. Ju...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Living in the now
- I hope you are sitting down as you read this! You cannot begin to work on this kind of subject without addressing the subject of time itself ? and when was the last time you did that?There are three basic areas or modules of time that are most commonly referred to:1)The Past 2)The Present 3)The FutureWhat I would like to do is have you work out where the "present&...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Not blind, just no vision
- Helen Keller once remarked that there was one thing she knew of that was worse than being blind; it was to be able to see but have no vision.In case you do not know the story of Helen Keller, she was less than two years old when she suddenly came down with a fever that left her unconscious. The fever left just as suddenly. But she was left blinded and, very soon after, also became deaf. Des...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Going on a mental diet
- Diets are always in style. Every time you turn around, someone is coming out with a new and improved diet. The latest craves are the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, and Dr. Phil even has a diet he's promoting. Everyone is on a diet.That's how I came up with the idea of a "mental" diet.I thought it would be interesting if we put our mentality on a diet.What I mean ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Viewpoints - communication destruction or....
- Viewpoints! Everyone has them and they are personal. However, when you believe that only your view is correct, you shut out other people and do not listen to the facts they are giving.Your brain's "Reticular Activating System" will actually filter away anything that is in contradiction to these beliefs. Basically, you close off communication and any connection with the other person. And whe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont be jealous - be inspired
- When we see people do things we cannot do, or have things we don't have, it might be tempting to be a little jealous. But, jealousy doesn't lead to anything except resentment, and that isn't going to help you. Instead of being jealous of others, focus on being inspired. Let the success of others move you forward toward your own success. After all, people who are doing things you want to do or have...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont settle
- Settling is about not embracing what is best for you, and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for!"People settle every day in every way. They settle for...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mindfulness and multiple intelligences: 8 ways to pay attention
- How are you smart?Let me count the ways.Harvard professor Howard Gardner was the first to describe the concept of Multiple Intelligences. According to this widely-accepted theory, we are each born with a certain amount of intelligence in each of eight areas, and we have the potential to harness or develop each of these throughout our lives.In 1983, Gardner first described seve...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Free advice from albert einstein
- What If You Could Ask Anyone For Help?Have you ever noticed how sometimes you are at your most creative when you are interacting with another person? You and your friend or acquaintance feed off of each other's ideas and help each other clarify things. Well what about those times when you are alone, or you have no one you wish to share your ideas with? What can you do then to stimula...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bringing forgiveness down to earth
- What does it mean to forgive?One of the first things we typically think when we hear the word "forgive" is that it is a spiritual concept that is mostly out of reach for us mortal human beings. The bible talks about it, pastors implore us to forgive, we might believe that it is something that we "should" do but for the most part, most of us find it very difficult, if not impossibl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your mindset determines your success in life
- To keep at the top of your game you have to keep a clear head. You can't afford to fill up on news and negativity. The world's overflowin' with it and the only way to be a winner is to be in control of your thoughts.Your thoughts become words, your words become actions and your actions become your destiny. Someone else came up with that, but I've always remembered it because it's true. Our ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time travel
- Let me quote something you wrote. "When you reach the boundary between like and love, you know you are entering a different country. You are beyond newness and infatuation. You know what Shakespeare meant when he called love 'an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.'"On one level, I agree with what you say. But I believe very few of us find what you describe. We end up...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A quick checklist for improving your life
- 1. Learn About YouIf you don't know who you are and why you think and act the way you do, it's gonna be really difficult to make any positive changes in your life. Take a look first at your parents and close family members. Think about how they look and how they deal with life. This is the basis for who you are today. You've been instilled with the tendency to think as they think and act as...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Home for the holidays
- In my husband's family, family members send Christmas cards to other family members (parents to children, brothers and sisters to one another, etc.) even though the family always spends time together at Christmas for a meal and gift exchange.My husband and I do not know of any other family that does this. We both always understood Christmas cards were for family members one would not be see...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - An easy way to end the year
- As a healthy business owner or independent professional, how do you end your year? Well, I tell my clients to stop working. That's right, stop working. The kind of work I'm talking about is the work of getting new business. There is no new business in the dark days of winter, just the clean up of old business. If you have clients that must spend in order to deduct prior to years' end, go to it. Th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Happiness and work: your life depends on it.
- Early one morning, Robert awoke, made his wife of 41 years some banana bread, took out the garbage and called to cancel a doctors appointment scheduled for the next day. He wrote a note to remind his wife to pick up the dry cleaning. All things considered, it seemed like a normal day.Robert had "retired" four years earlier after nearly 40 years doing what he loved in the banking i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How empathy can reduce your anger
- Jim, a 42-year old engineer was teaching his eight-year-old son how to fly a radio-controlled airplane. As the airplane was taking off, Jim instructed his son to push the control stick on the radio to the right. He did and the airplane turned to the right.This was repeated several more times until the airplane turned full circle toward the son, ready to land. "Push the stick to the rig...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Difficult challenges? -- what if?
- Sometimes life can seem like one long series of unsolvable problems. I know there have been times when I would much rather find something else to do and quit whatever I was doing simply because it was too much trouble to continue. In fact, earlier in my life that is exactly what I did do. (And to tell the truth, I wouldn't change it even if I could!)However, I think there comes a time in ev...