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In this issue:
-> Quotes of the Week
-> Personal Growth Products and Services
-> The Top 10 Steps for Tapping into Courage - written by Robert Knowlton
-> The Top 10 Mistakes that Couples Often Make - written by Marty Crouch
-> BOOK REVIEW: Unstoppable Confidence - written by Kent Sayre
-> Brief News of the World
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-Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo
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-Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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** THE TOP 10 STEPS for TAPPING into COURAGE - written by Robert Knowlton **
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Aristotle believed that courage is the first of human virtues because it makes the other
virtues possible.
Courage is a muscle that can be strong and established through exercise or it can grow
flaccid through lack of use. Here is an exercise to help you build your courage.
These steps will help you tap into the natural courage in you. Courage is defined as,
"the quality of character which shows itself in facing danger undaunted or in acting
despite fear or lack of confidence." (Shorter Oxford Dictionary)
1. Find a specific experience in your life when you acted despite the fear, or when you
went ahead and did something even when you felt a lack of confidence.
2. It is very helpful to identify a specific time this happened. For a moment, or as long
as you like, re-live the moments of courage. Success or lack of success in the endeavor is
not important. Your moments of courage are the points you are after and to which you
want to connect.
3. If you like, you can put your hand on the place in your body where the courage seems to
originate.
4. Take a breath and feel the power of your own courage.
5. Think of a recent time when this courage might have helped you decide something or do
something.
6. What possible outcomes may have been different if you brought forward your courage?
(Remember, release any anger, regrets or blame if they come up.)
7. Staying with the courage that is truly part of who you are, imagine a time in the near
future where you may want to have more courage.
8. See yourself and your courage giving you the strength to decide or to do that which you
fear. How does it feel?
9. As you are feeling empowered and connected to your courage, notice how it will flow in
so many more of your future actions.
Notice how it is truly part of who you are and contributes to your living on purpose as a
fully alive, whole, authentic person.
10. Remember, this is part of who you are and is always available to you.
Take heart. Have courage.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
This piece was originally submitted by Robert Knowlton, Certified Business Coach, who can
be reached at Coach@SuccessOptions.com, or
visited on the web at http://www.SuccessOptions.com.
Robert Knowlton wants you to know: My coaching focuses on leadership development,
communication strategies, and realizing your purpose and personal vision. Please visit my
web site and subscribe to my free e-newsletter, ON PURPOSE, to get coaching tips and
strategies for living a success-full and meaningful life.
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** THE TOP 10 MISTAKES that COUPLES OFTEN MAKE - written by Marty Crouch **
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The Top 10 Mistakes that Couples Often Make
People enter into partnerships with optimism and good will. Partnerships often turn sour
because ineffective patterns of relating become habitual and lead to a gradual withdrawal
of esteem and caring for each other.
1. Avoid conflict. Avoided conflict requires repression of anger, which leads to
depression of feelings. A genuinely passionate partnership requires conflict, not terminal
niceness or withdrawal.
2. Avoid each other. Occasional withdrawal is healthy. Habitually withdrawal
(stonewalling) is death to partnership.
3. Escalate. Conflict, skillfully handled, is one of the keys to a great relationship.
Conflict out of control is an excuse for physical, verbal, or psychological abuse. I coach
people to take turns being angry, and when both partners are angry, take a time out.
4. Criticize. Habitually speaking (or thinking) criticism is hard on a relationship.
Criticism is usually a sign of that the criticizing partner has some personal development
work to do. I coach that it is OK to complain, but not OK to criticize.
5. Show contempt. Contempt is criticism escalated to outright mental abuse.
6. React defensively. Fear is natural. Defensiveness naturally accompanies fear. Skillful
partnering requires practicing techniques that allow me to drop the defensiveness despite
my fear.
7. Deny responsibility. When I deny my responsibilty for my part of the issue, I wind up
blaming my partner and trying to change him or her.
8. Rewrite history. Remembering mainly the negative experiences in a partnership is a
predictor for future breakdown. All partnerships have their difficult spots.
Partners that stay together are proud of their ability to weather the stormy seas and are
warmed by their memories of the happy times spent on tropical beaches.
9. Refuse to get help. Partnership coaching and willingness works!
10. Believe that changing partners is the solution. People may go through several partners
while repeatedly avoiding the same basic issues. We naturally choose partners that push
our buttons for our personal development. Refusing to learn the requisite lesson requires
another repetition.
About the Submitter:
This piece was originally submitted by Marty Crouch, Partner Coach, who can be reached at marty@partnercoach.com, or visited on the web at http://www.dailydialogue.com
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** BOOK REVIEW: Unstoppable Confidence - written by Kent Sayre **
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In this groundbreaking book, you will discover specific, immediately applicable techniques
to use your body, your mind, and your language to not only act confident but to be
confident. Whether you are shy now and realize that there is a better way of living or
whether you are confident now and want even more confidence to get more of what you want,
this book will reveal to you exactly how to do that.
In This Groundbreaking Book, You'll Learn:
The Myth Of Shyness And What Shyness Really Is
How To Stop Being Intimidated By People Forever
20 Explosive Techniques To Instantly Raise Your Confidence
How To Speak The Language Of Confidence
How to Rid Yourself Of That Nagging, Negative Internal Voice Forever
How To Avoid The 8 Dangerous Words That Automatically Kill Your Confidence
How To Immediately Replace Limiting Beliefs With Empowering Beliefs
How to Effortlessly Have Confidence At Will, Anytime You Need It
Confident people take their dreams and make them come true. Confident people persist in
times of adversity until they achieve their goals. People who lack confidence will stay
stuck, wishing they had the confidence to pursue their passions. The decision for you is
in your hands. Your investing in this book means you are investing in yourself, the
greatest investment of all.
>From the Author
Much of the material yet not all is based upon Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP is
the study of how language, both verbal and nonverbal, affects our minds. By consciously
directing our minds, we can create resourceful ways of behaving for ourselves. In this
book, all of the methods are geared toward having more confidence in our lives and
stepping beyond our previously defined limits.
One of the NLP presuppositions is that since we all share the same neurology, that means
whatever anyone can do, you can do as well provided that you direct your mind in exactly
the same way. That means if something is possible for others, it's possible for you too.
If confidence is possible for others (and it definitely is), it is definitely possible for
you too. Using NLP methods, I have modeled very confident people and included what
they do in this book. By doing what they do, you will achieve the same resourceful states
of confidence that they have. From how confident people think about things to how they
speak to how they carry their bodies, you will find in this book how confident people move
through the world.
About the Author
Kent Sayre is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Prior to founding his own real estate
investing company, Mr. Sayre was an engineer for a major high tech company. Mr. Sayre
holds a master's degree in computer science and is a certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic
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POSITIVE
Tumor DNA test could spare some women from chemotherapy
"A critical genetic discovery could help tens of thousands of breast cancer patients
avoid unnecessary chemotherapy."
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http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/696731.asp
US Infant Mortality Drops 20 Percent
"Infant mortality in the United States dropped 20 percent in the 1990s, health
officials said Thursday, crediting a push for prenatal care and new technology that helps
keep low-birthweight babies alive."
"A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease
Control Prevention, shows that the 1999 infant mortality rate of 7.0 infant deaths per
1,000 live births was 3 percent lower than the 1998 rate and down 21 percent from the rate
of 8.9 at the beginning of the decade."
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/02facts/99infant.htm
More Checks Can Reduce Post-Natal Depression
"Postnatal care tailored to individual women's needs could help identify and
reduce depression among new mothers, British researchers said on Friday."
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"Children who play sports in areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely
to develop asthma than other youngsters, American scientists said."
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http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/697478.asp
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"When the World Trade Center crumbled, the spotlight was on its two
majestic towers, not on 7 World Trade Center - a building that stood and collapsed
in their shadows. But 7 WTC was toxic.
It housed two electrical substations owned by Con Edison. And they contained
109,000 gallons (413,000 liters) of oil and hundreds of pounds (kilograms) of
potentially dangerous chemicals set loose when the building fell."
(Click here for complete news story)
http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/02/02012002/ap_transformers_46283.asp
Jury clears Ford in Explorer accident
"A jury cleared Ford Motor of responsibility for a 1997 rollover accident that left a
woman paralyzed. The plaintiffs had alleged that design defects in the 1994 Ford Explorer
caused the vehicle to suddenly veer out of control as the couple and their
children drove on a highway here in May 1997."
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2002/02/01/explorer-verdict.htm
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