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- Getting Past Your Expiration Date in Relationships - by © All Rights Reserved
Someone once said that marriages are made in heaven but divorces are made on earth, it appears that the seven year itch we have all heard about is all but too real for many of us. Sadly today it's widely recognized by experts that 50% --60% of all new marriages ...
Views: 2039(1 vote) - Most of Life Is Rowing - by My grandfather was a man who lived a rich life. A shipbuilder by trade, he was one of 11 children born in rural Nova Scotia.
Grandfather was a quiet man, a deeply religious man and, perhaps most of all, a person of significant character. Once when I was in high school, my grandfather invited ...
Views: 2009(1 vote) - What Colors Is Your Passion - by The buzzwords today are “Follow your passion, do what you love, work in your strengths.” However, many are still searching for their passion because they are lacking a system that helps them discover who they are. The buzzword makers assume it’s easy to find your passion because they magically ...
Views: 1787(1 vote) - Should Your Child Join a Health Club? - by As a psychotherapist of 34 years specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, I have worked with literally thousands of children and adolescents. Eating disorders and disordered eating have become epidemic in our society. Of the 11 million sufferers in America alone, 87% are young people ...
Views: 1139(1 vote) - Parental Influence Takes Precedence Over the Media in Anorexics - by Walk down the corridor of any junior high or high school today, and you are bound to see clusters of stick-thin youngsters “sprayed” into skin-tight clothing, some showing the skin of a pancake-flat belly, figures reminiscent of the Barbie dolls so many of them played with not too many years ...
Views: 1896(1 vote) - Authentic Success - by If you ask a thousand people what success is you'll get a thousand different answers. There is only one true "authentic success". That is when you go deep inside and ask yourself what you truly love. "What could I do that would give me energy, love, happiness, smiles, laughter and optimism and ...
Views: 833(1 vote) - WARNING! Toxins and Body Care Products - by Did you know that we absorb 60 percent of the substances we put on ourskin,from moisturizers and shaving lotion to makeup and cologne? Anythingyouput on your skin will literally get under your skin. The approximatelysixpounds of skin each human carries around is a porous ...
Views: 2239(1 vote) - Willpower is Way Overrated! The REAL Science-Based Secrets for Persistence and eliminating Procrastination - by If I were to ask you, what was the most important characteristic forovercomingprocrastination, for persistence, and long-term achievement, what wouldyou say? Willpower? That would not be an unusual answer, but it wouldbe wrong.
Willpower is vastly overrated as the leading trait used ...
Views: 3141(1 vote) - The Power of Love Bringing Peace to your Life through this Simple yet Powerful Life Force - by “Love is the fruit in season at all times and within
reach of every hand.”
Mother Teresa
When I began my television news career many years ago, I remember a co-worker I’ll call George who seemed to hate me. I was an experienced radio journalist when I was hired as a producer for a ...
Views: 975(1 vote) - Practice the Seven Secrets of Sales Success - by Excerpted from Brian Tracy's Be A Sales Superstar, published by Berrett-Koehler
There are seven secrets, or principles, of sales success. They are practiced by all the highest paid salespeople every day. The regular application of these principles is virtually guaranteed to move you to the top ...
Views: 9159(1 vote) - Write Your Own Check! How to set your own income and then achieve it. - by If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do and then do it yourself. The top three percent of Americans in all fields, act as if they "own the place." They look upon everything that happens in their companies as though they own one hundred percent of the stock. They take ...
Views: 871(1 vote) - Job Number One How to unlock your powers to achieve greatness in selling - by Fear is and always has been the greatest enemy of mankind. It is the greatest obstacle to success in your life and your career. It is both subtle and devastating. It works on you, deep in your subconscious mind, causes you to see the world negatively instead of positively. To achieve great ...
Views: 1180(1 vote) - Accessing Your Intuition - by It has been said that men and women start to become great when they begin to listen to their inner voices. Your intuition is your direct connection with infinite intelligence. Intuition is so powerful that it has been studies and written about by the greatest men and women of history for ...
Views: 2278(1 vote) - A Balanced Life - by According to psychologist Sidney Jourard, fully 85 percent of your happiness in life will come from your personal relationships. Your interactions and the time that you spend with the people you care about will be the major source of the pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction that you derive ...
Views: 2480(1 vote) - Humor, Optimism, and a Laugh at Getting Older - by The great American comic George Burns once opined, “You can’t help getting older, but you can help getting old.” I, too, believe that looking at getting older with humor is a miraculous opportunity to laugh and stay young at heart.
I wrote my first book, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To ...
Views: 1384(1 vote) - THE PERSONALITY’S BROKEN LEGS - by It is important to begin to realize that our personality is just like our body. It is not our true self, but rather a vehicle, or "mental body", through which our true self, the soul, is expressing itself. We tend to be more detached from our physical bodies than from our «emotional body» or ...
Views: 943(1 vote) - TWELVE STEPS TO CONSCIOUS LOVE RELATIONSHIPS - by (The basic ideas of this article are inspired by the work of Gay and Katherine Hendricks)
We can move toward a conscious love relationship by committing ourselves to consciously working toward that goal. We need to clearly understand what kind of relationship we want to create and be willing to ...
Views: 986(1 vote) - Ego, Arrogance, and Self-Esteem - by The pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain are not our onlymotivators. Whether you realize it or not, our underlying purpose inlife is to define and pursue our true purpose in life. Regardless ofwhat we feel or do, we are all simply searching for some type of meaningwithin our own ...
Views: 2089(1 vote) - WHAT STOPS US FROM CLARIFYING OR LIVING ON PURPOSE - by Recently during an interview for The Inside Success Show,(http://www.TheInsideSuccessShow.com), the host, Randy Gilbert, asked me,"What is it that stops people from knowing and living their purpose?"
What a great question, I thought, in part because I knew the answer.
Here are the 4 primary ...
Views: 1086(1 vote) - The Top 10 Benefits to Knowing & Living Your Purpose - by As the founder and director of an organization with a name like Life OnPurpose Institute, I guess it's not surprising to hear me say that I feelthat one of the most important matters that anyone can do for themselves andthe world is to become clear what their true purpose in life is and to ...
Views: 2835(1 vote) - Seize the Mentoring Moment! - by Once upon a time, greed and ruthless ambition ruled the Halls of Business. Maybe not really, maybe not in every case, but such was the common perception. You made it to the top of the corporate ladder by climbing on the backs of others. If someone seemed to be gaining on you, well, you crushed ...
Views: 1718(1 vote) - How Do You Measure Success? - by Happy New Year everyone - this is a great time to focus on our life plan and define what success means to you. Hopefully it's not just money. In the movie, "Wall Street," Martin Sheen argues with his son, Charlie Sheen, over whether Michael Douglas intends to exploit the father's company, which ...
Views: 5983(1 vote) - Too late for a new report card - by The old man sat in the dark swaying back and forth in his chair in the living room, an all too familiar place of late.
He could not sleep and wondered when sleep might once again come to him.
In his mind, he replayed the passages of his life, some with a smile, others with a tear, all shaded by ...
Views: 862(1 vote) - The first letter to my daughter - by Dear Camille,
I’m so sorry that I missed the New Year’s Eve party at Aunt Susie’s house.
Grandpuff and I stopped in Charlotte at Uncle Coley’s on our way to Florida from Maryland, where Grandpuff used to live.
By the time you read this, Maryland will remain no more than a distant memory, I ...
Views: 974(1 vote) - Keys to Telephone Success and Getting the Second Appointment - by Let’s take a critical look at how we use the telephone – and at how you can increase the power and effectiveness of your calls when it comes to scheduling more second appointments with your prospects.
As a general rule the higher up in any organization’s hierarchy you go, the less time you have ...
Views: 1094(1 vote) - Share Your Best Life Story With The World - by =====================================
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When most people sit down to write a book, they expect itwill take months to complete the job. They envision workingendlessly and toiling over every ...
Views: 825(1 vote) - Mentor??? Who Needs A Mentor? - by Who needs a mentor. . .everyone who is truly serious about achieving more of their true potential, personally and financially. In fact, Richard Brooke says:
"If you're someone who wants to break out and do something extraordinary that you would not do on your own initiative, you better have a ...
Views: 4102(1 vote) - Neuro-Emotional Techniques (tm) - by NET(tm) or Neuro-Emotional Techniques(tm) is one of the newer “power therapies” that along with TFT (Thought Field Therapy), and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) have become popular in the last ten years. These therapies seem to work quicker than traditional talk ...
Views: 1248(1 vote) - "TIISG" The Secret of Napoleon Hill, P.T. Barnum, and Me - by I'm riveted by the biography of Napoleon Hill, theauthor of the classic book "Think and Grow Rich."
Not only did this man struggle for 20 years towrite the definitive guide to success, but heexperienced poverty, his life was threatened, hisbackers were murdered, he suffered from boutsof ...
Views: 1833(1 vote) - The first letter to my son - by Dear Linus,
For two years I have wanted to write this letter, to begin a record of our journey together, a gift to present to you on your 21st birthday.
Funny how we get so caught up in daily minutiae that we neglect matters far more important, ...
Views: 5561(1 vote) - K.I.S.S.--Simplify the 3 P's to Sales Success - by "The easier you make it to buy for your prospects, the more they will."
K.I.S.S. - Keep it Simple Silly.
But simplicity goes beyond just ensuring you do not talk technical when describing offerings to prospects. It means keeping everything about the sale simple. It means recognizing that ...
Views: 5816(1 vote) - TRADITIONAL MEDICINES EXPOSED - by Turn on your TV, and you are bombarded by advertisements of some brand new medicine, some ‘scientific (?) breakthrough’ or some ‘cutting edge technology’ to treat existing complaints.
The advertisements promise quick relief and paint a very rosy picture of you AFTER you start taking them. ...
Views: 2382(1 vote) - 212º the extra degree™ - An Excerpt - by At 211 degrees, water is hot.
At 212 degrees, it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.
And with steam, you can power a train.
One degree. Applying one extra degree of temperature to water means the
difference between something that is simply very hot and something that
generates ...
Views: 1499(1 vote) - Don’t move the golf ball - by The sun’s crest peaked over the horizon as Jerry slammed his trunk shut and stepped onto the course, armed to the gills with clubs and a scorecard.
Dew glistened on every blade of grass. Alone, Jerry squared his shoulders and teed off.
He watched his first shot drop half a foot inside the deep ...
Views: 795(1 vote) - Indescribable love - by Enough already.
After five years of either pregnancy or breastfeeding, Alison finally threw in the towel.
At least she tried to.
Miss Camille had other ideas—which she expressed by shrieking relentlessly in the middle of the night until Mom caved—just before Camille woke up the rest of the ...
Views: 851(1 vote) - Manifest away - by The sun crept over the horizon and lodged itself above the coastline, bathing the beach in a comfortable, morning glow. Solitary clouds dotted the backdrop, lazy lollygaggers moseying across the sky, unhurried, white-haired philosophers gazing down at the busy-ness below.
I raced a pair of ...
Views: 786(1 vote) - Crown your life with meaning - by A recent study of a group of people over the age of 100 queried the participants as to what they might do differently if they had their lives to live over again. Amidst a number of varied answers, three emerged as common to most, and certainly unveil a universal perspective:
Number one: I ...
Views: 850(1 vote) - Learning Tips and Ideas—Part 1 - by Click here for instant download access to the learning and study skills program that will change your life.
Is essential information your enemy or ally? A recent Xerox™ study determined that you must read at least 1,000,000 words per week just to stay abreast of new information. Think about ...
Views: 1224(1 vote) - Create Your Own Big BANG Effect in 2004! - by Create Your Own Big BANG Effect in 2004!
By Gary Ryan Blair
Click here to listen to an audio presentation of this newsletter.
Are you ready to get your ticket punched in 2004? Are you seriously ready to make a sudden, courageous, and monumental change, change on a grand scale that will ...
Views: 804(1 vote) - Create a Personal Strategic Plan! - by Create a Personal Strategic Plan!
by Gary Ryan Blair
Success is not an accident. It begins with a well-conceived plan. You can and will achieve more in the next year than you have in the past ten with a disciplined Personal Strategic Plan.
Personal strategic planning is a disciplined thought ...
Views: 863(1 vote) - Carbs The Real Story - by You must have carbohydrates to sustain a healthy body and a healthy life. But it is important to understand that some carbs are better than others as a source of fuel for your brain and body. In my book “Eat This Way and MELT FAT”, I talked about bad carbs and about good, better and best ...
Views: 1530(1 vote) - An excerpt from “Getting the Second Appointment” How to Close any Sale in Two Calls - by What’s your definition of the word “Selling?” Here’s mine:
“Representing your products, services and solutions in the best interest of the other person or party -- so that their requirements, needs and visions are overachieved in a time-frame that they define.”
There are four activities that ...
Views: 1746(1 vote) - Help Your Relationship Flourish by popping the Question??to Yourself! - By - by According to Hale Dwoskin, author of The Sedona Method, our relationship problems stem from need, not love. we are really looking for love in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways, he says. Love gets mixed up with or covered over by other feelings, and therein lie such problems ...
Views: 880(1 vote) - Help Your Relationship Flourish by "Popping the Question" - to Yourself! - by According to Hale Dwoskin, author of The Sedona Method, our relationship problems stem from need, not love. “We are really looking for love in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways,” he says. Love gets mixed up with or covered over by other feelings, and therein lie such ...
Views: 2182(2 votes) - Finding the Spare Part in the Wrong Bin Get the Answers You Want in Life by Letting Go of the Need to Find Them - by Years ago, during a Sedona Method course I was teaching, I suggested to my class that if they let go of wanting to figure out their problems, the answers and cures would come. I was explaining that wanting to understand or figure out why, or from where, problems arise, can be a major obstacle to ...
Views: 763(2 votes) - 10 Secrets To Creating Vegetable-loving Kids - by Baltimore, MD - October 20, 2003 - Get a group of parents together and start talking about nutrition, inevitably the same question comes up over and over again, “How can I get my child to eat vegetables?” With over 93% of American children NOT eating their required 5 fruits and vegetables ...
Views: 1135(2 votes) - Meaningful Coincidences How You can Tap into the Magic of Synchronicity - by While I was a television news reporter for eighteen years,running down stories about everything from government scandals to housefires, I had coincidences so remarkable, my co-workers dubbed itWellington Luck. I had it almost every day, and totally relied on it.
One cold winter day ...
Views: 1944(2 votes) - Using your worst enemy to become your best ally - by Was there anyone in your life that you cared for, looked up to,were
related to or just "thought" you had a good relationship with that no matter
what dream or goals you had in mind, they would squash it? Or say that you
could never make it? I have, and it is one of the most painful emotions ...
Views: 1572(2 votes) - Access Your Hopes to Improve Results - by Copyright C 2003
Amidst all of the economic fears and threats that trouble businesses, governments, and communities, how can people find hope within themselves and others? I ponder this question not only because it would be nice for people to feel better but also because it's a practical way to ...
Views: 847(2 votes) - Giving THANKS for EVERYTHING - by Thanksgiving is approaching: a time when we give thanks for food, friends, family and health. Have you noticed that we normally only give thanks for all the things that are going “right” in our lives? But, how often do we give thanks for absolutely EVERYTHING in our lives, even the ...
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