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- ***Mastering Change Through Continuous Growth, Learning, and Improvement - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"When you're through changing, you're through." — Bruce Barton, American advertising executive, author, and politician To master or thrive on change, we need to embrace perpetual growth and development, continuous learning, and constant improvement. That's the stuff true change leadership is ...
Views: 1166 - ***Successful Change Flows from Learning, Growth, and Development - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Leaders in learning organizations are responsible for building organizations where people are continually expanding their capabilities to shape their future — that is — leaders are responsible for learning ." (his emphasis) — Peter Senge, The Leaders New Work: Building Learning ...
Views: 1160(15 votes) - ***Leaders Invest in Growing and Developing People - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"A true Master is not the one with the most students, but one who creates the most Masters. A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders." — Neale Donald Walsch Successful leaders understand the difference between things and people in an ...
Views: 1159 - Disease: Plague or Teacher? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhat kind of question is that anyway? Why would I even suggest that disease could be a teacher? This may seem strange, and yet, as I see it, this is the most important distinction that I draw between the current holistic and allopathic approaches to medicine. The allopathic mind-set is one of ...
Views: 1146 - ***Coping with Long Term Unemployment - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen does your unemployment become long term? Some experts say after six months. I say that in this market after a year is more accurate. Here’s why? In a good job market it can often take at least three months to find a management or professional job. Even if you find a job and interview ...
Views: 1139 - The Hard Facts on Drugs - Alcohol - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAlcohol is the most commonly recognized drug worldwide, and is accepted anywhere and everywhere. Alcohol abuse and or addiction will lead to very serious life threatening problems, both physically and psychologically. Of course a major problem of alcohol abuse is drunk driving. According to ...
Views: 1138 - ***Focus and Context: The Hub of Leadership - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Successful leaders spend a lot of time creating the identity of the organization – what our values are, what our mission is, what our purpose is, how we are going to act together as one. Those are agreements of how we are going to be together. You can actually get a whole team or a whole group ...
Views: 1133 - ***Change is Life - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Weep not that the world changes. Did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep." — William Cullen Bryant, 19th century American poet, critic, and editor "I hate all this change. Why can't things just stay the same?" Dirk shouted angrily at the TV news anchor. He threw ...
Views: 1132(2 votes) - Thinking Outside the Box: Your Coffin - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesNutrition is a vital part of good health, and with the current epidemics of obesity and heart disease being experienced in the United States, Americans need to begin “thinking outside the coffin” to prolong life and avoid early disease or death. The following are some quick tips on how to ...
Views: 1131 - Simple Solutions to Healthy Habits . . . for Life! - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIt seems for so many of us that life gets reprioritized, and our health is rarely at the forefront of our to-do lists. By the time I meet with clients, they are usually at a point where they have tried four or five diets, hoping for a quick and motivating change. Unfortunately, they were looking ...
Views: 1127 - ***Leaders Care for Organization Culture and Context - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"When we are dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." — Dale Carnegie, personal effectiveness pioneer and author In many organizations ...
Views: 1126 - ***Choice More than Chance Determines Our Circumstance - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist The day was a winter ...
Views: 1124 - ***Organizational Changes to Deal with Whirlwinds of Change - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"The world is moving so fast these days that anyone who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." — Elbert Hubbard, 19th century American editor, lecturer, and essayist My library is full of books chronicling, charting, and categorizing the major changes societies, ...
Views: 1123 - ***Change Checkpoints and Improvement Milestones - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"When you arrive at a fork in the road — take it." — Yogi Berra, major league baseball Hall of Fame player and coach Many paths lead to higher performance. The high performance route is individual and unique for every person, team, and organization. There is no one or best way. What works for ...
Views: 1122(2 votes) - ***Visions Provide the Energizing Context to Reach Our Goals - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." — Konrad Adenauer, first chancellor of post war West Germany Like mission and vision statements and values, goal setting and visioning labels often get confused and used interchangeably. Generally that doesn't matter. ...
Views: 1117 - ***Growing at the Speed of Change - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows — it must grow; nothing can prevent it." — Mark Twain, American author and humorist Change happens. We can't control much of the world changing ...
Views: 1109(14 votes) - ***Leaders Help People See Beyond What Is to What Could Be - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries before." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, 19th century American writer Thomas Kuhn, ...
Views: 1106 - ***Understanding Yourself to Understand Your Career - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThis is key to a successful career change. There are two main areas for understanding yourself. One is through the outward appearance and actions, and the other is through your inward feelings and emotions. To understand your outward appearance you need to look in a mirror. This mirror ...
Views: 1106 - EFT: The Universal Healing Tool That Modern Medicine Has Missed - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesNew Discovery Takes Chinese Medicine to a New Level Thousands of years ago, physicians in China mapped the body’s electrical system. They charted fourteen energy paths, or meridians, and documented how stimulating specific points along those paths released energy blocks, restored the normal ...
Views: 1099 - Refilling Your Energy Cup - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA year before I got sick, I’d accumulated 37,888 frequent flier miles, made over 6,500 phone calls, booked $8,103,900 of new business for our company, and received an 18 percent raise. I’d skied 78 hours, hiked 41,420 vertical feet, swam 792 laps, spent 28 hours on the StairMaster®, biked 347 ...
Views: 1098 - ***Sticking to the Traditional Resume Samples - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesResume samples have been developed for a long time all in the quest of helping people seeking a career transition in the ever dynamic business industry. With these developments various items in the resumes have been changed and formats of the same have been edited to suit the employer’s ...
Views: 1096 - What Makes You Different? - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhat makes you different? It’s a good bet you’ve been asked this question before. Prospects, hiring managers, and people with influence frequently ask this question when making a buying or hiring decision. Each day, we are bombarded with opportunities, advertisements, messages, and people ...
Views: 1082 - ***How to Save Your Sanity During Life Transitions - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesLife is full of changes and transitioning from one stage or position to another is a natural part of daily living. Unfortunately, some of those changes -- like divorce, job loss, or the death of someone close to you- are imposed on you most often by circumstances beyond your control. What more ...
Views: 1079(1 vote) - ***Education and Communication Build Commitment - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"The increasing availability of new information and communication technology is one of the key ingredients that makes a high-involvement management approach possible. This capability, more than any other, makes it possible for individuals to become self-managing, to be involved in the business, ...
Views: 1077(1 vote) - ***Improvement Planning for Taking Charge of Change - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"He who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow." — Ovid, Roman poet Effective learning and capability development doesn't happen just because we want it to. For example, empowering without enabling isn't just foolish, it's unethical. It's like putting a complete novice at the ...
Views: 1074 - ***This Crazy Period of Constant Change is Normal - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." In the middle of a meeting with a few colleagues I caught myself saying, "Once we get through this crazy period and things get back to normal..." Then it hit me. I had been saying something like that for at least a year or two. As we ...
Views: 1073 - End Chronic Pain - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesKathy Stevens, who has been training my dogs for the past three years, is a battle-scarred veteran of the war against chronic pain. Kathy injured her back when she fell from a ladder in 1996. As a result of her injury, she lost the feeling in her legs for four weeks. When sensation did return, ...
Views: 1068 - ***Nurturing Change Champions - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission." — Peter Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander When we look back at the successful team or organization changes we've been involved in, most — and certainly all major ones — were driven by ...
Views: 1066 - ***Navigating Change and Adversity - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Embrace change" is a useless platitude mouthed by managers or motivational speakers who have not thought through its full implications — or they are masochists who enjoy suffering. Changes that bring new opportunities or propel us forward are easy to embrace. But many changes look quite ...
Views: 1065 - Bursting with Health: Two Health-Improving Techniques - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWould you describe yourself as bursting with vitality, energy, love, joy, enthusiasm, passion and excitement? Or would you describe yourself as tired, anxious, stressed, confused, worried, sad, depressed, angry, bitter, disappointed, frustrated, and overwhelmed? Most of us hold on to old hurts ...
Views: 1064 - ***Technomanagement: A Deadly Mix of Bureaucracy and Technology - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"The practice of management is badly misunderstood by management scientists who confuse thinking with merely being logical." — Ted Levitt, Thinking About Management Far too many organizations are ruled by bureaucrats and technocrats either in management or staff support roles. One of their ...
Views: 1061 - Bowen: The Key to Optimal Health and Pain Elimination - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesBowen is a multidimensional healing system that alleviates human pain and suffering. It was discovered and developed by the late Tom Bowen of Geelong, Australia. It is a natural health care solution that safely and gently awakens and revives the self-healing mechanisms of the body by applying ...
Views: 1061(1 vote) - Stress...Big Deal! Ten Thoughts about Your Stress - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesStress is a normal reaction to life. In fact, we all need a certain amount of stress to be healthy. What is not healthy for us is the small day in, day out stresses that accumulate over time. These cause our body to deplete the stores of vital chemicals and energy necessary for health. Stress ...
Views: 1057 - A Reason for Living in a Nutshell - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesPerhaps there is no greater means of improving one’s life than striving to answer in the most enlightened way this single question: Why live? I started to ask myself that question about 30 years ago after my diving accident, which left the husky and lusty teenage athlete that I was a ...
Views: 1053 - Love Your Body, Forgive Your Self - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThis may sound a bit odd coming from me, but I believe that regardless of what you eat, how many times each week you exercise, or what particular diet you decide to try, if you do not have your inner life in order, it will be difficult to be at peace with yourself and your body. In discussing ...
Views: 1044 - ***How Many Companies Lose That Loving Feeling - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Some people can think no deeper than a fact." — Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet), 18th century French philosopher and dramatist Many successful companies were started by passionate zealots with a strong technical expertise matched only by their powerful vision and intense drive ...
Views: 1042 - The Cause of Unhappiness - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIs something disturbing, bothering, irritating, or annoying you? If so, what is troubling you? Is it a boss that is too demanding, a coworker that is too careless, or your children that are too noisy? Does the lack of civility, the increase in crime, or the apathy of young people upset you? ...
Views: 1035 - What’s on Your iPod™? The Power of Music to Transform Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you want a life of greater ease, balance, happiness, and prosperity? Of course you do! So why does it seem to take so long for our dreams and desires to manifest? The answer lies within. Deep within us are subconscious beliefs that contribute to our actions, our responses, and thus to the ...
Views: 1030 - ***Salaries and Benefits – A Satisfying Career May Be More than Just Salaries and Benefits - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen you are considering changing careers, it is important to decide what you wish to do and what expectations you have. Are you seeking something that will provide personal satisfaction? Are you seeking a large salary? Or is a good benefits package your main priority? What will give you the ...
Views: 1029 - Eye Disease and Nutrition: Has the Fringe Become the Cutting Edge - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesImagine not being able to see the face of a grandchild, watch television, or be able to tell what time it is. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness for Americans over the age of sixty-five and affects as many as fifteen million people in the United States ...
Views: 1023 - Facing Ourselves with a Willingness to Change - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesKaty nearly drags her husband, Jackson, to the therapist, though he readily admits that he has problems and frequently puts himself down. Married two years and with a baby on the way, the couple argue. At times, it gets nasty as Katy has a harsh tongue. She gets angry that Jackson won’t talk ...
Views: 1018 - Positive Habits: the Key to Improving Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDid you know that habits are incredibly powerful tools for Personal Development and success? Think about the habits you have now and how they affect virtually every aspect of your life. Your weight and health are determined by your eating habits. Your relationships with people are determined ...
Views: 1013 - ***Harnessing the Energy of Change Champions - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesPeter Drucker once said, "whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission." That sure squares with my own consulting experience. When I look back at the hundreds of team or organization changes I've been involved in during the last three ...
Views: 1006 - ***Successful Change and Improvement Needs Balanced Improvement Planning - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"A foolish cabin owner eventually lost his cabin to the rot that set in through the leaky roof. When it was raining, he couldn't fix the roof. When the sun was shining, he was too busy outside doing other things — and the roof didn't need fixing then anyway." As Yogi Berra would say, "It was ...
Views: 1006 - Saving Kids From Drugs - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDrug prevention specialists are dedicated in getting the truth about drugs known to as many children as possible. It is their purpose to save as many youth as possible from ever getting involved with drugs and alcohol. Narconon Trois-Rivieres drug prevention specialist’s Isabelle Roy and Eliane ...
Views: 1004 - ***First Jobs – High School Students Who Are Working First Jobs Are Setting a Work Ethic for Life - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesYoung people often find that they experience many “firsts” during their high school years. Among them are the first car, the first prom and the first job. High school students see all of these things as a way to access more freedom. The car gives then an opportunity to go where they need to go, ...
Views: 1003 - Drug Related Deaths Can Be Prevented - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIt’s sad to read about such a young person dying due to drug overdose. This only strengthens the purpose to continue delivering effective drug prevention material, and help save as many lives as possible. In recent media within Edmonton, Alberta Canada, a teen died from using the drug ecstasy ...
Views: 997 - ***Choosing Our Poison or Choosing to Let Go - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"The sword of attack is always held backwards. We think we're holding the handle, swinging our blade at the world. In truth, though, we're gripping the blade and waving about a harmless handle. The harder we fight, the deeper we cut ourselves." — Dan Cavicchio, Gardens from the Sand: A Story ...
Views: 989(1 vote) - Break the Chains by Zapping the Guilt - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesMy first conscious and vivid encounter with guilt was when I was about 13 years old. It was the day of my parents’ official divorce. We were in the courthouse and, because of my age, I was assigned my own attorney. I had no idea why I had an attorney or even what was going on. My attorney was ...
Views: 978 - How to Live in the “Performance Zone”: The Secret to Being and Feeling Your Best all the Time! - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHow do you get what you want, when you want it, from your life? The answer is shocking: force yourself to be uncomfortable. Yes, that’s right—only by pushing yourself outside of situations where you feel completely comfortable can you ever achieve your true potential. Try the following ...
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