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By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

MOTIVATION A-Z: THE HEART OF SELF IMPROVEMENT

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Flunking grades make us realize that we need to study. Debts remind us we need to earn more money. Being humiliated gives us the ‘push’ to speak up and fight for ourselves to save our face from the next embarrassments. It may be a bitter experience, a friend’s tragic story, a great movie, or an inspiring book that will help us get up and get just the right amount of motivation we need in order to improve ourselves. With the countless negativity the world brings about, how do we keep motivated?

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,572 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

How to Recognize and Weed Out Self-Doubt

We all find ourselves dealing with self-doubt at some point in our entrepreneurial lives. If you let it get the best of you by feeding in to it and actually believing the lies you’re telling yourself, it can destroy even the best of intentions for success. Self-doubt can creep into your psyche without you even suspecting it’s there until the first niggling thought makes itself clear. Doubts can run wild in your mind, making you question your abilities about anything new or different.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,543 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

The Seduction of Social Media: Are You on the Path to Addiction?

Have you ever started out on a path going in one direction only to find yourself, hours later, mindlessly ending up somewhere else? You planned to check your Facebook page but somehow you ended up on Twitter. You intended to have a dialogue in one of your LinkedIn Groups, but two hours later you find yourself down a rabbit hole reviewing interesting but irrelevant information and you have no idea how you got there.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,455 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Top 10 Ways To Manage Your Stress: Change Your Attitude And Master Your Thinking

Almost every Life & Relationship Coach who has any credibility worth their weight in gold has some article on their website discussing stress and how to manage it. Top 10 Ways To Master Your Stress. How to Cope With Stress. Manage Your Stress: Manage Your Life. etc Not to be outdone by others, let me add my top ten ways to manage stress list to the fray. Before doing that, I just need to add one simple premise: In order to truly manage your stress, you have to come to terms with a basic principle:

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,426 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Five Tips to Help you Cope with the High Expectations of the Holiday Season

There can be a lot of advice coming to you this time of year about coping with the multiple stresses of the Holiday Season. If ever there was a time of the year that we can feel bombarded by the demands of the outside world; this time of year is it. My advice is keeping it simple. Pressures from the outside world can come in two major forms: 1) The Hollywood hype that is created by the movies, which indirectly tell us how we SHOULD behave and interact at this time of year.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,417 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

The Seduction of Social Media: Are You on the Path to Addiction?

Have you ever started out on a path going in one direction only to find yourself, hours later, mindlessly ending up somewhere else? You planned to check your Facebook page but somehow you ended up on Twitter. You intended to have a dialogue in one of your LinkedIn Groups, but two hours later you find yourself down a rabbit hole reviewing interesting but irrelevant information and you have no idea how you got there.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,390 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

GO DO IT NOW

In 1988 NIKE cornered the market with the no excuse trade mark phrase to getting things done – “JUST DO IT”. In other words don’t think about it, don’t analyze it, and don’t process your feelings. Don’t whine or complain about it. “JUST DO IT”.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,375 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Finding ‘S’Heroes Lessons in Female Leadership from Game of Thrones

As Game of Thrones winds down and the fictional epic fantasy TV drama ends in April 2019, I cannot help feeling a strong sense of anticipatory grief. In spite of the high degree of violence, and nudity, it has been one of the few entertaining TV shows that has embraced the idea of putting strong female characters into powerful leadership roles.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,363 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

7 Ways to Stay Motivated and Hold onto Your Dream (Part 1)

Have you ever had a dream, goal or objective that you could not fulfil or accomplish? Maybe you tried to lose weight, train for a marathon, begin an online business, write a novel, or do something else that was challenging. Why didn’t you succeed? People often fall short at achieving a big dream they desperately want, because they lose their self-motivation. Keeping up your motivation can be difficult when you face a long period of intense work. Here are 7 ways that will help you to stay motivated so you can hold onto and reach those big dreams. Honour yourselfr

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,347 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

7 Steps to Overcome Your Confidence Crisis

We all experience setbacks in life from time to time - setbacks like losing an important business order, the break-up of a valued relationship, or losing a job. When this happens, even a small event can send you over the edge, creating an unwanted crisis in confidence. Here are 7 steps you can implement that will help you to take back control of yourself, and your life. 1. Ignore Exte al Stimulir

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,343 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Get Motivated Now: What You Need to Know

Is there a certain area of your life that you are dissatisfied with but lack the motivation to change? Perhaps you SHOULD (that dirty word) stop smoking? You know it’s time to lose those 50Lbs you’ve been carrying ( I know about that one) Maybe you SHOULD cut back on your drinking You have contemplated changing your situation for a long while now, lately you’ve been giving it a lot of thought but once again lack of motivation shows it’s ugly head.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,300 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Mastering Cultural Diversity: 5 Reflective Questions That Will Make You an Effective Manager

In todays global economy it is good business sense for services, businesses and organizations to be reflective of the customers they serve. More than ever, strong managers and leaders are required to have a comprehensive set of skills that allows them to be adept at managing a vast array of people with multiple differences. This can be both challenging and rewarding for the successful Manager, providing multiple opportunities to learn and grow. Here are 5 key reflective questions that managers can use to review their leadership effectiveness in working with cultural diversity.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,294 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

How To Enjoy Your Christmas Family Get – Together

It is so easy to get caught up in the nostalgia and hype of Christmas. This time of year we are bombarded with movies promoting happy family experiences. Whatever struggle our movie protagonist seems to have endured, they always seem to resolve their conflict and make it home for Christmas. Fade out to Silent Night – we see the happy family seated around the table enjoying their turkey dinner.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,283 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

The Amazing Power of Questions

“A good question is better that a brilliant answer…” Richard Saul Wurman – Creator of TED Why do adults stop asking questions? Children ask amazing questions all the time. Their innate sense of curiosity is astounding. Yet somehow, as we move towards adulthood, that natural sense of childhood curiosity seems to disappear. Why is it that we encourage students to ask questions but as adults we seem to stop doing this ourselves? Isn’t that the most powerful way to learn? Where would we be today if Newton and Einstein had never stopped to ask questions?

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,245 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Moving from Doubt to Self-Esteem as an Entrepreneur

Are you an Entrepreneur who is starting up a new business? Do you struggle with a persistent sense of self-doubt that you can’t or won’t succeed? You know you have the knowledge; you know you have the experience; you know you have the ability; yet, on some level you still question your skills and worry about your potential to succeed in a loud and busy entrepreneurial world. Although these doubts can be confused with low self-esteem, they’re very different in how they factor in to results.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

1,235 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

HOW TO AVOID BEING A DIVORCE STATISTIC THE SECOND TIME AROUND

“My partner and I are a perfect match for one another and the love between us is inspired.” Positive Relationship Affirmation for Attracting Excellent Relationships

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

996 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

The Face of Grief

Nine months after the death of my mother I was finally able to cry. To say that I was not grieving would have been an understatement. You just would not have seen it on the outside. Nevertheless, my inner turmoil was real. It happened unintentionally and unexpectedly. I was just listening to music on YouTube one day when I came across Nettie Dudley Washington’s spiritual I Bowed on My Knees and Cried Holy, sung powerfully by Michael Gauthier. I just wept.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

722 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Tips and Resources to Help You Support Your Child Through the Pandemic

We are all experiencing Pandemic Fatigue. For the past year, Covid-19 has disrupted our normal everyday routines. and limited social contact with friends and family. We’ve all had enough. Although most kids appear to be adjusting to the many changes, parents remain worried. In a recent survey conducted by Statistics Canada 71% of parents surveyed, worried about the amount of time their children were missing due to being out of regular school. Parents also worried about their children’s lack of socialization and limited extracurricular activities.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

663 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Tips and Resources to Help You Support Your Child Through the Pandemic

We are all experiencing Pandemic Fatigue. For the past year, Covid-19 has disrupted our normal everyday routines. and limited social contact with friends and family. We’ve all had enough. Although most kids appear to be adjusting to the many changes, parents remain worried. In a recent survey conducted by Statistics Canada 71% of parents surveyed, worried about the amount of time their children were missing due to being out of regular school. Parents also worried about their children’s lack of socialization and limited extracurricular activities.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

648 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Tips and Resources to Help You Support Your Child Through the Pandemic

We are all experiencing Pandemic Fatigue. For the past year, Covid-19 has disrupted our normal everyday routines. and limited social contact with friends and family. We’ve all had enough. Although most kids appear to be adjusting to the many changes, parents remain worried. In a recent survey conducted by Statistics Canada 71% of parents surveyed, worried about the amount of time their children were missing due to being out of regular school. Parents also worried about their children’s lack of socialization and limited extracurricular activities.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

637 views

By Veronica HislopRecently published1 topic

Tips and Resources to Help You Support Your Child Through the Pandemic

We are all experiencing Pandemic Fatigue. For the past year, Covid-19 has disrupted our normal everyday routines. and limited social contact with friends and family. We’ve all had enough. Although most kids appear to be adjusting to the many changes, parents remain worried. In a recent survey conducted by Statistics Canada 71% of parents surveyed, worried about the amount of time their children were missing due to being out of regular school. Parents also worried about their children’s lack of socialization and limited extracurricular activities.

Primary topic: Empowering Women

Empowering Women

630 views

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