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The way you look and dress announces how you feel about yourself, and you’ll be treated accordingly. I learned this concept at a young age. I was a painfully-shy and introverted teenager. My low point was during a high school piano recital when I was sixteen. I walked across the stage with a ...

What do you think you are worth? Do you think you deserve to be treated fairly? Do you believe that other people deserve to be treated better than you do?

When we feel resentment we believe that someone, or something has wronged us in some way. When we feel resentful, we tend to feel negative emotions such as anger, spite, hurt and irritation. Examples of Resentment include: • Feeling angry against a person or group of people whom you feel have treated you badly • Unresolved anger over a negative event which may have happened to you in your childhood • Unresolved anger over a past event • Lack of forgiving and the inability to let go and forget

During our Passion Test training, we learned about “Jack Canfield’s story” when Janet Bray Attwood, Founder of the Passion Test (http://ulrikeberzau.com/the-passion-test/), took him through the Passion Test.

Self-doubt is the ultimate self-betrayal because YOU are the one telling yourself that you CAN'T or SHOULDN'T do what you WANT to do! Self-doubt is the most damaging and self-defeating behavior there is because it is criticism that comes from within. Unfortunately, we mask this criticizing self-saboteur by telling ourselves that it is really our friends, family, coworkers and/or community members who will disapprove of us if we set out to accomplish our desired goals, but the sad truth is...

Struggling to achieve success? Maybe you need to hone some skills. What skills exactly? Well, after some intensive reading and study of successful leaders in business, industry, government, and personal development, I've found that there are 10 core skills that the most successful leaders all share. While these leaders may not be masters of every particular skill, they have, at least, a basic knowledge of each of them.

To some, it may have seemed to just be a conversation about a really cute orange or red or pink teddy bear. Oops, I sound like a dude – okay I’ll go with coral. Honestly, the bear was so striking that it was the thing I first noticed about the guy in the lobby of the military base store who was holding several stuff animals and had a bag filled with more beside him.

I love the scene in Men in Black when they open the locker to find an alien world living inside. The aliens didn’t realize that there was a whole other world outside their locker. They were fine with their box. Imagine what would have happened if they took them out? It would have been overwhelming for them. Some would have like it and some wouldn’t. The one thing that would have happened for sure is that they all would have looked at their world in a different way. That’s us.

A few years ago, I attended one of Debbie Ford’s ( No1 NY Times Best Selling Author and Self Development Expert) Shadow process workshops in New York. One of the biggest light bulb moments I had on this course was when Debbie led us through a process where we learned to accept that ‘ There are people out there who are toxic and will screw with you’.

Do you ever have those days when you just wake up in the morning with a huge big dark cloud over your head and feel miserable? The trouble is, if we start the day like this, the negative vibration that we send out, as well as the negative thoughts, will often result in our day getting generally worse and worse as the hours go on! Sometimes, however hard we try to feel more positive, this dark cloud just tends to hang around all day and can lead us to feeling self critical, anxious and negative.

Last weekend I was in Tampa, Florida for the first of several in-person events as part of a year long EnergyRich® Elite Mastermind Group I joined. The group and the event was unbelievably spectacular and I felt it was a great time to write a bit about the benefits of working with someone (or a facilitated group) who can be a coach and mentor to you along your journey. First let me share with you that I did not take joining this group lightly. It is the most significant investment of time and money I have made to a program in my life (and that's saying something).

On many occasions while giving a talk on Success Esteem I will ask audience members to raise their hand if they believe they have some fear of failure. Typically about 80% of the audience will raise their hand. Then I ask them to raise their hand if they believe they have some fear of success.

7 Steps to Setting and Achieving Goals Setting goals Perhaps one of the most important things you will do to ensure your success is goal setting. Many people, however, fail to recognize the importance of setting goals and tend to pass it over as unimportant. But nothing could be more vital to your success than learning how to properly set goals. One element that all successful people have in common is that they set specific goals and have devised a plan for achieving them.

Have you ever walked away from a person, event or situation and felt resentful or violated? If some of your experiences are making you uncomfortable, then it may be time to set some boundaries. Setting good boundaries is healthy. It is not rude, bad or wrong. It is not bad or rude or wrong! YES, I repeated that statement as many people believe that they should not speak up or set boundaries just incase it hurts another’s feelings. However, when we walk away from a person who has hurt us in some way, we often feel resentful and upset.

When confronted with a frustrated situation, you can choose to allow it overwhelm you or to transform it into creative opportunities and unlock the power to succeed. In dealing with frustration it is imperative that you look at your situation with a new perspective this one single act can change and turn your frustrations into possibility of success, happiness and new expectations. To win the fight against frustration and create a pathway to freedom you must be persistent and take massive action in the direction of your anticipated expectation.

“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.” Students don’t plan to fail in high school or in life. They unfortunately get derailed along the way by exte al factors and internal struggles. Looking at the nation’s graduation statistics calls us to action in examining how to help drive students to success during their high school matriculation. Roughly 1.2 million students did not graduate from high school in 2011; the lost lifetime earnings for that class of dropouts alone total $154 billion (Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance), “The High Cost of High School Dropouts,” 2011).

High-caliber, marketing-savvy professionals and business owners realize that public speaking is not only a low-cost/ no–cost marketing strategy – it is also one of the best ways to position and brand yourself as the local “go-to” expert in your field. The value of becoming a key-note speaker at local group meetings extends far beyond the event itself. That is, of course, if you do it right. Unfortunately, most people – even pro presenters -- don’t leverage their opportunities as they should.

Do you find yourself running from place to place and task to task like a worker on an assembly line? Are you someone who knows what it is like to have a feeling of success and achievement but all that feels a distant memory (even if, say you achieved something last week!?) Are you somewhere that at best your life and career is feeling "eh, just alright" or worse it may even be sucking the life out of you?

Now is a great time to review your goals for the year and determine how well you are doing at accomplishing those things you wanted to get done this year. If you are like many people, you probably have a few goals that you haven't made much progress toward achieving. You may even have some that you haven't even started. Maybe you started to set some goals but never even went back and finished them. Many people avoid setting goals because they tried it once and when they didn't achieve them, they decided goal setting just doesn't work.

Affirmations do work! Often people give up on affirmations after a few weeks as they feel that they are not working. I often describe an affirmation as being like a seed. You have to be patient, nurture it and cherish it, until it blossoms into what you desire. Often you can’t see the seed growing under the earth – but it is! You just have to trust. An affirmation is a repeated short and specific statement that is spoken aloud, thought or written down. Affirmations can alter our direction in life through the re-programming of our self-talk and self-beliefs.

Just as the world’s economy weakens the entire global economy, stress and anxiety can weaken your entire body so learning to deal with stress is an important part of maintaining your well being and protecting your health. What is stress? Stress is an emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition which occurs in response to a situation. Note, the stress is not the situation, but your response to it!r

Senator: "I'll treat you like a lady, so act like one." Congresswoman: "I am a lady." This bizarre exchange between a male United States Senator and a Congresswoman was recently played out on the public stage during a debate broadcast via radio. But what was really going on here? In my opinion the man was essentially telling the woman to “sit down and shut up.” Since he saw himself as superior to her, he scolded her for not being obedient to him. On any given day, expressions of supremacy are played out in workplaces across America.

There are some true inspirational people such as Martin Luther King jr, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, and so many more that the list goes on and on. For every aspect of life you can be sure that there's an inspirational person to be found. Do you have anything in common with the people I listed above? Probably more than you think.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your self esteem? If it requires some improvement, then you are not alone! Most of us can acknowledge that our self esteem could do with a boost, but much of the time, we are not sure how to go about improving it.

Many business owners and hiring managers spend a lot of time interviewing, hiring and training new employees. It appears to be easy to pick the right person for the job when candidates give you all the right answers to your questions and score well on tests given in the process. Often times though, once they are hired they prove not to be the best choice which ends up wasting a lot of your time and money.

If you believe you can do it, you can. If you believe you can’t, you won’t. How do you see your reflection? Is it distorted in the ripples of a wave? Is it clear as in a quiet body of water? Is it completely opposite as in looking at a mirror? How you see yourself in relation to your world predicts how you will behave and perform in your daily routines.

There was once a time when kids in America wanted to be fire fighters when they grew up. Many of them might still do, but nowadays, there are also an increasing number of them wanting to become a commercial driver when they are older. The reasons that have attracted them to the profession are evident-the lure of distant and exotic lands and the belief that life as a commercial driver or a trucker is as exhilarating as the Ice Road Trucker episodes portray. By the time these k

Tell me if you’ve ever experienced the same. Just yesterday I had just met this lady. She was talking with a friend of mine how her coworkers constantly take advantage of her kindness and willingness to help. And I have had the unpleasant encounter of exactly the same kind of people in my personal life too. We all know how they look like: interactions between people are all about giving and receiving and they always queue up in the getting end only. Unfortunately, you get to be blamed for beeing kind, generous, “people pleaser”, helping. Why is that?

Do you have an area of your life that you feel powerless to create success? Have you created success in other areas of your life but have one area that seems to cause you more issues than any other? If we take some time to examine this area, we will undoubtedly find one or more excuses. These excuses will override your commitment to achieving your goals.

Do you find yourself just trying to hang on and get through the recession? Perhaps you are waiting for things to turn around or something to happen (business partner make a decision, new clients to show up, reorganization at a job to work itself out) before you move forward? If so, you’re not alone. Many people are playing the "hang in there" and waiting game. But here’s the thing - when you do that, you’re living life like the cat on an old poster of mine. The one where the cat is hanging from a tree branch by one paw and the caption says "Hang in there Baby".

You work so hard to create the life you dream of living, but do you have enough Success Esteem to actually allow all that goodness into your life? Over the years, I have seen far too many highly competent and highly confident people work tirelessly to create success, and yet when success "comes a knockin" they consistently find a way to sabotage it and "make it go away". In my 10+ years of coaching work I have found that having self-esteem does NOT ensure success esteem! Although success is inorganic, I have seen much evidence that - like people - success has "feelings".

Wanting success and actually achieving success are two totally different things. Barriers To SuccessWe all dream of having millions in the bank, the ideal job, the luxury house, the dream car and the perfect partner, but for us to have any chance of achieving all this then we must first be aware of the common barriers to success that we’re likely to run into. As the saying goes forewarned is forearmed. Therefore being aware of these common and debilitating barriers to succe

What is a Vision Board? A vision board, treasure map, or vision book is an actual physical picture of our desired reality. It forms a clear sharp image which can then attract and focus energy into our goals or Vision of Success. These tools can help organizations and individuals clarify and achieve their Vision, Mission, Purpose and goals. A vision book, which is geared more toward the individual is essentially a book in which each page is a mini-vision board. This article offers some frequently asked questions and answers about the purpose and how to behind vision boards.

As we prepare for the American Thanksgiving, Christmas and Chanukah, my friends talk of plans to go home to be with their families for the holidays. What’s surprising to me, is that the tone in their voice isn’t one of excitement or anticipation, but more of dread and obligation. Looking Within Because we share similar psychological and emotional makeups, our family members know exactly what buttons to push to activate those dreaded holiday situations.

In case you did not realize, the human mind is a very powerful thing. It is something that can create anything you desire if you just let it do what God created it to do. Once you begin to understand just how powerful the mind is and learn the laws of the universe, you will be able to ...

MARKETING MIRACLES Marketing Miracles happen in a number of ways: 1. Finding out who you are and what you have to offer. 2. Identifying where the integrity lives within who you are and what you have to offer. 3. Bringing coherence between who you are, what you have to offer and what your clients truly want from ...

Success is what most people dream of accomplishing. To reach our heart’s desire is the ultimate goal. Although we live with different purposes in life, it is the main reason why we stand, why we strive and why we continue to live… to be successful! Now, the big question is how can we achieve success? How can we maintain success and what is the key to success? Achieving successr

If you own a coaching, consulting, speaking, healing or other service business, no doubt you have been challenged by the upheaval of the last 2 years. But what if the events that contributed to that upheaval were the very ones that will also catapult your business to the next level? They are. I have worked with heart-centered and spiritually oriented service entrepreneurs for more than two decades, and there has never been a more exciting – nor fearful, for many – time th

Culture shock is the emotional and sometimes even physical discomfort people feel when they have to leave everything familiar behind and have to find their way in a new culture that has a different way of life and a different mindset. Overcoming culture shock takes time and can't happen over ...

Did you know that only 1% of the population is natural born leaders? So that old saying “great leaders are born, not made” can only be correct if 1% of the population is leading something. That can’t possibly be right! There are leaders everywhere doing everything. The dictionary defines a ...

Every now and again, as we work to make our dreams come true, we will find ourselves tired, stuck, and trapped. We'll feel as if we've painted ourselves into a corner and not know how to get out and get moving. If you reach point where you feel like you're stuck and nothing you do seems to be ...Every now and again, as we work to make our dreams come true, we will find ourselves tired, stuck, and trapped. We'll feel as if we've painted ourselves into a corner and not know how to get out and get moving.

Communication means the exchange of information or messages. The process of transferring data from one location to another is called Data Communication. In this process, data is transmitted electronically from one location to another by using standard methods. Today, computer networks are commonly used for data communication. For this purpose, we use cables, telephone lines, computers, and wireless devices that are linked in a network. Types of Data Transmission: Therefore, d

It’s Monday morning and you’ve only been at the office for acouple of hours. The phone has not stopped ringing, you’ve barelymade a dent in your emails, there is a project deadline looming,a team meeting to lead and your boss is concerned and hasslingyou about the project outcome. Does any of this sound familiar toyou? Does it feel overwhelming?nnThe truth is that order to be successful, productive and lessstressed, you need positive, supportive relationships at work.He

We are all liable to feel inferior to another person at some time. This can show up in the fact that we may feel not as attractive, intelligent, slim, rich, popular or somewhat ‘ less than’ other people for many different reasons. When we feel like this, we look at others in our lives as being ‘ better than us’ in some way. We may long to be like them but we convince ourselves that this is not possible for us. The fact is, feeling inferior is a horrible feeling! It can bring up feelings of despair, jealousy and yearning.

Mission and vision statements generate a lot of attention in the business world, ever wonder why? Building a successful business is part of the motivation. After all, you should understand exactly why you are in business. Your employees should not only reflect this but deliver on that understanding and of course, the marketplace should be taking you seriously. All that from mission and vision statements you ask? Yes. Understand that developing your business mission and vision statements is your guide to accomplishing your future business success.

I think of mental blocks as confusion. Imagine your mindnis like a hallow bamboo. When it is clear and opennyour creative ideas percolate, bubble up and turnninto inspired actions your business or life. You feelnlike you are in the flow. It is a great feelingnbecause you are moving forward, ...