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What does my intuition have to say? When was the last time you asked yourself that? If it's been awhile (or never), I encourage you to pause a minute and ask yourself, "Why haven't I?" Your intuition is your inner voice, your own North Star. It's there. But you need to be willing to listen for it. You need to be still (and patient) to hear it. Your intuition won't steer you wrong. Many things (and people) will. Whether on purpose, or not. But your intuition, your authentic self, will never, ever steer you wrong.

Do you ever find that your mind is so cluttered that you just can’t think straight? Many of us have nearly overwhelming schedules, causing us to constantly live in chaos. When this comes up in with my clients, I welcome the opportunity to help people through the issue. Here are some tips to regaining your center, and chasing away the thoughts that cause your life to be chaos: 1. Get clear on what you want, and create an action plan. Disallow anything in your day that does not lead you to your desired end.

You've probably heard this idea at one time or another. You've probably nodded your head in agreement understanding that thoughts are in fact, things. You probably believe this and accept that your thoughts, being things, do in fact have power. Have you really thought about this? Do you apply ...

One of the best strategies to quickly establish credibility, get known, and differentiate yourself in the marketplace is to share your signature story. A signature story is your own personal account of how you got to where you are today or how you transitioned into your chosen profession.

As you build your Virtual Assistance practice you will find that sometimes your workload as a virtual service provider can get quite heavy. One of the best ways to handle it is to outsource some of your work to other virtual assistants. But, where do you start? Let’s dig a bit deeper to get your mind wheels spinning. If we can get you out from under some of that heavy load of working all the time, life will be a whole lot easier, right? And let's be very realistic here. There

Ever have one of those days when you’re just dragging and you can’t quite spark up much energy for even the most mundane activity? Whether it’s lethargy in your body or just a fuzzy-headed feeling, here are six quick energy amplifiers: 1. Peppermint Essential Oil To experience a quick burst of energy put 2 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil on your tongue (don’t touch the bottle to your tongue) and let it mix with your saliva. This is especially useful if alertness is key. Your brain will perk up instantly. It’s especially good for studying.

The key to understanding how we all end up being limited by Unconscious Allegiances and Forbiddances—that result in what we call The Fear of Being Fabulous—is rooted in every child’s earliest beginnings and driven by the environment that child grows up in.

This is first in the series of Top 10 Basic Business Principles, and it is important that you get this one right. One of the more difficult decisions to make in business is what am I going to do within the business, and even more importantly, what am I NOT going to do. This decision will impact your business in a significant way. One area of deciding what to do is in trying to answer the question, “What am I going provide as a product or service, and what are the limits to

My friend Joan Steidl was recently asked about her thoughts on the election. She responded, “We are living in a rapidly changing world. Both parties are offering old solutions that haven’t worked. What we really need are some new ideas.” Her words have haunted me. Our traditional semi-free ...

If you’ve been following me on the Social Networks, you should know that I have a 5 year old, who I believe will be 25 next birthday. Aren’t they the most precious people on this earth? The questions, the Ego, the inquisitiveness amaze me every day! For accounting women in business, I’ve discovered 7 things we can learn from toddlers. By the way if you’re not a parent, I’m sure you can find a toddler in your neighborhood, who you can observe for the day. I’ll share with you 4 insights today and next week, we’ll look at the other 3: • Questions

Helen Keller, an amazing woman who despite multiple physical limitations was anything but limited, believed that, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” Liberators know this instinctively. They’re the people who enthusiastically share information, connections, business leads and anything else they can to make your career and life better – without expecting a single thing in return.

You want to know what I think? I think too many of youare trying too hard, doing too much and not achievingwhat you really want anyway. You are not achievingbecause there are too many things in the way: unnecessary obligations at work, at home, with friends. You can burn out by trying too hard to hold on to toomuch information. You alter the way you live your lifeto accommodate others’ needs before your own. Holdingon too hard will wear you out. In order to live your life instead of someone else’s you have to reinvent the way you live it.

Leads are everywhere. No one should ever put off a cold calling campaign with the excuse of having no one to call. There are many excellent sources to find lists of potential prospects for your market. Many of them are online. Howvere, these databases, while excellent, require a fee. The following are some free resources to explore before you spend your hard-ea ed money. Read on: First check out all of your competitors web sites. Many web sites have client / customer pages. Bingo! You have a list of qualified prospects.

You start something......complete it, no matter what. Do this several times and you will develop a winning habit....the habit of completion. Yet beware, for the opposite is also true. You start an activity and you leave it incomplete. You do this a few times and you will develop a destructive habit...the habit of failure or incompletion. Completing whatever you were working on has nothing to do with that particular project. Any present or past fulfilled task is insignifican

By Colleen Francis, Engage Selling You say it to your sales team all the time: “ABC. Always be closing.” Well, as a sales leader, I’d recommend that you adopt a slightly different mantra for yourself: ABR: Always be recruiting. Many sales managers settle into complacency when their team is performing well, or recruiting falls by the wayside when there’s too much else on their plates. But in reality, it’s essential to constantly have recruiting on your to-do list for

In this article I share seven of the most common mistakes that beginning speakers make when just starting their speaking business and how you can avoid them. This article is NOT about presentation skills or speech tips or even about conquering your fear of speaking but for those who are brand ...

Fresh, new growth in your business happens when your energy and attitude toward your business are positive and sharp. I’ve developed this Entrepreneur’s Attitude Checklist as a way to assess small business owners and their need for change. Give yourself an attitude check by sitting down with a ...

Employers face major challenges when they consider the increasing difficulty of finding skilled people, a younger workforce with different attitudes about work, and a growing population of older workers heading toward retirement. A recent study shows 85% of HR executives state the single greatest challenge they have in managing the workforce is their organization's inability to recruit and retain good employees and managers.nnnPicture this scenario -- John is the CEO of a lar

Baby boomers are coming of age. 60 is the magical number, but to a "Boomer", that is really not old, and most can't understand how this age has suddenly made them "old" to society. They are still vibrant, full of life, living and going about their business. But what happens when a spouse ...

Your behavior as a manager as well as your approach to life in general will greatly affect your success or ultimate failure. That is why it is important to have various styles of behaviors and a wide range of approach. This gives you flexibility and increases your choices in your everyday dealings with other people. It will also help you in the long run in achieving success. For most managers, they usually prefer to use the natural style of influence.

As a small business owner, you are most likely going to incur some expenses related to the promotion of your business. Generally, most of the expenses you incur are deductible either as advertising expense or as some other expense. Some expenses are not deductible. In any case, the Internal ...

Let’s start with a question. What business are you in? No, really. This is a vitally serious question. Ask 100 business owners what business they’re in and 97 of them will tell you what they do. That isn’t the question. Ask 100 jewelery store owners what business they’re in and they’ll tell ...

Projects and goals can survive the difficult times ahead if you build strong partnerships and cross pollinate with like-minded individuals. The right combination of people will contribute knowledge and resources necessary for success. Strong partnerships can minimize weaknesses and maximize ...

I’m sitting here writing this article with a big grin on my face because I feel happy. You might be wondering what happened to make me feel happy. Nothing. Not a thing. Zippo. I’m sitting here feeling gratitude and happiness. I just love feeling this way. A few years ago, I had Lionel ...

How do you process information? By taking notes. In traditional classes, we learned to write down everything. But for powerful selling, visual note taking at a whiteboard is much more powerful. Curious how to pump up your whiteboard note taking? In talking with graphic facilitators, whiteboard sellers and creative visual story sellers, 5 practices consistently surface. It doesn’t seem to matter what the topic is. It doesn’t seem to matter what their expertise or role is.

By Colleen Francis, Engage Selling Negativity can be a real killer on any sales team. I’ve seen good salespeople and great sales teams erode rapidly because a single poisonous thought permeates the team. This crops up more commonly in today’s market, where volatility and constant change can often be the only things that are standard and can shake a sales team. As a sales leader, it’s imperative to have your employees talking positively about your products and services a

Today is a fresh start. Every day, as they say, is a fresh start. Only sometimes it doesn't feel that way, does it? Too often it seems as though you'll never reach your goals - especially the ones that matter to you the most. It seems like your goals and dreams are still out there in the distance, in the future. And there is always one more thing that needs to be put into place before you will really be on your way.

It has long been said that a grateful person is a happy person. Researchers have studied the effects of gratitude on a person’s psychological well being, finding that having gratitude typically evokes a positive emotional reaction. Counting our blessings helps us to acknowledge that life is ...

How are you coming across with the people you meet? How do you present yourself? What happens when you walk into a room? What does the person see and feel about you? Who are you? You have to be comfortable with who you are and what makes you “You”! Who Are You? A study was done by a group of pediatricians and psychologists. Six professionals were put in a room and they observed eighteen toddlers for several hours. The children were 3 – 6 months old and were all in diapers an

Salespeople naturally take advantage of mobile cell phones regardless the modes of travel. In general, it makes the job of selling easier and allows them to maximize each selling minute of the day. The catch of using this invaluable sales tool is the likelihood of never unplugging ourselves to ...

Chattering away inside the heads of most human beings is an internal monologue that goes on and on at about 45,000 words per day. It consists of a variety of voices—the cheerleader, the worrier, the taskmaster and a whole gallery of others, some uplifting and cheery, others nagging and mean. Sadly, for many people, chief among this cast of characters is the Inner Critic.

It goes without saying that people who are in power are influential. An influential person usually doesn't have a hard time getting other people to do something or listen to his personal views. Basically, an influential person can make things happen with just a snap of the finger. When you are influencing someone, you are changing his behavior in a way. But before you can become a source of influence, you must first have an understanding of the human behavior. Did you know that the word "because" has a profound effect in the way you influence others?

Making money via texting messages sounds great! Well, text messaging marketing is the newest buzz. If you want to make money easily and quickly then you must try this method. Here people text to win. Do you want to make some easy extra bucks? Then you must try texting method, you simply have to submit the latest deal or discount to the website you are registered with. Now if you are confused about this concept then let’s read on and understand this method properly. Text Mes

One of the reasons why people online sign up to expensive high ticket coaching programs is because they want a shortcut in knowing the things that they find very important in their lives or careers. Most of these people have no time to read hundreds of articles and just get confused later on with conflicting information they get. If you’re someone who’s offering these types of infoproducts, you need to make sure that your programs are comprehensive enough in order to give

Since we are all one, connected within the greater energy field, we affect each other through our thoughts, beliefs and intentions. This affecting and influencing occurs whether we are aware of it or not. However, when we let go of our own will and allow the divine, organizing intelligence of the universe guide the process we create the opportunity for significant and transformative change to occur.

I have learned that most executives tend to be “programmed” to follow a particular path of thinking and acting when sales drop in an economic downturn. First they cut prices, thinking that this will stimulate sales because their economics professor told them it would. Then, when sales continue ...

Everyone wants more money. But if tomorrow you received a substantial raise or inherited $100,000, would you know what to do with the excess? You may think having more money will make things easier, but that’s not necessarily the case. Changing your financial position means making adjustments ...

Over the course of my business career, I have witnessed many business successes and failures, including some of my own. I have seen intelligent, knowledgeable people with great business plans fail and I have seen others less well equipped seemingly stumble into tremendous success. There have ...

The following is an excerpt from Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Family Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life by Libby Gill. For more, go to www.libbygill.com. It took me a long time to realize how much of my personal story — that is, my beliefs about myself, my value system, and decision-making process — had been shaped by my family's story.

It can take a while to reach the point where your business is booming and you’ve got oodles and oodles of work to be distributed. But once you reach that point, you'll want to be ready to hire quality team members who are as passionate about your business as you are and whose knowledge can help take your business to the next level. So it's never too early to begin thinking about the steps involved in expanding your business beyond "solopreneur" status. The earlier you begin contemplating this process, the more successful you'll be in hiring a quality team that you'll be happy with.

The problem with most people is they don’t realise why we were all given one mouth and two ears. All they want to do is tell you about themselves. Don’t they realise we aren’t interested in them, only ourselves!! BUT turn this on its head and you have a brilliant technique to instantly make new friends and really impress people. It’s called ‘Ask open probing questions’ and it’s really simple to learn. The more you practice it the better you get too. Next time you meet someone new just ask them a question that starts with one of the following words: What…..? Where....? When….?r

If you’re like most entrepreneurs that I coach you have asked yourself this question, “Do I have what it takes to succeed?” either on a conscious level of subconscious level. Chances are you do have everything that it takes to succeed. By that I mean that most likely you do have the knowledge and the experience and the expertise that would make you successful.

Ready to give your team everything they need for successful sales presentations? Every team needs skills and tools to succeed. Curious about the 7-critical components for success? Sales presentations educate your prospects on your company’s uniqueness. With targeted presentation skills training, your entire team gets crucial skills development. They’ll learn how to whiteboard while the audience watches, how to identify key issues, how to overcome obstacles, and how to ‘connect the dots’ so every client understands the value you are offering.

No one likes dealing with big problems. I would prefer to just crush them. That technique doesn't always work very well. Some of the times using some finesse as a better alte ative. I think my dad told me, “If I can’t get through something in my way, I try to dodge it, and if I can’t go around it, I try to get under it, and if I can’t get under it, I try to go over it, and if I can’t go over it, I just run through it.” That’s the philosophy I like to use. • Initially, find

Daegan Smith is a great mentor to network marketers. What did he do to become so successful. My business has been built around many of the teachings I have received from him. My mission is to empower as many struggling network marketers as I possibly can.rnUsing what Daegan Smith has taught me, I'm gonna share some business building tips with you today.. The first thing you need to understand is to never call any of your leads, you have to be able to effectively build relatio

“Time is infinitely more precious than money, and there is nothing common between them. You cannot accumulate time; you cannot borrow time; you can never tell how much time you have left in the Bank of Life. Time is life . . .”-Israel Davidson If you are a busy holistic practitioners or spiritual entrepreneur, who thinks they can’t find enough time to work ‘on’ your business as well as in it, or don’t seem to have much ‘down-time’, then Time Management is for you!

As you have probably well noticed so far, SEO (search engine optimization) is not only one of the best techniques to give your business a literal boost on the internet, but it also is not just ONE technique, in that matter. It incorporates many different approaches and tactics, which can be used separately or can be combined together to achieve even better results. One of the most powerful of these approaches is niche one-way link building.

I can remember growing up in Chicago when the year 2000 was a long way into the future. And now, in 2010, as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, I’m taking stock of how far I’ve come and what it took to get me here. As a child watching movies, I dreamed of being an actor in Hollywood. And then one day…I found myself acting on a movie set at Paramount Studios.

If you’ve been paying attention to the news at all lately, the big topic of conversation is the new proposed healthcare legislation, or “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”. This bill is 1018 pages long, and will completely change the healthcare system in the United States if and when it becomes law. If you haven’t actually read the bill, you may be wondering how this new legislation will affect your business.

If you are a coach, a business person, a busy person, an overwhelmed person... you're probably seeking what the 'experts' call - balance. While this sounds great, it's an unrealistic term that sets you up for failure. I know I'll probably get a lot of heat from people out there (and especially ...