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More times than not, my posts (as a business ethics speaker) relate to ethical choices or fraud prevention. But for a brief break I stumbled across something that caught my attention and raised a question that is worth asking. But, before we get to the question, let’s look at where we are today.

TWO KINDS OF BELIEFS Byr Bill Cottringer “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ~Philip K. Dick.

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.” ~Abraham Lincoln. When some new, intriguing, and well-packaged self-help book, system or idea comes out, it is very easy to run straight towards it with a smothering full body embrace. Unfortunately years later, what we are left holding sadly turns out to be nothing more than a half-truth on its way to evolving into full maturity. Even “The Secret” and “The Law of Attraction” still both have the rest of their stories to tell.

WORK SUCCESS Byr Bill Cottringer “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” ~Vince Lombardi.

Use Your BRAIN !nn This is an exercise in the application of Mental Photography (ZOX) nnI like to paint pictures. More precisely, I like to paint pictures for you to have some idea what it would be like for you to be using Mental Photography. And, if you already use Mental Photography, how to broaden your scope and use it better. There is an event that everyone in the world are now sharing – Economics. Yikes! How do you react? This exercise will help you assess what part yo

Would you like to be following your bliss? What are some ways you can figure out what it is that you really want? I’ve been coaching clients for years with what I call the Smile test. I simply ask them to tell me what they are now doing or being and then what they THINK they might want to be. (remember, I don’t take ‘I don’t know’ for an answer!) And, then, I simply tell people when they are smiling. That’s it. It’s really that simple and it works every time. We often try to

So often we mention the importance of preparation without discussing what it means and what it entails. That's a mistake. The definition of preparation varies from one person to the next; therefore it is possible to lack preparation from the very beginning of any process in one person's view, and to be totally prepared in another's.

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." — Alfred North Whitehead, 19th century British mathematician and philosopher As Achieve (my first consulting company) was working with our Clients to implement Toward Excellence (the cultural change process we had developed in conjunction with Tom Peters), I was growing increasingly uneasy. Something didn't feel right. In In Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman presented a powerfu

Friday started out great. A few of the ladies in my family came over to decorate and prepare for my neice's wedding shower planned for the next day. nnJust after the ladies went home, it started to rain. The rain turned into a raging thunder storm. My whole neighborhood lost electricity. At first, I wasn’t concerned. I called the electric company and the recorded message predicted that I’d have power in the next three hours. Then, I noticed that the rain had created a lak

I’m always looking at the ways people reinvent themselves and how they live. One of my mantras in life has been “how much is enough”. It seems that most of us never feel like we are enough, or have enough. I’m also clear that it is the very nature of our spirit to grow and want more. What does all this mean? There was a show on Oprah recently that showed people living in small spaces – very small spaces. And both Nate Booth (the designer) and Oprah kept asking, how much do w

You have many career options to choose from, these days. The best part is that most of them are lucrative if worked hard upon. With so much exposure and technicality in every field, no career option is considered less than the other one. However, what is most important is to have education. Education forms the bases of any career. Earlier uneducated people were hired for low posts but now every place and corner requires education at least until 12th class. However, the career

The whole experience of development and successful growth is not about going it alone and doing it all by yourself. It involves a Self-belief system of inclusion. Inclusion is a huge part of any personal or business development. Inclusion is simple and simple is successful. The opposite of inclusion is fragmentation. That’s when we all have separate interests and we all take separate views and adopt separate standpoints, which we then feel the need to defend.

ABC…….. of Conquering the Monsters in your Mindr Madan Tripathyr

Trust: The Stuff That Holds Relationships Together Byr Bill Cottringer “You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”rn~Epicurus Successful relationships are built on unconditional love. Without the following implied assurances that collectively define such unconditional love, any degree of compatibility in a relationship is subject to erosion by tiny trust termites which will eventually eat through the foundation of the relationship:

Picture this: A light plane goes down in the Arizona desert. A team from the NTSB descends on the scene to investigate what happened. After three months of rigorous study and analysis, they're ready to report. They call a news conference. The NTSB administrator approaches the podium. You've seen this guy: He's wearing gray, double-knit pants with brown, crepe-sole shoes and a short-sleeved, white shirt with a mustard stain. Yes, he also has a pocket protector. His horned-rimm

People who have achieved greatness in their chosen field are confident people. It is no secret that one must believe before he or she can achieve. However, this confidence manifests much differently than you may realize. For the great ones, confidence is not bravado. It is not the appearance ...

Most people these days feel overloaded, overworked, overtired, over-everything! Not only are our plates full but our china is cracking under the weight of so much to do! May I suggest that boundaries are the key to regaining your energy, your peace of mind, and your productivity? Think about it. If you're going in a million directions trying to please everyone, will you ever reach even ONE destination?

We hear a lot of talk about ‘staying in the Now’. The key is our ability to focus fully on our present task.r

People everywhere have incredible ideas, hidden talents, unlimited potential, and reachable dreams, but they spend too much time listening to the voices of fear and doubt in their own minds that they thus never take a risk and put forth the necessary action required to realize those goals, dreams, and potential. They fail because they don’t attempt. Fears are thoughts of unnecessary worry and often demonstrate an inability to control one’s thoughts. Doubts are voices in one’s mind, or thoughts created by the irrelevant comments of others. Failures are events, not people.

GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED: Maneuvering Through The Self-Improvement Overloadnn“The more you know, the less you have to say.” ~Jim Rohn. I was very encouraged to read some recent research on the younger post-MTV consumer generation. The good news is that this younger generation is fed up with ...

Learning that everything is a potential opportunity requires personal growth that leads to success. When things don’t go the way you want them to, or how you planned it’s easy to hang your head in defeat. But you can’t actually ever be defeated if you refuse to accept defeat. Defeat is only possible if you give up and no longer try to get the success you want, if you give up and refuse to take the actions that will gain the success you want. n n You may not

We all start perfectly successful. We all start complete. We acquire failure. Real success is based on who we are within rather than anything we come by exte ally. The willingness to look at ourselves in a light of perfection, success, inclusion and completion provides a real opportunity to move forward in the true meaning of peace and happiness. It begins by simply being prepared to acknowledge and accept the true self we have forgotten. In that self lives our truth and integrity, where all our interactions and experiences have a meaning of honest and non-fearful expression.

THINK IT BUT DON’T SAY ITnBy Bill Cottringe n As a kid I never bought into the infamous playground chant, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Just re-look at my last name above. Now let your imagination run wild, empathizing about all the possible hurt and ...

Forgetting follows a pattern. There are steep drop offs in retention after 60 minutes and after 24 hours. Immediately after learning something, you will be able to retrieve a great deal of information. But then you will forget the information rapidly if you do not review it – first within an ...

Are you victimizing yourself with the question, "Why me?" Is your pity pot overflowing these days? So often we focus on lamenting why "so and so" did "such and such" or why we're in such a quandery, and we forget that the only person we have control over is ourselves. I'm just as guilty of this as you. I remember spending countless hours going over and over a particularly difficult job search years ago and complaining, day in and day out, about how I just couldn't land the job I wanted. I had all the credentials but I was never first choice.

AN ATTITUDE FOR ALL SEASONS byr Bill Cottringer “The amount of success you have or don’t have, is more related to how you define success, than all you talents, efforts, motivation, timing and luck combined together.”~ The Author.

Nikola Tesla said: “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” In this blog in part one I talk about emotions, the energy and vibrations of emotions. I will also be talking about how emotions impact us and potentially even future generations. In part two I talk about how we can discover these emotions and about how we can change or release them to help us reach our highest level of performance. Emotion=Energy in Motion

TRUTHFUL THINKING By Bill Cottringe n“Success is what we get from what we do to get it.” ~ The Author.nnn Which is more satisfying—week-old, cold apple pie out of the refrigerator or hot, freshly-baked apple pie with cold French vanilla ice cream on top? If Mary wants chocolate cake for ...

The True Master Of The Clock & Calendar Has Neither! Byr Bill Cottringer “Time is our most important resource which is equally distributed to all, but unequally used by most.”rn~The author. Wasted Time— Some on past memories, More on future hopes, Most on not being here, Now and in the present, Using our time wisely, Doing what matters most.

HEALING THE DIVIDE Byr Bill Cottringer “The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.” ~Max Born.

One of the biggest examples of technological advancements is the immense change in programming platforms. With a range of Application existing in the market for web application, PHP and Dot Net is considered as a leading and a highly accepted website development application technology. Basically PHP is a scripting language which used to generate dynamic web pages which in turn bring interactivity with your users. This language can also be written in HTML. But nowadays, PHP al

WORDS ARE WICKED Byr Bill Cottringer “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. For over 50-years now, I have worked in criminal justice as a law enforcement officer, prison warden and a security manager, and I can tell you without an ounce of uncertainty, that our criminal justice system is broken. It is broken because of the emotionally laden words we use which support and drive the whole system—in the wrong direction. Here are the big three words to re-evaluate with patience and careful thoughtfulness:r

Foundation is your place or seat of power. It is where you go to retreat to revitalize yourself, to recharge whenever something is going on in your life that is rattling to you. The strength of your foundation is what sustains you through that challenge that you’re going through. My ...

The corporate world has always its doors open providing numerous job opportunities and viable career options. A career in banking is also topped highest in the cards of career options. Especially career as company secretary and a career in chartered accountancy are high in demand. Career in chartered accountancyrnA career in banking is one of the most coveted ones. An important and high in demand branch of this field is a career in chartered accountancy, which is a challengin

Professionally, we often hear people say that they are busy. Some people repeat it so much that they sound like broken records. But are they really that busy? Or do they suffer from faulty time management skills? In the vast majority of cases, it's the latter reason. There are 24 hours in a day. People who claim to be "super busy" will tell you that they wish the day consisted of 25 hours or more. The inference is that if they had an additional hour, they could get more done, and thus be more productive. Such is not the case.

What types of goals have you set for yourself? Do your goals serve you and bring you happiness? Your goals should advance you towards your dreams. Set goals that are in alignment with what you truly want in life. Intend that the achievement of each goal will allow you to receive a bit of happiness that you did not have before. Setting and achieving goals alone down not mean that you are moving in the right direction. You must identify what it is that you want and which goals will bring you closer to those things.

Sometimes circumstances give us an opportunity to reflect on where we are and to choose once again how we want to live. Having run a very large business, employing close to a hundred people and turning over many millions, I found myself in a situation where the business no longer existed and my job as I had known it no longer existed. I had received many accolades in terms of what I had done, but the business failed. I needed to earn some income and so I opened a video rental store.

"Today's successful business leaders will be those who are most flexible of mind. An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. . . Leaders will have to guide the ship while simultaneously putting everything up for grabs, which is itself a fundamental paradox." — Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution Beware of formal organization improvement or "change manageme

ip #1 Feeling like you can’t get it all done? Schedule Focus Time every day. This is the time you are not to be disturbed. Turn off the phone, shut down email and determine your biggest need for action at this time. Then set your timer and get it done! Tip #2 Tired of losing phone messages? Start a new habit today. Get a small notebook and NEVER retrieve voice mail unless that notebook is in front of you. When you get voice mail, write down the person’s name, phone number and reason for calling. Then schedule a time to make callbacks.

LETTING GO OF ‘WHAT YOU KNOW’ MANAGEMENT THINKINGnBy Bill Cottringer What It’s All About It’s not about— How smart you are, Who you know, Where you’ve been, Or what you have; It’s not about you, Or what you’ve done, Or left undone. Here’s what it’s about: Your silent surrender— The ...

An Excerpt from the forthcoming book THINK AGAIN! A Collection of Blasphemous and Heretical Articles about Long-Held Sacred “Secrets” of Success and Personal Developmentnn© 2007, Peter Demarest, CSAC, “Your Head Coach” Gratitude vs. Havitude (Part 2 of 3) “Hello.” I said, answering the ...

Every time a report card came home Ellen knew that, no matter how well she did in her exams, the same three words would appear at the bottom of the page. Her teachers always felt that she ‘could try harder’ but in fact she really was doing her best and trying her hardest. Every day after school she looked after her younger brothers and sisters while her mother worked. She took her responsibility to make sure that they did their homework and went to bed on time so seriously that she often fell asleep before her own schoolwork was completed.

Learning from others is actually how we've learned just about everything we know! For many internet entrepreneurs this is how they've become successful marketing by simply 'duplicating' some of the most effective strategies they could find! The thing about this however is your success in NOT guaranteed due to variables such as changing market conditions, your own ambitions and even your personality! On the other hand using already proven or effective strategies is widely reco

My brother was diagnosed with cancer in May. By June he had passed away. Initially the situation was one of horror, shock, sadness and anger but as we went through the weeks and as his failing health became more evident, we also realised that anything we needed to talk about would have to be done sooner, rather than later. One afte oon, we drove to the countryside and, even though he was very weak, with great determination my brother climbed a small hill that gave us a wonderful view of the surrounding world.

The course in Mass Communication is known to be the most popular in the whole country. The career in mass communication has been existed in the country since long time but now it has been focused. The institute in metropolitan city and state capital are offering the course in journalism and mass communication at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels. There are also many such institutes which are offering the online journalism course. There are many such job opportun

The defenders of our freedoms now have a seasoned thirty nine year old charity as their national champion providing support for all who wear or wore a military uniform.

Recently, I coached a young woman whom I’ll call Mary about how to make critical lifestyle changes. Mary had always struggled with her weight. She had no control over her eating and she could not maintain a consistent exercise program. That’s when I suggested that Mary try the 5-Minute ...

" The cruelest lies are often told in silence ." — Robert Lewis Stevenson, 19th century Scottish poet, novelist, and essayist We can't build a team or organization that's different from us. We can't make them into something we're not. Failing to follow this principle is the single biggest reason that so many team and organization change and improvement efforts flounder or fail. The changes and improvements we try to make to others must ring true to the changes and improveme

As a fledgling mom, laundry is something I do a lot. Into my sixth load the other day, I adjusted that dial yet again and realized that this was a teaching moment. Yes, my washing machine knows a great deal about success—-and I would do well to pay attention. Sounds a little crazy, I know. But I really do think our everyday habitual routines are opportunities to learn something.

THE MONSTROUS ANTS READY TO CAPTURE YOUR MIND Madan Tripathy Thoughts & thoughts, only thoughts. We think a lot. Our Mind is like a factory producing thoughts non-stop. Moreover, our mind does not often switch off or on at our sweet will. We think a lot when we are awake. Even when we sleep, our sub-conscious mind still works & thoughts pour. There is nothing unnatural about it. Yes, no human being is free or can be free from thoughts. But, where do they take us?