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"Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts." — Maya Angelou, American author, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Whilst that may seem like common sense, you may be surprised to see how many people just expect their success to happen and appear out of thin air. To reach your goals and your dreams you need to know what is involved. You need to structure your¬self and your direction, and don’t forget about ...
Unhappiness/Happiness Reality Repai by Bill Cottringe n“There is only one cause of unhappiness: The false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~Anthony de Mello. Your reality repair results—decreasing ...
"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilde ess of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself." — Alan Alda, Actor, Writer and Director I once heard ballet dancer Karen Kain reflecting on how lucky she felt to have become a dancer, since it was this life's work that had allowed her to "find her voice" – to express what was truly inside herself.
There Is Nothing Wrong With Seeing Things The Way They ArenBy Bill Cottringe n“Common sense is the simple knack of seeing things the way they are and doing things the way they should be done.” ~ Mark Twain. Here are two important clarifications that I think Mark Twain would have agreed ...
Do you desire a positive change in your life? Do you desire a life of health? Do you desire a life of abundant wealth? Do you desire a life of fulfilling relationships? Do you desire a life of peace and contentment? Do you desire a life of rewarding endeavors and success? Do you desire a life that is opulent is every way? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then keep reading and discover how to acquire all of these in as little as 5 minutes a day! Actually 99 out of 100 people would answer yes to all of these questions.
What is magnanimity? Here are some quotes. “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln “If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.” ~ Ron Suskind It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. ~ Zachary Taylor
The Law of Accumulation: how your financial fortune accumulates slowly over time and then becomes enormous, like a snowball.nnThe Law of Accumulation: Every great financial achievement is an accumulation of hundreds of small efforts and sacrifices that no one ever sees or appreciates.nn Develop Discipline nThe achievement of financial independence will require a tremendous number of small efforts on your part. To begin the process of accumulation, you must be disciplined and
Do you want to be successful? Since you're reading this article, it's pretty much a given that the answer will be, yes! Success can be defined in a myriad of ways. If we're not conscious about it, we can get caught up in someone else's definition of success. Your family's. Your culture's. The success that truly matters is the success you define for yourself. Only then will it be true, authentic to you. Only then will it really matter when you achieve it. Success doesn't ha
The solution to achieve international experience is to lunge into all things international while you are at university and by taking a gap year off. You require building up a host of international experiences before you are all set to begin applying for professional international careers. And the grand object regarding building these experiences is that you can have a blast doing it! While you are looking for careers in international you need to remember a few things in mind.
Dear High Achiever:nnIs there an area of your life where you would like to make a monumental shift, massive improvement and transformation?nnI bet there is.nnWhen I ask this question at a seminar, a workshop or to anyone, I inevitably get one of five answers.nn⢠1. Money - financesnn⢠2. Health - lose weightnn⢠3. Relationships - strengthen or get one.nn⢠4. Spiritualitynn⢠5. Time - more for what you wantnn Try it yourself. Listing your priority items is a good sel
I have had such a transformation in my business this year thatâs in such contrast to the general way of thinking in terms of how businesses should be doing during an economic recession. One of the most important steps I took was looking inward at my beliefs that were holding me back and putting them under a magnifying glass. Now, there are a lot of coaches and consultants and spiritual teachers and wonderful people who I love to support who talk about being mindful of our t
Why do we need to supplement today? How important is it? How about an opportunity to work from home helping others to get healthy too?
Irony is a form of Paradox. A paradox is what is good and great at the same time. While ecommerce managers across all verticals have a similar thought on the important factors for the growth of an ecommerce business, there is always one thing that is given the highest priority - More Sales. But here is where the problem lies. The biggest irony of high-volume ecommerce stores is that, selling more can be its own enemy. The problem is quite clear - Increase in complexity. As th
DECODING CONFLICT By Bill Cottringer nnnn Organizations today are faced with inevitable conflicts in team-building that will require creative resolutions that may be just slightly outside the leader’s toolbox. Even the most experienced leaders have to approach each new conflict with ...
"If you don't really know where you want to go, it makes no difference which road you take." How many of us are walking down roads that are leading nowhere? How many of us have a feeling that our lives could be happier and more prosperous but our current circumstances are holding us back and making it impossible for us to succeed? I think many of us are so busy moving through our lives, that we don't stop long enough to ask whether there is a purpose behind all of this acti
Letting Go Leads to Success In these unpredictable times, it’s easy for us to yearn to know what is going to happen, to be more tied into to knowing what the outcome for most circumstances are. However, it maybe that one of the best strategies for getting what we want is to psychologically release our insistence that things go our way, or keep focusing on our preconceived notions of what we want. This is the same principle of the watched pot not boiling, too much impatient f
Psychological Power Points of Effective Writing byr Bill Cottringer “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” ~Virginia Woolf.
How to Develop Unmatched Size and Strength… Naturally!! Thank you for searching for new ways to improve your overall size and strength. More importantly how you can achieve your goals without using any illegal and deadly drugs. I am confidant the information you will receive from this article will help empower you on your quest for functional power and strength!
Your attitude determines so many things in your life. Salespeople are trained to always maintain a positive attitude and athletes are reminded to create a winning attitude. While itâs true that commitment, persistence and faith all contribute to helping you create and maintain success in so many areas of your life, thankfulness, or gratitude, are also important.nnTo understand the power of thankfulness you need to remember the premise of the Law of Attraction which states â
THE REAL SOURCE OF CONFLICT WITHIN ANY CONFLICTnBy William Cottringer, Ph.D.nnn“Differences in thinking about problems and solutions cause great conflicts; but the way we communicate about these differences is the source of continuing the conflict.” ~ The author. Conflicts are a frequent ...
I regularly get told by women clients that theyâre not being listened to and have little or no influence in their organisation. My first question of course is, âHow do you do that?â Doesnât make me the most popular coach on the block but, hey, if my clients wanted milk sop theyâd go elsewhere. nnAnd reality is that not getting listened to so youâre not influential is as much an art as being listened to and being influential, i.e., people taking notice of what you
Three Key Success Factors in Effective Management Byr Bill Cottringer “The effective management of others always starts with effective self-management.” ~The author.
Have you ever thought about what you could do, if you really decided to? I'm not merely talking about what your skills, education and talents are capable of. I'm talking about what is really possible for you. There is a very real possibility that you can do virtually anything. Not alone, not with out new information, but certainly within your ultimate grasp. Now many people would say to me, "Jim, be realistic. Some things are just not possible." To them I say, a realist is
Words can wound and heal, soothe or distress, ignite passion or deflate, bring us confusion or ensure clarity - they can build us up or tear us down. Words whether you realise it or not wield a power all of their own. It is one of the least understood and yet one of the most significant ...
Do you believe that success is a straight road from goal to achievement without any detours along the way? If you do, then you probably get discouraged when things don’t go as planned. There are many people who claim that success is easy. All you need to do is to follow their system and then success is guaranteed. Then when you try it and it doesn’t work as smoothly as you thought it would, you begin to get discouraged and think you weren’t meant to achieve your goal.
Itâs time to trim the sails and batten down five management hatches in preparation for the coming storm of challenging business environments. Just as ships trim their sales and batten down hatches sail more safely in choppy waters, organizations who are well-prepared will better cope with the turbulence and changes in the marketplace. nnNo one can foresee what this year will look like exactly. So how can one prepare? Here is a five-step recommendation that will be both prud
THE ONLY WAY TO THE TOP IS ALWAYS AN UPHILL CLIMBnBy Bill Cottringe nn“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing all the hard work you already did.” ~Newt Gingrich. This morning I was driven to write this article after initially responding via e-mail to an ...
You have probably had the experience of not being able to tell somebody a phone number until you dialed it. Or perhaps you have given poor directions to a place you can easily drive to. This happens because we are able to remember procedures and tasks better than specific step-by-step ...
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Success is no longer defined in financial terms alone. It’s beginning to be understood as an alignment between life and livelihood, between monetary gain and an abundance of joy, vitality and good relationships. While it’s undoubtedly important to reach professional benchmarks and ...
This article is for all of those people who are in a position where they can’t see the forest for the trees. By that I mean those who are so overwhelmed by their current situations that they cannot see any possible way out of their dilemmas. I know exactly where you are at right now. I too was ...
Astronomers recently discovered that there are three times as many stars in the universe than was previously thought. Up till now, they have seriously underestimated the number of other suns in other galaxies – and that means there must be many more planets orbiting them where other life forms might exist. Mind blowing! Which got me thinking...where are you seriously underestimating yourself? I see it all too often in people -I can see their amazing potential, their strong
You know where you want to go, but how do you get there? You may find that making some decisions is easier than others. What do you do first? How long will it take? Will you need help getting there? How do you decide what’s right for you? It helps if you understand what makes you tick; your ...
With more and more graduates passing each year, finding a job in country has become a daunting task. Jobs in Chennaihave provided great advantage to these students or people in getting a good job irrespective of the various technical and non-technical fields of working. Some these offered jobs are BPO jobs in Chennai,call center jobs in Chennai and various others. As more and more companies are shifting to the city after looking at the success and business opportunities in Ch
Whenever I give a speech, make a presentation or participate in a workshop, entrepreneurs and startup business owners ask me the same key questions:nn"How can I generate more leads?"n"How do I close more sales?"n"What do I need to do to make bigger profits and more money?"nnAnd they ask me what my formula for success is.nnIâm delighted when they ask me the last question, because it provides the answer to the previous three.nn A. Think Big nOver and over I talk to entreprene
Is It Important To Have An Accurate View Of Reality? BynBill Cottringe n“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. I suppose some people would pose slightly different versions of this title question: ...
"The only problem with winning the rat race is you have to be a rat to win." How can I be happy? Why am I depressed? How do I change your life? How do I attract abundance into my life? How can I lose weight? Is there a secret to living a life with abundance in my health, relationship, and finances? How do I live a full and happy life?
Jamie Meiselman is an entrepreneur who pursued the idea of bringing the perfect surf indoors through an enterprise known as Surfparks. A veteran of the action sports industry (snowboarding, skateboarding, etc.), Mr. Meiselman nurtured his idea while studying for his MBA at Columbia University. He left school with a degree and a working business plan. Now, more than five years later, he is on schedule to open the first of many Surfparks facilities in Orlando, Florida in spring
When you think about your dreams and the means to accomplish them, you should always keep a number of things in mind. In general, you should have a number of things set in mind. As you go into your personal trance of dreams and wishes and start setting the future of your dream. Before starting to work on your dream, you should have five things â of course, in most cases â unchanging due to anything. Desire:rn⢠When you have a dream, it will always start with the same th
Training ROInBy William Cottringe nn Today, employee training has to be more cost effective than ever. Your tight bottom line can't afford the luxury of huge training expenditures without a serious return on investment. Below are the most important goals to focus on achieving in order to ...
Magicians provide an excellent example of a ‘mistake hierarchy.’ A good card magician knows that many tricks depend on luck and that luck is a fickle friend. So, you tell the audience you’re going to do a trick. Without telling them what kind of trick, you go for the ...
What does success mean to you? Becoming a millionaire? Owning a yacht? Doing what you love? Having the ability to spend time with your kids? Having the perfect body? The answer to this question will be different for each person and your answer could determine your happiness. The problem is, ...What does success mean to you? Becoming a millionaire? Owning a yacht? Doing what you love? Having the ability to spend time with your kids? Having the perfect body? The answer to this
LIGHT THEIR FIRESnby William Cottringe nn Knowing how to motivate employees is an important part of any supervisor’s toolbox. Fortunately you don’t have to be a psychologist to be an effective motivator. All you have to do is apply practical people principles in a common sense way. Below ...
nAre you getting all you want out of life? Here's a little technique that, if you use it, will open a new world of intriguing and exciting opportunities. This technique is called "renaming your world." Renaming your world engages the "Law of Attraction" as an ally working for our success - instead of an opponent working against us.nn"Will you consider with me the possibility of creating a new world?" Dr. Rebecca Beard inquires in her 1951 classic Everyman's Search. "Have we n
One of the ways you can differentiate yourself in the marketplace is to deliver your products and services faster than your competition. I just signed off on the proofs for a 300-page book with a full-color cover. The turnaround for this digital printer is less than eight daysâand most of that is spent sending and receiving proofs. Compare that to a four- to six-week process for most offset book printers. There are even printers who now produce books one at a timeâas they
He said he would win eight gold medals and he did. It was that simple. He wasn’t arrogant, he wasn’t overly confident. He was just matter of fact. It was something he set out to do and as the world watched every stroke and every plunge, he did it to rousing applause and the screams of the commentators as they articulated their disbelief in more than 100 different languages. The world stood still for a moment and watched the machine called Michael Phelps take comma
ONLY TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE? By Bill Cottringe n Getting along with other people and working together cooperatively is the fundamental foundation of successful outcomes in the workplace. This is true teamwork at its best. Organizations without this foundation don’t grow or prosper, at least ...
In any new job, you face a multitude of challenges⦠all of which have to be addressed âon the runâ and simultaneously. One of the biggest of these is âmanaging upâ â that is, working with your new boss. For too many people, including senior level executives, this becomes a random process. They donât want to engage their bosses in a specific, granular discussion that might make them uncomfortable. Hereâs my bias: The priority of achieving clarity should trump a
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