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Do you remember the parable? Do you remember the parable about the man with a fig tree in his vineyard? He went to the tree looking for fruit, and there was none. He went back to the tree the next year, and it was still barren. He returned a third year. Nothing! The man then told his vineyard keeper to cut the tree down. The vineyard keeper said, “Allow me to offer it proper nutrition and come back next year. If it doesn’t bear fruit next year, then I will cut it down.” Th

A horse’s heart weighs not more than 8.5 pounds, Secretariat’s weighed 22!rnAs you all must be aware of the incredible findings of a vet who treated Secretariat regarding the colt’s magnificently pounding heart; it weighed 22 pounds, the heaviest heart any thoroughbred has been found with. While the normal heart in a horse weighs around 8.5 pounds, Secretariat’s vet estimated that the horse’s extreme pumping capabilities and exemplary performance at the Belmont Stak

Being a good seller online involves more than having a great variety of products. It incorporates several factors that can help sellers not only to attract prospective buyers and increase sales but also in building relationships and trust. Being an online sellers myself and getting involved with e-commerce for a long period of time, I was always looking for ways to build trust around my online profile, attract more buyers and make sales. Below there are a few essential tips t

Trapped Under the Middle Part of the Bell Curve? Byr Bill Cottringer “Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.” ~W.A.Tozer.

I have noticed a scary decline in the level of customer service offered around the globe, in most businesses, in the past few years. Seems the tighter the economy, the less emphasis was placed on what should have been the critical element for sustainable success – retaining and attracting customers!

The Challenge for Returning Veteransr By Bill Cottringer Veterans Day is a day we can all be thankful for the men and women who generously and unselfishly served our country, past and present and some with their lives, to keep the rest of us safe and secure in the freedom we cherish. This article is a special tribute to the military personnel now serving or returning from overseas duty in the many “war zones” around the world.

The mathematicia Benoit Mandelbrot asked a deceptively simple question: How long is the coast of Britain? The answer depends on how you measure it. You get a much shorter distance if you fly from one end to the other than if you drive a road that follows the island’s contours. The road gives a ...

You all know the procedure when you’re on a plane. The flight attendant stands in front and tells you how to put on your oxygen mask and proceeds to tell you that in case of an emergency put your mask on first before doing anything else or helping anyone else. We all know why she gives us these instructions. It’s not brain surgery, its common- sense. Everyone knows you can’t help your loved ones, if you can’t breathe. I’m also sure that you have seen talk shows abou

The Best Way To Thrive Is To help Others Survive Byr Bill Cottringer “We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.” ~Jose Ortega y Gasset. The best way to thrive is to help others survive…but first you have to master surviving yourself! In case you haven’t noticed, there is an ever widening gap between many of us who are just trying to survive and the few of us who are starting to thrive.

Shyness can be a very serious problem. It can keep you from making friends, finding a mate, or even getting and holding onto a good job. Fortunately, there are some definite steps that you can take to overcome shyness that will help to alleviate the problem. One of the most important steps to over come shyness is to break it down. Make a list of all the situations you can think of that make you feel shy.

In every moment we each make choices that are critical to our individual and collective futures. Yes, you too. Even though you may not be conscious of this. Most of your choices are, in fact, not conscious or intentional. They are habitual. About 60,000 thoughts pass through your mind every day; most do not serve you. You likely do not consciously choose more than 1% of those thoughts. You have a myriad of mistaken preconceptions and assumptions. You have not likely ever critically examined your core beliefs.

“It was 1:00 a.m. Who the hell is calling me at this hour!?” Who? Oh, just my neighbor in Califo ia (I was in Boston at the time). He called to tell me that an earthquake had moved under their feet out there, and reduced my 48 single-family home development in Watsonville to a pile of rubble. I quickly remembered that the earthquake insurance coverage hadn’t kicked in yet. WOE! Remember the Carole King song: I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumblin’ down?

Success Built On Common Sense Byr Bill Cottringer “Common sense is the simple knack of seeing something the way it is and doing something the way it should be done.” ~Mark Twain. Is it just my imagination or is common sense being bred out of the human gene pool entirely? Some say the magnitude and complexity of today’s problems confronting us requires a super human “higher consciousness” to solve. I disagree and prefer to assign the best potential solution to our problems on to common sense.

One of my favorite movies of all time, Jerry Maguire, features Tom Cruise as an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic, successful, a great negotiator and people like him.

The greatest challenge we will face in life – in fact, the very purpose of our existence – is to learn how to develop self-control and discipline ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally, socially, morally, financially, intellectually, and spiritually. The difficulty of this necessary task should suggest the importance of the effort – for all things worthwhile require great work, discipline, and persistence.

Whether you are aware of it or not brain storming is a very large part of any success in business you may have online. All too often we get caught up in the day to day tasks involved in our businesses and use these accomplishments as our measure of success. Well true as it may be that there are many tasks that need to be completed we tend to overlook and/or overestimate the value of their overall effect. In fact these tasks can easily become 'rituals' that end up occupying th

Scammers tend to work a similar pattern: They find a speaker site, copy and paste their invitation into as many emails as they can, click send and hope for some takers. The following tips should save you some unnecessary pain. A few of the current speaker scams are being promoted as coming from: 1) GAP Women's Conference 2010 in United Kingdom, 2) London Youth Conference, 3) British High Commission and 4) GSO Organization. It is interesting to note that a few years ago most of the scams were coming out of Africa.

It’s far too easy to let the world seem to do it’s dirty job on our creation and descend into a spiral of out of control hopelessness where our ‘destiny’ and ‘fate’ lie in the hands of everyone and everything beyond our own ability to provide our own redemption as we escape the bleak misery of a torturous existence that is based on half truths and sorrow.

If you feel as though your constant work and effort are to no avail, you may not possess a clear enough vision for yourself. Do you take inspired action or have you merely busied yourself with tasks seemingly related to your dreams? Do you know what has prompted you to take action and pursue certain things?

Tiredness comes from compulsively doing those things that are destroying your health and well-being. The person who is unable to separate himself from his compulsive tendencies is enslaved by his interior conditioning; conditioning that causes him to mechanically react to his exterior life. His life ebbs and flows with every passing weather pattern, or every time the stock market falls or rises, or with every report of good news or bad news that comes with the evening news. A

Resurrect Your Dreams Byr Bill Cottringer “Deep down, nobody is ever quite satisfied with the amount of their childhood dreams they have actually realized and we are all disappointed with the amount that slipped away.” ~The author.

We are all Prisoners In The Vicious Circle Tit For Tat Bullying Tag Game By Dr. Bill Cottringer, in association with Storm Door Productions. “Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.” ~Benjamin Disraeli. Bullies Bullies come in all shapes and sizes— Countries, religions, girls and men, Strong, weak, big or small, All doing the same thing though; Shouting and spreading their hurt, Suffering and pain, Beating others down, To pull themselves up; Not seeing their wrongs, Or admitting insecurity, Not being content in any way, Continuing the cycle of hurt,r

“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.” – Donald Foster The recent economic downtu has highlighted the importance of education. Developing the right skills has become crucial. And yet how we go about developing those skills is quite complex. There’s been a definite trend towards studying abroad and even online. Nevertheless, there are some principles we can all take to make our studies a success: 1. Make friends

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”– Vince Lombardi

IF YOU CAN’T KEEP AN OPEN MIND, ARE YOU SURE YOU HAVE ONE? BY Bill Cottringer “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin. Here are the few important realities in life that have held to be true long enough to be the exception to this rule: • The one thing that seems to be certain is change. • Life is basically a process of learning, growing and improving. • The one sure common denominator for success and happiness is adapting to change.

Common Sense Time Management Learned The Hard Way Byr Bill Cottringer “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. ~Delmore Schwartz.

So, you've chosen a show to showcase your business. You've done your homework in researching your chances for success at this show. You know who the targeted audiences and how many attendees are expected, the show's focus, how the show is marketed, where the show is held, who the show hosts are ...

A Better Relationship in a Weekr By Bill Cottringer No matter how good or bad your present relationship is it can always be better with minimal planning, effort, and cost. And in this economy that is a pretty good deal! Here is a very practical and easy way to have a better relationship in just one enjoyable week. Carry out the seven following suggestions Monday through Sunday next week and watch your relationship satisfaction thermometer rise above your expectations (Helpful hint: Holiday time is great for getting in the mood and having it stick around afterwards). Monday

When I travel to speak, if there is any time at all, either before or after the engagement, I try to get a TV, radio or print interview; preferably, all three. Seeking exposure with the media can be intimidating for beginners and most speakers simply never consider themselves "newsworthy." However, the fact that you are being paid and having all of your expenses paid to visit that city to share your expertise, makes you an expert and thus, newsworthy.

This blog offers information that I’ve learned from my parrot, Shakespeare. Shaky (short for Shakespeare), has been with me for some thirty years now. Amongst the many lessons he taught me, one of my favorites is his demonstration of how to Aspire Higher by setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals. Shaky is a confident bird, not shy and very direct about getting what he wants. He knows how to get results without wasting a lot of time. I have learned to use his S.M.A.R.T. strategy to do the

What Is The Moral of Your Story? Byr Bill Cottringer “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson. The answer to this intriguing title question involves an assumed answer to three underlying possibilities: • Do we all have a common purpose in this life with set success rules to carry it out ?

Ask any group of managers if they view themselves as an elite within their organization and you can be sure they will deny it. You'll hear comments such as: "I have an open-door policy" and "I take pride in always being accessible and approachable." And in most cases, these managers will really ...Ask any group of managers if they view themselves as an elite within their organization and you can be sure they will deny it. You'll hear comments such as: "I have an open-door policy" and "I take pride in always being accessible and approachable."

Are you Headed for Success or Disaster? If there is one thing that holds the most power over your success, you can bet that it comes down to your beliefs. Before you even have the opportunity to consciously process the reason behind your actions, and the results those actions put in play, your beliefs are at work determining whether you are headed toward success or disaster. There are literally tens of thousands of actions you take daily (some consciously, most unconsciousl

Too many parents are too busy with their lives to worry about interacting with their children. But the first opportunity the child gets to socialize with people is with members of his or her own family. In the early stages, the child may want constant attention. "Mommy, mommy, look at this!" However, as your child matures, he or she may actually need encouragement to “open up,” and need practice in more complex social interactions.

It's hard to believe but 2011 is already more than half over. Back in January, many people made New Year’s Resolutions to finally get in shape, eat better, make more money and be a better spouse, employee and parent. Now that the year is already more than half over, it’s time to see how far we’ve managed to come. If you haven’t made any progress on your goals, don’t give up, you still have months left this year to accomplish them. Many New Year’s resolutions are actually lifelong habits and there is nothing to stop you from starting at anytime.

It has been said that there are two types of business entrepreneurs: Those that plan and those that fail. So do you really need a business plan? If you’re in business to succeed, YOU BET! Even having a simple business plan gives your business a road map to achieving your goals. It gives ...

Within every individual is a desire to be excellent in that one does. Unfortunately for many, excellence remains a desire and is never acted out practically. No matter how much you can desire to be excellent, it will not come on a silver platter. It will cost you in terms of action, standing up and beginning to do those things that are building blocks for ultimate excellence. Excellence can also be referred to as distinction or pre-eminence. When you boldly take the steps I will give you below, you will soon make excellence a way of life. It will be a part of you.

To talk to difficult or disagreeable people, you want to increase your "likability factor". One way to do this is by handling your emotions. A difficult person is more likely to criticize, to raise his voice or to lose his temper. Therefore, by controlling your emotions and not falling prey to the heat of the moment, you can handle a difficult person more easily. This is an important step in how to have a conversation with difficult people.

Yes, everyone has bad habits. Whether it’s smoking, biting nails, chewing on things, or even eating too much, it’s possible to get rid of it easier than you think. With 3 key factors called willpower, determination, and perseverance, you can overcome the nasty habits you’ve developed for good! Below are 5 strategies that can help you: 1. Commitment. Before you set out to do this, make sure it is what you want. Ask yourself if this is the right time to kick this bad habi

The major reason of popularity of part time jobs in Kolkata is its time flexibility that gives great support to people who are unable to devote whole time of their day on job. The craze of part time jobs has been increased among the people who are in the search of work through which they can earn more and extra. Part time job seekers may be generally students, householders (or housewives) who are normally busy with other responsibilities. It also suits to such person's need w

Thinking Your Way to Success Byr Bill Cottringer “I want to know all God’s thoughts; all the rest are just details.” ~Albert Einstein.

Top Ten Happiness Robbers Byr Bill Cottringer “You can never make another person happy, only unhappy. ~The author. Are you happy enough with your happiness bank account balance? Knowing that a happiness bank account balance can never be high enough, here are a few bank robbers you will want to avoid at all costs: 1. Beliefs. Wrong, irrational or selfish beliefs are perpetual robbers of the happiness bank. You often aren’t even aware of what “wrong” beliefs you have that may be withdrawing happiness from your account when you think they are making deposits.

You are not your mind. You have a mind. You are not your body. You have a body. You own these things. They are yours. No one else has the right to mess around with your stuff unless you give them permission. Since there are those who take your lack of control of self as implied permission to mess around with your mind and body, until and unless you begin to assert your will to regain control of your body and mind and the essence of you, you will remain a passive participant in creation and will be unable to come into your own power.

What is the secret to attracting money? I think this is the most repeated question I hear from clients. Before you can start cashing in there are few things to understand about money. Even though money has a name, but it does not stand on its own. Money means different things to different people and so the secret to attracting money is related mainly to the way you think about it. Law of attraction as most of you have already found out is the force that attracts particles of

AN IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT? BynBill Cottringe nn“There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.” ~Christopher Morley. In his recent movie, Gone Baby Gone, Director Ben Affleck leaves his brother ...

It is very important that one has a healthy self image. In this world, people take you according to your estimation of yourself, so if you happen to have a proper self image of oneself, people will look up it you. On the other hand if you happen to have a condescending view of yourself, people will not take you seriously. Thus, it is very important that one cultivate a healthy self image in one’s life, the world measures an individual according to his worth of himself. In o

Lessons From Early Team-Building Byr Bill Cottringer “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen.

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” – Ellen Goodman Starting a new job can be tough. There’s the whole process of meeting people and getting settled in, not to mention figuring out how the copier works. But with six simple ideas, the transition can be a pleasant and rewarding one: 1. Learn about the company

People always complain that finding success is hard work and they don’t have time. I often ask these people what they do at night that makes them so busy. I’m sure you can come up with a list full of excuses right now. And I’m always surprised to see that there’s really nothing that holds them back. It’s the perception of their life style that makes them think they are too busy… Now I do have to admit when you have kids, it can get very busy; Supper, homework, any

For any organization or business to succeed, it has to all it takes to ensure that it is continually achieving set goals which are linked directly to the vision of the founder. In this article I share with you what I would brand "Beyond the Marketing Mix". We explore some of the pillars that will position your business for greatness. These are a must for any up-coming or even established entrepreneur. Having studied business and also having started my own business ventures, I know I have a mandate to set others up for success.