Personal Power

 

Personal Power

All of us would love to have personal power, the power to manifest our dreams, the ability to remain calm and loving in the face of fear, the power to stay centered in ourselves in the front of attack.

 

Our society often confuses personal power – power within – with power over, controlling others. There is a vast difference between personal power and control.

Personal power comes from an inner sense of security, from knowing who you are in your soul to have defined your intrinsic worth. The energy flows through you when you are connected to and feel your oneness with a spiritual source of guidance. The power is the eventual result of doing deep inner, emotional, and spiritual work to heal childhood fears and false beliefs.

 

Without this inner work to heal the beliefs that create our limitations, we are stuck in our egos, our wounded selves. The very basis of the ego is the desire for control, power over others, and outcomes.

 

Our ego is the Self we created to attempt to control getting love, avoiding pain, and feeling safe. We made our ego self protect ourselves from the losses we fear: loss of Self, loss of other, loss of security, and loss of face. As children, when we didn't get the love we needed, we decided that our true Self must be unlovable. In our attempt to feel safe, we buried our true Self and created the false Self, the ego, our wounded Self. The ego-self then learned how to feel safe by trying to control others and outcomes. The ego believes that having control over how people see us and think of us and the development of things will give us the safety we seek.

Phobia Of Speech

 

Phobia Of Speech

This article is about the fear and phobia of speech. Not everybody can talk fluently in all situations, and life can be pretty tough for people who aren’t. I hope you enjoy reading the article.

 

My name is Steve Hill from Birmingham in England. In childhood, I developed a stutter, or as some people call it, a stammer. My parents tell me it started when I was four years of age.

 

Speaking phobia at school

Despite regular speech therapy over the next fourteen years, the stutter became worse. I remember pretty clearly the fear of reading out from a book in class. Walking into the classroom, for example, an English lesson, I would see a book on each desk. I would start to panic straight away, believing the teacher would make me read a paragraph. Just waiting my turn, knowing that it would result in yet another one of stuttering moments, would be torture.

Positive Mind, Successful Life

 

Positive Mind, Successful Life

It took me a long time to realize the benefits of positive thinking. I had often heard people mention that if you think positive things will happen to you, I used to think they were a bit weird. I now believe they were right, and this article explains why.

 

Growing up through the difficult teenage years and into my early twenties, I felt very sorry. I had a bald patch the size of a ten-pence piece on my head, a speech impediment(stutter), overweight to the point of being fat, and short for a male(5ft4). I used to think I was the unluckiest person in the world.

 

I believed that I received more mickey taking out of me than anyone else, and life was certainly a struggle. To meet members of the opposite sex when you lack confidence and have a speech impediment is not easy. To gain work, order drinks, socialize in general were all difficult for me. Everyone else seemingly breezed and eased their way through life.

Strategy For Success

Strategy For Success

In the quest to achieve success and accomplishment in our lives, a systematic plan of action is needed. Without a plan, even the most significant efforts will be ineffective, eventually degenerating into frustration and wasted time. A guided program allows one to utilize their talents and competencies to the fullest by focusing on a specific outcome in a coordinated and strategic manner. The power of concentrated effort should never be underestimated. A strategy that one should emulate from the world of sports is always seeking to play their game in the competition. One should never be forced into the position of trying to be successful by operating under conditions strategically beneficial to the opposing team. In other words, in seeking success in today's competitive environment, a professional should design an action plan around their strengths and competencies. Play to your strengths and not to your weakness.

 

There is always more than one way to the mountain top; a striving professional should ensure that the path they choose is the one that utilizes their talents and skillsets to the fullest.

The Courage to Say Yes

 

The Courage to Say Yes

In a culture full of reasons to say “no,” it takes a lot of courage to find ways to say “yes.”

 

After all, we’re taught to say “no” from a very young age. Our first word was “no,” and it quickly became our favorite word for most of us. As toddlers and teenagers, we used “no” to differentiate ourselves from our parents, peers, and surroundings. It’s how we began to control what was happening around us, or at least, how we tried to prevent that. It helped us over those early developmental hurdles and gave us our earliest sense of our boundaries — and that’s a lot of significance bound up in such a tiny word!

 

The problem isn’t that “no” in and of itself is somehow wrong; indeed, permitting yourself to say “no” as an adult can keep you out of an awful lot of trouble.

 

The problem is that “No” begins to take on a life of its own. Too often, that life is yours.

 

Life is change, and “no” becomes a way of slowing down that change or trying to stop it altogether. Rather than riding the wave of change into a life full of exciting possibilities, we use “no” as a rope to keep us safely confined to the kiddie pool. It is a shield we use to protect ourselves from having to experience anything new or different.

The Key To Self Discipline

 

The Key To Self Discipline

Self-discipline starts with the ability to control your behavior. That means motivating yourself to do what you need to do and stopping yourself from doing bad things for yourself. The "ability to control" is just the start, though, and real discipline is when you have trained your mind in such a way that you consistently get the behavior you want.

 

Discipline may appear to be a problem of willpower. However, this implies just pushing ourselves more challenging to do things, even when we feel miserable or fighting temptations. It's a good recipe for stress and disappointment, but better ways to a disciplined life.

 

Self Discipline Tips

Have you ever stayed up all night talking about something interesting? Then you know what power the mind has over the body. Sleep can be put off when we are motivated by a passionate discussion, and it doesn't take much willpower to keep doing something when you are enjoying it. That gives us a key to self-discipline.

The Need to Feel Special

 

The Need to Feel Special

From the time Jennifer was a little child, she demanded attention, especially from her mother, Sarah. Jennifer had a special place in the family as the baby and the only girl with two older brothers. She made sure to establish a special relationship with her mother, who relished the connection since she didn't have much of a relationship with her emotionally distant husband.

 

It was easy for Jennifer to control her mother's attention. Because her mother was needy for emotional connection and afraid of not being liked, all Jennifer had to do was get angry at her mother, and Sarah would capitulate, giving Jennifer the attention she craved. Jennifer learned early to control her mother by becoming angry, critical, and withholding love when she didn't do what she wanted. Unwittingly, Sarah contributed to Jennifer's neediness, entitlement issues, and the belief that happiness depended on approval and attention from others.

 

In her late 30s, Jennifer finds herself continuing the pattern she started with her mother – attaching to others in needy and demanding ways. The result is she has not been able to have a successful relationship with any of the men she has dated.

We all need to feel special. It is not the need that is dysfunctional; it is how we get the need met that can be either dysfunctional or healthy. It is dysfunctional when we make others responsible for making us feel special. When others have to give us attention, compliment us, seek us out, and attend to our wants and needs for us to feel special, our behavior is dysfunctional.

The Secret of Self-Esteem

 

The Secret of Self-Esteem

Have you ever thought about what creates self-esteem? Having a deep sense of inner worth is essential to all of us, but many people have some false beliefs about what builds confidence in our merit as individuals.

 

Some of the common false beliefs regarding what creates self-esteem are:

* I will feel good about myself when I'm making $______(fill in the amount) a year.

* I will feel worthy when I am in a relationship with a (beautiful) (handsome) (wealthy) (loving) (fill in own) person.

* I will feel worthy when I get enough approval from enough people.

* I will feel adequate when I have a baby.

* I will feel adequate when_______( fill in the desired outcome that you attach to your sense of worth).

 

However, many people have all of the above and still do not feel deep self-esteem. That's because self-esteem has nothing to do with anything external, such as looks, approval, money, relationships with others, or having a baby.

Ways To Improve Your Lifestyle

Ways To Improve Your Lifestyle

Are you looking at ways to improve your lifestyle? Are you bored in your current role of employment? Do you think you could be achieving a lot more than you are at the moment? Are you seeking a new challenge? In this article, I advise how people can improve their lifestyle; this advice is based on my personal experiences.

 

I believe that we should always be looking into expanding our knowledge and never accept second best. The brain is mighty and loves to be set a new challenge or learn a new task. It is what keeps it alive and ticking over. I am sure that we have all heard of the phrase; I think this job makes me brain dead. This is where someone has a role in employment that is not challenging them or their brain, which can lead them into a state of boredom and even depression. Their mind and brains are desperate for something to get to grips with and something to test them.

 

I am always looking into finding new areas of life which I can learn about. I have recently been attempting to educate myself on the ins and outs of website promotion. This is something that is of great interest to me, and I wanted to find out how you can increase the number of visitors you have to a website. I have spent a great deal of time studying this area, and even though

What you need to know about NLP and Life Coach

 

What you need to know about NLP and Life Coach

What you need to know about NLP and Life Coach Training

 

Feeling frustrated by your job is a widespread occurrence. Many people think they are in a lower position capable of performing and are not quite sure how to get to the next level of responsibility. Much of this is caused by how we have programmed our brains to think and react to situations. An NLP training course can help.

 

A Brief Definition of Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, is a set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience. In addition to being a change agent, NLP is also used in psychotherapy treatments for problems as diverse as phobias and schizophrenia. NLP also aims at transforming corporations, showing them how to accomplish their maximum potential and achieve great success.

 

The developers of NLP

The theories and application of NLP were co-created by two men in the 1970s. One a linguist, John Grinder and his partner Richard Bandler. The initial focus of their experiments in NLP was to discover what gave three psychotherapists the advantage in successfully treating their clients. These three psychotherapists, gestalt therapist Fritz Perls, family therapist Virginia Satir and founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, Milton H. Erickson, were more successful in treatment than their peers.

 

Timeline of NLP

 1970: Founding and early development

 1972: Research of Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir, and Milton H. Erickson begin.

 1975: Subsequently Structure of Magic Series published

 1976-77: Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson published

 1979: Frogs into Princes: Neuro-Linguistic Programming published

 1980: Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume I published

 1980: Bandler and Grinder go their separate ways

 1981: The first of many intellectual property lawsuits begin. NLP Training courses began to be developed by many individuals. Given the diversity of developers and trainers, there is no single definitive system of NLP.

 1982-87: Grinder and Judith DeLozier collaborated to develop the New Code of NLP.

 1984-87: Research reviews in experimental counseling psychology by the United States National Research Council gave NLP an overall negative assessment marking a decrease in NLP research interest

 1988-89: Bandler develops Design Human Engineering and later Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning

 The 1990s: In the UK and other countries, certification of NLP courses and providers begins

 1996-97: Bandler files suit against Grinder, claiming trademark infringement and intellectual property ownership of NLP.

 

Where the co-creators are now

The end of 2000 achieved a settlement between Bandler and Grinder when they agreed; they are the co-creators and co-founders of the technology of Neuro-linguistic Programming.

 

Richard Bandler is currently with The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and John Grinder can be found at The International Trainers Academy of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

 

NLP Today

NLP continues to be an open field of training with different trainers and practitioners developing their methods and concepts. One common thread in NLP emphasizes teaching various communication and persuasion skills and using self-hypnosis to motivate and change oneself. With numerous NLP practitioners advertising on the Internet today, many of their standards and quality of courses may differ. When searching for NLP Training courses, make sure to choose an organization with a good reputation.

 

 

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What Stops You?

What Stops You?

Have you ever had a terrific idea that you didn't act on? Of course, you have. I don't mean anything fancy either. Nothing earth-shattering. Just a plain old-fashioned good idea which would have made you more money. But you didn't get moving on it.

 

Oh well.

I have a friend I'll call James. James is an independent management consultant and a deep, creative thinker. I have great respect for his ability to understand his clients and develop unique solutions for them. But he isn't very successful. His business is ok but hardly booming–and indeed not where he says he'd like it to be. He works with interesting people–just never enough of them. And aside from soliciting referrals, he does nothing to increase his overall practice.

 

The funny thing is, this guy has more brilliant ideas about building his business than anyone I know. The problem is he doesn't implement any of them. James is just one of those who stops before he ever gets started.

What Are the 7 Proven Principles of Business Success? (Part 2)

 

What Are the 7 Proven Principles of Business Success? (Part 2)

Principle 5: Build foundations for growth.

 

 If you want to build your business to provide a lavish lifestyle, you need to build foundations, just like making any building. If you don't intend to increase your profits, you don't need foundations. If you want to seriously improve your net profit percentage (even without increasing turnover), you must have firm foundations. When they build a skyscraper, they don't build up; they dig a big hole down.

 

The foundations in business are two things. It is first, having documented systems. A system is the best way of doing something everyone knows and uses, identifies, and writes down. It helps consistency and efficiency, and as you grow, people are accountable to the systems, not to you, the owner. That means you save time checking on everyone. Plans only work when you have worked with your staff to become a TEAM.

 

Secondly, measuring everything is part of building foundations. If you haven't measured your Key Performance Indicators, how will you improve on them? Increasing Net Profit percentage of turnover comes from improving everything you currently do, remember?

What Are the 7 Proven Principles of Business Success? (Part 1)

 

What Are the 7 Proven Principles of Business Success? (Part 1)

The 7 Proven Principles to Business Success will overcome whatever limitation you have. Think of it as a recipe for business success. All you have to do is, first of all, learn what the seven principles are and then apply them in order. When you follow this recipe, all of your challenges will fade away.

 

Why do you own a business? Isn't it because you want a LIFESTYLE? You didn't intend to work long hours, be stressed, have little time off, and be hassled with staff and customers, did you?

 

Isn't it time you made some changes for the better? After all, if you want to change some things in your life, you have to change some things. If you're ready for a change, here's the magic recipe you need to follow…

 

 

Principle 1: Work on yourself to understand people.

 

 Business is all about people. You have them as customers and employ them, but few people have realized the absolute key to success is understanding people at a much higher level. Your sales and marketing skills are determined by what you know about people. Your leadership skills with your staff to perform as well as you do are determined by your knowledge of people.

 

So what's the best way to learn about other people? Easy, learn about yourself! You're a people, and the more you know about yourself, the more you automatically learn about others.

What’s a Niche, and How Do You Find One?

What’s a Niche, and How Do You Find One?

According to Wikipedia, a niche is “a special place within the scheme of things.” Niche marketing is defined as “the process of finding and serving small but potentially profitable market segments and designing custom-made products or services for them.” So it’s all about finding your unique place and the products and services that fit.

 

Right from the start, you should understand that your goal in discovering a niche is to concentrate all your ideas and thoughts into the most precise, concise, and focused concept possible. Your potential audience is everyone in the world with computer access and an interest in your site’s topic. Your potential information resources are everything known about that topic. So you want to be sure to have enough information to fill hundreds of pages eventually, and you want to narrow your focus enough that you can be perceived as an expert, as “THE place to go” for information, products, and services.

 

If your only interest is making money online, this is a challenging area to build a website around these days. That niche was “hot” eight years ago. Most successful internet entrepreneurs in that area say they would not attempt breaking into that niche if they were starting today. There’s just too much competition; there are way too many experts already. Breaking into a niche market using keywords like “make money at home,” “work at home,” “home business” is next to impossible. There are billions of niches out there; find yours.

Why Women In Small Business Must Have A Web Site?

Why Women In Small Business Must Have A Web Site?

Why Women In Small Business Must Have A Web Site?

 

In recent years we’ve seen a HUGE increase in the number of small businesses owned by women. This growth has been so dramatic that millions of people now think of women when they visualize who owns the companies they buy from.

 

Women everywhere deserve a big pat on the back for this fantastic accomplishment. But as is always the case for small business owners, there is still a lot of work to be done.

 

The one thing your small business MUST have is a website. Sure, ten years ago, having a site was an option many small businesses could do without. But that is no longer the case. Here’s why:

 

* These days, consumers and business leaders are more likely to use search engines than the Yellow Pages. They’ll type the name of your town and your type of business into Google and start their research from there.

Work For Moms, At Home

 

Work For Moms, At Home

Most moms are looking to stay at home to spend more time with their family and enjoy a less stressful life. It used to be that only a tiny percentage was working from home because of the fear factor. It is much more popular now because they see their friends successful working at home and have a burning desire to do the same.

 

Recently my daughter went away on a planned moms-only weekend trip, met some work-at-home ladies, and immediately called me when she got back wanting to know what program I thought she could do. She wants to have a home-based business like many of the other ladies she met. I always encourage this arena for moms because I don’t think anyone can better raise their children than their parents. More time with her children will usually pay big dividends later on in life.

The popularity of moms looking to work from home can be easily seen by looking at just a few of the keywords searched for on the major search engines daily. They are phrases like work for stay at home moms, stay at home moms work from home, work at home for stay home moms, work at home jobs for stay at home moms, work from home jobs for stay at home moms, online work for stay at home moms, and stay home moms returning to work. These are just a few of the hundreds of searches made hourly.

Wrap Your Gardening Gifts in Love

 

Wrap Your Gardening Gifts in Love

If you’re looking for ways to make your gardening gifts unique, try wrapping them in love and show your loved one you care. You can gift wrap gardening gifts the traditional way, or you can get just a little more creative with your gift wrapping. Here are some ideas to give your gift-wrap a personal touch.

 

Garden Statues and Other Large Gardening Gift Items

 

Use creative party decorations instead of gift wrap for large gardening gifts such as full-size garden statues, birdbaths, arbors, a garden trellis, garden fountains, or patio furniture. You can tie big bows and balloons along with a card attached to decorate the gift.

 

Or, decorate the garden statue or fountain in plant or vegetable seed packs. To do this:

1. Use a hole-puncher to punch small holes in the very corner of each seed pack.

Writing Resumes without Mistakes

Writing Resumes without Mistakes

Resumes and curriculum vitae act as entry tickets to a job. Today's world is full of competition. A prospective employer is searching for a person who is active, productive, skillful, and with a positive attitude. The resume should reflect the philosophy and details of education, age, qualification, experience, etc. The summary should be written with relevance to the particular job. Gone are the days where one resume was used for all the jobs. The resume should be attractive enough to catch the employer's attention among the thousands of resumes. The summary must be free from any common mistakes.

 

Effective resume writing: 

 

An effective resume should contain primary sections viz., complete and powerful contact information, the headline of what is being offered by the employee to the employer, summary of skills highlighting relevant skills will be an added advantage, a professional experience which has to be relevant and last but not the least educational qualification- details of grades, year of passing, etc. An effective resume will be free from grammatical and spelling mistakes. Hence, it is essential to proofread more than twice to avoid any errors in the summary. This shows the command over the language.

Your 30 Minute Home Business Plan

Your 30 Minute Home Business Plan

I didn't have a solid, well-thought-out business plan when I started my first business. I threw together a rough one that I used to apply for a bank loan (which I didn't get, by the way).

 

I've found the best way to make sure a business will be successful is to create a business plan. It doesn't need to be pages long and takes you days and days to complete. Below I've created a quick 30 Minute Business Plan.

 

A good business plan will help you figure out approximately what your business will cost to get off the ground. You don't want to guess at this. Knowing your costs will help you decide what you're going to charge.

 

The 30 Minute Business Plan below also includes information about your competition. Don't forget about them. In one way or another, they exist, and you're going to want to get to know them.

Is Someone Stealing Your Home Business Ideas

Is Someone Stealing Your Home Business Ideas

Have you ever had a great idea and then later saw someone else putting it into action? It is even more perplexing when you never told anyone about the idea, yet somehow, someone discovered it and acted on it before you could.

 

Maybe you had an idea for a blockbuster new ebook that would make all your financial dreams come true, or you came up with a great home business model that would have had reps flocking to your door – and now someone else is sucking up all the glory.

 

It’s an awful, sinking feeling to see someone else profiting from your idea – I know, I’ve been there! However, don’t let it discourage you from hanging up your entrepreneur hat. Here are three ways to turn the situation around:

 

1) Vow to take action. The worst thing about seeing someone else put your idea into action is knowing that you could have done so, too, if only you’d been more proactive. Maybe you were struggling with an overloaded schedule, so you put the idea on the back burner for a while, or you were uncertain about your ability to do an excellent job with it – and someone else saw the potential and swooped in on the opportunity.

$300 + 10 Minutes a Day = $30,000?!?

 

$300 + 10 Minutes a Day = $30,000?!?

We all know the saying, work more brilliant, not more challenging, but could it be possible to work THAT much smarter? Working only minutes a day and replacing, Exceeding your current Income? Don't worry, It's perfectly legal, and people are doing it right this very second worldwide!

 

Its FOREX Trading, and what you don't know, could be costing thousands of dollars.

 

Forex stands for Foreign Currency Exchange Market, commonly referred to as FOREX, FX, and 4X. You may be familiar with the stock market, but there are a few reasons Currency Trading can blow Stock Trading right out of the water!

 

There are 3 Major reasons why Currency Trading can outperform the stock market any day!

Writing The Perfect Sales Letter

 

Writing The Perfect Sales Letter

Before you write the e-book, we are going to write the sales letter first. Now I suggest you write it in Microsoft Word and save it. Then we can transfer it to the main Sales site Page when we are designing our primary site in step 5

 

We are writing our sales copy before we ever write a word in our e-Book because it hasn't been created yet, which means there is absolutely no limit to what you can write in your sales letter. The sales letter doesn't fit the e-Book; it's the other way around.

 

Now you can describe precisely what your e-Book will show to the potential customer. There are no restrictions on what you can write in the sales letter. When the sales letter is completed, you can incorporate all the ideas you have come up with into your e-Book.

Start earning and get paid.

Start earning and get paid.

I’ve been trying to make money online for a long time. Everybody would love to make lots of money quickly, working from home and only doing a few hours of work per week. I’ve spent the past two years trying to find a great way of doing this. Only throughout the past few months have I found any “get rich quick” programs worth buying. I had a few small websites, but they never made much more than a few hundred per month. It was easy money and didn’t require much work on my part, but I knew there were people out there doing better than I was, and I knew I could do as well as them.

 

Now, I’ve seen many “get rich quick” programs. Most of these people claim to earn $2000/day with Google or something similarly insane. Almost all of these people are complete liars. Even if they were making $2000/day with Google AdSense, it’d be because they had high-traffic websites with a lot of quality content. I’d know because in one whole month, I never even made half of what they promised I’d make daily with their programs. Maybe you’ve already been scammed by one of these fraudsters. Anyway, I finally got sick of what was being offered.

Innovation Is A State Of Mind

 

Innovation Is A State Of Mind

You probably know the myth of innovation as a sudden flash of insight that comes from nowhere. We read about that "aha" moment, or that light bulb turning on in the mind of some inventor or innovator, and this is true to an extent. Einstein did get flashes of insight while shaving in the morning. However, he was, of course, working on the particular problems he had insight into, and he didn't suddenly have ideas for new kitchen gadgets or movie plots.

 

Innovative people only have "sudden" new ideas because they have habitually worked and thought in specific ways for some time. Einstein's innovations, in other words, no matter how "sudden" the original ideas were, came from past and present mental work. If you want to become a creative thinker, why not cultivate those mental habits? It is like a singer who works at his craft for ten years and then becomes an "overnight success."

Video Slideshow Production

 

Video Slideshow Production

Slideshow production companies are popping up all over the internet. People take their pictures, negatives, slides, and videos and place them on CDs, DVDs, or VHS for personal use and gifts for all occasions. People everywhere are hiring professional slideshow production companies to make wedding slideshows for receptions, graduation slideshows, anniversary slideshows, birthday slideshows, memorial service slideshows, vacation slideshows, holiday slideshows, and just about anything you can think of slideshows. But how do you know which slideshow company to choose?

 

It used to be that when we took our photos of our special occasions: weddings, vacations, reunions, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, family, friends, pets, and so on, that wed get the photos developed and place them in a photo album or a shoebox. A couple of our very favorites would be placed in frames. But, the photo album or shoebox would then sit on a shelf or under a bed or in a closet or somewhere where they'd be neglected and hardly ever looked at.