Honesty in Business

 

Honesty in Business

I want to discuss in this article the basic idea of honesty. We have worked in this field for a while know that traffic is king. The internet is a beautiful place to do business. Still, the continuous flood of spyware, malware, and spam can be horrible and frustrating for the average user. I am amazed, but not surprised, by the unethical practice of businesses using popups and spam to sell a product. It isn't surprising because the fact is that those business practices work.

 

My experience has been an honest return for honesty when dealing with customers. Maybe it's not a quick buck, but I can look at myself in the mirror in the morning and know I did the right thing. I would rather have a customer for life than a fly-by-night sale to a customer I tricked into buying my product. It isn't always about the bottom line of making cash. It should be about service and product value. Over the past couple of years, I have had more business cleaning up computers that have been completely overrunning with viruses, trojans, and spam than I've done computer builds. The number one complaint is that I want to use my computer, not worry about viruses and trojans and updates!!! Do I profit from unethical business practices? Yes, I do when I spend an hour cleaning up a computer. Do I take the time to teach the user? You bet I do! I spend an hour to two hours with a client after a cleanup or a computer build. Do I lose money with this practice? Yes, I do, but I gain respect from the customer, and that customer will always come back.

The Quickest Way to Get is to Give

 

The Quickest Way to Get is to Give

It's true. You can't get what you want in life until you have given it to others. It doesn't sound like it makes much sense. How can you share what you don't have? As you open your mind to the possibility and ask yourself this question, you allow the opportunity to come to you and knock at your door. Then you will find a way that it is possible to give to others what you want, before receiving it yourself.

 

It almost sounds like a chain letter, and in a way, it is. The chain letter is a facetious reference as so many of us have been exposed to them by now and know they are illegitimate scams. Yet the basic principles are: you give before you receive, and you give with the faith and expectation of receiving. By giving to others, you allow good things to happen to you. And this all boils down to the simple law of attraction. A similar modern example can be seen in the film Pay It Forward.

 

The law of attraction is like any other law of nature, like gravity. And like gravity, it has not been generally discovered yet. As a result, most of us are walking around thinking in a completely disordered paradigm.

You Are The Actor or Actress Of Your Own Story

You Are The Actor or Actress Of Your Own Story

 

You Are The Actor or Actress Of Your Own Story!

 

Many thinkers and writers, both past and present, have described human beings in this world as actors and actresses on a big stage, this life, to one great play. Ask yourself, what role are you playing? Who’s writing your script? Are you acting out your own story? Or are you simply going through the motions in someone else’s play?

 

We each have a set of ideas or beliefs about ourselves that define us as a central character in a “story” that we’re living out. All story elements have been passed down as part of our culture or upbringing, taught or ingrained, or fabricated in our minds. We then go about enacting our stories as if they were true.

 

The thing is, most of us don’t even realize that we’re enacting a story, much less someone else’s story. Because of this, we’re entirely at the mercy of the story and its writer, how it unfolds, how we react to certain events, and the eventual course our life takes.

Your Mediocre Mind

Your Mediocre Mind

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ A. Einstein

 

I've always had a love affair with that particular quote. While doing some organizing, I came across my favorite quote again. As I looked at it, a higher level of awareness sang out a deeper meaning than I'd ever recognized in the past.

 

You recognize that deep inner desire, don't you? Its greatness is specific to you and your desires; mine is clear to me. Realizing we are spiritual beings, we each have a Great Spirit within us, crying out for a well-lived life without fear, without compromise, without limitation. Initially, our spirit is constantly battling opposition from the opinions of others, media, peer pressure, and family obligations. Then I realized that there is more.

Life Mapping: A Vision of Success

Life Mapping: A Vision of Success

Success is more than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the aspects of your life. Like a map, you need to define the following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route.

 

Origin: Who you are

A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. When asked to introduce themselves, most people would say, Hi, I'm Jean, and I am a 17-year old senior high school student. It does not tell you who Jean is; it only tells you her present preoccupation. To gain insights about yourself, you need to look closely at your beliefs, values, and principles aside from your economic, professional, cultural, and civil status.

 

Moreover, you can also reflect on your experiences to give you insights into your good and not-so-good traits, skills, knowledge, strengths, and weaknesses. Jean realized that she was highly motivated, generous, service-oriented, but impatient upon introspection. Her inclination was in the biological-medical field. Furthermore, she believed that life must serve a purpose and that wars were destructive to human dignity.

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.