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How your unconscious mind can impact reaching your goals

Whether you're a habitual list maker, make detailed written goals or keep your tasks and goals in your head, almost everyone pursues goals in an ever changing and sometimes chaotic environment. We are very aware of the conscious thinking that helps us achieve those goals (or not), but we rarely consider how the unconscious thinking in our mind contributes to the achievement of those same goals.READ»

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Drug treatment: Making us Less Dossier

Drugs and its effects especially amongst the youngsters is no more a hidden secret. Until and unless we take active steps to control the same, this venom will infect the society like anything and will eventually kill it before we can do anything.READ»

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Giving Money The Entrepreneurial Way

"Listen to the customer," Philip Berber told me in a private interview. That was the key business principle he used in building CyBerCorp, which he sold for $488 million in 2000. Berber and his wife Donna used that very same principle ...READ»

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Michael Eckerman

Michael Eckerman, Eckerman Michael, Business Strategist, Business Coaching, Austin and Coaching, Austin and NLP, Professional Training, NLP Master Trainer, Michael Eckerman NLPREAD»

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Sustaining your business, and sustaining yourself in business

During my graduate studies in Sustainability through Arizona State University I have learned much about organizational strategies built around sustainability initiatives. The definition of sustainability is “meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” Sometimes it is referred to in the context of the more commonly known Triple Bottom Line which takes into account an organization’s social, economic, and environmental practices and policies. Plainly put, making money while doing good. Interestingly, when people think of “sustainability” they don’t include the social aspect... READ»

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Involve Parents

Education takes teamwork.READ»

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Shawn Perez, our customer service manager

1 – How long have you been employed at Team National? How has your department grown? I have been working for Team National for 7 years now and I was promoted to Customer Service Manager in 2005. When I first started working here ...READ»

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Managing Creative People to Achieve a Common Goal

Building and running a creative team is one of the greatest challenges for any manager.  Creative people are passionate and have a tendency to think they are right, better, and more humble than the others around, but the ...READ»

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How Can Positive Affirmations Work?

Positive affirmations can be a benefit to personal growth, if done in the right context, thus avoiding the damaging consequences of the wrong approach, as shown in recent researchREAD»

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Why Don't I Feel Better: The Truth About Positive Affirmations and Self Help Books?

"I am successful," "I am a wonderful person," "I will find love again," many other similar phrases that students, the broken-hearted and unfulfilled employees may repeat to themselves over and over again, hoping to change their lives. Self-help books through the ages, from Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking all the way to the latest, The Secret, have encouraged people with low self-esteem to make positive self-statements or affirmations. New research suggests it may do more harm than good to many people.READ»

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How To Stay Happy During the Recession

How can we be happy when our investment savings have dwindled, we've lost our job, or your house. The recession has had a negative impact on the lives of many people. Is it possible to be or remain happy?READ»

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Generation Y Poised To Take Over The Workplace

Understanding Generation Y is important not just for employers. Older workers--that is, anyone over 30--need to know how to adapt to the values and demands of their newest colleagues. Before too long, they'll be the bosses.READ»

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How Can I Take My Creative Talent to Work?

This is the question that keeps coming up in conversations with people who are in career transition. Increasingly professionals want to be employed and engaged. The choice can not be made from desperation (which results in a costly ...READ»

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Should You Twitter Your Business: The Psychology of Twitter

There' s no question that Twitter has become the next big thing in internet social networking.Most celebrities have a twitter channel as part of their marketing and promotion. And now businesses are seeing Twitter as a business tool.READ»

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Time To Scrap the MBA to Prepare Leaders?

Few MBA programs or executive training programs adequately address the crux of developing leaders.Business school or executive training programs should focus more on developing individuals' personal growth with an emphasis on values, emotional intelligence and ethical behavior in business.READ»

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CRAVE Your Goals for Success

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success. If you want to become an outstanding performer, you need to do three things. 1) Stay on top of things in your business and industry ...READ»

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He's Just Not That Into You

Fri, February 6 See He's Just Not That Into You How do you turn a best-selling self-help book for women into a move? Focus on feelings! "The film lives or dies on my ability to make that emotional content come to the surface," says ...READ»

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Transformational Life Coaching – By Dr. Cherie Carter Scott, “The Mother of Coaching”

There are many different indicators in today’s world demonstrating that humanity has reached a new level of awareness and appreciation for its own existence. If we look at the shifts in the types of occupations being pursued (and ...READ»

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Six Tips for Building Strong Realtionships

I received the inaugural issue of Self Improvement Magazine the other day. If there’s anyone who can benefit from some self improvement advice, it’s me. I was impressed with Self Improvement. I particularly liked an article ...READ»

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Zim Experts beware!

Hey, not fair! While i was busy about my business, everyone else was busy starting blogs - and none had the decency to let me in on the action. Well it's revenge time. With everyone positioning themselves at the latest greatest ...READ»

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Okay, I've Got a Question

When a business volunteers with a non-profit organization, does it have any effect on the business’ overall productivity? What are the direct benefits for the business? If there’s a link between volunteering and productivity, ...READ»

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Featured in "Being Yourself Series"

Gary Unger, an author and advertising consultant who has worked on campaigns for the NBA, General Motors and other major clients chose to feature me in his first post for a series on his blog called the "Being Yourself ...READ»

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The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer

The Success Principles:  How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer isn’t necessarily a quick read, but it does put everything you need under one umbrella.  It’s a large ...READ»

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Are You the Jerk at Work?

Q: I just got confidential feedback from my boss, peers, direct reports, and some internal customers. I was shocked and dismayed to find that many of those people believe I'm really tough to work with. One person said he plans to ...READ»

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A 12-Step Program for Job-Seekers

I joined the ranks of the so many people this past year when I gave up a very good position in a small health system in Ohio to pursue some new career interests.  My wife graduated with her second master's degree and was pursuing ...READ»