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- The Fine Art of Delegation - by “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
--Andrew Carnagie
Success in delegation is not measured by how you go about delegating, to whom you delegate, or how often you delegate. Your success will be judged by the results you ...
Views: 737 - Getting Motivated to Get Organized - by "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." --Jim Rohn
When I get calls from prospective clients who say they want to get organized, I often ask, "What's motivating you to get organized at this time, and what will be possible once you get organized?" I ask these ...
Views: 863 - To Do or NOT to Do…That is the Question! - by A colleague of mine recently shared that she enjoys procrastination so much that she has decided to give herself permission to do it daily. So, once a day she sits down and plans, schemes, and lists anything that comes to mind -- particularly things she knows she "should" do. She said that "it ...
Views: 983 - Are Complications Keeping You Stuck? - by Do you ever notice that life seems excessively complicated? Do you ever wonder why? Because we make it complicated. Many of us have been taught that things are suppose to be complicated, that things are suppose to be a struggle, that things are painful and that this is how we grow. But in ...
Views: 800 - Ten Ways to Simplify Your Life - by In this very fast paced world, it seems impossible to simplify our lives. But think about this, how much time and energy do you waste on the unnecessary? How much time do you waste because you can't find things? How much energy do you waste telling yourself all the things you should do? We often ...
Views: 688 - Change Ideas to Reality - by How many times have you sat there and thought of a great idea that you became really excited about, only to let it drift away because you did not know how to turn it into a reality? Why does this happen?
Your self-talk may be getting in the way. You know, that little voice that runs through ...
Views: 991 - How to Get What You Need From Your Partner When Your Angry - by Communication is a key component to maintaining a healthy and nurturing relationship. One of the most common and damaging relationship pitfalls is the unheard problem that erodes a relationship over time.
Unfortunately, we are not taught how to get our feelings heard and our needs met without ...
Views: 910 - Menopause Manners For Men - by Menopause is not what it used to be. Women are approaching this time of life differently - the new outlook is energized as most women are healthy and become free of many past identities and responsibilities. A natural option like Oona is one I know many women will find valuable in dealing with ...
Views: 1188 - So what exactly is stress and stress management? - by From a practical point of view, stress can be considered to be any physical, chemical, or emotional development causing strains which can lead to physical illness. An authority on stress, the Canadian physician Hans Selye, identified three defining stages of the human stress response:
1. Alarm: ...
Views: 1063 - Clinical Hypnosis Applications in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - by It is essential that anyone who wishes to treat people experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) be properly trained or experienced to do so. In some cases, it has become apparent that previous training as a therapist or counsellor can serve as a disadvantage. This is because of the ...
Views: 830 - Did you ask life for a Snickers and get a Milky Way? - by You set out on the path toward your dreams long ago and now, here you are years later and you still haven’t reached your goals.
Frustrating! It’s like the candy vending machine scenario that we’ve all heard about or dealt with. You put the right amount of change in and you selected F2, which ...
Views: 770 - Psycho-Semantics, The Unseen Force That Manipulates You LIfe - by When Oscar Bruce discovered the genius of The Superceding Semantic System as a powerful formula for transforming one's life, he began working to structure a 'self-implementing' method that any person could use. He gave the system a specific identification: Psycho-Semantics.
It's common ...
Views: 8181 - Color Me Colorful - by As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and I belong to a species with a remarkable ability. That ability is language. Man's most important cultural invention. With nothing but words, we can reliably cause new ideas to arise in each ...
Views: 1167 - WINNING WORDS for a winning website - by + Ever sit down to create that winning add, publicity release or newsletter and couldn't come up with the right words or phrases? You will never make your future until you cure the problem of the Dialog Dilemma. And that means enlarging your personal powers of expression. Inserting precision and ...
Views: 947 - Discrimination - The First Law of Success - by As the author of personal development publications distributed world wide, I am frequently asked why certain people seem to succeed at practically everything they attempt. This is probably the most asked question I receive. My response is "I definitely can tell you, but you're really not going ...
Views: 1003 - Winning Words for A Winning Web Site - by + Ever sit down to create that winning add, publicity release or newsletter and couldn't come up with the right words or phrases? You will never make your future until you cure the problem of the Dialog Dilemma. And that means enlarging your personal powers of expression. Inserting precision and ...
Views: 848 - Do You Have The Character To Suceed? - by Business in today's economy is about more than just technology, venture capitol and IPOS. It's also about CHARACTER.
+ How big are your dreams?
+ How deep is your commitment?
+ Are you really prepared to fail?
+ How hard are you willing to work?
The profiles that follow are character ...
Views: 811 - The Ugly Truth About Your Job !! - by If you work for yourself : the odds you will still be in business in the year 2005 are only 1 in 5. In today¡¯s workplace swirling with change, one million people will start a new business this year. The UGLY truth is, 800,000 will be ¡°out of business¡± in the year 2005.
If you work for ...
Views: 1004 - CONFIDENCE IS COOL - by REMEMBER THE TIME you could not think of anything to say to the person sitting across from in that little caf? or across the conference table. You stammered when they looked your way. They smiled at you, but still, there was no way to reach out ¡¦ and you lost yet another chance to make a good ...
Views: 1030 - WORLD PEACE DAY /WINTER SOLSTICE DECEMBER 21, 2000 - by World Peace Day on The Winter Solstice
World Peace Day occurs on the Winter
Solstice each year.
This year it will fall on Thursday,
December 21st. Don Orne,
the Coordinator of World Peace Day
since 1994, invites
everyone to celebrate the Winter
Solstice with prayer and
meditation in his or ...
Views: 3242 - The Power of Beliefs - by The way that we think,the ideas that we nurture,the patterns of thought that we possess all impact directly on the results that we achieve in our lives.We are told that each one of us has about 10000 different thoughts a day,the question to ask is what control do we exercise over our thinking ...
Views: 641 - Jala Neti, the yogic nasal douche - by With winter now well on its way, the ancient technique of Jala Neti can be a useful yogic tool to ward of the common cold and keep the nasal passages clear at all time! Neti is one of the six classical Kriyas (cleansing practices) mentioned in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the Gheranda Samhita, ...
Views: 2883(1 vote) - Choosing a yoga class - by With so many yoga teachers around, it may be difficult, especially for a beginner, to choose the yoga class that best suits. The following are a few guidelines for choosing a yoga class that's right for you.
1 Choose a style of yoga that suits you
There is no point in signing up for an ...
Views: 1178(1 vote) - Dreamwork - by King's Road to Awakening and Enlightenment
One friend has asked: "Would you please explain to us what are some of the other factors which can make one conscious while dreaming?"
This is a significant question for all those who are interested in meditation, because meditation is really a ...
Views: 1116(1 vote) - Learn to Make the Psychic Reading form your Tea or Coffee Cup - by Called by any name, Tasseomancy, Tasseography. What I like about Tea and Coffee Reading is it's gracious nature. Unlike other forms of divination, Tea Leaf Reading involves a lovely social ritual. In order to read the tea leaves or grind coffee, one must be served a cup of tea, and as everyone ...
Views: 16285(2 votes) - Subliminal Programs Move into the Future - by Subliminal Programming in the public eye is a mixed batch of skeptical jokes, subversive attempts to control the masses, and sometimes quick fix attempts unbalanced personalities.
The latter is what this article is about, because over the years I've noticed that most of us have personalities ...
Views: 1412 - Multiple Sclerosis as a Spiritual Guide - by -What is the sense of illness ?
-Could illnes be a "gift" from an unconscious level and a help to transform the personality ?
-As a guide to One´s true nature of light and love ?
A personal story by Christiane Olsen.
At the age of 14 I started to get reduced sight on my left eye. The doctor ...
Views: 1047 - The Sport of Coaching - by Coaching it's not just a game of sports any longer. Companies like Microsoft, Intel, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, etc., are utilizing the hottest thing in management these days. The coach, a coach is someone who has the skills to play consultant, friend and therapist.
Over the last several years, a ...
Views: 961 - Marketing You - by MARKETING YOU is a three-step career strategy:
1. Understanding the importance of regularly assessing your career;
2. Evaluating where you are now and where you want to be; and
3. Marketing yourself effectively all the time.
The Importance of Assessing Your Career
Even if you are not ...
Views: 779 - Feng Shui & the I Ching - by Many think Feng Shui is a religion or merely Chinese Folk Beliefs. These misconceptions are why most are unaware that Feng Shui is actually an environmental science as complex as Acupuncture. Belief is not required for Feng Shui's elemental remedies to improve your health, relationships or ...
Views: 1345 - ***The Missing Piece to Overeating and Why Diets Fail (Book Excerpt) - by (Excerpted from Positive Energy: Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love by Judith Orloff, MD. Harmony Books, April, 2004)
As a psychiatrist and intuitive, I know that there is more to overeating and obesity that meets the ...
Views: 1467 - Relationships under Stress - by I've never yet met anyone who has had a stress-free life. Sickness, loss, financial problems, job problems are things that all of us will have to deal with. Yet in reviewing new cases week after week at a mental health center, I'm constantly struck by how often bad luck has played a major part ...
Views: 1430 - So Who Gives a *#@&! if You Swear? - by Cursing, cussing, swearing -- whatever you prefer to call it -- is generally considered part of our contemporary language. Most people do it, some people don't like it, but no one much thinks about it. The fact is, swearing does much more damage to our relationships, our image and our own peace ...
Views: 1344 - Self-Esteem: In A Culture Where Winning Is Everything and Losing Is Shameful - by "True self-esteem requires an accurate appraisal of one's own abilities in comparison to those of others...a phony self-esteem is vulnerable to puncture by life's experience."
Psychologist Harold Stevens at the University of Michigan discovered that American students far outrank those in ...
Views: 2324 - Prioritizing: Getting Somewhere - by A very helpful way to thinking about stress is that it often results from our failure to live up to our own standards and goals. Psychotherapists hear over and over again from patients that they are never satisfied with themselves. Often the patient is excessively perfectionistic; sometimes the ...
Views: 737 - Denial Is Just Another Defense Mechanism - by Almost everyone nowadays knows what it means to say an alcoholic is "in denial." This is the alcoholic who tells himself and the world "I can quit any time I want to." He doesn't quit, though, and doesn't recognize the impact of his drinking on himself or on those who care about him. Denial ...
Views: 817 - 10 Tips for Staying Motivated Through Your Job Search - by Finding your perfect job while facing pressure, personally and financially, is no easy feat. Staying motivated requires a strong foundation in your attitude towards how you face your job search.
Firstly, you must maintain the perspective that there are always jobs. If your job search method ...
Views: 816 - 5 Tips for Creative Job Searching - by It used to be that finding the right new job was just a matter of reviewing newspaper ads, networking, and contacting a few recruiters. These days, however, much more is required to stand out from the crowd of applicants. By using some creative techniques, you can jump start your job search and ...
Views: 778 - Seven Steps for Dealing with Doubt - by No matter how positive and convinced we are, sometimes, doubt creeps in. Doubt can deteriorate into guilt or a loss of confidence. Left unattended, doubt can become a downward spiral into the inability to act, crippling our plans, confusing our minds.
Here is how successful people I've met ...
Views: 6701 - Positive Thinking for Your Health - by Positive thinking is an effective way to achieve mastery of bio-energy healing. Maintenance of a positive energy level in a healer's own bio-energy field reduces stress and emotional tension in the healer and in others. Positive emotions and feelings and a positive mental attitude can improve ...
Views: 10177 - Meditation as a Special Tool in Bio-Energy Healing - by There is a special tool which may promote the development and mastery of a special mind state and bio-energetic ability to feel and assess human energy - meditation.
Healers achieve a special state of consciousness, spiritual knowledge, and self-realization through meditation. Eastern mystics ...
Views: 864 - Distant Energy Healing - by Distant healing is a method of energy healing at any long distance. According to Quantum Physics, we live in a world of energy and healing by bio-energy at any distance help you to tap into that and learn to perceive or read energy and work with it. In distant energy healing, energy is ...
Views: 6614(1 vote) - Yoga For Inner-Self Knowledge and Harmony - by There is no any other discipline more helpful in achieving knowledge of inner- self, and harmony with the world than Yoga. Bio-energy knowledge of methods of mind and body healing cannot be completed without studying Yoga.
Basic Hatha-Yoga is a practical and complex method of developing a ...
Views: 5949(1 vote) - New Chakra Healing - by The bio-energy field of a human consists of subtle bodies with their energetic potentials, and which give strength and power to the biological field. Energetic potential depends on the conditions of physical and psychic health, and, perhaps, astrological factors. For example, experienced ...
Views: 4241 - Bio-Energy Healing - by The bio-energy field of a human consists of subtle bodies with their energetic potentials, and which give strength and power to the biological field. Energetic potential depends on the conditions of physical and psychic health, and, perhaps, astrological factors. For example, experienced ...
Views: 20815(2 votes) - What We Do Matters - by I know good is stronger than evil, no matter what the appearance. It may not always be as dramatic, but it prevails even in the most horrific circumstances. Just witness the heroism and outpouring of caring and compassion that has bound us together following the events of September 11 in New ...
Views: 855 - The Copyright Infringement Blues - by Information is so easy to come by. We can photocopy articles and pictures from magazines and books, download clip art or CD music, play audio and video tapes, and perform artistic productions as support material for our workshops and not realize we may be committing a crime.
¡°Surely if the ...
Views: 960 - New Year Intentions - by At the beginning of each new year many of us dust off our resolutions and recyle them. Then we forget and let them slip from our attention until the next year.
The good news is that we can change that to a positive outcome. How? Let's use some NLP and accelerated learning techniques.
Ask ...
Views: 4624 - Oh, Migosh, I'm Going to Succeed! - by That realization can put fear and joyous expectation into us at the same time. What? you ask. How could anyone be afraid to succeed. Well, it's like this.
There's a part of us that wants to express life at our highest and best and a part of us that fears the challenges we'll confront and the ...
Views: 1596 - Kicking "But" - by Consider the difference between these two sentences:
“I want to create and present a workshop, but I’ve never done it before.?
“I want to create and present a workshop, and I’ve never done it before.?
Can just one little word make a difference in the way you feel and whether you move ...
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