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- Discover Your Brilliance - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Susan Crampton DavisLike Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, Laura from my career empowerment group has honed her innate ability to find patterns in things that are out of order. She can look at a desk, a closet, the trunk of a car, or an entire household, and know instinctively how to organize it so it makes ...
Views: 1722(4 votes) - What Helps You Expand Your Thinking? - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSo many of us think about creativity in the context of being an artist or musician. However I prefer the definition that resiliency expert Frederic Flach uses. Creativity is “a response to a situation that calls for a novel but adaptive solution, one that serves to accomplish a goal.” That’s ...
Views: 779(3 votes) - How I'm Saving Money in a Bad Economy - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI'd like to share some tips on livin' the good life even in a bad economy. 1. Instead of Take Out...Take In There's this great outdoor café in Santa Monica called Urth Café. It's kind of pricey so on Tuesdays and Fridays (when I'm in town), I'll pack a lunch and enjoy it in Urth Café's ...
Views: 827(3 votes) - Self-confidence, Presence and Leadership - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Willie HortonYou know the old expression - "They're a born leader!"? Is there any such thing - or can we all be leaders? Is there any secret that can be learned - that we can all learn? Or are some "leaders" and most of us "followers"? Well, first of all, let's get a few facts straight. Most people ...
Views: 1892(9 votes) - The Power of Goals - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIs there any power in having a goal? You bet there is! The first thing that comes to my mind is the old saying "A person without a goal is like a ship without a course." Just think of the ramifications of being a ship without a course. Where will you end up? Sure you can enjoy the journey but ...
Views: 788(3 votes) - Are You Ready to Tap Into Your Worth Once and For All? - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2009 from Heather DominickWhen you constantly give your energy away to outside circumstances, you're left drained, empty and looking for ways to fill up. You search endlessly for the right "answer" to building your business, making more money. You take course after course, buy product after product and then, if you're ...
Views: 961(2 votes) - The Balance between needs and values - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2009 from Danielle VindezHow is it that yesterday I was on top of the world, and today I am dull, and uninterested. I’d like to blame it on hormones, the foggy weather, or allergies, but that would be too easy. If motivation comes from living a life immersed in my personal values, as I am told by reading Abraham ...
Views: 2516(2 votes) - A Tribute to Music... - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEvery day I walk to work...to and from takes about a total of 40 minutes. This gives me a lot of one on one time with my IPod. I have over a thousand songs on my IPod...everything from Michael Jackson to U2 to Rihanna to Andrea Bocelli...you could say I have eclectic taste in music. There is ...
Views: 840(2 votes) - ***2 Ways to Discover Your Raison D'Etre - Reason For Being - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Valery SatterwhiteRaison D'Etre is French for reason, or purpose, for the existence of someone or something. Each and every person comes into this world with a purpose, unique talents to achieve that purpose and the inner wisdom to guide them along the way. This is a birthright. Without exception. Since everyone ...
Views: 2692(4 votes) - Refusing to Let Yourself Fail - The Key to Staying Motivated - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2009 from Sharon CapehartMotivation starts with developing a positive mindset that refuses to let you fail. With a positive mindset, you see a brighter future, you don't quit, and there's nothing that you can't overcome. If you're thinking that sounds like Fantasyland, well guess what? I live it and breathe it very day ...
Views: 1358(2 votes) - Best of the INTENTernet: Getting Inspired, Overcoming and Kicking Butt! - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn celebration of this week's theme on overcoming challenges, we have gathered the best content around the web that will make you believe in yourself and start kicking some serious butt. We are all vulnerable to some really scary challenges and we may all sometimes feel like giving up, but at ...
Views: 806(2 votes) - Honey, You Need New Glasses! Gratitude Looks Good On You - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere was little for me to do, but paint my toe nails green. I signed the petition to help the people of Iran and then I dashed off to get a mani-pedi. Still thinking about Iran, I chose green for my pedicure. Perhaps, it was a silly little gesture. My toes were now the color of mold. As I ...
Views: 1239(3 votes) - Days of Affirmation - Sending Love Ahead to Your Day - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsUpon waking, many people consider the coming day with trepidation. Because of the natural human tendency to focus on what we fear or dislike, it is easy to unwittingly send a message of unease into the future that negatively impacts the quality of your day. However, while our lives are busy and ...
Views: 764(2 votes) - Do you motivate your employees? - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2009 from Richard DennyThe most common reasons why employees are not motivated are: * Lack of confidence * Worry * Negative opinions * A feeling of “no future here” * Feeling unimportant * Not knowing what is going on * False recognition * Lack of training If you understand ...
Views: 1523(2 votes) - How SEO Can Help Your Business - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2009 from Joe DevineIt has been found that in such a tough economy, it is very difficult to survive without a website. But just building a website isn’t enough. After launching your site, you need to work on launching an SEO campaign as well. In other words, if you want to increase sales and increase the traffic to ...
Views: 679(2 votes) - President Obama Encourages Summer Of Service - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOriginally published on Huffington Post. This Summer, President Obama is calling on all Americans to volunteer in local community service projects across the country. This new community service initiative called "United we Serve," officially kicks off June 22nd and ends on September 11th, the ...
Views: 789(2 votes) - How to Turn Challenges into Opportunities - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLauren Mackler for SheerBalance.com - We're living through challenging times. But inherent in nearly all challenges, are opportunities for renewal and transformation. The current economic crisis offers the chance to re-evaluate how you live your life, to be more mindful and strategic about how ...
Views: 1697(2 votes) - Does Love or Fear Motivate Your Actions? - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonI don't know about you but I am becoming ever more aware of the number of people whose actions are motivated by fear. Fear is a very human emotion which we are all vulnerable to, but there is no denying that it is an extremely destructive force. Fear can be translated into many different ...
Views: 1815(3 votes) - The Convincing Side of Change - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Marsha EganStruggling with people resisting making the changes you know you need to make in your organization or group? Don't know how to get buy-in from people so that you can change things for the better? Challenged by an undercurrent of resistance to your attempts to move your organization ...
Views: 1153(9 votes) - Get Your D.I.N. Degree, Do It Now or You May Miss The Boat. - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Shirley CartonGet Your D.I.N. Degree, Do It Now or You May Miss The Boat. A Self Help Motivational Article. By Shirley Carton © 2009 I was given advise from my Grandmother, as a child, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. However when I grew up as an adult, I always seemed to have so many ...
Views: 1118(2 votes) - 7 Things to Do When You Meet Someone - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2009 from Chris WechnerDo You Like Wasting Your Time Meeting People? How often do you hear people say, "It's not WHAT you know but WHO you know?" Most always, people want to know the right people but do not do the right things when they meet people. It only takes a little effort and consideration. Follow a ...
Views: 1460(21 votes) - Sports Motivational Quotes: 3 Super Quotes To Help You Succeed In Sports And Life - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2009 from Michael LeeProfessional athletes are a great source of sports motivational quotes. No one knows how to beat the odds better than them. They know how it feels to work hard and win. They know how it feels to fall and stand back up again. They are amazingly goal-driven and will go through any lengths to ...
Views: 4023(2 votes) - I Love New York: A Positive Point of View - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Dawn AngierI Love New York: A Positive Point of View On a recent trip to NYC, I had breakfast with a colleague who said something that really made me stop and think. Mike Foster (www.MikeFoster.com) holds the title of the top trainer out of 450 seminar leaders at a major international training ...
Views: 1367(2 votes) - This Week on Intent: Tell Us How to Overcome Challenges - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis week on Intent, we want to hear your advice on overcoming challenges. What can we all do as individuals to successfully overcome any hardship that stand in our way? Challenge is essential for character growth, but also has an annoying way of making us anxious, intimidated, insecure, ...
Views: 814(2 votes) - Determination to Achieve Your Goals - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI believe that a key aspect of successfully achieving our goals is knowing which goals to set in the first place. Expending energy toward goals over which we have no control and no influence is a waste of energy. But when we sharply focus our powerful mind on what we bring to our own job/work, ...
Views: 989(2 votes) - Kick-Start Your Motivation! - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Carole HodgesProcrastination and wasting time are common ailments. Even if you lose only a few hours a week to them, it can be annoying. Why? Because you may realize that you didn’t really ENJOY the wasted time. If you had actually planned to take that time off, you might have done something much more ...
Views: 1731(8 votes) - Learn to Esatblish Your Goals - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Frank O'TooleI can not recall the amount of times that I have sat down to write my goals and have just ended up writing a to-do list instead. Goal setting can be a difficult task if you are not sure of how you will achieve what you want to achieve. When setting goals we must remember what Anatole France said ...
Views: 1230(3 votes) - Home Based Business Success - Should I Quit My Home Business? - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Devon BrownSo, you haven’t achieved the level of home based business success you have been hoping for. Should you quit? Sure! Why not! I mean, you bought all those products and they didn’t work for you. You haven’t put your website up because you’re still not sure how to drive traffic. You tried marketing ...
Views: 1402(2 votes) - "Wanting What We Can't Have" - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Eric GarnerA week or so ago, my wife and I were browsing in a second-hand shop when we came across a beautiful pine corner unit that was perfect for our newly-restored living room. Being cautious, we decided to think it over and return in a few days' time. When we did, we discovered that the unit had ...
Views: 2365(5 votes) - Early Morning Thoughts! - Part XXXII - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDear Friends Part XXXII - Some early morning thoughts: . Everything is already perfect! it is exactly as the Supra Universal Consciousness intends it to be! . We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr . At the height of laughter, the universe is ...
Views: 911(2 votes) - In Response: 10 Tips For Twenty Something Transformation - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI am 21 years old. I'll be 22 in November. I don't know if I really qualify as a 20-something since I've only hit my second decade of life two years ago. But I do know that after living with college freshmen (17 - 19 year olds) for 9 months, it doesn't matter if you're 21 or 28 - there is a very ...
Views: 814(2 votes) - How Hypnosis Helps You to Achieve Your Goals - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonSometimes the "how to" of doing things can blur you vision and get in your way. "You cannot see the wood for the trees" is a saying which sums up this phenomenon quite nicely. If you want to achieve something it is more important to make a commitment to achieving that end result than to focus ...
Views: 1115(2 votes) - Graduation Speech to Follow Your Dreams - Unlocking Your Rubber Room - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Perry BinderBook Excerpt: Graduation Speech Unlocking Your Rubber Room © 2009 Perry Binder LLC http://www.YourRubberRoom.com When I participate in graduation ceremonies, I often imagine delivering my own speech to the graduates, as if I were the commencement speaker: Good morning Chancellor, ...
Views: 7148(5 votes) - Employed for Life & Never Out of Work - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2009 from Krystal KuehnThank God every morning when you get up that you have something which must be done, whether you like it or not. Work breeds a hundred virtues that idleness never knows. ~Charles Kingsley Work keeps our minds occupied. It forces us to set and meet goals that lead to a sense of ...
Views: 1657(9 votes) - Setting yourself up for success - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Sharon SaylerBanfield of Harvard University wrote a book entitled, The Unheavenly City. He described one of the most profound studies on success and priority setting ever conducted. Banfield’s goal was to find out how and why some people became financially independent during the course of their working ...
Views: 1486(3 votes) - Is what you settled for taking up space for what you really want? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Sharon Sayler"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem as last year. " ~John Foster Dulles~ Not getting the results you want? Ask yourself: “Is this something I really want to be doing or was it someone else’s idea?” Is it ...
Views: 1400(3 votes) - Lights, Camera, Action! - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Sharon SaylerLet’s be honest, are you really doing everything you need to be successful each and every day? I know, I’m not… so how can I complain… I can’t. A favorite quote of mine is from the character Yoda, “Do or do not, there is no try.” To be in integrity with myself, I have to take an honest look at ...
Views: 1835(3 votes) - Group Coaching For The Business Professional - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Karen KanakanuiIt is evident that the old adage: “There’s strength in numbers” holds very true in all aspects of life. None truer than when coaching in groups. The benefits are immense. - Clients are helped to achieve success in a collective fashion, while this highly interactive process, allows them to ...
Views: 927(2 votes) - The Invitation - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Brenda Crawford-BeeAuthor, Oriah Mountain Dreamer (Sent to me from my sister, Norma Good, in honor of my birthday, September 13) "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you ...
Views: 1362(5 votes) - Today is a New Day - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Deborah McIncrowEach day that you step out of bed and your feet hit the floor you are given another brand spanking new opportunity to make the right choices. Each day you are granted this opportunity is another day that you are presented with the occasion to make a conscious decision to take the steps to ...
Views: 1143(2 votes) - Use What’s Falling On You - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI heard a great story the other day that goes to the heart of how we need to deal with the challenges of our lives. A farmer had a mule. One day, that mule fell into a deep well. He was swimming as fast as he could, but the farmer couldn’t get him out. He knew that not only would the mule die, ...
Views: 592(2 votes) - 8 Easy Ways to Motivate Your Kids - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2009 from Mark FooAnyone with kids can agree that their children are the most important and precious people in their lives. Every parent wants nothing but the best for their kids and they hope they strive to do great in everything they do. Kids are just like adults, they too can develop motivational brick walls ...
Views: 1679(2 votes) - The Mastermind Effect of Small Group Dynamics - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Loren FogelmanHave you thought about making long, lasting change, but just haven’t done anything about it yet? Life can so busy and much of the day is spent focusing on taking care of stuff. At the end of the day, what have you done for you? Change can happen. Having a desire to do things differently is ...
Views: 2135(2 votes) - Authentic Business? - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Dawn AngierAuthentic Business? What does it mean for you? I’ve been getting a lot of eMail lately asking what I mean by “Authentic Business”. What stirred things up is the subhead to our upcoming conference at SuccessNetSummit.com that read, “If You Want to Build a Solid, Principle-Driven, ...
Views: 1466(5 votes) - Eating the Elephant One Bite at a Time - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Dennis KelleyWhen you take a look at the goals you have set for your business and your life, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed? Does it seem like a very large leap to get there from where you are today? Don’t worry. You don’t need to try to get there in one big leap. Your journey to success will ...
Views: 5759(2 votes) - The Power of One - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYears ago I walked by as a man was yelling irately at a woman in a parking lot who had backed out of her spot and “touched” the bumper of his car. I knew it was wrong, I knew I should have said something, and I didn’t. I can't explain why - I've always spoken up when there has been bullying, at ...
Views: 661(2 votes) - The Words We Hear Can Last A Life Time! - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Kristen BakerYesterday was a day of revelation, expression and strong emotion. What started out as a conversation in regards to Depression with my dad, proved to be one of the most impressionable times. The discussion involved speaking that everyone has imperfections and depression does not mean that you ...
Views: 1930(3 votes) - What to Do When Things Go Wrong in Manifesting - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from David HooperWhen you first decide to manifest something wonderful, you probably feel a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm about it. Your spirits are high, you are convinced that you can attract this thing into your life and you eagerly get started visualizing, affirming and believing. But then a ...
Views: 5970(5 votes) - What is a true Champion? - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2009 from Craig LockArticle Title: What is a true Champion? Author Craig Lock Web Sites: http://www.creativekiwis.com/books.html and www.lulu.com/craiglock Other articles are available at http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/user/15565 and http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/profile.cfm?writerid=981 (Personal ...
Views: 6602(2 votes) - It Only Takes a Little Bit of Poison to Kill - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI was married to a wonderful man. All my life, I’d dreamed of having a happy marriage; and Charles was funny, warm, and caring. I felt that I had worked through a lot of my own insecurities and was ready to be a part of a healthy, loving relationship—but I wasn’t. Unbeknownst to me, I still ...
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