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The Birth of a Dream
"Whoa! What's goin' on?" I shouted. "Feels like there's a volcano erupting in me!" Wide-eyed, Jerry stared at me with dropped jaw. He'd swear I was just kiddin' 'cept my body was starting to bounce erratically up and down in the booth. We were enjoying blueberry...
What to Do When Your Partner Has Become Your Enemy
Where has all the love gone that you once felt for your partner? Do you seem to fight about everything? Has your partner become your enemy? How did it happen? The process of "building a case against our partner" begins quietly and unconsciously, so we hardly notice...
Six Sound Strategies to Stress Less
Stress happens in your body but starts in your mind. In addition to the perception of danger or life threatening events, there are two thinking habits that activate the stress response in the body. The first is negative attention, or focusing on what you don't...
5 Marketplace Implementation Lessons from a Corporate Strategy Execution Consultant with 25+ Years of Experience
The best-laid strategic plans often go awry once exposed to the light of day and the rudeness and ruthlessness of reality. Former President Lyndon Johnson understood that. He often told a story of a man who had applied for a job as a flagman at a railroad crossing....
Five Tips for Fear-Less Business Travel
Fear and uncertainty are continuing to grip the country and world as a result of terror attacks worldwide, heightened security alerts in major cities including New York, shootings on college campuses, violence in stores, malls and offices, and the global economic...
Guerrilla Job Search Tips – How to Find Jobs and Get Hired Faster in a Recession
In any economy, you can find a job faster by doing three simple things: 1) Know the position you want, with absolute clarity, right down to the job title. 2) Know where you want to work, right down to the names of 10-20 ideal employers. 3) Use unconventional guerrilla...
Five Ways ANYBODY Can Benefit from Hypnosis
To many people hypnosis seems exotic, mysterious, maybe even a bit mystical. Therefore it is difficult for many to connect with hypnosis, and to understand how they can personally benefit from hypnosis. Hypnosis is not mystical, and it is only mysterious when you...
Wake Up and Smell the Happy!
So many are searching for things and experiences that will bring them happiness. Are you one of them? If you are one, here is some fantastic news: there is nothing you need to find in order to be happy. There is nothing you need to become in order to be happy. There...
Moving Free® With Mirabai
Target Heart Rate: Aerobics in the Zone
February is heart month and I want to talk a little about taking care of your heart. By now we all know I'm talking about daily aerobic exercise; and the U.S. Government, The American College of Sports Medicine and The American Heart Association all have similar...
Identify Your Networking Strengths and Weaknesses
Now, more than ever, networking is critical to the survival of your business. So. . . how good are you at it? What are you strong at and what can you improve upon? In order to know whether or not you're headed in the right direction with your networking strategy, you...
The Expectation of Something Good
Ernest Holmen once said "Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good." That's good advice for all of us. Generally speaking, we find what we expected to get. So, when you got out of bed this morning, what kind of day were you expecting? Each morning you have...
How to Burn a Path to Your Dreams
Starting a new year at this time of sudden and often shocking change whether it be environmental, economic or cultural, it's easy to see how the negative emotions of fear, anger and blame can take over. We feel helpless and hopeless and look at the year ahead with...
Do Not Wait till Jan. 1st
Quote of the Month THINGS TURN OUT BEST FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE BEST OF THE WAY THINGS TURN OUT!! I am going to rant a little bit here. I am here to tell you that each and every one of us is at our exact station in life because of our thoughts, our words, and...
New Year: Are You Making These 5 Bone-Headed New Year's Resolutions Mistakes?
We've been told to make New Year's resolutions, but most people don't realize why New Year's resolutions almost never work. For years, I've been teaching people the secret "success code" that happy, rich people unconsciously follow. Many people come to me after...
Five Ways to Keeping Family Harmony
History itself affirms that the family is the foundation of society. It is the glue that holds together civilization itself. Block by block, it builds nations. But the most important place for family is inside each of us; it is who we are. We're living in days when...