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T. Harv Eker – Get Hardwired For Success
The president of Peak Potentials Training, one of the fastest growing personal success training companies in the world, and author of the phenomenal book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind,T. Harv Eker preaches his philosophy of "street smarts with heart," and through...
David Riklan – Self-Growth Marketing
David Riklan is the president and founder of Self Improvement Online, Inc.and www.SelfGrowth.com, as well as the author of Self Improvement: the Top 101 Experts Who Help Us Improve Our Lives, which has been praised as the encyclopedia of self-improvement. Today he's...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Organizational Leadership Communication
Upon completing a recent project I took my client to lunch to thank him for his business. We reminisced about how we first met at my End Procrastination NOW! Workshop and how he realized at that time he was tired of tolerating things in his business. Among the...
Networking with Social Media
From a business perspective, the ideal use for social media is to build your brand and your credibility with the people you are connected with; it's about providing value for your connections and followers. It is important to offer them useful information balanced...
How to Make Every Day a Great Day!
Where did the time go? Do you know how sometimes you can be busy every minute and yet, looking back at the end of the day, you feel that you didn't accomplish anything? Well, the good news is there is a simple process that can help you avoid that and make every day a...
Balancing Home and Work
Parents of today who are busy pursuing a career, maintaining a home and raising children face a complex balancing act. Parents wear many "hats" on a daily basis: they act as coaches, teachers, chauffeurs, guidance counsellors, health consultants, social convenors,...
How to Offer Children Choices Within Limits
Choices are the best tool for preventing and stopping power struggles and rebellion. There are a few ways that parents can run into problems, however, so here are a few guidelines for using choices effectively. Don't give a choice if there is no choice. Do you want to...
Eliminating Empathy Deficit Disorder?
"Stop Crying." "Don't worry about it. You can get another one." "It's not that big a deal." "So what do you want me to do about it?" "Why don't you just suck it up?" "Pouting isn't going to get you anywhere." The statements above and those similar to them are often...
Can a Mother Be Her Daughter's Best Friend?
There is an old Chinese proverb that states "One Generation plants the trees; another gets the shade," and this is how it should be with mothers and daughters. The intimate nature of the relationship between a mother and daughter is sometimes confusing. If close, the...
How Should I Punish My Kid?
A few Teen Commandments from Discipline Me Right: "Enforce rules upon children." - "Thou shalt hold me accountable." - "Punish when needed." Parents ask, "Am I being too harsh?" "Am I being too lenient?" "What consequences should I use?" Then, with despair, they say,...
Is Your Caregiver Undermining Your Parenting?
We live in a time when so many of our kids are in childcare, and while there is a modicum of research that tells us that childcare is not detrimental to our children, it is well known that the people who care for our children can have a profound influence on our...
Deleting Your Facebook Account 101
How do I delete my Facebook account? I get asked this question every day. At my speeches, by my clients, by my friends and family. It used to be that people no longer wanted the mundane information overload that Facebook promotes. But now they are looking at it from a...
Awesome Avocado
Avocados are the most practical "go anywhere, eat anywhere" food. They do not need to be cooked, require no refrigeration, they come with their own carrying case and even have a built-in serving bowl! So next time you and your baby are on the go, drop an avocado and a...
Achieve the Kind of Life That You Desire by Setting Goals!
Why do some people work so hard and yet never find success? Why do some people achieve everything and yet seem to hardly work at all? Everyone has heard the news, goal setters succeed! Listen to any successful entrepreneur or professional and they all seem to talk...
Cultivate Your Curiosity
I recently came across the following list written/compiled by David Heenan: Ten Keys to Life Fulfillment: 1. Listen to your heart 2. Take one step at a time 3. Deliver daily 4. Maintain a maverick mind-set 5. Focus, focus, focus 6. Never stop learning 7. Build a brain...