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10 Secrets to Creating a Life you Love

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Most people feel that their life is not what they wanted it to be. They want more...more love, more money, more free time to do what they want to do. Instead, they find themselves living their life to please someone else or working to build someone else's dreams, instead of their own. It is in times of transition that people feel this the most and that is when they are most willing to make the changes to create a life that is built on their own terms. Being a Professional Life Coach, I se... (Read All)

10 Step Guide to Avoiding a Person With Bad Breath

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

10 Step Guide to Avoiding a Person with Bad Breath

Can anyone define for me the definition of Bad Breath? I define it as someone with unpleasant and terribly offensive breath odor. If the person consistently has this offensive order,then it is Halitosisâ¦.which is a nicer word to use, definingâ¦bad breath,occurring on a daily basis! Read All)

10 Steps to Healing Emotionaly Painful Trauma & Reactions

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Many of us have experienced incidents during our childhood that resulted in a trauma. The results of these unhealed traumatic experiences can take many forms. A simple fear of snakes could be started when your mother got frightened by a snake. A fear of public speaking that leads to panic could have started when you were very embarassed in school as a young child. The list goes on.

You may have thought that there was nothing you could do about it. Or that it might take hours and ho... (Read All)

10 Things That are Holding You Back

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Isnât it mocking how often we manage to become our own worst enemy? How we constantly manipulate and find ways to keep ourselves from achieving our true potential? If you suffer with low confidence, I guarantee you there is at least one thing on this list you have done within the last 24 hours that is keeping you from greatness.

1 You Think, Therefor... (Read All)

10 Tips to Change Mastery

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We face change in our lives, work, and relationships on a daily basis and most of us are completely unprepared for it.

The 10 Tips to Change Mastery detailed below help individuals prepare for change, overcome stress, indecisiveness, and puts control back into their lives. If you have ever been thrown off course by change in your life, reacted irrationally to it or felt controlled by it, I encourage you to read on - these 10 Tips provide a range of techniques, self-coaching questio... (Read All)

11 Ways to Succeed as a Professional Coach

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

1. Target a niche area and do not become a jack of all trades.

Targeting a specific market is not easy, for a professional coach can deal with and help many clients, in many areas. But stay focused on what you do best, at what you see your self waking up to every morning, try to picture:

What would you wear to a meeting?

What would ... (Read All)

15 Great Things to Do With your Time in Retirement

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I hear so many retirees say they are bored. This sentiment also takes the form of, âI donât have enough to do to fill my time.â If you are bored or you find yourself with far too much spare time, you are not alone.

There are two main types of responses to boredom or lack of purposeful activity: depression or intentional effort to try new things. I always encourage people to try to come up with a combination of activities that are fun, good for you and good for others. As ... (Read All)

2007 Dallas Cowboys Off-season Team Needs

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100

We have had major problems at free safety the last three seasons
since Darren Woodson retired. This need must be filled in free
agency or the first two rounds of the draft. The free agent market
seems bare with Deon Grant and Kevin Kaesviharn being the only
suitable options. The draft is extraordinarily deep at free safety.
There are five prospects capable of coming in and manning the FS
position from Day 1. These guys are Reggie Nelson, LaRon
Landry, ... (Read All)

30 Days to Manifesting Your Desires

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

There are so many resources on the market today that will tell you how to attract more money, better health, a new life partner and so on.

With so many choices, you can easily spend a small fortune trying to figure out which method, technique, or affirmation will help you manifest your desires.

Why not simply work on manifesting the best method for manifesting?

Have you been using the law of attraction but not having much in the way of results? I hear that a ... (Read All)

4 Steps To Activating Personal Transformational Leadership

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of leadership, and therefore of transformational leaders, is personal leadership. The ability to define what you want out of life and how you are going to get there is the first step in developing leadership. With that being the starting point, it all seems pretty local, however there are other parts to the experience that are not always easy to access.

As a transformational leader there are many uncertainties to navigate. There will be... (Read All)

5 Ingredients For Success In Law of Attraction

Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

In this article, I will outline 5 ingredients for success in the Law of Attraction. Make the Law of Attraction a part of your life to achieve your goals and dreams. Whatever you want in your life, you can accomplish. Be it wealth, health, happiness, love and more.

Ingredient 1 is The Science of Getting Rich

There is a book that you should read to help you fully understand the Law of Attraction and how it can help you in your life with anything you want to achieve. The... (Read All)

5 Points to Identify Failure

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100

5 points to identify a predetermined failure (for all fields and scopes)
By Noam Mankowitz (Pmcc) Founder / Head Coach www.inner-view.org
Personal website for more details www.inner-view.org/noam

"Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you."
Mandino

Also we are coachesâ we are a... (Read All)

5 Steps to Realizing your Dreams Before Retirement

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Pay attention Baby Boomers! Everybody has a dream or an unrealized goal for their life. The trouble is most of us are unwilling to make the changes necessary to turn our dreams into reality. We say âIâll do that when the children leave home; Iâll be able to work on that when the mortgage (car, credit card...insert debt here!) is paid off; I plan on maki... (Read All)

5 Tips for Starting the New Year on the Right Foot in Retirement

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Getting focused, organized and structured in a New Year is something we approach with great intentionality when we are working. We set our goals and make plans to achieve our goals. After retirement, however, many people drop the planning and goal setting at the beginning of a new year. The result is that they find themselves slouching into the year and wandering somewhat aimlessly from one interest to another.

While Iâm not advocating structuring of every minute of every day... (Read All)

7 Keys to Avoid Inaction After Losing your Job

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

7 Keys to Avoid Inaction after Losing Your Job

Losing one's job is often one of the most traumatic events in any person's life, and can have an immediate and devastating impact on one's social, emotional, financial, and family life. Worst of all, it can make a person feel incompetent, angry, confused, and discouraged. These feelings usually le... (Read All)

7 Reasons Why you Need a Coaching Niche to Become Rich

Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

One of the hardest business lessons Iâve had to learn is the need to specialize. Iâve prided myself on knowing a fair amount a lot of things â the âjack of all tradesâ approach. And itâs cost me.

Iâve been a writer, photographer, editor, photo editor, web programmer, info architect, intranet planner, adventurer, kayak instructor, carpenter, and even a house painter. Iâve done inside and outside sales in the tech industry and sold high-end recreational equipment in ... (Read All)

99 Octane Motivation Fuel

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Keep them Euphoric: 5 more ways to turbocharge employees.

These are five additional ways that you can successfully create an encouraging work environment while increasing employee.

1.Distinguish your employees. It is essential that you empathize with your employees. Know about their family; know about what they do after hours, what interests them. This is not meant to be prying into an employee's personal life, but knowing an employee can help you to resolve what motivat... (Read All)

A Guaranteed Strategy for Making This Yearâs Resolution Stick

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Every year millions of people make New Yearâs Resolutions on January 1st. By the 15th they are already finding themselves snacking on chocolate between meals, not making time to exercise for the fourth day in a row and they still havenât found the time to organize their finances. Why is it that our resolutions seldom make it into February?

This y... (Read All)

A Hot Summer Day in Cologne!

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Hot summer day in Cologne where else to be?
This morning started little different than others.
I was out late last night here in Cologne. It was a feast with fire works. It started 11, 30 pm and finished at midnight. It was spectacular to see. Lots of colours, big bangs like from canons. It gathers around 1 million people. They are coming from all over the... (Read All)

A Self Development Daily Reading For Strategies

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Self-development readings are personal interpretations of what your day may hold, who you might run into, what sort of things that need to be done, what you may need to work on to better yourself, and much more. Daily readings also may help to fulfill the readings that predict the more distant future. A daily reading may be a sign that you truly believe and trust in self-development and cannot go forth into the day with out it.

How do daily readings of self-development help me in ... (Read All)

A Success Formula!

Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 +0100

People are divided into 2 classes. There are those who are rich and can afford to buy anything and there are those who just have enough.

Why are there 2 classes some might ask? Why canÃt there by equality among people? The answer to that is simple. Some people work harder than others which makes one deserve to get more.... (Read All)

A Womans Voice

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0100

âHer voice was ever low, gentle and softâan excellent thing in woman.â â King Lear.

In history, a womenâs voice has been revered in poetry and song. âIt is a woman's voice, sire, which dares to utter what many yearn for in silence.â (unsent letter to Napoleon III re: Victor Hugo) by poet Aurora Leigh.

We know th... (Read All)

Accepting Ourselves and Others

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Love is the ultimate healing energy. We lack giving and receiving love.

Our feelings of isolation and loneliness breed mistrust, misunderstandings, competition, antagonism and the whole series of health destroying emotions such as fear, anger, hatred, jealousy, bitterness, resentment etc. These negative emotions build up a personality complex of their own, and grow out of the control destroying our health and relationships.... (Read All)

Achieve Positive Attitude Through Self-Discipline

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Attitude is defined as the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think. Think negative or think positive is a choice and a process. Negative is (unfortunately) an instinctive process. Positive is a learned self-discipline that must be studied and practiced every day.

To achieve a positive attitude, you must take physical, verbal and mental actions. Here are a few short chunks of attitude - awareness and actions - that will help put you (or keep you) on the positive path:... (Read All)

Achieve Successful Results through Visualization!

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Many people have made use of the power of visualization to help them perform at their peak. This technique is favourably applied in the area of competitive sports where it is known as 'mental rehearsal'.

Here's an example illustrating the application of the technique and power of visualization

For many years, the Russians had always won and dominated the gymnastics event in the Olympic Games. The Americans trained just as hard and could not understand how the Russians we... (Read All)

Achieve Your Ambition & Belief In Yourself

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Fundamental to success in any vocation whatever is self-confidence. Unless a man believes firmly in his ability to succeed he can not achieve much. And, unfortunately, the tendency of many people is to personal underestimation. Looking about them, in fact, the generalty of men fix their gaze wonderingly on some outstanding figure in their line of work, some acknowledged leader.

"I wish I could do what he has done," they say to themselves. "But it is of course impossible. He had adv... (Read All)

Adhd Systems for Money Management Can Make All the Difference

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

ADHD money management is a paradox. The first thing financial experts say is never let anyone else have control of your money. The next thing they say is that you need to follow a strict budget, avoid impulsive spending and save for the future.

As an adult with ADHD, you know that is a recipe for disaster. After all, they are asking you to:
... (Read All)

Advice for Ex-offenders Looking for Jobs

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Crime?

This question is the most agonizing part of any ex-offenders job search. Some believe by being honest they dont have a chance at getting a job. The fact is an employer cannot legally refuse to hire you because you have a criminal record unless the conviction is directly related to the job for which you are applying. I ... (Read All)

Advice on Retirement

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100

One. Donât wait until youâre really old to move where you want to be for the rest of your life. This is particularly true if youâre trading down or trading up. I read about a couple that delayed their move until the wife had a stroke. Then a quick move was necessary. The couple did not have time to do deferred maintenance on their house before putting it on the market. They had to discount it $50,000.

Two. Itâs risky to move in with your children. They can smother your... (Read All)

Affordable Life Coaching for Those Who Do Good in the World and Earn Modest Paychecks

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Idealists frequently entertain ideas about how our lives and the world around us might be different. We have a high need for authenticity, and we spend significant time considering the "big picture" complexities of how everything fits together in the world. Often driven by important causes, we may assume roles such as a nonprofit executive director, political leader, advocate, educator, activist, counselor, physician, or entrepreneur of a socially and ecologically responsible business. Read All)