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[2003-09-30] How Do You Spend Your 168?
Let's pretend that at the beginning of every single week, your bank account balance is always refreshed. It tops off at $168, every single week, and you have to budget that money to ensure that it effectively covers every single obligation, wish, and dream you have.
[2003-09-30] Stay in your Chair
At a baseball game recently, I saw a 10 year old boy with his glove, staring intently at batter after batter, waiting on the foul ball that he just knew would be coming his way. He wasn't distracted by the noise around him, or the people stepping over him to get concessions. He wasn't tempted by the gift shop, or the kids club house. I'm sure it wasn't that he didn't find those things interesting. More than likely he did. But what he really wanted was on that field, and if he left his seat, he could have missed his chance.
[2003-09-24] Discipline is *Not* a Four-Letter Word
When I sit down to write an article for my ezine, WriteSuccess, and draw a blank as to what to write about, I reread my ezine's mission statement for guidance: "Ideas, information and inspiration for writers who want to launch and/or maintain SUCCESSFUL freelance careers"
[2003-09-22] Put the "Vacate" in Vacation
There's a good reason why we call it a vacation. It's the time that we set aside to forget all the have-to's and should's of daily life and indulge in rest and recreation. In fact, it's re-creation! Reduce your stress. Relieve your anxieties. Relax your body. Rest your mind.
[2003-09-16] Do You Have Big Dreams?
Way back in the third grade, Eddie Robinson had a dream. His dream was big, but to many folks, it seemed too big for Eddie to ever attain.
[2003-09-16] 6 Ways To Tap Your Hidden Energies
Do you tap on your hidden energies?
We wear out from lack of use of our capacities. Each one of us possess enormous amounts of energy, more than we can ever hope to use. These energy sources are locked up!
[2003-09-15] How to Develop Your Brain
I wasn't making it up! There it is on the fMRI - musicians have several areas of the brain that are bigger, including the corpus callosum.
[2003-09-15] The Successful Manager: 12 Tips To Maximize Your Performance
There are so many aspects to management! Your staff responsibilities run the gamut from goal-setting to hiring through performance appraisals. Here are 12 tips that will help.
[2003-09-15] But That Was *My* Idea!
Did you ever have a great idea, then watch someone steal it right out from under you?
[2003-09-15] Loving an Organized Life
An organized life may sound boring to some people and impossible to others. Why should you manage your time and get organized? What does it mean to have a totally organized life?
[2003-09-15] Fit to Write
How's your writing muscle?
Is it the lean kind, the sort that brings stamina for the long, detailed work? Is the the bulging, powerful kind, well-suited for splitting the pile of issues that the essayist loves to confront?
[2003-09-15] Anger means,
Anger can be an intuitive signal. In her Advanced Energy Anatomy tapes, Carolyn Myss says that anger can be a sign of claiming your power. I agree.
[2003-09-12] Wisdom: Take A Quantum Leap Today!
Hi Susan
I have a question ( three actually) regarding EQ. Are we born with predetermined levels of EQ, can they be changed after we become adults, if so what is the evidence? This is a question that often comes up in discussion on the subject of EQ.
[2003-09-12] Lottery Scam, what it is and how to avoid it?
Internet scams and frauds are on the rise! The quantity of scam emails with various fraud schemes any email account receives today is simply overwhelming! There is this infamous Nigerian 419 scam, which is by far the most widely circulated one. I wrote about it in one of our ezine articles not long ago.
[2003-09-12] Mental, Emotional and Physical Prosperity
To create true, lasting prosperity, almost any guru can tell you that you must align your physical, mental and emotional states and actions. This all sounds very logical, but when it comes right down to it, most of us are not quite certain how to proceed.
[2003-09-10] Whatever You Fear Has Already Happened to You
That huge elephant, I thought to myself for the 100th time, tethered on that tiny stake. They can weigh up to 7 tons, and there was this huge elephant rocking back and forth, kept from moving more than a few feet by … an electric fence? 25 armed men? No, by a small chain on a tiny stick.
[2003-09-10] There Are Times When We Are Not Open to Reason
The reptilian brain takes over sometimes; it's there to keep us alive, and it's instinctual messages are strong. The limbic brain can also "flood" us with emotions. Have you used the phrase, "talk til you're blue in the face"? These are some of the times when our neocortex (thinking brain) shuts down and we "can't be reasoned with." Unless we know some EQ, that is.
[2003-09-08] Dress Code & Business Etiquette
Does it matter what you wear to work? Heavens yes. Like it or not, many decisions are made on first impressions. You'll be quickly checked over for cleanliness, grooming, and what you have on. It's part of business etiquette.
[2003-09-08] Enhancing Productivity
Here are a variety of tips from one of my recent seminars that will help you enhance your productivity. They've all been used by top managers with great results.
[2003-09-05] Create a Beautiful Work Day
How do you spend your business day? Do you plow through a dreary to-do list? Do you struggle through regular tasks that you've been doing day in and day out? What do you listen to while you're working? Silence? Soft rock? The Rolling Stones? Audioslave? May I suggest Tom Waits and Miles Davis during the quiet hours of 3:00 a.m.?
[2003-09-04] PR: Behavior Modification Specialist
While awaiting economic recovery, business needs to attract the attention of its most important external audiences in a more targeted and focused way. Primarily to impact the perceptions of those key outsiders so that resulting behaviors help those managers achieve their objectives.
[2003-09-04] Team Learning and Emotional Intelligence
Studies show introducing an EQ program at your business affects the bottom line positively (http://www.eiconsortium.org ). People learn to: - Make better decisions - Communicate and work together more effectively - Develop tolerance and appreciation for multiculture and diversity - Manage constructive discontent - Cope better and experience less stress - Manage themselves and others better - Become more productive and change-proficient - Increase leadership skills - Accommodate to both introverts and extraverts - Become aware of mimetic changes - Reach others with communication and learning styles different than their own - Use solution-focused problem-solving, not emotion-focused
[2003-09-04] Should You Market Your Services at a Trade Show?
As a fundraiser for a homeless shelter, I did lots of trade shows. It's a lazy, "attraction" method that works, but not the way you might like if you're keen on the numbers and speed.
[2003-09-03] Promote Your Website through Search Engines Part I
Promote your Web Store
After spending substantial time and efforts the big day came when you finally published your website on the Internet. You are now ready to show your website to the world. But, with over a billion pages vying for traffic how do you make people visiting your site?
[2003-09-03] Making Your Vocation Your Vacation
"The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation." -- Mark Twain
[2003-09-03] What an Episode of the Original Star Trek Taught Me
Have you ever seen the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"? If you haven't:
[2003-09-03] How Do You Know What Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence) Is?
If you've been reading about Emotional Intelligence, the Catch-22 has probably occurred to you: Since EQ begins with self-awareness, the people who have the worst EQ are also going to be the worst at assessing their own.
[2003-09-03] “Soft” Skills Bring “Hard” Results in Business, Study Shows
According to an article in the August issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Americans have one of the most emotionally distant work cultures in the world. Why are you not surprised?
[2003-09-02] Manager David Succeeds with the Imp's Help
Listen to the classic tale "The Bottle Imp" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The hero Keawe purchases a bottle that holds a magical imp. The imp will grant any wish of Keawe's, but if he should die while still the owner of the bottle, he will burn in hell for eternity. Keawe has the right to sell the bottle but it must always be sold for less than what was paid for it.
[2003-09-02] Web Store: Why Do You Need One?
Internet has opened a new era of business opportunities. Each day, thousands of new consumers are joining the Internet. More and more companies are adopting Internet as their primary sales and distribution channel. According to Forrester Research The survey of 130 U.S. companies indicates consumers spent $76 billion shopping on-line in 2002. This represents a 48 percent increase over 2001, and projections for 2003 come close to $100 billion, representing 4.5 percent of total retail sales.
[2003-09-02] Doubt PR's Clout? Don't!
Done right, it helps modify the behaviors of your most important target audiences, and that can spell S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L.
I don't believe that's an overstatement because a customer who thinks badly of you and your business will not soon be darkening your threshold.
[2003-09-02] When To Make Your Career Move To Self-Employment
Knowing when to make the right career move and start a home based business is just as important as the business you choose to start.
The First Step!
[2003-09-02] The Dignity of Labor
I love artists, because I'm a wordsmith and they say things I can never say. Here are two of my favorite paintings about work, both by Caillebotte:
http://www.webstrategies.cc/caillebotte1.jpg
http://www.webstrategies.cc/caillebotte2.jpg
[2003-09-02] When Something’s Not Right about Your Career, Part II/VI: 5 Things You Can Do
Last time we were discussing, "Now, Discover Your Strengths," (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201140/susandunnmome-20) by Buckingham and Clifton.
These two management experts propose the theory that if you work in your strength areas, you can perform consistently and effortlessly at a near perfect level and find great satisfaction without a whole lot of stress.
[2003-09-02] Get Serious About Your Web Business
So much has been said about this subject in the past but I feel I must reiterate the importance of getting your own domain name if you are to be taken serious in the home business world.
There is nothing more offputting than seeing an ad with a free domain name attached (ie http://www.freedomain.yourname.com). I personally will bypass such businesses.
[2003-09-02] When Something’s Not Right about Your Career, Part III/VI: 6 More Things You Can Do
There are few things that make us as miserable as hating what we do, and it's impossible to be excellent at something you dislike. How do you solve this problem? How do you figure out what you were meant to do ... what makes you shine?
[2003-09-02] What Is "Best Practice" Public Relations?
Why, public relations that stays true to its fundamental premise, of course.
In a nutshell, "People act on their own perception of the facts before them, which leads to predictable behaviors about which something can be done. When we create, change or reinforce that opinion by reaching, persuading and moving-to-desired- action those people whose behaviors affect the organization, the public relations mission is accomplished."
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