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You know what's great about life? We get a brand new beginning each and every day to do what we didn't do the day before. Think about that for a moment. Life grants us a chance every day to create "a new beginning." What could be more powerful than to know that within our grasp, is the chance to choose to be who we want to be and achieve what we want to achieve each and every day, regardless of what we did or didn't do the day before. What lies behind this gift and the possibility of creating a ...
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Awareness is the key behind any major achievement in life, be it love, success, relationships or spiritual growth. Without being aware, our chances for discovering and sustaining change and positive results in any arena of life are limited. For many of us the New Year is about setting goals and making resolutions toward achieving more success and happiness in the coming year. It's about creating "a new beginning," which ironically is the title of my previous article. There is a natural ...
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Team rewards form a significant part of team building, as they provide an incentive for employees to do well. It also generates a feeling of camaraderie within the company, and as a result, greater output and profits follow.  One team reward that goes down particularly well is a fun casino evening.  It has all the ingredients to make it arguably the best team reward a company can give to its staff.  Unlike the traditional company fun day or a restaurant meal, a fun casino evening provides a ...
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How many times have you heard the phrase "People do business with people". In other words, we do not form relationships with corporate entities, but rather the people within them.Whether you are promoting your business to the outside world, or promoting your aims and aspirations to your employees, there is really no substitute for direct face-to-face contact. If you do not promote your message face-to-face, how can the recipient gauge your commitment? How important it is to them or be enthused ...
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People do business with people. In other words, we do not form relationships with corporate entities, but rather the people within them.Whether you are promoting your business to the outside world, or promoting your aims and aspirations to your employees, there is really no substitute for direct face-to-face contact. If you do not promote your message face-to-face, how can the recipient gauge your commitment? How important it is to them or be enthused to do something differently?All business ...
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Financial planning seems to be more important than ever these days. Few would have imagined the catastrophic changes that we are seeing all around us, the "too big to fail" failures and the highly publicized fraud cases. Many people and businesses have suffered lasting damage and understand that their definition of security has changed almost overnight. Against this backdrop, the selection of a financial planner takes on additional urgency and must be approached with some care, if we are to ...
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Smoking is damaging not only to the smoker's body, also to their income and the economy at large. Billions of dollars are spent each year to treat people for diseases that are 100% preventable if they would just quit smoking. For employers who pay the premiums of their employees' health insurance it is cheaper to pay the cost of stop smoking program than to continue to shell out for medical bills for the next ten or twenty years.The Free and Clear Quit for Life program is one of the most ...
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Smoking is damaging not only to the smoker's body, also to their income and the economy at large. Billions of dollars are spent each year to treat people for diseases that are 100% preventable if they would just quit smoking. For employers who pay the premiums of their employees' health insurance it is cheaper to pay the cost of stop smoking program than to continue to shell out for medical bills for the next ten or twenty years.The Free and Clear Quit for Life program is one of the most ...
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MANCHESTER, MD' Traditional career paths have become more of an obstacle course. The corporate ladder has many broken rungs. In the Gulf Coast region, ActionCOACH is seeing many new faces turning to franchising as an alternative venture and adventure. 'You'd think the worst economic times since the Great Depression would discourage budding entrepreneurs from going into business on their own,' said Karen Boyd, Global Master Licensee for ActionCOACH's Gulf Atlantic region. 'Yet with corporate ...
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Think back to when you were about to make a major change in your life or take on a big project. Let's say you're getting re-married, uh-oh, now that can be a big change. How about changing careers, starting a new business or moving your family. Can you feel the fear and trepidation resurface, the doubt, the queasy feeling in your stomach? Do you remember beginning to analyze your thoughts, decisions, to procrastinate and think to yourself, should I or shouldn't I? Well, I've experienced all of ...
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The good news is that we all experience self-limiting beliefs; the bad news is, that's right, we all have self-limiting beliefs. There's more good news though - we can do something about them. Limiting beliefs have a method to their madness, they keep us safe, safe from ever having to take a risk or making a mistake. If you've noticed, we really believe that little birdie in our head that keeps saying, you can't do that, don't try that, you're not good enough, smart enough and so on. It seems ...
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