Ready-Aim-Fire!

I thought I would share this with you today because it keeps coming up. It is a technique that I encourage my clients to use when confronted with resistance or confusing choices.

It is always good to give yourself a chance to think things through before you allow your emotions to make all your decisions. It is a known fact that emotions are 30,000 times faster than thoughts. So let’s give our thoughts a chance when it comes to our decision-making. What do you say?

Jumpstarting Your Self-Esteem

When we talk about increasing our self-esteem, we are often overwhelmed by the emotional and mental baggage we’re carrying. So much so that we give up before we even get started.

 

All we need is an inroad to jumpstart the process, but tackling the way we feel or think about ourselves is not easy. However, our mental and emotional natures are not the only ones we possess.

A Higher View Of Business Networking

INTEGRATION

All actions in life are responses to needs. Those needs may be physical or psychological/spiritual. As a teacher, author, and creative life coach, my perspective is based on the belief that we are “spiritual beings having a human experience.” So, naturally, when I observe an event in the world, I look toward the psychological/spiritual to see the threads that are influencing the intention behind the event.

When I look at the world in this way, I see a lattice of threads that connect us all in many different ways. As I watch someone struggling to grow their business, I see the newly-formed threads their business efforts are weaving; however, I also see the catalytic threads that exist on a grander scale and drew them in this particular direction on a wondrous journey of creation.

Networking groups should

What’s Your Point Of Observation?

Whether you’re encountering a problem or an opportunity in your life, ask yourself “What is my point of observation?”

Let’s say, for example, you own a business called Books I Love to Read, and you are in dire need of information on how to market on the Internet. Synchronistically, a fellow networker tells you about a free seminar that is reportedly about Internet marketing. Great! This is exactly what I need, you think to yourself.

However, when you get there, you are bombarded by the agenda of the seminar sponsor. Although you really just wanted to acquire a direction or some sources for implementing a viable marketing program for your business online, you find yourself getting caught in the swell of sales gimmicks. The promise of help in learning to market on the Internet was just a way to draw you in.

If you’re not careful, however, your point of observation will shift

Should You Ever Give Away Your Product?

Recently a woman told me quite adamantly, “I never do anything for free!” My first thought was “How sad.” Of course, you can definitely go too far in giving away your services and your products. However, you can never reach your highest potential if you’re too afraid or too short-sighted to give something of value to your potential and existing customers.

So what criteria do you use to judge what and how much you can give away?

If You Have To Leave A Group, Make The Most Of It!

In the post, Learning To Influence Your Interactions In Groups, I mentioned that sometimes it is not only necessary but beneficial to walk away from some groups in which you’ve been investing energy. If you do leave, however, it would be prudent for you to examine your thoughts and feelings about your decision.

Consider the 5 Ws. These all approach the same answers with different questions.

Learn To Influence Your Interactions In Groups

Groups are inevitable unless you lock yourself in your room. Even then, your flight from groups is only temporary because eventually you will need others for many different reasons.

All of life breaks down into relationships. Any interaction constitutes a relationship. Of course, these relationships may differ by the numbers involved, the intensity, the complexity, as well as a host of other characteristics.

When your relationships involve at least two other people with common goals or problems, or with some bond such as birth, reciprocal abilities, or complementary needs, you are participating in a group dynamic. Because our society functions through the use of groups, it is imperative that you understand how to fit into the group of which you desire to be a part.

As an Entrepreneur,

These Questions Can Make The Difference In Your Business

To judge whether you are using ethical behavior, especially when no one’s looking [see the last post], ask yourself these questions.

1. Would I act this way if I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that the same action would be inflicted on me in the future by someone else?
Does this make you think twice about taking advantage of another?  The old adage “What goes around comes around!” does have truth in it.

2. Am I

What Do You Do When No One’s Looking?

Several answers probably popped into your mind when you read this headline. We have all caught ourselves doing things when no one was looking that we might not dream of doing otherwise.

 

What came to your mind?  Maybe taking a few office supplies home with you from work? Not telling the clerk he didn’t ring up everything he sacked? These things are not unusual, and most, if asked, would rate them benign. Yet,

Your Self-Observer

Changing the way you deal with your feelings and your actions requires the development of a Self-Observer. Oh, it’s not what you may think. You know those voices in your head that always have some reaction to everything around you as well as to your thoughts and feelings? Well, that is NOT a Self-Observer.