31st March
2010
Copyright 2005 Flaming Life Coaching INC. Today as people become increasingly conscious of their worth, they are no longer willing to stay in a job that has become intolerable and impersonal to them. This means that in the corporate or business world, it no longer suffice to have a system in place and expect people to just comply by them. Without some form of human connections, things won't work out for long and the strength of commitment from your employees will simply disintegrate. Whether ...
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Business
30th March
2010
You've made the break from the chains of working for the corporate machine and have decided to become a consultant in your specialist field, be that marketing, IT, HR or Sales. You want the dream of working for yourself and creating greater freedom in your life. Many Independent Business Consultants (IBC) or those considering becoming an IBC do what they do because * They have worked successfully doing functional roles for an organisation and they liked doing what they do * They want to have ...
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Business
29th March
2010
I've just recently returned from a week's holiday at Camp Eden, a holistic health retreat in Queensland. I'm sure many of you would have been there or know someone who has. It's a great place for a holiday 'time out just for yourself. For me it was an ideal break and had all the components of a 'holistic' retreat. And to top it all off, everything was organised. To cut a long story short, Camp Eden is for everyone. The very worst thing that will happen to you is you'll relax and lose weight! ...
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Business
28th March
2010
The life cycle of the typical small business is short and painful. It starts out with a dream and ends with a whimper. And in between, a struggle of Herculean proportions is played out as the owner tries to figure out why the business isn't succeeding. Depending on which survey you read, up to 80% of small businesses fail. Most fail within the first five years and those who survive the first five are often losing money. Pursuing a career in small business ownership seems like a fool's ...
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Business
27th March
2010
Article Title: Are Business Goals Enough? Author Name: Joanne Victoria Contact E-mail Address: mailto:joanne@joannevictoria.com Word Count: 483, including signature box Category: Business Development Copyright Date: 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Publishing Guidelines: Thank you for publishing this article in its entirety, including the resource box. When possible, please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication via email ...
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Business
26th March
2010
/p> One of the distinctions that sets coaching apart from other types of consulting is that coaching specifically addresses the client's sense of who they are in the world, and helps the client make life choices that are aligned with their personal values. In my opinion, there tends to be a split in the psyche of America between personal and career development. If you look in the index of your local telephone company's Yellow Pages ' you can easily find "Business Services" and ...
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Business
25th March
2010
Isn't that an appealing title? How to Have an Effortless Life! Well guess what? The only time your life will be effortless is when you're buried six feet under. It takes effort to get results, and not just any effort, it takes smart effort. You cannot expect to achieve anything without doing something. Unfortunately in our society today, people are making an enormous effort to keep themselves busy all day, yet for many they look at what they have done and realised that much of the time had been ...
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Business
24th March
2010
How to Work From Home and Enjoy Life How would you like to have at least an extra hour in your day just for yourself so that you can have more fun? When you work from home there can be a tendency to work longer hours due to the flexibility that you have. If you work from home, these ideas if implemented consistently will free up your time so that you can enjoy more of your life. Look After Yourself First Exercise regularly and eat healthily. Do the right thing by yourself and you'll have ...
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Business
23rd March
2010
A few nights ago, while surfing the late-night television offerings, I found myself entranced by a rather astute looking, young man giving all he had as he delivered an incredibly passionate speech. The topic of his speech was civil rights, and it was being televised by C-SPAN. In the bottom, right-hand corner of the television, the name of the speaker was displayed as "Jesse Jackson, Jr., Rep. Illinois." I quickly realized I was listening to the 36 year-old son of civil rights activist, ...
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Self Improvement
22nd March
2010
I'm a business coach. I've worked with hundreds of small, medium and very large business, and over the course of the past eleven years, I've asked my business coaching clients endless questions which have helped them achieve much greater levels of success than they would have otherwise. While the following may not be the only ten questions -- or even THE ten questions, they are ten questions that you must answer if you want your business to flourish. The right answers are critical to your ...
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Business
21st March
2010
Have you ever thought that your decisions are not right? You really feel that your directions are just towards the blind alley? Do you wonder how to overwhelm this hard time and get back your life on track? The right answer that resolves all your queries is ' 'have a personal coach'. Gaining close insight from your personal coach will make you become 'BEST' as possible. Like any other coach, personal coach is a spiritual individual who helps and assists others in taking right decisions with ...
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Self Improvement
20th March
2010
Some valuable advice for people hiring Executive Coaches As the leader of the organization, you may have noticed that Executive Coaching is here to stay.  It has thrived even in the recession, because it has proved worthwhile to improve morale and teams rather than fire them out of hand.  If you have arrived at the decision of hiring an executive coach, this is what you need to consider: Whose Executive Coach is the person? Now it is common sense that the coach you hire is going to be loyal ...
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Self Improvement
19th March
2010
It takes effort to get results, and not just any effort, it takes smart effort. You cannot expect to achieve anything without doing something. Unfortunately in our society today, people are making an enormous effort to keep themselves busy all day, yet for many they look at what they have done and realised that much of the time had been wasted. They review their day and wonder what they had achieved. You need to plan, focus and take action on what you want to achieve to get the outcome you ...
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Business
18th March
2010
Life coaching is a type of coaching program for helping people to decide and achieve personal goals of life. This is an executive coaching method and focuses on the management skills and leadership qualities in individuals. A life coach is different from a therapist. This type of coaching draws inspiration and its basics from the fields of psychology, sociology, career counselling, and mentoring. The coach can apply the different techniques from these fields to help the clients in the process. ...
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Self Improvement
17th March
2010
At a Chamber of Commerce Business Card Exchange several years ago a well-dress woman walked up to me, business card in hand and, in perfect form held it in both hands in front of me, gesturing for me to take it. I took the card from her and smiled. She looked up and in a polite voice, said "Thank you," and walked away. How sad. Here was this obviously well-intentioned woman, who most likely owned an interesting business but never learned what to do at a card exchange. Somewhere she bought into ...
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Business
16th March
2010
Life coaching can take on many forms.  A life coach can guide you through your relationships, family life, or career change.  Some people consider a life coach to be similar to a therapist.  However, you go to the former when you know what it is that you want to achieve but don't yet know how to achieve it.  This is especially true in executive coaching. Generally the firm or the human resources department within the firm will contract an executive coach to work one on one with its top ...
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Self Improvement
15th March
2010
Copyright 2005 Anne Alexander If you say "yes" to most things that come your way, you may be a nice person, but you're probably not a very happy one. Establishing good boundaries is a big challenge for many people. And it is an essential time management skill for creating a successful professional life. Here are a couple of key tools for establishing healthy and effective boundaries: - Set specific periods of every day when you take calls and answer email. Don't become a slave to email, the ...
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Business
14th March
2010
Where are you on the life satisfaction scale? Are you feeling that you have finally arrived at the destiny you have been working so hard for all of your life? Do you feel like you are energetically pursuing your calling and God's plan for your life? Or are you more in the camp that things are going okay on a day to day basis? Neither passion or peace have come knocking in a while. Now that you think about it, more accurately you are just getting by! To get a true feel for where you are in your ...
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Business
13th March
2010
Self Improvement
13th March
2010
b>Envision a Comfort Zone For many business owners the difference between where they are presently with their business and where they ultimately want to be, can be very overwhelming and intimidating. There is so much to do in order to accomplish those goals...where do I start? Every business owner is in some sort of comfort zone. They arrived at this comfort zone by going through a series of comfort zones to get to the present one. The comfort zone may not be very comfortable, but the business ...
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Business
12th March
2010
Gardiner, Maine/Pr.com/Paycheck advances are a ambivalent perception, as they are essentially really costly short-term liabilities that may every so often get you out of a temporary rocky condition, a circumstance where a couple of hundred dollars for a short time period will definitely save the day.Pay day loans... Are they heinous? Are they that little financial respite you need only to make it cautiously through to your next paycheck? Here at Action Payday Loans, our economic pros are trying ...
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Home and Family
12th March
2010
Do you experience periods of feast or famine in your business? Do you only think about marketing when you realize you are running low on clients? Do you have some steady clients but you'd love to have more? Or are you still struggling to barely reach your key business goals? If any of these situations describe you, and you are serious about making some changes, I have an idea for you. First, a few more questions. Be honest, how much time do you spend on business development, activities to ...
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Business
11th March
2010
Whether you are seeking capital for your company or are optimizing your business strategy, the most important element - particularly for outside investors - may be your written business plan. You can tune-up and supercharge your plan using this 19-step checklist. When your written plan firmly answers yes to each of these 19 questions, your market/product strategy is in terrific shape plus you increase the odds of attracting investment capital. If you don't already have a written business plan - ...
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Business
10th March
2010
Most of us have been coached at one time or another in our lives. For many of us it took place in grade school and high school. You may have been coached in athletics, dance, drama, debate or some other area. Regardless, coaching is about creating a winning performance strategy and a successful outcome. Business life coaching and business coaching are no different. Their goal is to help you create your own performance strategy and design the successful outcome you desire. Business life ...
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Business
9th March
2010
Hi! When your life is working well it's an opportune time to reflect on what you've been doing to make it that way. What have you pro-actively done? The same applies for when it spirals out of control ' what have been the main contributing factors? Have you ignored the signs and kept going hoping the situation sorts itself out rather than pro-actively making changes? The most important person in the whole wide world is you. Yet how much time, effort and money do you invest in you? How ...
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Business
8th March
2010
Do you wish you could work less and play more? Are you so stuck in the rut you can't see a way out? Have you ever said I wish I had more time for me? Well there is hope. First of all you have to be aware of your situation, have a strong desire to change and then take action. Jackie's Story Jackie is 31 yrs of age and the Business Development Manager for an insurance company. She always arrived at work at 8.00 a.m. and never left the office before 6.30 p.m. most nights. She bemoaned the fact ...
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Business
7th March
2010
Leadership development in the form of Executive Coaching has well and truly arrived in Singapore, but what is it and what qualities do you look for in a good Coach? Three years ago a small band of qualified Coaches formed a local chapter of the International Coach Federation, a global, self regulating body for professional Coaches. There were just twelve members and we met at the chapter President's apartment. Now there are almost seventy members, a mixture of Life, Career, Business and ...
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Self Improvement
6th March
2010
Knowing when and how to say "no" is a constant battle for many people. This becomes especially difficult for business professionals who are looking to please and impress higher-ups. Almost from birth, the world has conditioned us to do what others ask without question for any number of reasons. We, too often, get pushed and pulled in all sorts of awkward directions that had not been on our intended agenda due to the inability to confidently speak that singular two-letter word. Why do we allow ...
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Self Improvement
5th March
2010
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter The notion of doing a business retreat for myself is very new, although not novel, as we used to conduct a retreat each year as a part of both the Student Affairs staff and the Residence Life staff at the college where I once worked. When I heard about this same concept for self-employed business owners from Chris Barrow of The Business Coaching Company, http://www.thebusinesscoachingco.com, I thought, "Why am I not doing that for myself?" Thus, my Annual Business ...
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Business
4th March
2010
Karen hired a "mentor" coach to help her business grow. The coach applauded Karen's efforts to design her website. On a slow week, the coach said, "Clear clutter and learn to dance." After three months, Karen had a big coaching bill, a multicolored website, an empty house and a sad little business. Karen wasn't uncoachable. She chose the wrong coach. For instance, Western medicine treats the body as a machine to be repaired; Chinese medicine believes sickness is caused by imbalance that can ...
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Self Improvement
3rd March
2010
If you were going to drive to somewhere unfamiliar - whether cross country or just across the city - what would be the first thing you would do? Map it out? And then after you mapped it out, would you never look at the map again? Not likely. More likely, you would refer to the map often, to make sure that you were on the right track. You would be able to tell quickly if you needed to make adjustments, correct a mistake, or consider a change of plans. Posting your goals, standards, boundaries, ...
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Self Improvement
2nd March
2010
How many times have you made up your mind to do something you really desired to accomplish but came up against much discouragement from friends and family? You decide to quit your high-paying job with paid company benefits in pursuit of your dream career only to be met with a thunderous chorus of "you had better not!" These loving beings, whom only have your best interest at heart when they furiously nod their heads in dismay at your latest inspiration, can make it extremely difficult to put ...
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Self Improvement
1st March
2010
How can you tell if you and your business have a need for a Business Coach?If you are working too many hours, making too little money, dealing with too many issues related to your team and employees, or simply feeling that working in your business is little better than having a job, then you probably need a Business Coach.In today's economy, that is the state of most business owners. It's also why more than 80% of all businesses fail within five years, even when run by smart, bright and highly ...
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