enthusiasm is an essential ingredient to success. It changes how you take action, how you deal with challenges, how you open your eyes to new possibilities or leverage the ones you are currently working with.
You can ask anyone you know who is successful in their life or business and ask them if they think enthusiasm is an essential ingredient. They will reply “most definitely” because it has such a powerful impact on our mindset.
Enthusiasm is contagious. People buy from someone they know, like and trust… And enthusiasm just makes that flow to you.
Enthusiasm sets off a whole new wave of energy and it creates new ideas in you and the people you are working or interacting with.
Like everything else [click to continue reading…]
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empowerment,
personal development,
success secrets
Life is full of so many interesting and wonderful things. Even moving through your regular routine if you look, really look you will see so many things that make you take a little deeper breath, a little pause in your stride, to enjoy where you are and what is going on right in front of you.
Every one seems so rushed these days, and the news just perpetuates that rush and bother. The news segments are purposefully laid out to give us headlines of fear and doom and gloom, followed seamlessly by the latest drug to cure our anxiety or other perceived stress related malaise…
The really interesting part to me is that we are wonderful, amazing, brilliant beings… filled with light and love and the most amazing capacity for creativity.
And yet most of us just don’t see it, especially in ourselves…
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inspiration,
new thought,
personal development
We can all become masters in the art of listening.
We can deepen the richness and expand the colors in the palette that we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
We can discover the nuance and fluidity of expression and emotion that encompasses true connection and conversation.
When we realize the art of listening is something that we have just forgotten and can rediscover.
Are you ready to rediscover the art of listening that is innate within you?
When we are talking in a conversation and our ears are hearing the words and sounds coming out of the other person’s mouth… but are we listening to what they are saying?
Listening involves the whole person.
We need to listen with our whole bodies just as someone speaks using their whole body.
Here are a few questions to get you thinking about your listening skills. Look them over and then really listen to the people who are communicating with you.
- When you are in a conversation are you really listening or are you waiting for the other person to stop talking so you can say the thing you just thought of to say while they were talking?
- Do you allow a pause after the other person stops talking? Leave a pause and listen to what is being said in the silence.
- Do you listen with an agenda? Judging the other person and what they are saying, or maybe thinking of ways to “Fix” it?
- Do you listen with your head or your heart? Spend the week listening with your heart.
- What do you hear when you listen with your heart?
Practice and refine the art of listening as you move through the canvas of your life.
You will be surprised at all of the things you hear.
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appreciation,
choose your own change,
inspiration,
personal development,
success secrets
A good way to get started setting goals is to figure out where you are
right now.
What do you like in your life and work and what don’t you like.
It’s important to answer both sides of the question because the contrast will help you see where you want to go and give you ideas for goals and actions to take that will help you get there.
- What I do not like about my life right now. (Things to change)
- What I do like about my life right now. (Things to preserve)
- What I do not like about my job right now. (Things to change)
- What I do like about my job right now. (Things to preserve)
- What I do not like about my responsibilities at work right now.
(Things to change)
- What I do like about my responsibilities at work right now. .
(Things to preserve)
- What I do not like about how I spend my time each day. (Things to
change)
- What I do like about how I spend my time each day. (Things to
preserve)
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appreciation,
getting things done,
personal development,
positive thinking
