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    Boost Your Business Intuition

    The Importance of Business Intuition The higher you go in the organization, the more important well developed intuitive abilities become. Intuition is essential in business decision making when rational analysis of data is not enough. This tends to occur when there is too much data or the data is contradictory. Facts...

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    A Secret for Increased Personal Confidence and Self Esteem

    You have within yourself a resource you can draw on to find inner guidance and discover unsuspected personal strength. You can connect with this inner wisdom by relaxing deeply and inviting an image to appear. What you receive will enable you to successfully address the challenges you face, creating enhanced personal...

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    Five Secrets from a Life Coach for a Happy Life

    In my work as a life coach, I find that there are five basic ingredients that lead to sustained happiness. Cultivate these deceptively simple behaviors and you will make your good life better. Give and Receive Love Your relationships are what nourish you the most, whether with family, friends or pets. Be kind to those...

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    Worry or Excitement? The Choice is Yours

    Think of the times when you have been stuck in worry about an upcoming project, presentation or event. You put all kinds of energy into imagining negative outcomes and the disastrous consequences those outcomes could create. The more anxious you became, the more energy was drawn into the vortex of worry, increasing it...

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    Visualize Your Goal— A Life Coach Tells You Why and How

    The first step in any life change is to visualize what it is that you want for yourself. Before you can plan the necessary action, you need to know where you are heading. To do this you must visualize your goal. Conceptualize your goal in positive terms Our desire to change is usually motivated by dissatisfaction with...

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    Access Your Inner Wisdom for Improved Performance and Enhanced Self Esteem

    You have within yourself a resource you can draw on to find inner guidance and discover unsuspected personal strength. You can connect with this inner wisdom by relaxing deeply and inviting an image to appear. What you receive will enable you to successfully address the challenges you face, creating enhanced personal...

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    Seven No-Cost Ways to Manage Your Stress

    In times of economic downturn it’s good to know that some of the most effective ways to manage your stress cost nothing at all. Here are seven of them: Take a relaxation break. If you are overwhelmed with too much to do or when you get upset about people or things you cannot control, give yourself some time to calm do...

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    For Healthy Life Balance, Make Daily, Weekly and Yearly Self-Care a Top Priority

    Jennifer loves her job. But when work demands threatened to wreck her marriage and her health she came to me for coaching. Ambitious and hard working, she prided herself on arriving at work early, leaving late and working through lunch. Her husband had enough when a get-away weekend had to be cancelled for the second...

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    Five Ways to Relax and Restore Life Balance

    Do you hurry through your day, rushing from one high-pressure activity to the next? Do you view taking a break as a waste of time? If so, you may be heading for burnout. Most of us face a tottering tower of to-do. You may regard any break as unthinkable, fearing it will steal too much of your precious time. Yet, takin...

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    The Six Stages of Change

    Most of us think of change as a simple linear process. We set a goal and we move toward it until we succeed. Research has shown, however, that change is actually a more complex and circular process. In his study of people who successfully quit smoking, James Prochaska identified six stages which characterize any behav...

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    Four Reasons New Years Resolutions Fail and What You Can Do About Them

    How many times have you made a New Year’s resolution that got lost along the way? You start out with great resolve and change your behavior for a while. Before long, however, you’re back to your old habits. Let’s face it. Behavior change is hard. What’s familiar is always the path of least resistance. Unforeseen chall...

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    Endorse Your Excellence

    Our culture places great value on modesty. Children are commonly told not to “toot your own horn” or “get a swelled head.” When singing our own praises, many of us have been reproached: “What! Do you think you’re better than everyone else?” When such attitudes are deeply ingrained, it can be difficult to acknowledge y...

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