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Mental Coaches - Speaking In Front Of A Crowd

Monday, April 7th, 2008
by George Purdy

Many conference speakers and business spokespeople share the anxiety of speaking in front of groups. Regardless of whether this anxiety manifests itself in front of small or large groups, mental coaches are prepared to aid these speakers to get into the proper mindset to address a group with the highest level of effectiveness.

Quality mental coaches are helpful in many ways, not just in giving speakers strategies to overcome a fear of speaking in front of all-sized groups. They also assist speakers work through the mental blocks that some people experience. Thinking quickly and speaking slowly is a strategy they teach to remove the nervous pause often filled with “um” and “uh.”

One of the jobs that mental coaches perform is to help public speakers with little self confidence to overcome their fear of speaking in public.. They teach the person to eliminate thoughts of what might happen in the future, either during the talk or even as a result. Instead, speakers learn to replace negative thoughts with positive thinking.

Mental coaches teach people how to perform well when under pressure. These coaches can show speakers how to turn performance pressure into positive energy. This shift of focus will lead to more speaker confidence and will produce a better performance.

Mental coaches will also help people discover the source for their fear and frustration when speaking. Some do well in practice speaking, but immediately cave under the pressure of actual speaking engagements, while others are the opposite of this. There appears to always be a trigger that will push any given speaker one way or the other, and the mental coach is there to help find that trigger and minimize its impact.

When a person understands what happens to them when they get up to speak in public, then they are able to increase their confidence and ability to fix the problem. Fear of speaking in public can seem like a fear that would be impossible to overcome. A mental coach can help you see that the problem is in your head, and that you are able to control your fear.

Many conference speakers and business spokespeople have a common anxiety speaking in front of groups. These mental coaches are taught to help the speakers get into the right state of mind before they get up to speak. They are helpful in giving speakers strategies to overcome a fear of speaking in front of all-sized groups. They help you to perform well when under pressure. These coaches can show speakers how to turn performance pressure into positive energy. They also assist speakers to work through the mental blocks that some people experience. If you have any insecurity about public speaking mental coaching will help to alleviate those fears.

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Can Success And Happiness be Manifested

Saturday, April 5th, 2008
by Jeff Grundy

The pull of laziness and poverty should be resisted at all costs. It is a man or woman’s core value to achieve all they are capable off. For lack of such determination not only cheats themselves out of a life well lived but also everyone they love.

By insuring security through a life of abundance, a person can avoid the humility of asking friends and family for assistance in times of sickness and other emergencies. Creating a stable and growing self-worth is a noble quest.

Our quest for prosperity must begin with thoughts. Yet this can be difficult when the mind is full of poverty thoughts and images. One must flush the mind of all lack producing thoughts before wealth and prosperity can be attracted.

Although it is sometimes difficult to understand and more difficult to accept our thoughts have brought us to where we are today. Everything we see around us, had been attracted by the type of thoughts we have allowed to inhabit our minds.

It has been repeated over and over, but few truly understand. Success is truly a science when followed properly yields predictable results. When one has faith in their own ability to acquire wealth, said wealth will follow. Yet by thinking the thoughts of a poor person, walking and talking poverty and dressing the part wealth will never follow.

An attitude of one sidedness must be attained. You can not look back to the past of lack. All focus must be directed to abundance. Constantly picturing money, success and a life of abundance in your mind all day and night each and every day.

Find pictures of what you desire. Immerse your mind in these pictures of abundance. Create a new attitude based on this new you. Fill all aspects of your life with this new view of yourself. Fell like you have already accomplished it. Begin to walk and talk with the self confidence of one who has already succeeded. Become the person who is capable of having this success.

The amount of time and effort we put forth towards the attainment of our new self will determine the amount of success we will have.

For an extensive collection of interviews of todays top abundance speakers and teachers check out My Path to Success and look for the Masters of the Secrets link.

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The Spiritual Side Of Network Marketing

Saturday, April 5th, 2008
by Lydia De Leon

If you contemplate on Network Marketing (I mean authentic marketing through relationship referal and direct selling, not like the many money programs out there), you will notice that it has many spiritual components to it. Chrisitanity and authentic Network Marketing have many similarities.

For example:

1. Long term success in Network Marketing demands that you focus on building relationships with those considering your business as well as with your downline.

Those who are in recruiting mode think only about their own interests, and are not very concerned with their prospects’ needs. They are interested mainly in the money to be gained by recruiting the person, instead of being a true sponsor to him or her. If a person feels they can trust you, and that you can truly help them reach their goals, they will stick with you.

2. Network Marketing is all about producing more of yourself, your time and your money.

By helping those in our downlines how to be successful and how to grow their businesses, our businesses grow too and we build a long term income. Whether or not they work, we cannot control, but we can certainly inspire and show them how to build their organizations. Christianity also is all about effectively reproducing our time and resources.

Jesus who was the Master, administered to his disciples the task of going out and reproducing more disciples.

Aren’t we doing the same thing in our Network Marketing businesses?

Finding a couple of good workers, showing them how to recruit and reproduce other leaders in their businesses, and continuing to do this over and over in our businesses. By teaching your downline the skills and knowledge they need, you don’t have to do all the work yourself and your business will grow at a fast rate.

As we create a community where others also become teachers, more of our time is freed up and consequently, more and more people in our downlines can take on more responsibilities.

Training involves knowing what your downline’s needs are so that you can supply the need. Where are they encountering problems in building their business? Support them so that they can succeed. That’s what Jesus does with those who follow him. He meets their needs by making sure they are armed with all the teaching and spiritual food they need so that they can live a successful holy life.

The church also is like this - people go there to learn more about God, to get trained in how to live the holy life in all areas of their lives and for friendship and encouragement.

As a good sponsor, we should supply excellent training to help them in all facets of business building. Aside from good training, our downlines need a ‘community’ where they will receive motivation, inspiration and encouragement in their businesses - a place to be celebrated and recognized for their achievements.

By doing these things for them, it prospers their businesses, but also, it helps prosper our businesses too. Like it’s been said before, “we succeed when we help others succeed.”

3. If deep down, you honestly want to create a stable six figure income, with Network Marketing, then it is essential that you have faith and patience as you travel down this road.

Rejection is one thing that comes with the package and the one thing that many Network Marketers do not know how to handle. As a result, they fail in their home based businesses. They tend to move on to another opportunity or call it quits when they don’t get immediate results.

Growing a successful Network Marketing business requires faith in the process, sprinkled with a lot of patience as it starts to sprout and grow.

So how does all this relate to Network Marketing having a spiritual component to it?

First, the Christian Faith is all about truly helping and serving others. It’s not about having a secret agenda that will benefit me.

It’s true, we are working in Network Marketing to make money for ourselves, but our attitudes and spirits have to be right. It’s more like servanthood marketing.

If we are involved in Network Marketing just for the money, it will be reflected in what we say and do when we deal with our prospects and downlines. People can sense when their success is important to us.

Second, even Jesus asked for assistance with reaching the lost with the gospel. He created a team of twelve men and equipped them with everything they needed so that they could bring others in and become followers of Jesus.

Because those twelve men took the message to the world, lived as Jesus taught them and taught others how to follow Jesus too, the gospel has spread like a virus and is known throughout the whole world.

Network Marketing is no different. We do not have to go out and recruit 100 people to grow a large organization. If we wisely sponsor 5 - 10 people and work closely with those, they will eventually ‘duplicate’ our teachings and our organizations will start to have momentum and growth.

Just as Jesus created twelve leaders and those went out and created more leaders, we too should work towards creating leaders throughout our organizations.

Third, Napoleon Hill and Jesus taught a similar principle which is “you could move mountains if you had faith as small as a mustard seed”. There are many books written about the importance of thinking positively.

It’s very unlikely that we will have any success in Network Marketing if we are thinking negatively. Thinking positively will help you achieve great things. Negative thinking will only destroy your vision and keep you in the rut.

I could go on and on and on listing the many ways Network Marketing and Christianity are similar. I guess I would have to write a book on the subject huh?

The point is this: Network Marketing is not a one man show. It’s all about building long term relationships, having business integrity and treating others with the same respect you would want to receive. It’s all about self development and personal growth.

It’s impossible to grow a successful Network Marketing business without the proper mindset, self-discipline and training. There are no plateau’s either. We are constantly being challenged to higher and higher ground!

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I can’t find Success anywhere

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
by Jeff Grundy

Have you gotten to the point, where you are almost ready to give up? Are you dozens and dozens of self-help books and cds worthless to you? Can you say over the past 20 years you have tried over 20 different programs to make moeny?

Let’s not even bring up mlm and direct mail marketing or the law of attraction. If you are not shaking your head up and down at this point, this article is probably not for you.

With each and every new book, cd, money making program I thought I had found the missing key to my success. I wanted wealth with all my being but over $35,000 invested I still was empty handed.

Yet I was almost 50 and my dreams were far away. I always knew I would be wealthy but each and every year I became more and more frustrated. Yet I kept trying, each and every time I figured I had found the opportunity I had been looking for all this time.

The answer came but not in the form of another book or self-help system. Nor was it a guaranteed money making program that would double my income in a week. It was a web site with a collection of speakers on improving your life in all areas.

The key was, many speakers. I was able to listen to over a dozen different people tell me how to become successful. The turning point for me was picking the points from each speaker that really made sense to me.

I then put all those points together and bam like a hammer the answer was as clear as day. It is funny I have known it all along. Para phrasing Jim Rohn, I was a person who built awesome foundations all over the country but never stayed look enough to see the building be built.

I have heard it is a self-confidence problem I do not know, what I do know is I was able to fix the problem once I knew exactly what it was. I have been using the same system since that day and have no plans on changing it in the future. No details because you have to find a program that fits you and your needs.

I wish you the greatest of success in your search. If you would like to follow my path, listen to as many teachers as you can in a short period of time and collect the one or two factors that really jab at your soul. Find the common theme and get to work on it. Stay with it and forget about everything else. Success is just around the corner may you find it.

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You Can Succeed- Find out How

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
by MJG Urquart

Are you successful yet? Have you reached your full potential? If not do you know why success at work or home is still eluding you? I used to blame all sorts of things for my failures. Bad luck, other people mistakes and any plausible reason I could find. But then I realized that I’d been conditioned to failure for many years.

People generally mean well when they give you bits of wisdom like money is the root of all evil, or a camel has more chance of passing through the eye of a needle that a rich man has of getting to heaven. All these little sayings, and there are hundreds of them, all play a pat in conditioning us to the fact that failure is ok.

You’ve heard these comments hundreds of times. probably so many times that you hardly notice them but all the time your subconscious mind is storing them away. Do you think a 100 meter sprinter at the start of the Olympics says to himself “If I run too fast I might fall over”? No he doesn’t he tells himself positive things. Think positive and re-condition your brain to believe that you can be successful and you will be. How do I know? Easy I’ve done it. 6 months ago I bought Sean Le Mays Procrastination Blaster and I have gone from someone generally gave up of failed to someone who has become successful. I didn’t believe that I suffered from procrastination but I bought the product on a recommendation from a friend and it had a major impact on my life.

With procrastination blaster there is nothing to do just sit back and relax and let the program do the work. The program is based on scientifically proven facts and makes use of the different types of brain waves. By stimulating different types of brainwaves your subconscious takes aboard the positive messages that the program provides. The state that you are placed in is similar to those experienced by people who practice deep meditation.

Let us take a look at out various different types of brainwave and what they are responsible for. There are 4 basic types and each is active in a specific conscous state.

You are in a beta state when you are in a normal waking environment. it is fair to say that you are more than likely in a beta state now. The beta waves are associated with alertness and and cognition

When you are absorbed by a good film, or a great book then it is fair to say that you are in the much slower alpha state. Alpha waves are associated with relaxation, learning and increased concentration.

Theta brain waves are even slower than alpha waves and you’ll experience them mostly when you are dreaming. You’ll find that they are associated with greater creativity and enhanced learning.

Delta - lower than theta, experienced in dreamless sleep. These are associated with release of highly beneficial brain chemicals that usually decrease with age….therefore promoting anti-aging!, access to the subconscious mind.

This all might sound like science fiction but I assure you it’s not, why not check out our review of procrastination blaster and see how it can help you to succeed.

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Get Into The Millionaire Mindset And Succeed Online

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
by Tim Johnson

Believe it or not, you can make a million dollars online. Wild claims? Perhaps I’ll be able to change your mind.

It’s really quite simple. Sure, I may not be a millionaire yet, but I can tell you that I believe I will be. That’s because over the past years, reading and researching everything I could get my hands on about making money online, there was one thing I forgot.

Action. I learned so much, and yet I never put these new techniques and strategies into action. I would just continue to search for the silver platter solution, the golden opportunity, the sign pointing me in the direction of success.

But those don’t exist; at least, not definitively. Not a single person can tell you exactly how to make a million dollars online. Heck, who would want to give away a secret like that! However, that’s exactly what every “make money online” marketer wants you to believe, that their service or product has all the answers, and it’s as simple as buying now.

Of course, not all “make money online” products are bad, some do have genuinely good information, however they will not magically solve your problems. It is totally up to you to take the information and act upon it. Experiment, persevere, test, track, do. You are the creator of your own destiny, you can become a millionaire.

So I hope you are ready to take action, but you are probably asking yourself, where do I start? Well, think about your own experiences. Why are you reading this article, were you on a search for information? What is the information you want to find? What have you looked for in the past, and found answers to?

Perhaps other people are looking for the exact same information. That’s what the millionaire mindset is all about, find out what other people are looking for and give it to them! Think of the internet as a huge search engine, people come online to find information. All you have to do is be the one to provide them with that information, and you can make money at the same time!

This is obviously a tad over simplified, but the concept is what counts. I’m not going to sugar coat it, it does take some work, but if you are willing to take action, and give people the information they are looking for, then there isn’t a single reason why you cannot be the next big online millionaire!

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Building Inner Beauty with Your Mental Attitude and Inner Beauty

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
by Lindelwa Maseko

Do not fear being misunderstood; and never waste a moment thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your own mind what you would like to do, and then without violence of direction you will move straight to the goal.

Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you would like to do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements that it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought that you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire.

Darwin and Spencer have told us that this is the method of Creation. Each animal has evolved the parts it needed and desired. The horse is fleet because he wishes to be; the bird flies because it desires to; the duck has a web foot because it wants to swim. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By laying hold on the forces of the universe, you are strong with them. And when you realize this, all else is easy, for in your arteries will course red corpuscles, and in your heart the determined resolution is born to do and to be. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis.

Beauty in your physical tone

Insubordination is necessarily conscious to the diseased individual, but that it surely obtains within the physical arena of his life. Because it is not the outcome of his deliberate choice, the case is not hopeless in the nature of things, but is open to better conditions. The deeper self which has intended no rebellion against the laws of bodily well-being may now distinctly intend harmony, and so lift the body to a higher plane.

A person who affirms and realizes these conditions must, in the nature of things, be possessed of perfect health. In the tone of such health courage is inevitable.

We thus see that health-tone involves the whole personality, physical, mental and moral. But the truth of the matter hides in a deeper region than that of mere material flesh or organ. Matter is a form of the Universal Ether, so far as science seems to declare, or, at least, matter presupposes the ether in a state of vibration. Your body is a “field” in which enteric vibrations are constantly taking place. All its reality and all its activities involve such vibrations. The brain, regarded as the organ of conscious life, of thought and feeling, and the entire nervous system, involve such vibrations. And as your thought and feeling constitute the foundation of your moral character, the latter also becomes a matter of movements in the ether.

If the vibrations underlying the body life are full and harmonious according to their individual character for a person, his organs are all sound and active. He possesses physical tone. If there is a similar fullness and harmony within his mental life, he must exhibit health of mind. If a corresponding condition obtains in the moral personality, the highest health of the deeper self prevails.

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Enjoy Your Life By Definitely Changing Your Point Of View

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
by Elias Maseko

In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist’s view and live a self-defeated life or you may decide to take the optimist’s route and take a challenging and fulfilling life.

We reach a point in our life when we are ready for change and a whole bunch of information that will help us unlock our self improvement power. Until then, something can be staring us right under our nose but we don’t see it. The only time we think of unlocking our self improvement power is when everything got worst.

Optimists expect the best. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events, which will last a long time and undermine everything they do, are their own fault.

Some people won’t say “things will never get better,” “If I failed once, it will happen again” and “If I experience misfortune in one part of my life, then it will happen in my whole life.”

When the going gets tough, optimists get tougher. Optimists typically maintain higher levels of subjective well-being during times of stress than do people who are less optimistic. In contrast, pessimists are likely to react to stressful events by denying that they exist or by avoiding dealing with problems. Pessimists are more likely to quit trying when difficulties arise.

Optimists’ health is unusually good. They age well, much freer than most people from the usual physical ills of middle age. And they get to outlive those prone to negative thoughts.

So why not be an optimist today? And think positively towards a more fulfilled life.

Creative notions

So how do you unleash your creative thinking? Well, the first thing is to become a human leech. No, we’re not talking about just sucking the blood out of every living being available, we’re saying that you should take in as much knowledge and learning you can find. Read everything available — good and bad, and keep your mind open to the infinite possibilities of the universe. The more you know, the more you’ll want to know, and the more your faculty of wonder will be exercised. Prepare to be amazed at little facts that add a bit of color into your life.

Embrace insanity. No not to the point of practically admitting yourself into the mental ward. As John Russell once said, “Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.” Exactly! Every creative thought was once deemed insanity by other “normal” people at one time or another. Luckily, that didn’t stop the creative geniuses from standing by them. The thing is, sanity or being normal confines people to think… well, normally. Withink limits. Creativity is essentially breaking through barriers. Yes, this includes the bizzarre and the downright strange. I’m not saying that you yourself should develop a creative personality. That might go haywire. An example of a creative personality would be George Washington, who often rode into battle naked, or James Joyce, who wrote “Dubliners” with beetle juice for an intense fear of ink, or Albert Einstein, who thought his cat was a spy sent by his rival (or in thinking creatively in this case, the term could probably be “archnemesis.”) It’s important that your creativity doesn’t get you detached from the real world completely.

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Be Happy And Stay Motivated In Your Life

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
by Amanda Maseko

Living a happy, resilient and optimistic life is wonderful, and is also good for your health. Being happy actually protects you from the stresses of life. Stress is linked to top causes of death such as heart disease, cancer and stroke.

To be happy is relatively easy, just decide to be a happy person. Abraham Lincoln observed that most people for most of the time can choose how happy or stressed, how relaxed or troubled, how bright or dull their outlook to be. The choice is simple really, choose to be happy.

There are several ways by stay motivated

Being grateful is a great attitude. We have so much to be thankful for. Thank the taxi driver for bringing you home safely, thank the cook for a wonderful dinner and thank the guy who cleans your windows. Also thank the mailman for bringing you your mails, thank the policeman for making your place safe and thank God for being alive.

Manage your time. Time is invaluable and too important to waste. Time management can be viewed as a list of rules that involves scheduling, setting goals, planning, creating lists of things to do and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

Learning is a joyful exercise. Try and learn something new everyday. Learning also makes us expand and broaden our horizons and could also give us more opportunities in the future.

These are the few simple things you can do everyday to be happy.

Innovation

It’s a talent that everyone has, yet they think they don’t “The power of innovation”. If you’ve ever marveled at somebody’s creative prowess, guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time. Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten class were not limited to those who possessed potential; because the truth is, everybody has potential.

Record your dreams. Aren’t some of them just the craziest things that your conscious mind would never have thought of? If you’ve had these dreams before, and I’m sure have, this only shows you the untapped innovative power you have lying within. So jot down those notes. Those dreams may just create an innovative spark in you.

Find your own style. You can always tell a Van Gogh from a Matisse. You’ll know Hemingway wrote something by the choice of words on the paper. So it is the same with you. People will appreciate your innovation more because it is uniquely yours and that no one else would have thought of what you were thinking. That will let people see how valuable an asset you are.

Don’t worry about inspiration. You can’t force it; inspiration hits when you least expect it to, for those unpredictable yet inevitable moments you should prepare. An idea could strike you on the subway, yet alas, you poor unfortunate soul; you have no sheet of paper to scribble down a thought that could change the world. Avoid these disasters. Have a pen and paper within your arm’s reach at all times.

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Liberty On The Outside, Freedom On The Inside

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
by Healthy Wealthy nWise

Ellie Drake, a world-famous motivational speaker, came from a humble background in Iran. While living in Iran, she was told many times to give up on having dreams. No one there could be successful. Giving up just wasn’t in her blood, though. She would later come to America knowing barely a word of English and live out the American Dream.

Coming to American had always been one of Ellie Drake’s wildest dreams. Living in the “free world” seemed impossible when growing up surrounded by bombs. When she was young, Ellie wanted so badly to learn English that she would walk to school, dictionary in hand, and memorize one new word per day. She couldn’t pronounce what she was learning, but she at least familiarized herself with English terminology.

The first day of the rest of her life was a day Ellie finally saw when her parents brought her to America. She had so much inner passion, inner freedom, that she knew she would be unstoppable paired with the outward liberties of a country like the United States.

To have success, you have to light your passions on fire and let them burn into your heart. Success and passion are absolutely not the same things, although they seem to go hand in hand. Being successful in your job doesn’t mean you’re passionate about your job, but making a career out of something you’re passionate about is bound to bring you success.

Ellie Drake was so successful in her new American schools that she fulfilled her parents’ dream of becoming a doctor. They wanted her to be a doctor so that she could make enough money to care for them when they got old. Ellie didn’t enjoy being a doctor, though. She wanted more from life.

Ellie wanted more than anything to be a public speaker and entrepreneur, so one day she confidently gave her diploma to her parents and told them she didn’t want to be a doctor anymore. She knew her passion would carry her through the tough days ahead. She told herself many times, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”

Passion is great, but there are always bills to pay. How can you follow you passions without losing everything? Ellie feels that’s the wrong attitude to have. Your focus must be on your passions, because that’s what will make you money. If you’re focused on money, you can’t be focused on how to make money.

Ellie started out with debt like many of us do. When she left school, she was under $150,000 of student loan debt. On top of that, she had spent $115,000 on credit card purchases. Passion is what led her through, and today, along with BraveHeart Productions, she empowers women and executives nationwide to follow their passions and live out their own American Dream.

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