Archive for Self Improvement

Is The Life Of A Little Child Not More Valuable Than A Mans Position, Reputation And Politics?

Imagine if your job was to head up relief work in embattled Zimbabwe. Can you dare contemplate the enormity of the task? Here is someplace where strong dynamic gracious leadership is needed.

I have just been reading of Tear Fund’s insight into life at the frontline.

We all know how there has been a steady deterioration in that nation’s circumstances, but how is one to react and respond remembering that it is always the poor who suffer most of all - in every crisis - no matter where that crisis erupts.

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Lessons Which Can Help And Enable Leaders To Grow Develop Mature And Provide Positive Leadership

The lessons we learn here are there for a very real purpose - to teach us - to protect and guide us - and to provide us with the spiritual food and teaching which will enable us to grow and mature.

As we are read the Book of Exodus Chapter 17, take a moment to consider the scene and the context, and check the actual text. That is always important.

Moses has led the people of Israel across the Red Sea - and God - the same God and Father of our Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ - had performed that mighty and amazing miracle - rescuing and saving His people - and dealing with those who chased them seeking to enslave them again.

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Sometimes Life Doesnt Happen The Way We Want

Last year, I quit my full-time job, closed down my coaching practice, rented out my condo to incredible tenants and moved to Europe to explore my extreme dream of moving to Spain and Portugal. Life had taken an incredible turn for me when I designed this new path of deliberate creation and flow. It seemed nothing could go wrong.

I moved back to the States in the summer of 2007 not knowing what would be next for me. Would I start my coaching practice again or would I get a full-time job.?After sitting in the stillness for about one month, it seemed my answer found me instead of my searching for it. Former coaching clients began calling me up and I decided to explore full-time entrepreneurship: My other extreme dream.

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Approval Addiction - Talk Yourself Out Of It

It is time to put your approval addiction in the past and start looking towards a brighter future. You were approved before you were born and it is time you stop letting others take that away from you. Look at yourself and I mean really take a close look. You’re one magnificent creation and you should marvel at this fact.

Can you find anyone else around the world that is your exact replica? I think not; how about someone who has your smile - your exact taste or the experiences that made you who you are today?

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Get Motivated At Work - 10 Top Tips

Many people work in a job they dislike or just find it difficult to stay focused at work. The days seem long and they can’t wait to get home and go out or see their family.

How easy do you find it to be motivated and stay motivated at work?

How would you like to make changes today to enjoy your work more?

Read on for my top tips.

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Questions That Can Change Your Life - Every Time You Ask Them

“Some men see things as they are, and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were, and say, ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw

Have you ever noticed that when you think, you are constantly asking yourself questions? Did I make the right decision? Am I doing this right? Is this the best move for me right now? What other options do I have? Should I stay or should I go?

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Effective Time Management - A New Perspective

Have you ever come to the end of your day and felt you didn’t get anything done? Most of us would say an unproductive day is due to our lack of organizational skills. Actually, the problem may not be our inefficiency but how we count our activities. The way we look at our day may cause us to have unrealistic expectations of how much time is available.

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Life, Business Or Executive Coaching - What Are The Differences And Are You Really Getting Coaching?

Coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual that supports the achievement of results, based on goals set by the individual.

The individual chooses the focus of the ‘conversation’, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating possibilities, potential and actions. Coaching can be seen as a collaborative process in which clients discover answers for themselves through the coach’s use of questions. Through the coaching process the clarity that is needed to support the most effective actions is achieved.

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How To Create Happily In Your Own Unique Way

Creativity is as personal and unique as a fingerprint. No two people are the same, so the art of two people will not be the same. Despite this, we often have unrealistic expectations of ourselves to produce work that’s just like that of our creative heroes or role models. Doing this we automatically sabotage ourselves either way.

If we DON’T produce art just like that of our heroes, we berate ourselves for being inadequate or a pretender or impostor. We may question our abilities and in moments of extreme doubt even wonder why we bother picking up our tools to create at all.

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Goal Setting As A Guide

To most people, goal setting plans are sets of glorified to-do lists. To them, setting personal goals means simply taking a piece of paper and write down what is it that they want to become and leave it as that. They write down things like I want to be healthier or I want to become richer. This concept is a false representation of the process of goal setting.

Why is goal setting not a set of glorified tasks from a to-do list ? Well, goal setting is a planning process. Although in its planning process, it may involve tasks or mini goals, these mini goals are by no means independent of each other unlike a straight to-do list. In fact, these mini goals are interdependent on each other.

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