2008
April 30
The 7 Simple Phrases That Ruin Your Life
by Dawn L. Billings, M.A., LPC
Do you feel unhappy, aggravated and angry much more than you would like? Do people and circumstances in your life upset and disappoint you? Are you weary of being miserable; had it with being hopeless, sick of being discouraged? What if I shared with you the secret to eliminating 90% of the stress, conflict and misery in your life? Would you be interested? The answer is simple.
There are 7 phrases that are sure to bring stress and frustration to your life. Using these phrases ruins your life by creating unnecessary mental suffering. Feelings of misery or happiness begin with what you think, and then say. By changing what you do and don’t say, you’ll create a much brighter future and more joyful, successful present.
Eliminating these seven phrases will transform your life and your relationships. The 7 phrases that ruin your life are:
2008
April 23
33 Marketing Success Tips
By Al Lautenslager, from Entrepreneur.com
Practice a few of these must-know marketing tips every day and build up your geurilla-marketing muscles.
Part of the guerrilla marketing mindset suggests that you should be thinking about marketing all the time. Not just quarterly, not just monthly, not just weekly, but every single day. Really, it’s not as hard as it sounds–there are quite a few ways you can incorporate marketing into your daily activities.
It’s often said that doing anything for 21 days in a row will eventually turn into a habit for you. And a marketing habit is a great thing for any business to have. So what I’m going to suggest is that you choose three to five things every day that are related to marketing for your business and do them at the beginning of the day before you start fighting the daily fires–and forget all about your planned tasks.
If you work on this developing a marketing habit–and the proper marketing mindset–every day, you’ll soon find that you’re going above and beyond your “three to five things” limit. You’ll find yourself talking and thinking in terms of headlines or talking, listening and thinking in terms of your customers and prospects’ benefits. And the more you think marketing, the greater the chance you’ll accomplish your marketing and overall business goals.
When talking to many business owners, professionals and organizations, I find that in the beginning, they’re sometimes challenged when it comes to finding three to five marketing tasks to do every, single day. Just remember, these activities don’t have to be elaborate, they don’t have to be long and drawn out, and they don’t have to take up much time.
2008
April 20
The Power of Visualization
by Dawn Billings, Founder of The Heart Link Network®
I have been asked many times, does the use of visualization techniques really help someone achieve their goals in life? Research tells us the answer is yes.
Perhaps you know someone who uses mental rehearsal, or visualization.
Many great athletes, executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people use visualization to help them improve their performance and develop their skills. It is considered a standard tool used by many Olympic and professional athletes, as well as people who simply want to develop new behaviors.
How does it work? Human beings think in the form of words, which trigger pictures and emotions. Our subconscious cannot tell the difference between something we imagine vividly, with great passion, and a “real” experience. So what we envision with a burning desire to have, our subconscious begins to manifest.
Actually we all use visualization to one extent or another. Whenever we look forward to something and create a picture in our mind of how we want it to be, we are using visualization even though we may not realize it at the time. The most difficult challenge anyone will face in their lifetime is the challenge to control the thoughts that fill their heads. Visualization helps people direct their thoughts by allowing themselves to project themselves into the future and witnessing the outcomes they prefer.
