Stress Management - Knowing Your Limitations

SO today I thought it would be useful to concentrate on stress. 

Lots of us have stress in our lives.

 Whilst there is good stress, there is also bad stress.

Here are some handy tips on how you can reduce stress levels
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Stress Management - Knowing Your Limitations

Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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Self Development -Books To Change Your Thinking

Your turn:  What are your favourite books on personal development? 
Leave me a comment below

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Home Business Training - Identifying Your Biggest Asset

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How To Achieve Anything

Todays post is taken from a radio show I host on Spreaker. Hope you enjoy. Let me have your thoughts and comments below...

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Internet Marketing Strategist & Business Coach

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Self Develoment: You Are Never Too Busy to Learn

A quick blog today about the importance of learning, of improving your self development.   Some people think once you have left school that's it, learning is over.  The reality is we must all continue to learn if we want to advance in life.

A doctor takes years to learn their craft and even then with time comes new medical break throughs, new technology which have to be studied and learned.  This applies to many areas not just for those in the Medical world.

What ever job you have, there are most likely to be qualifications which you need to have, or ongoing ones you need to retake once in a while. But, why just do this for your work, why not apply this to your personal life. We should never stop learning, we just weren't born that way. The human being has an inquiring mind, and believe it or not we only use a small percentage of our brain, according to most scientists we only use approximately 10% of our brain power. Now I'm not saying if you continue to learn you can improve the percentage of your brain you are using!  Imagine if that were the case there would be many of us using alot more of our brains. 

What I have found is that mixing with people who have gone out of their way to continue learning, personally developing their selves, making small improvements in their life has helped them move to another level, one which their previous mindset would not have allowed them to.  

Have you ever wondered"why am I here?", "what is my purpose?", this can lead on a path of self development, meeting positive minded people who make you question where you are and why you are here. Take time out to discover new things, open your mind to people and events around you.

Watch my short video of encouragement and leave me a comment below telling me what your doing to keep yourself up to speed in your industry.





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Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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Experience - The Old Man And The Big Ship

I received this as an email message from a friend and thought it relevant for those of us who want to make changes in our lives. It is important to remember that knowledge through experience has a value. Do all you can to bring value to other peoples lives.

Now read the story all the way through carefully as there is a moral attached.
Have you ever heard the story of the giant ship engine
that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after
another, but none of them could figure out how to fix
the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had
been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried
a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this
man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking
things over, the old man reached into his bag and
pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did
anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send
us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer ....................... $2.00

Knowing where to tap .................... $9,998.00
9,998.00

GRAND TOTAL ¦$10,000.00

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an
effort in your life makes all the difference.

I pray GOD to always give us the insight to know WHERE
TO TAP whenever we are faced with the dangers and
Tribulations associated with the world of today.

...a man can receive nothing unless it has been given
to him from heaven... Jn 3:27

To Your Success

Colette Morris aka WorkFmHomeDiva

Change Must Come From Within!

The famous philosopher Jim Rohn once said,

"for things to change, you must change"

Events and circumstances around us can only be changed if we change our way of looking at them. Life sends us challenges every day, how we deal with the challenges has a direct input into our future.

Becoming a different person to the one you are now is not easy and requires much patience, personal development and thus having a great coach or mentor helps.
That's why it is important to spend time with new team members to guide and bring out the best in them. We all have it in us, we just need a good coach to bring it out.




Equally important is recognising that we want to change, and taking steps for yourself is the first point in making that change happen.

'If you want something different in your life, you will need to do something you have never done!'

To your success

Colette Morris aka WorkfmhomeDiva
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5 Key Tips For Public Speaking

Public speaking is the number one fear in most people, the number two would be fear of dying for most people. So many people get stressed out at the thought of speaking in public that many of us would like to avoid this problem entirely, but this is hard to do. If you are a small business owner, or as part of your current job you are expected to provide presentations to others, then you need to get over your fear of public speaking. If we want to be leaders or achieve anything meaningful in our lives, we will often need to speak to groups, large and small, to be successful.

The big secret behind the truth about public speaking is is IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE STRESSFUL! If you keep just a few key principles in mind, speaking in public will soon become an invigorating and satisfying experience for you.

So here are my five key tips for great public speaking:

1. Relax - remember the audience are there to hear what you have to say. They are looking forward to what it is you are going to deliver. They want you to succeed, therefore they are behind you.

2. Realise it is not about you - Remember, the essence of public speaking is to give your audience something of value. The audience are there to hear the message you are going to deliver. The purpose of public speaking is not for you to get something out of it from your audience. It is about YOU giving useful information to your audience.

More of this article can be found here on Ezine articles from Expert Author Colette Morris

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PERSISTANCE ....

If you have ever felt put off by a task simply because you feel it will get you no where, you have to PERSIST.

If your conversion ratio is only 2/10 you have got to PERSIST until you get to the next level,then PERSIST some more...

If you are always failing on a certain thing or issue in life you have got to PERSIST until you achieve and not fail, then PERSIST some more...

If you are looking for a JOB and have completed 10, 20,50 applications and no one has hired you, you have to PERSIST until you get that job...

If you are an MLMer or Network Marketer and your team is looking lean right now, you need to PERSIST until you see growth...

If your life is not where you feel it should be right now, you need to PERSIST until you get it to where you feel you should be..

PERSIST to make those change, PERSIST to continue to do what it is you have to do, to get to where you are heading. Only through PERSISTANCE will you see the diference, the change you have been waiting so paitently for.

Each of us have it in us to achieve greatness no matter what your chosen field, but only through persistance, perseverence and continuity will you ACHIEVE.



Colette Morris F.R.S.A
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What I am Reading

I thoughtI would share a book that I am reading right now as it is inspiring me with lots of fresh ideas. Reading is such an important part of self development, we all need to continually grow, and you can't grow if you don't learn. It is true what they say, knowledge is power.

Anyway, the book I am reading is by Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He talks about doing the things successful people do, and he also looks at the non productive habits of inefficient people.

Its a great read. You can get your copy from amazon via the link below...



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The Means You Need to Succeed, by Dani Johnson

Dani has captured the attention of the world without being a notorious politician or attractive celebrity. Her fortune has come from her successful network marketing that began at a very young and despite being a simple person. As the founder-precent of Call to Freedom International, she is one of the best role models for aspiring network marketers, for identifying 4 effective business techniques for her huge clientele.

Professional Communication

Network marketing relies greatly on the impression you make on people, so your appearance, actions, and speech are important. What does it mean to be "professional"? Is it simply a matter of saying the correct thing at the correct time? Or is it more a matter of having a confident and perfected grasp of language? Dani emphasizes how critical it is to speak professionally in her training sessions.

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Female Entrepreneurs Articles - The Means You Need to Succeed, by Dani Johnson - Amazines.com Article Search Engine




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Defeat can only lead to success if you learn and take action

Everyone suffers from defeat now and again, but it is what you do or think when you are defeated that makes the difference. There are those of us, who when defeated simply walk away and vow never to try that again, or become involved in such activities again. This is true of most network marketers or business owners who start out very positive wanting to achieve a dream to work for themselves, and when the going gets difficult, they simply give in too easily and walk away. Statistics have shown that 97% of New Businesses fail within their first 3 - 5 years of starting up.

Regardless of whether you have a business or not, where conditions arise which may lead to defeat, here are some worthwhile lessons we could all take away in how to make that defeat a victory and turn it around into something positive.

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The Buck Stops With You (Video)

Here is a great motivational video showing short quotes and thoughts aimed at promoting leadership,personal development and motivation.




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HowTo Read a Book (Video)

Great video on how to get the most out of reading a book. Whether you are studying for an exam, self development or improvement of your attitude, watch this video and follow the four simple steps.






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Difficulties “ Newbies” face with their online business

I have been a business owner and CEO of three different companies and have seen many people give up just when they were so close to success. Here are some of my observations as to what may cause new people to resign in their online business within a short space of time. If you are new to owning an online business then you may recognise a few of these traits.

Owning your first online business is exciting in the first few weeks of starting out until the hardwork and reality sinks in. The secret is keeping motivated, organised and a calm level head in order to move your business forward.

Your mentor should be there to aid you and guide you on the initial steps you need to take to get your business up and running from day one. Listen to them, they have gone through this before you and are more than qualified to guide you one your way.

Mentoring and Helping Yourself

First things first, you need to be in a position to help yourself. Although your mentor is there to guide you, they are not there to hold your hands every step of the way. After all you wouldn’t expect your employer to shadow you around the firm for the first few months would you? As long as you know where all the right resources are and these could be company forums, business coaches, handbooks, online tutorials and the like which again your mentor should have guided you through initially. If they do not manage to do this, then either drop them an email, or contact them through their preferred method.

Changing your Mindset

Now that you have your employer hat on, yes that’s right, you need to have an employer hat, absolutely essential. Owning your own online business is totally different to having a boss to tell you what you must do on a day to day basis. You need to change your current mindset and take your home business seriously, even if you are only working this part time, you need to ensure you have a full time attitude.

Business Planning

With your employer hat on, you need to start looking at your online business development strategy (or business plan). What are your goals and objectives, what is it you are trying to achieve in your online business. How, why and when? You need to understand this clearly before you strike out in any shape or form.

• What types of advertising are you going to do to market your online business? Costed versus uncosted advertising. How much money do you realistically have?
• How much advertising and how regularly do you need to do this?
• Who are your target audience for each advertising method you choose?

Once you have thought through your business plan you may wish to pass this to your mentor for feedback. You mentor should once they have your business plan, help you to put things in place to meet that plan. But, in all, it is down to you as the business owner to ensure you carry out the required action to move your business forward.

Personal Development and Training

As a new person you may think you have to read up on every book, course and online forum note before you can actively go out there an promote your business – wrong!
Things don’t have to be perfect before you start doing them. In fact, as you are learning and going along is the best way to generate meaningful training notes/videos/blogs.

Set aside time for training, this is important if you wish to not only change your mind set but to move ahead in your online business. But, don’t make the mistake of setting aside too much time for self development and training and not enough time for your business. This can cause inertia in any business and ultimately ‘death’… of your online business.

Inaction

So many recruits can fall into this trap of inaction if they are left to themselves. As I mentioned before it takes a certain type of mentality to work for yourself. You have to develop and grow. A few good books that may help are
a) Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
b) The Twelve Pillars – Jim Rohn
c) Who Moved My Cheese – Spencer John MD

If you feel you are not doing anything constructive with your online business, speak to your mentor or your peers around you. Find a way to motivate yourself into action. Too many times, you hear about recruits getting disheartened after a number of months in, but if only they had the guts to stick it out a little longer, their rewards were just around the corner. Remember 97% of new online business start ups are doomed to fail – get into the 3% bracket…


Getting into Action

Equally important is setting aside time for your business. Many people will have started their business part time, with a view to making it full time in the not too distant future. If that is the case then make sure you are putting in serious part time hours in a very full time productive way.

Putting in 4 – 7 hours a week is an insult to your home business, you may as well treat this as a hobby, with the hope of getting some money now and then. If you want an online business to work you need to put in a lot of hours in the early stages, perhaps 10 – 12 or more hours a week. The early days in any online business are the hardest. People want to see results straight away, and sometimes the results do not happen like this if you do not put enough time, effort or action into your business.

In part two of this article I will write about what you can do as a mentor to ensure all of the above gets underway and that your new recruit excels in their new found online business, making you lots of residual income.


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What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

Five years ago, when I was still working as a nightclub bouncer, I was fortunate enough to be invited to co-host a conference call. I needed about $20,000 to expand my business and I was talking about the things I was doing in an attempt to raise the money. Some of them were downright brutal. My wife suggested we sell her wedding ring. I asked people for money while I was checking IDs at the nightclub. There was no such thing as the word shame. The call host asked me why I was willing to go to such lengths. My explanation was simple: My dream life was so great that I was willing to burn everything I had if it meant I even had a chance of living it. Looking back on that attitude it seems a bit Kamikaze but I have a lot more to lose now. That conviction is what allowed me to make the tough sacrifices: the time, the money, and the risk. It allowed me to find money for my business when I was borrowing money for baby formula.

Now I live the life of my dreams. In fact, I live the life of most people’s dreams.

The funny thing is people that people think I am an extreme. A fluke. I disagree. A new millionaire is being made every day in America because of the internet. Anybody can tap into its power. The sad thing is that most people think it is too much of a sacrifice. The sacrifice I am talking about is the time it takes to educate themselves. It might take as long as five years to make it big.

Or….here is another option.

The average salary in the National Football League is $740,000. Now I know what you’re thinking. I don’t want to play football but just follow me for a second. Imagine that football was the only thing you were good at. Imagine you devoted your whole life to being the best.

Your odds of making it to the NFL are 1 in 11.,235. Assuming you do make it in, the average career lasts 2.7 years. Once your ridiculously short career is over you have this awesome fact to contest with:

The average NFL player lives TWENTY YEARS LESS than the average human. You read that right. For the glory of 2.7 years and 2 million dollars you get to live 20 years less. Not to mention that money has to last you the rest of your life.

How does that glamourous option look now?

Let’s go back to option A. You sacrifice a couple years at most. You find a niche that you can get good at. You make money for the rest of your life because your finances are based on your brain and not your body. You live wherever you like because the internet is totally portable. You create your own brand and sell whatever you like whenever you want. You isolate yourself from any recession because the internet keeps growing.

So what is holding you back from your dreams? Is it you or the “perceived challenges.” If you answered “perceived challenges” it may be time to rethink the quality of your dreams.

To your success,

Aaron Parkinson



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Conscious Versus Unconscious

Woke up and had an 'aha' moment! Thought I would quickly blog about it. Isn't it funny when you worry about something big time, it sticks in your conscious,your unconscious and gets into your dreams, and then do you find that because you worry about it, it seems to never want to leave your thoughts. Then the worry seems to manifest into your every day life..

What if you could take that same 'technique' of worry and turn it into a positive experience. We always worry about the negatives in live, never about the positives.
If we could just harness the positives in the same way, so much more good things would come to us.

My goal today.... harness some positive thoughts deep into my unconscious and conscious mind so that I will consciously work towards those thoughts and achieve them!

Sounds simple enough. However, you try thinking about one thing for three minutes, try thinking of a blue ribbon tied around a tree, can you visualise it? Good, then hold that thought for the next three minutes...

Did you manage it? I know I couldn't when I first tried, but this is all about applying your conscious and unconscious thoughts simultaneously. You see even though you are consciously trying to visualise this, your unconscious mind kicks in after about three of may more seconds with other thoughts...

I will leave you with that thought! Practice, practice, practice...


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Working through Challenging Situations

Challenges come to all of us, whether they are daily, weekly or just now and then. Its how we handle those challenges that move us forward in life. When presented with challenges do you tend to despair or are you more optimistic and try to find a way through the challenge to achieve positive outcomes or results?

If you are presented with challenges, whether these are personal, or related to your work from home business or work; sit down and write a list.

First write down what the challenge is, then write down what the outcome needed is.

Then write down the pro's and the con's of getting to that outcome.

Eventually,after reflecting back on your list of pro's and con's and matching these agains your objective, it will all become clear what you have to do.

BUT, and this is important the way to work through the challenge once you have your answer is to ACT upon it.

Without ACTION, the challenge will remain unfulfilled.



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Why it is important to invest in yourself - T Harv Eker

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Home Grown - Your Personal Growth

Personal Growth can help change mindset, self limiting beliefs and can be a great enabler to personal development, mentoring, coaching and growth.

If you suffer from lack of self esteem or you are a quiet, shy person, who would love to be more confident around people, then by daily doses of personal development can change your outlook on life, give you more self confidence, producing a high self esteem and an air of certainty around you. If however, you want to improve your leadership skills, or you wish to project a more confident self image, again, personal development will help you to shine!


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