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Self Confidence – Do Self Affirmations Work?
Posted by: | CommentsDo positive self affirmations really work? The short answer is ‘No’ – unless you have a few years to spare and a heavy-duty supply of perseverance. The problem is that positive-affirmations are directed at your conscious mind and, unfortunately, the conscious mind has absolutely nothing to do with how you behave, how you react to people and situations, how you view life in general or, most importantly, the way in which you view yourself. However, as I said, if you throw enough muck at your conscious mind, sooner or later – actually, definitely later – some of that muck will eventually stick and make some sort of reasonable impression on your subconscious mind. However, you’d have to stick with it incessantly and, even then, you’d be faced with an uphill battle because your subconscious mind simply won’t believe what you’re trying to tell it if its view of reality is the opposite. How come? Your subconscious mind dictates your beliefs, behaviours and reactions and actually creates your very own version of reality. Self-affirmation is like trying to throw snowballs at hell’s fiery furnace!!
On the other hand, if you’re really determined to change your life, some part of your life, or change yourself, your own self image or some unpalatable behaviour or bad habit, it’s your subconscious mind that you’re going to have to impress. It’s holding all the keys, has its hand on all the levers and its feet on all the pedals that either get your life moving forward or, more often than not, grind to an absolute and juddering halt.
In order to impress your subconscious mind, you will have to become just like a little child again – but childlike as distinct from childish. When you were a child you paid full attention to the reality of the moment, using each of your five senses – that is how you took onboard your current set of beliefs about the world and who you believe yourself to be. As an adult, you now pay precious little attention to reality today – your subconscious mind kinda makes it up for you on the fly! – with all the usual results. You’ve got to get real, to relearn how to pay full attention to what’s actually happening around you, instead of paying attention to the subconscious baggage that’s dragging you down.
The normal subconscious mind is wallowing in the past. The key to your future is to be found in the present. After all, the present moment is the only time and place where life is truly lived. As such, you have to re-learn how to pay attention to what is actually going on, not what your subconscious mind, looking through its dirty lens of past events, thinks is going on. This re-learning process involves training yourself how to pay attention to what you see, feel, hear, smell and taste. This training has to be done in peace and quiet so that, when the going gets tough in the so-called real world, you’re fully trained and ready to do your thing in a manner that will lead you onwards and upwards towards the life that you really want.
Self Help – The Oneness Of Spirit, Body And Mind
Posted by: | CommentsVery often I find it hard to explore some of the central ideas in what I might call personal development or self improvement given that everyday language and words are far from adequate. For example, do the words ‘universal energy’ properly explain the reality that you and I are energy, living in a world and universe made of vibrating energy and that energy responds to our input? Does the sobriquet ‘Law of Attraction’ have the same meaning for different people? And where are the boundaries between mind, body and spirit?
Of course, in fact, there are no borders between mind, body and spirit just as there are no limits between us individually and the universe of which we each comprise an integral and indispensable part. We are not just part of a whole, when it comes to us individually, there is just one – mind, body and spirit are simply different aspects of the one. This is important because, when we look at the facts in this way, it becomes clear that our thoughts have an immediate impact on how we feel spiritually and physically. For example, when one dissects the apparent reality of stress and its very real physical effects, we find that our thoughts directly result in changes in body temperature and heart rate, changes in the creation and distribution of a all manner of chemicals all of which, if unchecked, lead to serious illnesses – such as heart attack and stroke – and, if seriously out of control, lead to premature death.
What is my point? . Our state of mind has a direct impact on the mental state of those around us – this has been proven time and again by research in the field of psychology. How much more does our state of mind affect us, ourselves? Your health, fitness and wellbeing are all direct consequences of your state of mind. Even your weight – your propensity to put on too much of it or a whole range of eating disorders from bulimia to anorexia – is a direct consequence of what is going on in your head.
And what is going on in your head is entirely within your own control – or will be if you could be bothered to make the simplest and, ultimately, most powerful decision that any one of us can make as responsible adults – choosing your own thoughts. The ordinary mind is tortured by inappropriate thoughts, most of which emerge from the subconscious. Research concludes that the ordinary subconscious focuses on the events of our formative years and is predisposed to focus on negative thoughts. This is our default state of mind. That is not to say that we cannot decide what we’ll pay attention to, however.
You are your own boss. Your life, in all its aspects, is created by what you’re paying attention to – whether you’re aware of it or not. The ultimate and powerful choice that I just mentioned can be taken, each day, each moment, by choosing to pay attention to the actual sensory experience of the present moment. That’s the only cast-iron way of preventing your own subconscious dwelling on self-destructive thoughts. No other mechanism is more effective, no other way has the power to completely transform your fitness, your health, your wellness, your personal effectiveness and, ultimately, your ability to live a life of peace, happiness and unbelievable success.
The Importance Of Relaxation
Posted by: | CommentsIt realy is bizarre. I know lots of people who have told me that they do not know how to how to relax. One guy explained that he feels guilty sitting relaxing on a Saturday – he feels compelled to wander around the house or garden hell bent on finding something to occupy him. Another guy recently revealed that, whilst Saturday morning is golf time, and whilst he actually goes out for his round, he doesn’t really play! He can’t – his mind is reliving what happened during the previous week or what’s happening the following week. He’s out on the course but, not only is he not relaxed, he’s not even all there! Even worse, a guy who doesn’t have a care in the world – great job that he’s really on top of, great family life, great everything, tells me that when he’s playing golf he actually feels guilty – feeling that he should be in the office or at home.
Modern life pretty much demands that we should be constantly on the go. But there’s a big difference between cramming your day with activity and getting the really important things done. And one of the important things that you must have as an integral part of your life is time to chill. A New York Times piece a some years back revealed that native tribes in the Amazon basin live the life that every New Yorker wants – seven hours work each week, the rest spent at leisure. However, New Yorkers simply wouldn’t know what to do with all that leisure. OK, there’d be plenty of activity squeezed into it – but what about totally chilling (like the Amazonians)?
Get yourself an easy chair, sit yourself down and do nothing for half an hour – see where your mind takes you. Or find a shade tree, spread out a blanket and just sit down. This is the quality space that is required in our lives – not to rest, but to clear our minds, become inspired and discover the important things that we need to take action on to truly live our lives. Sir Isaac Newton was relaxing under just such a tree when the apple fell for him – find your tree and you’ll find that pennies will drop for you. A little relaxation will change your life.
Practical Personal Growth Tips: Taking A Breather
Posted by: | CommentsOnce the day gets going it’s very easy to get swept away by the routine, the urgent (as distinct from the important), the latest minor crisis or, most common of all, unproductive thought. Even if you have started your day properly, it is all too easy to become submerged and revert to our default state of unfocused mindlessness.
So, for a start, what does starting your day properly mean? Well, we make certain that we don’t leave the house physically unprepared for the day ahead. We shower and dress ourselves – shaving or applying the odd dab of make-up as appropriate! On the other hand, we automatically leave the house each morning mentally unprepared for the day ahead. Starting the day properly means making sure that, before you leave the house, you’ve taken the appropriate step or steps to clear your mind and focus your energy. I recommend five to ten minutes mental preparation first thing. Find somewhere quiet to sit and focus on what your senses are telling you – one sense at a time. This ensures that you’re focused on what is really happening rather than on the subconscious programs that otherwise run your life – the latter being your default state of mind.
Right, let’s say that you’ve got your day off to the perfect start, you’re switched on, focused, mentally wide awake and ready for action. Small things like a delayed train, like heavy traffic, like somebody asking you to do something unexpectedly – so many little things can disturb us. And we haven’t even mentioned the big things! It is so easy to slip and slide mindlessly into mental oblivion as the day progresses. What we’ve got to do is ensure that, throughout our day, we pause to catch our breath – literally.
Age-old wisdom places great store on the opportunity that our breathing affords us to clear the mind of useless nonsense and distraction and, in doing so, focus the energy. So, here’s an easy, quick and very practical tip – because, after all, you’ve got to breathe anyway! Take a couple of moments – moments is all that’s required – at various points during the day to pay attention to the reality of your existence as you inhale and exhale. Focus your attention on what it feels like to breathe, how your body reacts with each breath in and out, how the air passes through your right, left or both nostrils. Give thanks for the reality that you are alive and breathing. Focus on nothing else for these few moments. If the worries or useless thoughts of the moment start crowding your mind, take three deeper breaths to refocus your attention. With each breath, realize that whatever might be doing your head in right now will be completely forgotten in months, weeks, days or even hours. Appreciate that, with an alert, focused and ready mind, anything is possible.
Turning Yourself On On Those Days When You Simply Feel Flat
Posted by: | CommentsThere are days when we just feel flat – perhaps not dejected, disillusioned or depressed, just lifeless, energy-less and disinterested. And although I’ve been teaching my many personal development clients how to start each day by focusing their minds – and I do it myself – sometimes, within just a few minutes, one ends up feeling, like, ‘I wish I was somewhere else!’ or ‘I just don’t feel like doing this!’ I’m not talking about things going wrong during the day, I’m simply talking about what one client described like this: ‘I get into my office, full of energy, I sit down at my desk, start going through my emails and, suddenly, it’s like I’m in a kind of daze.’
What is it that takes the wind out of our sails so easily? How can we be so fired up one minute and then suddenly so flat? Well, the answer is all too simple – flat is your default state of mind. Yeah, believe it or not, research explains that few of us is tuned in sufficiently to actually be adequately focused and attentive to get through the normal day effectively. As if that wasn’t enough, research also asserts that, left to its own devices, our minds slip towards negativity. It’s the way we’re hard-wired – and all the personal development or self improvement in the world won’t personal development or self improvement isn’t going to change the hardware.
But a committed approach to self improvement will change the programs that we run. Again, left to itself, our subconscious mind is happy to watch reruns – to keep running the same old dysfunctional programs that make our daily lives mundane, uninteresting, repetitive and uninspiring. You need to grab a hold of that remote control! Personal development will teach you how to change channels and stop watching the old programs. It will enable you tune in to reality TV – the real reality of the now.
Sadly, the feeling of mindless-couldn’t-care-less simply invades our minds by default. And that will always, for the rest of our lives, be our default way of thinking unless you cultivate a mindful, focused, tuned in state of mind – and not only have you got to do this each and every day, you’ve got to find some mechanism to ensure that you can recapture that state of mindfulness when you feel that you’re slithering down the inevitable slippery slope towards mindlessness – because, as sure as night follows day, you’ll start slipping the moment you take your eye of the ball.
Sure, I’m mixing my metaphors, between PCs, TV and slippery slopes – but you understand? Our mind is ever-ready to mug us – we’ve got to be on alert as much as is humanly possible.
Using Service Manager Training To Increase You Profit
Posted by: | CommentsIn today’s business conditions, earning a profit is important but not as significant as getting and keeping a customer base. One of the chief problems with many of the businesses that are struggling or even for those have gone bankrupt is that they under estimated how important its to get and keep a customer base.
So as to get this important customer relationship, you have to have service advisors and service managers that not only have a firm understanding of what they are doing but also understand how to implement the abilities they have been taught. Rather than hoping that your workers are capable of understanding and presenting themselves and your business in the right way to ensure a sale, why not enroll them in service advisor training and service manager training course?
A service advisor training and service manager training course is developed to take your staff to the next level. Though you can always enroll them in motivational courses or seminars, you would soon find out that these courses don’t teach your employees how to implement the skills and techniques they learn. Sure, these courses will get your employees enthusiastic about what they’re doing but unless they’re able to understand and deliver what they have learned, the whole seminar was a waste of time.
Your employees would learn more than the fundamentals which are needed for making sales when you give them service advisor training and service manager training. They will learn about net profits, pricing structures, how to deal with difficult people and difficult sales, time management, how to precisely complete paperwork, and the way to keep their own emotions in check. While most of these skills may be covered in your employee orientation, taking a course on these skills and others will guarantee your staff are the best in the field.
They’ll learn these skills and learn how and when to implement them. They would learn how to make sure they not just please the customer but that they even work for the benefit of the company and the overall net profit.
Taking a service automotive training and service manager training course might sound impractical in the beginning but its actually one of the finest decisions you could make for the good of your company. By taking a service advisor training and service manager training course, you are guaranteeing that your company has the best and brightest in the field, working for the good of the client and the company.
You would not only save a lot of time from avoiding situations which do not result in sales, you would also be able to make a better profit by having employees that can make a sale regardless of what the circumstances are.
Self Improvement The Need To Look A Different Way
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s a fact of life that most people view life through dark glasses and, as a result, everything appears gloomier than it should. This is normal because the normal mind is hard-wired to look at reality through our conditioning and it is more likely than not that our mind will dwell on negative rather than positive conditioning. This mental tendency is what’s keeping your life on hold.
You must alter the way you look at your world – this is the very essence of personal development. However, I’m not suggesting that you look at the world through rose-tinted glasses – that would disable you from seeing potential pitfalls or warning signs. Such an attitude prevents people from knowing when to give up on something that isn’t working for them – such as a dead relationship or a floundering business. In other words, what is widely known as positive thinking or a positive mental attitude is seriously dangerous and often leads to the biggest cop-out: “I’ll do nothing because I just know that things will improve!”
Something different, even innovative, is required. I am suggesting that you see life for what it is – the reality of the present moment. It is only in the present moment that you can see the potential upside of an opportunity that you might otherwise altogether miss with those dark glasses on. Again, you’ll be acutely aware of the potential downside of what you’re doing or thinking about doing – something that you could completely miss if you’re looking through your rose-tinted spectacles.
However, the reality and potential of the here and now can only be experienced, appreciated and capitalized upon if you get around your hard-wiring – something that doesn’t come naturally to the normal adult. But it was second nature to all of us when we were children. In fact, it was that clarity of mind that enabled us to be conditioned in the first place. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to relearn how to fully be in the here and now without putting your own personal spin or preconceived notions into the mix. You must stop making a nonsense of the present moment by your reliance on your conditioning.
You can do this by coming to your senses – I mean that quite literally. You’ve got five senses – you need to start paying attention to what they’re actually telling you. Psychology confirms that, as normal adults, we don’t pay a blind bit of attention to what our senses are actually telling us. Instead, our conditioning has lulled us into a false sense of security that we know best. We don’t – how could we, we’ve no perspective on the bigger picture of what life might be like if we let it.
Coming to your senses requires that you spend some time every day, preferably early in the morning, training your mind to notice what you actually see, feel, hear, smell and taste, without interpreting, without analysing, without jumping to your normal conclusions. Start working one sense each day and see where it takes you.
Duplication = Massive Sales
Posted by: | CommentsDuplication = Massive Success
Hello my friends! Today we are going to be talking about Duplication. If you are involved with any type of Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing business then you have heard the term Duplication. To duplicate in the dictionary means to make an exact copy, to do or perform again or to repeat. Just like a carbon copy or a xerox of a letter.
So how do I duplicate myself ? How will duplication help me grow my business and make money? Both are very good questions. To answer the first question, you duplicate your self by sharing. If you have one or more people in your group or business down line, then you need to share with them. Share what? First you share with them how you got them into your business in the first place. If you placed an ad on a website like Craig’s List or Backpage, show them how to do that. Tell them what you said and how to place the ad. This all seems so basic but there are many people coming into online business everyday with no experience at all. The simple little things that you take for granted might just be what they need to get started. Take the time to show your new people the hows and it will return back to you as growth and income.
Now the second question. How will duplication help me grow my business and make money? But teaching your people how to get the results that you have gotten, little as it may be, will set you up in their eyes as a leader and mentor. They will take the strategies that you just taught them and recreate the results for themselves! Now your business is growing. The more your business grows, the more potential sales you will make.
Now here is the tricky part. Let’s say you teach them everything that you know and your business or marketing group is still not growing? The is an old saying about leading a horse to water. You can help to teach your people but they have to take action themselves. You can not make them do anything. But you can make it very easy for them by using a Marketing System. You might have read one of my other articles about the importance of Marketing Systems.
A Marketing System is a step by step program that you can plug your people into that will train them, provide them with lead capture pages and all the other resources and tools to succeed. If you are not using a Marketing System to market your business online then you will be left behind. The good news is they are available to anyone. And some are even free! Visit the links below for more information on Marketing Systems and how they will help you succeed!
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Using Newsletters To Promote Your Home Improvement Company
Posted by: | CommentsNewsletters provide a perfect instrument for communicating information to consumers and potential customers. You are able to present a great deal more content than other advertising for a construction business (like door hangers newspaper ads), and the information can be more well-timed. However, the purpose of newsletters extends beyond simply being informative.
A well designed and composed newsletter conveys a positive, professional representation to the recipient. And the opposite representation is projected by an unattractive design or poorly composed content. Your newsletter, both the content and the layout, makes a potent declaration, for better or worse. If prose is not an activity you enjoy, think about hiring someone to do the writing.
By sending a newsletter regularly, you supply your clients and prospective customers with free value. They get helpful knowledge that can aid them. This is particularly true if the content has “shelf life”. For example, writing on landscaping or general home upkeep have broad interest and are more liable to be saved than a summer discount presented by your company.
Articles or reviews on different materials help customers realize their choices. By staying better educated, the customer can make more appropriate buying judgements. As well, you are placing your company in front of the consumer and presenting yourself as an individual that keeps up on the latest developments in your industry.
Clients may not require your services often, but if they do, you should remain fresh in their awareness. Given that few businesses create and mail a newsletter, you separate your business from competitors. Chances are very good that you will get a call as soon as they are in the marketplace.
It might look like a lot of effort to create and send a newsletter, but the results are worth the effort. Keeping clients is a lot less pricey than attracting new customers. Customers already know and have confidence in your business. At the same time, a newsletter should also encourage referrals if a colleague, neighbor, or relative needs the services you offer.
An alternative to a printed newsletter is an email newsletter. Many services are offered for this. The expense is a lot lower than a printed newsletter, but it can also have a lesser amount of influence. Ideally a combination of printed and digital communications is utilized to remain in front of previous clients.
It is worth noting that you ought to also mail newsletters to people who didn’t use you. Their reasons for not employing you can be diverse, ranging from they didn’t have the work done to they hired the cheap contractor. In either case, staying in front of them can result in future projects. One painting business in Houston that sends a quarterly newsletter receives 4 to 8 jobs a year from such clients.
The bottom line is, keep informing them that you would like their business, and they’ll call. After all, isn’t that what you expect the marketing for your contracting company to accomplish?
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The Two Techniques For Estimating Paint Jobs
Posted by: | CommentsA painting estimate is a prediction of the labor and materials required to complete a particular job. The accuracy of your estimate will control whether you make money on the project, and as a result, the success of your business. While an intermittent blunder may not destroy your company, regularly under estimating jobs can eventually threaten your business.
In terms of fundamentals, there are only 2 distinct methods for estimating paint jobs: the “eye-ball” method and a measurement based method.
The “eye-ball” technique involves a visual inspection of the project and assigning some number to it. That price could be the quantity of hours or days to complete the project, or it could simply be a price. In any case, it is purely a conjecture. That speculation may be based on extensive experience, and it may be reasonably accurate a significant amount of the time. However, it’s very nature makes it enormously narrow in its use.
The “eye-ball” technique depends absolutely on the understanding and subjective evaluation of the contractor. The appraisal of one person could vary radically from the appraisal of a different individual.
There are countless elements and factors that have to be considered. The various surfaces, their current state, the prep required for each one, and various additional elements must be well thought-out. When this is attempted by means of the “eye-ball” technique, often many of these aspects can be overlooked. The “eye-ball” technique in fact boils down to an issue of individual judgment. You might think that it will require 10 hours to paint the front of the house, and another person could deem it might take 20 hours. How are you to choose? The response to that matter might be the difference between over estimating the project, or low balling the job.
The obstacles with the “eye-ball” method go beyond merely disparities in opinion. Because the project price is determined subjectively, there is no exact system for figuring the reason if a job exceeds the budget. Such situations become a squabbling competition, as the crew blames the contractor and the estimator blames the painters. Both sides build their argument on their own belief, and neither has much ground to stand on. The crew will argue that they weren’t alloted enough time, and the contractor will say that the painters just didn’t work effectively. That’s not a particularly nice place to put yourself and your crew in.
If you wish to hire a salesman, the challenges are amplified as a different outlook is included in the mix. The salesman’s view could easily be different from the owner’s, and both of these may differ from the crew’s. There is no painless solution to this variation of outlook.
A measurement based method eliminates all of these problems. A measurement, or unit, based system gives you an objective method for pricing jobs, provides for the recognition and correction of errors, and can easily be taught to others. In short, a measurement, or unit, based process significantly decreases and/ or eliminates personal opinion from the bidding system.
A measurement, or unit, based process is based on the idea that it takes a certain quantity of time to execute a specific assignment. For example, how long would it require you to prep and paint a 6-panel door?
If it calls for 45 minutes to prepare and paint a window at Mr. Smith’s, it should require 45 minutes to prepare and paint the same surface at Mrs. Brown’s. In other words, if you know the work hours it takes to prepare and paint this sort of substrate, every time you see such substrate you realize the amount of time to give. Guessing and subjectivity is removed from the practice of bidding paint jobs.
If you do the same for every substrate and assignment on the job, the pricing system will become very accurate. Estimating will become a matter of determining each surface and step, and the amount of every substrate and task. So, if there are 10 of this surface on a project, you can easily determine that 450 minutes will be needed to prepare and paint those substrates.
A measurement based system involves 3 crucial components: the quantity of the assignment, the time necessary to execute a unit of that assignment (the production rate), and the variables involved (access, difficult cut in, additional prep, etc.). You are able to ascribe a precise number to each of these, and in the process, give yourself with an easy system for regularly determining precise estimates.
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