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Jan 30, 2011
Does Fear Cloud Your Intuition? The 5 Gut Instincts You Should Never Ignore
A quirky urge. A quiet murmur in your head. A queasy feeling in your gut. A subtle sense of foreboding. A subtle sense of foreboding or a profound yet explicable knowing that "this feels right". That was the feeling I had soon after I began
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Jun 21, 2010
Get What You Want: 6 Tips To Make Bold Requests
Think of a situation that’s causing you to feel resentful, frustrated, unappreciated or overwhelmed. We all experience them but often we don’t have the courage to do what it takes to change them. Maybe it’s a boss who has unreasonable expectations; a neighbor or co-worker
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May 22, 2010
Lessons from the BP Oil Spill
You’d have to be living in a cave the last month not to be aware of the growing environmental disaster caused by an explosion on a BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Having a long-held fondness for the company that gave me my
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Jan 20, 2010
How to Stay Up When Your Job Search Has You Feeling Down
There are currently more Americans who have been unemployed for more than 6 months than any other time in U.S. history (6.1 million according to the latest figures). And while we hear reports that things are looking up for job seekers, we also have leading
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Dec 04, 2009
What You Can Learn from Tiger’s Mistakes
No doubt you haven’t escaped the Tiger Woods headlines this past week. As far as I’m concerned this isn’t a story about money. It isn’t a story about whether he broke the law. It isn’t even a story about badly managed PR. It’s a story
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Aug 26, 2009
Are You Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate?
Today is Women’s Equality Day and in a few hours I'm off to speak to a Federal Department here in DC to celebrate the occasion. The topic: "Leadership is a choice, not a position." I think leadership ties in beautifully with women’s equality, indeed with
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Aug 09, 2009
Could you be making bigger, better and BOLDER requests?
As you read the title of this post perhaps you were thinking "umm... I don't know... could I?". If that was the case for you then I want you to begin by thinking about something in your life that is not how you would like
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Jul 20, 2009
Where could you be upping your integrity?
It's what we look for in our leaders. What we hope for in our politicians. What we expect from our spouse and what we struggle with throughout our life. Integrity. What does it mean to you? Have you thought about it? I know when I
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Jun 12, 2009
What life story are you writing?
"Live your life with arms wide open, Today is where your book begins... Your life is still unwritten..." These are the lyrics from a song I recently discovered on my 11 year old sons iPod. Titled 'Unwritten', Natasha Bedingfield sings beautifully about what I believe
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Apr 06, 2009
Do you act BIG when others act small?
Do you ever deal with difficult people who seem to be unnecessarily hostile, petty or offensive? Ever find yourself wanting to dish out your own snide remark or act in a way that you know is childish? Go on, admit it, of course you do!
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Jan 29, 2009
Is Fear of Stuffing Up Stifling You?
Last week whilst talking with someone about the economy, the possibility of them being laid off and how they thought it was a good time to take a change in career direction came up. As we talked about what they needed to do to make
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Jan 08, 2009
Will the bloodshed ever end?
When I was 23 I spent 6 weeks backpacking on my own around the Middle East. Three in Egypt, one in Jordan and two in Jerusalem and the surrounding occupied territories of the West Bank. Being on my own made it that much more extraordinary
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Jan 05, 2009
Are you going to be happier or harpier this new year?
Happy New Year! I’ve just arrived back in the US after a very full and fun 6 weeks Down Under. It was great to be there but I have to say, it is always nice to get home; back to my own bed, high speed
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Dec 11, 2008
Got More Answers than Questions?
"You can tell a man is clever by his answers. You can tell he is wise by his questions" — Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel Laureate If I had a dollar for every opinion I'd heard over the last few months about what would solve the woes
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Dec 03, 2008
6 steps to finding what every entrepreneur needs most!
Every successful entrepreneur needs a mix of different elements to achieve the success they seek. It’s important to have a good idea, an effective marketing strategy, good distribution, financial know-how, competitive pricing and the list goes on. If you have the funds to employ good
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Nov 26, 2008
Praise & encouragement: are you a miser or a giver?
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man
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