Happy New Year

It’s almost here …

And as you look forward to the new year, I wish you the courage and the joy to make 2008 your personal best.

To help you “make it great in 0-eight”, I have put together some articles, ideas, links and gifts at a Happy New Year Page. Enjoy!

See the movie that is changing the world!

Introducing the First-Ever Film on Self-Help Icon and Affirmations Pioneer~ Louise L. Hay ~

What if you are creating your life story with the very thought you are thinking right now?

Many people have changed their lives—turning financial ruin into abundant prosperity, transforming troubling relationships into loving bonds, and even healing what experts called untreatable diseases. These people aren't scholars, scientists, prophets, or millionaires.

They're just like you and me—everyday people who face heavy challenges throughout their lives—whether it's our jobs, our families, or our inner selves. How did they do it? They discovered the wisdom of self-help pioneer Louise Hay and learned how to use the power of a single thought.

Now it's your turn!

Louise Hay—compassionate teacher, renowned author, and much loved founder of Hay House—will teach you how to create your future in the first-ever film about her extraordinary life and amazing life work in You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie.

Watch the trailer of Louise's movie!

When Your Boss Won't Share the Spotlight

Everyone has dealt with a credit-stealing coworker. And while wrestling recognition for your hard work and bright ideas from a glory-grabbing colleague can be tricky, you can usually resolve the situation by tactfully confronting the individual or, if that fails, bringing the issue to the attention of your manager.

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Elements of Change

The key to achieving more than you currently are, no matter which area of your life or work you are focusing in on now, is change. The old saying rings true: If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you’ve already got. If you keep eating and exercising the way you currently are, you will weigh the same a year from now. If you continue to sell to the same people on the same schedule, you will make the same amount of money next year. In order to move forward, we must change.

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Beyond the Business Card - Networking in the 21st Century

Networking is more than just a buzzword. It's probably the best opportunity you will ever have to make connections, build relationships and help yourself and others in the networking group succeed. Networking with like-minded individuals is also a great way to explore new career options, learn more about a specific industry, gather insights from peers on critical business issues and grow professionally.

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Putting off procrastination

What if there was a cure for procrastination, perfectionism and overcommitting? How much simpler and more successful would our lives be?

Mr Hugh Kearns and Ms Maria Gardiner from the Staff Development and Training Unit at Flinders University have been working with academic staff, PhD students and groups outside the university to "cure" such behaviours and their efforts have won a prestigious national award a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

The pair have developed a unique approach to dealing with what they call self-sabotaging behaviours.

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Exercise adds years to life and improves quality, researchers say

Exercise is a lot like spinach -- everybody knows it's good for you; yet many people still avoid it, forgoing its potential health benefits.

But researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who study the effects of exercise on aging point to new findings that may inspire people to get up, get out and get moving on a regular basis.

The research team, led by kinesiology professor Edward McAuley, found that previously sedentary seniors who incorporated exercise into their lifestyles not only improved physical function, but experienced psychological benefits as well.

Read the whole article Exercise adds years to life and improves quality, researchers say

What's been missing...

The Missing Element in Entrepreneurial Success

What your competitors don’t know that will catapult youto extreme business success

I'd like to introduce you to a leading transformational teacher who is creating enormous success with the life coaches and entrepreneurs she’s working with – her name is Sharon Wilson.

Sharon is on the forefront of teachers today that are sharing what the “Missing Element” is. Her clients report amazing successes beyond logical explanation.. and I know you will agree with us – even now, when we're all recognizing that the landscape of business is definitely changing.

Sharon has agreed to do a complimentary (this means FREE!) teleconference call on this very “Missing Element” – the call happens on Thursday Oct 18th, at 8 p.m. – 9pm ET /5:00- 6:00 p.m. PDT.

She’s calling it “The Missing Element in Entrepreneurial Success.” I know you will be motivated by what Sharon has to say. If you’re looking for elemental strengths to add to your growing business success, I strongly encourage you to get involved in this call.

You can experience Sharon’s powerful coaching and learn an amazing tool that can begin to help you right now to make what she calls “vibrational shifts” to get results beyond logic too! Just register for the free class and you can get access to this amazing session today.

Simply sign up for her free teleconference here:

www.coachingfromspirit.com/missingelement
http://www.coachingfromspirit.com/cfsi/AttractionRevolution/Registration/index.cfm?af=3958

We expect at least 1000 people on this call so sign on now! With your free registration, you will also receive an additional gift from Sharon – her 7 day e-course, “Success From Spirit,” which normally sells for $79.95. Sharon Wilson has a lot to share, and I know you’re going to learn something of significance.

Should You Starve a Fever and Feed a Cold?

As we head into the cold season, friends, family, and co-workers will likely offer their tried-and-true remedies for warding off an impending cold. But how many of these home-grown remedies actually work?
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E-mail Management: An Overlooked Time Saver?

You can save time by managing your E-mail.

The problem is that you probably have several E-mail accounts. School, home (from your Internet Service Provider (ISP), night school class at a college or university, and several "free" or throw-away accounts.
Tips fall into two categories, i.e.,

http://classroomtoolkit.net/serendipity/archives/67-Top-Tips.html#extended

Your Soul's compass

Is there such a thing as spiritual guidance that directs us to our best self individually and collectively?

How can we tell if it's really wisdom from the Divine or just our ego talking?

In preparing their new book, Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance, renowned speaker and women's health and spirituality consultant Joan Borysenko and human development expert Gordon Dveirin sought out many of today's celebrated spiritual leaders and luminaries for the answers. In Your Soul's Compass, you'll meet swamis and yogis, monks and nuns, poets and psychologists of varied philosophies and faiths who believe that the closer we get to our "true nature," the more we will move into alignment with the larger currents of wisdom that are available to us.

And when you purchase this profound and powerful book—Your Soul's Compass, you'll receive a host of bonus gifts to help you move further along on your path to a spiritually guided life.

Click here to get all of the details: http://promos.hayhouse.com/borysenko/100207email/

Do you ever have the ecstatic moment when you feel as if you're in the right place at the right time?

Do you remember the exquisite sense of being in love—when you're "home" in your partner's arms, perfectly content and fully present?

Can you think of a time when you felt so connected while working diligently on a particular problem or project that new ideas and solutions suddenly started coming to your mind?

When you're at home in yourself, centred in some essential kernel of what it is to be human, you feel connected to a greater wholeness—a higher intelligence. Sometimes we don't even know where we are, much less where we're going, or perhaps we fall into despair or confusion, but when we're willing to look for wisdom or God, we finally discover that it was looking for us all along.

It pulls us toward it as inexorably as iron filings are drawn to a magnet. That's how your Soul's Compass works.

Cut and paste this address into your Web browser and see how you can use Your Soul's Compass to transform the world! http://promos.hayhouse.com/borysenko/100207email/

In Your Soul's Compass, Joan and Gordon gathered the immense wisdom from these wise and respected spiritual teachers through personal interviews and present this powerful information so that you can use your own soul's compass to guide you home to your Source of Being.

"A hummingbird headed from Colorado for a winter sojourn in Mexico usually doesn't find itself in Chicago by mistake. Its guidance system is hardwired for precision. Many mystics believe that human beings have just such a built-in guidance system that takes us home."

When you read Your Soul's Compass, you'll discover how to:
Listen for and recognize spiritual guidance when it comes to you
Distinguish between authentic guidance and less reliable impulses
Become an awake, compassionate and purposeful human being
Avoid all blocks and stay connected to the Universe and your Source of Wisdom

Utilize your Divine guidance to transform the world

"The world is divided, and we are divided within ourselves. Only truth can reconcile us—the truth of our shared humanity beneath the superficial differences that separate us, the truth of our sublime human potential. But how do we find it? That's what Your Soul's Compass is all about."

Remember, you can't consult a cosmic Dear Abby or conduct a universal Google search to find spiritual guidance. Only Your Soul's Compass will lead you there! Purchase your copy today! And remember you'll also get amazing bonus gifts just for ordering: http://promos.hayhouse.com/borysenko/100207email/

Just for fun - living in 2007

From Bill Bradley

--You know you're living in 2007 when...

1. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

4. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

5. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

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Ten Questions With Donald Trump

Donald J. Trump is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and started his business career in an office he shared with his father. In August of 2006, Mr. Trump was voted by BusinessWeek magazine as “the world’s most competitive
businessperson.”

Guy Kawasaki asked ten questions of The Donald ...

Exploiting the Gender Gap

By WARREN FARRELL

Carlsbad, Calif. — Nothing disturbs working women more than the statistics often mentioned on Labor Day showing that they are paid only 76 cents to men's dollar for the same work. If that were the whole story, it should disturb all of us; like many men, I have two daughters and a wife in the work force.
Read the whole article

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Coaching Millions

Some coaches are making millions.

You can make more too.

"Coaching Millions" shows you step by step how to leverage your business growth.

A simple six step process to:

-- Help more people

-- Make a lot more revenue

-- Live your ultimate lifestyle

Brian Tracy called "Coaching Millions"

".. the best single book ever written on how to be successful in coaching"

I'm also recommending that anyone not yet using coaching as the ultimate high ticket information product get a copy.

Even if you "know it".. this book contains simple explanations you can use in training others and leveraging any business.

I've joined with dozens of others to help author Milana Leshinsky tell the world about this wonderful book. We have each donated a gift.

Do this today.. Go to:http://coachingbestseller.com/

Word of Mouth Technology

I'm writing because I can't tell you to take part in Mark Joyner's "Word of Mouth Transformation!" experience.

Why not?

Because I haven't seen it yet. No one has.

What I can tell you is that I, myself, will be registeringfor it the moment the clock strikes 8PM on the east coast:

http://www.simpleology.com/p/womt/bronwynr/

Why will I be doing this myself?

1. I just got off a live webcast Mark did where 1,800 peoplefrom around the world (including some from Turkey, Iran, China,and India!) listened to him teach some of the basics of his newWord of Mouth technology.
If it's a 10th as good as I think it will be it will be a bargain.

2. Registration is only going to be open for a short time. Ifyou miss out you miss out.

3. I recommend you register, just to hold your seat, and then decide later.

Get this - they have put up a full 1 year refund policy.

That means you could do the whole training and get a refund at the end if you wanted it.

Or, you could register, then cancel a day later if you decide it's not for you.
So, I don't know if this will be right for you (it sure will forme), but what I *do* know is this:

If you don't register, you probably won't ever get the chance to do so again - ever.

So, do yourself a favor and register as soon as the doors open. Reserve your virtual "seat" on this roller coaster ride, and then decide later.

Low-fat diets - do they work?

From Cheryl Koch

The 8-year study [into low-fat diets} showed some unexpected results. For more than a decade doctors, dietitians, and others have been promoting the benefits of a low-fat diet to control disease and assist with weight control. The study of almost 50,000 postmenopausal women found that restricting dietary fats may not have the benefits we once thought.

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Why was I only mildly surprised?!!!

Great Time Management Advice!

From: Jim Rohn

I often talk in my seminars about the importance of time and time management -- how rich people and poor people both have the same amount of time every day - 24 hours (which by the way, I find fascinating).

This week, as we continue to celebrate the Anniversary of the Weekend Event, I want to share with you four great time management ideas we've excerpted from the Event Speaker Round Table Session - Enjoy!

Brian Tracy:

I always give the principle of: Begin the day by "Eating That Frog". It basically says that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, then you will have the satisfaction of knowing it is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.

And your "live frog" is your most important task. Now there's two corollaries to that. The first one is if you have two frogs to eat, eat the ugliest one first and the second corollary to that is if you have to eat a frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it too long.

So the key to high performance is to plan every day the night before, in advance, and set priorities for it. And then say, "if I can only complete one task on this list before I was to be called out of town for a month, which one task would it be?" And whatever that is, it becomes your frog and the next morning discipline yourself to start in on that task, the most important thing on your list, and do only that until it is complete.

If you can develop that habit, you can double and triple your productivity, you'll take full control of your life, you will eventually become wealthy, and the personal feeling of pride, accomplishment, discipline and achievement you get will be absolutely extraordinary. It is one of the most important of all lessons to learn, and one of the hardest things to implement if anybody has tried to do it.

Denis Waitley:

Stop watching in prime time and start living in prime time. Prime time is 7-11 pm EST, when all of America is watching other people making money and having fun in their professions. So if you want to watch other people making money, having fun in their professions, which gets their ratings up so they make more money, go ahead and do things that are tension relieving, instead of goal achieving. But if you truly want to live YOUR life in prime time, then write in prime time, have intimacy in prime time, talk with your children in prime time, live and do in prime time instead of unhooking and engaging in tension relieving activities.

Every book I've written, all seventeen, have been written 7-11 pm weekly and on Saturdays. And why? Because I am earning money the rest of the time, and I don't have time to write a book except in prime time.

So stop watching and use the television set as an appliance. It has doors on it. Close the doors and use like an iron, when you need to iron your clothes, bring out the TV set.

Jim Rohn:

Regarding the television, I knew a guy who wasn't doing too well and he wanted some advice from me. I knew he had a television set and knew he watched a lot of television, so I asked, "How much did that television cost you?"He said, "about $400."I said, "No, you're mistaken."He said, "No, this television set cost me $400."I said, "Well that's to buy it. To watch it, I am sure it is costing you about $40,000 a year to watch."

He finally got the message and he called his brother-in-law, who had a pick-up, and he and his brother-in-law hauled his television out of the house. His brother-in-law did say, "Well, you can just shut it off."

And he said, "No, for now I don't trust myself, Jim Rohn is right. I'm not going to let this television set cost me $40,000 a year anymore."

Vic Johnson:

My biggest tip would be in an area that I struggle a lot. About 15 years ago I heard someone say to never handle the items in your inbox more than one time. So I adopted that for email. Now I get over 300 emails everyday even though I have all kinds of filters, some of them going to other people, etc. My biggest challenge is to touch that email only one time. Either I forward the email, I return the email and delete it or drag it to a folder for action by someone else or delete it. If you continue to have to go back and revisit that email over and over trying to make a decision that's time -- that's wasted time -- plus it's on your mind until you get rid of it. So if you are in a profession and you handle a lot of emails and you're still getting a lot of items in your inbox, only touch them one time.

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How to Make More Time For Your Life

Do you wish you could work less and play more? Are you so stuck in the rut you can't see a way out? Have you ever said I wish I had more time for me?
Well there is hope. First of all you have to be aware of your situation, have a strong desire to change and then take action.

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Clean living has its down side

When your immune system has it too cushy it may not be prepared to protect you in tough times. Clean living may actually make us sick. New studies comparing sanitized rats to sewer rats reported in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology found that wild rats had as much as four times higher levels of immunoglobulins than rats living in sanitized cages, yet weren't sick. Their immune system were tuned to fight crucial germs because they had a history of fighting such germs. The rats raised in sanitized systems overreact to even the smallest change in conditions; their systems go crazy.
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Looking to Make a Sale or Get Promoted? Emotions Will Help Determine the Outcome

High emotion contributes to great opera. It does not, however, serve us well when making judgments about others. This is the argument advanced in "Feeling and Believing: The Influence of Emotion on Trust," a new paper by Maurice E. Schweitzer, Wharton professor of operations and information management, and Jennifer Dunn, a PhD student in the department.
The two researchers conducted five experiments to determine the influence of emotional states -- happiness, gratitude, anger, and guilt -- on trust. Each experiment confirmed that incidental emotions (emotions from one situation that influence judgment in a following, unrelated situation) affect how willing we are to trust others. For example, our anger over a speeding ticket is likely to affect how we judge someone later in the day. The researchers conclude that despite feeling we are rational beings who make clear, lucid judgments, in reality we all walk around in a sea of emotions that are likely to influence how we act in both business and social contexts.
The article, recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, stems from Schweitzer's ongoing interest in negotiation, where trust plays a critical role.

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Networking Tip: The Elevator Pitch

Successful individuals are first, last, and always salespeople. They are constantly selling themselves and their ideas to investors, management, co-workers, vendors, and even their families.
An opportunity to sell yourself and/or your ideas can come up on the subway, in the checkout line at the grocery store, after your yoga class - just about anywhere. To be ready to make a useful connection at any time, it's a good idea to be prepared with a short (one minute is ideal) self-promotional speech.

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Trying to "Keep up"?

And I thought it was only me ...!

From the Creating Passionate Users Blog

Do you have a stack of books, journals, manuals, articles, API docs, and blog printouts that you think you'll get to? That you think you need to read? Now, based on past experience, what are the odds you'll get to all of it? Half of it? Any of it? (except for maybe the Wired magazine)

So you let the stack of "things to read" pile up, then eventually when the pile gets to high you end up tossing half of it--or worse, moving it to a deeper "stuff to read someday stack. We have selective amnesia about what we'll ever get to, but mainly because most of us keep feeling like we have to keep up! Keep up with what?

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Time Management

The Power Of Time Management Training

The goal of time management is to use your time more wisely. As you become more proficient with time management, you will be able to accomplish daily tasks with ease and you will feel better about yourself. The problem usually arises, not because you have too much to do, but rather, because of the way you manage your time. In today’s world, there are a lot of distractions out there that allow you to divert your attention to things that are more fun to do.

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