Book Review: Ahead of the Curve by Steve Nielsen Ahead of the Curve is a guide to applied strategic thinking by Steven J. Stowell and Stephanie S. Mead. This book provides excellent tools for team members and leaders at all levels and in any size organization to become more effective strategic thinkers. The authors draw you into the book by sharing examples of people who have utilized strategic thinking effectively. This allows readers to apply the learning to real life situations. The book educates us that strategic thinkers aren't, or ... The Coach and Win-Win Partnerships: Why you should read these Coaching Books by Steven J. Stowell The role of leadership is changing because of technological advances, increased competition (both domestic and international), and the desire of employees to be more involved in managing their own work. Now and in the future, leaders deal with a more educated, talented group of employees who have definite interests and aspirations. People can have the greatest influence on productivity, excellence, and quality, but only if leaders can empower employees and give them more autonomy while maintai ... 3 Steps to Manifesting Your Ideal Life by Edwin Harkness Spina Over the past several weeks I've received dozens of email solicitations for books, CDs and videos that promise to reveal newly discovered techniques to improve my life. These emails promise a wide variety of benefits: how to get rich, lose weight, meet the woman of my dreams and buy a million dollar mansion with no money down. In some cases the salesman will throw in a Author's Biography: Edwin Harkness Spina is the author of the award-winning spiritual thriller Mystic Warrior. Receiv ... How to Identify Unconscious Beliefs by Edwin Harkness Spina Know thyself. These words were inscribed in the vestibule of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. For centuries, petitioners seeking advice from the oracle at Delphi would view the inscription. Philosophers throughout the ages offered this same advice to their students. These words are as valuable today as they were almost three thousand years earlier. Part of knowing yourself is understanding your beliefs. The difficulty is that most beliefs are subconscious. They have been accepted w ... Mental Alchemy: How to Change Your Experience of Reality by Edwin Harkness Spina Back in the Middle Ages alchemists sought to transform base metal into gold. They searched for an elusive substance, the philosopher's stone, which would bring about this conversion, known as alchemy. But to initiates of the ancient mystery schools, alchemy was primarily an allegory for the real work of spiritual and mental alchemy. Spiritual alchemy is the process of transforming a less evolved soul personality into a more refined one. The founders of all major religions have attempted to e ... Masters of Business Administration - MBA Degree - Facts by Ispas Marin Masters of Business Administration represents a tertiary degree in business management. The MBA degree is the best known degree worldwide and most widely recognized post-graduate degree. It was originally created to help engineers acquire management skills, but nowadays MBA degrees focus on a broad range of subjects. The MBA degree is usually regarded as a professional degree as well as an academic or traditional Masters' degree. MBA degrees are usually offered by management or business schoo ... What Exactly is an MBA Degree? by Ispas Marin An MBA (Master of Business Administration) is a graduate degree obtained at a university or college that offers both theoretical and practical training to provide graduates general knowledge about general business management functions. The MBS degree may have a specific focus as: accounting, marketing or finance. An MBA degree represents a level upward from an undergraduate business course and its achievement places the graduate far above other candidates owning just an undergraduate degree. ... Joining A Self Help Group Can Be Good For You! by Royane Real When you are facing a particularly difficult time in your life, whether it’s because you’re struggling with an addiction, or perhaps because someone you love is an addict, or if you are finding life hard because you have just been diagnosed with a serious illness, or if you don’t have many friends to turn to because you are socially isolated, there is an easy way that you can quickly fill your life with kind and caring people who will help you on your journey. Many people have found that a go ... “Give ‘em the Ball.” An Example of Great Coaching by Richard L. Williams, Ph.D Many years ago I learned a valuable lesson on leadership from a very wise little-league football coach. I had volunteered as an assistant coach for my son’s 12 year-old peewee football team, and with that responsibility was the opportunity to help the head coach. This elderly coach had been coaching the entry-level peewees for many years, even though his boys had long since graduated from that level. His style clearly wasn’t what I expected. He was more like a lovable teddy bear than a tradition ... Deadlines by Dorene Lehavi When I told my friend Maxim (pronounced Maxeem) that I was working against a deadline, he blurted in his adorable French accent, “Whazat mean?” He continued, “You gonna be dead if you don't make it? The sun will stop shining? The birds will stop singing? The trees will stop growing?” Well, that certainly put me in my place, and as Maxim always does, he moved me from anxiety to laughter. Maxim told me he knew of no other culture which uses such a severe word as DEADline to indicate the time w ... Is Your To Do List Too Long? by Dorene Lehavi Are you one of those people who is overwhelmed by the number of items on your to-do list? Unwieldy to-do lists often have a mix of daily tasks, projects and long-term goals, and can sometimes look so overwhelming, we procrastinate even the simplest of tasks. An easy solution is to create more than one list. Are there some things on your list that you transfer from week-to-week and never complete? Ask yourself the reason for the procrastination. Perhaps it makes more sense to transfer some ... Motivational Tips and Questions by Dorene Lehavi As you know, I write, coach and do seminars on helping people find their passion and build their lives around doing what they love. I know one of the big challenges in the process is to stay motivated, and the secret to staying motivated is to continually check in with yourself and clarify where you are. 10 Tips To Keep You On Track: 1. Shake things up. Change your scenery. Go somewhere and do something different. 2. Engage in a confidante who will help be your sounding board. 3 ... Rate Your Self Esteem by Dorene Lehavi Negative self talk is the best way to keep your self esteem on the low end of whatever scale you use. Many people give themselves messages throughout each day that they are a loser, stupid, foolish, inadequate. You may add your own words. If a parent said those things to a child regularly, what chance would that child have of a good sense of themself, in other words, good self esteem? Think of yourself as your own child. Everyone makes mistakes; some days just feel down and everything g ... Your Life’s Work by Dorene Lehavi I stopped by the nursery to ask an expert to come to my house to see why my beautiful young tree appeared to be dying. He told me the tree was beyond help and couldn't be saved much to my sadness. He began pruning some of my overgrown plants and asked if I'd like him to continue. Much appreciated, I said. He instructed me as we moved through the yard. He worked like a symphony. You could tell that he didn't learn what he was doing in a classroom. He was working from somewhere inside of ... Helping the Dying by Nikhil Gangoli HELPING THE DYING I have had no experience with death and dying. My grandparents and a few other friends and relatives died in my lifetime but I was too young and not skillful enough to help them at the times of their deaths. The content of this article has been sourced from the Tibetan book on Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. This is a modern classic and introduces the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in a way which can be applied in our modern, westernized world. The chapter titled Heart ... Basic Knowledge on Pop Art Paintings by Ispas Marin Pop art was an art movement that initially occurred in the United States of America in the early sixties. The epicenter of this art phenomenon was New York, the city confirming its trend setting leader position. Although this movement strongly erupted in the early sixties, the attempts of change started during the late fifties in the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. These painters wanted to replace the abstract mode of artistic expression, aiming at making the art’s message easier t ... Things You Should Know about Pop Art Paintings History by Ispas Marin Pop art was an artistic movement that represented a strong shift from the influence of the abstract expressionism. Pop art paintings brought an original form of making art by introducing techniques of commercial art and everyday life illustrations. This movement first occurred in Great Britain in the late 1950s and it was meant to be a redefinition of the metaphysical gravity of the abstract expressionism. Pop art paintings were mainly characterized by the insertion of everyday life images o ... The High Cost of Living Unconciously by Debbie Friedman Have you ever heard of the term “Highway Hypnosis”? It’s a term that’s been coined for what goes on in major metropolitan areas every day. Your conscious mind becomes overloaded by information from your body, environment, subconscious mind, and conscious mind, so that your subconscious mind takes over and moves into the driver’s seat. We all know the high cost of driving unconsciously. You can slam into someone’s car and not know how you got there. Here’s the real question, though: Wha ... Basic Meditation Techniques Build a Strong Foundation by Chesa Keane In this technique, you will focus on your breath to develop an unconscious connection so the positive feelings of relaxation, peace and well-being will be established within you and you'll be capable of retrieving these feeling whenever you wish. Do not rush this process or hold unrealistic expectations of fast results. It takes time to train your mind to exercise basic control of your thoughts before you can direct the mind toward specific intentions. Level 1: The first stage of meditation ... Basic Relaxation Techniques Create Better Health by Chesa Keane Basic Relaxation Technique When you first try this exercise, you may want to begin by lying on the floor or on your bed. However, if you are tired, you may find that you cannot stay awake and you won't be able to develop the skill of conscious relaxation. This is a great exercise to help you sleep better at night, but for purposes of developing an awakened sense of relaxation, consider whether lying down works for you or not. If you too easily drift off to sleep, begin by sitting in a chai ... Prosperity Can be Easy and Fun! by Keith Varnum When I was nineteen, I read my first self-improvement book. Wow, I could make my living doing something I loved to do? Amazingly good news? … Not! When I encountered this exciting proposition, I got really depressed. Depressed? The message of these books was supposed to be uplifting and inspiring. I should be rejoicing! Instead I felt discouraged and disheartened. Why? Because this optimistic suggestion felt so outlandish, so unattainable. I actually burned many of the first self-help books I ... 5 Tips To Gain A Winning Advantage In Life by Chris Green Do you wish you could live your dream life? Here’s 5 top tips to help turn your dream into reality… 1. Invest in your dream. This will mean investing time to develop the necessary skills and investing money to develop skills - equipment, books, courses, seminars - to take you closer to your goals. These are investments in yourself – in your dream and are never wasted. My best friend is currently studying to be a commercial pilot. The process will cost him around FIFTY THOUSAND dollars. Some i ... The Bible: Fact or Fiction? by Bert terHart How many times have you heard someone comment on whether the Bible is fact or fiction? One too many I'll bet. But the real question is whether or not it matters. Some of you may already be pounding your monitor and crying Author's Biography: Learn the essential keys that can enrich your bible studies and deepen your faith. To receive your free 10-part mini-course ... The Impossible Dream by graham and julie The 72,500 men, women and children sat in an uncomfortable silence, no one daring to cough, no one daring to speak, each one focussed on the young 27 year old. Each one knowing, this was the start of the impossible dream. The dream they had had for 27 years. A dream they had dreamed every year of this boy’s life. Now it could become reality. Now it was possible. And then: failure. The dream was dashed. The young man had missed the first opportunity to put their team ahead in the annual battle ... Mr. Brown is coming! The Need for Feedback and Coaching by Richard L. Williams, Ph.D. “Get a move on, Mr. Brown is coming!” Those were the words I heard about once a month when I was a 14-year-old kid working as a stock boy in a retail store. It was usually my store manager making the statement. And Mr. Brown was our district manager who came to inspect our store. The visit lasted a few hours and during that time he would walk the store and look for things he didn’t like. I have no recollection of him ever speaking directly to me, although I remember him watching from a distance ... | ||||||
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