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Marianne Van Weezep - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Hi Everyone,
I recently came back from the US Virgin Islands where I spent five years developing a Restaurant/Deli/Bar and Internet Café. Loving the sun and ocean but feeling the need to expand, I moved back to Ontario, Canada to be closer to my family.
I spent 12 years, prior to going to the islands, as a Business Consultant and Professional Coach. During this time I became a certified Individual Development Counseling, Group Facilitator and Organizational ... [More]
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- Mind Power - 3 Ways Towards True Self - Empowerment
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The discoveries in science, psychology, and biology shows we are the rarest of all species in the world because our creator gave us a mind to think. We have the ability to use our mind by controlling our thoughts to create the environment in our life determined by us. Our only responsibility is to figure out the how.
- The 3 Biggest Myths About Goal Setting
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Goal setting is easily becoming more popular as we strive to continue to realize the greatest expectations in ourselves. Here are 3 important myths you should understand about the goal setting process.
- 8 Strategies For Making Telephone Time Count
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] The telephone can easily be the greatest challenge we face when dealing with time. The insistence of the ring sends a message of urgency to the brain. It is not necessarily what the call is about which sends the urgency, but rather, the necessity to stop the ringing of the phone. Couple this with curiosity and you have a recipe for disaster of your time schedule.
- 6 Steps For Getting Your Paperwork Back Into Control
[Self-Improvement:Organizing] We're all familiar with the expression, "A sign of a cluttered desk, is a sign of a cluttered mind." The cluttered office comes with many time wasters, financial loss, and information overload. As time passes, the individual in the cluttered office does not recognize it as a state of clutter but instead sees it as a state of mental organization. They know where everything is. Do you know anyone like this?
- Setting Goals Requires Your Motive For Action
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] One problem experienced by many is the belief motivation is an external force. We pay big money to attend seminars and courses looking to be motivated. Let me tell you straight up nobody can motivate you to do anything. You can be inspired by events or by the actions of others - but you must find your own internal reason for doing.
- 10 Goals You Can Control in Increasing Traffic to Your Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] The critical factor to your online success will be how much traffic you can get. This will take a lot of work on your part, unless you are one of the fortunate who can afford to buy traffic, but it is doable. Remember traffic is king because traffic equals potential customers. The potential customers are your ability to earn a revenue stream. Earning money means you are really in business and not just working at trying to be in business.
- Why & When You Should Never Quit
[Self-Improvement:Success] There are many events in our life that push us to want to quit but there are far greater reasons why we shouldn't! There is an old expression of "the hills roll down tears of water to fill the lands with hope of growth."
- 15 Ways to Maximize Your Reading Effectiveness
[Self-Improvement:Speed-Reading] Did you know the average person reads less than a book a year? Did you know to be an expert in your industry you only have to read one book a month? Most of us know reading is essential to the development of our self. It helps us to understand the world in which we live by keeping us up to date with news, trends, and technologies. This is not the only reason we should work hard to develop the habit of reading on a regular basis.
- 5 Things You Can Do Before Driving Traffic to Your Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Wonder what the big dogs are doing to make their site ready? Do you know what 5 things you can check to make sure you have at least covered the basics?
- 7 Strategies to Keep Your Online Business Growing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Building a business on any level has always been complicated. There is the learning curve, your financial investment, your time investment, understanding your customer, formulated marketing strategies, and an extreme desire to spend every waking moment to develop your product line to perfection and a whole lot more.
- Goal Setting is Challenging But Oh So Rewarding
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Goal setting is one of the most challenging and rewarding tasks, you can do in your life. It commands supreme concentration and causes you to think about what it is you are doing in relation to what you want. It puts power and control in your hands.
- Planning & Scheduling Using Your 6 Best Friends
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Planning and scheduling is the most crucial area in dealing with your time effectively, and the most misunderstood. Most people feel it is a waste of time to spend a few hours doing this. Although it seems time-consuming, if we fail to do this we easily run the risk of becoming activity-oriented, firing aimlessly in midair. Forgetting the aim is as important as the shot.
- Strategic Self-Management - Part 3 of 3 - Having the Time & Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] In my work, I often come across individuals who use time management as a crutch to avoid life. What I mean by this is they are, so incredibly focused on producing and managing details that they have forgotten to include rest, quality family time, relationship building, or even time for improving health, into their plans.
- Get Into Control With the ABC's of Priority Management
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] If you have never prioritized your activities before, it is hard to know exactly where to start. When we focus on completing tasks, we tend to want to make everything on our list more urgent then it actually is.
- Strategic Self Management System - Understanding the Basics of Time Management
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time is elusive, a moment, an essence, an ethereal space. You cannot see it, feel it, or taste it. It is merely an instrument, if we choose to use it in measuring our accomplishments. To identify if we are achieving a return on investment for energy expended in the space we call time.
- 9 Vital Ingredients to Positive Goal Setting & Doing it With Focus
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When directing your life with clear intent these keys are critical for you to rely on. These keys form the litmus test ensuring your goals are actually achievable while others will inspire you to continue forward.
- To Thine Own Self Be True Blue
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] When deciding what goals to set always remain true blue. If you really want to be at home raising your children then listen to yourself and never mind the opinions of others. If you want to home school - do it. If you want a new job, promotion, education credentials - just do it!
- Strategic Self-Management System - Part 2 of 3 - Dealing With the 28 Top Time Wasters
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time management is imperative for those moving on the fast track. If you want to increase your overall productivity or boost productivity, time management is a good place to start. It assists in the overall enhancement of increasing talents, skills, and abilities.
- New Blue Zone Challenge - 21 Things You Can Do Today to Live Healthier & Longer
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] What if it didn't cost us a dime to live longer and healthier? What if we could get the same proven results as those who have gone before us? Would we want to know how? Could we change current habits and behaviors?
- Strategies For Success - 9 Great Reasons to Improve Your Skills
[Self-Improvement:Success] We all have areas in which we could improve our skills. We can easily improve our Business Leadership skills, our Management or Time Management skills, Goal Setting, Reading, Problem Solving and all with just a little bit of effort on our part.
- A Muse on Technology - Is it a Help Or Hindrance to Growth?
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Have you ever wondered, with all the changes in technology how it effects your growth? The impact on your life and what you could do to change it?
- The Great Depression Brings Great Depression But Not a Loss of Hope - 5 Steps to Take Back Control
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] In times of great change and upheaval, we can experience depression, loss of belief but most importantly a loss of our sense of self. What can we do during to realign during difficult times?
- The Art of Goal Setting - Taking Control of Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Dreams, wishes, Strategic Planning, Organizational Planning, Brainstorming, Problem Solving, participating in Success Workshops are all forms of the goal setting process. It is where you provide the thought process to determine where you want to go and how you will get there.
- Computer Viruses & the Conficker Worm - 3 Steps You Must Take
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] CNN is reporting Cyber Crime is up 33% over last year. Most of this crime is related towards trying to sell us Malware software and some to just plain disrupt the information stream. Twitter, being one of the most recent large social networks to have been infiltrated, affecting CNN's Rick Sanchez's account, Barack Obama's and Britney Spears just to name a few, where hackers were able to use their passwords and post harmful disinformation.
- Strategic Self-Management - Part 1 - 3 Critical Factors to Great Time Management
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] When time management tools were first implemented, their principal benefit was they promoted tracking of our appointments or commitments. As the demands for our time increased, time management tools also increased in their functionality. Today they assist in managing long-term objectives (goals) while strategically managing day-to-day priorities.
- Ingenuity in Green Recycling - 5 Things You Can Do Today to Take Control
[Health-and-Fitness:Environmental-Issues] Today living the green life is much more than just recycling metal cans and paper. It's the revolution against the water bottle.
- Taking the Guess Work Out of Getting Internet Traffic - The 5 Fastest Ways to the Top
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Ever wonder why some sites can reach the top and other's are on page 1,000? Do you want to be able to move your website or affiliate product to the top of the list? In order to do this you must not only enhance your key words when listing your site but you must dedicate serious time in each of these areas.
- Aging Gracefully With a Little Help - 10 Tips to Prevent Rapid Aging
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Skin care products have made rapid and major scientific advancements in the past twenty years. From the lines of new cosmetics, teeth whitening, acne treatments and, you guessed it, wrinkle creams known as our anti aging products.
- Online Success - 6 Sure Fire Ways to Reach the Top
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Only 1% of the population currently reaps 99% of the financial rewards on-line but it looks like this may soon change. With more and more information available, it is becoming easier for the average person to apply the same strategies.
- How to Lose Weight & Get Fabulous Abs - Top 5 Things You Must Know
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Have you ever wondered, with the amount of diet and weight loss programs, infomercials, books and videos flooding the market place today what it really takes to get fabulous abs? Do you not wonder if all of those things really worked why we are still struggling with obesity? Well, if you are ready to try again, here are some things that can help to make it easier to understand.
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