Self-Awareness - The 3 Keys to Achievement - Attitude, Action and Acknowledgment

"Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." ~Anonymous
Most people want to achieve success but it is important to be mindful that the definition of success may be different for each individual. In order to achieve what you want there are three important elements - attitude, actions and acknowledgments.

Attitude

The first step is to assess your attitude and how it helps or hinders your achievements. If negative beliefs keep popping up, it generally results in an unproductive outcome. Negative thinking can consist of constant worry, "what if" scenarios or not trusting yourself to manage and cope. Constant negativity tends to block creativity. When you assume the worst it is hard to think and complete things. Have you ever had one of those days when doubt keeps cropping up. Eg. "I'll never complete this project on time." or " I don't think my boss believes I am capable." With these kinds of thoughts on your mind, how effective will you be in completing your work?

A positive attitude contributes to a belief that you have the ability to handle situations. It does not mean that you always have a "happy, nothing can bother me attitude", but rather when stuff happens you are able to deal with it. You want to make sure that you do not magnify the positive and minimize the negative and thereby don't see the reality of a situation. As you move up the career ladder you will need to be able to accurately assess both the positives and negatives and then make decisions.

Actions

Actions are your behaviors, the things you do which move you toward your goals. Taking action is an important step towards achievement. People sometimes assume that only big things count as taking action. However it is often the small, steady actions which contribute to you reaching your goals.

Inaction is paradoxically a form of action. If you have difficulty or avoid making decisions because you want to be sure you only do the "right" thing, you often end up doing nothing. You may also choose to do nothing because you have determined that it is the right decision at the time.

Sometimes fear may prevent you from doing or trying things that will lead you toward achievement. Perhaps you have a fear of public speaking, but you need to develop the skill in order to move your career or business forward. It would be important to begin to take small action steps, doing things that will make you more comfortable with speaking in public.

Maybe you have difficulty saying "no" which results in you constantly taking on additional assignments leading to being overwhelmed. Your action might be to begin saying "no" or a variation of "no." This might be something such as, "that would mean two projects to be completed at the same time, which would you like me to work on?" or "In order to do that I would have to delegate some of my other work. Is that OK with you?"

Acknowledgments

Paying attention to what you have completed or accomplished and expressing gratitude for what you have and towards others are powerful strategies for moving you forward in your life.

There may be people you know who have difficulty accepting a compliment. They might either ignore or minimize it. This generally relates to someone's self image. If you do not consider yourself "worthy" of positives then you tend to discard them. This may be a remnant from childhood when perhaps you received a lot of criticism. It is important to remember when you disregard positive feedback, you are conveying a message of disrespect towards the person who is offering it.

Acknowledging and expressing appreciations is also important. Walking down the street and saying hello to people, holding a door open or saying thank you are small ways of acknowledging others. When you do things for others or have them done for you, how does it impact your mood?

Evaluate your definition of success. The three components of achieving the life you desire are your attitude, your actions and acknowledgments. Perhaps now is a good time to become more aware of how you use these qualities in your daily life.

Copyright 2008, Gail Solish. All rights reserved.

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Write More Articles

Well, I am not suggesting anything out of the ordinary. I am not even suggesting to engage your friends or your spouse to do the work for you. Article writing is something which needs to be enjoyed thoroughly well.

Article writing by the bulk and the secret of maintaining quality

Notice the mistake professional articles authors make. They write a lot of them every often and get tired for the next day. Herein lies the secret of writing more. It stands for writing more every day.

Let me tell the simple steps you need to adopt successfully.

• Make a list of 50 keywords on which you are going to write articles in the next 5-6 days
• This doesn't mean that your keywords should be 50 different & unconnected topics
• For better results, you can have 10 keyword variants of 5 main words or vice versa
• Write on two or three of them in one stretch so that the research doesn't go waste unless you derived maximum out of it
• Make sure you write in stretches of 3-4 hours and produce at least 4 articles of 2 main keywords(for word counts of 350-400)
• Repeat the above 3 times every day with judicious breaks in between. This need not be truncated or curtailed breaks. The lengths of each can be mathematically equal to 1/2 hour but can be flexible as per the need of the hour
• Make a time table for completion and go on coloring cells against each topic or keyword variant with column for dates
• There are no hard and fast rules that you have to write articles in a sequence too. You can choose topics randomly from your list
Number of columns equal the number of days you take to finish. As you go on coloring the columns cell by cell, you feel not tired but enthused more and more. Keep different colors for different date columns.

Alternately, if you are ghost writing for others, you can still implement the same but you can switch between the buyers if you need to do so in order to break the monotony.

This technique beats the monotonous routine, too as you would be writing on different topics each hour. Alternating the topics repeatedly helps in with fast finish to the subsequent article.

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Did Jesus Pray to God - Christianity

When Jesus was a little boy, did he know that he was God? He was obviously Jewish and we can't argue with that, but did he pray to God when he was little or even when he was older. Do you think Jesus's mom had him pray even though she knew that he was God, the creator of everything. Did Mary pray to Jesus when he was a baby? It was obviously established very early in his life that he was a king or someone special to his parents.

I can of course based this on the visit from the wise man or the three Kings from the east. Why these people never came back to visit or find out what happened to Jesus is another story.

I want you as a Christian to put yourself in my shoes for a moment and try to visualize the statement that I am about to make. If Jesus is God, what good would it do for him to pray to himself. I know, it probably makes sense to most Christians and they can probably make sense out of it but for a moment, just think about it. Stop reading and reread the first sentence in the paragraph.

If Jesus wasn't God, it would make sense to see him praying or even read about him praying in the Bible. It wouldn't however make a lot of sense for him to pray to himself. Maybe he was trying to create an illusion for his followers and was just going through the motions or pretending like he was praying so that they wouldn't feel out of place. I don't really know and am only guessing why there are so many pictures of him praying in churches all over the world.

If there truly is a Trinity and this consists of the Holy Spirit, God and Jesus, do they pray to each other? Does the Holy Spirit pray to Jesus or when Jesus is on earth he prays to the Holy Spirit or God. I don't want to start confusing anyone but I would like you to think about this when you're reading the Bible, was Jesus praying to God and if so why.

A little bit of thinking can go a long way and often change someone's point of view.

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How to Achieve Financial Freedom With a Powerful Goal

Some of the most popular search terms on Google are about money and how to get it, often in a short amount of time. At some point in most of our lives we need or want more of it. But if financial freedom is our goal, just how do we make this work for us? How do we motivate ourselves to have the money that we want?

Most coaches and self-help books will teach you that goals need to be specific, measurable, realistic and time-based. This seems easy when it comes to money; we just state exactly how much we want (for example, a yearly or monthly income), how we're going to achieve it and by when we want to have it.

But just how powerful is the goal of a specific income? Is the achievement of money a goal in itself, or is there a more powerful goal we could use to pull ourselves forwards to financial freedom?

A large number of people searching on Google use the term, "I want money". There's nothing wrong with that, but when people start saying "All I want is money", I get a little dubious.

I don't know about you, but the idea of acquiring large amounts of pieces of coloured paper, or black figures on a bank statement does not really inspire me. Not as an ultimate goal.

What we tend to forget is that money itself is not the true motivator. When we say we want money, we are really saying that we want the things that money can buy. What those things are is a matter of personal choice. For some it might be material things such as a new car, a big country house or a yacht. For others it might be the ability to send their kids to university, or take four holidays a year, and for some it might just having a sense of security or freedom, or being able to contribute to charity. Or it might be a mixture of all of these.

These things are far more motivating to us than just having the tool to acquire them. After all, when a builder builds a house, does he only set his mind on acquiring trowels and hammers and all the other tools that are needed, or does he visualise the building that those tools will build? The answer to that is a no-brainer, yet many of us seem to do this when it comes to money.

Money is, in fact, no more than a tool. The builder needs his tools in order to build his house, but acquiring them is just a step in the process. Furthermore, if he only thought of how he was going to acquire the tools, I doubt he would ever be motivated to build a beautiful house.

In order to create the inspiration and motivation that will give us the key to getting the tools (i.e. money), we need to make our goal the thing that those tools will build for us.

Think about the joy and sense of achievement you will feel when you turn the key in the door of your new home, or when you see the delight on your children's faces when you take them to Disneyland, or the sense of freedom when you have a lifestyle where you no longer have to worry about meeting the monthly bills.

These are the goals that will get you out of bed every morning and get you taking the steps to make the money that will bring them to you.

You will, of course, need to be aware of how much money you will need in order to create these goals, but your money goal is now part of your action plan: a stepping stone on the way to your ultimate goal. When you visualise your goal, you will be visualising something real and personal: your house, your family's happiness, your own daily lifestyle in detail, in colour and with all the feelings that go with it.

It is far easier to visualise your goal when it is personal, than it is to visualise an income level. Your goal is now far more meaningful to you, and will set you on course for achieving financial freedom.

Instead of merely chasing money, you are now on a path to the life of your dreams.

Ros is a career life coach and writer, and runs her own online business.

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Article Writing 101: 7 Tips To On-Line Research For Your Articles, White Papers And Business Books

As we continue to live in an ever fast paced world and information and research seems to date quicker than ever, it's not surprising that we turn to the ease of the Internet search engines to provide us with relevant content to quote in blog posts, articles, proposals and even in books that we write.

However, when referencing sources in our writing, we need to make sure that the references we quote from can be trusted. This is especially true when quoting other peoples articles and referencing them in our own blog posts, articles, white papers or other writing.

Take for example the"expert" in their field who was profiled in a highly respected on-line newsletter in which they write a column.

The subject of the article was about whether to write UK English or US English when writing white papers for lead generation.

In the article they gave examples of words spelled in US English and UK English - the only problem was that the spellings in UK English were incorrect and incomplete.

So what was the impact of this?

Well, as a result, their personal brand and reputation as an expert was left tarnished. They were being positioned as an expert in the publication, but as their facts were incorrect, anyone reading the article who knew the difference between the UK and US spellings and examples of grammar quoted would immediately discredit the article. In other words, the "expert" was not going to be seen as being credible.

So how can we prevent this happening to us?

Here are seven easy tips to apply when researching on-line for your articles, white papers and business books:

1. If you are going to use on-line sources for information, make sure that the resource is trusted and has accurate and relevant content
2. Check your on-line source out against other points of reference - both on-line or off-line
3. If you are going to make a definitive statement make sure hat you are happy to stand by it in terms of it's accuracy if questioned
4. If you are expressing your opinion alongside the research based on your experience and expertise rather then be transparent
5. If you have some questions about the source, check back for clarification with the person who was the originator
6. Make sure that you have a link back to the source of the research in your writing, whether that be on-line or offline so that it is easy for you or others to refer to for clarification
7. And of course, if you are in any doubt about the accuracy of the research, don't use that source material.

Follow these seven steps when quoting information from on-line sources and you will be sure to keep your reputation and personal brand in your writing as the expert in your field in tact.

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Ways to Make Money Fast - Don't Fall Into the Following Trap

You know, it really is not a surprise that everyone seems to be looking for ways to make money right now. People left and right are scrambling to find new jobs after their old jobs simply disappeared, others are seeing their hours reduced while their bills seem to be getting even higher each month.

As a result, many people are thrown into a panic and end up making some bad choices in the search for extra money. There are lots of great ways to make good money quickly, easily, and safely. Unfortunately, panic seems to cloud better judgment sometimes and people find themselves in a bind.

Perhaps the worst thing you could do in a time of financial crisis is to ask your friends or your family for a loan. You might be wondering how this could possibly be a bad thing, but you may be surprised to learn just how many stable friendships can be destroyed after lending or borrowing money. Often times this is because people tend to try and bend the rules when they borrow from friends or family.

They might be late on the payments or not pay it back at all, thinking that the other party will just forgive them. However, money is always a sensitive subject for most people, and emotions can run high. If you must borrow from friends or family, then you would be wise to draw up a contract for all terms of the loan and the payback. Understand that if you do not keep your end of the deal, the other party has every right to seek legal action against you.

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Hiring a Contractor For Bathroom Remodeling - Remodeling Contractors

Well here's the age old question, how do we go about finding a decent bathroom remodeling contractor.

Here's some things you will be looking for in a contractor.

1. Is Your Contractor Fair and Honest?

2. Does Your Contractor Have Experience Remodeling and Designing Bathrooms?

3. Can You Actually Find a Contractor Who Will Complete the Job in a Timely Manner?

4. Do You Think the Workers Will Be Able to Clean the Job up Daily?

5. Will the Contractor Show up on Time?

6. Is the Contractor Going to Work At Least Eight Hours a Day?

7. Does the Contractor's Crew Have Experience?

8. Is Your Contractor and His Crew Courteous?

If you find a contractor for your bathroom remodeling project that has answered yes to all questions above, hire that person immediately. Most contractors can sincerely answer yes to half of the questions above. If you're looking for the ultimate bathroom remodeling contractor, you could be searching for quite a while, you're looking for some one that is competent and you feel comfortable with.

When hiring a contractor, look for someone who has your interest in mind first and not theirs. Find someone who is willing to help with the designed process of your bathroom and the remodeling. If you find a contractor to be arrogant or controlling, there is a good chance, your bathroom might not turn out the way you envision it.

When hiring a contractor for your bathroom remodeling project or any home improvement project, the most important thing to keep in mind is, whether or not you feel comfortable with this person or not. Never hire a contractor you're not comfortable with.

If a contractor is referred to you by someone you trust, this does not guarantee you will be happy with the bathroom remodel. Most referrals that I have gotten over the years are like rolling the dice, I believe I would have done just as good picking a name out of a hat.

Greg Vanden Berge is working on the internet to promote the education for creating simple to follow guides and home building books to help professional building contractors as well as the weekend warriors. He is currently working on more building stairs and adding useful content to help solve problems created by the lack of construction knowledge in the building industry.