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Progressing your career
Thinking on your feet

How to set powerful goals you can achieve

In order to set powerful goals that are achievable, take some time to research the dreams you have to find out if they’re even doable. You do want to challenge yourself some but you don’t want to make the goals so hard that you experience only failure. To ensure maximum success, make sure that your...
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How to find motivation to achieve your goals

One of the biggest mistakes people make when seeking to achieve a goal is to wait for inspiration and motivation. Imagine if everyone on this planet waited for motivation to get work done. Productivity would drop to nothing, and our economy would collapse. Since productivity has improved over the years, it’s not likely that it...
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Ask don’t tell leadership: When to start your own business?

When to start your own business? Q: After working at one company for 10 years, I would like to begin my own business. What issues do I need to consider, and how do I know when it is the right time to take the ‘big step?’ A: Almost 20 years ago, my roommate asked me...
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How to create a pattern of success

Once you experience success you will be able to look back and realize that you achieve all success pretty much the same way. You set a goal, follow through on the tasks needed to be done for achieving results, keep an open mind, learn from others, track your successes and learn from failure. Itís the...
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Are your limiting beliefs stopping you from achieving your goals?

Everyone has conscious or subconscious ideas that can become limiting beliefs that stop us from achieving our goals if we let them. Sometimes these beliefs are instilled in us in childhood and sometimes we create them ourselves. An example of a limiting belief that can get in your way of success is how you see...
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Are you a victim of vagueness or a champion of clarity?

It is estimated that our brains receive information through our senses that result in some four billion neuron impulses per second. Of these four billion pieces of information we are only consciously aware of about 2,000. That’s only 0.00005%. It’s happening to you right now. I bet, until I mention it now, that you were...
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Leader

A key element in public speaking: timing pauses

Timing is essential when speaking in public. The cliche: It is not what you say but more on how you say it, applies so much to public speaking. Where you put your pauses during your presentation is one of the important aspects of maintaining an audience that is free from drowsing off. Couple this with...
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A good leader knows the team’s colours

Leadership can be a very challenging task. As leaders we donít always get to choose who is on our team. In fact very often a leader inherits a team, of which most of the members have been there far longer than the leader, and may even know more about the work than the leader. Whatever...
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Banish the January blues with a career detox

The festivities are all over and maybe you’re suffering the consequences of over indulgence from the past few weeks, possibly regretting eating that last mince pie or two. Not only do you have that to contend with, you have to drag yourself out of bed on these cold, dark January mornings to go and do...
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Local networking events

Have you ever been invited to a networking breakfast? Or a networking lunch? These may should sort of strange to the person who has never been to one before, but these types of situations are key to moving yourself to talk with others about what you do, how you do it, and what you provide...
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