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Beliefs - The "Stuff
That Dreams Are Made Of"
Beliefs are one of the most powerful tools of influence – they give
meaning and direction. Beliefs can be either Empowering or Limiting,
with corresponding results. To alter, one must let go of the old and
reach for the new.
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Success
- What You Believe is What You Receive
Success is dependent upon what one believes is possible…or impossible.
Know what you want. Focus on it. Set a course of action and begin taking
one step at a time, incorporating focus and intent towards completion.
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Strategies
– How Do You Know What To Do, To Do What You’re Doing?
A strategy is an order; a sequence; a recipe for getting consistent
results. To get consistent results in the business arena is to be aware
of what is effective...and what is not! Learn both effective (and non-effective)
strategies and create a Winning Recipe for consistent effective outcomes.
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Don’t
Think of a Purple Cow – (Effective Language Skills)
It’s impossible for you to NOT consider what you are asked NOT to
consider. How we communicate life to ourselves (interpreting what we
see, hear, feel) determine our behavior and outcomes. People who "succeed"
have learned to take any challenge and communicate it to themselves
to get effective results.
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Competition:
Friend or Foe
Competition is based upon comparing yourself to another, and it
is impossible to compare because no two people are exactly the same.
Make competition a Friend and begin doing "your" best , allowing
all you come in contact with to push you in becoming better than your
best. Then you have achieved much.
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Motivation:
The Driving Force
Establishing compelling "towards" motivators and eliminating
diminishing "away from" motivators (which continuously keep
one from excelling beyond their pre-conceived images). Rather than "impressing"
others, learn to "express" your talents by internalizing your
desires, thereby establishing inner faith and self-worth.
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Values
- The Road to Success
Values motivate what you do in life. A value is a fundamental belief
based upon the ethical, moral and practical decisions you make about
what is important. Values provide a strong foundation and without a
specific direction one has no direction.
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Passion
without Goals &
Goals = Stress; Zero Points = Success
Goals often induce stress – the highest form of emotional and physical
breakdown. Goals are contracts to a future (which no one can predict),
thereby destroying the integrity of living in the "Now," where
the best choices exist. By focusing on strategic "Zero Points"
one is able to stay focused each day while ultimately achieving the
desired (future) outcome.
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What
You Think is Who You Are (Eliminating Negative Self-Talk)
The most important (and most destructive) conversations…are with
yourself! Internal dialogue highly influences your life. Becoming aware
of conscious/unconscious negative self-talk allows you to take action
and begin directing thoughts to enhance life.
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Nothing’s
Perfect
Perfection implies there is no room for growth because everything
is as you want it and it should stay that way. Wonderful concept, except
that without growth there is often stagnation. Perfection, or "utopia"
eliminates an essential element human’s thrive on – challenge. It takes
dedication, commitment, and perseverance to continue growing in whatever
field of endeavor one is pursuing.
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Breaking
the Mold by Eliminating Definitions
You are the concept you hold inside yourself. Once you define yourself
you spend most of your time, energy and effort defending or supporting/upholding
the actualization of your definition. Eliminating definitions allows
one to excel beyond the "prison" of image.
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Physiology
Makes the Difference
The way you use your physiology – your posture, breath, facial
expression, muscle tension/relaxation and overall level of biochemical
functioning – has an impact on your "state of being." Learn
to use your physiology as an effective "tool" to produce results.
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Overcoming Obstacles Takes
a Leap of Faith
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations." Obstacles arise whenever a
definitive outcome has been established. Learn how to "simply deal
with them, instead of making them a big deal!"
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Establishing
Rapport Through Matching and Mirroring
Matching and Mirroring is a wonderful technique for quickly
establishing rapport. Rapport can create trust between you and your
client/employee/manager/team. With trust you can break through barriers
and communicate in new ways. This is an essential tool for both in-person
and phone correspondence.
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How
Do You Interpret the World?
Your experiences throughout life are determined by how you perceive
events and how you communicate those events to yourself. – your Internal
Representation. It’s essential to take management of your life in order
to create what you want. Learn how to interpret the world in new, enhancing
ways that will affect all areas of life.
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Eliminating
Fear of Failure
Failure – a word; concept; lack of "success." Fear of
Failure is a belief or limitation based upon your personal definition
of "success." If you knew you wouldn’t fail, what would you
attempt to do? Begin by understanding there is no such thing as failure
– only outcomes and results to assist you in learning and growing as
an individual.
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Stop
Stress and Burnout
Many people actually "live" in a place of overwhelm and
stress, producing burn-out (or depression). If you are operating from
a place of stress/burnout/depression you are never available to be your
best, and that reflects in performance. Stress is an imbalance.
Learn how to manage your world and begin incorporating strategies to
enhance balance.
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Nothing
"Happens" When you Live in the "Cause"
Most people live in the "effect" of life – living in
the outcome without taking responsibility of getting there. It takes
courage to live life in the "cause" and take 100% responsibility
for your life. To live in the "cause" is to apply Inner Focus
to all you do, thereby eliminating the possibility for "accidents"
or "things happening."
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A
River That Flows Always Grows
Many people get caught in familiar "patterns" and forget
to infiltrate "newness/
creativity" to their work. It is wise to observe your work objectively
- knowing when to take action - stretching yourself into new dimensions.
This will allow you to maintain a growing, flowing business.
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Winning
Your Daily Battles
Battle: a conscious plan of action. Fight: a re-action of some
kind, usually unconscious. Daily life encompasses many confrontations
(both internal and external). Most people end up in re-action mode,
"fighting" the situation. "Inner Focusing" techniques
teach you how to incorporate and apply a conscious plan of action to
all situations, thereby allowing you to begin taking "action"
instead of "re-acting."
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Making
Life Personal versus Taking Life Personal
Most people end up "taking" life personal instead of
"making" life personal, blaming people/places/things/events
for any inconvenient circumstance. One must take responsibility for
life because life is personal! How you perceive daily events and how
you act upon the events actually dictate the direction in which you
life moves.
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Hocus
Pocus or is it Focus!
Creating a rewarding business (or getting specific results) doesn’t
just magically happen! There is a certain "focus" one must
consistently implement. Focus is the ability to consistently apply "conscious
awareness" in a specific direction. It is to look beyond the problem
and focus on a solution.
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Eliminating
Stress "Through Chunking it Down"
Stress is an instinctive reaction to overwhelm. The tool of "chunking
it down" allows you to take the overwhelming "Bigger Picture"
and make it into small, manageable "chunks" that you can easily
handle. This allows you to increase performance because you are able
to focus on one thing at a time.
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Developing
Your Presence
Presence is an inner connection; a quality of self-assurance, emanating
from those effectively capturing the "state" of being present.
Developing Presence allows potential clients/business associates to
have faith in your abilities. There exists a uniqueness that is attractive
and assuring. You must eliminate scattered parts and pieces and learn
to "contain" your energies - learning to stay inside yourself
and focus your attention/
awareness into the moment.
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Peak
Performance-The Silence Within
Peak Performance is living in Heightened Awareness through containing
your one-focused attention/awareness consistently. It is an experience
of becoming one with yourself and whatever you are doing - an uninterrupted
internal focus, being aware of everything while attached to nothing. Peak
Performance is obstructed by anxiety, stress, fear, etc. Learn tools to
assist with Presentations, Sales, Managing, Organization Skills, and living
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