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  • Just Say No To Worry
    By: Ken Keis | - Worry a little bit every day and, in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

    Mary Hemingway.

    Just Say No To Worry!

    Worry: To subject to persistent or nagging attention or effort; to afflict with mental distress or agitation; make anxious; to move, proceed, or progress by unceasing or difficult effort; to feel or experience concern or anxiety.
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  • Can You Know The Truth About Your Spirituality?
    By: Ken Keis | - Our scientific power has outrun our
    spiritual power.
    We have guided missiles and
    misguided men..

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    1929 - 1968

    Can You Know The Truth about Your Spirituality?

    Spirituality: Something that in ecclesiastical law belongs to the church or to a cleric as such; sensitivity or attachment to religious values; the quality or state of being spiritual
    Relativism: A view that ethical truths depend on the individual ...

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  • Transforming Leadership Is Everything
    By: Ken Keis | - "Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
    Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President
    1884 - 1972


    Transforming Leadership is Everything!

    Leadership: The activity of leading; the position of office of a leader; an act or instance of leading, guidance, direction; ability to lead; the func ...

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  • Whatever Happened To Business Ethics?
    By: Ken Keis | - "Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."
    Wayne Dwyer


    Whatever Happened to Business Ethics?

    Ethics: The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation; a set of moral principles; a theory or system of moral values; the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group; a guiding philosophy; a consciousness of moral importance.

    Corruption: Impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral pri ...

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  • The Tyrrany Of Political Correctness
    By: Ken Keis | - "Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness."
    Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


    The Tyranny of Political Correctness

    Politically Correct: Conforming to a belief that language and practices that could offend political sensibilities should be eliminated.

    The fact is political correctness has gone awry -- destroying the freedom and democracy that permitted it to occur in the first place.

    The premise n ...

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  • Building A Winning Team Takes Skill And Courage!
    By: Ken Keis | - "To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise."
    Mitchell Caplan, CEO
    E** Trade Group


    Building a Winning Team Takes Skill and Courage!

    Team: Marked by devotion to teamwork rather than individual achievement; to yoke or join in a team; to put together in a coordinated ensemble.

    Courage: The mental or moral strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship; implies firmness of mind and will in the face ...

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  • Assessing For Success
    By: Ken Keis | - "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time, you haven't."
    Peter Drucker, Management Guru
    1909 - 2005


    Assessing For Success: Exposing the Misinformation about Assessments

    Assessment: To determine the rate or amount of; to make an official valuation of for the purposes of judgment; to determine the importance, size, or value of something or someone.

    Why do most professionals get t ...

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  • High Performance Management
    By: Ken Keis | - "So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work."
    Peter Drucker, Management Guru
    1909 - 2005


    High-Performance Management: A Five-Step Process for Winning

    Would you like to increase the performance of your teams?

    Desire alone does not create high-performance management or organizations.
    The following five steps are part of the copyrighted Management System that we install in organizations to ...

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  • Raising The Professional Development Bar
    By: Ken Keis | - Raising the Professional Development Bar: Why Most Coaches, Career Counselors, Business Consultants, Educators, and other Professional Developers are Not Qualified to Teach or Advise


    Qualified: Having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task. A quality, ability, or accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task.

    Are the professional developers mentioned in the title really qualified to advise others? In many s ...

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  • Why Don't You Teach The Way That I Learn?
    By: Ken Keis | - "Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
    Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams
    1744 - 1818


    Why Dont You Teach The Way That I Learn?

    Learn/ing: to gain knowledge, understanding, or skill by study or experience; to find out.

    It is generally agreed that knowledge is now doubling in months, not years, and that learning is a foundational value that individuals and organizations ...

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  • Creating A Successful Life And Career
    By: Ken Keis | - "It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do."
    Cory Doctrow, Science Fiction Writer


    Creating a Successful Life/Career for Self and Others

    Career: an occupation or profession followed as a lifes work; a course or passage.

    Life: a way of living; the physical and mental experiences of an individual; a specific phase or period.

    In the past, career professionals have suggested that we have ...

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  • Fixing The Failures Of Human Resources
    By: Ken Keis | - "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
    Herbert Bayard Swope, Journalist
    1882 - 1958


    Fixing the Failures of Human Resources

    Failure: an act or instance of non-performance of something due or expected; an insufficiency.

    Can you think of a profession, sport, or activity where you could keep your job even if you had an 80% failure rate? The only one ...

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  • The Gift Of Feedback
    By: Ken Keis | - In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
    Solon, Greek Politician
    638 - 559 BC


    The Gift of Feedback
    Feedback: Response about an activity, action, behavior, or policy.

    Feedback -- real feedback: the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth type of feedback -- is critical to our continued growth, both professionally and organizationally.

    The Number One responsibility of any coach (personal, business, or athletic) ...

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  • Making A Real Difference In People's Lives
    By: Ken Keis | - The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet
    1809 - 1892

    Making a Real Difference in Peoples Lives
    Difference: Unlikeness, distinction or discrimination; differs from another.

    During five trips in six weeks, I had the privilege of connecting with thousands of individuals from around the world. And as I boarded the plane in the early morning hours for ...

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  • Passion & Purpose
    By: Ken Keis | - "Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion."
    Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine
    September 2003


    Passion & Purpose

    Passion: an object of enthusiasm or affection; emotion, as distinguished from reason.

    The research percentages vary but it is generally acknowledged that less than 10% of the people in the developed world are passionate about their work and their lives.

    While Personal and Professional Developers tal ...

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  • There's No Such Thing As Job Security, Except...
    By: Ken Keis | - "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
    Helen Keller, American Blind and Deaf Educator
    1880 - 1968


    Theres No Such Thing as Job Security, Except . . .

    Security:The quality or state of being secure; freedom from danger; freedom from fear or anxiety; freedom from the prospect of being laid off; something given, deposited, or pledged to make certain the fulfillment of an ...

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  • Who Are Your Role Models
    By: Ken Keis | - "Each person must live their life as a model for others."
    Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Leader
    1913 - 2005

    Who Are Your Role Models?

    Model:An example for imitation or emulation

    Example:One who serves as a pattern to be imitated or not to be imitated


    -Who are your role models?
    -What example are you leaving for others?

    Lets examine this together.

    For the past 20 years, I have had the priv ...

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  • Will You Get Over Yourself - Please
    By: Ken Keis | - "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
    Oscar Wilde, Novelist
    1854 - 1900


    Will You Get Over Yourself -- Please?

    Selfish:Concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself; seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others; arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others; genetic material solely concerned with ...

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  • What's Your Legacy
    By: Ken Keis | - "I wanna live 'til I die -- no more, no less."
    Eddie Izzard, Comedian and Actor


    Whats Your Legacy?

    Legacy:Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past; a gift by will, especially of money or other personal property

    Whats your legacy going to be?

    Far too many individuals wont leave much of a mark. Why? They engage life half-heartedly -- primary wrapped up i ...

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  • If I Had Wanted Your Opinionm I Would Have Asked For It
    By: Ken Keis | - "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
    Bertrand Russell, British Author
    1872 - 1970


    If I Wanted Your Opinion, I Would Have Asked for It.

    Opinion --A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter; belief stronger than impression ...

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  • It's Time You Acted On Your Dreams And Desires
    By: Ken Keis | - "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.:
    Napoleon Hill, Author: Think and Grow Rich


    Its Time You Acted on Your Dreams and Desires

    Dream A strongly desired goal or purpose; something that fully satisfies a wish

    Desire To long or hope for; exhibit or feel desire for; to express a wish for; to express a wish to; to have or feel desire

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  • Can You Let Go Of Your Negative Thoughts And Events?
    By: Ken Keis | - "Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."
    Shirley MacLaine, Actress
    1934 -


    Can You Let Go of Your Negative Thoughts and Events?

    NegativeMarked by denial, prohibition, or refusal; marked by absence, withholding, or removal of something positive; denying a predicate of a subject or a part of a subject; denoting the absence or the contradictory of something; lacking positive qualities; disagreeable; marked by features of hosti ...

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  • Maturity - Don't Leave Home Without It
    By: Ken Keis | - "Age is no guarantee of maturity."
    Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicars Daughter, 1998


    Maturity -- Dont Leave Home Without it!

    MaturityOf or relating to a condition of full development; characteristic of or suitable to a mature individual; based on slow, careful consideration; having completed natural growth and development; having undergone maturation; having attained a final or desired state; having achieved a stable growt ...

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  • What Is Your Mindset Toward Money And Materialism
    By: Ken Keis | - "Lack of money is the root of all evil."
    George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist and Socialist
    1856 - 1950


    What is Your Mindset toward Money and Materialism?

    MoneySomething generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; officially coined or stamped metal currency; a form or denomination of coin or paper money.

    Materialism A preoccupation with or stress upon materials rather than intellectual ...

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  • Reject The Victim Mentality
    By: Ken Keis | - "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."
    Marilyn Manson, Musician
    1969 -

    "The price of greatness is taking responsibility."
    Sir Winston Churchill, British Politician
    1874 - 1965


    Reject the Victim Mentality. Take Personal Responsibility!

    Victim: One who is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent; one ...

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  • Are You Living An Authentic Or A Fake Life?
    By: Ken Keis | - "Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."
    Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine
    May 2004


    Are You Living an Authentic or a Fake Life?

    Authentic: Worthy of acceptance or belief; based on fact not false or imitation; real: actual; true to one's own personality, spirit, or character.

    Fake: To alter, manipulate, or treat so as to give a spuriously genuine appearance; counterfeit; c ...

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  • Making A Smart Start
    By: Ken Keis | - "...the root causes of transition failure always lie in a pernicious interaction between the situation, with its opportunities and pitfalls, and the individual, with his or her strengths and vulnerabilities."
    Michael Watkins, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Factors for New Leaders at All Levels


    Making a SMART Start

    Guest Author: Dr. Brian J. Fraser

    First impressions matter, especially when you are starting a new job.

    ...

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  • Decreasing Clutter And Chaos
    By: Ken Keis | - "A life lived in chaos is an impossibility . . . "
    Madeleine LEngle, Science Fiction Novelist
    1918 - 2007


    Decreasing Clutter and Chaos!

    Clutter: To run in disorder; to fill or cover with scattered or disordered things that impede movement or reduce effectiveness.

    Chaos: A state of utter confusion; a confused mass or mixture.

    Do you ever feel there is just too much stuff in your life?

    Do yo ...

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  • Replacing Rage With Composure
    By: Ken Keis | - "If you do not wish to be prone to rage, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
    Epictetus, Roman (Greek-Born) Slave and Stoic philosopher
    55 AD - 135 AD


    Replacing Rage with Composure!

    Rage: Violent and uncontrolled anger; a fit of violent wrath; insanity; violent action; an intense feeling.

    I suspect that most of us reading this article have had a moment of rage. On one occasion, I was thankful ...

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  • Success Requires Effort!
    By: Ken Keis | - "Whenever I hear, "It can't be done," I know I'm close to success."
    Michael Flatley, Creator of Lord of the Dance


    Success Requires Effort!

    Success: A degree or measure of succeeding; favorable or desired outcome or results; the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence.

    Effort: Conscious exertion of power; hard work; a serious attempt; something produced by exertion or trying; the total work done to achieve a particular end.


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  • The Gift Of Challenges And Problems
    By: Ken Keis | - "The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
    Theodore Rubin


    The Gift of Challenges and Problems

    Challenge: A stimulating or interesting task or problem.

    Problem: A question raised for consideration or solution; an unsettled question; a source of perplexity or vexation.

    The only people who dont have problems are no longer living. ...

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  • What Is Stress Costing You?
    By: Ken Keis | - "If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension. And if you didnt ask me, Id still have to say it."
    George Burns, Comedian


    What is Stress Costing You?

    Stress: Pressure, strain, or force that tends to distort a body; a factor that induces bodily or mental tension.

    -Are you one of the millions of people being negatively affected by stress?
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  • Take Time To Celebrate!
    By: Ken Keis | - "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast -- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
    Eddie Cantor, Comedian and Singer
    1892 - 1964


    Take Time to Celebrate!

    Celebrate: to observe a notable occasion with festivities; to refrain from ordinary business; to honor as a holiday with ceremonies.

    Do you take time out to celebrate your wins and successes in life?

    Have yo ...

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  • The Cry For Competence
    By: Ken Keis | - "The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it."
    -Laurence J. Peter
    US educator and writer
    The Peter Principle
    1919-1990


    The Cry for Competence

    Do we really have a crisis in terms of individuals competence in their various fields of endeavor? Yes, Yes, and Yes!

    Competent: Capable, fit, qualified, able.

    For the book Credibility, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner researched the chara ...

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  • Creating A Flake-free Zone
    By: Ken Keis | - "I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."
    -Nathaniel Emmons

    Creating a Flake-Free Zone

    Although true success is built on trust and truth, in North America there seems to be a drift toward being "flaky."

    Websters defines flake as a markedly eccentric person or oddball. More and more, that slang term is being applied to a persons lack of professional ...

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  • The Spirit Of Abundance
    By: Ken Keis | - "The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred . . . unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
    -John Wolfgang von Goethe

    The Spirit of Abundance

    Would you like MORE abundance in your life? If your answer is Yes, read on. If not, read on anyway, so you can help others have more.


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  • Success Is A Team Sport
    By: Ken Keis | - "The speed of the person is the speed of the team."
    -Lee Iacocca, Past President of Chrysler Corp

    Success is a Team Sport

    The speed and degree of our personal/business success is always influenced by the team that surrounds or supports us.

    Team: a number of persons associated in work or activity; a group on the same side of a match.

    As my personal and business experience continues to grow, lifes truths are becomin ...

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  • Are You A Giver Or A Taker
    By: Ken Keis | - "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."
    -Sir Winston Churchill, British Politician 1874 - 1965


    Are You a Giver or a Taker?

    To give: to bestow by formal action; deliver or to yield to another.
    To take: to get into one's hands or possession; grasp, seize, capture, or defeat.

    How would your friends, family, or co-workers characterize you -- Are you a giver or a taker?

    Here is an example of ...

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  • The Magic Of The Moment
    By: Ken Keis | - "When we are capable of living in the moment, free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts."
    -Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life


    The Magic of the Moment

    This moment -- the very one that includes reading this line -- is really the only piece of time that you (we) occupy. Yesterday is a cancelled check and tomorrow is a promissory note. I know that is one of many clich ...

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  • The Power Of Your Thoughts
    By: Ken Keis | - "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
    -James F. Byrnes, Politician 1879 - 1972

    The Power of Your Thoughts

    Thought: The process of thinking, serious consideration, reasoning power, opinion and belief

    So what are your thoughts saying to you?

    I dare suggest that almost everything each of us has or has not accomplished is a result of our thinking.
    ...

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  • Going For Gold With Goals
    By: Ken Keis | - "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
    -Denis Waitley, Author: The Psychology of Winning

    Going for Gold with Goals

    A Goal: a mark set as the outcome of a race; an aim, a purpose; an object toward which play is directed

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  • Success Demands Decisive Decisions
    By: Ken Keis | - "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards."
    -Karl Kraus German philosopher (1781 - 1832)

    Success Demands Decisive Decisions

    Every day we are all faced with numerous decisions. Some decisions are mundane, such what we are going to wear; other decisions are life-changing or life-threatening.

    As a society we celebrate others abilities to make decisions quickly. Could you imagine having indecisive firefigh ...

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  • Life Is A Risky Business
    By: Ken Keis | - "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
    -John F. Kennedy

    Life is a Risky Business!

    Risk is the exposure to POSSIBLE loss or injury.

    Some people dont enjoy their lives because they are not taking enough risks or are taking too many! (Ill explain the second one later.)

    When lifes many opportunities present themsel ...

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  • Are You Dying To Live?
    By: Ken Keis | - "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
    -A. Sach

    Are you Dying to Live?

    The ultimate reality is that death is the one universal thing we will all experience. The fact that our life is perishable makes it precious.

    Are you treating your life -- and the other people in it -- as precious? If you died today, what type of evidence would be left behind? Would it show that you engaged life at the 100% level or that y ...

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  • Personal Success Strategies - A Purpose Driven Life
    By: Ken Donaldson | - When your life purpose is directing your life, you carry out your life on purpose, rather than accidentally (gives a whole new meaning to "an accident waiting to happen").

    - You live with intention and direction.

    - You know who you are and what is important.

    - Decisions are made easier and boundaries are more clear.

    - You know what does and does not work for you.

    - You have clarity about your values.


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  • Purpose Of Life: Using Ancient Energies To Live Your Purpose Today
    By: Lynn Scheurell | - We humans are encoded to search out our reason for being and then express it. When we are not living on purpose, we know it; we are unhappy, we feel isolated, things don't flow in our lives and our bodies reflect it. But when we ARE living in the rhythm of our unique purpose, we feel it.

    Through the ages, we've spent a lot of time figuring out how to express our inner being in a tangible outer way. Spiritual teachers, gurus, poets, artists, philosophers, inventors and, ...

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  • Discover Your Purpose - It's Easier Than You Think!
    By: Ada Porat | - "Seems lately I am constantly being reminded of how far I am from living the life I want to live," said a friend over coffee. "I don't even know what it is I want or what I'm passionate about. I still haven't figured out what I'm supposed to do with my life."

    So often, we externalize our purpose as if it is some magic existing outside of ourselves, and if we could only grasp it, our lives would really begin. We think as soon as we figure it out, we'd get that dream job, or we coul ...

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  • Find Your Passion For Work And Life
    By: Joe Farcht | - Recall a time in your life when you were joyously doing something and the time just flew by. A time when you were so completely absorbed by what you were doing that nothing else mattered. An occasion when you felt passion and enthusiasm and were elated by the results.

    Did that feel good or what? What were you doing?

    Now recall a routine work day. One that started out the same as always, where you dealt with the same old issues, and time dragged like molasses. ...

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  • The Truth About Living Your Purpose For Small Business Owners
    By: Michael Spindelman | - In the popular press these days, a dominant theme is about living your purpose. The articles usually ask "Are you passionate about what you're doing earning an income?" One thing about living your purpose or your passion for that matter is that living your purpose can really get ugly at times.

    When you live a life on purpose you might appear selfish to the people around you. That's because purpose is about unleashing the quiet giant inside of you. That giant wants to give to the w ...

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  • Living Your Purpose
    By: William Frank Diedrich | - You have a purpose. You have specific gifts, talents, and abilities that are uniquely yours. At the intersection of "what you love to do" and "what you are good at" you will find your purpose. Do you know your purpose? Do you know why you are here on this planet? If not, then it's time to ask the questions:
    What do I love to do?
    What am I good at?
    When do I feel most alive?
    Once you have answered these questions you need to gather the courage and confidence t ...

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