I would like to explore how your results can be improved by correctly using positive and negative words in your written communication.
People tend to remember the first and last words you say. Therefore, the two most impactful sentences of your writing should have positive connotations, and those sentences are the ones you use to open and close.
This may be harder than you think if you are not conscious of what you are writing. ABC News recently reported that negative words dominate our language. In fact, “Half of all the words that people produce from their working vocabulary to express emotion are negative. And 30 percent are positive and 20 percent are neutral.”
In this video, The Someday Syndrome is presented by former US Congressman and speaking legend Ed Foreman.
The someday syndrome strikes when you constantly are looking to the future to be happy. For instance, “Someday, when I get a raise and that new car, then life is going to be really good.” Or, “Someday, when I get married, I will be happy.”
How can you make the most out of your professional life? Statistically speaking, from Monday to Friday, the average working American spends between 60% and 75% of their waking hours focusing on their work. That’s a lot of time! In my coaching experience, I have found one over-riding way that people successfully maximize their work life. They treat their work as a business and not as a job.
Regardless of how they are paid, regardless of whether they receive a 1099 or a W-2, and regardless of what their boss thinks, people who treat their work as a business grow more personally, receive more recognition, impact more people, make more money, and enjoy more of their working hours than those who Read More...
There is one special quality that you can develop that will guarantee you greater success, accomplishment and happiness in life. Of a thousand principles for success developed over the ages, this one quality or practice will do more to assure that you accomplish wonderful things with your life than anything else. This quality is so important that, if you don’t develop it to a high degree, it is impossible for you to ever achieve what you are truly capable of achieving.
The quality that I am talking about is the quality of self-discipline. It is a habit, a practice, a philosophy and a way of living. All successful men and women are highly disciplined in the important work that they do. All unsuccessful men and women are undisciplined and unable to Read More...
Personal energy is an important component of personal and business productivity. Most people cycle between positive and negative energy states during the workweek. But the percentage of time spent in positive and negative moods varies significantly.
Some people seem to be overwhelmingly negative, while others in similar circumstances can remain much more positive. Increasing the time spent in positive states will improve personal productivity.
The following 10 tips suggest ways to facilitate a more positive attitude.
1. Work first on your relationships.
Relationships are both our best sources of happiness and our biggest Read More...
FBI agent, Bill Brown, explains how you can use a person’s body language to spot when they are telling you a lie.
They say your eyes are windows to the soul, but they can also indicate if a person is telling you the truth. For instance, if a person you are talking to looks:
Up and to their right – they are telling a lie (if they are right Read More...
I want to give you a couple of powerful ideas on how to give your new goals some momentum.
Here are the simple steps I take every year to really get some power behind my goals.
1. Set my goals in all areas of my life: professional, financial, mental, physical, family, and social.
2. Look for an overarching theme. This is usually something that links many of the goals together.
3. Pick an appropriate symbol for the theme.
For example, in 2006 I had the Year of the summit, because climbing the mountain was a physical goal as well as metaphorical goal of hitting team goals, sales goals, etc. In 2005, I had the Year of the House, which was the year that I invested in Read More...
Some of you reading this have just tuned out. A voice played in your mind saying, “I’m not creative…this doesn’t apply to me.” Let me just say that that is total complete and utter nonsense. Or, in more basic terms, a load of crap.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, is creative. This means you. I say this with complete and absolute certainty because, although I know very little about you, I am confident that you are in fact, human. To be human is to be creative. It is what we do.
Have you ever solved a problem? Have you ever set a goal and achieved it? Have you ever gotten lost and then gotten unlost? Have you ever fixed something that was broken? Have you ever written a poem? A letter? A note? Have Read More...
When you are communicating in person, either one-on-one or in front of a group, the majority of your message will be delivered not by the words you speak, but by your body language. Here are the Top 10 Tips for communication with better body language.
1. Eye Contact
Eye contact is one of the most important aspects of dealing with others, especially people we’ve just met. Maintaining good eye contact shows respect and interest in what they have to say. Here in the UK we tend to keep eye contact around 60-70% of the time. (However, there are wide cultural differences, so be careful in other countries) By doing this you won’t make the other people feel self conscious, like they’ve got a bit of vegetable Read More...
There’s a timeless principle that successful people live by, that I realized can be used as an immediate and powerful boost to your self-esteem and your emotions. Volumes have been written and spoken about this principle over the millennia, but I still see people not understanding or misunderstanding it all the time, and the result is a major amount of unnecessary stress.
The principle I’m referring to is what we call Be, Do, Have. I definitely did not invent this terminology, but it IS descriptive. It basically says that the person you are (Be) influences your actions (Do), and those actions inexorable create your results (Have). Think about it. If you’ve even BEEN really serious Read More...
I would like to explore how your results can be improved by correctly using positive and negative words in your written communication.
There is one special quality that you can develop that will guarantee you greater success, accomplishment and happiness in life. Of a thousand principles for success developed over the ages, this one quality or practice will do more to assure that you accomplish wonderful things with your life than anything else. This quality is so important that, if you don’t develop it to a high degree, it is impossible for you to ever achieve what you are truly capable of achieving.
When you are communicating in person, either one-on-one or in front of a group, the majority of your message will be delivered not by the words you speak, but by your body language. Here are the Top 10 Tips for communication with better body language.
