http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog Personal Development for the Professional Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to success. Failure doesn’t hold you back; it is the anticipation of failure that can sabotage your efforts to achieve your goals. Are you letting the fear of failure scare you into being overly cautious? If you are….stop! Take the time to ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/video-brian-tracy-on-how-to-overcome-fear-or-failure/ We received some great feedback on our article last week - Reduce Email In-Box Clutter. Therefore today, we wanted to share some tips on how to get a grip on the information overload and time wasters email can present. Do you genuinely like doing email? If you do, then you don’t ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/how-to-get-a-grip-on-email/ Our newest workshop, Reading Smart, has been receiving rave reviews from around the country. Professional, parents and students alike are increasing their reading speeds AND maintaining, or increasing, their comprehension. Here are some recent testimonials and actual before and after reading speeds. Numbers don’t lie! From High School Senior, Rebecca Lenz: “I ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/actual-client-success-rates-with-reading-smart-workshop/ Yesterday, Tom Weber wrote a great post on how to cure fear – and that was by taking action. Today, we will focus on how to cure fears in regards to a specific task – selling. You might enjoy making a sale, but you find yourself getting that butterfly feeling before an ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/top-10-tips-for-overcoming-the-fear-of-selling/ I had a phone call today that I was not looking forward to and I had thought of putting it off until “tomorrow”.  I had plenty of reasons why I could rationalize putting it off for another day, but I knew that the more I put it off the worse ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/action-cures-fear/ Getting over failure and finding success means taking 100% responsibility for your life. You have to drop your excuses and victim stories. You must take 100% responsibility for everything you experience in your life….good and bad.   Setbacks can sidetrack us with blame and excuses and we give away the power of ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/video-jack-canfield-on-personal-power/ I have had some great conversations with people about their goals recently, specifically about the effect that goals were having on them mentally. I talked to a few whose goals were creating a healthy focus, motivation and energy. But I also talked with quite a few whose goals were causing ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/are-your-goals-helping-or-hurting-you/ For those of you that aren’t familiar with the disease CRS, it is a condition that plagues many people and stands for "Can't Remember Stuff".  They hear or learn something and the next minute that can't remember it.  Can you relate? If so, Freedom Personal Development's Memory Training Workshop has the ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/memory-training-cures-crs-disease/ If you are having trouble with visualizations don't worry you're not the only one! Visualization is the process of making mental pictures and is a powerful technique used to help you focus your attention what you desire. People often come to me expressing concern that they are doing something wrong because ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/top-tips-to-help-your-visualization-exercises/ Sounds dramatic, doesn't it? But so are the results experienced by myself and others who have put this simple, five-minute practice into action. The practice is called positive visualization. That is right, positive visualization. Some of you may think this sounds too simple, some of you may think this ... http://www.deliverfreedom.com:/blog/5-minutes-a-day-to-change-your-results/