If you are a reader of this blog, you more than likely have a goal. You took the time to carefully plan it out. You made sure it was meaningful to you, specific, measurable, had a due date, the right size, written down and reviewed. But now that you are halfway through the year you realize you haven’t made the progress you were hoping for.
Some obstacles may have come up, aka roadblocks to your success. They might have been big or small, you may or may not have had control over them, but one thing is clear. To reach your goal you must overcome them.
So for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your biggest obstacle towards hitting your goals and how do you overcome Read More...
There were so many fantastic comments, over 120 in fact! Thank you for the great participation and for making the Time Management Contest one of our most popular to date!
Your answers represented many valuable aspects of time management from prioritizing, to doing important first, to Covey’s quadrants, to the importance of family and personal time.
Some of your comments about giving tasks A, B, C priorities reminded me of my mom’s weekly plans she made every Sunday growing up (I learned a lot from her!).
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Face it, life is hectic. With juggling a professional career, meetings, family obligations, appointments, your kids’ extra curricular activities, trying to live healthy, keeping up-to-date with current with current affairs, we hardly have time to sleep!For this month’s contest, we want to know your advice on how to effectively manage your time.
To enter, simply type you name, email and your answer to this question:
If you were coaching an individual on time management, in your opinion, what is the one concept that they should absolutely know?
Winners will be based on how concise their answer is, applicability and quality of Read More...
Of all of the contests we have had on the Freedom Personal Development blog, this was by far my favorite! With over 40 entries, I spent a bunch of time laughing as did other members of the Freedom Team.
Watch the blog next Tuesday as we will be posting the top 10 videos that made us laugh.
But now for the winners!
First Place
Winner of an “Expect Success” Book, Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle and Calculator is #13 by Mary Ellen Shown.
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The benefits of a good laugh are endless: it improves your attitude; decreases stress and depression; it is a workout for your abdominal muscles; it increases oxygen to the brain and your muscles; it strengths your immune system; and laughter makes you more attractive.
Here is an interesting fact for you: On average, adults laugh 15 times a day. Children on the other hand, laugh over 400 times a day!!
So, what makes you laugh? That is what we want to know for this month’s blog contest.
Enter by simply entering your name and email below with either: a link to a video, a joke, a picture, a story, part of a movie or a situation that cracks you up. We are Read More...
As a company, we are all voracious readers and always on the look out for great books. We believe that the books you read have a tremendous impact on your attitude, success and quality of your life.
So, for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your favorite business book AND what is one thing you learned from it?
To enter, post your answer as a comment below. Feel free to enter as many books/insights as you would like.
Winners will be based on the quality of the insights they learned from the book.
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Thank you all for the great answers to our Hindsight is 20/20 contest. I had a very difficult time narrowing it down to 3 choices, but feel these 3 captured the essence of all the answers.
Here are the winners!!
First Place winner is John Neyer. He has won an “Expect Success” Book AND 3 Private, One-On-One, Personal Development Coaching Sessions with Renee Shupe, The Redhead Coach www.redheadcoach.com
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You have heard the saying “Hindsight is 20/20.” Looking back in the past, we all see situations we would have handled differently, opportunities we should have taken and mistakes we wouldn’t have made.
We can’t go back and change the past and there is no benefit of regretting what already has happened. We CAN learn from the past, share the lessons learned and adjust our actions and decisions in the present to ensure a brighter future.
For this month’s blog contest, I am curious to know what advice you would have given yourself (or another in similar situation Read More...
Thank you to everyone who participated in our “What is a Successful Relationship Contest”
Lots of great answers here, I must say that I learned quite a bit from reading them. So without further ado, here are our winners:
First Place and winner of a Freedom Personal Development Sweatshirt – Irene Koontz (comment #18)
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Happy February – the month of Valentine’s Day!
For our February blog contest, we are asking about relationships and what makes them successful, fulfilling and lasting. More importantly, what action needs to be taken to achieve that level of success.
To enter the contest, at the bottom of this page, simply type your name, email and website (if you have one) and your answer to this question:
How do you define a successful relationship and what does it take to achieve that success?
A relationship can be defined as: romantic, friendship, parent and child, business, sibling….any relationship that involves another person. We will be Read More...
