When You Don't Feel Like Working

Written by Nenad Ristic


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You can find many wonderfully supportive people onrepparttar various home business forums scattered all overrepparttar 104450 net.

Enjoyrepparttar 104451 process. Findrepparttar 104452 things you enjoy doing in your business, and enjoyrepparttar 104453 every day activities that you engage in. Remember to appreciaterepparttar 104454 people who help you on you road to success, whether advisers, customers or employees. Have fun!

> What to do when this happens: Just go ahead and do some work. You will most likely find that once you start, you will get absorbed inrepparttar 104455 activity, that you will forget that you did not feel like working inrepparttar 104456 first place. Do one thing you enjoy about your business first, and userepparttar 104457 other things you enjoy as rewards once you have completedrepparttar 104458 less fun aspects of your business.

Work for just five minutes. Tell yourself that you will work for just five minutes on your business, and after that you can either stop, or continue as you wish. After all, five minutes will not take that much out of your day, will it?

If this technique does not work, than most likely, you are dealing either with fatigue (Reason 1, above), or self-sabotage (Reason 3, below).

REASON 3: SELF-SABOTAGE This one is very subtle, even more so because it can disguise yourself as any ofrepparttar 104459 other two. We, as human beings fear change, even change forrepparttar 104460 better.

You might feel like you will never make it, or thatrepparttar 104461 only way that you can become successful is by neglecting your family and allrepparttar 104462 things that are important to you. Or any of a number of other negative pre-conceptions, some of which you may not even be consciously aware of.

As you can probably guess, this particular area is highly complicated, and I will devote a full article to it inrepparttar 104463 future (or perhaps, even a series of articles). Inrepparttar 104464 meantime, here are a couple of things that you can do:

> Prevention: Be aware of any negative feelings and preconceptions you have, and make sure that you deal consciously with them. Surround yourself with supportive people, and do not listen to those who try to fill your mind with negative feelings. Working with a life coach would also be helpful.

> What to do when this happens: Acknowledge any negative feelings, and try to focus onrepparttar 104465 positive aspects of your business. You may also findrepparttar 104466 'Five minute' technique from above helpful. I hope that by reading this article you have gained a better understanding of why sometimes you just feel like takingrepparttar 104467 evening off, even if you have planned to work, and what to do when that happens.

Nenad Ristic is the web master of Abundance Technology, a website dedicate to helping people get started in home business http://www.abundance-technology.com


How to Choose the Right Job Candidate

Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach


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Look for these things inrepparttar interview. Ask questions and set up behavioral situations that test this. Intentionally interruptrepparttar 104449 candidate, or arrange a disruption and observe what happens.

Ask yourself “Do I like this candidate?” and “Would I want to work with her?” Use your intuition, your gut feeling … an EQ competency.

7.GIVE THEM AN EQ ASSESSMENT.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) means how they handle themselves and other people in social and emotional areas. The best qualified person on paper may be a failure in real time because they can’t get along, are abrasive, scattered, emotionally out-of-control, or lacking in empathy, flexibility, or common sense.

The higher uprepparttar 104450 person goes,repparttar 104451 more important such EQ competencies as Conflict Resolution, Integrated Self, Intentionality and Resilience.

EQ assessments give you valuable information about a candidate. Studies have shown that people with low EQ burn out quickly. 8.LOOK AT SPECIFIC EQ COMPETENCIES.

An EQ assessment will give you an overall score, and also ranking onrepparttar 104452 separate competencies.

It’s been found, for instance, thatrepparttar 104453 best predictor for good salespeople is Optimism, and EQ competency.

The US Air Force found their most successful recruiters scored high in Assertiveness, Empathy, Happiness and Emotional Self Awareness. They put this knowledge to use to increase their success rate by 300% and save $3 million annually.

9.ARE THEY RESILIENT?

An article inrepparttar 104454 Wall Street Journal names Resilience (an EQ competency)repparttar 104455 most important factor in stress management. It amounts to being change-proficient.

10.WHAT HAVE THEY LEARNED?

Lifetime learning correlates with resilience (Siebert, Ph.D.). The ability, willingness, cognitive ability and flexibility to keep on learning is one ofrepparttar 104456 most important things to look for inrepparttar 104457 Information Age. “The illiterate ofrepparttar 104458 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,” said Alvin Toffler, “but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

In sum, hiring in today’s workplace requires more than a look at credentials, experience, training and academic degrees, andrepparttar 104459 onus is on you,repparttar 104460 hirer. People don’t always know themselves, and they can’t know everything about your company culture. They apply for jobs forrepparttar 104461 money or with lack of self-knowledge, not because they’d be good at it, or enjoy it, or be able to tolerate its stress, or work inrepparttar 104462 particular culture of your office, i.e., they apply for jobs for which they aren’t well suited.

Work Emotional Intelligence intorepparttar 104463 hiring process, and pay attention to innate talents and personality. Work with an EQ coach for best results. It will pay great dividends inrepparttar 104464 end.

©Susan Dunn, MA Psychology, Emotional Intelligence Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . Coaching, business consulting, Internet courses, teleclasses and ebooks on emotional intelligence. The EQ Foundation Course©; http://www.susandunn.cc/courses.htm . Ebooks, http://www.webstrategies.cc/ebooklibrary.html . Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE ezine (request EQ-Work).


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