Use these Powerful Communication Commandments and your communication will be more effective, create a receptive ear on part of your listener, and get results you want.

Powerful Communication Commandments 1. EVERYTHING YOU SAY TO YOURSELF EITHER SERVES YOU OR SABOTAGES YOU. Do you tell yourself you can do it, do you tell yourself you deserve it or do you tell yourself something different, something less supportive? Turn those thoughts around and replace them with positive self-talk.

2. KNOW YOUR DESIRED OUTCOME. Before you make a phone call or go to a business meeting decide on your desired outcome. Then focus on how to make it easy for other party to give it to you.

3. ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY SPEECH FILLERS from your communication. Fillers are words and phrases such as "umm, well, it is sort-a like, its kind-a like." These take away from message you want to convey and instead convey a less effective message.

4. USE THE POWERFUL PAUSE. Do not be afraid to have a moment of silence between sentences. A pause, prefacing a response to a question holds attention of listener.

Worrying is an emotional malady so prevalent among our species that we rarely recognize it and almost never talk about it. Worry contaminates our thoughts, our sense of well-being, and even our ability to take action.

Worry is so much a part of our thinking that we do not even notice when we are doing it. Take a moment and try to remember what was on your mind today. What thoughts raised your heart rate and scrunched your brow? Are you worrying about your new job, your low bank account, who your daughter might be meeting at college, your long to-do list, or what your neighbors think of your new boyfriend? Whatever it is, let it go. Worrying is a waste of time and energy—all it does is stress you out and bring you down.

You know it would serve you to stop worrying, but trying to do so can be challenging. For most of us, this concept is a great idea that is very difficult to implement. Many people seem to have been born with a worry gene. Instead of trying to eliminate all worry, begin with a different approach. Wring out and restrict your worrying:

1. Start with Awareness Start to become more aware of when you are worrying. By becoming conscious of it, you can begin to change your behavior. When you notice you are worrying, take a deep breath and then let it out to relax you a bit.