Business: Self-Confidence Is The Key To Personal And Professional Success

Self-Confidence Is The Key To Personal And Professional Success

Written by Michael Port

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real key and what I try to deep into is what you need to do for yourself to take action.

I think there are only two reasons for most any business problem:

1. You don’t know what to do 2. You know what to do but you’re not doing it

And, I also think that 90% of all business problems stem from number two. When I say business problems I mean… why we don’t achieve what we say we want to achieve… or why we don’t do what we say we want to do.

So, of course, repparttar 104196 next question you might ask is “why don’t we do what we know how to do?” And repparttar 104197 answer is…. we haven’t built up repparttar 104198 self-confidence needed for repparttar 104199 goal at hand.

Look… learning is easy… accumulating knowledge is easy. There are lots of people who know what you need to know and are willing to share repparttar 104200 information with you. So, again… why aren’t you doing what you say you want to do? Again, I say not enough self-confidence.

We’re born with high levels of confidence in certain areas and not in others. And it’s different for all of us. But we’ll need different levels of confidence depending on what we want to do with our lives. It takes one level of confidence to give a speech in front of 5 people and another level of confidence to give a speech in front of 500 and again, another level of confidence to speak in front of 5000. So, if you’re not working on developing your confidence and thinking bigger about who you are and what you offer repparttar 104201 world, you very well may not put yourself in situations where you’d have an opportunity to present in front of 5000 people.

Monday Morning Mindfulness

Written by Sandra Schrift

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Table of Contents: On Special Offers and Invitations On Generous Spirit On Short-Term Stress On Adding Punch to Your Humor On Time On Useful Web Sites and Announcements

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Welcome to Monday Morning Mindfulness . . . to my Clients, Colleagues and Friends. Join me every other Monday in getting motivated and inspired to act/think/feel something differently.

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1. On Special Offers and Invitations

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Order repparttar 104199 CD Rom by August 1 and you will also receive a Fre*e PDF Bonus Report to go along with this program. ”The World Is Changing...So is repparttar 104200 Meetings Industry”

All programs include PDF handouts and 20 minutes of coaching with me. Such a deal! http://www.schrift.com/summer_sizzle.htm to get details on products and your deep discounts.

2. On Generous Spirit

In dwelling, be close to repparttar 104201 land. In meditation, go deep in repparttar 104202 heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of repparttar 104203 time and repparttar 104204 season. No fight. No blame. - from Tao Te Ching

The Coach thinks…it is helpful (but challenging) to think about my life being in perfect harmony with repparttar 104205 way things are. And you?

3. On Short Term Stress

Psychologists Gregory Miller and Suzanne Segerstrom state that when test subjects were asked to speak in public or do mental math in repparttar 104206 lab, repparttar 104207 tasks tended to mobilize their fast-acting immune response – repparttar 104208 body’s all- purpose defense system for stopping our infections and healing our wounds. What they found, compared to controls, was that people subjected to short-term stresses had up to twice as many natural killer cells in their blood ready to fight repparttar 104209 early stages of infection.

The Coach thinks Jerry Seinfeld may be wrong . . . He said , “most people would rather be in repparttar 104210 casket than give repparttar 104211 eulogy.”

4. On Adding Punch To Your Humor

John Kinde, humor specialist offers us five tips to add punch to your platform humor. Make humor a natural part of your daily life. The key to creating humor is awareness of relationships. Find connections between things previously thought unrelated. The pause drives home your punch lines. Pausing emphasizes repparttar 104212 punch lines. Pausing builds repparttar 104213 tension. Pausing magnifies your physical delivery. Master repparttar 104214 power of observational humor. Be focused on your surroundings and what is happening just before you are introduced. Look for connections. Practice observational humor at meetings. A Toastmasters meeting is ideal. At repparttar 104215 end of repparttar 104216 meeting, weave an item of observational humor into your closing remarks.

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