Personal Development

3 Steps to Increase Your Business – by Increasing Word-of-Mouth

In the days before social media and the Internet, it wasn’t as easy to listen in on your customers’ conversations about your company. Nor could you easily encourage people to spread the good word about your business through word-of-mouth. Check out these three steps to really take advantage of what’s available today…

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Moms, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Unappreciated?

Don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s time to realise that the ‘little things’ are just that, take a deep breath and let them go… Easy, right? Well, it may not be as hard as you think.

“You have a choice to be happy and bring peace to your life.”

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9 Steps to Giving the Perfect Compliment

Giving a compliment is simple – in theory. You just open your mouth and say something nice, right? But sometimes we get ourselves into a flap by second-guessing, worrying what other people will think, doubting our authenticity or generally stepping on our tongue. It’s pointless to get worked up over something so positive, charming and thoughtful!

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How to Take Your Ideas and Make Them Real – Book Review [video]

How many times have you had a great idea, thought ‘I really should do something with that’, but then nothing ever comes of it? Wouldn’t it be great if someone could just teach you, in a straight-forward way, how to bring your ideas to life? Now there is, check out this book review, and video of the author.

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10 Powerful Lessons From Apple: How To Make Your Customers Love You

Unless you are completely isolated from the world of business, you know that Apple has discovered the magic formula for creating exceptional value. Most people attribute that magic to the Apple products. Unfortunately, most people have it wrong. The magic of Apple is the experience.

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4 Things You Must Consider When Turning Your Hobby into a Business

Four-years ago I turned my glass-making hobby into a working, thriving business. The process wasn’t as simple as just putting a sign on the door, and I had my ups and downs, but I love what I’m doing now – and I’ve learned tons, about my work, myself and my business. There are four things that, if I had put some thought into them up-front, would have made life so much easier…

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Living beyond limits: Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we need to look at them as blessings. Magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations, and help us go further than we ever thought we could…

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Elizabeth Gilbert: Author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Talks About Nurturing Creativity [video]

Instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. Check out Elizabeth Gilbert (Author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’) in this funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

The author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some large topics. Her next fascination: genius, and how we ruin it.

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Why Astronauts Feel Low, Olympians Go Cold At Gold & You Should Plan For Success

Creating a series of plans and alternate routes for the future can mentally free you up to enjoy the process of your success. It can also allow you take the wider view and see possibilities you would miss if you didn’t stop to look around every now and again.

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Are You the Tortoise or the Hare? You can be either and still come out on top…

I’m sure you’re familiar with Aesop’s fable of The Tortoise and the Hare, so I won’t bother with the retelling. However, can you remember the moral of the story? Most people when asked this quickly reply “Slow and steady wins the race”, and it’s no surprise as this has been drummed in to everyone since [...]

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