Sometimes when you are in a small group or even with friends or family, you may find a hard time expressing yourself. It’s because of your insecurities that you hard back. Basically, everyone is afraid of getting made fun of or being put down. People don’t handle rejection very good so they try to avoid rejection and acceptance. This is not the way that you should go about your life. People find change throughout their life. Don’t resist it. If you take the time to get to know your new co-workers, you will find that they are worried about the same things that you are.
Read more at How to Express Yourself
July 23rd, 2007
Bob Proctor is an author, lecturer, counselor, business consultant, entrepreneur, and teacher preaching the gospel of positive thinking, self-motivation and maximizing human potential. In that endeavor, he follows in the footsteps of such motivational giants as Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale and Wallace D. Wattles.
His extraordinary teaching ability has won Proctor acclaim around the globe and has carried the Canadian-born motivator to the far reaches of the earth. He is as well known in Australia and Malaysia as he is in Alberta and Mississippi.
Born in a little town in northern Ontario, Canada with the low self-esteem that often befalls a family’s middle child, he performed poorly in school, dropped out and did a hitch in the navy. Afterward he drifted from one dead-end job to another until a friend introduced Bob to the concept of self-development through Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich.
With the spark generated by Hill’s words, Proctor found the initiative to start an office cleaning business which he grew to international scope in his first year of operation. From that experience - after seeing what he had been able to accomplish with just a rudimentary knowledge of personal motivation and goal-setting - he hungered for more information.
His quest took him to the Nightingale-Conant organization to study under his mentor, Earl Nightingale. Once on board, he rose swiftly through the ranks. Eventually, while the Nightingale-Conant organization assumed the forefront in wide-scale distribution of personal development programs, Bob felt the need to take his ideas and methods directly to the individual, to the one-on-one level which had proved so successful for himself.
In the mid 1970’s, Proctor established his own seminar company and secured a contract to work with a few hundred agents of Prudential Life Insurance Co. of America in Chicago. During his first seminar Bob made the suggestion that any agent present could write $5 million in business that year if the agent made a decision to do so.
The fact that the seminar took place in July with the year half over and that no agent in that region had ever written so much business in the 100-year history of the company made Bob’s suggestion appear to be outrageous. However, when the performance level of the entire division increased substantially with more than one agent actually accomplishing the deed, Bob’s reputation as a motivator was established.
Over the ensuing years, Proctor has shared his special message and expertise with hundreds of business entities worldwide and, through a program of live seminars, with thousands of people of all ages in all walks of life.
Meanwhile, in addition to his international best-seller You Were Born Rich, he found time to author other works as well, including Mission in Commission, The Winner’s Image, The Goal Achiever, The Success Series, The Success Puzzle, The Recruiting Puzzle, and Being Your Very Best.
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of The New York Times No. 1 best-selling “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, which currently has over 65 titles and 80 million copies in print in over 37 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.
With a BA from Harvard University, a Masters from University of Massachusetts, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Santa Monica, Canfield has been a high school and university teacher, a workshop facilitator, a psychotherapist, and for the past 30 years, a leading authority in the area of self-esteem and personal development.
Canfield is the founder of “Self Esteem Seminars” in Santa Barbara, and “The Foundation for Self Esteem” in Culver City, California. Self Esteem Seminars trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees on how to accelerate the achievement of their personal and professional goals, while The Foundation for Self Esteem provides self-esteem resources and trainings to social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals. Canfield is also the President of Souperspeakers.com, a speaking resource service that provides inspirational speakers for event planners worldwide.
Canfield has traveled to over 21 countries, delivering hundreds of keynote speeches, workshops and trainings each year. As part of his presentation style, he always uses inspirational, motivational and uplifting stories to help his audiences discover, experience and retain key concepts and approaches. After each session, audiences everywhere had encouraged him to put his stories into a single book.
In 1990, while on an airplane home, he felt that it was time. He shared his idea with author Mark Victor Hansen during breakfast one day. Hansen liked the idea, and so began the Chicken Soup for the Soul phenomenon. But with their busy schedules, translating what worked on the podium onto the written page proved more challenging than either of them had anticipated. After three long years, the two had compiled just sixty-eight stories — a far cry from the 101 they believed was the magic number for a successful book. Nonetheless, their successful partnership has spawned many other titles that have made them enormously famous.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN’s Talk Back Live, PBS and the BBC. Today, he speaks shares his success strategies with companies and associations worldwide.
The most recent book Canfield has written was the 2005 publication of The Success Principles. In it Canfield shares 64 principles that he and other people have utilized to achieve great levels of success.
July 8th, 2007
Looking to find more time to do the things you enjoy most? Try
looking in your closet. No, you won’t find that extra 15 minutes
shoved in the left toe of your favorite pair of shoes. But, you
might just find it in the time it takes you to dig out that pair
of shoes. A cluttered closet will rob more of your time than you
realize. How often do you spend 15 minutes shuffling through
piles of shoes and sweaters, belts, ties and handbags only to
give up and wear a less than perfect pair?
If you have ever found yourself in this predicament then you are
ready to clear your clutter and organize your closet.
Did you know that you could gain up to two hours every day
through simple suggestions that will help you organize your
closet and take control of your time. And further, organizing
your life and clearing your closet will not only afford you more
time, it will lighten your stress load and help you lead a
healthier, happier life.
If you could save up to two hours every day by organizing your
closet, would you do it? Most people love the idea of saving
time, but dread the idea of organizing their overstuffed
closets. As a culture we cultivate disorganization from a young
age – did you ever shove everything into your closet when your
mother suggested that you clean your room? Organization doesn’t
have to be a dreaded task – but rather a thing of beauty.
First, you’ll want to break down closet organization into easily
digested solutions that involve what I like to call “helper
items.” There are numerous ways to organize your closet: A cedar
wardrobe closet may be an ideal solution for you and your
cornucopia of wool sweaters; drawer dividers will help you keep
those workout socks where they belong, to the right of your
dress socks; and don’t underestimate the power of the hanger –
hanging a bulky leather jacket on a spindly wire hanger may find
that expensive leather on the floor, sure to be lost until you
dive into your shoe pile next fall.
And speaking of that shoe pile, why not store your shoe
collection in individual clear plastic boxes so they can be
stacked and viewed at a moments notice. The thing to remember is
that even your beloved Manolo Blahniks can steal your precious
time if you’re not careful.
June 15th, 2007
My name is Stephen Hill, I have overcome a stammer which had
affected my life for eighteen years. I now help as many other
people who stammer to achieve fluency as I can.
When I had a stammer, I would attend speech therapy, at which I
would be told to slow down or to take a deep breath before
talking. Other tips were to use costal breathing or to prolong
my words.
This did not seem to help me very much and after attending these
speech therapy lessons for eighteen years decided it probably
never would.
I firmly believed that my own stammer was very much a
physcological as well as a physical problem as at times I could
talk very well, like for example when I was talking to my
girlfriend or when I was talking when I was drunk.
I decided to read a lot of books about positive thinking for
example and at the same time started to study how good fluent
talkers were speaking compared to me. I was basically trying to
re-learn how to speak.
It was hard for me to truly believe I would ever be able to
achieve fluency as everyone had always told me that you can not
overcome a stammer.
After about a year though I managed to overcome the stammer and
then started to help other people to achieve fluency.
I have been helping people now for around eight years and have
people who stammer from many different countries and backgrounds.
June 9th, 2007
Deer been eating up nursery stock everywhere. Deer numbers are
rising in urban areas and many people have to switch from their
prized landscape favorites. One, the Taxus, is hard hit by the
deer. We offer a plant called the Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus
Harringtonia) which has shown to be deer resistant. Most
gardeners can’t tell the difference between the two plant types.
Deer can, they avoid the Plum Yew. It requires moist well
drained soils, but is hardy in drier soils once established. The
Plum yew is also heat resistant and will do well in southern
gardens even in full sand. There are no serious pests except it
is reported to suffer some mite damage.
This are just afew of the many plant selections that we raise on
our Doylestown Pa. farm. We are pleased to show you these in the
field and discuss their habits and help you determine the best
plants to help you improve your landscape. Visit our other web
sites at http://www.seedlingsrus.com and
http://www.highlandhillfarm.com
May 19th, 2007