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Did you know that you can consolidate bills to gain control of your financial affairs? If you are feeling overwhelmed by mounting debt and the high cost of servicing it, debt consolidation may well be your key to freedom.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul can end up being a lifestyle when we are drowning in debt, yet simple strategies such as debt consolidation can reverse the downward spiral and turn around our lives. When people consolidate bills into loans with lower interest rates than they are paying on their various credit cards and other loans, they are usually able to reduce their overall monthly payments and free up more of their income to meet personal and family needs as well as pay down debt.

If you are looking to consolidate bills in order to improve your financial affairs, there are a some important factors you need to consider. First, when you consolidate bills it is important to look for the lowest possible interest rate and lowest fees. After all, the whole point of debt consolidation is to relieve the financial squeeze caused by multiple credit payments and help you more forward in life in a positive, proactive manner.

The first step when you consolidate bills is to be very clear about your purpose. Is your intention to remove the stranglehold of debt from your cash flow so you can improve your lifestyle? Or is it to be able to use the monthly savings to get out of debt quickly? Either way, debt consolidation is likely to put a lid on increasing debt. It is very easy to fall into the trap of using credit cards when we have insufficient money to pay our bills and buy needed items without even getting into the problem of spending on unnecessary products and services.

Home Equity Loans generally offer the lowest interest rates if you are a homeowner with enough equity to consolidate bills. However, if you know that large expenses, such as college tuition, are coming up in the near future you may be better off with a Home Equity Line of Credit. This will allow you to reduce monthly repayments because of the lower interest rate while still allowing you to organize a line of credit that can be used when necessary. Discipline is necessary in order to avoid getting overwhelmed by debt again, but if you have the commitment and discipline necessary to only use what you have to, a home equity line of credit can be a flexible way to turn around a trend toward rising debt as well as leave a margin for borrowing for important upcoming reasons.

Personal loans do not offer interest rates as low as home equity loans and lines of credit. However, they are often the loans of choice when people decide to consolidate bills. This is usually because most do not require collateral and provided you have the ability to pay and a good credit history, they are not difficult to obtain. Having said that, the interest rate on loans will increase with the perceived risk attached to the borrower. In other words, if you have had a poor credit history in the past, you may still get a loan, but the interest rate will be higher.

Although it is becoming increasingly common to consolidate bills using a low rate credit card, it is probably not a good idea to do so if your purpose is to turn around your mounting debt. A credit card can be flexible and a low rate card with reasonable annual fees will likely cost you a lot less than you are paying now if you are juggling multiple card payments. However, you know what those card companies are like! They will increase your limit and if you are like most people, you will spend up to it. Do you want to take that risk?

These are just a few options available to consolidate bills in order to restructure your finances. There are even more. Take the time to research the products available and before you commit to consolidate bills using any particular product, make sure you read the fine print of the contract.

Debt consolidation has the power to transform your life financially, but only if you consolidate bills wisely. Seeking professional advice before making a decision can save you years of pain.

Thomas Erikson
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Gone are the days of not so long ago…when a family could live okay on single income, working for someone else, that is. With ever-increasing inflation, taxes and nearly everything else, at least two incomes are most often needed – and just to cover the basics for a family. Often at least one of the family members also needs to moonlight or somehow bring in extra income to help cover bills and debts, often accumulated to cover more bare necessities with maybe an extra added in here and there like a nice new suit or mini-vacation that was once included in the one-income family of the old days.

Well now, with good self discipline and a few other factors added in, you can work from home to make money to help support your family. And one main industry that offers a wealth of opportunity is the travel industry, where people are earning not only billions of dollars, but also are also enjoying benefits of travel packages round the world.

To see if you believe you may qualify to work from home with good self discipline and other hard working attributes needed to make your own business a success, see what replies you would give to the following questions. And be honest with yourself. Because you’d be cheating yourself and your family in the long wrong, if you don’t reply truthfully.

1. Do you normally set goals and complete them? To be a success, in any field, you will need to have goals, as these will determine the ways and means of accomplishing your success. Your goals will most often be established in one of two ways:

a. Based upon the amount of extra income you want to make.

b. Based upon the amount of time you desire to spend certain tasks in order to make the income.

In short, your goals will need to be specific and feature answers to: what, when, where or how, three important points you will need to define each step of the way.

2. Is the program you’re thinking of getting in to a good investment? Check these points:
a. Can you afford initial start up costs?
b. Are you passion it about it to see it through long term?
c. Is it marketable?
d. Are the goals you can set with the program desirable and achievable?

3. Do you have enough courage to give it a go?

4. Are you self motivated? Do you have perseverance? Will you keep educating yourself – even with at work-at-home issues?

After you have answered the above questions, look back over your replies. If they were mostly all positive, you’re on your way to success already and have an excellent foundation for growing your business. Negatives mean you may need more elbow grease like via the help of workshops, books and a mentor or coaching program.

Dawn Orbeck
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The self improvement process involves steps that will not likely be acheived without the accomplishment of their preceding steps. As humans, we find it very difficult to adjust to changes all at once, because we have already been programmed to do and see things a particular way. It does not mean that it is impossible. It simply entails that completing the final stage of the process requires discipline, patience and persistence.

Rome was not built in a day, as the popular proverb goes. Thus, if we want to reap the benefits and enjoy what our self-improvement changes can bring, we must learn to be patient. The process of self improvement does not and will not happen overnight.

Remember that personal and professional changes take some time to get used to and some degree of adjustment on our part; so we should never seek to push ourselves to adapt immediately, or these efforts will just end up in vain.

Self improvement does not happen with simply thinking that we want to improve. We have to act on this ‘want’ and transform it into a ‘need’. Saying that we want to improve is just the beginning of this challenging process.

The basic self improvement process consists of three simple steps:

1) Deciding that you really want to improve,

2) Acting on it, and

3) Maintaining the goal in mind.

To truly get ahead in life, we have to accept that sacrifices will have to be made. For example, if we choose to join a Stop Drinking support group, we have to exercise maximum discipline to stay away from the ‘enemy’. We should make every effort to avoid situations that put us in a position where choice becomes very difficult and just stay focus by repeating the benefits of the endeavour to ourselves.

We must have a good follow through for the self improvement process to really work. If we only act on it and then change our minds, or fail to stick with it, it would be like we never started to achieve anything, at all. Keeping both our eyes on the goal at all times is key. Self improvement does not stop when something is accomplished, because it is a continuous process.

Who ever said getting ahead in life was easy? Your journey will surely be difficulty, not just based on external factors, but also from yourself. If you truly want to better your life, you must realize that your worst enemy will be yourself, which is, ironically, the most difficult part to conquer. However, if you set your heart and soul into your goal and convince yourself that though the path is rocky there is a great reward waiting for you at the finish line, you will be able to survive and excel.

Life is a challenge. Conquering your inner fears and apprehensions will make your journey much more challenging. However, it will not be so if you know that you can do it. The process of self improvement is challenging, but very rewarding once you surpass the obstacles. You just have to keep a positive and open mind all the time.

Andrew Chin
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Before I helped people build property portfolios I used to help people work out their financial problems and debts, setting them back on the path to financial security.

I developed some very simple ways to do this. “Simple”, but not often easy. They required two critical things that you absolutely must develop if you are to be successful in life: discipline and re-education. Now this article is not about either of these qualities but unless you have discipline I can tell you, you will find the following task very hard indeed.

Firstly, don’t pay too much attention to this article’s title. It’s there to grab your attention. £200 is a notional figure. Change it to whatever you want it to be.

This is a simple step-by-step process to find extra money within your existing income. Just follow the steps without actually trying to cut down on your spending, after you have completed this you can take a serious look at what you should really be spending your money on.

The origins of these activities are from the book The Richest Man in Babylon by George C. Clason. It is required reading for everyone from the youngest to the oldest of us. I have read this book at least 30 times over the past 15 years. It articulates many of the disciplines that I have developed and that I see in so many successful people. In particular I love the following quote from the book, it sums up exactly where most people are in their lives financially.

If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not observe them.

This is a potent reminder that we firstly must learn the laws and then put them into practice.

Follow the steps exactly and good luck. Ok – let’s get started:

Read the entire article through twice. For the next 30 days you only have 1 task which is Step 1. Once you have completed this move on and implement Step 2. Don’t try and jump ahead.

Step 1 – track your current expenditures for 30 days.

Remember to be honest with yourself. In order to fully complete this exercise you should track your expenditure over a 30-day period. This will open a can of worms in your thinking. You will begin to realise how much money you spend without ever thinking about it. It is generally this undisciplined spending that holds you back from being financially free.

Most people fail or stop this process after about 4 days. If you fail to track everything, stick too it as best as you can. I have tried and failed numerous times, in fact I can honestly only say that I succeeded once. It’s unfortunate but for those people who don’t track everything you will miss the very things that you need to be made aware of.

This process of writing down all your expenditure is more of a mental process than a financial one. You see most people have become so numb about spending that they don’t even realise they are doing it. This process will simply give you the awareness of where your money goes.

Track every expenditure for a full 30 days, as you do it think about each pound or dollar you spend. You will begin to realise that some of your expenses are essential others are not so essential. For now you don’t need to change your habits just observe the mental process you go through.

Step 2 – “pay yourself first”

This is the most basic of financial disciplines and one that I would argue will slingshot you to financial freedom quicker than any other single thing.

For this I want you to buy The Richest Man in Babylon. Read it and then begin to think about what it says. The book only takes about three hours to read but it will change profoundly the way your think about money.

I still to this day pay myself first and it is the single most profound reason for my financial situation today.

All you need to do for this step is calculate what you earn each month after tax and then work out 10% of this figure. This is what you will pay yourself first.

If your after tax income is £1800 the you would put aside £180. Pay yourself first £180, before you pay anyone else including the credit cards, banks, or any other person or organisation.

As soon as you get paid your income simply take this £180 and deposit it into an account that is separate from your normal account. Make it harder to get too, that will stop you giving into temptation or (perceived necessity). It will take some effort but you will make do on the remaining amounts.

The power of just this £180 is in the way it focuses your mind away from the fact that you have so many debts and no savings. It changes the way you think from debt-ridden to small-time saver. Even the smallest of savings feels better than the biggest of debts. This positive affirmation sends a clear signal to your brain that you are now a saver and with savings you can open yourself up to investment opportunities. With investments you are thinking at a totally new level. It won’t be long and you can truly start to make a huge difference.

In my experience my people can do this for about 3 or 4 months but then they find some good reason why they should borrow it and pay it back, next payday. This never happens. Trust me you will not. This is why it is often good to place it somewhere where you need someone else to access the money. I used to have a 2 to sign with my mother and Mum knew the rules behind allowing me to withdraw money. I needed a clear business plan.

Step 3 – Mapping your cashflow

The third step is simply to group each category of expense into either -

* SURVIVAL – absolutely essential. Without it you could not survive, obviously

* REQUIRED – required is something you must have to function as a member of civilised society, and

* DISCRETIONARY – discretionary is those things that make your life happy and fulfilling but if you didn’t have them you would still survive.

OK, for the first time through only look at the discretionary. Make a list of all the discretionary spending over the 30 days and then choose the ones you can truly do without. We will focus on these first.

Now the best way to change your habits is to focus your energies on a few things rather than a lot. By focusing you get the brain thinking creatively about ways you can adapt and compromise. This is a great facility the brain has.

Make sure you write down what it is you want! NOT what you don’t want!

BE CREATIVE

The come up with ways of making sure you don’t spend more than you are allowed.

I remember back to when I did it last, I wanted to stop spending $200 per night when I went out to nightclubs. (I was in Australia at the time) So I never took any cash out with me and then I restricted the amount I could take out of the Cash Machine to $40 at a time. It was so infuriating to have to make so many trips to the cash machine that I actually decreased my spending to around $80.

The other thing I did was to drink with my left hand rather than my right. It slowed my drinking rate down considerably. That was a trick I learned from a mate who used to run quit smoking seminars.

Once you choose your thing or things then come up with these little systems. A system is just a way of focusing your energies. Try them, they really work.

Try this for a few weeks and see if you can make some changes. It won’t be easy, but the results are worthwhile.

Brett Wood
http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/how-to-find-an-extra-200-to-pay-for-an-additional-buy-to-let-property-317426.html

There is no clear-cut success formula to succeed in business. If there was one, things would have been much easy and we would have never heard stories of business failure. But, if we take a peep into the history of all successful business organizations, we will find close similarities in their method of operation in the initial years.

There are certain steps that all these organizations have followed. These initial methods played a crucial role in their success. Here are few steps that many successful entrepreneurs have used to succeed in business.

1) Every third person that you meet on the street has a business idea. But one in hundred makes an attempt to become an entrepreneur. Many people are afraid to take risk and are not willing to give away their monthly salary.

To succeed in business, you need to have a desire to breakaway from the crowd. You need to have the courage to make use of your idea. To dream and an unfathomable desire to achieve that dream are the two basic aspects needed to succeed in business.

2) Your dream is to become the most successful business person in entertainment industry. But you have never visited a studio, does not know anything about movies and above all you have a degree in Information Technology. There is a contradiction here. It is the gilt and glamour that is attracting you to Hollywood. You have no passion for cinema. If you had a passion for cinema, you would have channeled your career for the entertainment industry needs. So your interest lie somewhere else. To succeed in business, you need to find your niche.

3) You learned to walk after several falls. Initial setbacks should not deter you. You should have a positive attitude towards life and business.

At the start of your business, you will make several mistakes. Take this in the positive spirit and try to avoid repeating mistakes. Treat every crisis as an opportunity to learn and perform. To succeed in business, you should shed all negative tendencies.

4) When you own a business, you get freedom. Quite often this freedom paves way to complacency. You should learn to discipline yourselves. Your business needs hard work and your commitment.

You have to commit to your business idea and to all those people who are part of your plans. These can be your employees, friends or family members.

When you are committed, you make the full use of your freedom and soon you will put in the maximum effort. This effort will help you to succeed in business.

5) No tree gives fruit overnight. For the fruit to appear, the tree has to undergo several phases.

Similar is the success in any business venture. You need to be patient to reap the fruits of your toil. You need to keep your effort through the lean phase. You need to be steady and focused.

You should also be ready to accept mistakes and correct them.

Flexibility in approach is another key element to succeed in business.

6) A brilliant idea alone will not ensure success in business. You need to learn to adapt your idea to the present day needs.

Your idea should reach maximum customers with ease. In the initial years, customers will not come to you. You need to take your product or service to the customer.

Be prepared to answer any question from the customer i.e. “What is there in your product or service that other people do not have?” If you have a solid answer to this question, you are right on track.

7) All business involves a certain amount of risk. So, you should be prepared to face the risk. You must have some financial backing to look to, when things go wrong.

Never invest your entire fortune in a new business. Look into all available financial options. It is also wise to take the advice of professionals in financial matters.

These simple steps don’t tell the whole story. But they can navigate you through the initial phases and help you to succeed in business.

anonymous
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-opportunities-articles/7-steps-on-how-to-succeed-in-your-own-business-64606.html

OBSERVATION

Observe your thoughts but don’t go anywhere with them. In other words don’t jump to a conclusion too soon.

There is a 5,000 word explanation for the power of observation but the basics are to understand what our first is and what our second thought is. Our first thought is intuition and our second thought is originated from our ego. There still is a problem as our ego demands you to believe that the second thought is in fact your first.

Your first thought is an immediate flash of knowledge that arises; sometimes without you taking much notice. Do nothing but be aware that this is how it works.

QUOTE: “Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish, but wish the things that happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.” (Epictetus)

Nature has a habit of lifting our spirits – never, never underestimate this potential! Have you ever spoke to an animal of your problems? You’ll never get advice, but you’ll get a listening ear. Why does food and drink taste so good when you’re sat by the beach? Yet strangely the same food at home never realises the same potential for happiness.

Write down during any normal day events that trigger a happy feeling. Then when that day turns sour you can look back at your journal and know what action to take that can bring back that happy feeling. It maybe that cooking or listening to the radio is good, or looking out of a specific window. You’ll only really know by keeping a good journal.

CENTRE YOURSELF

Although Meditation, Yoga, Chi Kung and Aerobics for example are good tools for restfulness, they may not be right for you. One specific option for restfulness is appreciating the value of giving full attention. When you only give half attention, your other half is drifting off trying to solve some problem or drift off into a dream of fantasy.

Try using full attention as thus… Opt for some mundane job such as cleaning a brass handle on the door. Don’t put a time limit on the job as that will affect the whole task. Feel the cloth and the texture, listen to the glug of the fluid as it drips onto the cloth. Feel the dampness of the cloth with your finger as you apply the solution to the brass. Watch carefully as you press and apply the right pressure to rid the brass of the grime. Listen for the squeak as the grime disappears and the true colour emerges. Clean with precision and don’t leave any grime left on the door handle.

This whole process may have taken 30 minutes, the completed job is perfection personified. It would have been restful. The importance of centering yourself as thus is that your mind is given to one job and one job only. It is a connection that will take away sorrow and sadness until that full attention is lost.

Be aware also that the moment you leave the beauty of full attention the answer to any problems may arise. It is said that your mind is allowed to resolve the problems of your life if you give a particular task your full attention; anything less than full attention and your mind is being actively used to follow some day dream or other.

LISTEN AND LEARN

Listen to your teacher! Who is your teacher? It could be the next person you meet. Everyone has the potential to be your teacher.

Being happy allows you to SEE. Being negative will not allow you to see anything; it is as if you’re wearing blinkers.

MAKE OPPORTUNITIES

Your first discipline in reading this book is to ‘make opportunities’. How do you do this?

Be happy… Happiness is the breading ground for opportunity; you’ll never get inspired by being sad or angry.

Call this discipline ‘reading time’ and allow 15 minutes to 30 minutes each day in doing this. Read something that is motivational. This in itself helps to trigger a happy feeling.

CAUSE and EFFECT – We all are probably aware of this psychological description. If your next action is the ‘effect’ then the cause is your decision to do it. For happiness you must first have the decision to be happy.

REASON

Generally we can identify why we are happy; this is because there was a reason. In deciding there was a reason we processed an analysis of the situation. Avoid such analysis, why not be happy for NO REASON?

INNER CONFLICT

The tasks that need the most effort are often those that present us with the greatest problems. Perhaps we strive for success with more ‘brawn than brains’ and forget our intended goal has an hidden agenda or conflict preventing the job’s completion.

Strange as it may seem some people wallow in struggling! Others perhaps enjoy the struggle as they know it leads to greater prospects. Which are you?

QUOTE: “The moment you make anything into a ‘problem’, you define yourself as a victim.” (Robert Holden)

Inner conflict is a problem that we shouldn’t ignore; although in wisdom we are best submitting the problem to our subconscious to resolve, which is not too dissimilar to ignoring it. If we cannot resolve it with rational thinking then a good practice is to allow our higher mind to present the resolution.

Inner conflict is a barrier and little else will get resolved when a major battle is taking place within our mind. We must first accept that an inner conflict exists and then proceed with a practice that we know will complete the task. However as mentioned in the last paragraph, to TRUST in our higher mind cum sub-conscious mind is a good alternative to consider.

STUCK IN A RUT?

Fear, self-doubt, self-criticism and self-sabotage; all observations of a person who says they are ‘stuck in a rut’, but is this a true state of affairs? Well of course it is! That’s why this person is in a rut.

What appears to happen in an attempt to resolve this situation is that they try and put right what has gone wrong. But you can’t change history!

Let’s assume for illustration purposes a boy has fallen out with his girlfriend. What tends to happen is that he wants to go back and justify his actions that lead to the break up of the relationship. He needs to deal with the past problem in the NOW. The best possible solution is to say you’re SORRY.

We don’t want to spend weeks and weeks trying to put right something that’s happened in the past, we need to act in the NOW in a positive way which makes a promise for a brighter future.

Being ‘stuck in a rut’ is not so much a troubled past but being afraid of moving on. This fear is because you’re trying to put right those actions in the past. Your next ten minutes on this planet are the result of what action you take NOW.

THE MIRROR EFFECT

The principle we call the ‘mirror effect’ has several permutations, one of which is; ‘you only get out of life what you put in’. The simplicity but immense power this principle has, will consistently impress you.

Imagine this scenario… It is 9am one evening and you realize you’ll need some milk and bread for breakfast. The decision is to visit your local late opening supermarket. You quickly glance in the mirror and say, “It’ll have to do!” You rush off to the supermarket and the odds are that you’ll not talk to anyone other than the person at the till and that would only be a grunted, “Thanks.” This is the mirror effect – if you look unapproachable, nobody will approach you.

Check the mirror before you leave the house; and smile! That image will be left as a vision of yourself and subsequently what others see of you.

Mr. P. Booker
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This “fruit for thought” article is for all human beings, who somehow find themselves in the role of breadwinner and striving to improve their living standards.

The heading of this article could just as well have been “How to position yourself for promotion” or “How to position yourself for career advancement” or “How to climb the success ladder” or something similar.

Career success for solid career building depends on excellent work performance, combined with good work ethics. The answer on how to cultivate good work ethics is simple. Make yourself one of the linking pins in your organisation. A linking pin is someone to whom everybody turns to, to get information and advice from. It is also someone who can link persons, sections and departments for better co-operation. But most important of all, it is someone who can exert influence upwards, downwards and sideways in the organisation structure. In other words you must be able to influence people around you to carry out the wishes, policies and strategies of top management, by earning respect through your display of expertise and thoroughness. You must also be able to represent the valid wishes and needs of lower levels to top management. You can become a linking pin by striving to attain the following traits:

Career builder step 1: Cloak yourself with expert knowledge in your technical field of operation.

If you are an electrician, do not only be satisfied with your qualification. Try to gain more in depth expertise in this technical field of yours, to distinguish yourself from other electricians.

If you are an accountant, avail yourself of in depth knowledge about bookkeeping practices by studying or reading up on subjects pertinent for your field of technical expertise.

You can bluff your way during interviews, but once you have been appointed, people expect from you to perform. This is where the cookie crumbles or you succeed. The point is you must not only perform at an average level, but you must display exceptional or above average expertise, so that others can start to rely on your opinions and advice.

Career builder step 2: Produce accurate work.

Cultivate a habit to carry out your work correctly with a minimum of mistakes. Sloppiness or tardiness must definitely not be present in your attitude, personal appearance or any of your work outputs, be it notes, memo’s, letters, spreadsheets, conversations or anything related to your work.

Imagine what will happen if debits and credits are being processed the wrong way around in a financial department. It will have disastrous consequences. Strive for professionalism in what you do.

Career builder step 3: Be quicker than most.

This is one of the best ways to demonstrate your superiority and efficiency. By executing duties and tasks speedily, you are being more productive and can entice more important tasks your way and thereby not only increase your merit ratings, but also your ultimate job rating. If you can perform your duties speedily, do not wait and stay idle, but present yourself to your superior for more work. Find a balance to be both quick and accurate.

Career builder step 4: Display awareness of productivity.

This must start with your own self-evaluation. Ask yourself constantly if you are giving more back to the organisation in value, than what you are being paid every month. Although not easy to calculate, just thinking about it may have enough of an impact. Just imagine for a moment if your organisation were to be solely dependant for profit on the output of human beings only. In other words nothing to sell or produce but labour output. If you can do more, it reflects directly on profit. Luckily a lot of organisations have machines that make up in productivity for what is lost by unproductive employees. But being more productive in what you do as a human being, can contribute significantly to the profits of any organisation. As salaries are one of the highest cost elements in any organisation, this is one of the first cost elements that come under scrutiny during times of cost reduction efforts. You have to show your worth in order not to be included in downscaling of the labour force. But more positively, you have to show your worth to be counted in for consideration for promotion.

Career builder step 5: Get rid of time wasters.

Arriving late for work, stretching of tea and lunch breaks and elongated private conversations on the phone, are not only wasting your valuable time, but are a reflection of your poor awareness of productivity. Private conversations on the telephone are one of the most abused methods of stealth stealing from your employer. If you cannot be trusted on the use of the telephone, what else can you be trusted with? Are you a role model for getting rid of these time wasters or for abusing it? Are you earning respect for your ethical conduct in eradicating time wasters or are you just one of the crowd? If you discipline yourself and others around you on the economical use of time, you are on your way to earn a respected leadership role. Others must detect a sense of urgency in your execution of duties to begin to respect and follow your example. Do you want to be a follower or a leader? Do you want to stay obscured in the crowd for the rest of your life or do you want to be recognised? There is such a thing as telephone ethics, you know. If you are prepared to pay for your use of the employer telephone, you are not abusing it. Do you really know what you are costing your employer for using the phone? You are not supposed to use it for private purposes in the first place. It is a privileged instrument entrusted to you to help you in your work and not to cause financial loss to you employer.

Career builder step 6: Be open-minded and ready for organisational changes.

Whenever changes are announced, be positive and display a leadership role in executing the new policies and strategies. If you participated in the planning of the changes, then you were forewarned. But even if you experience unexpected changes, be first to look out for positive reasons for such changes and to influence others around you to accept it with positive attitudes. Defending superiors and higher management will increase your leadership status and trustworthiness. In a political sense it will display your role as siding with management against the disgruntled crowd.

Career builder step 7: Arrange and organise your paperwork.

A good filing system allows you to retrieve required documents and information fast for own use or for use by other parties. It is a reflection of your efficiency and your ability for sound logic thinking. If you surround yourself with paperwork to impress on others how busy you are, you are making the mistake of your life. It can be interpreted in many different ways, like you cannot cope with the workload, you cannot delegate, you spend too much on time wasters, you are too slow and worst of all you cannot manage yourself or others. If you cannot get rid of papers, you will not find the time to attend to the needs and development of your subordinates. You will also not find the time to liase with colleagues or to discipline your section or department. You will be a walk over and ripe for being misused by subordinates not respecting you. Rather be a reliable source of information with the time for training your subordinates and others. Clean up your desk to make time for others.

Career builder step 8: Read up on the principles of supervision and management.

Familiarise yourself with the knowledge on how to be a good supervisor or manager. If you can display management capabilities, you will sooner be identified for promotion. It is better to be promoted for your managerial capabilities than for your technical proficiency. It will allow you to perform your managerial duties better. Apart from being technically proficient, prepare yourself in advance for possible promotion. Make yourself ready and available for your employer and the future needs of your organisation.

Career builder step 9: Confidential information.

Your treatment of confidential information is going to be a good gauge of your character. You only have to make one mistake in this area, not to be trusted ever again. If you have a problem in this area, rectify it quickly. Your superiors and employer have to trust and rely on your discretion with confidential information. Some information must be kept confidential or secret until it is time for disclosure.

You must proof your ability for discretion with this type of information, so that they know they can trust and rely on you. Let them know and understand that you are part and parcel of management.

Career builder step 10: Show initiative.

Make suggestions to improve methods of work and systems. See problems as opportunities for improvement. Do not just report problems, but analyse it wisely and make recommendations for improvement. Recognise opportunities for improvement and development and utilise it.

Career builder step 11: Be honest, open and direct.

Harbouring a secretive attitude of slyness with hidden agenda’s, will not remain a secret for long. Other persons will eventually detect it and despise you for it. You can just as well fire yourself, because that is where you will end up. Nobody will trust you after you have been exposed. Be open and direct in your communications and handling of conflict situations. Do not be afraid to air your opinions, as long as it is genuine and true. Truthful mistakes can always be remedied later on.

Summary:

Life is ever so short that nobody can really afford to remain average in the obscured crowd of nobodies. Make yourself stand out as someone with strong principles and work ethics, so that others can rely on your strengths. Qualifications alone, without work ethics, are totally worthless. Make the following words part of your life and your philosophy on your outlook of work:

Tenacity – keep on trying

Conscientious – keep on thinking about ways to finalise and improve your work

Humorous – make life bearable and enjoyable

Urgency – you must finalise your work with speed and accuracy

Trustworthiness – proof yourself to be a reliable and dependable person

Openness and honesty – be a person of honour and proud of yourself

Fostering of these principles will guarantee career success in your career building efforts.

Pierre Du Plessis
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Self-confidence is an attitude which allows individuals to have positive yet realistic views of themselves and their situations. Self-confident people trust their own abilities, have a general sense of control in their lives, and believe that, within reason, they will be able to do what they wish, plan, and expect.

Having self-confidence does not mean that individuals will be able to do everything. Self-confident people have expectations that are realistic. Even when some of their expectations are not met, they continue to be positive and to accept themselves.

People who are not self-confident depend excessively on the approval of others in order to feel good about themselves. They tend to avoid taking risks because they fear failure. They generally do not expect to be successful. They often put themselves down and tend to discount or ignore compliments paid to them. By contrast, self-confident people are willing to risk the disapproval of others because they generally trust their own abilities. They tend to accept themselves; they don’t feel they have to conform in order to be accepted.

Self-confidence is not necessarily a general characteristic which pervades all aspects of a person’s life. Typically, individuals will have some areas of their lives where they feel quite confident, e.g.,academics, athletics, while at the same time they do not feel at all confident in other areas, e.g., personal appearance, social relationships.

There is no greater asset for an entrepreneur than an absolute conviction that you know what you’re doing. If you don’t feel sure of yourself, why should anyone else trust you?

This is obvious. But for most of us, confidence is something that comes and goes. What’s more, it often vanishes unexpectedly, just when you need it most. When I feel confident, everything seems to work better. When I feel insecure, nothing goes right. I become selfconscious. I begin to doubt my own abilities, and mistrust other people as well.

While confidence is useful for everyone, it is particularly vital when you are in business for yourself. When you work for a company, your very position gives you a sense of legitimacy. Entrepreneurs stand on our own, and we mustn’t be seen to be quivering in our high heels or wing tips. We demand to be taken seriously. Everything about us should inspire trust.

In his influential book Learned Optimism, psychologist Martin Seligman cites scientific data showing that pessimistic people have a firmer grasp on reality than people with a sunnier outlook. The optimists, however, are likely to be happier, healthier, and more successful. Seligman argues that, for most people, it’s worth learning to be optimistic. It’s good for you.

Obviously, you can’t stay in business if you don’t have a grasp on reality, and especially on how things are changing. Yet, it is the nature of the entrepreneurs not to accept reality without a bit of a fight. We are, after all, in business to change the world, not simply to accept things as they are. Our success depends on a good helping of presumptuousness. We are remaking the world to our liking. But we will never succeed unless we are convinced–and unless we appear convinced–that what we are doing will succeed.

Everyone has moments of insecurity. Indeed, many of the stories in this book relate the impact of self-doubt on the lives of independent business people. Confidence is a quality that comes and goes, but, as several of the stories that follow suggest, it is also a discipline that can be learned. And if you can succeed in learning confidence, you will not simply be happier and healthier, but wealthier besides.

Martin Chandra
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Divorce rates have long been overstated. Recent research indicates that for more educated couples who are over 25 when they marry, the rate of divorce is probably only about 30%. Even for those couples who are less educated or younger when they marry, divorce rates are less than 50%. While data for second marriages is currently very limited, the early indication is that the frequently stated 60% divorce rate is also a gross exaggeration and that divorce rates for second marriages may not be any higher than for first marriages. However, regardless of the statistics, it is also very clear that much anxiety is embedded in the decision to remarry. Most divorced individuals feel they have “failed” at marriage once and are usually terrified at the thought that they might “fail” again. What follows are some suggestions on how to improve the likelihood that the choice of a second partner is more likely to work out than the first choice did.

Understanding why the first marriage ended in divorce:

This is a critical step for each person going through a divorce and is one reason why I strongly recommend divorce counseling even when there is no desire or possibility of staying together. There is much to learn from analyzing why you married each other and what led to experiencing a loss of trust, companionship, and love (assuming the marriage had that foundation to begin with). Sometimes it was a mismatch right from the beginning but more often there was a genuine sense of being in love and an experience of being best friends and lovers. What happened to change that? The answers to that question will provide valuable insight about what personal issues you may need to work out as well as what you need to be looking for in a new partner.

There are so many possible reasons why a relationship falls apart that I can’t possibly cover all of them in a short article. But some issues are definitely more common than others. Probably the most common is the underlying feelings of inadequacy, shame or guilt that we all carry to some degree. If these feelings are either especially strong or just more than we can adequately manage, it will result in distrust (expectation of being rejected and/or abandoned if your partner really gets to know you) and patterns of marital behavior that push your partner away whenever increased intimacy threatens to reveal your “badness.” If issues with intimacy sabotaged your first marriage, they will likely do the same to your second one unless you have worked on reducing them.

A successful marriage requires negotiating a series of challenges. These are effectively described and discussed in Judith Viorst’s excellent book, “Grown-Up Marriage” (2003). I will just note a few of them here: shifting from idealizing your partner (thinking you are marrying the “good parent”) to being able to accept the faults and foibles of your partner; learning to disengage from each family of origin (in-law problems!); the ability to adjust to the arrival of children (changes in roles and expectations); being able to adjust to the inevitable personal changes of one or both partners (we should be evolving over the course of our lives and our needs and behaviors are likely to change with time). A successful marriage requires a constant process of adaptation to the changes, both expected and unexpected, that are absolutely going to take place. Rigidity in the face of these demands for change is another very common reason why a marriage ends in divorce.

The more you understand about what you contributed to the marital disintegration (even when you are “certain” it is all the fault of the other person), the more likely you are to develop the skills required to have a more successful second marriage.

Don’t rush into a second marriage:

Research suggests that divorce is much more likely in a second marriage if the relationship is less than a year old. This is one of those situations where the stereotype may be more fact than fiction. I am referring to what is commonly called a rebound relationship and the popular perception that this is a no-no. Well, most likely it is. For men, it is often driven by an extreme discomfort with being alone; for women, that is also a factor but greater financial security is often a key issue. However, it is men who tend to marry quicker after a divorce (and that’s not because men are more often involved in another relationship before the divorce; only about one-in-six affairs end in marriage) as they are typically seduced into thinking they are in love with someone who is willing to listen to their pain and make them feel important again.

A core of common interests:

Sure opposites attract. But over time, substantial differences in style, personality, and interests wear on a relationship. It becomes too much work as everything is a compromise and very little is truly shared joy. There needs to be a solid core of common interests that allow for an easy way to spend quality time together. In addition, it really helps if each partner is open to new experiences, even some things that may have been tried and rejected in a prior marriage (e.g., watching football, going to opera, hiking, and gardening) may be experienced more positively with a new partner. Yes, a good marriage takes work, but it shouldn’t be that hard. So much of a relationship is about fit. The more your lives naturally overlap, the easier the process of working out the rough edges.

Blending families and dealing with former spouses:

If either or both of you are bringing children from a previous marriage into this new relationship, it presents challenging issues that have been written about extensively. (I have addressed this topic in some earlier articles.) In addition, ongoing conflict with former spouses can potentially undermine a second marriage. With regard to children, one key is easing children into the new relationship and allowing sufficient time for a bond of caring to form in a natural, unforced manner. Sometimes it just won’t happen and that needs to be accepted, as difficult as that may be. Under those circumstances, the biological parent has to be clearly supportive of his/her spouse and take greater responsibility for disciplining and make sure that there is adequate time alone with the biological children (reducing the sense that the new marriage means losing one’s parent). Speaking of discipline, the non-biological spouse should not attempt to discipline the stepchildren until they virtually ask for limits to be set and reinforced. Given the challenge of blending families, I often recommend the new couple attend a stepfamily support group.

As for ongoing conflict with an ex-spouse, the new partner must try to walk the delicate line between being emotionally supportive without fanning the flames of your spouse’s anger. It becomes particularly challenging when you feel your new spouse is behaving inappropriately. Another equally challenging situation is when you feel the former relationship is intruding on creating the closeness you seek in the new marriage. This goes back to the importance of entering into the new marriage slowly and carefully, with one of the tasks to be as sure as one can that each of you has truly let go of the prior marriages.

Make sure your beliefs and values are reasonably aligned:

One major potential advantage going into a second marriage is that each partner is older, has more life experience, and should have a better idea of what is really important to them. (If your new love interest is still searching for his/her identity, best you head for the door!) Thus the role of religion in your lives, the way you deal with money, the desire for more children combined with discipline styles, the role of extended family, the role of outside interests and friendships, views on gender roles, sexual needs and preferences, and communication styles are all important issues that should be discussed in depth. It’s not simply knowing what each other’s values are but the expectations of a partner in marriage that flow from these beliefs and needs that are critical.

The more aligned you are in these areas, the easier it should be to spend the rest of your lives together. Equally important, since most couples won’t have the same perspective on all these issues, can you support the differences and work through possible conflicts. Just the ability to have honest, open discussions about these issues is a positive sign. But don’t brush off a significant difference and think it will simply work out because you love each other. That’s a major trap in first marriages, especially one that women commonly fall into, i.e., that they can fix/save a man who is bringing a significant issue into the marriage, e.g., a drinking problem or rigid expectations about women/children that don’t match yours. The issue of having more children (if one or both already have children) is a particularly sensitive issue that may get glossed over.

Money issues are another major source of conflict. By now you should each have some sense of whether you spend too much or try to hold on to every penny. Of particular importance is the issue of control over finances. I happen to believe that, in most marriages, money should be “ours”, not his and hers, regardless of whether there is a primary earner or two relatively equal careers. I know this is sometimes difficult when there are child support monies involved and it may be easier to keep certain monies separate. For some couples who are older and have established careers and are used to being financially independent, it may be very hard to think of “our monies” and feel like you have to account for your spending/saving patterns. But I perceive this as part of marital intimacy and commitment. Sharing assets as one is consistent with sharing life as one.

Regardless of what the money arrangements are, it is important that there be honesty about finances. Some have coined the term “financial infidelity” to describe spouses who hide their spending/investing from their partner. Research has indicated one-in-four couples were guilty of such indiscretions. Obviously such dishonesty is bound to become a serious source of conflict and distrust that will threaten the marital relationship. So, like with other issues mentioned in this article, it is about openness, about trusting your partner enough to be honest about what you are doing as well as what you value and believe in.

Concluding thought:

From your previous marital experience you should be very conscious of the fact that whatever you may believe, value, or need at the start of this second marriage, neither of you nor your relationship is some static arrangement that remains unchanged over time. Just because you are aligned at the start obviously doesn’t mean you will stay that way over time. By establishing a pattern of talking openly about these issues at the beginning it increases the likelihood of that you will continue to discuss and explore changes that take place over time and, if you are able to maintain respect for each other as well as an ability to talk through important issues, your chance of a successful second marriage is quite good.

Kalman Heller
http://www.articlesbase.com/marriage-articles/improving-the-odds-for-successful-second-marriages-744577.html

Seldom, it’s hard to live with uncertainty especially when you expect for sooner outcomes. A simple decision making for a new business or for a new professional career still demands for thorough focus and attention. Also, doubts and pressures cannot be avoided as these are part of the trials associated with successful and well-defined solutions. But each hidden-in-disguise positive details entailed to these roller-coaster-ride for success in business and working career are well-hidden and superficially cognitive for an ordinary person to understand. Thus, a little help from experts becomes the most popular and viable resort.

Psychic that offers advice for a healthy lifestyle and personality development are some of the proven consultation solutions. Not only they can provide a quantity of positive options of success route, but also a variety of procedures to ponder oneself towards the best possible goals. A good businessman, for example, can be advised to make choices as to where and which corporation and type of business he will succeed and how and when he can hit a good start.

The generalized perceptive and divination power of most psychics are indeed reliable for advising open-minded preferences. Their being integrated to all sorts of fields is advantageous as being an all-around expert. Being a professional psychic also indicates their well-molded concepts and principles like a wise and well-experienced veterans. Their rich knowledge about lifestyle, paranormal mysteries and human commonalities and peculiarities further enhanced their intuitive and predicting capabilities.

Sometimes, accuracy of their prediction assumes greater impact to their name as their only valuable virtue. This implies their professionalism and being knowledgeable on the of divination though, most-often-the-not, special psychics are inborn gifts that pondered naturally through years of physical and spiritual growth. Their being popular and having notable skills become the signature of their identity as an spiritual and paranormal expert.

Apart from their fluent perspective on ghost and other supernatural entities, they are also famous for their great devotion and erudition from astrology and numerology. The usage of astrological sign or star signs and number language are one of their known expertise and that add up to their psychic capabilities. In fact, in most cases, astrology and numerology are their bases for positive advising and interpretation of one’s future and progress path. Every specific instances of a person’s life are believed to have strong connections from the star and planet movements. Therefore, psychics cognition on this discipline is a great advantage whenever providing accurate prediction and inspiration for the client as for love life or career.

So if a person happens to ask for a psychic advice, he is definitely in for a broader branch of knowledge known to man that started from ancient years. The conditional and foretelling approach of their psychic services give most clients their new and constructive approach in living. A good basis for how people cope up with the greater challenge an ordinary man cannot handle, matter-of-factly.

raphnix
http://www.articlesbase.com/metaphysics-articles/psychic-consultations-a-positive-outlook-750750.html

Seldom, it’s hard to live with uncertainty especially when you expect for sooner outcomes. A simple decision making for a new business or for a new professional career still demands for thorough focus and attention. Also, doubts and pressures cannot be avoided as these are part of the trials associated with successful and well-defined solutions. But each hidden-in-disguise positive details entailed to these roller-coaster-ride for success in business and working career are well-hidden and superficially cognitive for an ordinary person to understand. Thus, a little help from experts becomes the most popular and viable resort.

Psychic that offers advice for a healthy lifestyle and personality development are some of the proven consultation solutions. Not only they can provide a quantity of positive options of success route, but also a variety of procedures to ponder oneself towards the best possible goals. A good businessman, for example, can be advised to make choices as to where and which corporation and type of business he will succeed and how and when he can hit a good start.

The generalized perceptive and divination power of most psychics are indeed reliable for advising open-minded preferences. Their being integrated to all sorts of fields is advantageous as being an all-around expert. Being a professional psychic also indicates their well-molded concepts and principles like a wise and well-experienced veterans. Their rich knowledge about lifestyle, paranormal mysteries and human commonalities and peculiarities further enhanced their intuitive and predicting capabilities.

Sometimes, accuracy of their prediction assumes greater impact to their name as their only valuable virtue. This implies their professionalism and being knowledgeable on the of divination though, most-often-the-not, special psychics are inborn gifts that pondered naturally through years of physical and spiritual growth. Their being popular and having notable skills become the signature of their identity as an spiritual and paranormal expert.

Apart from their fluent perspective on ghost and other supernatural entities, they are also famous for their great devotion and erudition from astrology and numerology. The usage of astrological sign or star signs and number language are one of their known expertise and that add up to their psychic capabilities. In fact, in most cases, astrology and numerology are their bases for positive advising and interpretation of one’s future and progress path. Every specific instances of a person’s life are believed to have strong connections from the star and planet movements. Therefore, psychics cognition on this discipline is a great advantage whenever providing accurate prediction and inspiration for the client as for love life or career.

So if a person happens to ask for a psychic advice, he is definitely in for a broader branch of knowledge known to man that started from ancient years. The conditional and foretelling approach of their psychic services give most clients their new and constructive approach in living. A good basis for how people cope up with the greater challenge an ordinary man cannot handle, matter-of-factly.

raphnix
http://www.articlesbase.com/metaphysics-articles/psychic-consultations-a-positive-outlook-750750.html

Seldom, it’s hard to live with uncertainty especially when you expect for sooner outcomes. A simple decision making for a new business or for a new professional career still demands for thorough focus and attention. Also, doubts and pressures cannot be avoided as these are part of the trials associated with successful and well-defined solutions. But each hidden-in-disguise positive details entailed to these roller-coaster-ride for success in business and working career are well-hidden and superficially cognitive for an ordinary person to understand. Thus, a little help from experts becomes the most popular and viable resort.

Psychic that offers advice for a healthy lifestyle and personality development are some of the proven consultation solutions. Not only they can provide a quantity of positive options of success route, but also a variety of procedures to ponder oneself towards the best possible goals. A good businessman, for example, can be advised to make choices as to where and which corporation and type of business he will succeed and how and when he can hit a good start.

The generalized perceptive and divination power of most psychics are indeed reliable for advising open-minded preferences. Their being integrated to all sorts of fields is advantageous as being an all-around expert. Being a professional psychic also indicates their well-molded concepts and principles like a wise and well-experienced veterans. Their rich knowledge about lifestyle, paranormal mysteries and human commonalities and peculiarities further enhanced their intuitive and predicting capabilities.

Sometimes, accuracy of their prediction assumes greater impact to their name as their only valuable virtue. This implies their professionalism and being knowledgeable on the of divination though, most-often-the-not, special psychics are inborn gifts that pondered naturally through years of physical and spiritual growth. Their being popular and having notable skills become the signature of their identity as an spiritual and paranormal expert.

Apart from their fluent perspective on ghost and other supernatural entities, they are also famous for their great devotion and erudition from astrology and numerology. The usage of astrological sign or star signs and number language are one of their known expertise and that add up to their psychic capabilities. In fact, in most cases, astrology and numerology are their bases for positive advising and interpretation of one’s future and progress path. Every specific instances of a person’s life are believed to have strong connections from the star and planet movements. Therefore, psychics cognition on this discipline is a great advantage whenever providing accurate prediction and inspiration for the client as for love life or career.

So if a person happens to ask for a psychic advice, he is definitely in for a broader branch of knowledge known to man that started from ancient years. The conditional and foretelling approach of their psychic services give most clients their new and constructive approach in living. A good basis for how people cope up with the greater challenge an ordinary man cannot handle, matter-of-factly.

raphnix
http://www.articlesbase.com/metaphysics-articles/psychic-consultations-a-positive-outlook-750750.html

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