Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time –
Bo Bennett
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Category: Training (Page 27 of 40)
A team of Japanese scientists have found scientific proof that people doing exercises appear to perform better when another person compliments them.
The team had previously discovered that the same area of the brain, the striatum, is activated when a person is rewarded a compliment or cash.
Their latest research suggests that when the striatum is activated, it seems to encourage the person to perform better during exercises.
Read more about this research on: http://goo.gl/v36H4
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David Schnurman, a passionate entrepreneur, in his post on Business Insider writes that if you have the right mindset and a positive attitude, there is no outside force that can stop you in your journey to success.
He suggests five resources to help you along that journey:
1. Inspirational YouTube Videos.
2. The Success Principles, by Jack Canfield.
3. The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne.
4. Regular Journaling.
5. Listen to Tony Robbins
Read full article at: http://goo.gl/CL75T
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People usually take IQ as an infallible benchmark to judge individuals’ smartness. Well, in 1990, the concept of “Emotional Quotient – EQ” was firstly introduced unveiling a new world about interpersonal skills and their importance. While IQ is hard to improve, enhancing our EQ is not only possible but fully recommended.
Here are 5 key points suggested by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic:
1. Your level of EQ is firm, but not rigid;
2. Good coaching programs do work;
3. But you can only improve if you get accurate feedback;
4. Some techniques (and coaches) are more competent than others;
5. Some people are more coachable than others.
Read more on http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/05/can_you_really_improve_your_em.html
Happiness is the only true measure of personal success.
Therefore, Geoffrey James, writer of the “Sales Source” column on Inc.com, provides us nine small changes that we can make to our daily routine that will immediately increase the amount of happiness in our life.
- Start each day with expectation;
- Take time to plan and prioritize;
- Give a gift to everyone you meet;
- Deflect partisan conversations;
- Assume people have good intentions;
- Eat high quality food slowly;
- Let go of your results;
- Turn off “background” TV;
- End each day with gratitude.
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Whether we speak of it as procrastination or writer’s block, the inability to move forward on a project affects many people.
According to Denny Coates, author of the blog Building Personal Strength, “the cure is simply to sit down and begin doing the work. Just start […] The ideas will simply begin to flow.”
For further reading, he readily suggests The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, written by Steven Pressfield. It’s a brilliant self- help book about procrastination and its cure.
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