What is True Diligence? A Review of Steve Scott's "Lessons From the Richest Man Who Ever Lived"

Posted on July 22nd, 2010

Have you stopped to consider whether you are being truly diligent? Chances are your first response is to say: “Well, of course I’m diligent. I get my work done in time. I never miss a deadline. My boss is perfectly satisfied with my performance. So, if that is not being diligent, I don’t know what is.” Strap your saddle, because I am about to take you for a ride!

No, being diligent is NOT meeting deadlines and completing the tasks you are assigned. Being diligent is not about doing what you are supposed to or expected to do. Being diligent is not even about working hard! Turns out our traditional definitions of the term “diligence” fall inadequately short of conveying the true meaning of the word.

Steve Scott presents in his audio series “Lessons From the Richest Man Who Ever Lived” a definition of diligence, and other qualities necessary to achieve wealth and prosperity, From the perspective of the Proverbs of Solomon. King Solomon is generally regarded, and historically accepted, as t he richest man to ever roam the earth. Not only was he rich in material possessions, but the wisdom of Solomon is legendary and has reached epic proportions. It is from Solomon’s most famous writings that Steve Scott draws the lessons he imparts as part of the previously mentioned audio series.

So, what IS diligence? Picture the following scenario. A couple of trees need to be cut down. Two men approach the job. The first one arrives with a hammer in hand. With all his determination and force, he hammers away at the tree for hours and hours and hours. Finally, when his force is about to give, he watches with satisfaction as the tree falls to the ground. The other man, however, brings a very sharp ax. In a matter of minutes he manages to have the tree so week that a simple push would finish the job. One more whack at the tree and down it comes. Which of the two men was diligent? Both completed the job. One of them worked really hard, while the other worked really smart! So, which one was diligent?

Still not sure? Think about this set of circumstances. Two sports teams prepare for the regional championship. They must compete against each other. The favorites labor and practice, putting all their energy and effort into their hour-long practice in the morning and another two hours in the afternoon. When game day comes, people watch in amazement as the underdog easily and comfortably win the game. Turns out that, while the first team was sure they were being diligent, the members of the second team were getting to practice an hour earlier in the morning and staying an hour later in the evening than the other team. So, which team was diligent?

While most of us equate diligence with completing assigned tasks and doing what is expected of us, Steve Scott, through Solomonic wisdom, points out that merely doing what is expected is NOT to be diligent. To be diligent is to go above and beyond. It is to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to reach the GOALS you have set for yourself. It is knowing what is expected, what others are doing and where the rest of the world stops, and then going one step further, at least!

In his work “Lessons From the Richest Man Who Ever Lived” Steve Scott does a great job of challenging our preconceived notions of diligence. Following Solomon’s teachings, Scott urges the listener to work smarter rather than harder, to be aware that activity does not necessarily equal achievement, and that to achieve the level of prosperity of which we are truly capable, we MUST go beyond what is expected and do what is necessary

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Marcy Amaro is the owner and creator of http://www.GlobalMarketingClassroom.com . She is a Christian, wife, mother of two, and a former English teacher. She has found a way to put her family back at the top of her priority list. You too can have the time and resources to focus on what’s really important and enjoy life once more! Find out how at http://www.StrategicMarketingMaven.com .
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Personal Development Turned Upside Down

Posted on July 21st, 2010

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This may ruffle a few feathers but one of the key reasons why most of people don’t notice any real shifts from doing traditional Self Help or Personal Development type programs is because the focus is on symptoms rather than the underlying imbalances.

If you don’t have enough money, it’s not a money problem, it’s an imbalance in how you feel about money. If you don’t have a good relationship with your partner, it’s not a relationship problem, it’s an imbalance with how you feel about relationships.

The issue with personal development is that it implies that as a person, we’re deficient and need to be developed into something else (better). In other words, we have one set of symptoms and we need to have a better set of symptoms.

To understand this, consider that from the moment we’re born, we are creating an identity for ourselves (a story), trying to understand the environment we’re in, this is the way the human mind works. This data gathering happens up to around the age of 5, at which point the base identity is in place.

We now have a basic understanding of how we fit within our environment and what we need to do to survive. From this point onwards, everything we experience is interpreted from that basic understanding, even when we become adults!

It’s for this reason that often when people get angry, the behavior becomes childlike, the core survival mechanism that was developed in the early years is triggered and the situation is dealt with in the only way that person has been preconditioned to deal with things.

This often leads to a general unhappiness for life and the desire for better circumstances. This is usually the point at which personal development comes along to help the person resolve the unhappy story, for a happy one.

I’ll say that another way, there’s one story where unpleasant things keep showing up and we then start looking for better story in the hope of finally living a good life through good things showing up.

It’s natural to want a good life, there’s nothing wrong with that, it just helps to know that you are whole right now and that there’s greater part within that has been covered up, up to now.

If you doubt this, look at a contented baby, they emanate joy and you find yourself smiling simply by looking at them. They remind us of the joy that’s in our own hearts and so if we know that joy already, it means that the only reason that we’re not experiencing it right now is because we’ve blocked ourselves off to it!

The process then is discover that part of us that is covered under the layers of story that was put in place from childhood. In this sense, what we’re wanting is “Self discovery”, where we find our true essence, that foundation that provides the security to take confident steps in the world.

This is where I believe the personal development world is moving to. It’s the integrity we’re looking for and it takes care of the imbalances automatically. This is the foundation we all want and it goes beyond whatever you think the outside world can provide. If you find this of interest, go to http://www.foundationalwealth.com

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Angelo Campione is a writer and publisher of Mindfulness related articles. He has real life experience in dealing with emotional pain and now walks the path that has him live a life of Purpose, Joy and Freedom. He is passionate about helping to raise consciousness and runs an online Mindfulness Series Free of charge.
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Emotions and Feelings – Letting Go Of Hurt Feelings

Posted on July 20th, 2010

Letting Go of Hurt Feelings

I am a true believer of expressing emotions and feelings. I believe the only way out of emotions is through them. If your feelings have been hurt, pushing it down won’t work. If your feelings have been hurt, dumping feelings on the person who hurt them won’t work either. What works is letting go appropriately. But how does one do that? Elsewhere on the site I give you instructions to write Love Letters. Love Letters were designed to be used as a tool for appropriate expression of emotions and feelings.

John Gray and Barbara deAngelis taught me how to write Love Letters in 1982. I’ve been writing them ever since. I can do them in my sleep or in my head if I don’t have a computer or a piece of paper handy. I am an expert. I teach them. I coach them. I probably even nag about them. Love Letter used correctly are a great way of letting go.

I was talking to one of my coaches this morning and I shared with her two little stories about what happens when someone isn’t open to your feelings and she suggested I share them with you all. Here they are:

Story #1 - I have a very good friend for 30 years. She has been totally instrumental in my life. She sent me to the first workshop where I learned about emotions and feelings and learned to write Love Letters. (I also happened to meet my lovely husband there but that’s another story.) She is also very unafraid of her own anger and can be very strong is expressing it. Growing up with the mother I had and just being myself, I’m not wild about being around that so when I was upset with her many years ago, I wrote her a Love Letter. She didn’t want to write one but assured me she could just do it verbally.

Well, it didn’t work out so well. I read mine to her – ending with lots of love and forgiveness that was truly in my heart. Then it was her turn. Because she’s so forceful in her anger and it is so easy for her to express, it about knocked me over. Because she wouldn’t write the letter, she was unable to gauge whether the love she expressed was at least as long or longer then the anger she expressed (one of the vital rules involved in Love Letters).

My questions to you: How does it feel to you when a whole load of anger is dumped on you with no resolution of forgiveness and love and understanding.

Story #2 - In my past I worked for years in a couple of personal growth organizations. Love Letters were used in the culture of the community surrounding the group but the leaders refused to receive them even though they taught them. I strongly requested that I be allowed to use one to communicate my upset. I was given the OK verbally but the person to whom I read the letter had their heart completely closed to what I said – even all the love. If I had know then what I know now, I would have stopped as soon as I realized this. But I did not. I kept going. It felt as if all of the feelings multiplied by 10 bounced back off that closed heart and fell all over me. It was very painful.

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Maia Berens helps women overcome their blocks to their own growth. Her self-coaching, group and private coaching, provide women with the safety and inspiration to change their lives. For more articles, information, and a totally free year of personal growth assignments, visit www.allaboutlifecoaching.com and make sure you click on the Ask a Coach Community button.
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Rules for Being Human-Keys To Self Growth

Posted on July 19th, 2010

Rules For Being Human

These rules are consistent to everyone. It doesn’t matter where you are or where you are from these rules apply to your life. If you can embrace them, your self growth will truly show itself.

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called Life. Each day in this school, you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them stupid and irrelevant.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of Life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something that you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside of you. The answer to Life’s questions lie inside of you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. This will often be forgotten, only to be remembered again.

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Why Top Sales People Achieve Stellar Results with Life Coaching

Posted on July 18th, 2010

All the top sales people who are committed to having a fulfilling experience in life are in a life coaching program. Well, I say all and that is a bold statement. I’ll explain.

So many of the top salespeople I have worked with don’t care about having a fulfilling experience. They care about winning. They care about awards. They care about the juice, the next sale, the win. But then what happens to their lives?

After coaching 8,273 people, including thousands of top salespeople, I began to see the impact of the “win at all costs” mentality. And I began to notice others who win and experience fulfillment in other areas of their lives as well. What a difference. These people showed me that making money is not success.

Top sales people who focus only on the wins – the next deal – the bigger deal – often find themselves out of touch with the very aspect of their lives that they told themselves they were winning for.

Top sales people often find they win the deals at the expense of their family. Winning comes at the expense of their physical health. Or maybe they are winning but their emotional life is a wreck.

Now, a top salesperson can take comfort in the glory of the win. Except when winning costs the experiences of family, of joy, of travel, of spiritual growth – then it can be a bittersweet victory.

I would like to bring to you another entirely amazing side of humanity. Top salespeople who want it all can indeed begin to experience life that is completely and wholly successful – because these individuals stop and recognize that being a great salesperson and a terrible dad is a hollow victory. And it wouldn’t be much fun to be a great sales person in the hospital on the second triple bypass heart surgery. Life Coaching, Law of Attraction,and dozens of Life Coach Training products and seminars relating to the law of attraction to help you find your passion and love your life.

Life coaching helps you achieve victory across many different aspects of yourself. Nearly all great sales people who experience life to the very fullest take advantage of life coaching. Here is what I want to share with you today. When you get everything into balance, when you are working on every aspect of your life, it’s as if you have a magic wand that enables you to get things done that other people cannot possibly get done. You can accomplish a lot more in much shorter periods of time.

People who live in balance achieve at an extremely intensified rate. When other people put in one and receive one, those individuals who are firing on every level of their being – mental, physical, spiritual, financial, all of the areas of value in their lives – can actually put in one ounce of “effort” to receive 10 times the results. When you are operating on all cylinders, you will feel completely at ease and in control – as you embrace more success than you have ever experienced. This is why life coaching is taking off. Work on your entire life, and experience results across all of the disciplines. It’s worth the trip.

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Matthew Ferry a Life Coach,The Life Coaching Company Matthew Ferry International offers life coaching, law of attraction and dozens of training products and seminars relating to the law of attraction to help you find your passion and love your life.

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Three Self-Esteem Tricks

Posted on July 18th, 2010

Self-Esteem Trick 1

Some people claim that surrounding yourself by the colour yellow helps you to build self-esteem. As far as I know, nobody has ever tried to scientifically prove this. However, there’s no harm in testing. Since I first heard about this I have tried to wear more yellow clothes and use yellow colours in our house (the curtains and the table cloth are, for example, yellow!). Yellow is the colour of the solar plexus chakra, and this chakra is associated with self-awareness and self-esteem. Yellow is also a bright cheerful colour. This obviously makes it associated with positivity, including positivity about yourself.

Self-Esteem Trick 2

Do you spend a lot of time in front of a computer? If so, why not use your computer as a self-esteem tool? You can for example put the text of a self-esteem affirmation as your screen saver (and why not do it with a yellow background!?). You can also select a picture that raises your self-esteem as your computer background. Select a picture that reminds you of how wonderful you are or simply select a picture that makes you feel happy. There are even subliminal self-esteem pictures that work on your self-esteem on a subconscious level without you even noticing. Again, I don’t know of any research which has proved that subliminal pictures actually work for raising your self-esteem but there is no harm in trying.

Self-Esteem Trick 3

There are many small self-esteem exercises that you can use as self- esteem tricks. Simply smiling or straightening your back are two easy example. How about combining these with some other activity that you do every day? For example, you could straighten your back by stretching your arms up in the air every time you get out of your car before you go to or from work, or you could smile every time you wash dishes. By combining self-esteem tricks with daily activities you will surely do something good for your self-esteem every day.

Liv Miyagawa – The Self-Esteem Coach

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Liv Miyagawa, The Self-Esteem Coach, helps people all over the world to raise their self-esteem and to reach their personal goals. She opens people’s eyes to their own strengths and helps them to figure out what it really is that they want to get out of life. Liv helps people to find out exactly what steps they need to take to reach their goals, and she supports them and motivates them on their journey towards a more fulfilling future. Raise your self-esteem with Liv Miyagawa Self-esteem Coach
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Why a Need of Executive Coaching?

Posted on July 17th, 2010

In business, employees are important, they are our human resource. But Executives are far important. Why? If armies have generals of esteemed ability, businesses need executive of high caliber.

Executives make the decision that rank and file employees do follow. How the business should run is foretold by the executive. No business entity flourishes with a weak executive but with strong human resources. That’s a total irony ridden with guilt in the line of the upper chambers of the front liners.

And executives need a coach. Life coaches who can help him redirect his goals and redemonstrate his objectives. Executive coaching helps a person to see self development well. It is a necessary requirement for the business to achieve the best directions and governance from a sound and mentally capable executive.

Executives as Leaders

The prime leader in the business is the executive. The president, for instance, led the entire company to build strong business approaches that are vital to the creation of great human management. An executive creates a stem of leaders among his subordinates. If a leader is weak, the business plummets.

Executive coaches help leaders to see the mistakes of how they govern the business. Life coaches point the shortcomings made by the executive in governing business employees. First, the personality and attitude are checked before the person steps into the highest floor of the business edifice. And other leadership skills follow like a strong and quick decision making.

Executives as Organizers

There is no guarantee that an executive knows well the organization of the business. A life coach helps the executive to think beyond the box to reconstruct, restructure, redevelop, and revive the organizational maneuver of the business. Executive coaches promote the learning of personal assessment to the executive to use human assets efficiently.

A good management tells the strength of the company in producing the right perspective that will be helpful in marketing and other business activities. Executive goals the best of the organization.

Executives as Human Being

Most executives tend to reduce their thinking to abuse among subordinates. But there is a saying, when the low ranks are not satisfied, how can the higher level work? You see, there is a big line connecting the rank and files from the executives. And some of the executives resort to making their employees like automatons.

It is the fine goal of the life coach to help the executive see the purpose of others. Life coaches seek to help executives to improve their way in dealing with others. It is very important that executives understand the fine aspect of building the trust within the company for better workplace and better productivity.

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Create your own life. Make the best out of it and make the world see the difference. You are accountable to your progress and degeneration. The world simply cling back. Do not blame others. It is your life. Make the best out of it. Somehow, when things go right. You will gain the returns of the past investment.
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What Can Life Coach Offer?

Posted on July 16th, 2010

There are many things that a life coach can offer to people who are experiencing small or great problems. Let us take a look on the remarkable help a life coach can do to the person.

1. Discussion of common problems that we cannot discuss with others can be easily talked with a life coach.

2. A life coach can be confided with topics and issues that are crucial and rest assured privacy remains. Confidentiality with life coach is big matter.

3. Long term objectives and goals are primary tasks of the life coach.

4. Weak and burn out people often have empowerment with their coach simple words.

5. Setting things straight and making clear directions is a helpful thing that a life coach can do to you.

6. A life coach can directly point out mistakes and shortcomings without hesitation allowing constructive criticism to rule your life.

7. A life coach is not a psychologist or the likes. He is just there helping a person see himself, where he is at.

8. A life coach is not a dictator. He will help you in every single way but he will let you decide whether you stick in the programme or not.

9. A life coach relaxes a stressed person to achieve the best potential.

10. Trust and communication is the ultimate weapon of the life coach to help the client with the best of his ability.

11. A life coach does not force a person to undergo help process. He waits for the right time.

However, these offers of a life coach are nothing when the person will not cooperate. The person must be willing to take a stride and do change his life better.

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Create your own life. Make the best out of it and make the world see the difference.
You are accountable to your progress and degeneration. The world simply cling back. Do not blame others. It is your life.
Make the best out of it. Somehow, when things go right. You will gain the returns of the past investment.
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Warning to Career Stagnation From Coaches

Posted on July 15th, 2010

The way your career run is not about others. It is about you. You cannot turn around and blame it to your dog. That’s too much of an irresponsible. It is the right time that you check your tie and wear your coat. No more are the days of busy buddies.

5 Reasons of a Career Backlash

1. You are just too contented.

The problem with most careers is the idea of enough. Here look at this: You are a finance clerk of the company and you stayed in the post for five years. Too bad. Why? You are just contented. You did not enroll to a finance school or to an accounting institute where you can be trained and improved. With your education, you can easily rise to finance manager or comptroller.

Most people are just to busy with their small or medium scale job that they hate to go schooling. They hate to learn in seminars and training centers. In return of their contentment, they remained in the post for too long when all their associates are advancing.

Life coaches see this as an ultimate self stagnation. No improvement. No new adventure. Total dull world.

2. You love your position that much.

When companies assessed people, they will promote them. But instances are, you won’t transfer to the new tasks or you feel inadequate. You are not thinking well.

Many people are just too good with their tasks that they can even juggle it because of too much familiarity. Worst, they won’t take new tasks. They are afraid to blow. It is better to do the routine right?

3. You are too lazy.

Why you cannot work with best performance? Why you sit idle when you can create reports for the company? Why? You are too lazy.

“I am paid and I have done all things that my boss has commanded me”. I hear that often. You are just thinking narrow. You look for a work you can do for you to be an asset of the company. Try to figure out things. Ask your subordinate for task. If there are none, think of a relevant task you can do.

All life coaches see laziness a big fight. You try to kill that and see a big difference in your career.

4. You are over decisive.

I can see people who worked for this firm today and on another the next day. That’s too much of overconfident.

The problem: You cannot stick around and do well your job. You want a boss to value you. A time that will fit your schedule. You want tasks that you like. Are you nuts? And there you go hopping to another workplace with the same problem.

Many a life coach would say, “If career is there, stay”. Yes, that’s true. If a job is in there but you need to cope with associates and bosses and schedules, stay in there. Do not be a grasshopper.

5. You overstayed.

The opposite of overconfident to get a job? Overstaying!

If you are not getting self development and satisfaction with in the firm, stay out. You look for an organization that can help you achieve our best. Do not be afraid of job competition. It is normal. You sell yourself. Make a better way to earn what you want to earn.

Life coaches hear stories of career default but whose fault is it? Mine? Ultimately, you are accountable to your career as I am to mine. Try to seek the best for it with the help of a life coach.

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Create your own life. Make the best out of it and make the world see the difference.
You are accountable to your progress and degeneration. The world simply cling back. Do not blame others. It is your life.
Make the best out of it. Somehow, when things go right. You will gain the returns of the past investment.
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Sharpen your leadership skill

Posted on July 15th, 2010

Leadership is planning a helpful course for your career and life, and following through with your plan undeterred by harmful forces. It is stirring others by describing your prospects and principles, and spending a life span living up to those principles.Sharpening your leadership qualities can direct to a more pleasing life for you, your family and your colleagues. Commence by including some thoughts into your life.

Remove negativity around you: This contains complainers and pessimists. It is hard to pursue your own positive path if you are bounded by negative people. Encircle yourself with those who perceive what is true with the world, not what is mistaken with it. Put into practice

what you sermonize: Others will pursue the instance of a leader who has the honesty to constantly proceed in a moral way. What often divides a leader from the group is his skill to oppose the persuasion to get shortcuts or compromise his principles.

Maintain yourself in form: Lay down an instance of living a vibrant life. If your body and mind are strong, you will be attentive and exhibit confidence, and therefore create reverence. People are obviously drawn to positive persons who make others feel safe. Promote others to join in healthy routine.

Pursue the golden law: It can never be an error to treat others as you wish to be treated. You will get the faith of your acquaintances who will be enthused to pursue your lead. Be impartial and refined while you are mistaken. No one will freely pursue a person who cannot see another viewpoint. Explain others how to study and grow up and train them that it is acceptable to be proven incorrect.

Try hard to show up the best in others: Prove your leadership by serving others rises among the position. Lay down the instance of considering the greater good as the final recompense. Only ask of other people what you would morally perform yourself. Be observable, amicable and occupied. Converse a vision, integrate everybody occupied into working the idea and remain in the thick of the procedure. Observe failure for what it is: a learning skill that trains you what not to perform. Hold failure as a means to make new chances.

Be observable, amicable and occupied: Converse a vision, integrate everybody occupied into working the idea and remain in the thick of the procedure.

Try to be calm during crises: Workers usually follow their senior’s reactions. If you are frankly panicking about circumstances, your workers will also do the same thing.

Apply moral reasoning while making any kinds of decisions: Morals are becoming a main problem in the workplace.

To develop leadership skills early on communication earns the trust of the people. It helps them understand what is the overall goal and helps them understand how they are part of the bigger picture to help achieve the objectives of the company.

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Education is the greatest gift that a father can give to his Son. My parent’s teaching, was the great molding of my life.I have been active in extra curricular activities and I have participated in various seminars and I have presented papers. This grew my confident and public speaking skill. I am an active member of ‘Jaycees Madurai’ which taught me to face this world with confidence and ‘Can – Can’ attitude.
“Every Inspiration can from others but Motivation within you”. I deeply & strongly believe in this saying and take up my journey of life. I always wanted to be a lecturer like most of my family members.

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