Tools and Resources To Set You On Your Journey
Affirmations or personal positive sayings repeated daily have been often used, by the New Age-Positive Thinking community as the prescription to a significant number of issues, ranging from low self esteem, to feelings of lack, to building better relationships and living a more abundant life.
A moment
is not counted in the seconds or minutes of a ticking clock
It is in the closeness of a hug, the breath of a kiss
The sweet smell of a newborn and the joy of a child’s laughter.
As we usher in the New Year, new goals, new resolutions, new beginnings… all the order of the day, at the start of a brand new year. In recent times though, there have been rumblings against the purpose of having goals. A couple of months ago Dilbert’s Scott Adams’ wrote in the Wall Street Journal – about the pointlessness of goals and how a ‘process’ is more helpful than a goal. (Hard to believe, but in the same article he also mentions how being passionate is over-rated).
Confidence (or the belief in one’s own abilities, self-belief) is often the only limiting factor between starting out on a brand new, exciting path or staying stuck in what’s painful yet familiar. It is that fine line that separates the can-dos from the wannabes and often the only major limiting factor on the road to success.
Happy New Year 2014!
As we usher in the New Year, new goals, new resolutions, new beginnings… all the order of the day, at the start of a brand new year. In recent times though, there have been rumblings against the purpose of having goals.
Here is another set of numbers from a survey carried out by GlobalSpec’s 2013 Trends in Industrial Marketing. This is where you will find what others are doing or planning to do in 2014 which will help you with your focus on the different channels to use to market your business.
Here is a report that will give you an insight into the type of activities that you can focus on when marketing your business in 2014.
Looking to set up an online presence for your business, start out right with a suitable domain name. Be it a brick and mortar or wholly online business, the right domain name makes it easier for your website to be found and could potentially put you on the top of search engine results page with a little effort.
Starting an online business and looking to build a lasting online presence? Here is a quick list of resources that will help you get started. These are tools and services that we use ourselves to build and grow our businesses as well as helping other with theirs.
There can be No Light without Darkness.
There is an old Chinese saying that “It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Affirmations or personal positive sayings repeated daily have been often used, by the New Age-Positive Thinking community as the prescription to a significant number of issues, ranging from low self esteem, to feelings of lack, to building better relationships and living a more abundant life.
Listen to the mustn’ts, child.
Listen to the don’ts.
Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
~ Shel Silverstein
At a conference recently, I walked right up to an automatic sliding door fully expecting it to open and let me out. But it didn’t.
We so very often live our lives in fear of making mistakes, making wrong decision. We seem to have embedded within ourselves this perception that every single choice we make has to be the absolutely correct one. Perhaps it is the nature of the society we live in, dictated to by achievement exams, seemingly final career choices and societal expectations.
Unlike the title of the post, this post really is not about baking. Neither will it contain a recipe for a cake, far more than that, it contains a story that every person who has ever eaten, cooked or baked may relate to.