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Personal Development Links for Monday 04/27/09
Some interesting reads for Monday:
How to Connect in Marriage Without a Hammer and Nail
A client once asked: “How can I get my husband to consider emotionally connecting as a valuable tool to keep our marriage strong?”
Lets be clear on some examples of emotionally connecting:
* Spending time together – listening to music, going for walks, talking, laughing
* Creating a loving environment – eating dinner together, playing games together, talking about things you’re grateful for and include your family members
* Being mentally present – listening to what the other person is saying and affirming what is true for them
* Staying focused on each other – clearly the eyes and ears need to be engaged
* Uplifting each other – asking “what can I do for my spouse today”
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Finding Balance in Your Marriage
As a mommy, blogger, life coach, change management consultant, daughter, student, and friend (I’ll stop here but my list can go on and on) it is difficult to find that essential quality time to spend with my husband. I guarantee that I am not alone.
I am a strong believer in having my marriage be part of my practice of life balance. Because our lives are so busy and because we have two children under the age of six, it is probably the area within my practice of life balance where I struggle the most.
Public Speaking Training and Effective Presentation Skills
I believe one of the best models for effective presentation skills is the act of giving directions to someone who has stopped her car, leaned out the window, and said, “How do I get to Bloomfield Avenue?”
If you’re standing in front of your house, and you know how to get to the desired location (your own version of Bloomfield Avenue) you immediately envision the route you would take. In the milli-second before you speak, your brain flies over the road map in your head, your eyes may very well look in the direction of Bloomfield Avenue, and your arm involuntarily will rise up and point in the desired direction.
30 Free eBooks To Get You To Your Financial Freedom
1. Building Wealth: A Beginner’s Guide to Securing Your Financial Future (1.2 MB 39 pg)
An excellent e-Book from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (putting all the other Feds to shame), this guide helps individuals and families develop a plan for building personal wealth. It presents an overview of personal wealth-building strategies that includes setting financial goals, seeking guidance, budgeting, saving and investing, and managing debt.
2. Pathways to Getting Ahead (882 KB, 48 pg)
A very good booklet, this guide is targeted to young adults, and aims to spur thinking about the importance of asset building in their personal lives and about how larger policy decisions impact the choices they make.
3. Money Matters: Your Guide for Financial Security (24 MB, 32 pg)
Winning Out Over Negative Thoughts Once and For All
One of our spoiled rotten cats, Alexa (pictured above), loves bird watching almost as much as I do. My husband fills the bird feeders and I set seed on the ground for the ground feeders, then Lexie and I get lost in the parade of doves, cardinals, robins, blue birds, blackbirds, etc.
Every now and then, a bird will land on the ledge of one of our dining room or kitchen windows. Yesterday morning, the craziest thing happened. I was at the dining room table on my laptop, sidetracked by a couple of the brightest cardinals in the world enjoying the seed on the ground. Alexa was in another room, swatting around one of her leftover plastic eggs from Easter (I told you she was spoiled).
19 Ways to Build and Improve Your Self-Confidence
One of the main issues that has held me back from achieving my goals in the past has been an underlying fear of failure stemming from lack of self-confidence. I’ve always been an idea generator, and often had no problems starting projects, but when I got about half way through, I lost momentum.
Rather than persevering and finishing things, I tended to direct my attention elsewhere and started something new, leaving me with numerous unfinished projects and little to show for my efforts. It was my own form of self-sabotage – I always felt like I was spinning my wheels but never getting anywhere.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 7 Timeless Tips
“Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”
Spanish Proverb“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.”
Martin Luther“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
Karen LambOne of the most common problems is procrastination. We know what we want to do and should do. But still we end up spending hours upon hours doing “easier” work or escaping via TV, blogs or music.
Now, nothing wrong with a little escape from time to time. But if you procrastinate too much you will not get the most important things done. And you will also send yourself into negative spirals where your self-esteem plummets and you spend your days or more in a vague negative funk.
So what can you do? Here are 7 timeless tips to help you to stop procrastinating and start living your life more fully.
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