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Your Key To Success – Win Your Morning, Win Your Day

Oct18
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Do you go to bed at night with good intentions of starting your day off better tomorrow?

But then when the alarm goes off, you hit snooze again and again?

When you get up you’re in a rush and you’re grouchy because you’re late.

Then you yell at the kids and feel bad about that. You can’t find your car keys and that adds to your frustration.

Several blocks away from home you realize you left your mobile phone behind and have to turn around to get it, which makes you even later and more grouchy.

By the time you get to work, you’re late, exhausted, and have a bad attitude.

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How To Use Motivation Quotes To Attract Lasting Change

Dec19
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We become what we think.  This quote has been proven over and over again.

If we perceive something bad is going to happen to us, many times it does. 

On the contrary, if we believe something good is going to happen, this often becomes true as well. 

Science has affirmed the link between positive affect and its impact on an individual’s motivation and performance.

If we expect the best or we expect the worst, we’re usually not disappointed.  Each time we perceive a positive thought, it increases our own perceptions of positive expectancy.

For motivation to last, it requires constant thinking with daily positive reinforcement.

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Spelling Sets You Apart As a Writer

Nov9

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Grammarly Writing Support at www.xtreme-assistant.comComputer spell check software is great, but it sometimes doesn’t inform you to a misspelled word. And, you might be spelling a word correctly, but it isn’t the word that you should be using in the context of the sentence.

For example, what if you wrote this sentence with a typo in it:  He tackled the breast and killed it. Well obviously, you didn’t mean to put that R in there – it should have said, He tackled the beast and killed it.

But spell check wouldn’t catch it because they’re both words and both spelled properly. But one isn’t correct and it could cause you a lot of embarrassment. So you can’t rely on spell check to save you.

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How To Have A More Effective Business Meeting

Sep12
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A lot of business meetings are considered to be unproductive and a waste of time.

About 40% of meetings actually. But some are worse than others.

I’m sure at some point you’ve attended a bad business meeting.

What defines a “bad” business meeting?

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How to Instantly Grow Your Business Using Social Media – Part III

Jul25

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social-media-marketing at www.xtreme-assistant.comI’ve been posting about the importance of using social networks for your business and how you can use them to build trust and relationships that convert into a large list of loyal subscribers.  We touched on Facebook and Twitter, and will now touch on Forums and Pinterest. Continue reading →