What Are Your Core Values?

Do YOU Know What Your Core Values Are?
Do you follow them every day, or do you just drift along
and go wherever the flow may take you?

The new movie, Good to the Core, has been released by the lovely people at “Simple Truths”

This movie marvellously reassesses the nucleus of
what it means to build value with values.

You will find that building values provides the foundation for long term success in
relationships, businesses, organizations and life in general

Enjoy the Good to the Core movie, it will inspire you to truly live your core values.
This superb book and movie will help you identify core values and reinforce their importance
to any organization you are a part of – whether work, church, a ministry, or even at home.

Watch Good to the Core Movie Here~

There is a buzz going round Twitter & Facebook
about an event that only happens every 823 years

Sorry to disappoint you all but in fact it happens
about every 5 to 10 years!

Here is the content of an email I received from a normally reliable source:

“Money bags for me!!!
I’m not superstitious, but this year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays.
This happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags.
So, copy this to your status and money will arrive within 4 days…based on Chinese Feng Shui.

Sorry to disappoint you all as I said earlier But

Every 31 Day Month that starts on Friday 1st
Will have 5 Fridays; 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays

Here are some Unique Events for July 2011

July 2011 is also the only month this year with TWO New Moons

July 1 New Moon; July 15 Full Moon;  July 30 New Moon

Other events in July 2011 may be of interest:

July 1 – July 16 Cheltenham Music Festival
July 1 – July 3 Goodwood Festival of Speed
July 1 – July 16 Montreux Jazz Festival
July 4 – July 10 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
July 6 – July 8 Newmarket July Festival
July 7 – July 14 Running of the Bulls, Pamplona Spain
July 8 – July 10 The British Formula One Grand Prix
July 14 Bastille Day France
July 14 – July 17 The Open Golf Championship
July 15 – Sept 10 BBC Proms
July 16 – July 23 Nice Jazz Festival
July 21 – July 25 England vs. India, Lord’s Test Match
July 22 – July 24 German Grand Prix
July 23 – July 29 Whitstable Oyster Festival
July 24 – Aug 29 Salzburg Festival
July 26 – July 30 Glorious Goodwood
July 29 – July 31 Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix
July 29 – Aug 2 England vs. India, Trent Bridge Test Match

The RSC Royal Shakesphere & Swan Theatres Will perform during July:

The Merchant of Venece; Dunsinane; MacBeth; Cardenio; The City Madam;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream; & The Homecoming

Earlier this evening I joined a wonderful webinar
with the lovely Rev. Maggy Whitehouse

The topic was the Spiritual Laws of Prosperity,
One of the subjects Maggy can extol on

She dispelled many myths in the hour,
especially the one that says,
“The love of money is the route of all evil”

According to Maggy a better translation would be,
“Obsession with money is A route of all the crap in your life”

Here is a one page PDF of her translation

Maggy Love Of Money

As soon as I have the MP3 of the webinar from Maggy
hopefully in a few days time, that will also be on this blog

I recommend you also follow Maggy on FaceBook

http://www.facebook.com/maggy.whitehouse

The New Year 2011 is almost here and to make it
YOUR BEST YEAR EVER
I have secured this exclusive
4 Part Video Series from Darren Hardy
Called “Living Your Best Year Ever!”

Darren is one of the worlds leading success coaches and he will
help you discover Your Road Map to Your Success in 2011

Darren uses graphic stories to drive the points home,
I love the Chicken and Eagle story

Make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed or put the next
Three Tuesdays in you diary, So you don’t miss any of
Darren’s  great advice

Olny Srmat Poelpe Can Raed This

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm.

This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

If you can raed this psas it on!!

I am indebted to Jhon Harrison at Streetwise Marketing for resurrecting this one

This was a question I was pondering the other day,

Why are Self Help books so called?

If you are “Doing Something Yourself” It doesn’t matter whether or not you read instructions about it in a book; or a friend or relative gave you guidance; or you got inspiration from a TV documentary; If you are “Doing Something Yourself;” you are “Doing It Yourself!”

If you need help, then you refer to the instruction manual. And you then get on and “Do It Yourself”

If you are trying to do something that you know absolutely nothing about then you may need Help or Guidance.

If you have a personal problem you have no chance of coping with; If you are drowning in the effects of this problem and you just cant cope at all?  Then you may well reach for one of the many hundreds of so called “Self Help” books available.

If you get a book that can help you solve this insoluble problem and you actually have the time to read the book and absorb its content and you eventually escape the worst of what the problem was.

Then, depending on your point of view you either
“Did It Yourself” or you had “HELP”

“Self Help” didn’t come into the picture.

You either “Did It Yourself”

OR you had “HELP!”

Are you into networking?

You know, making friends with strangers and exploring how or if
you can become friends or help each other in some way, especially with your business.

There are no hard and fast rules to networking but there are a few things you must avoid!

Here are a couple of examples:

To help you avoid messing up the complex brain surgery that is networking, here are a few tips:

Never start a conversation with, “What do you do?”

By all means ask this question further into the conversation rather than your opening.
It polarizes people into categorizes too quickly and can kill the conversation stone dead or
worse, it may invite the other person to start pitching to you.
It’s best to ask some general small talk questions

When you are networking, just because someone isn’t in your main target market,
doesn’t mean they don’t know people who are.  By exploring what other events they go to,
where their network is strong, what kind of clients they deal with and who they have around them,
you begin to see them as someone who could open new doors for you.

Only ever use job titles when you want to soothe your ego and get nothing out of the meeting.
People are actually more interested in what you do than who you are.

It might sound grand being a consultant, lawyer or accountant, but it’s the difference that you make that counts.

Good networking isn’t rocket science but it does take a little thought!

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“Who Says There is No Such Thing

As A Free Lunch?”

Are you looking for that complimentary ticket

That will give you free lunches for the rest of your life?

Just make sure you know what it is that you really want

When setting your goals

Be Very careful what you ask for

For you may well get it!

Always Make it Fun!

If you want to change peoples behaviour, there are a number of different approaches to take.

You must never try to manipulate people because they will eventually see right through your tactics.

The methods used by most people are the “carrot” and “Stick” methods also known as “bully and bribe”

If you try to bully them by yelling and screaming, this may work for a short time but it is no good for you or them in the long run because you just build resentment.

Another approach would be to bribe them.  Again, this is only a short term measure because once the value of the bribe runs out, you must continue to offer more and more.

By far the best way to alter anyones behavour is to make the changes fun.

Watch this video for a great example:

Enjoy

Thank you Julie Baker for sending this link to me Hugggz from Roy

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My eyes are glazed over and my mind has gone numb.  The annual trip to my accountant is the one area of my life that I have absolutely no control over and I find very confusing.

When I told my wife I’d booked our appointment with the accountant, she was furious.

“Couldn’t you have left it until later in the year, perhaps after Christmas?” she pleaded.

“No!” I reasoned, “It has to be now, the forms have to go to the taxman before the end of the year.”

“But I hate going to the accountants,” She said, “I would rather spend a day at the dentist.”

“But you hate going to the Dentist,” I reminded her.

“Well at the Dentist,” She said, “You only have a few minutes of discomfort and at least you have some idea of what is going on.

After a trip to the accountants, I always return totally confused, puzzled, bewildered, perplexed, bemused, baffled and befuddled.”
“Despite his cheery persona and words of encouragement, I feel dejected because I haven’t understood a word he said.”

Like a trip to the dentist, the initial apprehension of visiting the accountant is totally misplaced.

True to form, the visit was not exactly a relaxed picnic, more like a trip up the tower of Babel.

What language is it they speak? And why does the sound of it create instant drowsiness?

It was nearly a week ago now and I’m still having trouble focusing because my eyes are still glazed over and I am so sleepy, like I am in some kind of hypnotic trance!

Having been in business for myself fo more than 25 years, I have a preaty good understanding of how to manage my day to day affairs. However, a trip to the accountant is the one area of my life that I have absolutely no understanding of.

When I travel to a foreign country where I don’t speak the lingo, I can usually understand something of what is going on.
And you can recognise the cheeky smile from the local lads as they fleece you of your tourist dollar.

That smile that says I’m taking your money because that is what I do.  You are a rich foreigner,
I am poor local and you are making a contribution to our economy.
It is a win-win situation, all part of life’s rich pattern.
And we all have a great laugh.
When I travel to my accountants, I don’t speak the lingo and I can’t understand anything of what is going on.
And I recognise the cheeky smile.

That smile that says I’m taking your money because that is what I do.  You are a poor businessman,
I am rich accountant and you are making a contribution to my economy.
It is my win situation, all part of life’s rich pattern.
And we all have a great laugh.

The figures and tables he produces have no connection that I can make to any part of my business.
I suppose though, if the taxman understands it all then I have nothing to worry about and it has all been worthwhile.

Just to show how mind numbing I find the whole accountancy business; when I delivered my books to him back in the summer, I left a pair of my trousers in the box of papers!

You see; It was a bright sunny summer’s day (yes we did get one; I think it was on a Wednesday?)
and I was wearing short trousers to enjoy the weather.  As it was supposedly a work day,
I might have to make a business visit and therefore took long trousers with me to change into; just in case?

So when my accountant handed me back my books, my trousers were there in the box.
Yes, they were mine and what’s more, there was a £20 note in the pocket?

I wonder if I should have asked him for interest on the £20.00
Or was the note the interest on the trousers?

Something else I will never know!