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Career-changers finding opportunity in booming day spa industry
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Career-changers finding opportunity in booming day spa industry
(ARA) – Even though the economy appears to be climbing out of recession, unemployment rates remain alarmingly high. Yet some industries continue to prosper, offering plenty of opportunity for career-changers and qualified job seekers. The day spa industry is an example of a “luxury” industry that has continued to do well despite the recession. Read More→
AVOID MAKING COMMON MISTAKES
By Dr. Eva Mor
In my book Making the Golden Years Golden, I help the reader develop plans for their future retirement. Women tend to be less prepared then men. In this article I address the women that are more likely to be less financially savvy, and thus make costly mistakes.
The statistics show that women live longer than men, on the average 8-10 years longer, 50 percent of marriages end in divorces, so you must be prepared to manage your finances wisely if you should be one of the women that are living on their her own. The following are 10 mistakes that are most commonly made as well as suggestions of how to avoid them, or correct them:
- Being unfamiliar with finances.
Women tend to let their spouses handle family finances and all related decisions. Protect yourself by making sure you know of all investments, all accounts, and your name appears on all of them. Joint ownership establishes your legal right to all assets in the event of your spouse becoming ill, or the unfortunate event of the marriage ending. Read More→
Baby boomers putting experience and resources to good use as entrepreneurs
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(ARA) – A new career is often replacing the choice of retirement for many baby boomers, who have plenty of experience and resources to make entrepreneurship very successful.
With baby boomers living healthier and longer lives, they are no longer following traditional retirement paths and instead are seeking second and third careers. There’s been a shift away from lifetime jobs with long-term employment – with a noticeable drop among people ages 35 to 64 years old during the past 50 years, according to the 2009 Sherpa Executive Coaching Study. Read More→
“The Five You Forgot to Thank” by Coach Darcy Eikenberg, ACC
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The US Thanksgiving holiday comes and goes so quickly, so let’s just assume we’ve done a good job of expressing thanks for the biggies: our families, friends, and close colleagues; the men and women serving and protecting our communities and countries; our farmers and factory workers providing us with safe food and products; and those who ensure we get safely back and forth from work, school, and home each day. Whew!
With a list that comprehensive, who did we miss? What did we forget to be thankful for this season? Here are the five I’m betting you forgot: Read More→
Dr. Beverly A. Browning has been consulting in the areas of grant writing, contract bid responses, and organizational development for 36 years. Her clients have included units of local and county municipal governments, state and federal government agencies, school districts and colleges, social and human service agencies, hospitals, service associations, and Fortune 500 corporations. Dr. Browning has assisted clients and workshop participants throughout the United States in receiving awards of more than $200 million.
Dr. Beverly A. Browning has been consulting in the areas of grant writing, contract bid responses, and organizational development for over three decades.
Her clients have included chambers of commerce, faith-based organizations, units of local and county municipal governments, state and federal government agencies, school districts and colleges, social and human service agencies, hospitals, fire departments, service associations, and Fortune 500 corporations.
The Joy of Late Blooming with Tomar Levine on Living Fully After 40 Radio, 11-11-2010
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It’s never too late to bloom!
* Have you put your dreams, visions and goals on hold?
* Do you long for more meaning and purpose in your life, but you don’t know where to start?
* Do you wonder when – if ever – you will fulfill your true potential?
* Do you wonder what your true potential might be – or if it’s even too late?
Join Host Anna Banks and her guest Tomar Levine, on Living Fully After 40 Radio Show, as they explore “The Joy of Late Blooming”. Listen as Tomar and Anna discuss what is late blooming. The pain associated with feeling stuck—and the joy of stepping free into a bigger, more creative life – at midlife!. Anna and Tomar would love to help you do that.
Tomar Levine is a Life Purpose, Career, and Creativity Coach, a published author, artist, and speaker. An exhibiting artist in New York City for over twenty years, Tomar lectured in museums and galleries to hundreds of people. She holds two masters degrees – in fine art and art therapy. She left the art world to follow her passion for spiritual and personal growth, becoming a holistic healer and psychotherapist, and finally a certified coach.
The Power of Coaching
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By Dr. Linda D. Babcock
- Linda C. Babcock
I’m involved in a program developed by the Women and Girls Foundation called Catapult (www.wgfswpa.org), which offers negotiation coaching services to women in Southwestern Pennsylvania. I worked with a team of talented women to develop the program and train the coaches. While we are still in the pilot phase of the program, it is already producing amazing results. Clients are learning to take charge of their careers and are using negotiation to make positive changes in their lives. Sometimes this involves seeking a promotion or a change in duties at work and sometimes it involves realizing that a change of job is required. The clients are negotiating great things for themselves! But the program has helped the new coaches we trained as much as the clients they are assisting. The coaches are seeing themselves in a whole new light – empowered to help friends, family members, and colleagues understand the power of negotiation. They are becoming “negotiation ambassadors.”
I’ve been a fan of coaching for quite a long time. A number of years ago, I used a coach, Brenda Smith (www.peoplesmithglobal.com), to help me better prioritize my professional goals. She helped me to be more strategic about how I spent my time and helped me to develop a business plan for the organization I later launched that teaches girls and women to negotiate (www.heinz.cmu.edu/progress). I can’t say enough wonderful things about Brenda, the power of the coaching experience, and the substantive changes I was able to make in my life. Read More→
Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
Posted by: | CommentsWomen Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide By Dr. Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Note: Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever have written a new book, Ask for It, focusing on practical, hands-on advice on negotiating for women. I highly recommend it. If you have to choose only one book, most people should buy Ask for It. Happy negotiating!
“Women Don’t Ask” is a thorough and fascinating examination of how and why women fear negotiation – e.g., asking for a raise – and how this affects their success and happiness in both their professional and personal lives. This book has its roots in an incident when one of the authors was director of the Ph.D. program at her school. A group of female graduate students pointed out that the male graduate students were getting better teaching assignments and wanted to know why. The person who made the assignments said, simply, “I try to find teaching opportunities for any student who approaches me [...] Read More→
The Successful Career Change Guide
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Visualize Your Goals
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SOFTWARE REVIEW:
By Anna D. Banks
If you are committed to achieving big things in life, this amazing tool could keep you inspired for your goals and in a positive mindset… helping you to manifest the prosperity you deserve!
Review: Vision Board by OrangePeel Ltd
This company OrangePeel Ltd has come up with a way of visualizing your goals and dreams by displaying your dream images, affirmations and power words on your computer screen and other digital devices like your iPod. I though it was an interesting idea and decided to get a copy. Now that I have been using “Vision Board” for a couple of weeks, I thought I should share some of my impressions with you about whether or not it lives up to the promises that OrangePeel Ltd makes about it on their web site.
Is it really that easy to use? Would it really be that flexible and fun to create a personalized Vision Board? And what it comes down to: would it really keep me in a positive mindset and inspired to reach my goals and dreams?
The first thing that impressed me was how easy it was to order the product and get the download. I think I was actually putting pictures into the system after less than 10 minutes of ordering and I straight away received a stack of bonus products as well with my download. So that was a great start. Another thing I thought was really excellent was the simplicity of the system. It is simple to follow, yet powerful.
I played around a little, and got more and more excited as I discovered how easy it was to put my Vision Board together. I am always relieved when things actually work right the first time, and when the system is fool proof for people like me who are no computer geniuses. You can’t go wrong with the three simple steps they take you through. Even a 9 year old could easily create his or her own Vision Board.
So then I really got captivated by it and found myself searching for inspiring images in my own photo gallery to include in the tool. I also checked out the online image library that is included in the software, they had some cool pictures for me to use. I also found a fantastic picture on the Internet of my dream car, my dream house, and dream vacation. Really exciting to see that moving around on my screen all the time, talking about inspiration!
I started to come up with powerful affirmations to add to the pictures. The features that really impressed me were the libraries that come with the software. If you don’t know how to formulate an affirmation or power word, or just need some inspiration just use the library packed with great affirmations and power words.
You even get to choose the font and color of the affirmations that come up and you can decide whether to use colors or an image as your Vision Board background. I chose a picture I made on one of my travels of a beautiful ocean outlook, which inspires me to travel more with my family and friends.
Once I put my Vision Board together with my images, affirmations, power words, favorite music and my chosen background I thought “right, let’s see if this really works..”. So I clicked on “Preview” and pop there was my Vision Board showing on the screen! Wow, I felt as excited as a little child. I decided I wanted to change one of the affirmations, which was so easy to do. I like that a lot, as my dreams change from time to time so I can just adjust my Vision Board accordingly.
The software also includes a Poster Creation Module and their newest edition Vision Board. By focusing on your Vision Board at least twice a day, you are applying The Law of Attraction in a most powerful way. By constantly feeding your subconscious mind with positive affirmations and images of your dreams, feeling as if you have already achieved them, and taking inspired action you will attract your goals into your reality.
OrangePeel has recently released their latest edition Vision Board. Apart from all the powerful existing features, such as the audio module allowing you to incorporate mp3 music and voice recordings into your Vision Board, this “next generation Vision Board includes some very excited extra modules. It includes a set of new presentation themes and a revolutionary MovieRecorder! This fantastic addition allows you to create a movie of your Vision Board and display it on websites, iPod, iPhone, digital photo frames, etc. It also features a fantastic new Poster Creation Program, enabling you to freely copy and paste images and text on a Poster on your screen, which then can be taken to a print shop. So I purchased a copy of this newest edition right away, and I just LOVE it. To be honest, I didn’t think they could do a better job than they already had, but this really is a step up once again from their previous version. I believe these extra features make Vision Board truly the most complete manifestation tool available anywhere!
I am equally amazed how inspired I actually am by this Vision Board. Sometimes I just bring it up on my screen to have a look and get focused again. I lean back and look at the dream images on my screen, listen to my favorite song and really feel what it would be like to have that car, or to go on those travels. This truly inspires me to take massive action and I know by feeling as if I have already achieved it, I will attract it to my reality. This is what I have learned about The Law of Attraction: the more positive energy you give to your goals, the faster you will manifest it. When I turn on my computer in the morning my Vision Board shows as the wall paper. When I come back into my office after lunch or a meeting, my Vision Board is right there showing as the screensaver, so it makes me get right back to business. Vision Board even features a little pop up balloon displaying your affirmations and power words, which increases the exposure to these affirmations and power words and helps adjusting your belief system.
Oh, I almost forgot another amazing feature. After a while I discovered the “export” function in the software. Wow, I realized I could actually send my own Vision Board to my family and business partners! What a cool way to inspire them as well. So I sent one to my partner who called me after half an hour saying “wow, what a cool way of keeping focused, where did you get this? I want to create my own”. Oh, did I mention that you can also print your Vision Board. I have printed a couple of copies and hung them everywhere around the house. It drives some people, but hey I know it works! I even have been able to display my Vision Board on my PDA, thanks to this amazing “export to mobile devices feature”.
I guess you know by now how impressed I am with this tool. I could go on and on about it…. But here’s the bottom line: this software does absolutely everything it claims to and is a MUST for anyone serious about attracting huge success and abundance and wanting to keep inspired. It is just so complete and it makes so much sense to own one. I give this product my absolute highest recommendation.
Oh, I almost forgot: this is a very good time to check out this product as they offer an amazing set of free bonuses. So make sure to not miss out on their mind blowing bonus package valued at over $1000, including bonuses from Eva Gregory, Ruben Gonzalez, Jim Driscoll, Vic Johnson, Lee Brower and Jim Bunch, to name a few. I actually think this bonus package in itself already more than worth the investment!
CLICK HERE to read more about this powerful visualization tool, and how it can help YOU to attract the prosperity you deserve!
Live Fearlessly,
Anna