Inspired Action: An Amazing New Short-Cut to Make All Your Dreams Come TrueWritten by Joe Vitale
Ever since my latest book, "Spiritual Marketing," became a #1 best-seller at Amazon last June, people have been writing me. Most of time people are just praising book. Sometimes people have questions about five-step process in book for creating wealth from inside out. By far most common question is about step five, one called "Let go." "But what do I DO if I let go?" is question I get most. "If I let go, don't I just sit there?" What I didn't fully explain in book is that you usually still have to do something to achieve your dreams. That something might be as little as answering phone. Or making a call. Or buying a book. Or joining an association. Or answering an email. I have no idea what that action will be for you regarding achieving your dream. But you usually have to do something, however small or large a step. But magic answer to question of what action to do next is this: You want to take what I call "Inspired Action." Inspired Action is any action you take based on an inside nudge. In other words, an Inspired Action is when you suddenly get a desire to drive to store. You may have no idea why you need to go to store right now. But something within you is urging you out door. Follow that hunch. It may lead you to your goal. At store, you may meet right person. Or find right product. Or pick up right magazine that will lead you to completing your dream. For example, in "Spiritual Marketing" I talk about how I managed to get into Nightingale-Conant with my own tapeset, called "The Power of Outrageous Marketing." I had tried to get Nightingale-Conant to pay attention to me for over ten years. (Ten years!) Nothing I did would ever work out. Yet I was doing all "right things" people said I should do---make calls, send letters, follow a plan of action, etc. Nope. None of that ever worked. So I stopped all that planned action. I didn't stop wanting my goal of being in famous Nightingale-Conant catalog, of course, but I did stop struggling to make it happen. I, in short, let go. I waited for divine inspiration to tell me what to do next. And then one day I started to get emails from someone asking questions about my book on P.T. Barnum, called "There's A Customer Born Every Minute." My gut said to answer questions. So my Inspired Action was simply to write back to this stranger. That's what I felt guided to do.
| | Office Gossip: What Can You Do?Written by Susan Dunn, M.A., The EQ Coach
Office gossip can be quite a problem. It can lead to unproductivity, mobbing, harassment, and lack of focus. We want people's attention focused on their work at work, not on private lives of other employees. Why does it happen? Because we're people and we like to sit around and talk, and probably our favorite topic of conversation is to talk about one another. The problem is that if you want to tell a good story, there's a temptation to embellish, get controversial and head in directions that can get out of hand. Then someone hears a comment about themselves they don't like and they begin to think they're working in a bad environment and from there it's just a step over to discrimination. What can management do to decrease amount of gossip in an office? Part of it is setting an example. If you talk about things in a straight forward manner, let everyone know, don't keep secrets, and don't whisper in hall, you set that tone for employees. It's tempting not to talk about problems that conern office, business or employees because from your point of view, you probably don't have enough information yet, and most importantly you don't know what you're going to do about it. It's "tidier" to wait until all information is in, make a decision and then announce it. However, employees always know something's going on -- we're very astute about picking up vibes about things that impact us -- and so speculation will start. This is people talking among themselves trying to guess what's going on. It starts rumors, and remember again that human love of telling a good story and getting attention. The one with "best" rumor wins brownie points, and it doesn't help you or office morale. It’s also likely to occur when someone has too much time on his or her hands. When, as a kid, I started making trouble for myself and my sisters because I had nothing to do, my grandmother would give me something constructive to do (a chore, a book to read), saying, “An idle mind is devil’s workshop.”
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