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		<title>Best Performance with Techniques for Enhancing Self Esteem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our overall performance is based on how we perceive ourselves. If we have low self-esteem, it often hinders us from succeeding in life. We may achieve some of our tasks, but often we fail to set goals that back plans to our success.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our overall performance is based on how we perceive ourselves. If we have low self-esteem, it often hinders us from succeeding in life. We may achieve some of our tasks, but often we fail to set goals that back plans to our success.</p>
<p>Our success, performance to handle daily tasks, and making good decisions depend on our attitude. If we are tired, stressed, worried, in pain or any other negative feelings, our daily performance and long term as well will not be that great.</p>
<p>When we use techniques for enhancing our self-esteem, we will feel good when waking up in the morning to face any challenges that may come our way. When we have good self-esteem, we make better decisions, which encourage others to want to be around us. When we have self-esteem, our confident reaches its peak and we will feel better about our day as we solve different problems that might come our way.</p>
<p>We have many options to build our self-esteem, confidence, etc. Each strategy will give us more energy, and relieve pain as well. Build up your personal health and performance as we build up our self-esteem. Some of the best techniques you can use to enhance self-esteem include writing. Setting goals is another technique to use to enhance self-esteem.</p>
<p>How writing a journey and setting goals help you:<br />
Writing a journal will enhance our self-esteem, confidence and relieve pain that is caused by stress.  Journal writing will let you blow off how you feel without anyone knowing your privacy. You can talk to yourself on paper and reread it as you go along to see how well your writing will change as you begin to feel better about your success in building up self-esteem.</p>
<p>Goals help to give up a better performance by building up self-esteem. They need to be in writing along with how you can reach your goals as each day passes you by. Goals give you a reason to work on how you feel in order to accomplish them to be successful. </p>
<p>You can relieve pain with goals by relieve some of the stressful things that are going on with your life. Stress causes pain and relieving the stress will help you perform better in making your decisions to building up your self-esteem.</p>
<p>Exercise can help us perform better by relieving stress that causes pain. We will be able to make better decision by exercising and giving us a time out time for you. We will be able to sleep better at night to perform by enhancing our self-esteem with better decision-making skills.</p>
<p>Positive thing will help us in our performance for the future to success. Positive thinking helps us to forget the negative things that tell us we cannot do something. With positive thinking if we make a mistake do it again only with a positive attitude that you can do it right once you learn what way to perform the best.</p>
<p>Our self-esteem plays a lot in the role of controlling our lives. Without self-esteem is it, harder to perform like we want to. We need to unleash our mind power to make changes to build up the self-esteem in our lives.</p>
<p>It takes a lot of skill and practice to changes our ways of doing things but by thinking positive, we can and will do the best performance ever. Practice keeps us fit and healthy, especially when we practice to enhance our self-esteem.</p>
<p>Start today to make the changes to be a happier person. Build up your performance by building up your self-esteem to a better, healthier, and happier future for success.</p>
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		<title>Genuine Happiness Comes from Within</title>
		<link>http://speedreading.edublogs.org/2008/06/09/genuine-happiness-comes-from-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life isn’t the sweetest candy. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy, I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives. And then thoughts come popping into my mind like bubbles from nowhere – “How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life isn’t the sweetest candy. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy, I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating and wonderful lives. And then thoughts come popping into my mind like bubbles from nowhere – “How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy stressful life?”  Then I pause and observed for awhile… I figured out that maybe, they start to work on a place called ‘self’.</p>
<p>So, how does one become genuinely happy? Step 1 is to love yourself.</p>
<p>My theology professor once said that “loving means accepting.”  To love oneself means to accept that you are not a perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great ounce of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve your repertoire to recover from our mistakes.</p>
<p>Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your family, your friends, the place you live in, your car, and all the things you now have – truly, you know the answer to the question “how to be genuinely happy.”</p>
<p>When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that small start will eventually lead to something else, and to something else. But if you keep questioning life lit it has never done you any good, you will never be able to find genuine happiness.</p>
<p>I believe that life is about finding out about right and wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. These are things that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure, in a person’s life has become as abundant and necessary as air. But this should not hinder us from becoming happy.</p>
<p>How to be genuinely happy in spite all these? I tell you… every time you exert effort to improve the quality of life and your being, whether it is cleaning up your room, helping a friend, taking care of your sick dog, fail on board exams and trying again, life gives you equivalent points for that.</p>
<p>Imagine life as a big score board like those which are used in the NFLs. Every time you take a step forward, you make scoring points. Wouldn’t it be nice to look at that board at the end of each game and think to yourself “Whew! I got a point today. I’m glad I gave it a shot.”, instead of looking at it all blank and murmur “Geez, I didn’t even hit a score today. I wish I had the guts to try out. We could have won!” and then walk away.</p>
<p>Genuine happiness isn’t about driving the hottest Formula 1 car, nor getting the employee of the year award, earning the highest 13th month pay, or beating the sales quota. Sometimes, the most sought after prizes in life doesn’t always go to the fastest, the strongest, the bravest or not even the best. So, how do you become genuinely happy?  Every one has his own definition of ‘happiness’. Happiness for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success. So, really now, how do we become genuinely happy? Simple. You don’t have to have the best things in this world. Its about doing and making the best out of every single thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and telling your self “Oh, I’ll do better next time”, you carry with you a flame of strong will power to persevere that may spread out like a brush fire. You possess a willingness to stand up again and try – that will make you a genuinely happy person.</p>
<p>When you learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You pass step 1 in the project “how to become genuinely happy”.For as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you will receive love ten folds back.</p>
<p>Again, throw me that same question “how to become genuinely happy?”. I’ll refer you to a friend of mine who strongly quoted- “Most of us know that laughter is the best medicine to life’s aches and pain. But most of us don’t know that the best kind of laughter is laughter over self. Coz then you don’t just become happy… you become free.”</p>
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		<title>RESPONSIVENESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left">Good skills are essential, and they start with listening. The ability to interact with people in meaningful ways on a daily basis is essential to the long-term relationships we want to build with our customers and to the impressions they will have of us. Most of us can instantly improve our skills in communication simply by listening more and speaking less. </p>
<p align="left">One thing to avoid is the need for having to be right all the time. Many people make this mistake and in their desire to always be right, they inhibit constructive communication and prevent relationships from developing. Your goal is to communicate better, not to try to win every discussion or treat every conversation as if it’s a contest with a winner and a loser. </p>
<p align="left">You also must communicate both your needs and goals to other people so that everyone can benefit from this knowledge. People want to know why they are being asked to do things. They want to feel they are part of the process. So don’t let things fester. Confront problems immediately because if they aren’t attended to and dealt with, they invariably get worse. The key is not to burn bridges. It is far more important to create allies, not enemies. This is especially important in the workplace. </p>
<p align="left"> When working for a company whose goal is to delight their client base by providing quality products and excellent customer service – then what’s truly important to remember is that you are in your customer’s business! Take the time and define your value to customers, not in terms of product, but in terms of results produced by our products and services. See how you can be responsive to their needs!  See your role as being a customer advocate and seek to anticipate and embrace changes that your customers will make when working with you and your organization. Be mindful of the messages you send out to those you come in contact with! </p>
<p align="left"><strong>Being responsive calls for an ongoing evaluation of the following:</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>&gt;&gt;</strong>    Are you always aware of how you are representing yourself?  Be consistently aware of your voice tone, facial expressions, and other body language. </p>
<p align="left"><strong>&gt;&gt;</strong>     Are you eager to help others?  People who don’t care keep others waiting. In customer situations, show that you care by being on time every time and by approaching or calling in a timely fashion.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>&gt;&gt; </strong>   Do you have a positive outlook?  This includes your outlook about your job and the company with whom you are currently employed with &#8211; as well as the future. The truth is if you have a negative attitude about these things, it will be obvious to customers and those with whom you work. </p>
<p align="left"><strong> &gt;&gt;</strong>   Do you strive to be the best you can be?  In this quality-oriented world, your attitude must be to continually provide the best service you can. Second rate quality won’t get you success. Strive for continuous improvement!<br />
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