5th March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Successful people are productive people. Part of being productive is taking control over those areas where you can exert some control. Here are 10 areas of your personal and professional life over which you can exert some control: What you wear. I’m assuming that if you are reading this article, you are an adult. So you » Read More
3rd March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Does your place of work need some positive change? What if you opened the door to that possibility? Sit down with others you work with (or with your family). Explain the idea of open and closed doors (open to possibilities or closed to possibilities). Have everyone on your team think through what doors may have been » Read More
2nd March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
To live an empowered life, you need to let in, that is, open the door to particular people, activities, and practices. You also have to close the door to other people, activities, and practices. If you haven’t thought this through carefully recently, this might be a good time. Here are some prompts to get your » Read More
1st March, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
A door must either be shut or open. Anonymous This may not seem particularly profound until you begin to think about shutting or opening doors in your life. Whether it has been throughout your whole life, your adult life, since your time in graduate school, since you had children, during the last year, or during the last » Read More
28th February, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Sometimes, to keep our doors open (in business) open, we have to CLOSE some doors in our life. Consider this idea from Flora Whittemore, which is the metaphor we’re using in this article: The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. Just because a door has been closed in the past, don’t » Read More
27th February, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Imagine metaphorical doors to open and doors to close. You want to keep the doors open to what supports you and close the door to what depletes you. You have to make decisions – because that’s really what life is. Decisions. Timothy Fuller said it this way, “Life is just a series of trying to make » Read More
26th February, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Your “doors” are open, right? If you’re in business – or in the business of life – let’s hope your doors are open. I suggest you make a deliberate decisions to keep certain “doors” open. Now, you might think, what is there to talk about? If I have doors already open, then aren’t they just going » Read More
25th February, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Just because a door is currently open doesn’t mean it will always stay open. You know that to be true at home, for example, depending on where you live, you have some doors that you leave open all the time, some that you open or close depending on other factors, and some that you always » Read More
23rd February, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
In life, you have probably kept some doors shut on purpose and you’ve had some you’ve never even thought about opening. Let’s think about what could be lying through doors that are not currently open for you (and this is just a list for you to get your thinking going) – and we’ll start with positive » Read More
22nd February, 2010 - Posted by Meggin - No Comments
Write down the phrase success AND failure. I didn’t suggest success OR failure. I didn’t suggest success INSTEAD OF failure. I didn’t suggest success WITHOUT failure. Life is success AND failure. Underline the word AND, write it in bold letters, circle it, do something so that this word stands out. Don’t skip this; it is important that » Read More
