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By Warren Little

 How many people talk to themselves? As you’re reading this, you might even be saying to yourself, “Who me? I don’t talk to myself.”

There are those who think people who talk to themselves are crazy, but nothing could be further from the truth. People who talk to themselves are competitive and they are often trying to better themselves.Particularly those looking to create financial independence thru the vehicle of internet network marketing.

I’m constantly talking to myself because when you do this you are coaching yourself. It’s an opportunity to give yourself some constant, immediate, unfiltered feedback. You have access to yourself 24 hours a day. And the price is right.

Years ago, when I was building my first 1000 person network marketing downline, I had a lot of pep talks with myself. I had to, in order to keep my dream of owning my own company alive. I had plenty of ups, many downs, and needed all the encouragement I could get. And it wasn’t always coming from other sources! So I kept telling myself that things would work out… that I could pull this off… that I was the right person for the job. Ten-plus years and several hundred thousand dollars later, I’m glad I listened.

In doing some research on this subject, I discovered that “private speech,” as psychologists call it, starts as soon as kids learn to talk, typically between 18-24 months. It serves two purposes: It (1) helps kids practice language skills and (2) allows them to reflect on daytime experiences. (And let’s not forget how it entertains eavesdropping parents.) In elementary school, kids begin to transition to self-talk or intra-personal communication.

“A lot of parents think that it’s socially unacceptable or weird if a child talks to himself,” says Laura Berk, distinguished professor of psychology at Illinois State University and author of Awakening Children’s Minds. “But in fact it’s normal and typical, and we find that children who engage in task-relevant private speech generally perform better over time.”

I agree 1,000 percent.

Unfortunately, as kids become adults, I’m afraid they grow out of talking to themselves. Maybe it’s because society frowns on it. But the self-talk I’m referring to is not a sign of insecurity, insanity, or schizophrenia.

I talk to myself to help me think and map out my thoughts, to provide feedback, and, probably most important of all, to motivate myself.

Jack Canfield, co-creator of the wildly successful “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books, tells us that research shows that the average person talks to him/herself thousands of times a day! There’s a downside to this research, however: It is 80 percent negative. Things like what you should have done or said instead of what actually happened, your shortcomings, your fears, and so on. Those negative thoughts have tremendous influence over our behavior. But you can change them. The website NetworkMarketingSolutions.info is full of resources to help you master positive self-talk.

I advise every one of you to continue to talk to yourself throughout your life. I want you to ask yourself: How am I doing? Am I living up to my commitments? I want you to evaluate yourself after a presentation or after a one-on-one with a potential customer. Tell yourself what you could have done better, what you absolutely aced, what you will do on the next call or with the next customer.

As with a lot of things, you have two choices. You can talk yourself into success or failure, into feeling good or bad, thinking positively or negatively. The choice is yours, but you can train yourself to use self-talk as a positive tool. It is up to you to decide whether the conversation in your head is helpful or hurtful. Remember, you can talk yourself out of negative thoughts.

And if you need more than talk, try a little visualization exercise too. Seeing yourself as successful, seeing where you want to go, seeing how you will get there — add that to your self-talk and you can be invincible.

People talk about the brain as a computer. You need to program your brain to motivate yourself. Turn off the autopilot and take control of what you tell your brain to do.

Attitude is everything. You must build up your confidence and positive energy. Focus on the best thing that can happen, not the worst. Too many people talk themselves out of good ideas. Let your thoughts take you where you want to go.

Warren’s Moral: Great success can come from small conversation.

Over 90% of network marketers quit the business within the first 3 months. Dont become a statistic. If you apply the Warren Little reveals in his FREE Newsletter you will see your business become one that will succeed.

Work at Home: Major Things to Keep in Mind While Starting

By Henry Botom

 For those who are smart enough know that working at home is possibly one of the safest and easiest jobs you can do every day without giving much trouble to your self or compromising your own independence. It is definitely a responsibility you would love to take up because you do not need to have someone yelling at you, or creating pressure. You can do as much you want to or like, and not be pressed for time, which is something a lot of people complain about. In fact, working from your own home can give you a feeling of relaxation and that is really required when you are doing something.

In fact, research has proved that the people who work from home are capable of working much more than those who have to travel to their respective offices. They also allow a lot of people to choose their own hours of working and locate the kind of job they want to do. A lot of importance is provided by people who can work on odd hours and are present on a certain part of the day, every day.

So, while selecting to be a provider of services while working from home, you can set up your own ideal job profile, and then search jobs accordingly. You would have to keep a few things in your mind before setting into the world of home-based jobs.

What to look out for while you work at home:

1. The hours you would like to spend working
2. The amount of time you would be able to dedicate
3. The kind of work you are looking for
4. The right job profile for you

While searching, remember, you would perhaps like to spend 10 hours each day working for money. But remember that this time that you spend would have to be dedicated to your work, and so fix up and negotiate with your clients how much time would you be able to spend each day to fit both your and the client’s satisfaction.

The second thing that you need to work out with is definitely going to be the amount of time you want to dedicate. If you are busy with other jobs and would like to spend less time, then decide beforehand how much time you would like to spend everyday. That way, you can easily team up and use the remaining time to do other things as well.

The kind of work you are looking for is important. Suppose you want to be a forum administrator, and you are getting offers of content creation, then your profile is not rightly placed. Put your profile in a way so that there is no confusion. Correctly decide what you like and dislike about your profile and put them down accordingly.

The last thing you need to check is whether the profile you have selected for yourself adds to your overall experience level. This is needed because you need to establish yourself as a dedicated worker, and this would help you make it.

Numerous opportunities for those who want Work at Home or want to work from home. Owners of work at home business are feeling good by working at home without the contact of others.

How Do BPI Tools Provide Business Visibility and Agility?

By Roberto Garabell

 New terminology is born every time a new management approach, philosophy, system or tool debuts, whether it’s original or yet another rehash of existing ideas under a fancy new name. There are now sets of tools that go by the group name Business Process Improvement (BPI), and seek to do what other toolsets before it have attempted, namely, help make significant, measurable changes in the way an organization operates. The tools and techniques will work for various kinds of organizations, from government agencies and non-profits to every sort of business in every sort of industry, and are more focused on measurable, demonstrable improvement than some less exacting predecessors.

The BPI tools have the advantage of a focused name, as well, and they simply attempt to help managers define strategies, visions and purpose. With consideration given to all of an organization’s stakeholders - employees, vendors, customers, investors - the BPI approach will revise and realign the various processes that are used to “do business” and achieve the stated goals.

Basic toolsets for visibility

There are about a dozen fundamental tools (used by various management systems in addition to the BPI approach) that organizations can call upon to assess their status, devise their plans and make the necessary improvements. Among the most important of these in a BPI approach are the methods used make the organization’s concepts, goals and the roadmap that gets it there visible to stakeholders. Various flowcharting approaches can combine these elements in a single environment. Also of prime importance are methods for eliminating bureaucracy and bottlenecks, and creating a more streamlined workflow with efficient processes replacing unnecessary tasks, authorizations and paperwork. Visibility, you see, also applies to those things that that you need to see to root out and remove.

Other components of this basic toolkit eliminate activities that have zero “value added” and simplify the processes and paperwork of those that do. Cost and cycle time analyses are basic tools, as are a variety of different, customizable “process walk-through” methods. There is also a very effective approach to improving business processes that relies on “simple language analysis” and other ways of communicating clearly, something that should be done broadly throughout an organization. The days of jargon are gone, as jargon is not efficient - clarity is efficient.

Additional BPI tools for agility

It is important to maintain a healthy skepticism when you encounter statements about there being “10 fundamental BPI tools” and then some specific number of secondary tools, as if there is some kind of overarching consensus about management methods. There is no consensus, just a growing body of accepted and basic knowledge. Some management specialists create their “New, Improved Business Method” and start circulating more buzzwords. The best thing to do is take a step back from all the acronyms (BPI, BPM, ERP) and simply acknowledge both that there are some great business profit improvement tools that can be used to take your organization forward, and that the main thing you want is the agility to redirect energies when needed and focus on what really needs to be done.

Additional tools include: benchmarking, information engineering, Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) charting, Business Systems Planning (BSP), value analysis and value control, process analysis technique, quality function deployment and structured analysis and design (SA/SD).

Benchmarking is first in the list because it is essential for defining and implementing the best possible procedures and systems in an evidentiary manner. It is also a powerful weapon against what is called “paradigm blindness,” the mentality that asserts “the best way to do things how we’ve always done them.” This kind of willful blindness can only lead to eventual failure as organizations become wholly resistant to doing anything new.

Information engineering is another potent tool that is brought to bear on systems and procedures - as well as people - to help bring the corporate vision to life, and its plans to fruition. Information engineering supports many other processes throughout an organization, such as business re-engineering, systems re-engineering, information systems planning and application development. Again, agility accrues to the organization that does an honest assessment of its operations, and institutes changes based on strategic plans.

Each of these tools has the potential of eliciting resistance from some organization employees, as business improvement initiatives correlate in some people’s minds with layoffs, mergers and plant closings. The only thing that can be said to allay those kinds of fears is, “Excellence always survives.” In fact, if your firm is considering some sort of BPI approach, remember than one requirement should be the intimate involvement of your organization’s stakeholders, particularly management and other key employees. As these improvement projects get underway, it becomes easier all the time to see who is working for the good of the firm, and who is not. No one who works hard, strives for excellence, and has solid character need ever fear BPI.

As the business process management (BPM) trailblazer, Savvion.com moves enterprises beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software, solutions, and services that make them more competitive, agile and cost-efficient in today’s tough economic times. Visit online today.

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