Think Positive for a Change and Smile

Work Those Mouth Muscles

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a smile is worth a million. The power of a smile is incredible. Even if you don’t feel like smiling, the simple act of lifting the corners of your mouth can help you lift your entire spirit and find something worth smiling about. Some of the greatest self-help advice out there comes from those who advocate “fake it until you make it.” This is especially true when it comes to thinking positive, and faking a smile goes a long way toward producing the genuine thing. You may end up laughing at yourself merely because you know you have nothing to smile about.

Another great thing about smiles- they’re highly contagious. A smile spreads faster than a cold in a daycare. Most people can’t help smiling back when someone casts a happy expression their way. This is a simple and exciting theory that you can test out for yourself. Go to any public place and start smiling at random people, then keep track of how many smile back (even suspicious smirking counts!). You’ll likely find that 9 out of 10 of your targets return your joyful expression to some small degree, and you’ve probably just made their day a little brighter, too.

A Good Leader Knows their Strengths and Weaknesses

A mentor of mine has a wonderful way of making leadership growth manageable and bite size. It can be a challenge to always be moving forward. I hope
you will be encouraged to make minor changes in your personal growth to
impact and influence those around you positively.

Kevin's Leadership Notes

A good leader knows in order to have leadership growth, they need to know
their strengths and weaknesses so they can fill those areas with the
strengths of others. Part of knowing those strengths and weaknesses is
to recognize a leader’s primary leadership aptitude and the
strengths and weaknesses associated with that aptitude. The four
leadership aptitudes are: the Directing Leader; the Strategic Leader;
the Team-Building Leader; and the Operational Leader. Since we have
already taken a look at the first aptitude, that of the Directing
Leader, we will next look into those characteristics of the Strategic
Leader. Leadership growth comes from understanding how you fit into
these categories,or what blend you may be; also knowing the kind of
leaders you work with can help you to mobile others and have a positive
influence on a project or goal.

The Strategic Leader

Generally speaking the strategic leader is the person who tends to be
over prepared in just about any circumstance. Strategic leaders tend to
be vision developers and shapers, rather than the conceiver, like the
directing leaders. The strategic leader will look at the vision and
begin gathering the information and data needed to begin laying out a
plan of action for reaching the vision. They are not afraid to ask the
hard questions and they don’t mind creating controversy
because their primary motive is to understand reality so they may
develop a workable plan. Don’t expect the strategic leader to
generate excitement about the vision. They are more likely to skip
public rallies than to lead them. One of their greatest strengths is
the ability to stay emotionally detached from the processes of
converting vision into reality, allowing them to draw objective
conclusions. This may also be one of their greatest weaknesses.

Because their focus is on facts, figures, plans and possibilities
others tend to portray them as insensitive and unemotional, even
robotic. They are rarely the most popular person on the team, which
doesn’t really matter to them since they are generally
happier working with ideas than with people.

A common complaint about strategic leaders is that they take so long to
make decisions. These are people that figure if they can just gather
enough information they can eliminate the risks involved in decision
making. Of course the risk can only be reduced, never eliminated. When
strategic leaders speak publicly they tend to be precise, complete, and
focused—and long- winded and boring.

The strategic leader is a conceptual thinker and is vital to the team
in helping it reach its goals. Their ability to develop a strategy to
reach the vision is something that can help move an organization from
simply being good to attaining great. Leadership growth is recognizing
this person on your team (it may be you) and utilizing them in their
greatest capacity. If you work under this kind of leader than you need
to understand what their asking from you.


The four leadership aptitudes and many of the thoughts included here
have their basis in the book A Fish Out of Water by George Barna.

Kevin Constance

(Used with permission.)

Leadership Growth is Key to Personal
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How to Ease Your Allergies!


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Although you may not think about it, your ability to earn income is a huge asset and life insurance helps replace lost income in the event of your premature death.

Here are some reasons people buy life insurance.

• To replace income the family would need to maintain their standard of living after the death of a wage earner.


• To pay off a mortgage loan and other personal and business debts or to create a rent fund.


• To create a fund for children's education.


• To pay final expenses, such as funeral costs and taxes.


• To create a family emergency fund or a fund for a family member with special needs.

Life insurance protects against financial loss when the insured dies. The insurance company promises to pay your beneficiary a specific amount of money when you die in exchange for premium payments made over a specific time.

It's never too late or too early to think about protecting your
family's financial future.

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Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
~Bernard Montomery, British Field Marshal

Never "for the sake of peace and quite" deny your own experience or convictions.
~Dag Hammarskjòld, Statesman and Nobel Peace Prize Winner

How can you have charisma? Be moe concerned about making others feel good about
themselves than you are making them feel good about you.
~Dan Reiland, VP of Leadership Development, INJOY

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and
put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
~Charles Schwab, Industrialist

People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full
range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to
improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.
~Stephen Gregg, Chairman and CEO of Ethix Corp.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
~Johann von Schiller, Playwright

Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective
leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a
sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message
across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't
even matter.
~Gilbert Amelio,
President and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators
take something complicated and make it simple.
~John C Maxwell

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“Good Night! The Secrets to Sleeping Soundly” arms you with everything you need to know about the beneficial and harmful aspects of your sleep cycle, including when to recognize that your lack of sleep is reaching critical mass.

If your sleep is not providing you with the rest you deserve, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to take control of the problem learn how to deal with it and get help if necessary. Subscribe to my seven part PDF downloadable series for FREE - No strings attached. If I can inform you and help you or your family with your sleep issues then I've done my job.

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Sher

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Good Night!
Secrets to SleepingSoundly

Research shows that people who are deprived of sleep for a long period of time may be more stressed and are prone to illogical behavior. There are even studies linking criminal behavior to stress caused by lack of sleep.




Medical data shows that a body requires sleep to be able to perform normal functions. A person’s body is able to regenerate certain body chemicals while sleeping. Failure to do so may affect the development of these hormones and may cause physical and physiological problems.

There are even studies which show that people who have enough sleep do well in examinations. The same study shows that people who have been sleep deprived have no activity in their temporal lobes, apart of the brain identified with language processing. While sleep deprived people do well on other tests, the study concludes that people who have had enough sleep perform much better than people who have been sleep deprived.

People who lack sleep are slow to make decisions and are prone to making harried and illogical decisions. Sleep deprivation also results in poor concentration and memory.

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Herbal and Dietary Tips for a Healthy Cholesterol Life

What to eat, how to eat, how to shop; a look at a low cholesterol diet including what herbs, fruits, veggies and meat cuts to buy. Tons of practical information.

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