Avil Beckford
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- Content Productiong, Research & Assessment Tool Development
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- Author, Business Owner, Content Producer
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- Canadian Women In Communications, The International Alliance for Women, International Women's Writing Guild
A writer, and researcher with over 15 years experience, Avil is the published author of Tales of People Who Get It and the companion workbook Jou ey to Getting It. An avid reader, she discovered that she is mentored by the information that she hungrily consumes: books, interviews, speeches and other information products by and about accomplished people who "get it" and have much wisdom and knowledge to share. She uses the people who create these information products as her Invisible Mentors and learn from them. As a result, she has assumed the role of Chief Invisible Mentor to help others unleash their inner genius and develop a well-fed mind by systematic use books, interviews, speeches and so on.
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Do You Have the Courage to Re-invent Yourself?
Once again that uncomfortable feeling pays a visit, but this time you cannot close the door and just ignore it. The discomfort that you are feeling is with yourself. Your life does not fit you, and it has not for a long time. You know that you cannot alter your life the way you would a garment, because the life you are living simply was not made with you in mind. You have been fooling yourself, and have been living a lie for so long, that you no longer know the real you.
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10 Quotes That Inspire and Why
People are often seeking inspiration, and that is why most of us have a favorite quote.
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What do you do when there are more questions than answers?
We have all heard that it's important to repeat positive affirmations to help us realize our goals. We keep on saying our affirmations every day and nothing happens. I attended a workshop and learned that you have to repeat your affirmations 108 times to raise them to the level where manifestation takes place. The following week, while reading The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity, I learned that the number 15 is a significant number. The author further added that each day you need to say your affirmations for at least 15 minutes, and write them out at least 15 times.
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How Do You Limit Yourself?
Are we hardwired to automatically place limits on ourselves? We set limits on our earning potential, on how much we can accomplish in life. We are either too young or too old, have too much or too little education and the reasons go on and on about why we cannot do something. Many of us suffer from excusitis. And, I was no different until I started to pay close attention to the stories I tell myself about why I did not honor commitments to myself. Setting limits on ourselves is a self-fulfilling prophecy because we get exactly what we expect.
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How Accurate is the Data You Base Your Decisions On?
Every day professionals are bombarded with problems to solve and decisions to make. And the quality of your solutions and decisions are only as good as the information they are based on. With so much information at your fingertips, how can you systematically check the reliability and accuracy of the information for better results?
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How to Get Off the Rollercoaster of Life
“Why do I keep on making the same mistakes over and over again? You’d think I would have learned by now,” you say to yourself. And, when you read Autobiography in Five Short Chapters, you find yourself laughing, not because the poem is funny. You are laughing at yourself because you feel a connection to Portia Nelson's words. She is speaking your words. Autobiography in Five Short Chapters Chapter 1
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The Best You
Over a period of five years I have interviewed several successful people to uncover the secrets to their success. One of the many questions that I ask is “in your opinion, what is the formula for success?” Another question is “What are some lessons that you have learned so far?” I culled 10 formulas for success and 15 lessons learned to share, since learning from others, helps to shorten the learning curve. Formulas for Success - I take care of myself as well as my company.
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What Tools do you Have in your Tool Box?
When fear envelops you, how do you ride it through? When panic or anxiety overcomes you, how do you respond? When you find yourself confronted with regrettable situations, what do you do? To achieve true success we have to master our emotions and master our SELF. But how can we do that? Recently, I was introduced to Raja Yoga, an ancient, and the highest form of yoga, which brings the mind and emotions into balance. It is a route to self-realization. I found the idea of self-mastery and peace of mind very attractive.
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Thinking Without Borders: Connecting the Dots When There are No Dots
We are socialized to think and act a certain way. And, we often put self-imposed barriers around ourselves, which constrains our thinking and how much we can achieve in life. We learn to travel the path of least resistance, instead of the road less travelled. Yet we wonder why our results in life are mediocre. To break free, we have to start making small changes, simple shifts in our mindset. We have to think without borders and make connections, even when there appears to be no connections. How to think without borders Let us take the following quote by Dr.
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Mistakes I Made (that you can learn from)
Fooled again! Why do I keep on making the same mistakes over and over again? And each time the price I pay increases exponentially. You think I would have learned by now. In my defence, though the outcomes were the same, the situations which were presented to me appeared different at the outset. Yes I finally learned, but at a great personal costs. I decided that I had to change so I made deep seated changes for permanent change. Was it easy? No! I had to walk away from relationships that were destructive to me.
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Problem Solving 101
Problem Solving 101 There are four steps in the creative problem solving process. Any professional can use the process outlined below to problem solve better and faster. - Preparation - Incubation - Illumination - Verification/Implementation Anatomy of a Problem Solving Process Stage I: Preparation (Research/Gather ideas) - Describe a challenge or problem that you’re having. Writing down the problem makes it more concrete for you.
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How to Carve Out the Time to Read
For people to start reading and make it a habit, they have to understand why reading is important to them. Reading has to be driven by a need, and then and only then will they make the time to do so. Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other successful people understand this, and that is why they read with purpose, and read books that make them think. A study by the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy indicates that, “in 2007, CEOs in the United States took home an average of $10.5 million, 344 times the take-home for typical American workers .
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The Invisible Mentor
An educational blog which brings you tips, book reviews and detailed interviews of very accomplished and successful people. These role models mentor you from afar. Reading The Invisible Mentor is like attending a weekly professional development workshop.
December 9, 2010
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The Invisible Mentor
Has book reviews, interviews of highly accomplished people, articles, tips and resources for the readers to mentor themselves and achieve personal and professional success.
August 17, 2009
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