Connie Butler
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Clarify Your Goals: Tools to Build Your Future
We are well into this “new” year and perhaps it is time to review where you are in terms of your intentions and goals for the year. By this time many of you may have drifted off course, if even slightly or even worse may have totally lost track of your true direction. So the question becomes how can you regain that fresh new start, energy and enthusiasm that can come in the first flush of setting an intention? One of the primary reasons people fail in their intentions or don
March 1, 2009
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Seven Aspects of Making Brilliant Decisions
The Relationship betwee Work and Self Work\werk : an opportunity for discovering and shaping; the place where the self meets the world. You know, regardless of what business we are in, what projects we are working on or what interests we have in the world – we are all in the business of relationship building. In business we are always cultivating relationships with employees, with prospective clients, with colleagues. In our personal lives the place of relationship is often
March 1, 2009
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Thriving Beyond the Inner Critic
The Single Most Important Reason You Are Not as Effective as You Can Be! Self-Judgment is sabotaging your professional efforts learn how to STOP it! I work with clients daily to clarify their efforts toward success and to see what is hobbling them in that process. After over twenty years of this I see over and over again how some form of self-judgment and self-criticism is the major culprit. I see how it establishes self-doubt, stops possible solutions from developing, and d
March 1, 2009
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Effective Communication: The Key That Opens or Closes That Important Door
Language is one of the things that sets us apart as beings, one of the things that essentially defines us as humans. When language is used well it can elicit very deep feeling in others, motivate others to action and define the nature of our relationships. Sometimes in poetry the juxtaposition of two words or a certain phrase can bring tears to the eyes, call up a whole host of imagery and move us deeply. We have seen language recently used in the politics of persuasion, use
March 1, 2009
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Clarify Your Goals
Clarify Your Goals Tools to Help you Re-Energize and Re-Commit To Your Direction! We are well into this “new” year and perhaps it is time to review where you are in terms of your intentions and goals for the year. By this time many of you may have drifted off course, if even slightly or even worse may have totally lost track of your true direction. So the question becomes how can you regain that fresh new start, energy and enthusiasm that can come in the first flush of settin
June 20, 2007
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Language: The Key that Opens or Closes that Important Door
Language: The Key that Opens or Closes that Important Door Language is one of the things that sets us apart as beings, one of the things that essentially defines us as humans. When language is used well it can elicit very deep feeling in others, motivate others to action and define the nature of our relationships. Sometimes in poetry the juxtaposition of two words or a certain phrase can bring tears to the eyes, call up a whole host of imagery and move us deeply. We have see
June 20, 2007
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Turning Fear Into Power
Turning Fear into Power How would your life shift if you moved into what you feared not away from it, if you moved into the future with controlled abandon –think about it! One of the things I know from working with people for close to two decades and from my own development is that – things change. And yet how many people say they hate change. If change is inevitable in growth and you hate change you have a bad equation for a good life. n One of the main reasons that people
June 20, 2007
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Truth - Your Way to Success!
Sometimes when I use the word Truth I can see peoplenfidgeting or looking a little uncomfortable. They seem tonthink that it means that they will be caught at something,nsomething difficult will happen, that whatever joy they havencarved out will somehow be damaged, that their business ornpersonal dealings will not survive the scrutiny of thentruth. Frankly to many it seems too virtuous or not viablenin today's complex society. But what if the Truth was thenfirst attribute th
October 6, 2006
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Self-Judgment is sabotaging your professional efforts learn how to STOP it!
The Single Most Important Reason You Are Not as Effective as You Can Be! I work with clients daily to clarify their efforts toward success and to see what is hobbling them in that process. After over twenty years of this I see over and over again how some form of self-judgment and self-criticism is the major culprit. I see how it establishes self-doubt, stops possible solutions from developing, and diminishes the vision and energy of what could be. It keeps many people withi
February 20, 2005
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Powerful Communication: The Key that Opens or Closes That All Important Door
Language: The Key that Opens or Closes that Important Door What prevents people from using their native language or secondary languages confidently comes down to seven traps that most people fall into. Language is one of the things that sets us apart as beings, one of the things that essentially defines us as humans. When language is used well it can elicit very deep feeling in others, motivate others to action and define the nature of our relationships. Sometimes in poetry
November 29, 2004
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Seven Aspects of a Making Brilliant Decisions: The Relationship Between Work and Self
Work\werk : an opportunity for discovering and shaping; the place where the nnself meets the world. Regardless of what business we are in, what projects we are working on or what nninterests we have in the world – we are all in the business of relationship nnbuilding. In business we are always cultivating relationships with employees, nnwith prospective clients, with colleagues. In our personal lives the place of nnrelationship is often more obvious and more central. And our
July 15, 2004
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Harnessing the Power of the Unknown: Move from Repeating the Past to Re-inventing the Future
The Unknown - it is scary territory for many, something to be avoided for others and shameful for those who feel they are supposed to know everything. What is your relationship with the Unknown? Take a moment to ponder it because your attitude towards and experience of this is what governs your ability to create, to innovate and truly bring more of yourself out into the world - in short to be successful. If you are going to create something new in your life – in your career,
June 12, 2004