Self-Improvement for Astrology Sign Capricorn
Self Improvement for the Astrology Signs
Capricorn
Career, Professional Issues, Reputation, Organizational Leadership, Political Postures,
Honor, Fame, Prestige, Authority, Government, Public Life, Community Standing, Status
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Living Well
Page Two
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How to Buy a House with Good Feng Shui
Your surroundings can have a huge impact on your life -- to the point of affecting your personal happiness, your prosperity, even the opportunities that come to you in your life -- thus making your choice of home a very important one. Because most of the important moments in our lives occur in our houses, the house itself becomes more than just four walls where we eat and sleep. That's why careful consideration is called for if you are thinking about purchasing another home.
So what do you look for when you are considering purchasing a new home? It comes down to two things: the tangible and the intangible. The tangible items include price, location, size, and condition. The intangible includes considerations such as location on a street, how the home is situated on the lot, its relationship to other buildings or homes, how the home flows inside, and situations such as whether the former occupants were ill, in financial trouble, etc.

Showing Determination
Page Three
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Where's Your Edge?
Financial, emotional or physical stress can be a real energy drain and ample motivation to play it safe. I don't like being at my edge, it's scary and unsettling. It calls up my anxiety and my old fears and doubts that I think I've resolved. Despite my resistance, I want to know what continues to push me forward, and creates the ability to withstand and thrive when I am pushed to my edge.
I think the answer for me is simple: it's my passion to grow and evolve. Being at my edge seems to provide this opportunity. I notice that discomfort and dissatisfaction are the impetus for daring to risk new territory. It seems that our shoes have to get a little bit too tight before we are ready to get bigger ones. As Carl Jung stated, "Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next".

Getting Organized
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SMART Resolutions
It's that time of year again. Many of us will reflect on our lives and resolve that things will be different in the year ahead. Thousands of us impulsively make life-changing promises to eat less, exercise more, stop smoking, spend more time with our families, and get our finances into shape.
Goals we set at New Year's are similar to goals we might set at any other time of the year. If these goals are vague, unrealistic, or extreme, the odds of reaching them are low, no matter when we decide to work on them. There is a strategy for streamlining the goal-setting process to stack the odds in your favor.

Playing Politics in Business and Life
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Best 8 Ways to Deal with Detractors
We have all had them as we set and go after our goals, no matter where we are or what our goals may be: naysayers, detractors, people who poke fun or get angry or tell us we can't do it. Detractors are very serious business, even if they just seem to be having a little fun at our expense. Don't let them stop you or even slow you down. How do you deal with detractors? Each one will be different, but here are a few tips:

Setting Priorities
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Are You Multi-Tasking Yourself Into More Stress?
Whenever you feel your attention start to shift away from the present, gently remind yourself to return. Focus on each of your senses in turn. At this very moment, what do you see, smell, hear, feel, taste? Start small. Begin practicing mindfulness with a simple routine you do every day, such as brushing your teeth or making your bed. As you go through the routine, focus on what your body is feeling at each moment. Once those simple tasks can hold your full awareness, shift that awareness to the other tasks in your life.
When you start to feel as though your mind is slipping away from the present, bring yourself back by asking yourself "what am I doing?" Once again, focus on the physical sensations the activity produces. It takes a great deal of discipline (and many, many reminders) to cultivate this level of awareness and attention, but you'll feel more creative, focused, and alive if you can master it.

How to Succeed in Life
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Keep Your Eye On the Goal
and Go Around the Mule
One of the most exciting activities you can engage in is goal setting. The future is bright and filled with endless possibilities, and by carefully planning a set of actions and milestones you can achieve nearly any goal you commit yourself to.
After you make your plan, the first few weeks are energizing as you see yourself moving toward the goal. Your vision expands and you can feel the positive energy as you visualize the future and your anticipated.

Finding Your Mission in Life
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Consciously Live Your Personal Mission
Is what I say I want really important to me? Is it worth it to me to create what I say I want? The situations of your life, whether in relationships, work, or self, are a reflection of the experience of life that you consciously or unconsciously choose.
Your Mission Statement is your guide, to help you consciously choose the kind of life that you want. The next step for you is to apply your Mission Statement to a Vision that you want to create. Conscious application of your Mission Statement will help you become much more "attractive": the ability to bring into your reach all of the people, money, resources and opportunities you need to create the future you want. Here are ten suggestions about how to use your Mission Statement to create a successful, effortless and happy experience of life.

Career Development
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Traits of Highly Successful People
That You Can Learn!
We have all read about people who are successful briefly. They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie... and then disappear. Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe and Howard Hughes who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives. These examples do not inspire me!
My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime. In entertainment, I think of Paul Newman and Bill Cosby. In business, I think of Ben and Jerry (the ice cream moguls), and a local hardware store owner who is famous for the money he's give to children's charities.

Relationships with Professional Colleagues, Clients, Associates
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The Fairness of Office Politics
... Integrity And Political Motivation!
I hear many complaints daily about the "unfairness" of politics in corporate America. Employees say that their managers "lie" or issue "personal attacks" against them. Indeed, based on the pure ideals that we are taught as a child, this might appear to be the case.
However, the corporate culture is not the "real world" in which we live out our personal lives. Each corporate culture is its own world with its own rules and reality. To understand this, one must understand the directions and desires of this world and learn how to best adapt to achieve the vision and mission of the corporation.

Setting Priorities
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Discovering What You Want For Your Life
I often recommend that life planning be based upon an individual's personal vision and purpose. If you are going to handcraft a life of choice, you'll need to know what you want so that you can make the choices that take you there. The trouble is that many (most?) of you cannot name what it is you want.
If you don't make choices for your life, others will. Often, choices are made by circumstances, weak foundation, past, parents. Choosing what you want in life and out of life is a new skill for many people. It may take some practice. At some point you realize that you are able to, and must, make choices for your life.

How to Succeed in Life
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Getting Unstuck Through Self-Coaching
Not everyone can get a coach or even needs a coach for every stumbling block that comes their way. It can be very helpful to know a few coaching skills you can use for yourself to help you get through stuck places. When you are stuck and feel you are spinning your wheels or can not get moving forward again there are a few important questions you can ask yourself to try to get going.
I have listed the questions by number but you do not have to use them in order. Your issue should cause the questions to make sense.

Self-Control
Page Three
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10 Down-to-Earth Ways to Clear
Your Root Chakra and Release Your Fears
Maybe you're going through a hard time (in this economy, so many of us are), or maybe it's a more deeply ingrained part of your nature--but whatever the cause, you're feeling anxious, insecure, vulnerable, unable to relax and let your guard down.
Clearing, balancing, and opening your first chakra can help you get your feet back under you when you're feeling like you're "losing your grip." It can help you relax, feel calmer and more secure, and let go of nagging fears. It can help you gain the feeling that you truly belong in the universe, and that everything will turn out basically alright for you.

Career Development
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What's Self Esteem Got to Do With It?
Self-esteem is described as how you think about yourself. You may have been brought up to caution how you express yourself to others. You temper how you think about yourself so that you don't "get out of line" or become arrogant or "too big for your britches." But the fact is that by tempering yourself, you shrink yourself. And although others may not feel insecure around you if you are not any bigger or more expansive than them, the fact is that you do not get to experience all that there is of you.
By being less than you are capable of being and doing for fear of being too big or too great, you are limiting yourself. When you limit yourself, the result is that you are left with a sense that you could be so much more and the world loses out because you are not giving all that you have " to BEING YOU! The more "you" you are, the greater the impact you have on the world.

Building Lasting Happiness, Safety and Security
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Law Of Attraction Vision Boards
The Secret To Getting What You Want In Life
Have you ever wondered why your dreams haven't come true yet? If you've been reading my newsletter for awhile, you know that I embody and teach the 'how to' principles behind successfully achieving our goals and dreams. Nothing happens, no forward steps are taken until we first have a dream.
However, even when we have a dream, we can't begin manifesting it until some important first steps are taken to prepare a solid foundation for success. To make a dream come true we don't have to initially know HOW we are going to do it. Instead, we only have to know what we want and then engage our physical body senses in the process.

Living Well
Page One
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10 'Artsy' Activities That Save Business People From Burnout
Many people concentrate most of their energy and attention on business and become almost one dimensional. There are "artsy" activities that are just as valuable as work because they help maintain sanity and prevent burnout.
Life should be a balance. It should not be all work and no play. Play prevents burnout by re-energizing the spirit, relaxing thinking and reducing stress and tension. Even business people need to stop and smell some roses once in a while.

Showing Determination
Page Two
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Always Do the Hardest Thing First
When you procrastinate, you lose. You lose time, energy, self-esteem, goodwill, trust, and timely solutions. Because my mom held firm, I learned that it was best to go ahead and get it over with. Of course you do that a few times and the relief you get will be its own motivation. Instead of that "little" nagging feeling that saps your energy more than you know, you're free to fly!
If someone keeps coming along behind you (or if you're doing this for your child, or report, or partner), the lesson will not be learned. You'll be reinforcing the whining and procrastinating.

Getting Organized
Page Two
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Get Yourself Unstuck
8 Smart Reminders
Whether you consider yourself a occasional procrastinator, or a terminal one, getting stuck in the mud occasionally - paralyzing your ability to act sometimes happens. While it's certainly useful to explore the reasons behind persistent procrastination patterns and resolve them, this article is intended to offer you 8 smart reminders, to free you up, and get you moving again.

Achieving Success
Page Two
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The Path To Personal Success
Everyone defines personal success in their own way, but for most people it's the ability to gain happiness or material wealth. It's certainly of great interest to our society. Infomercials designed to deliver success in a box to people fill the broadcast television airwaves and cable channels.
We've become a society of people waiting for some intellectual guru or spur of the moment motivational author to lead us down the road to success. It's become almost scandalous to try and find or navigate that road alone. But before you plunk down your hard-earned cash for somebody else's idea of who or what you should be, try being yourself -- improved!

How to Succeed in Life
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Consciously Live Your Personal Mission
Is what I say I want really important to me? Is it worth it to me to create what I say I want? The situations of your life, whether in relationships, work, or self, are a reflection of the experience of life that you consciously or unconsciously choose.
Your Mission Statement is your guide, to help you consciously choose the kind of life that you want. The next step for you is to apply your Mission Statement to a Vision that you want to create. Conscious application of your Mission Statement will help you become much more "attractive": the ability to bring into your reach all of the people, money, resources and opportunities you need to create the future you want. Here are ten suggestions about how to use your Mission Statement to create a successful, effortless and happy experience of life.

Self-Control
Page Two
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Conflict ... A New Perspective
I was recently asked to address the issue of conflict resolution at the hospital of one of our clients. In today's fast-paced and stressed-out society, conflict resolution is a critical issue. People don't always have the time or the tools to handle conflict.
The word 'conflict' connotes something bad. People think of conflict and they think of two people in a heated argument. But as the workplace shapes itself to recognize and be more accepting of diversity and differing opinions and as companies write their diversity policies, why not change the way we view conflict and embrace it as something to be valued instead of dispelled?

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