CCF News Volume 8 Issue 01

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Change:

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A New Kick on Resolutions

By Marsha Staton Sweet

As we near the end of January, what has happened to your New Year’s Resolutions? If you’re like many people, your 2008 squeaky-clean resolutions have likely gained some (or a lot!) of tarnish and dust already. You’ve cheated on your diet, lapsed in your exercise program, and your avowal to keep your desk clean and organized is already buried under your 2008 mess. What is it about New Year’s Resolutions that tend to set us up for failure?

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Volume 8, issue 1

Causing Change

By Michael Lipp

Here's one of the secrets of life and one of the methods of coaching: If you don't like the way it is, change your mind. The underlying truth of that statement is, that how we respond to the circumstances of our lives is far more important than the circumstances. Said another way, you and I have the power to cause our own lives. Actually, we do cause our lives, but we are mostly unaware of it.

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11 Strategic Actions to Combat and Defeat Time Wasters

By Glenn Ebersole, Jr.

There is not a day goes by when I do not hear someone tell me they do not have enough time to do what they need to do. Or some people will blatantly tell me that they are terrible time managers and waste a lot of their time (not to mention the waste of others time also). Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach recommends that you take a good look at the ways you waste time and the ways others cause a waste of your time and then develop a plan to get rid of those time wasters.

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