Posted on 31, August 2008 by jimconnolly
Learning from your mistakes is essential if you want to live a happy, healthy and fulfilling life. It’s also really helpful if you can learn from other people’s mistakes too - but it’s essential (as a minimum) that you learn from your own past errors.
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A 60 year old kid?
I overheard two people speaking last week, as I was waiting [...]
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Posted on 28, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Guest Writer Jane C Woods - www.changingpeople.co.uk
This article looks at how you can boost your confidence! You can become much more confident by learning from your mistakes. In fact, making mistakes is one of the ways you can gain in confidence and add to your store of wisdom.
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Internal Mail
In my renewyou personal development programme, [...]
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Posted on 27, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
Today sees the launch of my brand new marketing blog, over at http://JimsMarketingBlog.Com
My marketing blog is an excellent new way for me to interact with those of you, who are looking specifically for marketing tips, advice and ideas. As some of you already know, I write one of the most popular [...]
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Posted on 21, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
Occasionally, you buy a product or receive a service that is ‘just so incredibly good’ that you want to let everyone know. I have one such service to recommend to you today - that service is WordPress.com
According to Wikipedia, WordPress.com is a ‘WordPress-powered blog hosting provider.’ In real terms, it is [...]
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Posted on 18, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
Here’s a great little tip to help you get the very best response rates from your mailshots or marketing emails.
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Timing!
Timing can have a huge impact on the success of your mailshots or email marketing. It’s simple: If your marketing material arrives at the ‘wrong’ time, you will get a lower response [...]
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Posted on 15, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
Confidence plays a major role in the quality of our lives and the level of success we achieve. I’m not talking here about our self-confidence, but the level of confidence that other people have in us!
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I would like to ask you a question
When someone asks you how you are or how [...]
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Posted on 12, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
In life you get the opportunity to choose between two routes:
The route to freedom
The route to security
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If you choose SECURITY, you ALWAYS lose both!
Success is nothing more than freedom; freedom of choice, freedom from fear, freedom to live where you want, freedom to go where you want and freedom to be [...]
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Posted on 11, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
Here’s a very quick marketing tip for you. To improve the success of ALL your written marketing, use as few words as you can to get your message across!
Two powerful reasons why, with written marketing, less is MORE:
By using as few words as possible, you remove all the dross and keep [...]
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Posted on 9, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly - www.jimconnolly.com
There are numerous books, seminars and audio series out there that sell themselves with a claim from the author or trainer; that he or she can change your life. Some say they can change your life in 30 days, others promise to change you in 21 days and a few suggest [...]
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Posted on 8, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly
Have you ever wondered why some people take great pleasure in watching a colleague make a mistake? Perhaps you have witnessed someone deliberately trying to get a co-worker into trouble and wondered what motivates such behaviour? In either case, I am going to show you why this happens and how to deal with [...]
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Posted on 7, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly
When a company sends out a mailshot, it does so in order to generate enquiries or sales. Of course, in order for these marketing letters to work, they must first be opened and read! After all, you can have the strongest, most compelling and motivating marketing letter imaginable inside that envelope, but in [...]
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Posted on 5, August 2008 by jimconnolly
Jim Connolly
It has often been said that knowledge is power. This is very definitely not the case! Even so, it is repeated over and over again. Think about it for a moment and it becomes clear that knowledge is not power.
For example, two people can attend the same seminar or read the same book, and [...]
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Posted on 4, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly
How many times have you heard that; “first impressions count”? Well, it’s true – first impressions count for a great deal – especially in business. This is because, the first impression a business or a person creates with a potential client, is what forms the foundation of their relationship with them.
If that relationship [...]
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Posted on 3, August 2008 by jimconnolly
By Jim Connolly
Some people will do anything to avoid responsibility. Yet, we all know that the only way to succeed in your life, career or business is to accept full responsibility. In this article, I am going to show you why so few people ever achieve the success they are capable of – but more importantly, I [...]
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