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How to Gain Effective People Skills…
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend Merely reading people skills books and articles or attending training classes about people skills has little or no impact on acquiring the people skills you need. It is like stretching a rubber band; you can stretch it out but as soon as you let go it returns to its original shape. The same tendency applies to people who have deep seated patterns of behavior that have already been established and reinforced since childhood. They can be indoctrinated on new and highly effective behavior patterns,…
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Having a blue, Blue Christmas? Here’s Hope!
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend It is Christmas Eve 2011, as write this. My dog and I just took a walk down main street in the little island town of Cedar Key, Florida. It is about dusky dark as I stroll along, with not a car stirring. Just a couple of cars are parked on the street, a street that runs only a few hundred yards in length. Suddenly out of nowhere, a kid comes swishing down the middle of the street on a skateboard and soon disappears into…
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Do the thing and you will have the power-Part I
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend I’ve just completed reading Jeff Olson’s book “the slight edge”. The philosophy isn’t new; perhaps the title is. The idea is based on doing a little consistently each day using the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Do the thing and you will have the power”; by doing the things other will not do it gives a person a slight edge and is all it takes to get you in the upward spiral instead of the downward one. Successful people are willing to do the…