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Stand Out From The Crowd!

Why are you special? Why should your customers do business with you?

Women in business, get pen and paper handy as you watch Sharon Michaels’ quick tip success video about how to determine why you are special and how to stand above the crowd. What is your unique selling proposition? You’ll want to make time to work the activity and pinpoint at least ten unique benefits you bring to your customers and your business.

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I’m Sharon Michaels and I teach you how to do business successfully. http://SharonMichaels.com

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Does Time Manage You?

Is there really such a thing as time management? Or do we actually learn, generally after much trial and error, to simply use our time more effectively? Maybe instead of talking about time management, we should be focusing our energy on better ways to use time more effectively and efficiently.

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One thing I stress to my coaching clients is developing a workable system for doing business so you’re in control of your time and your time isn’t controlling you. Believing day-to-day that you are in control of your time and energy is about learning how to think and work more effectively.

Whatever your business, you are in control of how you emotionally feel about whether you are or are not using time effectively.

During an average workday, I’d say our emotional feelings about how we are controlling time can generally be divided into three categories. We are either feeling:

1. We are getting ahead of our day-to-day tasks and “must-do’s.”
2. We are staying current with everything that needs to be done during the day.
3. Or, we are falling behind and not staying up with what needs to be completed.

Would you agree with me so far?

Let me ask you this:

Most workdays do you “feel” as if you are getting ahead, staying current or, falling behind?
During an average workweek, is there one “feeling” you have about how well you are using your time that seems to be predominate?
Generally, do you “feel” you’re in control of your time or is time controlling you?

Before you can gain control over how to best use your time, I believe you have to understand how you’re currently “feeling” about how effectively or ineffectively you’re using time. My suggestion is choose a typical workday and track how you are spending your work time hour-by-hour.

Not only do I suggest you track your time hour-by-hour, but also track how you’re feeling emotionally about how well you’re using your time. Those unconscious emotional feelings are just as important to working effectively as is writing your to-do lists or planning a schedule.

The emotional aspect of feeling in control of your time is vital to effectively making the most of your workday. Let me ask you again, do you control your time both physically and emotionally or does time seem to be in control of you?

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I’m Sharon Michaels and I teach you how to do business successfully. http://SharonMichaels.com

I invite you to join Women Enjoying Success where monthly I provide you with the latest success tools for growing yourself, your wealth and your business . . . http://WomenEnjoyingSuccess.com it’s like having an Online Success Coach available 24/7. Come join us!

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Understanding Mental Blind Spots

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Have you ever spent time looking for something only to discover it was right in front of you? If you answered yes, then you’ve experienced what’s known as a mental blind spot. Believe it or not, you experience these mental blind spots everyday. Here’s an experiment to illustrate just how they work.

We’ll start with an exercise to demonstrate the power of mental blind spots. Take a minute and carefully look at and read the following phrase. Count all the “F’s” in this sentence:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…

How many did you find? Most people see 3.

But honestly, there are 6 F’s. Yes, 6! You’ll want to go back and read the sentence again.

If after knowing there are 6 F’s and you still don’t see them, you’ve just experienced a mental blind spot. At the end of this article I have highlighted all six of the F’s.

Here’s what happened – When reading this sentence, the brain can’t seem to process the word “OF”.

Why? No one is absolutely sure but it could be because we pronounce the word “of” as “OV.” Our mind wants to see ov and not of.

Amazing isn’t it?

The concept of a mental blind spot began with Dr. Maxwell Maltz in his 1960 classic book, Psycho-Cybernetics. To this day it is still considered one of the most respected self-development books ever written.

Dr. Maltz discovered that even after a patient had had plastic surgery on the outer scars, they didn’t see any difference in their physical appearance. Dr. Maltz was amazed at how many patients couldn’t see the actual changes in their appearance. Their mind had formed a mental blind spot. This blind spot was so powerful it could not or would not register any improvement in their physical appearance. In the patient’s mind, they still looked and felt the same as they had before their plastic surgery.

A mental blind spot blocks or blanks out reality as it truly is. How does a mental blind spot form? We’ve programmed our mind to see the reality we’ve worked to create. We have programmed years and years of “reality” into our mind. The unconscious and conscious mind now believes and sees what we’ve told it to believe and see. We have literally programmed our mind to see the reality we’ve worked so hard to create.

We all have our own mental blind spots. You know, that blind spot that doesn’t see reality as it is. Could it be weight? Or ability? Or intelligence? Some mental blind spots are small and some are big. All blind spots distort our perceptions of reality.

The great news, you have the power to change your thinking and conquer the mental blind spots currently in your life. Change begins one small step of self-discovery at a time. Realizing you have a mental blind spot is step one!

Again, is the phrase with all of the “F’s” highlighted.
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…

Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about recognizing mental blindspots.

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I’m Sharon Michaels and I teach you how to do business successfully. http://SharonMichaels.com

I invite you to join Women Enjoying Success where monthly I provide you with the latest success tools for growing yourself, your wealth and your business . . . http://WomenEnjoyingSuccess.com it’s like having an Online Success Coach available 24/7. Come join us!

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Infographic – Your Unique Selling Proposition

What makes your business stand out from the crowd? You’ll enjoying reading this infographic and jotting down a few new ideas that could help take your business to the next success level . . .

I’m Sharon Michaels and I teach you how to do business successfully. http://SharonMichaels.com

I invite you to join Women Enjoying Success where monthly I provide you with the latest success tools for growing yourself, your wealth and your business . . . http://WomenEnjoyingSuccess.com it’s like having an Online Success Coach available 24/7. Come join us!

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How Are Your New Year’s Resolutions Coming Along?

It’s been a few months since the beginning of the year and, many of us have forgotten about the New Year’s resolutions we made. On a recent Women Enjoying Success radio show, I shared tips for keeping those beginning of the new year resolutions and going for your goals. I know you’re going to want to have pen and paper ready to make notes and jot down a few aha’s. It’s all about Women Enjoying Success!

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I’m Sharon Michaels and I teach you how to do business successfully. http://SharonMichaels.com

I invite you to join Women Enjoying Success where monthly I provide you with the latest success tools for growing yourself, your wealth and your business . . . http://WomenEnjoyingSuccess.com it’s like having an Online Success Coach available 24/7. Come join us!