Encouraging Excellence Blog

Month: March 2010

  • Take Responsibility…Let Go

    I recently saw a post on a forum that I am a member of from a mother of a child in their late twenties who had addictions, many of them and who only came back to the mother when they wanted financial help to support them and used the emotional blackmail of the fact that […]

  • Will It Work….What’s Your Why?

    Are you one of those people who think of something and see all the possibilities that can be created from it? Do you follow up on it and start a project, or just wonder about it for a while, do nothing and then leave it aside for future thinking and gradually forget all about it? […]

  • How Our Language Can Make A Huge Difference…

    I remember recently reading a blog post by someone who is also an NLP practitioner. He had gone into a shop where there was a sign saying “DON’T FORGET TO BUY YOUR…….” above the product the shop owner wanted his customers to buy. The practitioner asked how the sales were going and wasn’t surprised to […]

  • How Enthusiasm Was Secretly Sabotaging My Results

    When the topic of self-sabotage comes up, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?  The first thing I think of is internal disharmony and limiting beliefs.  Makes sense, right? Does that mean that people who don’t suffer from internal disharmony or limiting beliefs don’t have self-sabotaging issues?  As it turns out, there are […]

  • Z – Zoom your Zeal

    Z Zoom your Zeal Are you passionate about anything? Is there something you have a burning desire to do, learn, explore or develop? Are you following that passion or is it simply a dream, something that you might someday get around to, when you’ve stopped hiding behind all the excuses you’ve got stacked up in […]