The Different Types of Elevator Pitches

By Don Pleger

As a small business consultant in North Carolina, we have always stressed to our clients that they be ready at any moments notice to give their "pitch" to potential investors or partners. This pitch is known as the elevator pitch and is basically a condensed business plan that is typically between 5-15 pages. The elevator pitch has the same elements of a business plan, but only addresses the main components of your business and of course, the financial forecast for your venture. There are several different examples of elevator pitches but it is very important that entrepreneurs have some sort of elevator pitch ready to reel off at any time. The problem is that one elevator pitch is not right for every situation. In fact, there are at least 4 situations that might require a different version of your pitch and are listed below.

1. The Classic Elevator Pitch - The idea of an elevator speech is where you have 5-10 minutes to sell your idea to someone or a group that could benefit your business. In this small amount of time you have to sell what you do, how you plan to do it and how it will be profitable for potential partners or investors. The classic elevator pitch is short, concise and straight to the point.

2. The Dinner Party Pitch - Let's say you are at a dinner party and everyone is taking turns explaining what they do for a living. This is clearly not the time or place to pitch your business as a potential investment. You simply need a couple sentences to explain your business as simply as possible.

3. The Board Room Presentation - You might be asked to pitch your company in front of a group of potential investors. In this situation you may even have a pitch deck with a handful of slides to present your unique selling proposition, market potential, management team and financial projections. Coastal Business Strategies has created several of these pitches and one of the important aspects of this type of pitch is the design element. You want something that stands out, attracts the attention of the room and is professionally designed to spark the interest of any potential suitors for your company. This takes some time to prepare and rehearse so make sure you have everything memorized and able to answer any questions from your audience.

4. The Networking Event Pitch - Entrepreneurs who understand networking know that networking is about the other person. You should be asking questions and making connections, not pitching your products or services. But you will probably be asked what you do at some point, so it is important to be ready with a brief explanation that may intrigue the other person to ask more questions. Take the key points from your pitch and work them into your conversation naturally and you may be surprised how connections can be made.

You might think you have an elevator pitch ready, but you really need to think about how your pitch should vary in different situations. You don't want to waste an opportunity with a potential investor or client, but you also don't want to give a presentation of your business over a casual dinner.

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The Benefits of Swimming

By Sean McAdams

Quickly, what's the first thing you think of whenever an individual says the phrase "swimming"? It's almost summertime plus it's an Olympic year, therefore i would venture to state Michael Phelps. Phelps, keep in mind, won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Obviously, not everyone is Michael Phelps, and yet we can all become swimmers. Even if you don't know how to swim, now could be a wonderful time frame, considering it's beginning to get warm outside as it's nearly summer time.

So why pick swimming as an activity? For starters, it's an "exercise" simply in mindset, unless you are participating in competitive swimming. Not just this, however, if you are only swimming to have fun, you can go swimming at any sort of speed you'd like. That is probably the reason why swimming is actually known as a lifetime activity. You can also go swimming at a beach or a swimming pool and throw a party or maybe spend a nice day with the family! Last but not least, if those factors aren't more than enough, it's moreover an excellent cardio substitute for running or riding a bike, since you don't put as much pressure on your ankles and legs. With that being said, you shouldn't permanently replace those methods of cardio.

Swimming will work nearly every muscle in the body and may also help to improve stamina along with cardiovascular conditioning. Did you know that swimming can also increase muscle strength? As well as enhance flexibility? One more great quality related to swimming: other than buying a swimsuit, it is usually completely free!

There's another aspect to swimming which you possibly haven't considered: the relaxation facet. Even with an activity that can be referred to as "exercising", there is a tranquil, unwinding approach at the same time. When one thinks of an outdoor pool or a beach, they don't automatically imagine a competitive, energetic event. Usually, you'd imagine relaxation as well as experiencing the weather and the folks you're together with. Not to mention, you are able to more or less sense a type of pseudo-meditation if you take an unwinding way of swimming.

Although swimming is a fantastic way to exercise just about all areas of the body, improve endurance as well as cardiovascular fitness and also improve an overall healthier life-style, it is not an ideal way to lose weight. You do burn up a good amount of calories by going swimming, but the truth is would need to be actively swimming for anywhere between a half hour to an hour to see any result. The greatest aspect regarding swimming is that it's an enjoyable activity that can permit you to spend some time with family and friends and enjoy the weather at the same time. Nonetheless, even Michael Phelps, who's known for being one of the best swimmers on the planet, has a strenuous workout routine. If you are actively trying to live healthy and/or lose weight, it's not an activity I would suggest to focus on, but to add to a good work out.

Sean McAdams is currently a student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is also the owner of the website Live Healthy For Eternity, which he created in March 2012 to help people live a healthier life via diet, exercise and other life choices.

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8 Steps Toward Becoming The Leader You Need To Be To Succeed

By Deanna Mascle

An important part of success in life is the ability to lead. It is important that we not only be able to lead others but be willing to lead ourselves. No one succeeds in life by simply following others. Sometimes we simply must strike a bold new path for ourselves.

Being a good leader is more than simply being at the forefront of the crowd. A leader must act. Too often in America we simply accept that someone looks or sounds like a leader and too rarely do we actually look at the actions that leader performs -- and that is the true test of leadership.

However in order to become a good leader ourselves we need to concentrate on those actions rather than simple appearances. The title of this article refers to 8 steps but do not think of these as progressive steps, like so many recipes or instruction manuals describe. Instead think of these as actions that you must take on a regular basis.

First, be alert to new potentials. "Reality" is not absolute but rather subject to constant change. Think about inventors, explorers, and agents of social change who have achieved greatness. Some might simply say that certain people are successful because they are lucky to be in the right place at the right time. Maybe so, but if they hadn't had their eyes open for the opportunity then it wouldn't have mattered if they were in the right place.

Second, accept inspiration from wherever it comes; even your opponents. The wisest leaders constantly study their competition. In war, politics, and business we constantly see examples of this research and reconnaissance. Too many times though this study concentrates on finding a weakness to exploit. If you want to a be a leader of positive change don't fall victim to this trend. Instead, if you find a weakness then make sure to avoid that pitfall yourself. If you find a strength then find a way to strengthen your own qualities to match.

Third, learn something new every day and promote in new ways every day. This means you must continually seek to expand your horizons, internally and externally. Feed your mind with new lessons and knowledge, but constantly seek to expand your social horizons as well. Seek out and meet new people and immerse yourself in new social situations. You never know when these new experiences will help you in your leadership role.

Fourth, search for and find answers in subtle clues. Look beneath the surface and constantly question. This is an extension of the third step in that you are seeking new knowledge but this also means that you will need to step off the traditional paths of knowledge. Don't simply read books in the literary canon or the bestsellers list. Take seminars rather than classes as there is more room for questioning and debate. Seek out the unconventional thinkers, teachers, and writers.

Fifth, improvise if no existing solutions are available. No excuses. Necessity is the mother of invention. How do you know it won't work if you've never tried it before? Remember, not all approaches need to come from the front. Look at your problem from all sides and systematically attempt different solutions in various combinations.

Six, make at least one person you care about happy every day. If you make it a point to be thoughtful and caring for one person every day then soon this thoughtful, caring behavior will become a habit and that habit will spread to the others around you. Making someone else happy also feeds your own personal happiness. Just imagine how much better the world would be if we all did a little bit more to spread happiness.

Seven, offer help, even if there's no apparent advantage to you. This means more than writing a check. It means giving of your time and energy and yourself. Sometimes it will mean helping someone you don't know and sometimes it can be a very personal action.

Finally, never let negativity be your last word on the subject. If your final words are negative than no matter how hopeful you may be about the potential of a project or action the lasting impression you give to others is one of negativity. Accentuate the positive and you are more likely to see a positive outcome.

If you follow these eight action steps not only you will be a better leader but also lead yourself to a more successful life.

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The Importance of Mind Maps

By Anna Peacocks

A lot of researches have been done in order to developed and strategize the effective ways on the process of learning for students. For developing students with creative thinking in a modern environment world of today, we need to always be well ahead of everyone and that is why the mind map concept is important to students who wanted to achieve their dreams. This method is a learning process which involves graphical way in representing ideas and concepts. It is like a visual thinking tool that helps you structure information, analyze a topic much better, comprehend, synthesize, recall and also generate new ideas easily. In other word, the information through mind map is structured in such a way so that it can help your brain works faster.

Some of the elements that make the mind map method important is the simple and short text used enabling you for easy understanding its content, along with it's not too small font size so that your eyes will not feel tired when looking at it, plus also feeling bored because of reading it. Graphical signs being used in your mind map such as arrows, squares and round shapes definitely help you to create network interface for easy understanding of certain topics. By adding picture drawing or sketches for explaining certain content in selected topics will provide easy understanding, plus also strengthening your memory on each of the related pictures involved.

You must also determine the gist of the content and also the facts by underlining the wordings which is relevant to the related topics. Sketching of symbols and graphic along with certain color is a good technique in doing mind mapping so that you will be able to understand easily and quickly. Practicing the usage of the mind map can be done by individual students or even through a team of students so that they can learn to collaborate and cooperate effectively not only during their learning process but also in their daily life. When a student have mastered the art of mind map techniques, they will be able to acquire analytic skills on whatever sketches or symbols they intend to portray in the mind map notes. This is important because all of this exercise will in the end generate an analytical attitude to the students.

According to a writer named Dilip Mukerjea who wrote a book called "Superbrain" in 1996, through a mind mapping method a person will be able to..."learn MORE, remember MORE, use LESS paper, invest LESS effort..." or in other word this method enables a person to gather lots of knowledge, upgrade one's ability to memorize information without wasting lots of papers and energy.

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The Effects of Alcoholism

By Patrick Meninga

The effects of alcoholism can be devastating on a number of different levels. Let's consider a few of these levels:

1. Effect on the individual

Alcoholism can destroy the individual, sometimes very quickly. From drunk driving accidents to liver disease, alcoholism can ravage the body and usually takes an average of about 25 years off the life expectancy of an individual. In addition to this, however, alcoholism lowers the quality of life as well, as many alcoholics end up with chronic related conditions, or sitting in prison for several years, and so on.

Alcoholism negatively affects almost every area of a person's life. People lose jobs, get divorced, and drop out of school because of their drinking.

Because of the complex affect that alcoholism has on people's lives, the solution is necessarily complicated as well. A holistic approach that treats the alcoholic as a whole has proven to be most effective.

2. Effect on the family

Alcoholism is a family disease, and it negatively impacts the entire family in a big way. A parent who is alcoholic stands a very high chance of passing their disease onto their children, which further perpetuates the family disease concept. Many times it is a spouse that is enabling an alcoholic to continue to drink by helping that person to avoid major consequences. By "rescuing" them, they are actually making matters worse because it enables the alcoholic to return to their drinking instead of facing heavy consequences that might force them to change their behavior (such as legal penalties or jail time).

Because alcoholism is a family disease, it is important for the family members to seek help as well. Going to Al-anon meetings can provide much needed support and direction as to how to behave around the alcoholic. Al-anon can teach you how to stop enabling someone and possibly help to break the cycle of addiction.

3. Effect on society

Based on the devastating effects that alcoholism has on the individual and on families, it comes as no surprise that the disease has a negative impact on society as well. Alcoholism accounts for a ton of lost productivity and wasted energy every year. Not to mention the devastating effects and consequences of countless drunk driving accidents, many of which harm or even kill innocent victims.

Obviously, alcoholism has a trickle-down effect, starting with the individual and eventually impacting the whole of society. Recovery starts with the individual, but will also improve family dynamics and eventually benefits society as a whole.

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Don't Let Your Job Get to You

By Jovan Fernandes

Get yourself a job - that's the No 1 priority on everyone's mind. But once you are a part of the rat race, sooner or later you get bogged down by 'Work Stress'. Why do people succumb to work pressures? What makes work such a stressful activity?

That's because we forget that a job is just a job. It is not you, nor is it an extension of you. It is simply a part of your life that is meant to enable you to lead a comfortable existence. Yes, it is as minuscule as it sounds. Why then all the fuss? What's the deal with a 24×7 work mode? If you get uncomfortable when you have absolutely nothing to do, or if you never make weekend plans because you want to be available should some appointment come up - then you really need to ask yourself - How did a mere operational function become the dominating centre of your life?

Everyone agrees that family life was just as important as work. We all maintain that work-life balance is a must. However, if your idea of maintaining a balance is to leave office early, spend the evening with family and kids, and once they're all in bed, resume working through your remote access systems, then you need to redefine balance.

Quite a tragic proposition, wouldn't you say?

The point is to ensure that while at work, nothing other than professional matters have your attention, complete and whole. And once you are through for the day, let the laptop recharge, your grey cells rest, and your heart lighten.

Hence, when at work, keep the personal calls (SMSes) to a minimum, ban frivolous web surfing, stay clear of office gossip and simply keep your mind at the task at hand.

It is also important, especially in the age of office politics, that your colleagues and work culture don't dictate to you the person you should be. Abiding by a dress code and office decorum is standard procedure, but changing your attitude to fit into an organisation is murder. Because, after a career of 20-25 years you will be searching for the real you, in fact much earlier.

Be open to change, and accept evolution, but never lose the essence that makes you the person you are. Retain 'you', no matter how difficult it may seem, because when the going gets tough, you will solace in being simply yourself.

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Six Important Managerial Skills For Successful Leadership

By Barbara White

A mark of a good leader is to be able to provide consistent motivation to his team encouraging them to attain excellence and quality in their performance. A good leader is always looking for ways to improve production and standards. Here are six management skills you can develop as a leader in working to create a quality effective team.

1. Observation

This is an important aspect that often gets neglected due the demands on a leader's time and schedule. Observation and regular visits to the work environment are a priority and should be scheduled into the calendar. Observing employees at work, the procedures, interaction and work flow is foundational to implementing adjustments to improve results. To have credibility, a leader needs to be seen and be known to be up to date with what is happening in the work place.

2. Monitor Employee Performance

Employee performance needs to be monitored in mutually accepted ways. Policies and procedures need to be clear. Conferencing should be on a regular basis and not just when there is a problem. Assessments and evaluations should not be merely all formality or viewed a necessary paperwork to be done and filed away. Individual and group conferencing should be undertaken not only to monitor performance, but with the expectation of on going professional development and support. There should be frequent encouragement and clear criteria for on going goals both for the group and individual.

3. Implementation of Professional Development Programs

A good leader evaluates weaknesses and provides training and development strategies to strengthen the weaker skills in the team.

4. Demonstrates Working Knowledge and Expertise

Good leadership comes from a place of strong knowledge and experience of the production and process leading to results. If a leader does not possess all the expertise and knowledge personally, then regular consultations with experts involved in the departments should be held. This is important in order to maintain an accurate and informed overall picture.

5. Good Decision Making

Good leadership is characterized by the ability to make good decisions. A leader considers all the different factors before making a decision. Clear firm decisions, combined with the willingness and flexibility to adapt and adjust decisions when necessary, create confidence in the leadership.

6. Ability to Conduct and Evaluate Research

On going review and research is vital in order to keep on the cutting edge in business. While managing the present to ensure on going excellence in product and performance, a good leader is also able to look towards the future. Conducting and evaluating research is an important way of planning and being prepared for the future.

Excellent leadership is always pro active rather than reactive. By developing these six managerial skills builds a solid foundation for success.

Barbara White, is a speaker and trainer in Leadership Skills.

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Ideas on Getting a Hobby

By E. Brooks

Even though you keep a busy schedule because of work and family, it is always good if you maintain a personal hobby. A personal hobby is time devoted to yourself and that is important. Doing something fun and interesting will relieve stress and negative emotions that you encounter everyday.

If you still do not understand the significance of having a hobby, go back to your childhood and remember all the things you used to do for fun aside from school. Ask yourself when was the last time you truly enjoyed doing an activity.  If the answer is an awfully long time, then you need to start thinking of hobbies that you can relate to and be passionate about.

There are so many fun activities that you can eagerly look forward to after your work and family responsibilities. Exploring your interests will help you come up with a meaningful hobby.

One of the usual interests is music. There several ways in transforming music into a hobby. You can learn to play a new instrument. You do not have to be musically talented to do it. Just learn the basics so you can play and sing during your free time. Another hobby is collecting albums and songs of your favorite artists. You can affiliate with a club or organization that share the same taste in music. All the mentioned activities can be hobbies for men and women.

Reading and writing are simple activities that can develop our critical thinking. Sometimes, some quiet time is needed if you are always dealing with complications and noise. Cooking may be one of those familiar hobbies for women, but most men can easily find it enjoyable and satisfactory. Taking hobbies involving sports and exercise are never a waste of time because it is beneficial to your overall health and well-being.

Hobbies are not all about showing off or conforming to other people's desires. Your friends might be doing something they love, but it does not mean that you have to do it too. Take a hobby that does not ruin your budget so it will not cause future financial problems. If you take these reminders by heart, then you are ready to embark on a new hobby.

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4 Steps To Creating A Vision Statement

By Kendall Matthews

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope," said George Washington Carver, the American scientist who became famous for finding hundreds of ways to use peanuts.

Creating a compelling vision statement helps explain to others where your organization is headed.

You are going to learn a how to write your own vision statement in four simple steps, but first you need to know...

The Characteristics of a Vision Statement

Future Casting- A mark of a good vision statement uses verbs that end with i-n-g. You will always be moving forward or creating.

Clear and Visible- If you can't see yourself on top of the mountain of success, you team can't either. You words must be exact. Do not leave any room for interpretation.

Audacious- Think big or go home. Be extremely descriptive of what you actually can accomplish with your team. One way is to have a vision statement that is single sentence. Then create a vision description which may lay out more details or bullet points

Time Frames- We are all bound by time and so should your vision statement. 5 or 10 years out is a decent amount. You could even stretch out to 15 years, don't worry how long it is. As you grow older time will speed up for you.

Don't Confuse Mission and Vision

• A mission statement explains why the organization exists.

• A vision statement explains where you are going.

If your vision is outside your mission there will be problems.

Three types of Vision Statements

• Quantitative- A numeric value that is very specific.

• Competitive- Beat the biggest competitor.

• Superlative - Being the best.

4 Steps To Creating A Vision Statement

1) Get People Involved- Get others engaged in the process. Have a group of no more than five people. Have your these leaders thinking how the world is going to look 5 and 10 years from now.

2) "Hand the Cover Story Vision" - Pass the vision to people involved and getting their minds wrapped around it. Ask questions like, "What is the cover story? What is the headline? What is the description? What is the picture? What are people saying about us?"

3) Use The Information - Identify the short sentences that you are looking for. Put everything else in the vision description.

4) Have a Perspective - Make sure that people are set for your team. When they see your enthusiasm for your vision it will be contagious. It will shape their vision and strengthen their resolve through tough times.

Keep the team motivated with your vision, let them always see your passion. As long as the vision is clear, people will continue to pursue it with you. You can motivate team members with rewards and incentives, but nothing beats clarity of purpose.

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Small Business Lead Generation: How It Works?

By Anup Karadiya

The process of small business lead generation essentially operates on a cyclical basis, wherein new leads are generated, contacted and converted to sales. Some of these clients are retained for the upcoming period of time after their contract expires, while others leave. Hence, it's important that the lead generation activities need to happen continuously, so that the leads keep coming in and these fluctuations don't have much of a detrimental effect on business.

Essentially, it has been observed that effective small business lead generation has the potential to shorten the cycle and also lead to better quality of leads. The most important aspect of ensuring this is to understand that the first contact is not sufficient to ensure sales. Hence, one needs to continuously keep at it. However, this depends on whether the lead in question is hot or cold. Quite obviously, one needs to pursue hot leads more fervently, and filter out cold leads completely from the system. This can either be executed by experienced professionals, or by maintaining a log of the feedback received from the different kinds of prospects, which can then be monitored either by an experienced team leader, or by the team together.

One more aspect that organizations are particularly wary of in terms of small business lead generation is that getting quality leads is often an expensive proposition, whether one tries to procure the same from an external party or pushes the sales team to accomplish the objective. Compared to getting a cold or warm lead, finding a hot lead is a lot more time and resource-consuming. However, it's absolutely worth the effort, when one sees it purely from the perspective of return on investment, since it shortens the span of time it takes from the initial contact to sale. Hence, one needs to ensure that all these points are taken care of in every lead generation campaign, for phenomenal results.

The next criterion is the place mix, which talks about the location at which the product is being introduced. This is equally important as the rest of the lot, since the place at which the product is introduced is of paramount importance. One can't hope to sell raincoats in a desert, or half sleeved T-shirts in a snowy province! Lastly, the promotion mix in small business lead generation refers to the kind of promotional tactics are used to sell the product.

The appropriate combination of all these would virtually guarantee success for any product or service.

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Marketing With Events

By Rama Beerfas

A powerful marketing tool that can elicit tremendous results when planned correctly, or can cause unexpectedly bad ramifications, is event marketing. This can be anything from an open house to a party to a sponsored stage event to a pop-up sampling and more.

Although many business events can look like their social counterparts, there are very specific differences that can make or break the marketing impact that is made on the attendees and possibly on the public at large, if you're lucky enough to have the press is in attendance.

Events of any type, business or social, take planning. The difference in the amount of planning is that you probably won't lose a friend if you throw together a last-minute birthday party and thing weren't quite as well-thought out as you had hoped. If the same thing happens at a business event (say a party celebrating ten years in business), the overall impression could affect the way your clients and prospects view the way you run your business on a day-to-day basis.

The key to business event planning is reverse engineering. Start with deciding what your objective for the event is. Then, set a budget. That should help you choose a theme, a time, venue and the guest list.

Knowing your objective will allow you to make sure that your event is geared towards achieving that objective. It may be a deciding factor in who makes the guest list and who doesn't. It may determine the specific date that would be best. Perhaps the objective will dictate the theme itself. Remember that any business objective should be measurable, so design your event to enable you to have the metrics that determine the resulting ROI and/or ROO.

Before you plan anything else, SET A BUDGET. Knowing your budgetary limits will allow you to plan an event that looks well thought out and complete, no matter what the monetary limitations may be. Not having a budget often results in guests noticing that things just aren't right or, worse, that basic elements aren't there. For instance, planning a St. Patrick's Day themed party and holding it in a Mexican restaurant because their menu fit your budget will be a major question mark on you, no matter how many green tacos you serve.

Event marketing can be a fun, interactive, experiential way to draw people into your brand, encourage donations, or introduce products and services to a new prospect base. Done wrong and people will talk; done right, you'll have people raving about you, recommending you and eagerly awaiting your next event.

Rama Beerfas is Chief Solutions Specialist for San Diego-based Lev Promotions, offering complete marketing services including consulting, promotional products, custom marketing plans, event marketing, mobile marketing, social media marketing, editorial work and more. Rama also offers seminars and training in marketing and customer service related topics. She can be reached at (619) 697-2045 or at rama@levpromotions.com or visit http://www.levpromotions.com. Column requests and comments are welcome.

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Help To Deal With Negative People

By Roseanna Leaton

When people around you are being negative it helps to remember that you don't have to listen to or be affected by them. You do not have to respond in kind. Negativity is not successfully fought with negativity. Rather, negativity will only be successfully fought and won over by positivity.

It also helps to remember that each person is on his or her own pathway through life. Each individual person is experiencing life and responding to it in his or her own way and at his or her own level. Their behavior and actions are a result of their own beliefs and expectations that will no doubt be different from yours.

If a person says or does something that you find hurtful you will frequently find that they did not really intend you to experience it in that manner. Not everybody has reached a point in their own awareness and evolution to see things from perspectives other than their own. When you encounter a person like this, instead of feeling hurt or disappointed (which are of course negative responses) you can choose to respond in a more positive manner.

There are a range of positive responses from which you could choose. You could point out to that person in a nice way the potential impact of their actions or behavior. You could forgive them in your thoughts and wish them all the best but at the same time step back from them in flesh so as to no longer move within the reach of their negativity.

When you give the matter due consideration, there are in fact many way in which you can survive negativity through positive response and action. In contrast, the only way in which to lose is to allow yourself to respond in a negative manner.

As a friend pointed out today you will only be able to respond to such situations in a positive way if you have a strong sense of self. You have to know who you are. You have to know your own worth. This inner confidence is your true armor that deflects negativity and keeps you safe and secure in your world. It allows you to be happy and successful and to raise your head above negative influences.

The possession of a strong sense of self allows you to easily sort the wheat from the chaff. Inner self-confidence and high self esteem allows you to be relaxed and to enjoy each moment without getting upset or angry at circumstances that are outside of your control. You in effect steer your own boat instead of floating along being buffeted in each and every direction by the changing tides of life.

Self-esteem and self-confidence are not attributes that you are born with. They are learned and developed through experience. If you have been unfortunate and missed out upon that positive experience there is something you can do about it. Hypnosis is a great help in accessing your subconscious mind and implanting positive suggestions therein.

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