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Using Your Inner Guidance System

You have incredible powers of mind and emotions that give you timely and accurate feedback in every area of your life. You learn how to "tune in" to yourself so you can make the right decision in every situation. Using Your Inner Guidance System We know that the body has a natural bias toward health and energy. It's designed to last for 100 years with proper care and maintenance. When something goes wrong with any part of our body, we experience it in the form of pain or discomfort of some kind.We know that when our body is not functioning smoothly and painlessly, something is wrong, and we take action to correct it. We go to a doctor; we take pills; we undergo physical therapy, massage or chiropractic. We know that if we ignore pain or discomfort for any period of time, it could lead to something more serious. How to Tell Right From Wrong In the same sense, nature also gives us a way to tell emotionally what's right for us and what's wrong for us in life. Just as...

Strategic Thinking

The Quality of Thoughtfulness The ability to think and plan strategically is perhaps the most important single skill of the effective executive. In a longitudinal study of leaders who, in retrospect, made the best and most effective decisions, the single quality that stood out from all others was the quality of "thoughtfulness." Thoughtfulness may be defined as a careful concern for the secondary consequences of each decision and each action. This is the essence of strategic thinking.Your Most Powerful Tool The most powerful tool that you as an executive have to bring to bear on your work is your mind - your thinking ability. Everything you do that sharpens and hones your ability to think with greater clarity before acting, will benefit you and help you to move upward and onward more rapidly in your career. Use a Two Pronged Approach The best way to approach strategic thinking is two pronged. This means to work simultaneously on the personal and the corporate. Increase Your ...