Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/LIFE--A-Work-in-Progress.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/LIFE--A-Work-in-Progress.html Reaching a state of ease is what the JOURNEY is all about. You will work to get to a point where your life “clicks”. So how do we learn to identify our best life? The process of Life Coaching will always assist you in overcoming any obstacles that lie between you and your best life. This process will take you within, instead of looking outward to the model or rules of others for solutions. By using what is within you, your own wisdom, you save time, energy and money. You’ll stop doing umpteen million things in pursuit of what you believe you want and instead you’ll unleash your innate wisdom and allow your built-in extraordinary life to evolve as it’s meant to. You will get in touch with who you really are and what you really want. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/DONT-WORRY--BE-HAPPY--Entrepreneurs-must-ENJOY.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/DONT-WORRY--BE-HAPPY--Entrepreneurs-must-ENJOY.html Did you know that somewhere in the back of your mind - beneath a pile of thoughts - there is a “Happiness Contract” with a lot of small print, i.e. rules, conditions, laws, and beliefs that dictate what it will take before you'll feel happy? On closer inspection, you will also find other contracts buried in your mind like “The Success Contract” and “The Abundance Contract” and the “Love Contract.” These contracts are statements of belief which influence how much joy you think is possible and how much is just too good to be true. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Getting-Things-Done-WorkLife-Balance-in-your-Own-Enterprise.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Getting-Things-Done-WorkLife-Balance-in-your-Own-Enterprise.html You really cannot manage time, but you can manage how you use that time. Everyone gets the same amount of time in each day!. You don’t have 30 hours today just because you feel really busy!. If your goal is strictly to get more things done, why not review this thinking to not just getting things done but getting the right (appropriate for you) things completed or review how you manage the focus of how you use your time. Prioritise your tasks in order of importance/urgency. Far too many of us seem to go through life just “going through the motions”. We have developed our daily habits over time, and our habits have become our life. We may have never actually taken the time to think about what we want and why we want it. How about you? http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Back-To-School-for-The-Entrepreneur.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Back-To-School-for-The-Entrepreneur.html The children are back in school. You can be back there too, it’s never too late to learn. We live in a knowledge-powered economy and if we're not continually upgrading our capabilities we become obsolete!. The good news is, the educational choices we make at eighteen don't need to be hard and fast choices we're stuck with for a lifetime. We now can choose to look at lifelong learning as the homework assignment that never goes away. Or, we can choose to look at it as an essential strategy for living long and living well!. How are you upgrading your knowledge and abilities? There is always more to learn and we must all strive to master more or new skills. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/The-Image-necessary-for-the-Entrepreneur.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/The-Image-necessary-for-the-Entrepreneur.html Your clothes say so much about you. What you wear can tell people “I am confident,” “I am successful,” and even, “I am happy with who I am.” And who doesn't love the feeling of putting on an amazing outfit and leaving the house knowing you’re looking as good as you feel? Everyone at some time in their lives finds themselves in a rut; you may feel that your own personal style is out of date, dowdy, boring or just doesn’t reflect who you want to be! You want to make the most of yourself and be the best you can be every day but don’t know where to start. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Living-from-our-Higher-Values.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Living-from-our-Higher-Values.html The basics of human behavior requires that we live to our highest values, thus in so doing we are congruent with our true selves. Higher values always dictate to us from within whereas our lowest values are motivated from outside forces. When we live to our higher values we will operate/work spontaneously, we will be working on what we love and we will have a smile on our faces. We will be self-driven when aligned with our highest values. On the other hand, when we are operating from without, we need constant motivation and push. Our days are a “drag” and our whole lives can be described as “unlived lives” in that we are not doing what comes naturally to us. When we set goals aligned to our highest values we are inspired and will succeed. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/That-Inner-Smile-makes-the-Entrepreneur-a-Success.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/That-Inner-Smile-makes-the-Entrepreneur-a-Success.html “The most attractive thing anyone can wear is a smile, something money can’t buy and shops don’t sell! Looking good comes as much from within, Confidence, happiness and joy, that inner beauty”. Positive attitude comes with a smile! Negative thoughts are infectious. Once you wear a long face, it affects all around you, It is very easy to slip into negative thinking. Optimists have failures too, but they tend to blame the failure on factors that are external to themselves, temporary and specific to this instance. For the negative person however, they claim it is their own fault, and it always happens to them. They take Murphy’s Law to heart, “if it can go wrong, it will”…They look on the glass as always half empty. There are also people who have learnt the behavior of negativity. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Stresses-in-the-Workplace-and-How-to-Combat-Same.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Stresses-in-the-Workplace-and-How-to-Combat-Same.html Stress is the body’s reaction to outside influences, demands or strains. In a sense, the body is revved up to respond to a threat or a challenge. Everybody experiences stress occasionally and this is unlikely to have any lasting impact unless the experience is particularly traumatic. Such acute stress can occur as a result of actual or threatened violence. Staff employed in banks, post offices, public transport, the health service and other occupations are at risk of experiencing acute stress as a result of robberies, assaults and violence. Every precaution needs to be taken to protect workers in vulnerable situations against such risks. Where incidents do occur, procedures should exist, including independent counseling where necessary, to minimise the long–term impact. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/The-Entrepreneurs-Attitude-is-hisher-Route-to-Success.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/The-Entrepreneurs-Attitude-is-hisher-Route-to-Success.html Your attitude is something that is completely within your control. When you leave your home each day, the attitude with which you enter the world is entirely for you to choose. Enter the world with a positive, determined attitude and it’s like having a crystal clear windscreen in your car, you can see everything clearly and far into the distance. Your attitude is your window to your world nd to your success.your attitude can determine what you will accomplish today, as your attitude is what can keep you positive and focused on the task in hand. Your attitude is something that you can never just take for granted. To keep a positive attitude, you need to keep feeding it with positive experiences. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Entrepreneurship-Part-1.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Starting-A-Business/4215/Entrepreneurship-Part-1.html The entrepreneur is the key person to the successful development of any business. He/she is the person who perceives the market opportunity and then has the motivation, drive and ability to mobilise him/herself to meet the requirements. Innovative skills – Not an “inventor” in the traditional sense but one who is able to carve out a new niche in the market place, often invisible to others.Professional risk-taker. To succeed means taking measured risks. Often the successful entrepreneur exhibits a step-by-step approach to risk-taking, at each stage exposing him/herself to only a limited, measured amount of personal risk and moving from one stage to the next.