The great Zig Ziglar described a SNIOP as someone who was Susceptible to the Negative Influence of Other People.You have probably experienced the negativity of other people when you have told them about a project you are working on. They may have said things like, "You can't do that", "That won't work", "you will never succeed doing that, look at how many other people have tried", "You'll never lose weight" etc etc etc.I have several rules when it comes to dealing with comments from negative pe

The great thing about WA is the ability to get feedback about your site and comments onto your site.When I am giving site feedback (as opposed to site comments) I have decided to follow the old Toastmasters school of feedback of CRC.That is:Commendation(s) (say something that the person is doing well and you would like to reinforce)Recommendation(s) (explain an area or areas that can be worked on and how it can be improved. You shouldn't just say something is bad without providing constructive

Writers block seems to be a common topic sometimes with people struggling to come up with something to write. I was once told that there was no such thing as writers block. The proof of this was have you ever had a 'talkers block'? Especially on someones favorite topic. Most people can talk for hours. They might make mistakes and at time they say the wrong thing, and it isn't always a quality conversation but the main thing was they talked. When you get 'writers block' again try just writing -

What you get out is proportional to what you put inWe have heard it all before, “you will only get out what you put in”. Then why is people don’t put the effort in. For some people it is the “shiny object syndrome”.Don’t be addicted to the “rush” of starting something new. Too often people are always running to the latest shiny object that takes their interest and is going to “make them rich”. For those people, they're addicted to the

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. I have now completed the first level of training and am about to start the second level. Each and every day my goal is to complete one lesson and develop my website that bit more. There is so much to learn and take in it can seem very overwhelming but if you break the process down into bite size pieces it can seem far more manageable.I guess this blog post is more for my own record of progress but if there is one lesson that I have learne