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Have you got game?

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Have you got game? If you’re a female executive, add that other balancing act, appropriate assertiveness versus perceived bitchiness, and you may find your carefully honed professionalism isn’t cutting it. Loose Ends. All Rights Reserved.

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 January, 2010 What ever happened to the "us" in Service? We need to be assertive and show our bosses how much better they can function if the administrative jobs are taken care of by us. Lets enjoy our day together.© I of course ignored him and went about providing the best service I could.

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5 Simple Steps to Eliminate Fear and Even Use it as an Asset.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Begin to assert control over your mind by learning to consistently follow five steps - 1)    Acknowledge the fear.    The proof is in process Just like you can’t train to run a marathon in one day, it will take some time before you can really learn to master your thoughts. 

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Life's Not Fair

Brilliantly Better

Road trip through Iceland Reply 4 Mr Twenty Twenty September 20, 2010 at 1:29 pm Dragos, Humans are a hoot – asserting life should be fair – then getting all dysfunctional when they notice that it’s not. Keep it up, Ruben Ruben Berenguel´s last blog. Like you said, trying to put it into a manageable system.

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

Brilliantly Better

Train yourself to become better at killing tasks. Do You Want To Improve Your People Skills Practice Assertive Communication Reply 13 dragos September 13, 2010 at 8:25 pm I’m afraid we’re not talking about roses here. Many productivity techniques are using this subliminal approach. What you have to do is a burden.

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How To Live A Scriptless Life

Brilliantly Better

If the brain was trained to give a pre-established answer, it will most likely give it, of course, but fact is there is some reaction time. During that time the brain searches for the best reaction to that stimulus. And that’s a good news. At this point of our example, the “engagement” point, something interesting happens.

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