What would have you measure your success? This question and others are posed to you in this piercing article about how reaching your goals in life and business are paramount for achievers: anyone who wants to expand their opportunities. The points covered include an introductory glance at beliefs and how they effect your motivations, including how to set up a few short term goals for yourself and why practice helps produce results.
This article discusses some of the fundamental beliefs that, when present, will help you recognize your potential: this is only a starting point. Through this discovery process, though, you will be in a better position to determine some of the characteristics of your potential.
This article asks questions about where you are in the scheme of life and how are you doing about being on purpose. There are references to the misery Index (i.e. how many of you know what that means?). We intend to have you inspect some aspects of your life and determine is you are really doing things you aspire to do and accomplish.
This article explores a Gallup poll and shares what kind of impact your beliefs have upon your workplace.
This article delves into what excellence can mean for your small business. We include a few examples of enterprise businesses that failed to attain excellence. Then we give you essential reasons why these distinctions will make you stand apart from your competitors.
This article reviews how one can determine certainty in the world today regarding your beliefs. The primary focus of the article is an argument for taking responsibility for one’s results. It also covers why personal habits fail and present a case for gaining certainty in living your life.
This article has you pondering what your stands (i.e., Your beliefs). We have included a few examples of stands. Also, there are ideas on how to help you define one belief for yourself. The importance of the read lies in your understanding of what it means to you.
This article explores uncertainty and certainty and how beliefs can move you to certainty. A number of questions are listed which, when you ask yourself them, will forever keep you in uncertainty. An example of a few beliefs is embedded in a short story.
This article discusses how we use language in our everyday lives. Questions are posed for you to gain insight into the way you speak. People perceive us based upon the words we choose to use: regardless of the situation, how we use our words, and where.
This article explores different perspectives about grace. It begins with a Judeo-Christian background with the original meaning, then proceeds to provide explanations for other applications of Grace.
This article discusses the personal journey of our founder while touching upon three separate beliefs that haunted him for some time. The exploration uncovered new truths for him and may even highlight some beliefs which you hold for yourself. We believe it is worth spending your valuable time, especially if the reading stirs something in you: awareness may come presently.
This article explores intellectualizing and how it effects us. The results of thinking too much separate us from others. This short read will offer a few suggestions about how to begin to reach others by coming from the heart.
This article is a short one about making an effort to be in practice with your on-purpose living experience. A few definitions are presented which will give you a different perspective: all for the purpose of gaining insights and awareness.
This article discusses how Small Businesses can be traumatized by "Change" even though it is a requirement to participate in the current competitive and economically challenging world. The effects that change can have on your company are both negative and positive. This short read provides insights into 5 positive actions you can take inside your company to ensure acceptance.
This article explores what it means to be in perpetual discovery: the how and the why of being in this state. You’ll be introduced to a short story of a man who was stopped by fear: it had perpetuated for over 30 years. Also, introduced are a few strength-tested ideas to get started on this new journey, combined with some ways to help you get you in action.
This short article explores the roots of negative change conditioning, which we think originated in medium and enterprise businesses implementing large and complex systems, usually great than one year. Communications is often cited as the primary reason for these failures, but we think that beliefs also plays a major role.
This article discusses the background behind our beliefs and choices methodology and what lead us to this discovery. We explore what occurred with business application implementations and what contributed to success and failure. From failure, confusion reigned, but our ideas emerged about tying beliefs to choices from this condition.
This article explores a few characteristics of aging by allowing you to understand the effect of your attitudes, language, beliefs, and behaviors on this topic. The author shares his personal experience and what he has come to learn over the years.
This article explores the idea that everyone needs encouragement regardless of their job, status, income, experience, or background. While not revolutionary, introduced is the concept of putting in place foundational beliefs, either in a business setting or one's personal life: this will resonate with people who hold character paramount in their lives, and even if not a high priority, it provides a path toward awareness and understanding.
This article contends that hand-written words manifest. This declaration is based on experiential data that we have witnessed over the years. We also know that as a learning practice/device, the act of physically writing on paper tends to implant, paint, and/or embed our brains schematically with imagines and other contextual meaning.
This article introduces 3 reasons why change is slowed or stopped inside small businesses. Much has already been written about the problems for small businesses, but nowhere is their a current primer on how to bring an owner, CEO or President to awareness about the initial phases of implementing change. We offer 4 “Change Ready Concepts” which serve the leadership with an appreciation of how to approach change.
This article describes the differences between deciding and choosing which will allow one to gain a new perspective about beliefs. We also delve into the foundational concepts behind the development of our Beliefs and Choices Methodology (BCM).
This article discusses what it feels like to be a state of resignation and how we can get out of it. There are a few ideas about the condition, which we think will resonate with you. Yet, more importantly, the articles provides suggestions about how to cope and overcome the stoppage.
This article explores what occurs when you hit the wall: getting stopped by fear. Aspirants tend to handle these situation differently because they rely upon beliefs. If you don’t have a higher power you can define one for yourself. The article answers why might this is important.
This article is about understanding beliefs, inspecting some of your own and gaining an initial insight about how powerful they interact in your life. (Note) This article was originally published on Benninghofen Company on April 27, 2014 and has been updated with revised links, imagery and republished here.
This short article encourages you to take a look at your life as it stands today - this is a starting point. There are a couple of things you can do easily and quickly to gain a handle on this with suggestions on what might be important areas for you to review.
This article explores what it means to be in a life-long learning mode. How one can continue learning regardless of your age and what practices to put into place to continue your education. This was originally published on the Benninghofen Family Foundation website on February 27, 2014.
This article describes the reasons for learning how to cope with an illness. The author shares his personal story of how an autoimmune disorder changed his life. There are twelve lessons he learned which helps him live a different and healthier life.
This short article looks at how our beliefs are preference driven, especially when you do not clearly define your beliefs. We usually operate where nothing seems new: we make decisions based upon prior experiences. In addition, questions are posed and a new perspective is provided for prosperity, along with an exercise to expand you.
This critical article provides universal ideas about why Principles will always trump Personalities. The current culture favors personalities and leaves principles ultimately alone: principles didn't matter or even exist. There is a reason for this disparity. All one has to do is look at most major media and the current trends in social media. Observe what topics are emphasized in our culture - indeed, not principles!