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Words Manifest
The Importance of Writing
Experiencing, Intuition, Manifesting Life with Words, Old School Writing
Words Manifest
The Importance of Writing
Experiencing, Intuition, Manifesting Life with Words, Old School Writing

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.

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The Importance of Writing
Experiencing, Intuition, Manifesting Life with Words, Old School Writing
How Do You Measure Your Success?
Measuring Success
What Are Your Goals, Why Have Goals
How Do You Measure Your Success?
Measuring Success
What Are Your Goals, Why Have Goals

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.

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Measuring Success
What Are Your Goals, Why Have Goals
Principles Trump Personalities
Life Long Practices, Thinking for Yourself
principles drive effective choices, learn to think without help
Principles Trump Personalities
Life Long Practices, Thinking for Yourself
principles drive effective choices, learn to think without help

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!

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Life Long Practices, Thinking for Yourself
principles drive effective choices, learn to think without help
The Beliefs Less Traveled
Finding Truths
Uncovering Reality, Gaining Belief Awareness
The Beliefs Less Traveled
Finding Truths
Uncovering Reality, Gaining Belief Awareness

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.

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Finding Truths
Uncovering Reality, Gaining Belief Awareness
Discovering Your Potential: It's Inside Your Beliefs
Beliefs & Potential
Language Usage, Understanding Beliefs
Discovering Your Potential: It's Inside Your Beliefs
Beliefs & Potential
Language Usage, Understanding Beliefs

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.

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Beliefs & Potential
Language Usage, Understanding Beliefs
Do You Know Why You Are Here?
Exploring New Ideas, What is Your Why?
Being On Purpose, Misery Index
Do You Know Why You Are Here?
Exploring New Ideas, What is Your Why?
Being On Purpose, Misery Index

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.

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Exploring New Ideas, What is Your Why?
Being On Purpose, Misery Index
Beliefs Impact Your Workplace
New Fact Evidence
Enrolling People
Beliefs Impact Your Workplace
New Fact Evidence
Enrolling People

This article explores a Gallup poll and shares what kind of impact your beliefs have upon your workplace.

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New Fact Evidence
Enrolling People
Who Understands Excellence
Service Excellence, Lifetime Customers
Excellence Matters
Who Understands Excellence
Service Excellence, Lifetime Customers
Excellence Matters

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.

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Service Excellence, Lifetime Customers
Excellence Matters
The Importance of Measuring
Beliefs Gain Certainty, Certainty Insights
Awareness & Understanding, Gaining Certainty
The Importance of Measuring
Beliefs Gain Certainty, Certainty Insights
Awareness & Understanding, Gaining Certainty

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.

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Beliefs Gain Certainty, Certainty Insights
Awareness & Understanding, Gaining Certainty
What Do You Stand For?
The Importance of Stands
What Makes Stands Work?, How To Define a Stand
What Do You Stand For?
The Importance of Stands
What Makes Stands Work?, How To Define a Stand

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.

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The Importance of Stands
What Makes Stands Work?, How To Define a Stand
Practicing New Beliefs about  Certainty
How Uncertainty Prevails
Measuring, Beliefs, Practicing
Practicing New Beliefs about Certainty
How Uncertainty Prevails
Measuring, Beliefs, Practicing

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.

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How Uncertainty Prevails
Measuring, Beliefs, Practicing
Your Language Defines You
Language is Critical
Today's Language, An Insiders View
Your Language Defines You
Language is Critical
Today's Language, An Insiders View

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.

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Language is Critical
Today's Language, An Insiders View
Searching For Grace
Insights into Beliefs
Living In Grace, Grace Effect
Searching For Grace
Insights into Beliefs
Living In Grace, Grace Effect

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.

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Insights into Beliefs
Living In Grace, Grace Effect
Choose to Lead with Your Heart
Grasp for Integrity
Being a Heart Person, Being In Your Head Causes Problems
Choose to Lead with Your Heart
Grasp for Integrity
Being a Heart Person, Being In Your Head Causes Problems

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.

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Grasp for Integrity
Being a Heart Person, Being In Your Head Causes Problems
Striving for Excellence
Life Long Practices
Learning About Excellence, Measuring Excellence
Striving for Excellence
Life Long Practices
Learning About Excellence, Measuring Excellence

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.

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Life Long Practices
Learning About Excellence, Measuring Excellence
5 Preparatory Actions for Change Acceptance
Small Business Ideas
Acceptng Change, B2B Change Impact
5 Preparatory Actions for Change Acceptance
Small Business Ideas
Acceptng Change, B2B Change Impact

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.

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Small Business Ideas
Acceptng Change, B2B Change Impact
Extending Your Field of Discovery
Learning New Things
Constant Learning
Extending Your Field of Discovery
Learning New Things
Constant Learning

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.

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Learning New Things
Constant Learning
We've Been Fed a Bum Rap About Change
Change Isn't Difficult
Change Makes Us Cringe, Beliefs, On-Purpose Living, Being/Getting Stopped
We've Been Fed a Bum Rap About Change
Change Isn't Difficult
Change Makes Us Cringe, Beliefs, On-Purpose Living, Being/Getting Stopped

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.

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Change Isn't Difficult
Change Makes Us Cringe, Beliefs, On-Purpose Living, Being/Getting Stopped
Being Believable with Your Word
Finding Truths
Business Communications, Failure and Success
Being Believable with Your Word
Finding Truths
Business Communications, Failure and Success

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.

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Finding Truths
Business Communications, Failure and Success
How Come Aging Sucks?
Things That Affect Aging
Beliefs, Old Before Your Time, Language Usage
How Come Aging Sucks?
Things That Affect Aging
Beliefs, Old Before Your Time, Language Usage

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.

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Things That Affect Aging
Beliefs, Old Before Your Time, Language Usage
We All Need Encouragement
Workplace Innovation
Encouraging Employees, Belief-Based Encouragement
We All Need Encouragement
Workplace Innovation
Encouraging Employees, Belief-Based Encouragement

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.

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Workplace Innovation
Encouraging Employees, Belief-Based Encouragement
3 Change Stoppers in Small Business
Small Business Focus
Small Business Ideas, Change in Small Business
3 Change Stoppers in Small Business
Small Business Focus
Small Business Ideas, Change in Small Business

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.

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Small Business Focus
Small Business Ideas, Change in Small Business
Belief-Based Choosing vs. Historical Deciding
A Distinction of Choice
Beliefs, Behaviors, Disciplines, Language, Decisions, Choosing, Insights
Belief-Based Choosing vs. Historical Deciding
A Distinction of Choice
Beliefs, Behaviors, Disciplines, Language, Decisions, Choosing, Insights

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).

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A Distinction of Choice
Beliefs, Behaviors, Disciplines, Language, Decisions, Choosing, Insights
A State of Resignation
Inhibiting Beliefs
Stuck or Stopped, Beliefs Creation, Choices Pyramid
A State of Resignation
Inhibiting Beliefs
Stuck or Stopped, Beliefs Creation, Choices Pyramid

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.

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Inhibiting Beliefs
Stuck or Stopped, Beliefs Creation, Choices Pyramid
Surrendering to Something Greater
Aspirant's Embrace Fear
Hitting Walls, Creating Beliefs, Beliefs, Belief Evidence
Surrendering to Something Greater
Aspirant's Embrace Fear
Hitting Walls, Creating Beliefs, Beliefs, Belief Evidence

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.

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Aspirant's Embrace Fear
Hitting Walls, Creating Beliefs, Beliefs, Belief Evidence
Slow to Understand Your Beliefs
Insights into Beliefs
Inspecting Your Beliefs, A Belief of Hope
Slow to Understand Your Beliefs
Insights into Beliefs
Inspecting Your Beliefs, A Belief of Hope

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.

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Insights into Beliefs
Inspecting Your Beliefs, A Belief of Hope
Look at Yourself Before Blaming Anyone
Starting Point...
4P's Model, Disciplines, Inspection, Questioning
Look at Yourself Before Blaming Anyone
Starting Point...
4P's Model, Disciplines, Inspection, Questioning

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.

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Starting Point...
4P's Model, Disciplines, Inspection, Questioning
Life Long Learning
Life Long Practices
Learning, Beliefs Education, Open Minds, Discovery, Choosing Life Long Learning
Life Long Learning
Life Long Practices
Learning, Beliefs Education, Open Minds, Discovery, Choosing Life Long Learning

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.

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Life Long Practices
Learning, Beliefs Education, Open Minds, Discovery, Choosing Life Long Learning
Handling Illness
Serious Conditions
Taking Responsibiity for your Health
Handling Illness
Serious Conditions
Taking Responsibiity for your Health

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.

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Serious Conditions
Taking Responsibiity for your Health
The Prosperity Mindset
Perspective: New Ideas
Beliefs Tailored to You, New Beliefs Ideas
The Prosperity Mindset
Perspective: New Ideas
Beliefs Tailored to You, New Beliefs Ideas

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.

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Perspective: New Ideas
Beliefs Tailored to You, New Beliefs Ideas

 


 
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