Many of us have habits that either frustrate us or infuriate those around us. A few of my pet peeves are repeatedly using the word “like” in a conversation, talking about losing weight but then chowing down on unhealthy food, and arriving late for meetings.  I’m sure there are others that bug you. Here are a few approaches to eliminating bad habits. Let me know what others you can add to the list and I’ll share them in an upcoming newsletter.

5 Ways to Break a Bad Habit

These days it seems like we are all trying to do more with less, both at home and in the workplace. The result is a high level of stress which seems to be compounded by the fact that others around us seem stressed as well.

While you can’t eliminate stress, here are a few approaches you can use to decrease unwanted stress in your life.

After you’ve spent hours (and often days) developing a great presentation, your delivery is the icing on the cake. You can truly raise others opinion of you by delivering your presentation in a professional, personable, and motivating manner.

Here are five keys to improving your delivery.

Even if you’ve developed a great presentation, landmines can explode immediately before or while you’re delivering it. Avoiding these issues begins in the preparation.

After you’ve actually created your presentation, here are five key elements in preparing for it.

If you’re still mailing out press releases and hoping to gain media attention, you are wasting your time. Today’s reporters work in an entirely different mode than just a few years back.

Here are five approaches that will gain the attention of a reporter.

According to statistics, a staggering 48% of sales people don’t follow up with a prospect after a meeting. Combine this with the fact that it takes five to twelve contacts to close a deal, and you can see why a lot of sales never materialize.

But this doesn’t mean you should badger a prospect with generic calls and emails. Rather, each contact should be a valuable exchange between you and your prospect. Here are five ways to do that.

Your attitude has so much to do with your success in life. In fact, studies show that happiness is directly related to your level of confidence…to your winning attitude.

Here are five ways to develop a winning attitude.

Whether in business or personal life, you must be careful about what you say and how you say it. Errors in conversation can result in the loss of respect, customers, sales, and—perhaps most importantly—friends.

Here are five common errors that people make in conversations.

Here’s a way to give a no-cost holiday gift to a woman who is just starting a business. Here are five memorable quotes from past Woman’s Advantage® Calendars.

The inability to rise above conflict is a key reason that organizations and relationships fail. This is true not only of work groups and partnerships, but marriages and families as well.

You can often trace conflict back to miscommunication or misunderstandings; so the first step to overcoming conflict, is to understand it.