The Motivation Key On Life And Moments In The Now

From A Life Coach's point of view 

Hello friends how are we doing on this beautiful Saturday morning. I am sure it is Sunday or perhaps Monday somewhere around the world or perhaps some other universe who knows. Well today has been a wonderful day so far. 

This past week I have had the opportunity to really take a look at my life and find out what has been happening. What do I mean well for starters you would think that a professional and motivational speaker never needs motivation and I will be the first to tell you that we are human as well just like you and sometimes we to need that push so we can also accomplish our goals and dreams.

I was having one of those weeks you know what I am talking about a week where everything seems to be going wrong and it does. Yes I had one of those weeks and then it hit me what I always teach and tell people when facilitating a seminar. What is it that motivates you from the inside out and never from the outside in because you will only find temporary fixes when you look outside of you for motivation.

I was watching my kids play outside and noticed my middle son talking to a friend and he was talking about how I had woke him up last Saturday and took a walk with him to watch the sunrise with me and how he though it had been really cool and to ask his dad to do the same. At that point I realized that life is not always about money but about moments just like that one and I was there to see it.

"In Life It Is Not About What Your Eyes Can See But What Your Heart Can Feel During A Special Moment"--Luciano Santini

As a Life Coach I try to teach my clients that sometimes it is the one minute or less moments that we mostly miss in our lives and those are the ones we regret the most as well. We need to pay attention and be aware where we are during those important moments that we feel or think are not important at all.

Business

Business always a touchy issue with small business owners why? Because most of the time they do not understand their customers

I found this great article on what I teach and do to assist my clients and what it means to bring in an experienced business coach to help you see your business from a different perspective.

Over the past three years, four-fifths of America’s fastest growing companies have initiated important new programs aimed at customer expansion, customer retention, and/or customer profitability. And, as if this significant involvement were not enough, a majority is planning to either greatly enhance an existing customer initiative, or launch a new one over the next 12 months. 

There is an important payoff to this reaffirmation: those planning new customer-focused programs have achieved 46 percent faster revenue growth than their peers over the past five years, and are projecting 35 percent higher growth over the next 12 months. These are highlights of the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers "Trendsetter Barometer," released recently.

"Companies often build relationships with the wrong customers—or try to structure relationships with the right customers, but using the wrong capabilities," notes PricewaterhouseCoopers' Paul Gulbin, a director specializing in customer-related issues, based in New York. 

"Instead of attempting to provide full service to all, businesses can operate more profitably by focusing on products and services that relate to specific customer segments. Businesses should always be conscious of, and fine-tuning the alignment between sales, service channels, and sub-channels. And they also need to do something about value-destroying customers, from which the company does not make an acceptable margin."

Luciano Santini The Motivation Key on Life And Business

Good morning my friends around the world, how are we doing today?

Yes this is how I was feeling towards the end of Friday. it was one of those weeks and I know you know what I am talking about. A week that you just want it to end as soon as possible.

join me this morning on my inetrnet live show where I willl be speaking of effective communication. 

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"In A world Of Monkey Buisiness And Chaos We Just Need To Raise Our Fists And Take On The World"--Luciano Santini 

 Yes even for a motivational speaker and a positive person 99.9 % of the time sometimes life can beat you down a bit. I never let it take over my thoughts and my mind but yes sometimes it can and it does get difficult so what do you do?

Well for starters I simply look forward to a nice weekend with family and kids. I believe when you look forward with a positive attitude things can change in your mind making tough situations a bit easier to handle. You see when things begin to get sticky you just have to look into the future a bit and ask your self a question.

 What can I do right now at this moment to make it better?

Then you just start breaking down the issues you might be facing at that moment and start fillling in the blanks of despair.

 In The business World Today 

I always tell business owners that sometimes by trying to save a few dollars here and there they will end closing their doors and yet they do not understand that concept. What I have figured out one of the reasons is becaus ethey feel that no one should know their business and so they never ask for help from an expert.

 I know sometimes they feel that you as te expert in whatever discipline, that may be intrusive to them. When you rae trying to simply let them know their situation they look at you as if you have no idea what you are talking about and so you walk away and say thank you. However six months from that point yu find that they have closed their doors. MMMMMM maybe it is ok to ask for help.

Luciano speaking on business strategies

My point of view on business and my personal approach is the following: I know nothing about your business or who you are until you tell me your issues and your needs.

 ©2007-2012 Latest Business Updates ----
 Defining business intelligence (BI) The term business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications, practicing for the compilation, assimilation, analysis, management and presentation of business information also at times to the information itself. The solitary objective of the business intelligent is to enhance better business decision making. D.J Power concept for business intelligence The concept [...]

Improving the business skills at the right time is the matter of training which must be given to the employees of any particular company so that the goals of the company’s employees can be increased within a short span of time. 

The training may contain the services of an expert person who does have the excellent knowledge of business Intelligent and business management (BM) also includes the amount of services in form of money which will have to be given by the business employers in order to enhance the skills of their (BI) and its improvements so that the long-term goals of the company’s intellectual capacity and lucrative can be accomplished with in a short time

  

The Motivtaion Key Luciano Santini On Fathers Day

Hello to all my friends around the world and well it is a beautiful Sunday which I wil spend with my beautiful children. Just wanted to share a few facts about Fathers Day here in the good old USA;

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I had this painting of one of my sons done because he has proven to be a model of a child he is eleven years old and well to make a long story short he has shown not only responsibility but also inspiration to all those around him but most of all me.

 I had seen him struggle for a bit in school but with the right inspiration and the right techniques to believe in himself well he turned out to be one of the Honor Roll students in his school and to me well it was very inspirational thus the painting. 

I must mention my other two sons as well a bit younger but outstanding boys and as you can tell I am very proud of them. My beautiful daughter also extremely encouraging to the boys.

Yes I am a proud daddy and yes they will always be my little ones no matter how big or old they get. 

"To Be A Child Is To See The World From a Point Of View That Has Never Been Seen Before"--Luciano Santini 

 Fathers Day:

Father's Day: Controversy and Commercialism

 

During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park--a public reminder, said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere, “that both parents should be loved and respected together.”

 Paradoxically, however, the Depression derailed this effort to combine and de-commercialize the holidays. Struggling retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards.

 When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was a national institution.

In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last.  Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.

Life Will Bring Us What We Want Because We Ask For It And Go Into Action To Achieve those Goals Nothing Will Come Unless There Is Action"--Luciano Santin

Good morning friends and how are we doing this beautiful Saturday morning? As for me well it is always a good day. Today I will be doing my internet live show which I reccomment to you. Tune in and check it out it might just be what you need to get your day started!!

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"Life Will Bring Us What We Want Because We Ask For It And Go Into Action To Achieve those Goals Nothing Will Come Unless There Is Action"--Luciano Santini 

I am a true believer that unless action is taken to achieve a small or large goal it will never happen.I lalso believe that when there are troubles in life they are there becuase we attracted those issues though we might not understand that.

 You see friends every issue that we may face is because we did something to attract it to us.

As insane as that might seem it is not it is simply that we do not understand ourselves. The other issue that we will face is self motivation. How do we do that!! Do you realize that is the most difficult task a human being willl face in their life.

What is worse is fear of not attaining our goals in life and what I tell people is that if we fear then we are beaten because fear will hold us back and keep us there in a way that could drown us.  

In business and in life it is all about your attitude towards either life and your business whatever that might be or whatever it is you are trying to achieve.

I found the next article on attitude which makes so much sense I love this kind of stuff 

Here is the link to read other great stuff from this blog.

http://www.atlanticcanadabusinessblog.com/index.php/2007/02/10/marketing/do-you-have-a-positioning-statement/ 

It’s your choice

No matter where you start in business (or in life) your attitude will determine how high you will rise. But let’s make sure we are on the same page about what attitude is: “It is a mental state involving beliefs, feelings, values and dispositions to act in certain ways”. In other words, attitude is one’s feeling towards things, circumstances or people. 

It follows that a positive attitude will help you succeed while a negative attitude will derail your success. Attitude is not something we are born with; it is something we have a choice about. We decide each and every second on how we choose to react to things around us. Attitude is your positioning statement about life, about work; in fact everything we do in life. 

Luciano The Key Santini On Procrastination and FEAR

Hello my friends and how are you doing this fine Sunday morning? It has been a while since I posted anything on my blog but it has been a really busy with my live internet show ( The Motivation Key Live Show) Here is a recorded show for you to listen to.

Go to this link and then you can listen in http://justin.tv/inreeltime/b/320134826--Join me on Facebook and then go to events and join my show every Saturday and perhaps you can call in as well and speak for a few inutes on the subject.

I speak about procrastination and our fears. I believe that when we procrastinate we hinder our lives because we get nothing done when we should. The worst part of procrastination is that we know what and when we need to do some task but we do not do it and we leave it for another and another day and then it is no longer important and the we just forget about it. 

Here is something from Naloleon Hill

Most of us don’t mind being told of our faults if the critic is generous enough to mix in a few of our virtues as well.It’s a normal reaction to defend ourselves and our behavior when someone criticizes us — even if we secretly recognize that what we’re being told is correct. Those who achieve great success in life, however, are those who have learned to set aside their emotions and learn from others, even when the message is unpleasant. 

If you find yourself being evaluated by someone else, tell yourself that criticism of some aspect of your performance is not a personal attack. Control your emotional reaction and adopt useful ideas even though you may dislike the manner in which the information is delivered. 

Criticism is another subject I have spoken about on the show and well it is true what Napoleon Hill states.  

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Mothers Day By Luciano Santini

Today is a very special day for all th emothers around the world. Todays is mothers day here in the United States of America. A little history on this special day.

I want to dedicate this day to my mother whom I miss so much and love so much. My beautiful mother passed away from cancer almost four years ago and seems like it was just yesterday.

The sky opened up to recieve a beautiful person into heaven where I know she is sitting looking down on me each every day and smiling down.

My wife the mother of my three boys. She is wonderful to me and to my boys. I know how difficult we can all be sometimes and yet she hangs in there for us.

 " A Mothers Smile Is What Tells A Child No Matter What You Do I Will Always Love You My Child"--Luciano Santini

She was a very special lady and the world lost someone who believed in her children always.  

 In the United States, Mother's Day started nearly 150 years ago, when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community, a cause she believed would be best advocated by mothers. She called it "Mother's Work Day." 

Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," organized a day encouraging mothers to rally for peace, since she believed they bore the loss of human life more harshly than anyone else. 

In 1905 when Anna Jarvis died, her daughter, also named Anna, began a campaign to memorialize the life work of her mother. Legend has it that young Anna remembered a Sunday school lesson that her mother gave in which she said, "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day. There are many days for men, but none for mothers." 

Anna began to lobby prominent businessmen like John Wannamaker, and politicians including Presidents Taft and Roosevelt to support her campaign to create a special day to honor mothers. At one of the first services organized to celebrate Anna's mother in 1908, at her church in West Virginia, Anna handed out her mother's favorite flower, the white carnation. Five years later, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for officials of the federal government to wear white carnations on Mother's Day. 

In 1914 Anna's hard work paid off when Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday. 

At first, people observed Mother's Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and eventually, by sending cards, presents, and flowers. With the increasing gift-giving activity associated with Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis became enraged. She believed that the day's sentiment was being sacrificed at the expense of greed and profit. 

In 1923 she filed a lawsuit to stop a Mother's Day festival, and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a convention selling carnations for a war mother's group. Before her death in 1948, Jarvis is said to have confessed that she regretted ever starting the mother's day tradition. 

Despite Jarvis's misgivings, Mother's Day has flourished in the United States. In fact, the second Sunday of May has become the most popular day of the year to dine out, and telephone lines record their highest traffic, as sons and daughters everywhere take advantage of this day to honor and to express appreciation of their mothers 

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Luciano (The Key) Santini on CRITICISM

CRITICISM

Now how often do find ourselves dealing with someone criticizing you as an individual at one point in your life and yet you ignore the fact and you just keep it internally. Check out my show and you will find some techniques to fight back within yourself.

We all know someone or ourselves have been criticized or have criticized  someone in our lives and then we regretted it later because we know what we did; We always know what we do we just try to justify either by ignoring the fact or blaming someone or something else.

Many times we need to stop before we open our big mouths and think of the hurt that words can cause. As a life coach I can teach techniques to look at words for what they are just words however not everyone can shrug their shoulders and move forward. Certain people really take words to heart and allow themselves to be hurt deeply.

Examples of this is our children. They look up to us as parents and when we say words they stick in their minds like glue and sometimes if we take the time to watch you will see how they react to your words.

Gregg Walker, Dept. of Speech Communication, Oregon State University

Criticism may occur within conflict situations or can foster conflict.  Criticism, or the generation of "evaluative judgments," is often painful or difficult to "give" or "receive."  If handled appropriately by both the person criticized and the person being criticized, critical feedback can promote constructive growth in individuals and relationships.

Constructive Criticism - Some Assumptions
1.  Criticism arises out of interaction, rather than simply action.  Evaluation is important to improvement, but criticism should follow a "two way street."  Criticism is more valid when all parties involved interact both as the "critic" and the "criticized."

2.  Those who criticize need to value and invite criticism.  Criticism can be promoted if the critic first invites criticism of his or her own behavior.  By inviting criticism, a person can create a situation in which her or his criticism of another is perceived as appropriate.

3.  The "Critic" and "Criticized" guidelines t

hat follow are pertinent to all parties involved in "criticism" discussion. 

Constructive Criticism - Guidelines f

or the Critic
1.  Understand why you are offering criticism.  Feel confident that doing so is appropriate to the situation and constructive for the parties involved.  Criticism voiced out of self-interest or competition may be destructive.

2.  Engage in perspective taking or role reversal.  As you develop a criticism strategy or response, try to understand the perspective of the person being criticized.

3.  Offer criticism of the person's behavior, not on her or his "person."  Refer to what a person does, not her or his "traits," or "character." 

4.  Even though criticism implies evaluation, emphasize description.  Before offering any judgment, describe behavior you see or have experienced. 

5.  Focus your criticism on a particular situation rather than general or abstract behavior.  "Index" and "date" your criticism, much like a "journalist": deal with who, what, where, and when.

6.  Direct your criticism to the present ("here and now") rather than the past ("there and then"). 

7.  Emphasize in your criticism your perceptions and feelings.  Indicate what you think and feel about the other's behavior that you have described.  Use "I" statements. 

8.  Invite a collaborative discussion of consequences rather than offering advice.  Form a partnership to deal with problems.  Do not compete with the other party; compete with the other person against the problem. 

9.  Keep judgments tentative.  Maintain an "open door" of dialogue rather than presenting your "analysis" or "explanation" of another's behavior.

10. Present criticism in ways that allow the other party to make decisions.  Do not force criticism on the other.  Encourage the other to experience "ownership."  People are more likely to comply with solutions that they generate. 

11. Avoid critical overload.  Give the other an amount of critical feedback that she or he can handle or understand at that time.

12. Focus criticism on behaviors that the other person can change. 

13. Include in your critical feedback a positive "outlet."  Reinforce positive actions and invite the possibility of change.

14. Invite the other to present criticism of you. 

Constructive Criticism - Guildelines for the Criticized
1.  Recognize the value of constructive criticism.  Such criticism can improve relationships and productivity. 

2.  Engage in perspective taking or role reversal.  Try to understand the perspective of the person offering criticism. 

3.  Acknowledge criticism that focuses on your behavior.  Attempt to transform criticism that seems directed at your "person" to specific behavioral issues. 

4.  Listen actively.  Even though criticism may hurt, seek to understand accurately the criticism being presented.
    a.  Paraphrase what the other is saying.

    b.  Ask questions to increase understanding.
     c.  Check out nonverbal displays (check your perceptions). 

5.  Work hard to avoid becoming defensive.  Resist any tendency to want to dismiss criticism or retaliate. 

6.  Welcome criticism; use the criticism appropriate to improve. 

7.  Maintain your interpersonal power and authority to make your own decisions.  Criticism, when directed at one's "person," may weaken one's resolve.  Focus the other's criticism on your actions.  Seek ownership of solutions. 

8.  Seek constructive changes to the behavior that prompted the criticism. 

9.  Insist on valid criticism.  Valid criticism: (a) addresses behaviors, (b) is timely, and (c) is specific. 

10.  Communicate clearly how you feel and think about the criticism and receiving criticism.  Use "I" messages.