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[Success Elixir Blog Newsletter- SEB]
June 2008 — Issue no. 2

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Hi everyone,

In This Issue:

1. Breaking Your Old Bad Habits, Now on MP3 Files!
2. A New Mini-Course Will Be Released…
3. What’s New on The SEB for June?
4. Tell Us What You Think! More on Success Elixir Blog Newsletter [SEB] is Here…

Most people ready to interview for a job worry about putting together a good resume and wondering how they will do on an interview.

There are endless books and articles on resume writing and interview skills. In a job interview, it is obviously important to communicate your experience and skills, particularly in reference to the job you are applying for.

However, one of the most important aspects of being successful in interviews is how employers view your personal traits and skills.

When an employer interviews a job candidate, the employer not only focuses on the resume and your skills and talents, but also all of the personal characteristics you bring to the interview: More on The Importance of Your Personal Skills When Interviewing for a Job

Philosophers have realized for millennia that the only enduring feature of human life is change. Sometimes they speak of it as a sort of tragedy, but that’s only one side of the coin.

Change is also exciting, life-affirming, and rewarding for those who learn to embrace it, and regard it not only as a personal challenge, but as an opportunity to achieve the better life they’ve always dreamed of.

It’s hard to cut old ties and leave behind the habits, places, and people we’ve gotten used to. Remember, however, that familiarity is comforting, but, as they say, it also breeds contempt, and often for good reasons!

Stop for a minute and reflect: are the things you’re leaving behind because of change really that great?

Can’t you hope for better? Keep things in perspective, and realize that you haven’t reached your life’s summit just yet. Greater things are ahead, and only change can bring them about. Embrace it. More on Embracing Change By Employing the Approach of Science

With a recognized epidemic of depression, and the advertising of all sorts of antidepressant drugs, we may well ask if drugs are the only way to treat depression.

After all, there have been well-documented cases of antidepressant drugs actually increasing the risk of suicidal thoughts and acts, particularly in young adults.

However, it is important to recognize that serious clinical depression, with a known chemical cause, must be treated appropriately with medication.

For those with milder bouts of depression – perhaps feeling “blue” more often than not, or for those who want to prevent depression, there may be some other ways to deal with this illness…

• First of all, there is psychotherapy that should be an adjunct to drugs in cases of depression. Some types of depression may not have a chemical cause, but instead be driven by life experiences – a dysfunctional home life, loss of a loved one, etc. In these cases, counseling is very

More on How to Treat Depression without Meds?

In recent years there has been a lot of speculation on the power of the mind on healing. Researchers have recognized that positive thoughts help people through illness and may help them heal faster.

One of the major ways that the mind helps healing is through visualization…

In many medical settings, when individuals are undergoing tough medical procedures or processes such as chemotherapy, patients are told to visualize the cancer cells dying as they suffer from the effects of chemotherapy, or visualize the growth of new, healthy cells each time they take chemo.

Can the mind really kill those cancer cells by visualizing it, or does the visualization just help the patient cope with the rigors of chemotherapy?

It is believed that the positive emotions fostered by such visualization actually bring about healing…

More on Using the Power of Your Mind to Heal

Listen to Brian Tracy as he explains what’s self esteem & how to improve it… (2:56 min)

Here’s a transcript of the video in case you have slow internet connection:

People sometimes ask me, what’s the key to sales success?

And what I found over the years is there is one correlation. And that is self esteem. The more you like your self & respect yourself, the more you can set yourself to be valuable and important person, the more you sell!

You see, because the more you like yourself.. The more you like other people. The more you like other people… the more they like you

More on What is Self Esteem & How to Raise it…

Although you might have had low self esteem for years, it is never too late to gain self-esteem.

Researchers have found that self-esteem often stems from parenting, and could even be related to genetics.

However, environmental influences, on-going experience, and positive reinforcement can go a long way to raising one’s self-esteem.

Since self-esteem is needed to be successful in relationships and at work, it is important to work on gaining self-esteem.

There are several websites that deal with tips on how to gain self-esteem. Here are some of the major components of self-esteem, and how to achieve it…

Self-Acceptance -

One of the first steps in gaining self-esteem is to

More on Gaining Self-Esteem at Any Age