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New Book Gets Five Star Reviews on Amazon.com
Ask, Seek, Knock by Marcus Mottley, Ph.D. is getting rave reviews from readers worldwide. The author shows readers how to use questions in their quest for success. He details clear strategies and key techniques that can be used to achieve goals.

Ask deep and probing questions!
How do you fit into the scheme of things - on your job? In your community? At home? Where are you on your personal vision and mission? What are you not doing that you could be? Are you achieving your deepest desires? Are you living your core values?

The author helps you answer these and hundreds of other questions and details how you can seek insightful and creative answers and solutions. He then describes what you must do to take relentless and persistent actions to guarantee success!

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By Marcus M. Mottley, Ph.D.

Are you experiencing troubling or difficult changes on your job, at home, in your social life or in your community?

Do you see these changes as tragedies, trials or tribulations? Or do you see them as calamities, catastrophes, or unnecessary complications?

What is your response to these changes in your life or circumstances? Are you reacting in anger, fear or hostility? Or are you only irritated, frustrated, or mildly upset? Are you stressed out and threatened by the changes which you are anticipating or those which have already occurred?

In one of my keynotes on how to successfully deal with change: Change Your Life & Keep The Changes You Desire – I present over fifty strategies. One critically important strategy is that we must: View Change as Challenge!

Here are a few steps on how to reframe “Change” into “Challenge”

·     First, remember this too shall pass. Think clearly about what this means. I regularly tell myself that “It is night now. Yes, it is dark. Yet, morning will come. Light will come.” That does not mean that I only wait for the morning. Yes, I will bring my own light to the issue… And, I know – that eventually – things will change. For the better!

·     Ask yourself... What can I change in myself? What can I do, now, that will allow for me to have a different reaction to this change? What about me can I change or adjust so that I can empower myself.

·     Rephrase the “the problem” into a “challenge” and then into a positive opportunity.

“There is in the worst of fortunes the best of chances for a happy change.” Euripides.

“Some men see things as they are and say ‘why?’

I dream things that never were, and say, ‘Why not?’” Robert Kennedy

·     Convert fear, anger and other limiting emotions such as worry, anxiety, despondency, denial or avoidance into positive energy. Energy means action. Action means doing something positive that will help to alleviate your stress and empower you to act purposefully – moving you toward a well-defined goal.

·     Analyze the situation. What is the problem? Look at solutions....What can you do now? What can you do later? Who can you turn to for assistance? Who has had a similar situation like this? What can you learn from them?

·     Act calmly and persistently. What ever you do – take decisive and relentless action! Do not stop until you have successfully handled the situation.

·     Don’t stop! Do not stop after you have successfully dealt with the challenge! Now you must take action to fortify yourself to prevent this particular issue from becoming a “problem”! This may mean: keeping your resume updated; starting your job search today; establishing a home-based, part time business; building new and more supportive relationships; getting rid of the toxic relationships in your life; starting an exercise program, changing your nutritional habits, and supplementing your diet with vitamins and minerals; Examining your “Globe of Life” and developing a personal vision and mission for specific areas.

Whenever you are faced with “change” you must view it as a “challenge” – an opportunity to do something different that will lead to you having more personal power.

ASK yourself empowering questions. Seek creative solutions. Knock and take decisive and relentless action.

Marcus M. Mottley, Ph.D. is a speaker and seminar leader. He is the author of Ask, Seek, Knock – an inspirational masterpiece which focuses on how individuals can achieve success by asking the right questions and taking decisive actions. He is a Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in NLP and Hypnotherapy. He can be reached through his website: www.SpeakTrain.com or e-mail at mpowerme@SpeakTrain.com

By Joan Underwood

In life, both our medals (victories) and our scars (defeats) come with their stories.  In each such story, we can find a lesson that can help us to grow and develop.  However, too often we become so preoccupied that we miss these very important lessons. 

In the case of our medals, we spend so much time patting ourselves on the back and savoring the thrill of victory that we do not take the time to take a good look at the medal or, more importantly, the actions that gave birth to the victory. 

When it comes to our scars/defeats, we always seem to be in a hurry to close the book on them – to put them behind us.  After all, who wants to go poking around in a scar?  Who wants to shine a light on a personal disfiguration?  We would all much rather conceal it and hope that no one notices our imperfection.

If we don’t take the time to focus on our stories and the lessons that they represent, we significantly lower the likelihood of maintaining a winning streak.  In fact, we are essentially stacking the odds in favour of a subsequent defeat.

So, the next time you record a major experience – be it a victory or a defeat – take the time to seek out the lesson.  What did you do right?  How could you have improved your performance?  How can you replicate your success?  How will you respond if presented with a similar situation in the future? 

Such introspection enables us to value our scars as well as our medals.

Joan H. Underwood is a corporate executive who holds masters degrees in Health Services Administration as well as Business Administration.  She is also a lecturer in the University of the West Indies Management Science Degree Distance Education Programme.  Ms. Underwood is a charter member and the current President of the Professional Organization for Women in Antiguan/Barbuda (POWA).