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" Personal brilliance : "
Jim Canterucci ; foreword by Nido R. Qubein.
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BL
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1020042
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b774412
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| Main Entry
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Canterucci, Jim.
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| Title & Author
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Personal brilliance : : mastering the everyday habits that create a lifetime of success /\ Jim Canterucci ; foreword by Nido R. Qubein.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: AMACOM/American Management Association,, ©2005.
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xiii, 210 pages ;; 24 cm
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0814408389
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: 9780814408384
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Live your picture of success -- The power of four : your natural abilities add up to personal brilliance -- The power of awareness -- You're designed for optimal awareness -- Breaking through awareness barriers -- Amplifying awareness -- The power of curiosity -- Why? : thinking like a child -- Breaking through curiosity barriers -- Heightening curiosity -- The power of focus -- Attention, concentration, and purpose -- Breaking through focus barriers -- Expanding focus -- The power of initiative -- Get ready, get set, go! -- Breaking through initiative barriers -- Intensifying initiative -- Making brilliant everyday choices.
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"Personal Brilliance is written to help you maximize your own Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative, those powerful traits we all have but too often ignore. If you're like most people, you rely on the four traits primarily in response to specific situations or challenges. You're overwhelmed at work, for example, so you Focus and apply extra Initiative to get the job done. Or you're in an unfamiliar setting, so your Awareness and Curiosity are naturally heightened. But to turn these attributes into powerful success tools, you've got to use them all the time -- so that they become "habits of the mind." How do you do it? Author Jim Canterucci offers easy, practical, and fun exercises to incorporate into daily routines. Some require you to ask questions of yourself, or make simple alterations to gain a new perspective. Others will have you pretending or playing a role, while still others let you develop new interests and knowledge. By constantly challenging your mind to explore new subjects and new perspectives, you intensify and strengthen the four traits every day. Just as physical exercise gives you more energy, solid habits of the mind fortify you mentally and emotionally, leaving you better equipped to achieve whatever you desire ..."--Publisher description.
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Success-- Psychological aspects.
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Success-- Psychological aspects.
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158.1
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BF637.S8C27 2005
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B848.4clc
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