Learn How Meditation Can Help You Relax and Help Your Business Prosper

The problem in business today is that most business owners are under too much STRESS and forgot why they are in business. People have a business to support their dreams, but instead of the business working for them, they end up working for their business. Learn two meditation techniques you can use to reduce STRESS. This will then help you move your business to the next level and start living the life you always wanted.

• Learn how to do less - accomplish more.
• Learn how to be more focused.
• Learn how to be more calm.

In addition to coaching and speaking, members of the Pittsburgh Coaches Association conduct workshops and seminars and for several years have also conducted teleclasses on a regular basis. These teleclasses are now held monthly, and are an opportunity for Pittsburgh coaches to share some of their coaching knowledge and experience with participants, as well as their passion for helping others to move forward and reach new levels.

Teleclass topics range from sales and marketing to creating space, leadership, and finding your dreams, and can help people to make important changes and take steps to reach their potential.

This month we've added two new teleclasses. Bill Weil, from Socius Web Marketing, will be answering all your questions about Internet marketing. Check out: Secrets of Internet Marketing Effectiveness; What Works and What Wastes Time and Money. Also, Barbara Schwarck, from Clear Intentions, will be interacting with you about how to turn your dreams into goals. Tune in for: Goal or Dream. Learn How to Make Them Really Happen! Successful Goal Setting in Three Easy Steps.

This month's teleclasses are on October 22. Join us for a great learning experience with Pittsburgh coaches. Teleclasses take place throughout the day and are free to anyone who registers. Click here to register for one or all of the teleclasses. Registration takes just a few seconds and is FREE. A conference call number will be immediately sent to you via e-mail.

Deborah Barr is a well-known Holistic Health Speaker, Author, Counselor and Coach. Since 1979, she has helped clients reverse acute, chronic & degenerative diseases, create mental/emotional harmony, vital energy, weight loss, passionate living, and inner peace with her unique "whole person" approach.

She works with clients who want to reverse disease, renew vitality and energy, lose weight, create emotional harmony and more peaceful, joyful living. Her unique "whole person" approach to health, weight, and lifestyle issues integrates the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects - the best way to get permanent results. Her Holistic approach extends to all aspect of one's life, including success, leadership, relationships, health, and prosperity. She creates customized plans based on the uniqueness of the client and coaches them to success.

Deborah began studying natural health in 1978. She completed Leadership Studies at the Kushi Institute of Boston and the Berkshire Center of Massachusetts, with a strong emphasis on Nutritional Healing, Natural Foods Cooking, Food Energetics and Energy Medicine, Oriental Diagnosis, and spiritual development. She trained with the top Macrobiotic teachers.

She received training in Shiatsu massage therapy with internationally renowned practitioners David Sergal, Shizuko Yamamoto and Saul Goodman. She is also trained in Foot Reflexology. Her background includes many years of training in spiritual development and meditation, and her extensive yoga training spans over 35 years, including Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Paradise Island, Bahamas.

Deborah has also studied Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine with Andrew Gaeddert, master herbalist, author and founder of Health Concerns. She has studied with many International Spiritual Teachers. Her extensive yoga training spans over 35 years, including Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Paradise Island, Bahamas.

She has received professional training in Traditional Chinese Medicine with an emphasis on Nutritional Therapy and Herbal Medicine from the East West School of Herbology, Santa Cruz, CA, and has been a student of Holistic aromatherapy with the Institute of Dynamic Aromatherapy.

Deborah completed the Facilitator's training in Attitudinal Healing (Spiritual Psychotherapy) with the Institute for Attitudinal Studies, Washington, D. C. in 1988.

She has received professional training in Coaching from Tom Leonard, Coachville, and completed TeleClass Leader Training in 2002.

In 1985 she founded Whole Health Resources, the premier Holistic Health Center in Pittsburgh. WHR's mission is to promote the healing and development of body, mind and spirit, and to teach an understanding of the relationship between diet, attitudes, lifestyle and wellness. She offers free help through her 2 e-zines, Natural Weight Loss, and Whole Health Matters, and free articles at www.wholehealthresources.com. Her book, Life and Health by Design will be released in January, 2009, followed by Be Your Own Weight Loss Guru in Spring, 2009.

A Simple Approach to Networking That Works

By Sam Wieder

How often do you leave networking events with little or nothing to show for your efforts?

You work the room. But all you walk away with are a handful of business cards that you're not quite sure what to do with. You enjoy a lot of friendly conversation. Yet often the people you speak with aren't the best prospects for your products or services. Even when they are, you may struggle to command their attention or figure out how to further cultivate a relationship with them.

What if it were possible to transform your networking experience from unproductive mingling into a launch pad for business-building relationships? The good news is that you can make this happen more easily than you might think - even if you're new to networking. All it really takes is a little preparation, the right approach, and a simple shift in the mindset that you bring to the networking game.

Here is a simple four-step approach you can use to bring all of these elements together:

1. Define your ideal prospects and referral sources. Be as clear and specific as possible. This will help you focus on connecting with those you most want to meet and minimize the time you spend with others.
2. Create a simple, two-sentence self-introduction. In your opening sentence, identify your ideal customers and the biggest problem your business can help them solve. In your second sentence, convey the biggest benefit or outcome people gain from using your product or service. Use this concise response to answer the question "What do you do?" But focus on finding out what they do.
3. Ask your contacts one or more power networking questions. These are questions that get people to reveal their most exciting goals or most pressing challenges. Listen closely to their answers. Encourage them to elaborate. They'll feel good that you're willing to really listen to them, as you learn things you can use to establish a stronger relationship with them.
4. Follow up with your most promising networking contacts by sending them resources to help them reach their goals or overcome their challenges. You might send them contact information for a helpful business contact, supplier, or potential customer. Or maybe you could recommend a helpful book, web site, networking organization or upcoming seminar.

Check out the exciting forum offered by HR Leadership Forum and Duquesne University: Creating a Sustainable Organization: People, Planet, Profits - a full day working with local and national experts on creating sustainable strategies with special focus on HR's role. Cranberry, PA.

We invite experienced coaches, as well as those new to the profession, to join the Pittsburgh Coaches Association (PCA). This is an exciting time to be a member! We are a 501(c)6 professional organization, and an International Coach Federation (ICF) chapter.

Additional benefits for member coaches include networking opportunities with other professional coaches, a profile on PCA's 'Find a Coach' website directory, discounts for monthly luncheon meetings featuring interesting and relevant speakers, a forum to offer teleclasses on coaching-related topics of your choice, and special events to raise the profile of coaching within the community. There are many more benefits; please don't hesitate to become a part of one of Pittsburgh's best professional associations.

Effective July 1st, join for 2008 at the prorated fee of only $65 as a PCA Member, or only $55 as a PCA Associate Member. You can now register to become a member online at www.pittsburghcoaches.org. Join today.

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