It's all in your head

Some say that there is no tool more powerful, faster or stronger on the ground than in the human brain.

But when it comes to our business, too few of us take full advantage of our brains' large and proven to make things happen. Perhaps, we can bound the details of day-to-day, more focus on what is practical and tangible or reject the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality as a "new era of hocus pocus- y. "

Regardless of our opinions, subjective cold hard scientific data tells us that our brain power can be used to change, create and affect outcomes and results in all areas of our business lives.

So how can you begin to develop your strong business mindset?

Begin with the end in mind. Working without a clearly defined goal or end-point can lead to a lot of effort with no real results. Unless you know where you are headed and make your move with purpose and intention, then there is a possibility that there is no direction and no skills. Take the time to determine what your business is about. What are your financial goals? The goal for the service or product? Sales goals? Marketing? Reputation? What is important and what is not? Clearly in these areas, the more likely it is to achieve (and then exceed) your goals.

Choosing positive. Have you ever heard the term "self-fulfilling prophecy?" It is a statement that you make or thoughts that you have the actions and events of changes to what you say or think finally become a reality. In other words, if you say or think to sign (or lose) the client or that you are going to bomb (or acquiring) a great presentation, guess what? Probably you want to correct. As Henry Ford said, "Whether you think you can or not, you are right." Instead of skeptical or flat, why not choose self-confidence or hope?

Select your group. Coming to commit to maintaining a positive mindset, it is important not to neglect your sphere of influence. Who will get advice from? The people who support you? Do you have cheerleaders opponents in your business life? Negative and negative to suck the energy from your important tasks and derail from your focus. May drain your positive and dragging you down takes courage and can be painful taking an honest look at hangers-on. Alternative, however - allowing them to drag you with them - is likely to be more painful.

Remove your blinders. Clarity about where you want to be as fuel for your brain. Set your mind to it and more specific, and time, breaks and offers will start coming out of nowhere. That said, open to the idea that you can get from Point A to Point B in many ways, including ways that can not be considered or realized. The more you open the options and possibilities - however they come - of that option and is likely to actually come your way.

Expect it. Real business success requires more than just launching a website, printed business cards and open bank accounts. If your actions do not line up with your mind, your external results were as disorganized as internal. Instead of taking what is and reactive state of your business, why not control and see what you can do to make things that you want them to be? While you're at it, take steps to one step further, not only hoping for what you want - to find a way to make it happen. Believe in what you're doing, and when it comes to the results you want, with confidence that what you're looking for to find its way to you - and it.

Point is that developing and honing a positive mindset is not about hypocrisy and would like naive. No one took the place of good old-fashioned work and effort. But when your thoughts and actions on the line and you're clear and focused on what you are looking for and where you're headed, wonderful things can - and do - happen.

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View Economic Outlook climb to Three-Month High

Americans' views of the American economy

improved outlook in March to the highest level this year as

stock prices rallied to record highs. The gap between the positive and negative expectations narrows

to minus 4 this month from minus 7 in February, according to

The results of the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. The Weekly

measure fell for the first time in seven weeks, at minus 33.9

from minus 31.6. Getting in the stock market and home prices as stable as possible

consumers feel wealthier, which gives them the means to

increased spending constitutes about 70 percent of

economy. At the same time, the further improvement in sentiment

tested by a higher payroll taxes and government budget concerns

Cut withstand economic expansion. "Americans grew more confident about themselves

financial and economic situation, "says Joseph Brusuelas, a

senior economist at Bloomberg LP in New York. "The speed is faster

employment growth, the effect of wealth is simple, and what looks

dropped the price of gasoline has supported the possibility of future

expectations for the economy "Other reports. today showed fewer Americans than forecast

file applications for unemployment benefits last week life. First

time unemployment claims rose to life by 2,000 to 336,000 in the week ending

March 16, according to data today from the Department of Labor in

Washington. Economists expected an increase to 340,000. It

monthly average fell to its lowest level since February 2008. Stocks fell, then 500 Index Standard & Poor's

near a record high yesterday, as the German manufacturing

suddenly contracted and president of Cyprus who worked on the new

planning to get a European bailout. The S & P 500 down 0.5

percent to 1,551.5 at 09:36 in New York. Stock price S & P 500 jumped 130 percent from 12-year lows

2009 as the economy recovers from the worst recession in

post-World War II period. Better-than-expected corporate earnings

record monetary stimulus and the Federal Reserve are combined

to promote the stock market. The benchmark S & P 500 rose

two points in 2007 a record last week while the Dow Jones

Industrial Average (INDU) reached an all time high. Now report showed climate comfort weekly purchases

Index is reduced to minus 42.2 from minus 38.4 the prior week.

The size of the American view "on the current state

Economics is cooled to minus 59.5 from minus 57.8, while the gauge

personal finances fell to 0.2 from 1.4 last week before

period. Based on the monthly view of comfort in a Bloomberg survey

figures, 30 percent of respondents this year, said

Economy is improving, while 36 percent stated that about

the same. Unemployment Rate Labor-market development can help to maintain consumer attitude

about the economy. Unemployment fell to 7.7 percent in February,

the lowest in four years, from 7.9 percent in January, and

Employers added 236,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported

earlier this month. Recovery in the residential real estate market is

help stabilize the balance sheets of households. Home prices in 20

Cities in the U.S. has increased in 12 months ending in December by the most

more than six years. The S & P / Case-Shiller index of property

values ​​increased 6.8 percent from December 2011, the largest

year to achieve since July 2006, after advancing 5.4 percent

in November. Advantages of housing is encouraging homeowners to take

more remodeling project, increasing the home improvement retailer

like Lowe cos (low) The Mooresville, North Carolina-based

The company says it serves 9,000 permanent part-time workers

years for selling more appliances and bathroom fixtures. Homeowners who give themselves "psychologically

permission to spend it and feel good about it "as a property

increasing cost, the Chief Executive Officer Robert Niblock Lowe

said in a conference call March 13. Consumer Prices in the tank began to feel the pinch as their

wallet pump price. Cost gallons

regular gasoline average $ 3.69 on March 20, down from $ 3.79 in

February 26, the highest in more than four months, according to

figures from the AAA, the largest U.S. automaker. A further reduction can help relieve some of the fatigue in

household budgets from higher payroll taxes. Levies to fund

Social Security has been restored to 2010 levels of 6.2 percent

of 4.2 percent, which means achieving workers take home $ 50,000

the $ 83 more months. Measuring comfort weekly Bloomberg show confidence falls

three of four regions, led by a decline in the West. Feeling

South improved. Group revenue figure also showed confidence among Americans who earn

Most continue to rise. Air feelings for them

making less than $ 15,000 per year to reach the highest level since

December 2007. Comfort among those without a high school degree

with the highest level of the year, while feeling the strongest since

June among the 35-44 years. Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index, aggregated by Langer

Research Associates in New York, conducted a telephone survey with

A random sample of 1,000 consumers 18 and older. Each week, 250

respondent is asked for their views on the economy, personal

finances and buying climate. The percentage of negative

response is subtracted from the share of positive views and

divided by three. The reading is based on the latest

average response over the past four weeks. Comfort index can range from 100, indicating every

participants in the survey had a positive response to all three

components, to minus 100, signaling all negative scenes. It

The margin of error for the headline reading is 3 percentage points. If you wish to receive a copy of the results of abundance

Each week, please contact BloombergNewsPR@bloomberg.com To contact the reporter on this story:

Robot Will Make Economic utopia?

The robot coming! Every day it seems we hear another story of robots and automation blame for the loss of not just labor, but the middle class as well as the types of jobs that pay enough to fund retirement, health care plans, and home mortgages. The darkness deepened over the work goes deeper than the robot. The rapid spread of the digital economy has reached a critical mass, transforming the industry and replaced by workers of all kinds. Think of high speed trading on Wall Street. The lightning-fast trading accounts for most of the volume on the main stock exchanges, more actions are persuaded computers and software to communicate with other computers and software, managed and supervised by no more than a relative small number of children of high paid workers. (As reported Wharton School says, "In the time it takes to read this sentence, tens of thousands of high-speed, automated computer transaction may occur." ;) Forget lament it. Yes, it is easy to imagine a future dystopian defined by technological unemployment and underemployment of life for the working masses. But the economic revival, auto Digitized is good news. The potential gain efficiencies and increase productivity confusing. We inflection point comparable to the First Industrial Revolution in the 18th century and the Industrial Revolution two centuries later. Opportunities offered by the capacity of the wealth-forming machines, bits and bytes, algorisms, and artificial intelligence fundamental shift in our social concerns of "how best to generate growth" to "how best to distribute the wealth. "" Productive side of the economy is in good shape, but the distribution is a major problem, "said W. Brian Arthur, visiting scholar at Palo Alto Research Center Intelligent Systems Laboratory. "The big issue from 2010 to the distribution of wealth of all, bring them into the hand of man." Boilerplate talking points in Washington, DC, about hiking taxes or cutting spending seems beside the point. Understanding just redistribute wealth to ignore the fact that the return to work is not only measured in wages. Work is the lead agency in the community. Work is a social environment, birthday celebrations and coffee klatches, objective and (hopefully) definition. People who work an average of less depression than those who do not. People with jobs feel connected to the wider community. Work can and should be mentally stimulating and emotionally appealing. "For most people, work is a community," says Meir Statman, a finance professor at Santa Clara University.Will work there? Estimated Safe is yes. For one thing, the history of technology shows optimism proper standard assumptions. The march of technological innovation and create jobs destroyed. The Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza opened in downtown Cincinnati in 1931, a prime example of the art deco French in America. In the corner of the lobby is amazing photographs from the early years. One shows a long line of women in the management of a hotel telephone bank, while another picture with a group of people working in the basement run a publishing house for the day-to-day hotel newsletter and menu. This work is long gone, replaced by e-mail and desktop publishing. But there are no jobs webmaster until the 1990's, and application developers to smartphones until the late 2000s. "The work that we can not imagine today," said Mark Thoma, an economist at the University of Oregon.For another, it is not hard to see where at least some job growth will occur in the coming years. The huge Baby Boom generation aging, the demographic estimates that more than 19 percent of the population 65 and older in 2030, up from 13 percent in 2010. They will need a lot of care, and are located mostly in home.Problem, home health care is a job with one of the highest concentrations of low-paying jobs set to grow in 2020, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute. At least 45 percent of all employees who work in agriculture, personal care, construction and maintenance of the environment, and health care support to get at or below income poverty. This work often do not have pensions and health benefits.Redistributing wealth created by the digital economy and the robot must focus on ways to expand the number of jobs while also strengthening workers' compensation. Economists have done a lot of work on the use of tax credits, wage subsidies and similar incentives to encourage employers to supplement their salary cup payroll.Boosting to work at the same time is very important. The approach may be to extend the earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a large U.S. antipoverty programs. Families with children and earn an annual income of less than $ 36,900 to $ 50,300 (depending on marital status and number of dependent children) are eligible for the federal EITC. University of Arizona sociologist Lane Kenworthy proposed EITC encourages higher middle class. Rather than to phase out certain income level, it would just be a flat benefit is indexed to average compensation. "Insurance against the risk of falling further behind wages," said Kenworthy. "This is the concept of social insurance have jobs at its core." Over the last 300 years or more, the economy is how wealth is distributed through work, coupled with the pressure of union pay, child labor laws, pensions and share-only property strategy. Traditional methods are separated during recent decades. Inequality has soared, and the Great American Job Machine sputtered. We now have the opportunity to reverse the trend with the takeover of robots, computers, and algorithms. The challenge of our high-tech economy is how to make a hefty cut of the treasure of the machine and offer ordinary people the truth of jobs at a decent wage and compensation. Development.

Coming Shortage of skilled workers Making

A total of 600,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs remain vacant throughout the United States due to shortage of skilled workers, according to the Institute for Manufacturing "skills gap" report. But if there is a significant shortage of skilled workers, employers will increase wages to attract them. That's the basic supply and demand economics. How do you explain the fact that manufacturing wages are not rising significantly above inflation? Hourly wage of the average for U.S. manufacturing jobs barely budged in three years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It stood at $ 23.08 in July 2009, $ 23.35 in July 2010; $ 23.75 in July 2011, and $ 24.00 this past July. There are several reasons for this: 1. In a slow economy companies often do not fill in the "open position" appears to hire them because they do not want to bring in people who are not really necessary. It is a longstanding practice. This means that the actual number is actually less than advertised.2 vacancies. Even if you need further assistance, management often make do with offering existing employees more overtime, giving them the ability to be more flexible, without the need to hire more workers. This is a temporary fix.3 reasonable. Workers just do not walk in manufacturing plants, although they are very experienced, and start working. They need training. Unfortunately, many companies cut training programs when the financial crisis hit and they restored it. If you fail to recruit and train workers, the problem is not the skill gap, per se, the problem is the reluctance of management to spend money on training.4. Finally, the numbers look bigger than they really are because of non-manufacturing also includes working at the manufacturing facility: Accounting, administration, delivery, and other positions should be reduced when the company cut costs, it is still classified as "open," even though many of them will never be filled and not manufacturing jobs.As I mentioned in my previous blog post about the skills gap, while we do not have the skills gap Now, demographics work against us. The average age of highly skilled manufacturing workers in the U.S. is 56. Now is the time to train the next generation. With all the college graduates are unemployed and underemployed now live in 'the basement of their parents, we would be foolish not to recognize him as a great asset talent. We need to recruit and train them to create the skilled workforce needed U.S. manufacturing Baby Boomers retire. U.S. factory might be changed slightly to accommodate their interests: latte, lunch pail in comparison. But not a bad thing. Essentially no repeal the law of supply and demand. If we have a huge national shortage of skilled workers, wages will rise rapidly and the company aggressively hired and trained. American manufacturing renaissance could stall if the company is not the skilled workers they need to meet customer needs and quality expectations. Training is fundamental to the process. Placing it on the back burner could jeopardize future.

Law of Large Companies Still Rake It In, but growth may be slowing

recession and post-recession was not kind to the law firms that delivers the largest company in the country. The last few years have seen mass layoffs, sometimes even partners. There is a consolidation, merger, and the slow motion Dewey & LeBoeuf refusal, itself the result of combining the two year old and respected New York law firms.Last turned out fine for most large law firms, according to American Lawyer magazine top 100 largest U.S. companies marketable. Average gross revenue rose 5.3 percent and the average revenue per lawyer common measure used to compare the performance of law firms, an increase of 1.9 percent. In other words, things could be better, and they can also be much buried in the American Lawyer reports worse.But some signs that the profession has changed and could not be better, if possible in one part of the world . The magazine, which ranked law firm with revenues of more than two decades, saw the average revenue per lawyer for 81 law firms in the Am Law 100 have lived for 25 years. From 1986 to 1998, the annual average growth for the group of companies is 5 percent. From 1998 to 2011, he slipped to 4.2 percent. In an article accompanying the ranking, Indiana University law professor William Henderson said he saw still running "flat" revenue per lawyer at a big firm. He brings to the company is relying on in-house lawyers, or switch to smaller law firms tend to be more expensive for long-term use.For legal observers, there are some other important changes. The average number of non-equity partners in law firms jumped 5.7 percent, while the comparable number of equity partners rose 1.4 percent last year. Means periodically fewer lawyers can fully share in the profits of the company '. And lost several large law firms face some time. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who ranked gross income for all but four years in the history of the Am Law 100, was third this year. At Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as Skadden, long known for getting the job is the biggest drop in List of gross income, to 4.8 percent.That said, it is difficult to get all teary-eyed for two companies. Skadden income is more than $ 2.1 billion in 2011, an increase of 3.1 percent over the previous year. And Wachtell topped the list of U.S. Attorneys profit-per-partner, with more than $ 4.4 million.