The Renewal Times

The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies Inc. and is edited by Roger Ellerton.

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Please bring this newsletter to the attention of friends and colleagues. To become a subscriber or to view previous editions of this newsletter, visit www.renewal.ca/newsletter.htm.

Note: The material in this newsletter is presented for information only. It is not a substitute for medical, psychological or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional.

Included in this newsletter:

• Thought for the day
• Health Notes
• Upcoming Seminars
• Feature Article
• Humour
• More Information

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Thought for the Day
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

         Walter Bagehot

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Health Notes
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In Cold Weather, Hire Neighborhood Kids to Shovel Driveway

Cold temperatures constrict blood vessels and cause blood to clot more easily. Add hypertension and demanding physical activity and you could be a candidate for a heart attack. To help protect yourself when you venture out in the cold, layer up, avoid sudden exertion and don’t drink alcoholic beverages.

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Relax and Help Your Lungs

Although lung function naturally decreases with age, recent research suggests that it may decline faster in perpetual hotheads than in even-tempered people.

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Make a Difference in Someone's Life
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To help yourself or someone you know have a very successful and enjoyable 2009, consider some of the self-help material at Amazon.com and Nightingale-Conant.

To improve the quality and effectiveness of your communication with yourself and others, consider Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You -- a world-wide top selling NLP book.

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Stuck? Need a Plan?
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Roger Ellerton's new e-book, Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: 5 Step Action Plan, can help you gain clarity and have a plan of action to achieve what you desire. Check it out now.

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Advanced Business Communication: Effectively Influence with Integrity
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How successful are you in your communication with your co-workers, clients, suppliers - those you wish to influence? Do you enjoy doing it or does the thought hold you back leaving you in a state of being unresourceful or anxious? This series of workshops will change the way you do business.

Advanced Business Communication, is a programme that delivers the skills to transform the way that people do business. It has three distinct workshops; there is a benefit in taking all three in the order suggested, but it is not a prerequisite. Each workshop is self-contained and each will provide you with insights, a framework and tools that you can take away with you and use immediately to Effectively Influence with Integrity.

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Upcoming Seminars / Workshops
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We are pleased to offer the following public workshops/seminars in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada:

Introductory NLP Evening

January 14, 2009 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Please come as our guest. Invite a friend to come with you. Registration is required so that we can reserve a seat for you. E-mail your name and the number of people attending to info@renewal.ca. For more information, please see www.renewal.ca/freeseminar.htm.

During this event, we will have a book signing for Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You and offer you a special discounted price.

NLP Practitioner Training

Three week-ends: February 6 - 8, 20 - 22, 27 - March 1, 2009.

NLP Master Practitioner Training

Four weekends: March 27 - 29, April 17 - 19, May 1 - 3 and May 29 - 31, 2009.

Get More Out of Life

A program designed to help you get more out of life through discovering who you are at many levels -- your place in the world, your mission in life -- and to inspire you to take action to pursue your mission with passion and joy in a way that is respectful of others.

September 19, 2009. Discover Yourself -- Find Out What's Holding You Back

Advanced Business Communication: Effectively Influence with Integrity

Learn how to be more successful in your communication with your co-workers, clients, suppliers - those you wish to influence? See Advanced Business Communication for more information on this series of workshops.

Workshop A: Align Your Offering with What People Really Want - March 12, 2009.

Workshop B: Transform a Business Conversation into a Request to Buy - April 16, 2009.

Workshop C: Find and Apply Customer Insights to Seal Agreement - May 21, 2009.

For our most recent schedule and a description of these workshops/seminars, please visit www.renewal.ca/neurolinguistic.htm

Click on the following link for the location of our NLP Training Centre in Ottawa (Stittsville), Ontario, Canada.

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Feature Article
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The following article originally appeared in the Canadian January/February 2009 edition of The Costco Connection and the January 2, 2009 edition of Nepean This Week. It may be reproduced, provided it is reproduced in full, including author bio and a reference to Renewal Technologies' website (www.renewal.ca).

5 Principles to Guide You in 2009

By Roger Ellerton Phd, ISP, CMC, Renewal Technologies Inc. www.renewal.ca

The following five principles will help you to get off to a great start and maintain your momentum throughout 2009:

1. There is no failure, only feedback.

Have you ever done something that didn't work out the way you had planned? How often have you interpreted this as failure and possibly beat yourself up or blamed others? Far too many of us have been trained to judge our results as either success or failure. How would your life change if you viewed failure simply as feedback - an opportunity to learn how not to do something and become flexible in developing new ways to achieve your intended outcome? The next time something does not unfold as planned accept it as feedback, get curious and ask yourself, "What do I need to learn about myself, others, my work or family environment, so that if a similar situation were to occur in the future, I can get a better result?"

2. Be flexible - If what you are doing is not creating the results you desire, do something different.

If you want your life to be different, doing the same things more often, harder, or louder is not the way to change it. You must choose to do something different. If you use one key in a lock and it doesn't fit, would you keep using the same key repeatedly? Or would you be flexible and use other keys until you find the one that works?

3. The meaning of communication is the response it produces.

Your intended communication is not always what is understood by the other person. It does not matter what your intention is, what matters are the results you generate from your words, tone of voice, body language and actions. By taking the other person's response as feedback and being flexible, you can change how you communicate until you achieve your desired result.

4. Every behavior has a positive intention.

No matter how strange, hurtful or inappropriate a person's behavior may seem to you, for the person engaging in that behavior, it makes sense from their perspective and is predicated upon satisfying a positive intention for them.

This does not mean that you must view the other person's behavior as positive or acceptable. On the contrary, you may find it quite distasteful. You need to look behind their behavior to discover the positive intention from their perspective. Once you have an understanding of their intention, you can explore alternative ways to help the person achieve it, while minimizing the negative side effects.

5. You are in charge of your mind and therefore your results.

You chose the beliefs, values and decisions that determine your perspective of the world and how you experience different events. If you choose, you can change these to gain a different perspective, harvesting the benefits of subsequent actions and bringing significant changes to your life.

Your Next Step

Challenge the above principles, as at first reading you may not fully understand or agree with some of them. Each week, select one of these principles and put it into action. Notice how things in your life improve and move you closer to achieving your desires. Continue until all five are a way of life for you. In doing so, you have the opportunity to change your reality, your results and your life!

Author: Roger Ellerton PhD, CMC is a certified NLP trainer, coach, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. He is the author of the book Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Chapters.indigo.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes and Noble and other fine book retailers.

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Humour
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Statisticians

Did you hear about the politician who promised that, if he was elected, he'd make certain that everybody would get an above average income?

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Logic is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Statistics is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with 95% confidence.

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More Information
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For more information, please visit our NLP-based website or contact us at 613 692-1424 or info@renewal.ca

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