This strategy requires a commitment from you to work at scheduled times on large tasks. Most of the really important work you do requires large chunks of unbroken time to complete. Your ability to create and carve out these blocks of high value, highly productive time, is central to your ability to make a significant contribution to your work and to your life.
Thoughtfulness may be defined as a careful concern for the secondary consequences of each decision and each action. This is the essence of strategic thinking.
Start Immediately on Number OneSuccessful salespeople set aside a specific time period each day to phone prospects. Rather than procrastinating or delaying on a task that they don't particularly like, they resolve that they will phone for one solid hour between 10 and 11 AM and they then discipline themselves to follow through on their resolutions.
Many business executives set aside a specific time each day to call customers directly to get feedback. Create Specific Amounts of TimeSome people allocate specific 30-60 minute time periods each day for exercise. Many people read in the great books 15 minutes each night before retiring. In this way, over time, they eventually read dozens of the best books ever written.
The key to the success of this method of working in specific time segments is for you to plan your day in advance and specifically schedule a fixed time period for a particular activity or task.
You make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. You set aside thirty, sixty and ninety minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks.
Create Preplanned PeriodsMany highly productive people schedule specific activities in preplanned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time. As a result, they become more and more productive and eventually produce two times, three times and five times as much as the average person.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.
First, organize each day to create large chunks of time you can use for key task completion.
Second, make a written appointment with yourself to work on a key task at a specific time.
By My Mentor
Brian Tracy
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
Unlocking Your Creativity
I began studying creativity more than 20 years ago. I thought it was an ability that was possessed by a few, especially intelligent people, such as artists and writers and scientists. But as I delved further into the subject, I came to a remarkable conclusion: I am a genius! Not only that, but you, too, are a genius! In fact, probably 95 percent of the population has the capacity to function at exceptional levels. Creativity is as natural to human beings as is breathing in and out. Everyone is creative to a certain extent. People are highly creative because they decide to be highly creative. It’s no miracle. Creativity is like any human faculty; it can be developed with practice and strengthened with constant use.
If you improve things in small ways, you are engaging in small acts of creativity. If you make major breakthroughs, and improve parts of your life in extraordinary ways, you are demonstrating high levels of creativity. And the amount of creativity you use in your life is largely up to you.
If creativity is improvement, in what areas do you want to use it? The answer is simple. You want to use your inborn creativity to improve the parts of your life that are most important to you. You can use your creativity to improve your relationships, to increase your income and improve your business, and to assure yourself higher levels of health and happiness. With that definition, you can see clearly that you have opportunities to be creative from the time you get up in the morning to the time you go to bed at night.
Creativity is like a muscle. If you do not deliberately and consciously flex your creativity on a regular basis, it becomes weak and soft. It loses its strength. If people criticize you for your ideas, or if you have concluded that you are not particularly creative, you will tend to be more passive and submissive and look to others for new and better ways of solving problems and achieving goals. However, if you start to practice creative thinking, along the lines that I’m going to share with you, you will be absolutely amazed at how smart you really are.
I used to think that you had to be highly intelligent to be creative. Then I found that intelligence is not just a matter of IQ. There are many people with high IQs who got excellent grades in school but who are doing very poorly at life. They are working at jobs they don’t like and earning salaries that are far below their potentials. They probably haven’t come up with a creative idea in years.
Intelligence is a way of acting. If you act intelligently, you are intelligent. If you act stupidly, you are stupid. That’s all there is to it. You can decide to be highly intelligent and highly creative simply by doing the things that highly intelligent and highly creative people do. If you do these things over and over, you’ll soon get the same results. People around you will be talking about how bright and full of ideas you have become.
There are three basic qualities of genius. Since you are a genius, you should know what they are and apply them regularly.
The first quality of genius is open-mindedness. People who are fluent, flexible and adaptive in their thinking are far brighter than those who are rigid, mechanical and straitlaced. The more open you are to new ideas and possibilities, to new approaches and solutions, the more creatively you will function.
Most people tend to fall into what are called "thinking traps." They assume that there is only one right answer to a problem; in reality, there could be several right answers. They jump to conclusions, assuming that because one thing happens, it is the reason for another thing’s happening; there may be no relationship at all between the two events. Sometimes people think that the problem has to be solved immediately; often, the problem can be deferred for some time, and often it will solve itself if left alone.
People think that certain problems have to be solved without spending any money; often, if the solution is important enough, it is a good idea to spend money on it.
Another thinking trap people fall into is thinking they have to solve the whole problem; sometimes, solving just one part of the problem is enough for the time. A final thinking trap is thinking that it is your problem and you are the one who must solve it; often, it is someone else’s problem, and the very best thing for you to do is to turn it over to that person and refuse to get involved.
My Mentor,
Brian Tracy
If you improve things in small ways, you are engaging in small acts of creativity. If you make major breakthroughs, and improve parts of your life in extraordinary ways, you are demonstrating high levels of creativity. And the amount of creativity you use in your life is largely up to you.
If creativity is improvement, in what areas do you want to use it? The answer is simple. You want to use your inborn creativity to improve the parts of your life that are most important to you. You can use your creativity to improve your relationships, to increase your income and improve your business, and to assure yourself higher levels of health and happiness. With that definition, you can see clearly that you have opportunities to be creative from the time you get up in the morning to the time you go to bed at night.
Creativity is like a muscle. If you do not deliberately and consciously flex your creativity on a regular basis, it becomes weak and soft. It loses its strength. If people criticize you for your ideas, or if you have concluded that you are not particularly creative, you will tend to be more passive and submissive and look to others for new and better ways of solving problems and achieving goals. However, if you start to practice creative thinking, along the lines that I’m going to share with you, you will be absolutely amazed at how smart you really are.
I used to think that you had to be highly intelligent to be creative. Then I found that intelligence is not just a matter of IQ. There are many people with high IQs who got excellent grades in school but who are doing very poorly at life. They are working at jobs they don’t like and earning salaries that are far below their potentials. They probably haven’t come up with a creative idea in years.
Intelligence is a way of acting. If you act intelligently, you are intelligent. If you act stupidly, you are stupid. That’s all there is to it. You can decide to be highly intelligent and highly creative simply by doing the things that highly intelligent and highly creative people do. If you do these things over and over, you’ll soon get the same results. People around you will be talking about how bright and full of ideas you have become.
There are three basic qualities of genius. Since you are a genius, you should know what they are and apply them regularly.
The first quality of genius is open-mindedness. People who are fluent, flexible and adaptive in their thinking are far brighter than those who are rigid, mechanical and straitlaced. The more open you are to new ideas and possibilities, to new approaches and solutions, the more creatively you will function.
Most people tend to fall into what are called "thinking traps." They assume that there is only one right answer to a problem; in reality, there could be several right answers. They jump to conclusions, assuming that because one thing happens, it is the reason for another thing’s happening; there may be no relationship at all between the two events. Sometimes people think that the problem has to be solved immediately; often, the problem can be deferred for some time, and often it will solve itself if left alone.
People think that certain problems have to be solved without spending any money; often, if the solution is important enough, it is a good idea to spend money on it.
Another thinking trap people fall into is thinking they have to solve the whole problem; sometimes, solving just one part of the problem is enough for the time. A final thinking trap is thinking that it is your problem and you are the one who must solve it; often, it is someone else’s problem, and the very best thing for you to do is to turn it over to that person and refuse to get involved.
My Mentor,
Brian Tracy
Friday, October 17, 2008
To Have An Amazing Life You Have To Take Amazing Risks!
Walt Disney's first company went bankrupt. Instead of giving up he headed to Hollywood with twenty dollars and a suitcase to start a new business. He believed in himself and his ideas. It turned out to be a really good risk.
Michael Jordan was cut from his sophomore varsity basketball team for being too short. He stuck with the game and ended up one of the best basketball players in the world.
Terry Fox started his Marathon of Hope, running across Canada after having one leg amputated due to cancer. He wanted to raise money for cancer research. Terry never finished the run because cancer took his life. To date more then 400 million dollars have been raised for cancer research in his name.
Winston Churchill did poorly in school for which he was punished. He also had a stuttering speech impediment. Churchill went on to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a Nobel Prize winner.
One of the greatest baseball players of all time Reggie Jackson struck out 2597 times at bat.
Each of these individuals teach us that in order to have an amazing life you have to believe in yourself and take extraordinary risks even when everything and everyone around you sends the message that you can't do it.When you take risks you can start big or small according to your threshold of comfort. Some people take giant leaps and others feel more at ease with baby steps as they build their risk taking muscle. It doesn't matter which category you fall into, as long as you are taking risks.
Sometimes you just have to jump into things instead of dwelling or meditating on them for days on end because hesitation may result in a missed once in a life time opportunity. Just use logic and make sure you aren't putting your life or someone else's life in danger.If you find that you want to take more risks but something is holding you back; or maybe just the thought of taking risks has you shuddering, get to the root of issue. Maybe you are holding onto a fear or belief in your mind that is limiting and negative. Perhaps you don't even know what is stopping you from taking the risk, you just know every time you want to step out and try something new, you find yourself frozen and rooted in place.
This is the perfect opportunity to examine your beliefs about risks, failure and making mistakes. Also notice and become aware of your beliefs and thoughts about yourself and your abilities.A person might take a risk and make a mistake, but it isn't a failure until he or she decides that it is a failure and starts beating themselves up about it.
Are you worried about what other people might think of you? How do you measure success? Do you fear success? Are you dealing with lack of self confidence, self worth and deserving? Negative and limiting beliefs in any or all of these areas need to be uprooted, re-engineered and replaced with positive beliefs in order to start moving forward.It's important to believe in yourself and to take risks.
Holding a mind full of positive beliefs will support, encourage and propel you forward. When you start taking risks, jumping on opportunities and accepting challenges amazing things begin to happen; an amazing life unfolds and at the center of that is an amazing person. That amazing person is you.
Esther Bartkiw is a Core Belief Engineering Practitioner, Motivational Speaker, Nutritional Cleansing Coach and Author. She can be reached at 905-630-4471 or by email at esther@changefromwithin.ca Visit her website at http://www.changefromwithin.ca and follow her tweets at http://www.twitter.com/changeisgoodArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Esther_Bartkiw
Michael Jordan was cut from his sophomore varsity basketball team for being too short. He stuck with the game and ended up one of the best basketball players in the world.
Terry Fox started his Marathon of Hope, running across Canada after having one leg amputated due to cancer. He wanted to raise money for cancer research. Terry never finished the run because cancer took his life. To date more then 400 million dollars have been raised for cancer research in his name.
Winston Churchill did poorly in school for which he was punished. He also had a stuttering speech impediment. Churchill went on to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a Nobel Prize winner.
One of the greatest baseball players of all time Reggie Jackson struck out 2597 times at bat.
Each of these individuals teach us that in order to have an amazing life you have to believe in yourself and take extraordinary risks even when everything and everyone around you sends the message that you can't do it.When you take risks you can start big or small according to your threshold of comfort. Some people take giant leaps and others feel more at ease with baby steps as they build their risk taking muscle. It doesn't matter which category you fall into, as long as you are taking risks.
Sometimes you just have to jump into things instead of dwelling or meditating on them for days on end because hesitation may result in a missed once in a life time opportunity. Just use logic and make sure you aren't putting your life or someone else's life in danger.If you find that you want to take more risks but something is holding you back; or maybe just the thought of taking risks has you shuddering, get to the root of issue. Maybe you are holding onto a fear or belief in your mind that is limiting and negative. Perhaps you don't even know what is stopping you from taking the risk, you just know every time you want to step out and try something new, you find yourself frozen and rooted in place.
This is the perfect opportunity to examine your beliefs about risks, failure and making mistakes. Also notice and become aware of your beliefs and thoughts about yourself and your abilities.A person might take a risk and make a mistake, but it isn't a failure until he or she decides that it is a failure and starts beating themselves up about it.
Are you worried about what other people might think of you? How do you measure success? Do you fear success? Are you dealing with lack of self confidence, self worth and deserving? Negative and limiting beliefs in any or all of these areas need to be uprooted, re-engineered and replaced with positive beliefs in order to start moving forward.It's important to believe in yourself and to take risks.
Holding a mind full of positive beliefs will support, encourage and propel you forward. When you start taking risks, jumping on opportunities and accepting challenges amazing things begin to happen; an amazing life unfolds and at the center of that is an amazing person. That amazing person is you.
Esther Bartkiw is a Core Belief Engineering Practitioner, Motivational Speaker, Nutritional Cleansing Coach and Author. She can be reached at 905-630-4471 or by email at esther@changefromwithin.ca Visit her website at http://www.changefromwithin.ca and follow her tweets at http://www.twitter.com/changeisgoodArticle Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Esther_Bartkiw
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Controlling Your Mind Power - Stop Allowing Adversity to Bully You
Each one of us at some point in our lives is faced with adversity. It might be an adversity that is so monumental and horrific as to defy description. It has been my experience that so-called small adversities never seem to come knocking. All of them, at least for a time, seem so large as to look insurmountable. Nearly all of them in some way have a financial basis.
For most people, the response is automatic and predictable. As soon as an adversity appears the ever lurking fear, in which Robert Kiyosaki says is deeply ingrained into the non-rich 95% of the population, seizes the opportunity, takes control, and projects the adversity as a larger than life presence. Other emotions that are closely associated with fear also show up. Thinking becomes cloudy. The bodily fight or flight systems activate to some degree. Physical discomforts are also a possibility.
Have you ever asked yourself why people are so greatly effected by what are mostly irrational fears? I certainly did not ask myself that question for many, many years. I just thought it was the natural thing to do. Even more years passed before I received my answer. It came to me one day while I was doing some clean up on my car with the trunk of the car open. My four year old grandson was serving as my help mate. In the trunk was a pair of binoculars that my help mate wanted to explore. As he looked through them, he said what he was seeing was fuzzy. He asked me to help him see clearly. I chose a target and adjusted the zoom until the target was clearly in view.
It was then that my answer flashed into my mind. Focus. While I was focused on my target through those binoculars, the target was all that I could really see, and the target is what occupied my conscious mind. I did not consciously see anything else but the target because anything that was fuzzy or only slightly perceptible, I disregarded. Focus is the key that led to my understanding of why adversities loom so large.
Allegorically, the self image uses irrational fear as its binoculars when adversity appears. As you focus on the adversity through fear, all other thoughts and ideas become fuzzy and are pushed into the background. Only the adversity is crystal clear, looming larger than life. The longer you focus on it, the larger it seems. Various scenarios, driven by the fear, probably flash across your mind, each of which has a seemingly dreadful outcome.
Here is a question for you. Since none of these fear-driven destinations is what you desire, why would you continue to focus on any of them? What prevents you from changing your focus? In truth, nothing can prevent you from re-directing your focus if you decide to do so. By controlling the power of the mind, you have the power available to focus on any thought, idea, or mental image you want!
Stop focusing on the adversity. Instead, focus on what you desire. By presenting to your mind an end result that you desire and by choosing to use PMA (a positive mental attitude) as allegorical binoculars, your desire takes center stage in your mind. The longer you focus on it, the larger it grows. You will be amazed how quickly the fear and its related thoughts fade farther and farther into the background.
This I know for sure. You can claim or re-claim control of your own mind power. You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin controlling your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.
Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 when his six-figure income position was eliminated. He now wishes to share some of what he has learned since then and some of his experiences as well through articles. He is now studying The New Think And Grow Rich with the author, Ted Ciuba, a founding member of the World Internet Summit. To Claim A FREE Copy Of The Book That Inspired The Movie/DVD/Book, The Secret, Go To: http://www.MasteringYourMindPower.com
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For most people, the response is automatic and predictable. As soon as an adversity appears the ever lurking fear, in which Robert Kiyosaki says is deeply ingrained into the non-rich 95% of the population, seizes the opportunity, takes control, and projects the adversity as a larger than life presence. Other emotions that are closely associated with fear also show up. Thinking becomes cloudy. The bodily fight or flight systems activate to some degree. Physical discomforts are also a possibility.
Have you ever asked yourself why people are so greatly effected by what are mostly irrational fears? I certainly did not ask myself that question for many, many years. I just thought it was the natural thing to do. Even more years passed before I received my answer. It came to me one day while I was doing some clean up on my car with the trunk of the car open. My four year old grandson was serving as my help mate. In the trunk was a pair of binoculars that my help mate wanted to explore. As he looked through them, he said what he was seeing was fuzzy. He asked me to help him see clearly. I chose a target and adjusted the zoom until the target was clearly in view.
It was then that my answer flashed into my mind. Focus. While I was focused on my target through those binoculars, the target was all that I could really see, and the target is what occupied my conscious mind. I did not consciously see anything else but the target because anything that was fuzzy or only slightly perceptible, I disregarded. Focus is the key that led to my understanding of why adversities loom so large.
Allegorically, the self image uses irrational fear as its binoculars when adversity appears. As you focus on the adversity through fear, all other thoughts and ideas become fuzzy and are pushed into the background. Only the adversity is crystal clear, looming larger than life. The longer you focus on it, the larger it seems. Various scenarios, driven by the fear, probably flash across your mind, each of which has a seemingly dreadful outcome.
Here is a question for you. Since none of these fear-driven destinations is what you desire, why would you continue to focus on any of them? What prevents you from changing your focus? In truth, nothing can prevent you from re-directing your focus if you decide to do so. By controlling the power of the mind, you have the power available to focus on any thought, idea, or mental image you want!
Stop focusing on the adversity. Instead, focus on what you desire. By presenting to your mind an end result that you desire and by choosing to use PMA (a positive mental attitude) as allegorical binoculars, your desire takes center stage in your mind. The longer you focus on it, the larger it grows. You will be amazed how quickly the fear and its related thoughts fade farther and farther into the background.
This I know for sure. You can claim or re-claim control of your own mind power. You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin controlling your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.
Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 when his six-figure income position was eliminated. He now wishes to share some of what he has learned since then and some of his experiences as well through articles. He is now studying The New Think And Grow Rich with the author, Ted Ciuba, a founding member of the World Internet Summit. To Claim A FREE Copy Of The Book That Inspired The Movie/DVD/Book, The Secret, Go To: http://www.MasteringYourMindPower.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Harold_L_Lowe
Friday, August 22, 2008
It is Up to You!
One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “if it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.
Too many people today look at opportunity and figure it is up to someone else to make sure they get it. They look at financial security and hope that the government will make sure they live safely in retirement or in case of disability. They wait and wait, figuring that it is up to someone else. And then the wait is over, and it is too late to do anything. Their life is over and they are filled with regret.
This isn’t true for you however. You know that you must take responsibility for your life. It is up to you. The fact is that nobody else is going to do it for you, you must do it yourself.
Now, some people may say, “Jim, that’s a lot of responsibility.” Friends, that is the best news you can ever hear. You get to choose your life. Hundreds of millions of people all around this world would give anything to live in the situation you dojust for the chance to have the opportunity to take control of their destiny. “It is up to you” is a great blessing!
Here’s why:
1. You get to chart your own destiny. Maybe you want to start a small business and stay there. That’s great because you can choose that. Maybe you want to create a small chain of stores. Maybe you want to have a net worth of $100 million. That’sokay too. The idea is that you get to choose. You can do whatever you like. Different people have different dreams and they should live them accordingly.
2. You can reap what you sow. Sleep in and go to work late and reap the return. Or get up early and outwork the others and earn a greater return. Place your capital at risk and earn a return or place it at greater risk and perhaps reap a greater return. You decide what you will sow and thus what you will reap.
3. No one else can stop you from getting your dream. Yes, there will always be things that come up and people who may not like what you are doing, but you can just move on and chart your own course. There is great freedom in that.
4. You experience the joy of self-determination. There is no greater pride than knowing you set your mind on something and accomplished it. Those who live with a victim mentality never get to experience the joy of accomplishment because they arealways waiting for someone else to come to the rescue. Those who take responsibility get to live the joy of seeing a job well done.
Let me ask you a question: Where will you be in 5 years? 10 years? Or 25 years? Do you know? DO you have an idea? Have you ever dreamed about it or set a goal for it? Are you willing to take responsibility and recognize that, “It is up to you?”
You will be wherever you decide to be in those timeframes. You decide. It is up to you.
And that is very exciting!
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Too many people today look at opportunity and figure it is up to someone else to make sure they get it. They look at financial security and hope that the government will make sure they live safely in retirement or in case of disability. They wait and wait, figuring that it is up to someone else. And then the wait is over, and it is too late to do anything. Their life is over and they are filled with regret.
This isn’t true for you however. You know that you must take responsibility for your life. It is up to you. The fact is that nobody else is going to do it for you, you must do it yourself.
Now, some people may say, “Jim, that’s a lot of responsibility.” Friends, that is the best news you can ever hear. You get to choose your life. Hundreds of millions of people all around this world would give anything to live in the situation you dojust for the chance to have the opportunity to take control of their destiny. “It is up to you” is a great blessing!
Here’s why:
1. You get to chart your own destiny. Maybe you want to start a small business and stay there. That’s great because you can choose that. Maybe you want to create a small chain of stores. Maybe you want to have a net worth of $100 million. That’sokay too. The idea is that you get to choose. You can do whatever you like. Different people have different dreams and they should live them accordingly.
2. You can reap what you sow. Sleep in and go to work late and reap the return. Or get up early and outwork the others and earn a greater return. Place your capital at risk and earn a return or place it at greater risk and perhaps reap a greater return. You decide what you will sow and thus what you will reap.
3. No one else can stop you from getting your dream. Yes, there will always be things that come up and people who may not like what you are doing, but you can just move on and chart your own course. There is great freedom in that.
4. You experience the joy of self-determination. There is no greater pride than knowing you set your mind on something and accomplished it. Those who live with a victim mentality never get to experience the joy of accomplishment because they arealways waiting for someone else to come to the rescue. Those who take responsibility get to live the joy of seeing a job well done.
Let me ask you a question: Where will you be in 5 years? 10 years? Or 25 years? Do you know? DO you have an idea? Have you ever dreamed about it or set a goal for it? Are you willing to take responsibility and recognize that, “It is up to you?”
You will be wherever you decide to be in those timeframes. You decide. It is up to you.
And that is very exciting!
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Attitude is Everything!
The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success and happiness demand.
Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.
Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.
Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. Thecombination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.
To Your Success,Jim Rohn
Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.
Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it away.
Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires. Thecombination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.
To Your Success,Jim Rohn
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Make A Life!
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Little babies just born into this world are a perfect example of selfishness in the highest order but theirs is pardonable. At least they don’t have any sense yet enough to know that others are to be considered. All they ever know or want is to collect and collect until you no longer have any left and yet they will not want to hear of that. Theirs is, just provide.
Many of us are like babies or should I say worse off. My argument is that we have grown enough to know that others should be considered in what ever action we take. Yet all we ever do, have continued to do and will most likely continue to do is to take from this life without ever considering giving something back. There is actually a greater fulfillment in giving than in taking. This many have never realized. If you haven’t too, try do something for someone who will never ever be able to repay you. Give yourself to a worthy cause and see how accomplished you will feel.
Consider the electricity that we now enjoy, communication of all kinds, transportation systems, advances in medicine etc. They were not introduced by angels but by men and women like you and me. Nothing was seriously extraordinary about them except the fact that they had a burning desire to give humanity something to cheer.
You can however never give to life if you don’t discover what your purpose is. It must be something definite which will cause you to focus. Concentration on a single task brings about easy fulfillment and a great sense of accomplishment.
Once you have discovered that purpose, dig for every information about how you to go about it. Do not leave anything to chance. Dig for it like you would for gold. Be very diligent in this as failure to do this might just be your Achilles’ heel.
Plan your execution now that you have knowledge on the purpose. Take time out to utilize every little bit of information to your advantage. You must get yourself organized for proper execution of the plan of actions.
Do not expect everything to go so smoothly despite the planning because most time you just might have over- looked on tiny detail and of course you have to be open to accept failure and learn from them. The Thomas Edison story is a great challenge.
On the whole, I believe everyone has a quota to contribute to life and failure to do so means that you have sent your contribution to the grave where it will be of no benefit to anybody. Have it at the back of your mind that you don’t want to die ashamed of yourself. Posterity should speak well of you.
Winston Churchill
Little babies just born into this world are a perfect example of selfishness in the highest order but theirs is pardonable. At least they don’t have any sense yet enough to know that others are to be considered. All they ever know or want is to collect and collect until you no longer have any left and yet they will not want to hear of that. Theirs is, just provide.
Many of us are like babies or should I say worse off. My argument is that we have grown enough to know that others should be considered in what ever action we take. Yet all we ever do, have continued to do and will most likely continue to do is to take from this life without ever considering giving something back. There is actually a greater fulfillment in giving than in taking. This many have never realized. If you haven’t too, try do something for someone who will never ever be able to repay you. Give yourself to a worthy cause and see how accomplished you will feel.
Consider the electricity that we now enjoy, communication of all kinds, transportation systems, advances in medicine etc. They were not introduced by angels but by men and women like you and me. Nothing was seriously extraordinary about them except the fact that they had a burning desire to give humanity something to cheer.
You can however never give to life if you don’t discover what your purpose is. It must be something definite which will cause you to focus. Concentration on a single task brings about easy fulfillment and a great sense of accomplishment.
Once you have discovered that purpose, dig for every information about how you to go about it. Do not leave anything to chance. Dig for it like you would for gold. Be very diligent in this as failure to do this might just be your Achilles’ heel.
Plan your execution now that you have knowledge on the purpose. Take time out to utilize every little bit of information to your advantage. You must get yourself organized for proper execution of the plan of actions.
Do not expect everything to go so smoothly despite the planning because most time you just might have over- looked on tiny detail and of course you have to be open to accept failure and learn from them. The Thomas Edison story is a great challenge.
On the whole, I believe everyone has a quota to contribute to life and failure to do so means that you have sent your contribution to the grave where it will be of no benefit to anybody. Have it at the back of your mind that you don’t want to die ashamed of yourself. Posterity should speak well of you.
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