Sid Gatt cartoon!
October 15th, 2009
Tips For Achieving Goals!
October 13th, 2009Do you have long-term projects with short-term expectations? If you do, that is a sure path to frustration and failure.
Lifestyle goals such as exercise and healthy diet have to become habits in order to be effective. Career change also takes time and planning, and it doesn’t happen overnight.
Your world has shifted. There’s voice mail, e-mail, pagers, and faxes that have made a “waiting” period unacceptable and almost obsolete. With information immediately available, we expect relationships and goal achievement to be done the same. As you read this you know that it is unreasonable to expect that, don’t you? We’ve been led by advertisers to believe that we deserve immediate gratification, and that it is readily and effortlessly available!
When you want to train a puppy, you know that it’s going to take time and consistent reinforcement. You’re ready for that, because you want your puppy to behave in an acceptable way. Why then, are you so patient with the puppy and so hard on yourself?
When you plant seeds in the garden, you tend them, water them, hope for sunlight and nurture them. Are you nurturing yourself?
The best way to move gently and effectively towards your goals is to take a reasonable approach. Break your long-term project goal into sub-goals. Break it into doable, short-term chunks. Today prepare the soil; tomorrow plant the seeds.
Break Your Big Goal Down Into Managable Small Chunks!
Each action you take and each step is satisfying because you know that it is contributing to the completion of your goal. You cannot rush Mother Nature with your garden, and the same is true for your goals.
This process is much more than “bloom where you’re planted”, because when you’re the gardener you choose what to plant and how to nurture it. Do the same for yourself, and grow yourself beautifully. Your goals will be accomplished in due time, and you won’t end up up-tight and frazzled.
Success Secrets Still Valid!
October 8th, 2009Author Michael Jeffreys personally interviewed 15 top motivational gurus in 1997 for his then upcoming book. After talking to gurus from Brian Tracy to Dr. Wayne Dyer, he distilled 8 Secrets to Success they all agreed upon. These secrets are still good today and are as follows:
- Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life – In a society where people blame everything from their parents to the government for failure, those who don’t buy into this mentality or succumb to the “victim” thinking succeed. To blame something or somebody outside yourself is saying they have control of your life and not you. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.
- Live Your Life On Purpose - What separates motivational thinkers from the unsuccessful is that they believe they’re doing what they were put her to do. The difference between this and just living, is that the latter is just getting through the week with the least problems. But when you live your life on purpose, your main concern is doing the job right. For the entrepreneur this means finding a cause you believe in and building your business around it.
- Be Willing to Pay the Price - Be willing to pay the price for your dreams. Wanting a big house, a luxury car, and a million dollars in the bank is all very nice, and everyone wants these things – but are you willing to pay the price to get them? This is one of the major differences between the successful and unsuccessful.
- Stay Focused – Every day we’re bombarded with hundreds of tasks, phone calls, messages, and everyone competing for our time. Focusing requires giving up something in the present because you are investing your time in something that will pay off big-time down the road. Jack Canfield and Mark Hanson were turned by 30 publishers when they submitted the first “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book. Instead of giving up, they stayed focused on their goal and did four or five interviews per day for radio, TV, and newspapers, for five days a week for a whole year. Eventually, a small publisher decided to take a chance, and of course now it’s a best-seller that spawned an entire series that have sold more than 10 million copies.
- Become An Expert in Your Field One striking factor all successful people have in common is how seriously they take their profession. They strive to be the best at what they do, and do almost anything to improve. If someone followed you around all day with a video camera at your business, would it be a tape you’d be proud of or embarrassed about? Make the decision today to work at being the best in your field. How? By finding out what the “best” in your field are doing, and do what they do.
- Write Out a Plan for Achieving Your Goals – Write out an action plan/map for how you’re going to achieve your goals. Trying to reach your goals without a plan is like trying to drive from Los Angeles to Chicago without a map. A goal that isn’t written down is merely a wish or fantasy.
- Never Give Up - Never, never, never give up. When you’re fully committed to achieving your goal, giving up is not an option. You must be willing do whatever it takes to make it happen. The power of perseverance is an awesome force. As someone once said, “inch by inch it’s a cinch”. Think of the lowly inchworm – if it pondered the length of the trip from start to finish before it started, it probably would never move. To a worm’s point-of-view, the garden path must look like a trip to Mars. Never give up! Keep on going like the Eveready battery bunny, and pretty soon you’re there.
- Don’t Delay - Nobody knows how much time they have left to accomplish their dreams, and we must remember that we don’t have forever. The clock is ticking, and sooner or later your number comes up and you’re gone. Successful achievers know this too, but they don’t view it as a “negative”. Achievers use it to “spur them on”. They go after what they want as energetically and as passionately as possible, for as long as they have.
I had a friend who used to say, “Today is a check – cash it! Yesterday is an I.O.U. – forget it! Tomorrow is a promissory note, don’t bank on it!” I think that’s a pretty good summation of life, so go out there and cash in on that “today”
10 Easy Steps To Achieve Any Goal If You Really Want To"
October 6th, 2009Are You a Victor or Victim of Your Circumstances? If you are intent on being a victor in your own life, these 10 easy steps will guarantee you success in all you do and in all that you hope and want to achieve.
This Coaching Tool will ensure that you reach any goal you want and attain your desires and dreams. You can help your clients, employees or family members apply these steps too and set them up for success. It works if you work it! Achieving You Goal
1. Write down and list what you really want to achieve in your life right now or in a few years time.
2. Of the list, which one do you most want at this moment?
3. Write it down
4. List ALL the steps from A to Z that you would need to do in order to achieve this goal
5. Next to Step 1, write down WHEN you will do this. Write down the date and time
6. Start! Do it!
7. Do not give up until you achieve it
8. If you are met with obstacles along the way, find ways to get around them
9. You don’t get to NOT KNOW – ask whomever you need to OR do all the research you can to get an answer or find a solution
10. Email me when you have reached your goal 
If you have secrets desires go ahead and turn them into attainable goals by following the 10 steps above. Just by doing this you will already be setting yourself up for a much greater chance of success. Success comes from planning, moving and taking action! As you begin the 10 steps you will see your goal take shape and once you experience positive results and outcomes with each step you take, you will be more and more motivated to persevere until what you want is what you have. If you are waiting for your dreams to become reality d o something now!
What wishes, hopes or dreams can you turn around right now into an achievable and workable goal?
Kim Knight, The Coach Yourself to Greatness Coach, has helped a number of clients target their goals. The Personal Life Coach is not only a sought-after trusted and inspirational coach. There are many successful clients whose friends and family are amazed at finding out that someone else coached them on their overall transformation. Kim is the creator of the forthcoming Online 7 week course, How to Get What you Want Now.” Created for practicing coaches and individuals. For more information, visit Kim’s site at www.kimknightcoaching.com and sign up for up for her FREE Coaching Tips at http://www.coachtogreatness.com
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Kim is a passionate and successful weight loss and personal life coach. She works internationally covering most continents and is available within 12 – 24 hours of your email received.
Tony Robbins explains why you fail!
October 6th, 2009Have you ever bought a ‘How To succeed’ product, a slimming course or some expensive Internet marketing package and then failed to make it work. Well here’s a video that Tony Robbins explains why you fail…
http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/
Nurturing a feeling of success attracts it into your life!
October 1st, 2009
“My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and Onward.” David Thomas
“Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.” Dell Crossword
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.
Irving Berlin
Birthday Calculator!
September 30th, 2009Someone emailed me this today…I think you’ll enjoy it!
This is amazing! Check it out!
This is neat
Click on ‘Birthday Calculator.’ It tells you how many hours and
How many seconds you have been alive on this earth and when
You were probably conceived.
How cool is that?
After you’ve finished reading the info, click again,
and see what the moon looked like the night you
were born. Who says our time clocks aren’t ticking…
Enjoy.
Visit the below web page and enter your birthday detail…
Procrastination – I meant to do this post yesterday!
September 29th, 2009My Top 10 Procrastination quotes…
1. Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. ~Author Unknown
2. The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ~Author Unknown
3. If it weren’t for the last minute, I wouldn’t get anything done. ~Author Unknown
4. “Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.” ~Edward Young
5. “Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.” ~unknown author
6. “There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house.” ~Joe Ryan
7. “Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.” ~Gerald Vaughan
8. “The best way to get something done is to begin.” ~Author Unknown
9. “You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.” ~Author Unknown
10. “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” ~Napoleon Hill
Happy as You Want to Be!
September 24th, 2009Happy as You Want to Be
Almost everyone has heard the hit single ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ by Bobby McFerrin. The song has a very catchy way of conveying its message of being happy to everyone. Bobby Mcferiin’s simple message surely made a lot of people by telling them not to worry.
Living a happy, resilient and optimistic life is wonderful, and is also good for your health. Being happy actually protects you from the stresses of life. Stress is linked to top causes of death such as heart disease, cancer and stroke.
One of the better things ever said is – ‘The only thing in life that will always remain the same is change’, and in our life we have the power to make the necessary changes if we want to. Even if we find ourselves in an unbearable situation we can always find solace in the knowledge that it too would change.
Social networks or relationships are essential to happiness. People are different, accept people for who or what they are, avoid clashes, constant arguments, and let go of all kinds of resentments. If arguments seem unavoidable still try and make an effort to understand the situation and you might just get along with well with
Happiness is actually found in everyone, increasing it is a way to make a life more wonderful and also more healthy.
To be happy is relatively easy, just decide to be a happy person. Abraham Lincoln observed that most people for most of the time can choose how happy or stressed, how relaxed or troubled, how bright or dull their outlook to be. The choice is simple really, choose to be happy.
There are several ways by which you can do this.
Being grateful is a great attitude. We have so much to be thankful for. Thank the taxi driver for bringing you home safely, thank the cook for a wonderful dinner and thank the guy who cleans your windows. Also thank the mailman for bringing you your mails, thank the policeman for making your place safe and thank God for being alive.
News is stressful. Get less of it. Some people just can’t start their day without their daily dose of news. Try and think about it, 99% of the news we hear or read is bad news. Starting the day with bad news does not seem to be a sensible thing to do.
A religious connection is also recommended. Being part of a religious group with its singing, sacraments, chanting, prayers and meditations foster inner peace.
Manage your time. Time is invaluable and too important to waste. Time management can be viewed as a list of rules that involves scheduling, setting goals, planning, creating lists of things to do and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.
Laugh and laugh heartily everyday. Heard a good joke? Tell your friends or family about it. As they also say -’Laughter is the best medicine’.
Express your feelings, affections, friendship and passion to people around you. They will most likely reciprocate your actions. Try not to keep pent up anger of frustrations, this is bad for your health. Instead find ways of expressing them in a way that will not cause more injury or hurt to anyone.
Working hard brings tremendous personal satisfaction. It gives a feeling of being competent in finishing our tasks. Accomplishments are necessary for all of us, they give us a sense of value. Work on things that you feel worthy of your time.
Learning is a joyful exercise. Try and learn something new everyday. Learning also makes us expand and broaden our horizons. And could also give us more opportunities in the future.
Run, jog, walk and do other things that your body was made for. Feel alive.
Avoid exposure to negative elements like loud noises, toxins and hazardous places.
These are the few simple things you can do everyday to be happy.
And always remember the quote from Abraham Lincoln, he says that, “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
The Power of Deadlines!
September 22nd, 2009Day 3: The Power of Deadlines
Gary Ryan Blair’s 100 Day Challenge…
A deadline is a time commitment by which your tasks and goals must be achieved. They serve as a powerful strategic weapon which you must use to your advantage.
Here’s a simple yet profound truth, when you set a deadline and expect to get your goals accomplished quickly, they get accomplished quickly.
Any task or goal takes as much time as you allow it to take, and if you set a deadline and don’t allow much time to get the results you expect, it won’t take much time to enjoy victory.
It’s non-negotiable; you will always work best under a self-determined or externally fixed deadline for achieving your goals. By consciously choosing to enforce deadlines and accountability into each action you will begin to fast track your results and rewards.
You will achieve true greatness only after you develop a sense of urgency and importance about what you are doing—urgency to the extent that getting results and achieving your goals is a matter of life or death.
It’s tragically un-hip to procrastinate, to put off for tomorrow what can be done and enjoyed today. A deadline and strong sense of urgency generate energy toward getting results. In short, deadlines challenge you to perform.
Therefore, today and everyday of the challenge, you must purposely put yourself in a position where you have to perform.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when trying to achieve a goal is to plunge ahead without establishing a high enough sense of urgency in yourself and the situation.
Communicating urgency to yourself and others is one of the true hallmarks of personal and professional leadership.
Understanding the Importance of Deadlines
In an ideal world, behavior shouldn’t depend on deadlines. Behavior should depend on our values, and one of the
values of all high-performing people is a strong sense of urgency.
A clearly understood deadline that is shared, agreed upon, and committed to is the silver bullet of proactive behavior.
There is nothing like a good, old-fashioned, “it’s got to be done by this deadline” requirement that gets you fired up, focused, and into the game.
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