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Focus Tagged Articles
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Ten Hallmarks of a High Trust Organization
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| We tend to think of trust in one dimension, but there are several different ways trust plays out in organizations.
My favorite definition of trust is that when I trust someone, it means I believe he or she will always do what is thought to be in my best interest (even if I do not particularly appreciate it at the time).
We can contrast some dimensions of trust by considering what it is like to work in an organization with high trust versus one with low trust on several dimensions
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A Timely Time Management System for Creative People
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| The Buffet system is practical and flexible, yet simple. It not only keeps me focused on what I have to do, I easily manage multiple projects and goals and have the action steps to get me there. A secondary benefit is that it gives me is a sense of satisfaction that comes from feeling like I am in control of my time (excellent for keeping moping at bay). A third and for me, the most important advantage is that it keeps me productive while maintaining enough flexibility to be creative. A fourth benefit is that it helps keep me in balance, a dicey proposition at the best of times. Fifthly, I can easily pick out my priorities when I have them laid out in front of me. |
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Are you at the top of your Agenda?
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| Our days are just not long enough and when many of us are working upwards of sixty hours a week, good time management skills can make the difference between feeling successful or feeling like a failure, between feeling satisfaction or disappointment. Despite having access to a vast range of time management assistance some of us remain unable to use our time well.
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Successful People Never Stop Learning
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| Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers remain outstanding performers by becoming lifelong learners. They continually expand their knowledge in order to get out in front of the pack and stay there. Begin your lifelong learning journey by focusing on your strengths and working to improve them every day. Building on your strengths is easier that overcoming your weaknesses. When you build on your strengths you can make incremental improvements. However, if you have a glaring gap in your skills, address it now. Don't wait to take necessary quantum leaps. |
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Where's Your Focus?
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| Negative attitudes spread through an organization like a virus. |
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Five Techniques to Strengthen Your Mental Toughness
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| Have you ever wondered what it takes to become an Olympic Athlete, compete in the Ironman contest, or win a Grand Slam tennis match when you’re nearly at the brink of defeat? If you ask coaches and athletes, they will almost unanimously mention that mental toughness gave them the edge. Mental toughness is the ability to maintain focus and determination to stay on a course of action regardless of the difficulties. |
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Keeping the Glass Full
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| As you know, I have been out of contact for several months. Events happen in our lives over which we have no control and we do our best to respond. Such was the case for me, and as I re-establish my connection I want to share with you what I have learned. |
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Master Your Game: Establishing Your Tactical Game
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| After establishing your target, it is imperative that you establish a strategy. Here are four factors that have assisted me in executing my strategy:
• Taking action
• Being focused when in action
• Learning from the action and adjusting for the next one
• Being persistent.
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Master Your Game: Introduction
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| Welcome to the first edition of Master Your Game, a monthly newsletter distributed by Catalyst Business Coaching.
The objective of Master Your Game is to assist you in being the best you can be in whatever game you choose to play. When you master your game you will feel a greater sense of joy and success.
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Master Your Game: Leveraging "Who" and "How"
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| As a leader, you will turbo charge your organization when you shift from a narrow focus on processes and results (what you are doing and the results you need to achieve) to transforming the players in your team (who you need to execute these processes). Leaders with great communication skills have the power to shift people's self-perception and improve their potential. When you understand who your people are and are able to assist them to be brilliant in how they undertake the business processes, success will follow. |
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Master Your Game: Meeting Effectiveness
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| Excellent meetings are productive, engaging, and synergistic; participants emerge from these sessions filled with great enthusiasm, energy, and a greater clarity of purpose. Effective meetings facilitate collective decisions that people will actively support by following through and taking action. Unfortunately, not all meetings are effective. Meetings can be energy-draining, time-wasting and costly.
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Master Your Game: Meeting Process Design
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| After establishing and communicating the agenda to participants (see previous issues), the second step to conducting an effective meeting is designing the meeting process.*
Designing the process means considering the meeting objectives, the scope of the topic, the discussion stage for each topic and the available time. Specifically, this article discusses strategies for managing the group size, thinking activities and discussion time.
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Master Your Game: Reaching Greater Success
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| I hope you had as great a summer as I did. I have been busy finalizing five years of research for this next series of articles. But no need to feel sorry for me, this research was done during leisurely strolls on the golf course.
The next four articles are focused on reaching greater success in our lives. I would like to share a personal experience and use my golf game as an analogy for the principles. We will explore:
• Establishing your target - what do you really want to achieve?
• Your technical game - what do you need to do to get to the target?
• Your mental game - how important is who you are on the results you generate?
• A consistent swing - what habits will assist you to achieve success?
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Master Your Game: Taking Aim Pays Off
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| What if you hired a personal golf coach and started going to the driving range regularly to hone your swing? Your goal will be to consistently hit the green in regulation to lower your handicap. With sufficient practice, and by taking consistent action toward this goal, I bet you will accelerate your learning in perfecting your game.
It works in golf, you say, but will hiring a coach help me in other aspects of my game? |
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Master Your Game: High Performance Teams
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| Many organizations talk about teams and teamwork but few really know how nor take the time to build teams. This article is the first in a series about teamwork. It explains the difference between a group and a team and outlines how dynamic teams lead to future success and growth. |
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Play Catch with Communication
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An associate and I facilitated a dialogue session for the Delta Chamber of Commerce on the attraction and retention of employees in the workplace. The dialogue session uncovered five areas that influence employees in the workplace. They are:
• Communication
• Attitude
• Flexibility
• Opportunity to Learn
• Fun
This series of five articles will focus on each of the five areas from the dialogue session.
Let’s begin with communication. Communication, in particular interpersonal communication, is the foundation for creating excellent organizations and great places to work.
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Visions: A Success Story
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| Are you feeling overwhelmed or confused about what to do next? No time for yourself, let alone take a course and then have to implement the learning. You and Paul have a lot in common, here is how Paul used his vision to get unstuck and playing a new game. |
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Visions: Aiming for Your Company's Success
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| Great, after reading my previous newsletter - Visions: An Aerial View of Your Ideal Golf Course - you now have a personal vision. Let's move on to creating a compelling vision for your business. |
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Visions: An Arial View of Your Ideal Golf Course
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| Are your goals taking you where you want to go?
How do you know? Read your vision!
Don’t have a vision?
Write one now and you will have one to read next year. |
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FUN in the workplace...
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| Is FUN as waste of time or is it a necessity to increase productivity?
If you and your employees are not having fun it is costing you money in all sorts of ways that you would likely prefer not to think about. Having fun is a necessity. Fun creates a good feeling inside of us a sense of euphoria. When we smile and laugh our brains produce a chemical serotonin that gives us this feeling of well being. Exuding this kind of energy is highly attractive for others; they may want to start hanging out with you.
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10 Essential Time Management Tips to Get Results
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| Organize your life and get results with 10 essential time management tips. Managing time is much about managing self. Make choices, develop habits, and take the actions to get the results you crave. Read on for practical steps to get the important stuff done. |
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Heed the Dalai Lama -- and Fortune Magazine
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| The Dalai Lama says:
“One can be deceived by three types of laziness:
the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate;
the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities;
and the laziness that is attached to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.”
I really like this quote because it drives home an important point about personal responsibility and becoming an outstanding performer. The Dalai Lama doesn’t let us off the hook by saying, “I didn’t think I could do it.” Instead, he says that doubting our abilities is a form of laziness. That’s some tough love!
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A Lesson From a Ski Hill
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| How often do we look around, get distracted and lose our focus? What does that cost us in business and in our personal lives? |
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Successful People Focus on Their Goals
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| Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. They set high goals and do whatever it takes to achieve them. Focus on your goals every day. Stop for a minute several times a day and ask yourself if what you are doing is bringing you closer to achieving at least one of your goals. If it isn't, stop what you're doing and start doing something related to achieving your goals. |
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Why You Must Master Self-Discpline
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| How many times have you felt the urge to take a small break and watch TV while you are in the middle of writing an article? Or perhaps you’re in the middle of making your prospect calls, and suddenly you decide you want to chat with your friend about weekend plans without completing your other calls? I know it’s important to take breaks once in a while, and you should to recharge your batteries, but have you ever experienced taking a break, and suddenly that break turns into a few hours and you suddenly don’t want to do that task anymore? Most of us have been guilty at one point or another, but it’s important to complete income-producing tasks to put you closer to your goals. Out of all the skills, mastering self-discipline and focus is key to success. |
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The Journey to Your VISION
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| Now that you have defined your vision for the coming year, lets' look at how to move toward it. We are going to cover establishing targets and overcoming hazards.
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Learn To Focus - Turbo Charge Your Sales Results
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| The power of focus is amazing to me. If you want better results then learn to focus. If you want a more motivated team then learn to focus. If you want to happier customers and high customer retention rates then learn to focus! |
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Top Must Have Assets to be a Sought-After Leadership Speaker
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| What can you do to be a sought-after leadership speaker? Work hard on it! Are there some professional and personal attributes that you can develop to set yourself apart in a crowded field of speakers? Here are the major ones that can't be faked. |
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Top Tips on How to Jump into Personal & Professional Success
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| Jumping high and forward is an inborn talent for survival of the African impala. The impala is known to jump about ten feet high. This high jump propels the impala to land about thirty feet from the spot where it starts. With this ability of vertical and horizontal jumping, the impala survives and thrives in the carnivore-infested savannas of Africa.
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The Enduring Presence of Third Stringers
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| They are not on front pages. You may never read about them or hear their names in their playing days. But you will know their attachment to the sport they love long after those who had names on the front pages are long forgotten. Their spectacular performance in something they believe in and are passionate about is evident in their contribution to it long after the days of their obscurity are gone.
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3 Key Habits of Successful People
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| Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to observe the daily habits of highly successful people across different industries. Although there are several habits that successful people incorporate into their lives, there are three that stand out that they practice consistently.
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Building Fires - What Leaders Do
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| Teaching, demonstrating and motivating through positive reinforcement are just a few of the examples of what leaders do to encourage the greatness in those they mentor. When properly done they can build followers into fiery leaders themselves. We can draw many parallels between developing the character of a leader and building a fire. |
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Business ADD/ADHD
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| This definitely sounds like what business people suffer from when we attempt to accomplish our daily missions. It seems anything and everything occurs and comes to mind when we settle down and begin our day. At that very moment the world is filled with crisis and we must consider what should be done. Our attention is drawn away form our goals and agendas and we run to the farthest extent of our minds. |
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Focus is Critical in Business, Relationships and Achieving Goals
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| The importance of focus in business, communication and even relationships explained as well as the steps to increase focus. |
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A balanced life: Learn these top 7 tips
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| Is achieving work-life balance really possible? Yes! That illusive balance comes from within you, through the daily application of these top 7 tips. Then the outside naturally shifts to align itself with this internal change. |
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Are You Tired of Making Other Peoples' Dreams Come True Instead of Your Own?
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| Life is not a game of chance, but a game of choice. Winners determine their futures in advance. They project what they want to occur in the future, and hold themselves accountable for that. My mentors often tell me that successful people and winners create their futures, rather than live reactive lives and acting like victims of circumstances. Most people, on the other hand, spend little time creating their dreams, and use most of their waking hours making other people’s dreams a reality. |
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Learn To Stay Focused On Your Goal
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| How to stay focused on your goal |
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I'll Do It Tomorrow
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| “Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.” ~Victor Kiam
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Is Yesterday's News Preventing Your Success?
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| Never underestimate the power of focus to create success. |
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Five things you should do right now to keep your small business growing
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| This has been one tough year for business. The economic storms have hit virtually every industry and every market and taken a heavy toll. But still, there are plenty of businesses who are doing well, and some are going strong. What is it that makes those businesses so successful in trying times like these?
Certainly there are many factors, but here are five common factors that you are likely to find in every one of those standout businesses. Learn these five and your chances for success will go up. |
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The Pursuit of Flow
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| Being "in the flow" is that enthralled state, when your level of skill matches the level of the challenge. You become so engrossed in what you do that you forget to eat. You escape time. We’ve all been there. It’s what athletes call “being in the zone”, what musicians refer to as “being in the groove”. The concept of flow is the brainchild of psychologist Mihali Csikszentmihalyi. This article provides 10 practical tips for achieving this coveted state. |
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Commitment, Your Word is Your Bond
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| There are very few things a person has control over. We attempt to live our lives righteously, use our time wisely, improve our health and hold our tongue, but circumstances often change our intentions. We plan to accomplish tasks, which are good, and honorable yet they are often hindered. |
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How do You Stay Focused When Things Get Tough?
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| There are so many distractions out there that it takes intellectual effort to stay focused. Focus in on goals and rewards not the difficulties. Focus on results and you will succeed. Don't live in the past. Learn from it and let it go. The ability to forget is a talent of greatness. You cannot afford to look behind. Don't let little things bother you. Embrace and accept the fact that focus takes work. Leadership is a precious commodity. 3%'ers make the difference. |
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What Successful People Avoid in Their Communication
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| There are key, unbelievably overused sentences you must make efforts to consciously avoid in your communication, especially in these uncertain economic times. Check those who use these sentences frequently and chances are they are not on your list of the people you consider successful in any endeavor of life. I call them de-motivators and dream busters or responsibility deflectors. The moment you utter any of them, you surrender your desire for immediate action and “borrow” time to wallow in self pity-which is a dangerous move that will never bring either tangible or intangible results.
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From Here, Now Where? What’s Not Working and What Will
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| You know how things are in your business, professional or personal endeavors. You have first hand knowledge of how our economy, that for the most part is still ailing, has affected everything you expect from whatever you do. Your passion, creativity and hope are on hold until “things change.” The reality is, until you ask yourself, “What’s not working for you, what will?” and then implement what will work, nothing will change. Your business, professional or personal pursuits will remain on hold and risk being forced to obsolescence until “things change.” |
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Whose Feather Are You Flying With?
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As a leader, there is one fact you can't deny: you are in your position partly because other people helped you, with their talents, skills or resources, to achieve your vision.
Emmett Smith, the Dallas Cowboys' running back who broke records and will one day join the elite NFL Hall of Fame Club, took the time when he retired to recognize 187 people who provided him with the "feathers" to be a star in football.
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Un-used Potential
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| Millions of talents and gifts come and go from this world packaged within people who never used them. Yet, when you discover and use a hidden talent and/or gift, you significantly enrich your life and the lives of others.
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Top 7 Tips for Overcoming Buffaloes With Others
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| When you or your organization is face-to-face with a fierce buffalo, there is no short cut-just as villagers could not run away or climb trees, neither can you escape from the buffalo trumpeting you your organization. You have a strategy and a team to help overcome the beast. |
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Top 7 Leadership Lessons Learned From Gardening
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| Gardening has tips that can be applied in Gardening has tips that can be applied in leadership strategies, parenting and spiritual issues.
My mother gave me a small plot to garden when I was ten-long before she bought me my first underwear and shoes. It was mine to cultivate, plant and care for my crops before harvesting them. Sugarcane was my crop of choice. I could harvest one at a time without asking for my parent's permission.
At that tender age, I discovered a source of tranquility and moments for creative thinking that are rarely experienced in our fast paced world. Up to 1985, I gardened whenever schools were closed. What many consider manual labor was an interconnection of mental, physical, and spiritual aspects that always left a sense of significance words cannot describe.
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My Father's Leadership
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| Today's decline of the social structures in America that hold families, corporations and other institutes together is largely attributed to ineffective leaders. As I reflect on the importance of quality leadership, I think of my father, Johnson Kituku Musoo.
My father is a living testimony that what you don't have should not stop you from achieving what you want. His mother died before he turned ten, leaving him with a younger brother and sister to care for. I learned about his struggles from other people. I never heard him complain--although I once saw him cry, wishing that his mother was still alive.
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Inspiring People for Maximum Productivity
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| It is amazing to learn and witness an ordinary teacher inspire average students for outstanding performance. There are numerous outstanding coaches who were never star players in their day. And there are the average employees who became leaders and turned organizations around-on the positive side. What one sees among these leaders, regardless of their background, is individuals with a vision, burning desire to turn that vision into reality, ability to communicate that vision to others in a way that inspires positive attitude, determination and action from the listeners.
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Balancing Work and Life
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| A major explanation for stress has been uncertainty in the workplace as a result of increased competition, changing local and international trade regulations, merging of corporations and technological advances. These changes have been experienced nationally and locally, Idaho included. For example, Micron's production and profits are directly affected by business practices and turmoil in East Asia. Zilog, Hewlett-Packard, Ore-Ida Inc. and other corporations constantly make major business adjustments to be profitable in an emerging and unpredictable environment.
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Beyond the Lion's Claws and Teeth of Your Future
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| Vision overshadows inadequacies related to skills, resources and abilities. It has been said, and proven to be true, that what your mind can conceive, and you believe in your heart, you can achieve. "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science" (Albert Einstein). Dreams are the seeds of success. |
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Discover and Use Your Personal Strengths
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| Once you become consciously aware of your key personal strengths and make it a lifetime goal to use them all the time, you will increase your productivity, be more pleasant to work with and save yourself the pain of trying to improve non strengths. We don't succeed by using our weaknesses. We thrive by using the full potential of our strengths.
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How To Get Your Work Done Quickly
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| Zig Ziggler and the Parkinson's Law illustrate this tip on how to be more productive and efficient.
In order to get lots of work done quickly it is necessary to prioritize your list of tasks to complete and then set a deadline for completion.
Without setting a deadline, your "to do" list will linger indefinitely. |
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The One Main Thing
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| The one main thing is what drives the business. It is a critical lead indicator that reveals the health of a business. What is the one main thing that your business needs to focus on? In this article Steve helps you to understand why the one main thing and one main measure is so important to your business. He provides some key questions to ask yourself so that hopefully you might be able to identify what the one main thing is that your business needs to focus on. |
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Six Qualities That you Need to Make Money on The Internet
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| 1 Patience Firstly, you will need to have an abundance of patience, many people think that they can have a website built for them, and it will be an instant success, this is not true. Nor are all the get rich quick schemes that you will hear about whilst working online, things take time and sometimes a lot of it, so you will have to be very patient.
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4 Steps to Increase The Power of Your Focus
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| Living your life without practicing The Power of Focus, is like trying to hit the bull's eye of a target you can't see. You can spend hours launching arrows, only to miss the target entirely. You become exhausted and frustrated when your repeated efforts don't show the results you are trying to achieve. This is what it feels like to operate without The Power of Focus. Here are 4 steps to help you increase the power of your focus.
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3 Things That Get in the Way of a Great Sales Process
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| How comfortable are you in asking people to become a paying client? Once you know what's getting in your way, it will be easier to overcome these issues. |
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Kaya's Easy 5 Step Strategic Planning Process
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| If the idea of strategic planning scares you or makes you want to crawl into a hole, use my 5 easy steps to begin the process and you will be on your way. |
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Money and Decisions
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| In small business it is important to look at how your money issues effect your decisions. |
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The Artful Blend of Freedom and Self-discipline 5 Ways to Support Your Home Office
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| Working from a home office can be wonderful but also has its challenges. Here are 5 tips to help make the process smoother. |
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Visualize to Keep your Eye on the Plan
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| Making your goals come alive and keeping a focus on what you intend to create and accomplish, well that can be challenging when life begins to happen and unexpected events occur. Here's how I help my clients keep an eye on their goal plans. |
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Swimming in a Sea of Ideas
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| Creativity can be one of the best strengths to have. It helps you to solve problems, makes you versatile and able to roll with change, which in this world is a real plus.
Typically my creative clients tell me that they usually do well at anything they put their hand to. For all its merits, creativity can be one of the most incapacitating strengths because sometimes there are just too many ideas to follow. Having choice is a good thing but having too much choice can be debilitating.
Being focused, having choices, and not too many of them, helps creativity work for you. |
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Clarifying the Strategic Focus
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| Effective leaders who want to generate lasting, sustained success in their organizations need to spend a considerable amount of time and energy clarifying and communicating the strategic focus. |
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Solo worker? Why waking up earlier may help.
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| You should feel reassured that Manhattan's best and brightest solo workers also have the same problem we all do of rolling out of bed on time -- and these are some brilliant and amazing people! Find out how to wake up earlier so you can be more productive.
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Getting to your North Pole
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| How to set yourself a challenging goal and identify the strategies to achieve it. |
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How Good is 99 Percent?
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| How many times have you heard the expression: "good enough for government work?" Too often I am sure. Sometimes it may even apply to your business or other activities. Of course, that is not your standard of excellence. Most of the time you strive for better than 90 percent perfection, don't you? What if we strived for 99 percent? Sounds good, doesn't it? No more than one error in a hundred. But how good is that really? |
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Are You Singing Your Song of Success? Five Secrets to Following Your Dreams and Achieving More Success in Your Life
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| I ask you the following:
Are You Singing Your Song of Success?
Are you letting your song of success go silent? The following are five secrets that will guarantee that your song of success is heard and you can also live your dreams: |
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Do You Wear Success Blinders?
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| Women often find themselves in the position of multitasking; trying to complete too many things at once. With too much on our plate, it is often difficult to concentrate on what your high value are and spending the time and focus that they require. The article gives some tips on how to put your success blinders on and increase productivity. |
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What To Do When You Lose The Flow
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| An explanation of what 'being in the flow' is and some strategies to help one find the flow when you get stuck. |
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The Myth of Balance
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| The myth of balance is an outdated concept that most women still feel they need to have in order to be happy and fulfilled. This article discusses what is real essence of balance-the idea of being and doing. |
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Plotting Your Course
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| We cannot achieve our best unless we know where we are heading. We need to set ourselves stimulating and satisfying goals in order to have direction and focus in our working and personal lives. |
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"We're Getting Ready to Play Notre Dame, But All I'm Thinking about Is You"
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| Make the people in your life feel special. Lavishing attention on others will get you more business opportunities and better career options.
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Focus Your Thinking
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| The human mind is an amazing thing. Yet, just like a sophisticated computer or a powerful machine, you must learn how it works to take full advantage of its potential. The trick is to decide what will get your attention and then keep focused on what is important. |
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Simple Steps to Success
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| Whether you are looking for financial freedom, want to live healthier or aspire to own a multi-million dollar business, this article will show you the traits that many successful people such as: Tony Robbins, Warren Buffet and Oprah Winfrey all have in common. |
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The most powerful motivation is to come up with your own solution
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| How can coaching help you achieve what you desire? |
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Focus on the results - not the problem
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| Where is your focus?
Is it on the problem or the blessing? On what you can do, or what the
news says is going on?
On the bad economy or on how you can create great success because
of the economic situation? |
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Be Your Own Visionary
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| You are the visionary of your life. What is it that you envision? Do you even have a vision of what you would like your life to be like? Some people do not, they say that they don’t know what they want to do or even the impact that they have on their life. |
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An Attitude of Gratitude
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| Throughout our lives many unwelcome, unfavorable things will happen to us. We will face challenges and circumstances that are very difficult. But we need to be truly thankful. Now I am not suggesting that we walk around grinning from ear to ear like a Cheshire Cat, happy that we have problems. That would make no sense at all. But no matter what problems we face, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of good things that are happening or have happened in our lives and it would be foolhardy to allow this one thing, |
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Z is for being in the Zone
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| OK – I have to admit, by the time I got to Z in this series, I had to be a little bit creative about the title, but actually being able to get in the Zone is an important part of running a business. |
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Abundance and Prosperity
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| Being abundant and prosperous is so much more than just about having money or wealth. It’s about being in a place where your energy allows you to receive money and wealth, if that’s your true focus. |
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Allowing the Objects of Perfection
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| Did you know that the Law of Attraction works perfectly every time? It’s a perfect match for wherever the focus is being held – whether knowingly or subconsciously. |
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Successful Goal Setting
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| Setting goals puts you in the driver’s seat, giving you the power to transform your life or take a company to another level. Successfully setting and executing goals is not rocket science but there is a tried and true way that works for my clients and me. Sticking to this program guarantee’s success. It doesn’t matter whether your goals are personal or they are used to direct a large enterprise, the steps and the pitfalls are identical. I’ll take you through a quick tour. If you like, you can identify a goal of yours and do a test run of the system. The steps to executing goals are simple, unambiguous and easy to follow and should be practiced every day. Skipping one step increases the odds that you wion’t realize your goal. |
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People and Expectations
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| As you have already discovered, the world is full of all kinds of different people. Some of them mesh well with our personalities and expectations and others simply do not. This is not a problem in and of itself because all of these people put together make up our world as it exists.
The difficulty arises when we expect people to be other than what they are. For example, we all have a friend or acquaintance who is habitually late. If this is the only problem with a particular person, it can be dealt with. Over the months and years, we simply learn to build in extra time, because we know that they will continue to be late. The problem arises when we expect that late person to be punctual.
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How do I find a niche?
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| A niche is a distinct segment of a market. Defining your niche will position you as an expert in your chosen field amongst your chosen target market and enable you to set higher fees. Success is always easier when you have single minded clarity around your business. This article will help you to get that clarity about what it is that your business offers. |
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Its not fair!
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| As a leader or manager do you aspire to be fair?
If you do, stop!
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You didn’t say I’d be fired!
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| Do you get frustrated when something you say which is obvious gets misinterpreted? |
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Always isn’t every time
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| As a manager, do you and your employees have miscommunications? |
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Just the facts
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| Do any of your direct reports (or for that matter, anyone at all!) continually challenge you in an unproductive way? |
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My employee seems to be sick on Fridays and Mondays
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| Do you have an employee who takes advantage of the system? |
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That person has a difficult personality
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| Does it irritate you when one of your employees, peers, or boss is very difficult? |
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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen whatever
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| Do you have opinions on someone based on their age? |
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The Facebook Revolution
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| Do you wonder what your employees are doing on their computer? |
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Not listening can be catastrophic
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| Do you feel your reports are not listening to you?! |
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Dealing with Morons
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| Do you ever think you’re working with people who don’t know what they’re doing?! |
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The $64,000 Question
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| Do your questions lead to solutions or more problems? |
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Dirt on the car
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| DO YOU STRUGGLE TO EFFECTIVELY MOTIVATE ANY DIRECT REPORTS? |
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Questions, Jeopardy Style
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| Do you find yourself stuck no matter what questions you ask yourself? |
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The questions which lead to nowhere
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| DO YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK NO MATTER WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOURSELF? |
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My Door is Always Open
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| Do you ever commit to things which you possibly can’t achieve? |
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Don’t Blame Mental Pause
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| Lately I catch myself in mid-action, trying to remember what the heck I was doing. Or trying to remember what I was going to do next, where I was going when I started up my web browser. To add insult to injury, the other night I cut my finger reaching for my phone on my kitchen counter. I'd just turned the lights off but I knew the phone was there. I simply forgot that I’d placed the knife next to the phone. I hurriedly reached for the phone, and sliced myself pretty good. |
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Follow the Leader
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| We've been told for years that the best way to learn something is by example. That is why we are taught by teachers, use computer tutorials, and follow examples and exhibits in books. But what about in day to day life? Are there people that you can follow that intuitively know exactly what your needs and wishes are, so that you can copy their actions and/or solicit their advice? If I had to guess, I'd say not. So how does one go about finding someone to learn from? Go look in the mirror. You can achieve the things that you desire most in life, by following your own lead. There is a three step process: Be-ing, Do-ing, and Hav-ing. |
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Lessons from Sobibor
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| I never tire of stories of survival of any kind. I like to learn from them the values, beliefs and actions that supported them to come out of a crisis situation where it seemed the “odds” were against them. |
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Your Character on Steroids
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| How to build resilience: 10 Steps |
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Focus On What's Right
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| Trying to fix what you (or other people) perceive to be wrong with you is not going to make you feel happier or more fulfilled. |
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Want to increase sales? productivity? focus? Stop cluttering your mind with useless information. Einstein, was right all along, take these simple tips and apply them today!
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| In this world of information overload, memorizing useless information and/or keeping everything in your head is the equivalent a having a really bad hang over, when it comes to productivity and focus. Our brains need a break, just like our computers, we must keep them clean and get rid of junk. It is time to purge, and get focused. |
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5 Elements To Focus
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| I have found that there are 5 key elements to creating focus, and failure to master them will cause one to destroy growth and profit in a business. While there are many factors essential to business growth and profitability, some have greater impact than others. The ability to focus an organization and its people should rank among the top 3. |
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Great at Multitasking? Well, That’s a Bummer!
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| Some wear it like a badge, others are visibly overwhelmed. Multitasking, they feel, is a necessary component of being competitive and in touch in today’s world. In fact, it is quite the opposite... and much, much worse. Here’s why. |
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Meditation for Focus and Productivity
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| Meditation can be used to improve your ability to focus on specific information, it will also help you to stay more focused and alert. |
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Focus and Productivity
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| 10 easy ways to help you maintain your focus and boost your productivity |
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One Bad Apple
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| Have you ever heard the expression that one bad apple can spoil the barrel? Unfortunately not only do many people believe this, but they actually live their lives by it. |
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Putting Your Mind to It Reaps Massive Benefits
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| Find a quiet spot, close your eyes, and begin to breathe deep even breaths – in and out. Think back to the times when you were “in the zone”, when you achieved everything you put your mind to seemingly simply by giving it your full concentration, your full attention, your full focus. Didn’t it seem almost effortless? As if it just happened exactly as you desired it without serious work? |
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Winning Disguises the True Motivation to Compete
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| Does your very strong craving for winning motivate you? Winning is the primary motivator as believed by a lot of extremely competitive athletes. That is true for some, but not for all. Examine your real driving force and you may discover the actual core reason is to avoid losing. |
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Connect the Dots
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| Connect the dots between your BIG inspiring vision, your yearly goals and your daily actions. It takes a considerable amount of focus to live like this if you’re not used to it. Do whatever it takes to continue connecting the dots between your vision, goals and daily actions. |
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7 Reasons Bully Managers Last
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| A leadership student asked me why bully managers are able to remain in power. Their destructive impact is well known, yet many of them are allowed to abuse people for years. It seems logical there should be some force to either change the behaviors or remove them from power. Often this is not the case. This article describes 7 reasons why bully managers last and gives some antidotes to the problem. |
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Acting On Your Marketing Actions
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| Marketing is a complement to selling. Often associated with ‘push and pull’ factors (although neo-marketers dispute this Newtonian comparison), marketing has been perceived as the costlier distant cousin of the Spartan member called selling. |
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Business Focus – Leading One Thing At A Time
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| Running a business is about leadership. Only you can mind and mine your own business as clearly as you can envision the future of your business. |
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What targets should I be setting for my marketing?
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| I know in my own business that I ALWAYS do better each month if I set some targets for my marketing. If I’ve got goals to aim for, I know where I am and I can try to achieve them. |
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The 411 on Selecting and Achieving Your Goals
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| Do you know what you truly desire to accomplish, obtain, or become in life? Not just a vague idea, but what you really want to do? Psychologists and sociologists theorize that because there are so many more options available for the average person in this new millennium, the decision-making process has become too convoluted, and has begun to actually hinder success. Achieving goals is a step by step process, with making a decision about what to accomplish being just a part of the whole process itself. |
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The Law of Attraction
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| Are you aware of what a powerful creator you are? Do you know that everything that is happening to you or has ever happened to you is, without exception, in full response to your thoughts - and more importantly - the emotions behind those thoughts? Take a look at your life. There are probably some areas you're really happy with and some areas you're not so happy with. You may even believe you are a victim of your circumstances. I'm here to tell you, you are not a victim! It's simply a matter of understanding how to play the Game (of Life) by understanding the rules...the Laws that define the Game. |
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More diligence!
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| FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS! |
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The Universal Law of Attraction
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| Are you aware of what a powerful creator you are? Do you know that everything that is happening to you or has ever happened to you is, without exception, in full response to your thoughts - and more importantly - the emotions behind those thoughts? Take a look at your life. |
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Three Secrets To Becoming The Employee Companies Strive To Keep
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| In today’s market everyone seems to be worried. Worried about finding a job, worried about keeping a job, and worried about how to get ahead in an already overcrowded market. Unemployment rates are at an all time high, more new businesses are failing and the economic outlook changes so often that to call it uncertain seems like an understatement. |
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You have to Believe It to See It
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| Do you find much fault in the statement ‘You create your own reality’? If so, you’re not in the minority. Many find it absolutely ludicrous that anyone could presume that they’ve created massive debt, a broken home, a thankless job, or unemployment. But a little exploration will often uncover just the opposite. |
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Do You Find It Hard To Focus?
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| Over the last few months, I have given myself a self-diagnosis of A.D.D. While I'm not sure that I meet the criteria to make me a hardcore case of Attention Deficit Disorder, I certainly have been struggling with "Attention Distraction Disorder." Come read about ways to combat this. |
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Steady – One Thing At A Time In Business
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| A lot can happen at the last moment in business. Crises and exigencies can surprise us like digital ambushes from cookies and pop-up screens. It is not that these startling events that tend to throw us off kilter, but rather how we respond to these challenges and distractions |
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Productivity vs. Procrastination
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| What keeps us from being productive in business? Learn why we procrastinate and what to do about it. |
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Do you know your why?
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| When people used to ask me why I wanted to achieve a particular goal in my business or get to a certain turnover, I never used to be able to answer them and I always came away from that interaction thinking the same thing: |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 1
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 2
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 3
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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What have I learned in 6 months of management? Part 4
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| I asked one of the managers I was coaching what he learned in six months of re-focusing on management skills. Each response deserves its own soundbite, because they all incorporate skills managers should use to avoid traps and pitfalls. |
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The loud woman at Starbucks
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| Do you find any of your employees irritating? |
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Managing techies
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| Do you need to come from a technical background to manage technical people? |
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Motivation with consequences
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| How do you motivate someone to do something they don’t want to do? |
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Jumping to Conclusions
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| As managers and leaders, how do we put aside our beliefs and experiences when we’re listening? |
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Should you bother marketing during July and August?
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| Why should you bother doing any marketing during July and August? After all, most people are away on holiday aren’t they? No one is really around so there doesn’t seem to be much point in doing a lot of marketing. You might as well just have some time off and take things a little bit easier. |
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Stay Focused, Get it Done, Then Have Some Fun
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| Stay focused, get it done, then have some fun. What is your goal, and what do you need to get done today to reach it? Get the most important thing done first, then move on to the next most important thing. It’s called prioritization, but in reality, that’s only half of it. You have to prioritize your to do list, then keep focused on that list without getting distracted. |
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7 ways your business can start saving time and money now
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| Disorganized employees are costing your business money, find out how to start saving time and money now. |
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Secrets of the Top 10% - Part IV: Stay Focused!
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| Top performers don't master processes; they master behaviors. It's those "success behaviors" that we are examining in this series, and which we'll continue to explore today when we uncover the importance of Staying Focused! |
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Secrets of the Top 10% - Part V: Get to Work!
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| Preparation is important. But top performers don't spend their valuable calling time doing hours of Web surfing or reading annual reports. The Top 10% understand that the key to avoiding "paralysis by analysis" is to strike a balance between having enough knowledge to engage the customer in an intelligent and informed manner, but not so much that they come off sounding like a know-it-all. |
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Get In The "Effectiveness" Groove
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| As a leader, it’s important to have a well-organized and disciplined approach to your work and your personal life. Taking time to organize and prioritize at work and at home will help ensure you have the energy and focus you need to lead effectively.
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It's Nobody's Fault
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| It's not so much blame as responsibility. Most people are reluctant to step up. Strategy is management's responsibility. |
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10 Tips for Mastering Stress Relief
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| Stress comes in many forms and can be found in many situations and circumstances. Even during the happiest times in life, such while planning a wedding or welcoming a baby, there is a certain amount of good stressors. |
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10 Tips for Creating a Successfull Business
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| Below are ten tips necessary to grow a successful business. |
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Why Businesses Succeed
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| Other business authors discuss why businesses fail. I prefer to focus on the positive: businesses that thrive and why they become successful. There has been so much negative news over the years about job loss in NEO that I wanted to find out first hand the true story. I talked with nearly 50 small successful Northeast Ohio companies and I found out things were not quite as bad as the news portrayed. |
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What is Your Intelligent Self-interest
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| Do you know what you stand for with the intent to chose and take action? |
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Why Intelligent Self Interest is Important to Your Success
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| Intelligent self-interest is defined as choosing what the most important to you with the intent to take action. Let us explore how this concept applies to business. |
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Where does selling begin? Activate the buying journey immediately
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| Where does selling begin? Why do we begin a buyer conversation by focusing on finding needs? What are we gaining/losing by starting there? |
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Are you really good at handling cr@p?
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| Bad stuff happens to good and even somewhat enlightened people. But when you get really good at handling cruddy stuff often enough, you become comfortable with it. You might think that you’re living better now that you’re able to tolerate bad stuff without flying off the handle, but is that really a good thing? |
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It's Time to Stop Procrastinating
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| Reasons why we procrastinate and tips to assist in overcoming those obstacles |
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What are Your Limits?
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| I've learned to embrace the word "limit". A word I never thought I'd like. But here's the thing. Setting limits -limits that YOU choose -actually makes you more powerful. |
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What Does Brand Clarity Feel Like?
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| When you help your potential clients get out of confusion, they come back to the nice, calm, lovely place where they understand exactly what you’re talking about… and can immediately tell whether they need to work with you (or if they know someone who does). And that’s a lovely, cozy place to be.
What makes this place so lovely and cozy?
The place where there’s complete clarity and understanding between you and your clients is so lovely and cozy because you’ve finally found an invaluable way to communicate your passion to the people you’re passionate about serving.
Once you’re there, you’ll know it. You’ll see and feel the difference becaus |
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Eye on the Ball
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| Like millions of people around the globe, I've been enjoying the World Series featuring my beloved St. Louis Cardinals, and at the same time, savoring a great football season.
We all marvel at the talent and skill of professional athletes but, sometimes, it is baffling why the most highly-trained and talented people anywhere will fail to catch the most routine ball that comes to them. These are players who, in many cases, are paid millions of dollars a year for the sole purpose of catching a ball. And yet, on a significant number of occasions, they drop a ball that could have been caught by a Little League player.
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Today may be the most important day of 2012
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| Today is November 15th. I don’t know if that’s significant on your calendar but it is on mine. For many years now I’ve made it my plan to have my goals completed for the upcoming year by November 15th. |
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How Bad Do You Want IT?
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| When I want something really bad, you better not get in my way. I get my focus locked on it like a bull going after the cape. When I’m in this state of mind, I always get my desired end result. Always. |
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Kick Start the New Year by Setting SMART Goals
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| Many people are not able to articulate what they really want in life in clear and concise language. A good place to start is to make a list of all the things you don’t want or are really unhappy about. The second step is to look at your list of don’t wants and convert each one into something you really want instead. The third step is to turn your wants and desires into specific and measurable goals as a way of gaining clarity and focus. Making your goals SMART is a key step to having your goals become reality. |
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Perception Is Projection
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| Are you a glass half full or glass half empty person? Learn how values, beliefs, attitudes, past experiences, memories and how we process information impacts the way we see the world. Learn to focus your attention more positively. |
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THREE WAYS TO KILLER FOCUS (NO MAFIA REQUIRED)
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| Have you seen the movie Limitless?
Bradley Cooper plays struggling author Eddie Morra, who is suffering from serious writer’s block. His life dramatically changes when he runs into his former brother-in-law, who introduces him to NZT, a revolutionary new drug that allows him to instantly focus and tap into his full potential. |
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Ring in the New Year with Intention
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| Studies have shown that many people start off the New Year with resolutions, and by the third week into January, they've already "blown it" and have given up on striving toward those goals. |
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It's You or Them but Somebody Needs to Fix It
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| If you’ve ever had an issue getting rockstar results from the people you hire or partner with, you’re not alone. The very best place to start focusing your energy to improve any situation with your team is on yourself. With a little intentional focus and some patience, you can turn any team into a success. |
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Smart Women Have Rituals for Success
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| Do you have rituals for success in your life and business? Here are 7 rituals I use to help me stay on course and honor what I value most. |
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Focus on the Horizon
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| Experiences such as rally car driving can provide pointers that help us in running businesses - especially when we are experiencing difficulties or facing economic uncertainty. |
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Determination
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| Add power to focus. |
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Forgiveness
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| Forgiveness is not for them; it is for me. |
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Confidence
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| If you don't have confidence you're dead in the water. |
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