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"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will
spread beyond all boundaries."
-- Corita Kent
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I never
promised you anything ...
One month down and we are already at February. (I know, that was
quick)!
Just stop for a moment and think back to those business goals, work
targets, KPI's, and personal aspirations (lose weight, get fit,
learn something new, etc.) that you set at the beginning of 2006 (or
the end of 2005). Think about those visions of success, profits
and happiness you saw yourself achieving this year.
Are you still on track?
...or have you broken some of those promises already?
"Just a moment", I hear your say "I never *promised*
that I would achieve them, I just committed to trying my best. I
didn't break any promises, I just got caught up in other things"
To me, this is an excuse.
It is a habit of allowing yourself to not stick to your targets
because you lose focus when under pressure.
Am I being a little harsh? Perhaps.
Am I being truthful and accurate? Absolutely!
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continues
GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
By Dr. John C. Maxwell
When I travel, my daily agenda is always full.
I don't get up late, linger over breakfast, and then start meandering
down one country road after another, just to see where they might lead.
I'm up early, ready to cram as much into each day as I possibly can. I
know exactly where I want to go and, map in hand, I know how to get
there.
Come to think of it, that's also how I approach life. I can't just
let life happen to me. I need a road map that shows me how to get
from where I am now to where I want to be in the future. Of course, if I
want to be successful, I can't just leave the roadmap in the glove box.
I have to follow it. Diligently.
Read the whole article
More Power In
Your Little
Finger....
By: Liz Ryan
Very often,
WorldWIT members
listen to our
radio
interviews, and
write to me to
say "How does
one achieve all
that? Do you
have suggestions
for gaining
influence,
rising in the
world, and
becoming
powerful?" The
answer is yes -
I do. In fact,
finding one's
personal power
is one of my
favorite topics.
Article continues
The Top Six
Ways to Stay Motivated by Chris Widener
I receive many emails from people that basically ask the same question: How can
I keep myself motivated long term? This seems to be quite a common dilemma for
many people so I want to address it because it can be done! Here are my tips for
staying motivated: Article continues
Get Out of Town! 5 Tips for Lightening
Your Workload So You Can Take a Vacation
You work hard. You covet every day of vacation
you're entitled to. So why aren't you using them? According to Expedia.com's
annual "Vacation Depravation" survey, nearly one-third of Americans do
not always take their vacation days. In fact, Americans are likely to give back
more than 421 million unused vacation days in 2005.
Before blaming your job for forcing you to
surrender your precious time off, take a look at your own habits at work and
home. The best way ensure that you don't forego a single well-deserved day on
the beach, on the slopes or just relaxing at home, is to increase your personal
productivity. By tweaking the way you work and structure your day, you can get
more done in less time and feel good about it. Best of all, you will never have
to say no to a vacation again. Here's your five-step game plan for seizing
control of your time and boosting your personal productivity:
Article
continues
Mindfulness is a not a concept most of us are likely to encounter at work. This
excerpt from the new book Resonant Leadership describes how
self-awareness can help you stay calm in a crisis.
by Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Navigating the unknown
When dealing with a crisis or the unknown, we simply cannot predict what is to
come. It takes confidence and optimism to let go of preconceived notions while
also studiously opening oneself to new information and solutions. The process of
opening up can make us feel vulnerable, even afraid. Many leaders simply shut
down in order to avoid this kind of uneasiness. Many also shut down to prove to
people around them that they are decisive and know what to do (even when they do
not). Avoiding openness—and vulnerability—results in a narrow focus and can
ultimately cause you to slip into mindlessness.
Most of us experience times when it seems easier to give up what we believe,
step away from our principles and go along with the status quo. Sometimes,
behaving in the politically correct way is a lot easier than staying true to
ourselves. Then it becomes all too easy for people to demonstrate values only
when someone is watching them or it is convenient. Sometimes we feel vulnerable
simply because no one seems to see things as we do, and no one else seems to
have the courage to stick it out and do the right thing. When we feel like this,
it is easy to lose confidence in ourselves, to question whether in fact we are
doing the right thing or just being stubborn. Knowing where your personal line
is, and also having people around you who share your values, whom you can trust
and talk to, makes a huge difference.
Article
continues
5 Ways to Protect Your Most Essential Commodity
Not to long ago I was at a leadership conference
where one of the keynotes, Suzanne de Passe of Motown Productions,
talked about protecting the entrepreneurs’ greatest commodity – our
energy. Suzanne’s key comment was “how you spend your energy
is how you measure your success.”
Boy did that strike a cord!
Read
the whole article
Behind the Magic
Is Your Business Safe From Internet Security
Threats?
Spyware, viruses and hacker attacks can be devastating to small
businesses. Here's how to protect your company from internet security
threats.
Read the whole article
Pharming
traps
It's a Trap!
Somebody in Brunei Darussalam has it in for you. And you aren't
making friends in Belarus or Nicaragua, either. Even Bobby Fisher can
catch a break in Iceland--but you can't.
Network security company Netcraft has identified these as some of the
exotic locales most likely to broadcast those phishing e-mails that try
to scare you and your customers into giving up bank, PayPal or other
sensitive information. Servers in those locations also host the copycat
web
pages used in a scary variation on phishing--pharming.
Article continues
Assertiveness. how do you rate?
Do
you wish you had the confidence to speak your mind?
Do
you feel you have the respect of your family and co-workers?
Would
you like to improve your relationships?
Follow
this series of articles to find your personal interaction habits and how you can
modify them to create effective communication.
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continues
GOOD
THINKING
By
John C. Maxwell
If you watched the swimming events at the 2004 Olympics last
summer, you probably observed the incredible focus the medalists demonstrated.
Sure, they're strong and fast. But when hundredths - maybe even thousandths
- of a second are all that separate the winners from the losers, it's obvious
that something besides strength and speed is at work.
A comment by Flip Darr, a
former collegiate swimming coach who played a part in training eight Olympic medallists,
sheds some light on what that critical ingredient might be. "I felt in my
coaching career that if I would work on [the swimmers'] head[s], their bodies
would come along," he said. "A lot of coaches work on their bodies and
then at the last moment try to do their heads. The thing is, if they are working
with their heads all the time, and working with their head over the body, mind
over matter, they will have more confidence when they walk up to the
block."
What a great
illustration of the value of good thinking. Athletic ability is important, but
preparing for the biggest race of one's life is as much mental as it is physical
- if not more so. As Bill MacCartney, the former head football coach at the
University of Colorado, once told me, "Mental is to physical what four is
to one."
That's
a powerful argument in the case for good thinking - on the football field, as
well as in your office at work. The specific thoughts that increase your
effectiveness as a leader might not be the same as those required for an Olympic
medal, but the overall commitment to thinking is identical.
Click
here to read the complete article
What Artists Know About Leadership
You don't need to be able to draw a straight line in order to use the tools and
spirit of creativity for your next leadership challenge. An excerpt from the new
book Leadership Can Be Taught.
by Sharon Daloz Parks
The phrase "the art of leadership" is certainly well worn. But consciously
recognizing the practice of leadership as artistry has received little
attention.1
For now, I simply suggest that art, artist, and artistry be given a more
prominent place within the lexicon of leadership theory and practice.
Affirmation and resistance
The image of artist, cast as a metaphor for those who provide acts of
leadership, immediately evokes two primary responses—affirmation and resistance.
Those who think of themselves as artists in the conventional sense of the
word—for example, painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, architects,
photographers, and some athletes and gardeners—may pick up the metaphor with
ready enthusiasm, recognizing that incorporating their artist-self into their
practice of leadership opens into a horizon of powerful possibilities. But those
who suffered through their last required art project in school, or who hold the
stereotype of an artist as nonrational, asocial, marginal... Article
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Exploiting the
Gender Gap
By WARREN FARRELL
Carlsbad, Calif. — Nothing disturbs working women more
than the statistics often mentioned on Labor Day showing that they are paid
only 76 cents to men's dollar for the same work. If that were the whole story,
it should disturb all of us; like many men, I have two daughters and a wife in
the work force.
Read
the whole article
Women at the Top It started, as most discussions of this
kind do, with a common lament: "How do we keep highly skilled,
talented women executives from opting out of the workforce?" It
ended with the four women charged with commenting on this nagging
dilemma talking about the need for more flexible schedules. Yes, we hear
that a lot, not only in the executive ranks, but in all walks of the
work life. We hear it constantly. We hear it from women and we hear it
from men.
Article continues
In the same sense...
* When you focus on the negative aspects of other people, they tend
to bother you more often.
* When you focus on the negative aspects of your business/work,
you tend to feel more
uptight, annoyed or stressed.
It is not that people, work or life bothers us. Rather, it is
the negative aspects of people, work or life that we focus on that tend to
bother us.
Becoming resilient to pressure is a choice.
How fast you bounce back from stress, pressure and burnout is a choice.
> Question: So, how do you
choose to be resilient?
Power
Sleep
The
month of June can be a frantic time for many businesses, being the end of
financial year, and for many, working longer hours just to get
everything done on time.
Over
the last few weeks, I have noticed that many people in my seminars are feeling
somewhat 'burnt out' and saying 'I would love to have a few days off to just
catch up on sleep'.
The
truth is that, unless you allow your body to get good sleep, your body cannot
bounce back fast from pressure and working long hours. Without
the right amount of rest, your body will eventually break.
Read
the article
Great Time Management Advice!
by Jim Rohn
I often talk
in my seminars about the importance of time and time management -- how rich
people and poor people both have the same amount of time every day - 24 hours
(which by the way, I find fascinating).
This week, as we continue to celebrate the One-Year Anniversary of the 2004
Weekend Event, I want to share with you four great time management ideas we've
excerpted from the 2004 Event Speaker Round Table Session - Enjoy!
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From Worthwhile - by Kate
Yandoh
"Even though the magazine addict in me perked up
with glee after reading this tip from Daniel Pink's
A Whole New Mind, I hadn't put it into action until
just now. It's simple. Go pick up five magazines
that you've never heard of in areas you've never
chosen to read about. Flip through at will, maybe
tear out some images or articles that speak to you
in some way, then watch for breakthroughs.
Wow. Courtesy of Aquarium USA, Sing Out! Folk Music,
Grassroots Motorsports, Modern Drummer, and Wooden
Boat, some new thoughts about a web project, seeds
for a future blog postings, a few new words and who
knows what else are mine. Even if you're not
wrestling with a particular form of block or working
on a project, spending just an hour doing this can
make some creative connections and furnish a very
economical - and portable- brain break."
Exercise adds
years to life and improves quality, researchers say
Exercise is a lot like spinach -- everybody knows it's
good for you; yet many people still avoid it, forgoing its potential
health benefits.
But researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who
study the effects of exercise on aging point to new findings that may
inspire people to get up, get out and get moving on a regular basis. The
research team, led by kinesiology professor Edward McAuley, found that
previously sedentary seniors who incorporated exercise into their
lifestyles not only improved physical function, but experienced
psychological benefits as well.
Read the whole article
7 Keys for Joyful Living
by Chris Widener
Here are some thoughts for finding and experiencing joy in your life. If there
were one thing I could wish upon my family, friends and the readers of this
Ezine, it would be joy in everything they do!
Read the whole
article
Cycles of sleeping and waking with
the Doze family
Check out the
dynamic 3D animations of the Doze family members depicting effects of age and
such sleep and alertness influences as shift work, caffeine, alcohol, stress and
"Monday morning blues" and watch as the control panel demonstrates several
interrelated behavioural and internal systems that help guide the user through
the learning process.
The Fullness Factor™
ND's Fullness Factor™ can help you consume fewer Calories without
feeling hungry...
Understanding Hunger and Satiety
The Fullness Factor - A Better Predictor of Satiety
Comparing the Fullness Factor to the Glycemic Index
Fullness Factors for Common Foods
Fullness Factors for Mixed Meals
Fullness Factor Dieting
Satiety References
Web Content: Knowing
Whether It’s to Sell You or Inform You
by Reid Goldsborough
When you pick up a magazine or newspaper, you want to know whether
what you’re reading was written to inform you or to sell you. It has
long been a publishing tradition to clearly separate editorial content
from advertising material. Both have their purpose and their usefulness,
but both have their place.
The same principle applies to the brave new world of online publishing,
although norms and practices are still emerging. This applies equally to
Web pages and to search engines (the technology that often gets people to
Web pages). Article continues
CONNECTING
THE DOTS
LOVE
& LOSS
DEATH
Stanford
Report, June 14, 2005-08-05
'You've
got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This
is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer
and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I
am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest
universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told,
this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want
to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three
stories. Article
continues
Scorched-Earth
Networking
Are you burning the very people you're trying to impress?
Find out how not to be the networker no one wants to do
business with.
By Ivan Misner
In my more than two decades of developing
business networks and coaching networkers, I've noticed some very
different styles of networking. One of these styles, which results in
the ground smoking wherever these networkers tread, I call "scorched
earth networking." Let's talk a little about this style, so you
understand how important it is to avoid this type of
networking in cultivating a successful business networking model.Just
what are the hallmarks of a scorched-earth networker? Experience has
shown me that this type of networker...
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