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Bored by your best skill?

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:59:12 +0000

Your favorite sports star at the top of his game suddenly announces that he no longer wishes to play football because he wants to concentrate on painting. The paintings are OK but you know he was put on earth to kick ball. You will know of other examples. However it also happens to ordinary Joes as well, the Salesman who having been number one suddenly quits his job to start breeding chickens.

Many quit the race with the winning posts in sight. I know because it happenned to me, although I didn’t realize it for a long time.

Be therefore aware of the pyxchological difficulty of getting over the finishing line, be prepared for the final effort and be aware of all the distractions internal and external that will try to impede.

So to summarize grab your best opportunity and never it go!

Do you already know enough?

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:12:07 +0000

A training course organizer was astonished to see some of his best former students reappear on his course. When asked why they said they had so enjoyed the course and wanted to learn even more. Well the trainer was flattered but in his mind he was screaming “You already know enough go out there and do it”.

So do you already know enough to start your dream project? Doctor Johnson the English dictionary writer and wit said “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome”. The same could be said if you wait until you have every single skill.

I recently realized that I too already have sufficient knowledge but was hovering on the edge of the pool unwilling to enter. Worse than that I was waiting for success to come and meet me half-way! No I have to bolder than that, so this is my mantra “I know what I have to do; namely post more articles more frequently to the web so that is what I must do, never looking back or up to see how well it is working, and I do this persistently success will come, that I know”

Can you Drive a Car? You are a Genius!

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 17:33:38 +0000

Hey have you already forgotten how difficult it seemed to control pedals, the shift stick, look in mirrors all at the same time? Do you remember a family member (Dad?) or instructor shouting at you? And then there was reversing, learning all the signs and rules it just seemed impossible. And now you drive totally automatically your feet, hands, eyes coordinating apparently without your conscious intervention. But do you give yourself any credit for this? unlikely, once we are good at something we tend to discount it!

So next time you are about to decide that you’ll never master some task or skill, remember how you learned to drive and battle on. It really is true that we are all capable of so much more that we have undiscovered abilities, but what was the key to your driving success — YOU COULDN’T GIVE UP — you needed it for your job and social life.

So next time you want to scream and shout and give up remember but I learned to drive I’m a Genius!!

What I learned from “The Social Network”

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:19:36 +0000

The movie “The Social Network” which is about the birth of Facebook starts off by showing how Mark Zuckerberg built a simple site allowing students to compare and rate the photos of fellow students on a basis of hot or not. He got into all sorts of trouble over this. This idea however was the kernel of Facebook. Now it will probably forever be argued about how much the Winkelvoss twins were involved or contributed but that is not the intention of this Post.

What impressed me was once that Mark Zuckerberg got his idea he went into hibernation, programming day and night until he launched the prototype Facebook, he didn’t go out partying, he wasn’t training for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race like the Winklevoss’s he probably didn’t attend lectures or help out cleaning the communal areas. No he just caught the wave at its peak and rode it and history was made. When you get your big chance will you be as single-minded, as ruthless, as indifferent to what people think about you; big question eh?

Notching your way to Success

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:37:17 +0000

Achieving success can be like climbing a hill where every time you think you’ve reached the top you find there is yet another ridge ahead. It is very discouraging because it’s hard to tell how far you’ve got to go and worse how far you’ve come. That’s not much different from trying to estimate how much you’ve improved , you may seem to have made no progress at all. The trick is to keep a Success Diary and record your Notches , first time you spoke in public, You competed first chapter of your book, you went to the gym every night for a week, you made your first sale, you made that difficult phone call. Read your Success Diary now and again to see how far you’ve come.

Success may come through a Keyhole

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:20:13 +0000

When you move outside your Comfort Zone you move into a place with no rules. Your opportunity for success will:-

– Appear totally unexpectedly
– From a source you least expected (the Keyhole)
– At a time you least expected
– Not be exactly what you expected
– Perhaps be rather an “Ugly Duckling”

Of course you have to examine all angles and be cautious but you must not Rationalise Doing Nothing!! Real opportunities are precious and rare and you will have to display some courage, but this is the price you must pay!

Self-Improvement at Least 500 Years Old

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:52:56 +0000

I recently attended a talk by Success-Theoretician Tom Butler Bowdon where he discussed the writings of Machiavelli and his Success Laws. Machiavelli for instance recommends modeling the best characteristics of successful people. Machiavelli says that an effective leader strives by is actions to inspire a sense of his greatness and goodness, he carefully chooses his heroes and incorporates their best features. Is careful of flatterers and has a handful of close friends and advisors who may speak their mind without fear, but even though he consults widely finally makes up his own mind. He is ready to backup his actions to make sure they succeed.

I first discovered Anthony Robbins and then the earlier Napoleon Hill and now Machiavelli; so there’s nothing new under the sun (and that comes from the Bible)

How to Pass an Interview

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:38:33 +0000

Schedule your most important Interview last, being interviewed gets easier the more you do it, because you get used to the questions and thus can give more polished answers. Read your CV carefully (it is easy to forget what you put in it if you wrote it just weeks ago) so you will not be surprised if you get a question on whatever is in it. Make sure that there are absolutely no spelling mistakes/grammatical faults (use Word Spell check), get a friend to proof read it. If your important interview is your only interview , then get a friend/colleague to give you a practice interview

Jim Carrey : Yes Man

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:56:11 +0000

Yes Man is a highly amusing film which appears to mock self-improvement. In the film Jim is really down on his luck and is in danger of becoming a recluse, he reluctantly goes to a self-improvement seminar where the Guru advocates saying Yes to everything.

Carrey throws himself into this and finds himself joining a daily jogging group at 6am, watching experimental music, basically doing new things and traveling outside his comfort zone.

Although some of the things that he says yes to bring him luck and some misfortune the technique works he forgets he’s depressed and start to live again!

We all need new challenging things in our lives, so go on join a class, learn a new language, a new hobby or sport, meet different people, oh and see the film!

Do You Keep a Personal Success Diary?

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:30:31 +0000

Curiously we remember our failures more than our successes because of ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) which see to the job of recalling our disasters and embarrasments.

Keep a Success diary of all your successes, exams, breaking a bad habit, new job, salary increase, trying something new, got a compliment from a customer or boss, entered a charity walk, cycle, swim, solved a problem for someone, helped someone, donated charity.

Read your success diary from time to time when you are down and you will be surprised just how many things you do really well.

My own diary starts in February 2004, I’d like to show it you as an example but I believe it’s a little too personal.

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