I’ve just cleared/purged my desk of all unused/neglected knick-knacks and it feels good! I’ve thrown away vitamin pill boxes (probably out of date), stationery I no longer use, projects I’m unlikely to finish etc etc. I finished with a large bin-liner full of junk. I can now tell what color my desk is it’s walnut-veneer!
A little bit of mess is cool, too much drains some of your life force!
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.
The successful make use of every little bit of their time, they get down to doing serious work quicker. If a 15 minute gap in their schedule appeared due to a cancellation they would automatically slot in another task, or take a power nap or a real break. What they wouldn’t do is fritter away the time with aimless browsing, reading emails. Become aware of how much time you are frittering, have a list of 5 minute tasks ready that you can focus on before the temptation to fritter overcomes you!
On vacation I met a French couple who said that their son who previously shown little interest in studying English had unexpectedly locked himself away with the latest English version Harry Potter (The French version arrives much later). He only emerged when he had read the 600 pages or so with vastly improved English.
Now that’s the best way to learn when we are hugely motivated, something school’s struggle with. But you as an adult can choose how you learn a new subject if you are learning a language then you can choose to buy a book on a subject which you passionate about
Getting rich quick is almost impossible, even getting rich slowly is very difficult but the principle I follow is to create as many money earning possibilities as possible. I call these mini-businesses they require a little effort to setup but then become passive income steams.
Of course it’s tough at the beginning working on schemes which may never earn money but with time it works and you start to receive payment notices via email and even checks in the post.
So the answer is yes you have to work really hard but unlike your j-o-b it is possible to “work once get paid many times”
But you have to try, you have to take the first steps, you have to believe; I see so many of the people who sign up to say PTC using my referral link only ever visit the PTC website once! ie they give up straight away they never give it a chance. Don’t be like them if you take the trouble to sign up for something, say to yourself I will stick at it long enough to properly evaluate if it is right for me!
Just How do you Create More Ideas
Make it principle that if you join a gym or a language class that you will stick with it, remember how often you hated something before you like it and how grateful you are that say a parent forced you to keep at it. But you you are independent and the only person who can do the forcing is you!
Whenever you get ten minutes of so of waiting time consider holding a solo brainstorming session. You just need pencil and paper, start writing lists of things to do, ways of improving your efficiency, people you need to contact, anything really to get your creative juices flowing.
In the first minutes you may find yourself twiddling your thumbs but persist and once the ideas start flowing you will find yourself scribbling furiously. This works and I now look forward to holding these sessions!
So next time you are pausing for a Cappuccino in your favorite coffee shop get out pen and paper, turn up your optimism and say to yourself I have ten minutes to think of a brilliant idea which will transform my career, business or relationship and I am already excited about the wonderful ideas I am about to have.
Write them all down the big ideas, the little ideas, the ridiculous ideas keep going you are improving and developing your creative abilities.
This simple diagram really says all that there is to know about Success and Failure more than in some 500 page books. But which half are you in?
Success-Failure Diagram
Create the habit of de-briefing yourself after every meeting, trip, vacation, lecture etc. How did it go, what would you have done differently, what should you have prepared, what did you learn, what do you need to put away, get repaired. Take brief notes or just write a list.
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The idea is to reinforce amd maximise your learning experience
That’s really great motivational slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On” . Apparently it was an UK Wartime Poster that was for some reason never used. OK we currently have a really gloomy economic outlook but really the “Merchants of Gloom” ie the media practically always something negative and doom-laden to report. Really thy would like us to give up and lie down in the mud but no matter how bad things are all you can do is “Keep Calm and Carry On” it is your duty to succeed in what you do.
It is true that many new businesses and fortunes originate during recessions created by people with foresight and optimism to see what new products and services will be in demand in the next upturn.
Learn how to create new and better ideas here at Just How do you Create More Ideas? and in the mean time Keep Calm and Carry On!
A day after Obama’s inauguration and the world is still in mess, he has to succeed and so do we in our own small way. Ventures and businesses we may start in the next weeks can be the “green shoots” of the recovery. Alternatively we could find a way of boosting our existing businesses.
Many of us will have no choice because if we lose our job in today’s climate our chances of finding a new job are poor indeed.
We can be sure of just one thing and that’s that Internet businesses will emerge even stronger than now.
Somewhere some recently jobless person(s) who hardly knows how to send an email is sitting down at a PC with half an idea of starting a business and will before the year’s out be wildly successful.
Something in his past life, job, sport, hobby will have given him an idea for a Niche or Microniche that he can sell into and now that he’s lost his job he’s finally got the chance to try it out.
I’ve created a website on how you can find your niche even in an area that you currently know next to nothing about it’s called Zulu Principle
So please click on Zulu Principle to get ideas on finding your niche.
By time we become aware of ourselves as individuals, we already seem to be someone, to have a certain character and more importantly to be treated by others in a certain way. Thus we are formed by some cocktail of experiences that we cannot even remember. This is why it is necessary to be prepared [...]
