Sunday, January 20, 2013
How to Invest Your Time Productively: Do Not Give Up
How to Invest Your Time Productively: Do Not Give Up: Robert Donovan a writer in his very own words said “giving up is the ultimate tragedy”. This implies that most of us are likely to have trag...
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Do Not Give Up
Robert Donovan a writer in his very own words said “giving up is the ultimate tragedy”. This implies that most of us are likely to have tragic ends just because we give up easily on our dreams. When we are scolded, we give up. When we don’t make an interview, we give up. Even in our homes, we give up so easily on our chores, husbands, wives and even children. To most people giving up is easier than continuing heading on towards our goals. Don’t give up on your plans. It takes pain to achieve success. Don’t give up on your dreams. Develop a thick skin of resistance and know that it is the steadfast only that finishes the race and not the participants. Determine to follow through your plans no matter what.
Sometimes it is consistency and our perseverance that determine our success. Success itself does not happen in an instance but it is achieved through dint of hard work, persistence, prayer and good will. Nothing comes easy, even putting this piece together sure did come at a price. You need to be diligent and consistent in your plans and activities if you want to reach your goals. The inability to coordinate your self may likely be one of the many reasons why you probably give up on your plans. If you fail to plan, you are likely going to give up on your dreams so often because you’ve not even planned ideally. There has been no foundation so you should not be expecting the house to stand.
Don’t give up on your plans because if you did, you would have directly or indirectly affected your progress and may also be indirectly affecting numerous lives which ought to have benefited from your plans and dreams. There are so many reasons why you cannot afford to give up, chief of which according to Benjamin Franklin,is that “lost time is never found again”. Let me take a moment to shed more light why you should never give up:
Always know that success is a result of hard work. Forget about the lottery now and let’s talk about real work. If you want to make a mark in your field or calling, maybe it’s time to put in more time. Move away from the level of wishing to the level of doing. To become an expert takes consistent practice. In our age it is mostly said more like a cliché that one should work ‘smart and not hard”. You need to be smart on your job but you sincerely need to work more than the average. Working hard increases your chances of continuous accomplishment while being smart on the job makes your tasks easier. You need to develop skills that can make your hard work noticeable.
Also know that becoming successful does not come cheap. While it is important that being a success at what one does is crucial, staying successful should be paramount in your mind. This is one simple reason why companies recreate themselves. Innovation, research and development are some of the strategies companies use to sustain their edge and competitiveness in the market. Very few people will be rich while staking bets or playing the lottery. This is a fact. To become rich and wealthy you need to become diligent at what you do and take hold of opportunities when they present themselves. Most people try to wait on luck as against taking their chances. It is important to have your resources in place before you embark on your plans. It is also impossible to have everything you need to succeed in place all at once. However knowing all you need to succeed or function effectively and efficiently on a task is important so that you will be able to determine your true position and move steadily towards your desired goals.
Here are a few tips on overcoming giving up on your plans. These are tips you should use when you start to lose steam and are gradually dropping the idea of moving on with your plans.
Re-appraise your plans immediately. There is need to have a sense of urgency in self appraisal or an overall appraisal of your team when you start to notice dwindling outcomes or slow movement towards your goals. Self appraisal is the most effective form of appraisal and should be done periodically to ascertain your true position in every endeavor you embark upon. Are your plans dynamic? Do you carry your team along when developing your goals and focus? Be inclusive in information gathering and agreement with your team. It pays when all agree to the same focus and direction. While it is good to have a detailed plan, it is also important to note that times change and so does situations and circumstances. We should continually be guided with the current realities and thereon move towards our expectations. When we don’t have expectations, chances are that we will give up on whatever we do or are doing.
Revise your strategies. Strategies are coordinated action steps that are capable of taking you towards your desired goals if they are well utilized. They however are not flawless and it is on this premise that you should constantly revise them if they seem not to be achieving the desired results or your expectations. It is important to note that every action we take will either move us closer or farther away from our goals. I believe that it is time you reappraise your strategies to determine if they still meet the current realities of your situation.
Keep on pushing on. After working on your plans once again, it is time to pick up and start all over again. Remember that tough times don’t last but tough people do. Thomas Edison kept on trying with the electricity bulb until he got it right. You can get it right too, just keep on keeping on.
Develop your skin of resistance. Interestingly this will be the second time I will write about this in a single message. This shows the importance of not giving up. Boost your self esteem and confidence by doing what you have agreed to do. Take action once again and put in your best one more time. See you on top of your riches.
Sometimes it is consistency and our perseverance that determine our success. Success itself does not happen in an instance but it is achieved through dint of hard work, persistence, prayer and good will. Nothing comes easy, even putting this piece together sure did come at a price. You need to be diligent and consistent in your plans and activities if you want to reach your goals. The inability to coordinate your self may likely be one of the many reasons why you probably give up on your plans. If you fail to plan, you are likely going to give up on your dreams so often because you’ve not even planned ideally. There has been no foundation so you should not be expecting the house to stand.
Don’t give up on your plans because if you did, you would have directly or indirectly affected your progress and may also be indirectly affecting numerous lives which ought to have benefited from your plans and dreams. There are so many reasons why you cannot afford to give up, chief of which according to Benjamin Franklin,is that “lost time is never found again”. Let me take a moment to shed more light why you should never give up:
Always know that success is a result of hard work. Forget about the lottery now and let’s talk about real work. If you want to make a mark in your field or calling, maybe it’s time to put in more time. Move away from the level of wishing to the level of doing. To become an expert takes consistent practice. In our age it is mostly said more like a cliché that one should work ‘smart and not hard”. You need to be smart on your job but you sincerely need to work more than the average. Working hard increases your chances of continuous accomplishment while being smart on the job makes your tasks easier. You need to develop skills that can make your hard work noticeable.
Also know that becoming successful does not come cheap. While it is important that being a success at what one does is crucial, staying successful should be paramount in your mind. This is one simple reason why companies recreate themselves. Innovation, research and development are some of the strategies companies use to sustain their edge and competitiveness in the market. Very few people will be rich while staking bets or playing the lottery. This is a fact. To become rich and wealthy you need to become diligent at what you do and take hold of opportunities when they present themselves. Most people try to wait on luck as against taking their chances. It is important to have your resources in place before you embark on your plans. It is also impossible to have everything you need to succeed in place all at once. However knowing all you need to succeed or function effectively and efficiently on a task is important so that you will be able to determine your true position and move steadily towards your desired goals.
Here are a few tips on overcoming giving up on your plans. These are tips you should use when you start to lose steam and are gradually dropping the idea of moving on with your plans.
Re-appraise your plans immediately. There is need to have a sense of urgency in self appraisal or an overall appraisal of your team when you start to notice dwindling outcomes or slow movement towards your goals. Self appraisal is the most effective form of appraisal and should be done periodically to ascertain your true position in every endeavor you embark upon. Are your plans dynamic? Do you carry your team along when developing your goals and focus? Be inclusive in information gathering and agreement with your team. It pays when all agree to the same focus and direction. While it is good to have a detailed plan, it is also important to note that times change and so does situations and circumstances. We should continually be guided with the current realities and thereon move towards our expectations. When we don’t have expectations, chances are that we will give up on whatever we do or are doing.
Revise your strategies. Strategies are coordinated action steps that are capable of taking you towards your desired goals if they are well utilized. They however are not flawless and it is on this premise that you should constantly revise them if they seem not to be achieving the desired results or your expectations. It is important to note that every action we take will either move us closer or farther away from our goals. I believe that it is time you reappraise your strategies to determine if they still meet the current realities of your situation.
Keep on pushing on. After working on your plans once again, it is time to pick up and start all over again. Remember that tough times don’t last but tough people do. Thomas Edison kept on trying with the electricity bulb until he got it right. You can get it right too, just keep on keeping on.
Develop your skin of resistance. Interestingly this will be the second time I will write about this in a single message. This shows the importance of not giving up. Boost your self esteem and confidence by doing what you have agreed to do. Take action once again and put in your best one more time. See you on top of your riches.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Doing Things Differently
Assess your true position
Determine to refocus
Seek agreement or concurrence with yourself/team
Develop new strategies
Take action
Constantly check your performance
Most of us claim that times are hard not knowing that we are the ones that are hard on ourselves. We complain that things are not going the way we anticipate but we really fail to take a hard look on the realities that surround us. We are quick to discover loopholes in our plans or our team’s that is for those of us that work in a structured environment but fail to proffer new solutions to our situations.
There are so many reasons why things don’t work and also there are many reasons why we must make them work. Chief of it is that we must strive to exist at best. Secondly we must make a mark, an impact if we want to continue to exist. Thirdly the future depends on us and the journey to that future starts now.
If things don’t work out the way we envisage in our businesses, relationships and commitments, I strongly believe that things need to be done differently.
A saying that it is a mad man that does the same thing yet expects different results. We cannot continue in ignorance yet desire to be filled with wisdom and knowledge. We must determine to change our attitude as well as our beliefs to get the desired results we earnestly seek. If we do things differently, different things will happen. While change is one of the hardest thing to embrace the truth of the matter is that we can barely do anything about it but to change our strategies, actions,mindsets and purpose. We see in parts , we dream in parts but our little parts can make such a big difference. Now is the time to believe that we need a revival, a renewed commitment and vigour to face the challenges of life. As we face new challenges let us come out of our comfort zones and proffer new ways of arriving at our solutions and stand up, walk and take action.
Here are a few tips on changing your present position to your desired position.
Assess your true position: Where are you now? This is a question that you must keep asking yourself. Always strive to benchmark your outcome with the acceptable standard in your field. This will give you the opportunity to evolve with your contemporaries and even an opportunity to set a trail. If you know where you are now and you know where you expect to be it is a good starting point. If you find out that you need to make an improvement you might consider reassessing your position and highlight the factors that have made it so.
Determine to refocus: Focus is essential if you want to achieve anything. If you place a microscope that is facing the sun close to a paper for a couple of minutes,the intensity of the sun on the paper will produce fire. This is remarkable. Focusing on your priorities will take you closer to your goals. Distractions will always cause you delays. It will undermine your credibility and can affect your self esteem. A simple way to stay focused is to write down your tasks after you have decided what your goals are. Have a to do list now.
Seek agreement and concurrence with yourself/team: It is important to know what you or your team to wants to achieve to before you embark on the journey of success. One of the causes of divorce in our contemporary society is incompatibility. As an individual,you need to make up your mind on what you want to achieve before you embark on any enterprise. This will save you a lot of time doing the wrong things. You can't afford to make a sales call without knowing what to sell. You need to be deliberately in order to move forward. What have you agreed on as a team? Is there an agreement by the team? Is there a buy in from the team. Are your goals measurable,realistic,relevant and timely. Work on that as an individual and as a team.
Develop new strategies: Strategies are coordinated action steps taken to achieve a goal, purpose or outcome. The strategies you have used so far will have produced some results but might be a far cry to where you intend to be. Do you want to be more happy in your relationship, why not consider being more expressive than being quiet or recluse. Being quiet or recluse might keep you out of trouble but it might stifle you of more interaction. Its all a matter of choice. If your strategies are not achieving the desired results, why don’t you consider developing new ones. Maybe it is time you checked out your strategies once again and fine-tune them to work with new realities.
Take action : This is the most important part in achieving whatever it is that you want to achieve. Action speaks louder than talk. You might have the best plans but if you don't take action chances are that you will stay on a spot. It is the start that stops most people. As NIKE would say 'just do it'. You can just start from the simplest task. Write a chapter today. Pick up the phone and make that call now. It is important that you are moving towards your goals by taking deliberate steps towards your goals.
Constantly check your performance: While you are striving to reach your goals, take time off to reappraisal your situation. Whatever gets measured gets achieved. I'm sure you've heard about that. Appraise your self periodically to know if you have met your own expectations or you have made deviations. It is necessary to check your performance so as to be sure you are heading towards the right direction.
In the course of the new year take time to set new goals for yourself if you have not done that already. For those of us that have already set our goals let us take time to devise new ways of getting towards the realization of our goals. See you on top of your riches.
Determine to refocus
Seek agreement or concurrence with yourself/team
Develop new strategies
Take action
Constantly check your performance
Most of us claim that times are hard not knowing that we are the ones that are hard on ourselves. We complain that things are not going the way we anticipate but we really fail to take a hard look on the realities that surround us. We are quick to discover loopholes in our plans or our team’s that is for those of us that work in a structured environment but fail to proffer new solutions to our situations.
There are so many reasons why things don’t work and also there are many reasons why we must make them work. Chief of it is that we must strive to exist at best. Secondly we must make a mark, an impact if we want to continue to exist. Thirdly the future depends on us and the journey to that future starts now.
If things don’t work out the way we envisage in our businesses, relationships and commitments, I strongly believe that things need to be done differently.
A saying that it is a mad man that does the same thing yet expects different results. We cannot continue in ignorance yet desire to be filled with wisdom and knowledge. We must determine to change our attitude as well as our beliefs to get the desired results we earnestly seek. If we do things differently, different things will happen. While change is one of the hardest thing to embrace the truth of the matter is that we can barely do anything about it but to change our strategies, actions,mindsets and purpose. We see in parts , we dream in parts but our little parts can make such a big difference. Now is the time to believe that we need a revival, a renewed commitment and vigour to face the challenges of life. As we face new challenges let us come out of our comfort zones and proffer new ways of arriving at our solutions and stand up, walk and take action.
Here are a few tips on changing your present position to your desired position.
Assess your true position: Where are you now? This is a question that you must keep asking yourself. Always strive to benchmark your outcome with the acceptable standard in your field. This will give you the opportunity to evolve with your contemporaries and even an opportunity to set a trail. If you know where you are now and you know where you expect to be it is a good starting point. If you find out that you need to make an improvement you might consider reassessing your position and highlight the factors that have made it so.
Determine to refocus: Focus is essential if you want to achieve anything. If you place a microscope that is facing the sun close to a paper for a couple of minutes,the intensity of the sun on the paper will produce fire. This is remarkable. Focusing on your priorities will take you closer to your goals. Distractions will always cause you delays. It will undermine your credibility and can affect your self esteem. A simple way to stay focused is to write down your tasks after you have decided what your goals are. Have a to do list now.
Seek agreement and concurrence with yourself/team: It is important to know what you or your team to wants to achieve to before you embark on the journey of success. One of the causes of divorce in our contemporary society is incompatibility. As an individual,you need to make up your mind on what you want to achieve before you embark on any enterprise. This will save you a lot of time doing the wrong things. You can't afford to make a sales call without knowing what to sell. You need to be deliberately in order to move forward. What have you agreed on as a team? Is there an agreement by the team? Is there a buy in from the team. Are your goals measurable,realistic,relevant and timely. Work on that as an individual and as a team.
Develop new strategies: Strategies are coordinated action steps taken to achieve a goal, purpose or outcome. The strategies you have used so far will have produced some results but might be a far cry to where you intend to be. Do you want to be more happy in your relationship, why not consider being more expressive than being quiet or recluse. Being quiet or recluse might keep you out of trouble but it might stifle you of more interaction. Its all a matter of choice. If your strategies are not achieving the desired results, why don’t you consider developing new ones. Maybe it is time you checked out your strategies once again and fine-tune them to work with new realities.
Take action : This is the most important part in achieving whatever it is that you want to achieve. Action speaks louder than talk. You might have the best plans but if you don't take action chances are that you will stay on a spot. It is the start that stops most people. As NIKE would say 'just do it'. You can just start from the simplest task. Write a chapter today. Pick up the phone and make that call now. It is important that you are moving towards your goals by taking deliberate steps towards your goals.
Constantly check your performance: While you are striving to reach your goals, take time off to reappraisal your situation. Whatever gets measured gets achieved. I'm sure you've heard about that. Appraise your self periodically to know if you have met your own expectations or you have made deviations. It is necessary to check your performance so as to be sure you are heading towards the right direction.
In the course of the new year take time to set new goals for yourself if you have not done that already. For those of us that have already set our goals let us take time to devise new ways of getting towards the realization of our goals. See you on top of your riches.
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