Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Becoming your best

Becoming Your Best: 

The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders




1. Be True Character 

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
                                                               -Henry Ford



Being true to character is being true to yourself. Character is not what a person claims to personally have. Character is what others testify of you. If you boast of having character excessively, your boast is a hot air balloon being tossed from place to place. True character is not in the saying, not in the boasting, but in the living. Character is walking in integrity, not while being watched, but when in our own space, when no one of apparent authority is present. True character is acknowledging and living like there is a God who is All-knowing and All-present. You want to be pleasing to God, not just every once and a while, but at all times and not just when it makes us look good.

                                                                                                                                             

2. Use your Imagination 







They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.  
-Edgar Allan Poe



Imagination, which can also be called inner vision, is a gift that has many positive applications, but more than often it is not well-developed or correctly used. Few people possess the ability to control what enters their minds. They let their minds and imagination do as they please, and let any stray thought or mental image appear on the screen of their inner vision. This lack of control leads to lack of control over their 

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3. Apply the power of knowledge


`Our teachers told it to us when we were growing up in order to inspire us to want to learn, business leaders and authors instilled that principle over and over again, and maybe even our parents told us it a time or two.The truth is, knowledge really does have a lot to do with the amount of success we achieve. It really does contain a lot of power. But the thing is, the knowledge part really isn’t where the power lies. Knowledge is pretty much useless unless you apply it to your life.







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4. Never Give Up








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5. Find Peace And Balance 



Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.


 Melody Beattie

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6. Live the Golden Rule

The Golden Rule doesn't really mean that you should treat someone else exactly as you'd want them to treat you, it means that you should try to imagine how they want to be treated, and do that. So when you put yourself in their shoes, ask yourself how you think they want to be treated

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people. 
-Chad Kroeger


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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. 
-Alan Keyes


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8.Quick to listen slow to wrath



I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. 
-Mary Roach


______________________________________________________________________9. Lead with vision

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. 
-Jason Calacanis


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10. Manage with a plan



Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. 

-Phylicia Rashad


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________________________________________________________________________11. Be accountable





Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses.

 Amy Jo Martin








Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The Ten Tips



  1. Make a commitment to tell the truth.
  2. Tell someone about your commitment


Stephen Covey


Think before you give a dishonest answer, explanation, sarcasm, or reason.



Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. 
-Ellen DeGeneres



Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony.




Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. 
-Peter Oliver

Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it.




Don't indulge in little white lies.






Watch out for silent lies.


When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse.

                            





Talk to yourself.

Friday, February 26, 2016

The 10 Keys to Personal Power



Key 1Clarity
"Have vision. Determine what you want to be, do or have in life.  Have a sense of direction and know where you’re going.  If you do not have clear specific goals in life, you are doomed forever to work for others who do."



Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie



Key 2Competence
"If you commit to excellence, opportunities will always come your way. The harder you work, the better you get."




To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. 

Orison Swett Marden





Key 3Concentration
"Make the best use of your time. Ask yourself “Is this the best use of my time?” before you start anything."



Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

 Ben Stein


Key 4Common Sense

  • Train your mind
  • think things through
  • listen to your intuition
  • learn from setbacks






Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal. 
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Key 5Creativity
"Except the fact that every human being is a genius.  The hallmark of creativity is asking questions.  The people who are most creative ask the most questions."




Key 6Consideration

"The quality of your relationships with other people will determine your success in life."
"Develop the people skills you need to become a better communicator.  Take courses in listening, speaking, etc."
"If you were to learn one new word a day, within 5 years, you’ll be the best educated person in history."




Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. 
Paramahansa Yogananda




Key 7Consistency

"Dependable, steady predictable work is always superior to fast spurts of work."

Be consistent in your relationships, your family, friends, your boss, your work.  Be the person that people can depend upon.  That if you say you’ll do something you do it.."
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble. 
-Adam DeVine
Key 8Commitment
"No success is possible without commitment.  The ability to commit yourself whole heartily is the basis of achieving all success."
"Become totally absorbed in your work.  Be totally committed."

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
 Barack Obama




Key 9Courage
"The fear of failure is the single greatest reason for failure in life."








One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya 
-Angelou


Key 10Confidence
"You only get confidence by doing things over and over again ." 

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. 
-Ann Landers