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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The ultimate time management tips: 5 steps to reaching your goals with minimum work
- Would you like to know how to get 10 times more done in a day than most people do in a week, with less work?Then listen closely. You're about to discover the ONE time management and productivity secret that really works.This little technique is the ONLY thing you need to master if you want to reach all your goals with minimum work and free up your valuable time.Have you ever h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Living life in a time starved world
- Recently I saw an advertisement for a time management booklet: "Shorter deadlines, competing priorities, endless meetings, interruptions and even higher quality expectations are just some of today's time challenges. And yet the number of hours in the day remains the same."As entrepreneurs we all struggle sometimes with managing our time effectively. I once heard an entrepreneur say that of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time mastery vs. time management - knowing the difference
- How much time do you spend on Mastering Your Time? I don't mean managing time. There is quite a difference between managing and mastering your use of time. The goal of managing your time is to be more efficient, to squeeze more productivity out of your day. There are a lot of benefits to being a good time manager, especially in a rushed and frenetically paced culture. The goal of mastering...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Whats keeping you at the office (9 tips to get home quicker)
- "Work smarter, not harder" is a cliché that has darted in and out of the workplace for years. But it's still as true as ever. And it's often overlooked advice that truly works. "Working smarter" means think strategically about how to improve your productivity. For starters, think about how you spend a typical day. Then eliminate the time robbers. How? Like this...1. Discour...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is the goal to reach the goal?
- In this fast and crazy world, we want to multi-task at every given moment. After all, how else can we accomplish all that needs to be done in only 24 hours? We've been taught that if we reach all of our goals in a day, week, month, or year, we are successful. What we haven't been taught when achieving goals is that quality counts and so does the amount of effort exerted.Our tendency is to s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Doing things we dread
- As I sit here in front of the computer I am breaking through on something that I have been tolerating for weeks now? actually sitting down to write this newsletter. I wasn't blocked for ideas ? I had a list of them. I simply couldn't (yea right? wouldn't) sit down and put my thoughts on paper. The irony, of course is that I coach people through these very same issues and my clients have great ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Handling procrastination
- "TIME CANNOT BE 'MANAGED.' THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF TIME MANAGEMENT IS A BIT OBSCURE. THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BE MANAGED IS YOUR ACTIVITIES WITHIN THAT TIME."I am quite confident I have never had an original idea in my entire life. What I have done, however, is create new ways of expressing old ideas. In this respect, I now invite you to approach, with a new perspective, the way you m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Balancing your work, family and social life
- Balancing Your Work, Family and Social Life By Gene Griessman, PhD Many of us have an image of personal balance as a set of scales in perfect balance every day. But that's an unrealistic goal. You are in for a lot of frustration if you try to allocate within every day a predetermi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Use your time wisely!
- When I was small, I have never considered the importance of time.I would just laze around, watch TV, lie in bed, and play videogames. As I grew older, I thought about the things that I haveachieved. To my surprise, I haven't accomplished a lot. I resolved to myself that I will do things that will contributeto the benefit of mankind. I studied very hard and learned alot ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Find the time -- before its too late!
- People always seem to be in such a hurry, everywhere I go. Always rushing to get to the next thing, as if someone is holding a stopwatch over their head, timing them to the second. When I lived downtown I expected it, but here, nearly 50 miles from the city, I kind of thought life would be a little slower, and a little more forgiving. Recently, on the Fourth of July, my neigh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Schedule time for interruption
- One of the most challenging situations people face when planning their day is how to stick to their schedule when they are constantly being interrupted. Just when your activities are organized, someone else's emergency seems to get in the way. A client has a crisis, co-workers are in a jam, your boss is breathing down your neck, a friend calls, or any of the dozens of other interruptions you face ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your first step to success ? eliminate inner obstacles
- Think back to a time in your life when you felt inspired and excited to make a significant change. Did you go for it or did your inner obstacles get in the way?Your thoughts and beliefs are the foundation on which you build your success. You can't build a solid house on a foundation of clay and debris and the same truth holds for your success.If your thoughts and beliefs are shaky,th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Success: 11 universal laws to get you there
- The Law of Experience"Success comes from good judgement; good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement." The more at bats you get, the more experience you get, the more successful you can be.The Law of HungerIn the words of motivational speaker Les Brown, in order to be successful, "you have to be huuuuuuuuungrrry!"...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What if you fed your mind as often as you feed your stomach?
- Many people consider reading books a waste of time. It is just so easy to switch on the television, put the brain into neutral and accept everything that is shown to you. Some even boast that they have not read a single book since they have left school. That is definitely something that I would not be proud to admit.Reading books is one of the greatest sources of information that is availab...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal excellence: whats your motivation? (part 3 of 3)
- After 13 years of being married to the same woman and working for the same employer, I had a crisis in motivation. My marriage, ended in an unmitigated emotional and financial disaster. In short order, my career path went awry as I was 'reorganized' out of a job. My life seemed to be a study in chaos and failure. I felt somehow cheated. At 38, I was too young to quit, but felt too old to start ove...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal excellence: whats your motivation? (part 2 of 3)
- The scene from "Biloxi Blues" where Matthew Broderick's character kept asking, "Is the heat getting hotter?" was looping in my mind. Indeed, the surface of the sun may well have been a cooler place to spend the day.I was standing at the base of the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt. I had just been to the Valley of the Kings and Queens, marveled at the treasures of civilization's cradle, and was...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal excellence: whats your motivation? (part 1 of 3)
- I was in the gym, pushing my adolescent muscles to their limit. The other dudes where there too, getting their various degrees of "pump" on. And there he was, the one we called "Pec Man" This cat looked like all he did in life was work his chest. His twin peaks of manhood bulged and glistened before us as he paused every 5 seconds to admire his life's work. Awe and envy filled the space whene...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The parable of the touchstone
- The Great Library of Alexandria once held the wisdom of the ancient world. When it burned down, billions of invaluable thoughts perished. One book, however, survived. Since it wasn't considered a valuable book, a poor man bought it for a few coppers. He was not very literate and thought the book dull. The only thing of interest to him was a thin strip of vellum. Written on it was the secret known ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to become rich and famous
- If you want to be rich and famous, you have to focus on your strong points. Don't dwell on your weaknesses. Choose your strongest asset and build it into a formidable asset.After finding your heart's desire, your bliss, dare to dream big; dream the biggest, boldest dreams that you can think of. Decide now that you want to be phenomenal in your particular talent; be the best of the best; be ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - From rags to riches
- Nicholas Darvas, escaping his war-torn homeland, Hungary, sought refuge in Turkey in June 1943. In Istanbul, however, he faced a new crisis. Now, he had no friends, no money, no knowledge of Turkish, and no citizenship. He risked starvation. He also risked losing his sense of being special. He didn't want to be poor and hungry for the rest of his life. No, he had fonder hopes for himself. He wante...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Facts about the art of influence
- All of us could work on our skills in influencing others - whether it is within a company, a family, or a group of friends. Within the corporate world, influence is a power that you can control with your supervisor, upper management, customers, and co-workers.Don't confuse influencing, with the art of "kissing up;" it's not the same thing. Livia, the wife of Octavian (Caesar Augus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Sharpen your saw by continuously learning
- What does a sharp saw have to do with lifelong learning? For all you Covey fans, you know Dr. Steven Covey coined the phrase "sharpen the saw" in his highly acclaimed book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. To me, I think about a saw sharpener as a complicated device that I would never be able to use. Doing an image search on "saw sharpener" on Google shows 423 different pictures of saw ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Whats the secret of your sucess?
- I'm going to begin this article by sharing a little secret with you?'If you want to experience success as an entrepreneur you must first experience entrepreneurial success.'So what exactly do I mean by this?Success is never an accident. To reach the pinnacle in any field of endeavour you must have the ability to visualise, touch, taste, hear and smell your own success.C...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Overnight success - the truth is revealed
- Overnight success seems to be happening to a lot of other people all the time. A new popstar arrives in a blaze of glory and is an instant success. A hotshot businessman or online marketer suddenly appears, telling how they are raking in millions. So how come you aren't an overnight success? Why are you still working so hard at your business, your career or whatever else your personal view of succ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Finding time for success: important vs urgent
- If you have a choice each day in the tasks that you face, a choice between doing what is urgent and doing what is important, which do you choose?Many of us, I fall into this trap at times still myself, find we're spinning our wheels, or chasing rabbits, or putting out fires, or whatever your favorite metaphor is for being too busy and can never seem to get the time to do the things that we ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Success is based on a realistic plan
- Everyone wants to be successful. However, many people often rely on luck and chance to achieve results. The best example in this case is someone who wants to be rich but only try the most ineffective method: playing the Lotto. Of course, there are chances of becoming rich over night, but how likely is it that this will actually happen? Creating a realistic plan in order to achieve the desired resu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The 7 keys to astonishing success
- Here are seven essential keys to success. Use these ideas to find ways to stretch your beliefs about what is possible. Break free of self-imposed limits. Follow these principles and you will realize your dream.The first key is self-confidence. Choose to be self-confident. Believe in your dream, in the evidence of things not seen. Grasp the big picture and color in the details as you go alon...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The impossible dream
- The 72,500 men, women and children sat in an uncomfortable silence, no one daring to cough, no one daring to speak, each one focussed on the young 27 year old. Each one knowing, this was the start of the impossible dream. The dream they had had for 27 years. A dream they had dreamed every year of this boy's life. Now it could become reality. Now it was possible.And then: failure. The dream ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Success analysis - the concept of critical mass
- How many times have you thought about being successful, famous, having lots of money? Many times, I'll bet. Then you start to think about the cost of all that and you go to have a little lie down until the feeling passes. Would that be right?Sure, you might want all those things that I mentioned above but do you want them so badly that you are prepared to pay whatever it costs to make it a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Success formula revealed - how you can apply the ultimate success formula?
- When you analyze the traits of successful people, you will notice that they all exhibit a successful pattern. This successful pattern is known as the Ultimate Success Formula which consists of 4 steps:1) Be very specific about your goals.2) Develop a strategy.3) Take consistent actions.4) Turn failure into feedback.1) Be very specific about your goals.When...