Business Motivation – October 6, 2010
You Climb A Mountain One Step At A Time Everyone who got where they are had to begin where they were. Your opportunity for success is right in front of you. To attain success or to reach your goal, don’t worry about having all the answers in advance. You just need to have a clear idea of your goal and move toward it. Don’t procrastinate when faced with a difficult problem. Break your problems into parts and handle one part at a time. Develop a tendency toward action. You can make something happen today. Break your big plan for success into small steps and take the first step right away. Success starts with beginning. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Business Motivation – October 4, 2010
Every Winner Has Scars Life is a classroom in which you’re being tested, tried and passed. You can’t predict what will happen to you. But, you can decide what happens inside you, how you take it, and what you do with it. The real test of living is how you take each experience and make it a thing of worth and beauty. Everything you go through has some value. The highest qualities of success and character must be earned. The highway to success is a toll road. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Reshaping Attitudes about Productivity
– Consider these time use practices that affect productivity and see how attitudes are involved. Because actions come from attitudes, increasing productivity may require reshaping some of the attitudes that now dictate how you use time. Consider these time use practices that affect productivity and see how attitudes are involved: Concentrate on high priority activities. The quickest and most effective route to increasing productivity is to spend time on tasks that advance important goals. Make certain you spend your time on work that really matters; otherwise, you may be completely consumed by trivial details. Hours may be spent solving problems that can be solved by others. Respond to concerns expressed by various team members through empowering them to solve their own problems. This approach saves you valuable time and gives others the opportunity to develop commitment, a sense of ownership, and skill to solve significant problems. Help others spend their time on their high priority activities, and concentrate your time and effort on high priority activities that lead to the achievement of your goals. Exercise self-discipline. Self discipline enables people to stay focused on a task and work on it until it is complete. Establish your priorities and then refuse to let distractions, interruptions, or happenings of the moment destroy your concentration. Discipline yourself to give tasks only the amount of time and effort they truly deserve from you, or delegate them to other appropriate team members. Either alternative requires thoughtful evaluation and consideration – and conscientious self discipline. Perfectionists especially must learn to exert the self-discipline to delegate selected jobs to someone else who may not do the job quite as well as they would but who can still meet essential quality standards. How else will another learn to perform this job? In such cases, perfectionists must learn to…
Business Motivation – October 1, 2010
You Are Your Environment Always be mindful that you’re a product of your environment. So choose an environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of your environment. Are the things around you helping you toward your success, or are they holding you back? The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you’re not going to stay where you are. You’re not a captive of your environment. If you don’t like where you are, you can make some changes. You’re not planted permanently in the ground like a tree. Don’t say, “You would, if you could,” start saying, “You will, because you can.” When you become a part of anything it becomes a part of you. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
