Business Motivation – October 8, 2010
Choose Your Environment With Care Your own positive energy will compel things to turn out the way you desire when you’re surrounded by positive people. Your environment is your mental feeding ground from which the food that goes into your mind is extracted. Choose your environment with care, one that is positive, one that lifts you up and gives you wings to soar. Create favorable conditions through your association with others. Avoid people who belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us. It’s your friends that make your world. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
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.)
Taking a Look at the Big Picture
The September issue includes the following featured article titled: “Taking a Look at the Big Picture” – Six basic steps that lead to making good decisions. Click Here to Read Complete Article> LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 9 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – September 29, 2010
A Good System Shortens The Road To A Goal Having an intelligent plan is your first step to success. With a plan, you know where you’re going. You’ll know what progress you’re making. And you’ll have a pretty good idea of when you can expect to arrive. Meticulous planning will enable everything you do to appear spontaneous to other people. Your goals can only be reached through the vehicle of a plan. One in which you fervently believe, and upon which you will vigorously act. There is no other route to success. What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to these questions are your objectives. How do you go about achieving your desired results? The answer to this will be your strategy. A good plan permits you to frame your life so that at some time in the future fact and your dreams will meet. Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Clearly Communicate the Complete Message
The September issue includes the following featured article titled: “Clearly Communicate the Complete Message” – Skillful communication is the essential human connection. Click Here to Read Complete Article LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 9 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – September 27, 2010
You Always Have A Chance You know what you are today but not what you may be tomorrow. Use your imagination and look at things as they can be. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, and be anything you wish to be. You don’t know what you can really do until you try. All you have to do is to act on your dreams. You have the power within you to do things you never dreamed possible. You would amaze yourself if you did all the things you’re capable of doing. This power becomes available to you as soon as you change some of your beliefs. Success begins in your mind. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
September 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Organizational Leadership
The September issue includes the following featured article titled: “Future Leadership Gap: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, by guest author Rick Underwood- Identifying the needs of young people in the organization will enhance your efforts in creating effective development programs. Click Here: Read Complete Article LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 9 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
