"Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else."
Peter F. Drucker
How well do you manage time? Do you try to do everything yourself, even those tasks that you aren't very good at? Do you multitask? Neither of these things are good time management.
Think about how much money you could make in an hour. If you had a job doing what you're doing, how much would they pay you? Let's say you figure you were worth 10$ an hour. If you had to go and mow the lawn, you could hire some neighborhood kid to do that for maybe 7$ an hour. If you do it yourself, then you are are essentially wasting 3$ an hour (the difference between the value of your best activity and the value of mowing the lawn). Obviously, when looked at this way, it would be better to hire someone to mow the lawn while you spend your time doing what you do best. And that neighborhood kid might to a better job of mowing the lawn than you could have.
Most of us think that we can get more done by trying to do several different things at the same time. But research shows that we actually get less done that way because we aren't concentrating on any one thing well enough to do a good job of it. It is much more constructive to do one thing at a time whenever possible. It is better to do one thing really well than to do ten in a sloppy, half-hearted way.
It is crucial to learn good time management strategies. Time is the only resource we have that is finite. We can get more learning, acquire more energy, find more opportunities. But we can never get more time. We can only make better use of the time we do have.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Monday, November 17, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Problems
"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
Margaret Mead
When was the last time you were stuck with a problem? You probably tried to analyze how it happened. You wondered what you did to cause the problem, or what you should have done differently. You may have thought "Why does this always have to happen to me?" You probably got pretty frustrated, and quit. That's how most people look at problems. But there is another way to look at them. It's a matter of attitude.
You could choose to see problems as opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed. You could realize that problems are there to teach you first of all what you want (which is the opposite of the problem) and also help you find a way to get there. Problems are there to help you, not to hinder you. But you may not even see the opportunities for you if you view all those annoying events as something to be avoided whenever possible. Be grateful for your problems. See them as challenges which you can win with the right attitude. Don't give up. Choose to see your problems as a blessing in disguise.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Margaret Mead
When was the last time you were stuck with a problem? You probably tried to analyze how it happened. You wondered what you did to cause the problem, or what you should have done differently. You may have thought "Why does this always have to happen to me?" You probably got pretty frustrated, and quit. That's how most people look at problems. But there is another way to look at them. It's a matter of attitude.
You could choose to see problems as opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed. You could realize that problems are there to teach you first of all what you want (which is the opposite of the problem) and also help you find a way to get there. Problems are there to help you, not to hinder you. But you may not even see the opportunities for you if you view all those annoying events as something to be avoided whenever possible. Be grateful for your problems. See them as challenges which you can win with the right attitude. Don't give up. Choose to see your problems as a blessing in disguise.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Friday, November 14, 2008
Luck
"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it
and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else:
Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball
Do you feel like a lucky person? Or perhaps an unlucky person? What is luck anyway? We've been brought up with superstitions like "if a black cat crosses your path, you'll have bad luck". Can that really be true? If you win the lottery, did that happen because you were lucky? Or was it just chance?
Luck is about being aware, and making associations. Nothing happens in our lives by chance. The person with good luck is simply the person with good success habits. First of all, you need to have a goal and work hard towards it. You won't get anywhere unless you take action. If you always focus on your goal, then you will acquire a good idea of the actions you need to take in order to get to it.
Of course, a lot of taking the right actions involves being aware of what is going on around you, and especially the opportunities that present themselves. If you are aware, you will know what opportunities to choose, because you will know what is most important to you. If you are out there taking action, you will gain a better understanding of what is necessary in order for you to reach your goal. You will learn, from making mistakes, what opportunities are most likely to work out. And you will be more likely to be around when those opportunitys do show up.
Don't rely on luck. Luck is just taking action and thus becoming better prepared for when a great opportunity presents itself. It is being aware of those great opportunitys when they show up, and working to take advantage of them. Luck is what happens when you do the things necessary for success.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else:
Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball
Do you feel like a lucky person? Or perhaps an unlucky person? What is luck anyway? We've been brought up with superstitions like "if a black cat crosses your path, you'll have bad luck". Can that really be true? If you win the lottery, did that happen because you were lucky? Or was it just chance?
Luck is about being aware, and making associations. Nothing happens in our lives by chance. The person with good luck is simply the person with good success habits. First of all, you need to have a goal and work hard towards it. You won't get anywhere unless you take action. If you always focus on your goal, then you will acquire a good idea of the actions you need to take in order to get to it.
Of course, a lot of taking the right actions involves being aware of what is going on around you, and especially the opportunities that present themselves. If you are aware, you will know what opportunities to choose, because you will know what is most important to you. If you are out there taking action, you will gain a better understanding of what is necessary in order for you to reach your goal. You will learn, from making mistakes, what opportunities are most likely to work out. And you will be more likely to be around when those opportunitys do show up.
Don't rely on luck. Luck is just taking action and thus becoming better prepared for when a great opportunity presents itself. It is being aware of those great opportunitys when they show up, and working to take advantage of them. Luck is what happens when you do the things necessary for success.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Confidence
"In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
Egyptian king
Nothing is more valuable than self-confidence. You must beleive that you can succeed. Even if you don't have the talent or know-how, if you think you can succeed, then you convince other people that you can succeed too. If you are trying to succeed at something that requires the help of others, which most big goals do, that can make all the difference.
Even if you are trying to do something you could do by yourself, self-confidence gives you the courage to attempt what you want to do. Success is next to impossible if you don't take action to get what you want. If you don't expect success, then you may not try in the first place; but even if you do you will quit at the first setback, and setbacks are likely to happen in any endeavour. Success requires perseverence, and perseverence requires confidence that you will eventually reach your goal.
Be bold. Be confident. Convince others you can do whatever it takes to get the job done. Go for what you want. Believe that you can reach your goals. That's your assurance of success.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
Egyptian king
Nothing is more valuable than self-confidence. You must beleive that you can succeed. Even if you don't have the talent or know-how, if you think you can succeed, then you convince other people that you can succeed too. If you are trying to succeed at something that requires the help of others, which most big goals do, that can make all the difference.
Even if you are trying to do something you could do by yourself, self-confidence gives you the courage to attempt what you want to do. Success is next to impossible if you don't take action to get what you want. If you don't expect success, then you may not try in the first place; but even if you do you will quit at the first setback, and setbacks are likely to happen in any endeavour. Success requires perseverence, and perseverence requires confidence that you will eventually reach your goal.
Be bold. Be confident. Convince others you can do whatever it takes to get the job done. Go for what you want. Believe that you can reach your goals. That's your assurance of success.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Monday, November 10, 2008
Obstacles
"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
Maxwell Maltz
What do you really enjoy? Chances are that it's not sitting around doing nothing. Personally, I think that being bored is the single worst thing that could happen to me. I am bored when I am not doing anything, and that means I am not learning and I am not growing.
If I never have obstacles to conquer or problems to solve, then I never learn that I have the ability to conquer obstacles or solve problems, and so I become afraid of what might happen in my world. If I never acheive goals, I never learn that I can get what I want, so I become frustrated. Frustration and fear just make us miserable. We know, at some level, that we are wasting our precious lives when we are not taking action. We know that we aren't living up to our potential. We aren't getting anything accomplished, so we never get to be proud of ourselves. We never learn about who we really are, let alone about who we really want to be.
We are not meant to sit around doing nothing. The Universe is pushing us to grow to reach our full potential. We are only happy or satisfied when we are going along with that push towards growth. We must conquer obstacles and acheive goals. This is what gives our lives meaning.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Maxwell Maltz
What do you really enjoy? Chances are that it's not sitting around doing nothing. Personally, I think that being bored is the single worst thing that could happen to me. I am bored when I am not doing anything, and that means I am not learning and I am not growing.
If I never have obstacles to conquer or problems to solve, then I never learn that I have the ability to conquer obstacles or solve problems, and so I become afraid of what might happen in my world. If I never acheive goals, I never learn that I can get what I want, so I become frustrated. Frustration and fear just make us miserable. We know, at some level, that we are wasting our precious lives when we are not taking action. We know that we aren't living up to our potential. We aren't getting anything accomplished, so we never get to be proud of ourselves. We never learn about who we really are, let alone about who we really want to be.
We are not meant to sit around doing nothing. The Universe is pushing us to grow to reach our full potential. We are only happy or satisfied when we are going along with that push towards growth. We must conquer obstacles and acheive goals. This is what gives our lives meaning.
For ideas about how to acheive true success, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Happiness
Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think."
Wayne W(alter) Dyer
Do you look for happiness in outside things? Do you think that owning a waterfront condo in a gorgeous location, or a mansion next to a world-class golf course, will make you happy? Maybe it's having a cook and a maid. Or it's winning the lottery. Hey, we all want to win the lottery, don't we. So often, we think that if we could only have everything we want, that we would be happy. But life doesn't work like that. Many people we admire, who have all the riches and fame anyone could want, are miserable. You can't buy happiness at any price.
Yet happiness is available to everyone, even those who financially have nothing. Lots of very poor people are very happy. This is because your happiness does not depend on what you have. It depends on the way you think. It depends on your attitude towards the world. Looking for happiness outside ourselves is a waste of time. We were meant to be happy. Happiness is our natural state of mind. The only reason that we don't feel happy is that we have got in our own way.
We want other things instead of appreciating the things we have. Life is full of blessings. Small children are very aware of that. They see the world in a state of wonder and awe. But we have forgotten.
We think that the approval of other people will make us happy. We think we will be happy if our spouse did more work around the house (or if we had a spouse). But things don't work out that. way. People resent knowing that you will only be happy if they changed their behavior in some way. They resist doing it. If you date somone for the first time and they pick up that you are imagining what "our children" are going to be like, they are likely to run. People don't want that kind of responsibility, at least until they have made up their own mind that they want the same thing that you want. The best thing to do is to just appreciate the person's good points and then they will decide on their own that they want to please you.
You can't find happiness outside yourself. Change the way you see the world that you already have so that you feel good about it.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Wayne W(alter) Dyer
Do you look for happiness in outside things? Do you think that owning a waterfront condo in a gorgeous location, or a mansion next to a world-class golf course, will make you happy? Maybe it's having a cook and a maid. Or it's winning the lottery. Hey, we all want to win the lottery, don't we. So often, we think that if we could only have everything we want, that we would be happy. But life doesn't work like that. Many people we admire, who have all the riches and fame anyone could want, are miserable. You can't buy happiness at any price.
Yet happiness is available to everyone, even those who financially have nothing. Lots of very poor people are very happy. This is because your happiness does not depend on what you have. It depends on the way you think. It depends on your attitude towards the world. Looking for happiness outside ourselves is a waste of time. We were meant to be happy. Happiness is our natural state of mind. The only reason that we don't feel happy is that we have got in our own way.
We want other things instead of appreciating the things we have. Life is full of blessings. Small children are very aware of that. They see the world in a state of wonder and awe. But we have forgotten.
We think that the approval of other people will make us happy. We think we will be happy if our spouse did more work around the house (or if we had a spouse). But things don't work out that. way. People resent knowing that you will only be happy if they changed their behavior in some way. They resist doing it. If you date somone for the first time and they pick up that you are imagining what "our children" are going to be like, they are likely to run. People don't want that kind of responsibility, at least until they have made up their own mind that they want the same thing that you want. The best thing to do is to just appreciate the person's good points and then they will decide on their own that they want to please you.
You can't find happiness outside yourself. Change the way you see the world that you already have so that you feel good about it.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Problems
"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
Margaret Mead
When was the last time you were stuck with a problem? You probably tried to analyze how it happened. You wondered what you did to cause the problem, or what you should have done differently. You may have thought "Why does this always have to happen to me?" You probably got pretty frustrated, and quit. That's how most people look at problems. But there is another way to look at them. It's a matter of attitude.
You could choose to see problems as opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed. You could realize that problems are there to teach you first of all what you want (which is the opposite of the problem) and also help you find a way to get there. Problems are there to help you, not to hinder you. But you may not even see the opportunities for you if you view all those annoying events as something to be avoided whenever possible. Be grateful for your problems. See them as challenges which you can win with the right attitude. Don't give up. Choose to see your problems as a blessing in disguise.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
Margaret Mead
When was the last time you were stuck with a problem? You probably tried to analyze how it happened. You wondered what you did to cause the problem, or what you should have done differently. You may have thought "Why does this always have to happen to me?" You probably got pretty frustrated, and quit. That's how most people look at problems. But there is another way to look at them. It's a matter of attitude.
You could choose to see problems as opportunities to learn, grow, and succeed. You could realize that problems are there to teach you first of all what you want (which is the opposite of the problem) and also help you find a way to get there. Problems are there to help you, not to hinder you. But you may not even see the opportunities for you if you view all those annoying events as something to be avoided whenever possible. Be grateful for your problems. See them as challenges which you can win with the right attitude. Don't give up. Choose to see your problems as a blessing in disguise.
For ideas about how to be truly successful, visit http://www.reachingmypotential.com
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