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Tips & Wrinkles
Begin with the end in mind! (Steven Covey - The 7 HABITS of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. Habit 2)
Many of you will know this reference - Covey's 7 Habits are generally well known. I have found this one to be so useful in many stuations.
When you start a project, task, activity, How often do you really define what it is you want to achieve?
Define outcome in detail - WRITE it down in detail! Your mind will help you deliver the outcome you want so much more successfully after you have written a goal down.
Make sure your goal is SMART - I'm not going to repeat what SMART is, I'll assume you know it (Call me if you need clarification).
Marketing - use your phone system to advantage!
This is as much a plea as a tip
It seems being put on 'hold' is an inevitability nowadays - for those of you who have horrible tinny music perpetually revolving - why not change it and give your listener something interesting to listen to! Why not describe some of your useul services or give the listener a free bit of advice related to your business. After all - once you have set it up it is very cheap marketing
FEELING LOW?
We all have our moments when e feel a bit down!
A simple tip which will help you feel better -
- Sit or stand upright .
- Stretch your spine up as straight as you can make it.
- Lift your shoulders up and back.
- MOST important - smile and hold the smile (it's hard to feel bad if you are smiling.
- Re-inforce this by thinking back to a happy moment in your life, remember what you saw, what you heard nd how you felt.........bring those sensations back with you to now and put substance behind your smile.
- Try it! It will help you feel so much better!!!!!!!
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Launguage Tip Using the word 'try'
How often do you say you'll 'try' to do something?
When you are going to 'try', let's be real! Usually it means all you are going to do is think bout it for a brief moment and not bother or you ae really saying that youwill not be able to do it but you can't bring yourself to say so.
Be open and honest - say you will or say you can't. Trying never works!
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Book Recommendation
The Four Agreements: Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Toltec Wisdom)
Don Miguel Ruiz
A fantastic little book this - I defy anyone to read it and not see the common sense in the arguments. It explores the source of self-limiting beliefs that cause us to go through needless suffering. Knowing, in absolute clarity, what we do and how, this book takes you through solutions and options to feeling better about ourselves.
It's short as well so does not take long to read! Try it! |
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How to de-stress yourself
Working with a client recently I had occasion to work on some issues this individual as having with a 'Be perfect' driver as part of a conscientious personality. If you have come across Transactional Analysis as part of the study of human interactions you will know that there are in this model, five personality drivers:
- Be perfect
- Be strong
- Try hard
- Please others
- Hurry up
A 'be perfect' style works well when you need to deliver accuracy, details and be ordered and neat. However, when under stressful situations, a driver like this will not necessarily serve you so well. You are likely to beat yourself up for not being good enough, for making a mistake or for something being out of place. Equally likely is for you to pressure those around you to 'be perfect' too, making you somewhat unpopular no doubt.
Solutions
Do you recognise this in yourself? - Some possible solutions are:
- Look at the quotes on the top right hand side of this page. Recognise that it is much harder to learn when thing go well. Getting things 'wrong' is actually a gift. Look at an error as a wonderful learning opportunity.
- When you do make a mistake or think you could have one something better then, instead of looking back and beating yourself up, practise looking forward and identfying just what you will do differently next time.
- BAN the word failure from your vocabulary when related to human effort. Mechanical things fail, not humans. Humans only find that what they did, did not work as well as it could have and they learn from the experience.
- Relax! Unwind! Think - Humans make mistakes and are not perfect. It is unreasonable to think that we can possibly be perfect 100% of the time. Do not expect it of yourself and don't expect it from those around you! |
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| Overcome Limiting Beliefs
Beliefs that hinder you!
Step 1 - Write down the limiting belief. e.g. I'm not a good presenter
Step 2 - Write down the evidence for this - be specific. e.g. I feel nervous speaking in public
Step 3 - Write down counter-arguments.e.g. x & y said they enjoyed what I had said.
Step 4 - Write down the logic - Realise that your belef is too absolute and so cannot be true. e.g. I may not be the best speaker but every time I speak I learn more and, in fact, when I speak I produce some good results.
STEP 5 - Enjoy your new belief and the process of learning | |
| Quotes!
We learn wisdom from failure, mch more than success. We often discover what we will do - by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
Who does nothing, makes no mistakes; and who makes no mistakes, never makes any progress.
Paul Winkler (1630 - 1686)
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Funny!
A shepherd was tending his flock in a field, when a new sports car screeched to a stop on the road nearby in a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in expensive designer clothes and sunglasses, leans out of the window and shouts over to the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have here, can I take one?"
The shepherd looks up slowly up at the young man, then looks at his peaceful flock, and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The young man steps out of his car holding a state-of-the-art palmtop pda, with which he proceeds to connects to a series of websites, first calling up satellite navigation system to pinpoint his location, then keying in the location to generate an ultra-high resolution picture of the field. After emailing the photo to an image processing facility, the processed data is returned, which he then feeds into an online database, and enters the parameters for a report. Within another few seconds a miniature printer in the car produces a full colour report containing several pages of analysis and results. The young man studies the data for a few more seconds and returns to the shepherd.
"You have exactly one-thousand five-hundred and eighty-six sheep, including three rams, and seven-hundred and twenty-two lambs."
"That's right," says the shepherd, mildly impressed. "Well, I guess that means you get to take one of my sheep."
The young man makes his choice and loads the animal onto the back seat of his car, at which the shepherd says, almost as an afterthought, "Hey there, if I can tell you what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?"
The young man, feeling confident, agrees.
"You're a consultant," says the shepherd.
"Wow, that's right," says the young man, taken aback, "How did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answers the shepherd, "You showed up here even though nobody called you. You took a fee for giving me an answer that already know, to a question I never asked, and you know nothing about my business. Now give me back my sheep." | |
