Weekly Thought – Integrity VS Honesty, 30th August 2010
September 1st, 2010 | 
Author: Weekly Thought
30th August 2010
Integrity Versus Honesty
The Essence of Integrity…
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling others the truth…
Spencer Johnson
Author – Who Moved My Cheese?
Integrity is the Essence of EVERYTHING SUCCESSFUL….
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Weekly Thought – 11 pieces Of advise from one of the richest in the world. 23rd August 2010
Weekly Thought
23rd August 2010
Advice from Richest Man in the World
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Weekly Thought – 4 Ways to Motivate Self, 16th August 2010
Weekly Thought
16th August 2010
4 Ways to Motivate Self
Do you struggle with making deadlines? Do you feel burnt out and tired all the time? Do you put tasks off? These are some signs of being unmotivated. Below are four key ways to help you motivate yourself. When someone is motivated they are more on top of their priorities and end the end feel good about themselves and their work. Try these motivation tips to better yourself and your work.
1) Make time psychology work for you. If you have ever taken a time management course before, you have learned how to pack more into less. But have you ever noticed how difficult it is to leave a project or job incomplete? You can play on this psychology of completion by writing out a things to do list before you go home at the end of the work day. Chances are if you don’t know exactly where to pick up where you left off, you’ll have to start over. Tonight, before you leave the office lay out 5 calls you need to make tomorrow morning. Or go home right in the middle of filling out a prospect contact sheet.
2) Give yourself daily and hourly goals. Very few of us have the ability to stay disciplined all the time. Yet studies have shown that a big difference between those who succeed and those who fail is constant and concentrated activity. Big hitters report such behaviors as not taking lunch until they make a pre-set number of phone calls. They don’t allow themselves to play golf until they sell a certain number of units. Sure they make sacrifices. But in the meantime they also make sales. Most who practice this method of self denial say that when they do earn a lunch or a golf game, the taste is very sweet when linked to successfully accomplished activity.
3) Make selling a game. When you take your work too seriously, it becomes drudgery instead of enjoyment. Most top producers mention that their income takes a back seat to how much fun they have on the job. Interestingly, many poor producers look at their paycheck as being the biggest motivator. The problem is that your sales production will fluctuate. You may go from a “who’s who” to a “ who’s he” in the space of a year. For example, ‘play’ more often with your best customers. Send out birthday cards to prospects or customers you care about. See how many phone calls you can make in an hour or a day without caring particularly about the result.
4) Burnt out is a key factor in maintaining motivation. A great way to avoid the symptoms of burnt out is to link rewards to activity instead of success. One way to kill motivation is to increase your frustration and isolation. You have probably at one time already done this by withdrawing from the people in your life you love. But a great way to create motivation is to give yourself a reinforcement gift that comes as a result of superior effort. Effort always results in success if it is maintained.
Weekly Thought – Road To Success, 2nd August 2010
Road To Success:
The road to success is not straight. There is a curb called failure, a loop called confusion. Speed bumps called friends, and red lights called enemies, caution yellow lights called family.
You will have puncture’s called jobs, but if you have a spare tyre called determination, and an engine called perseverance, Insurance called faith,
You will make it to a place called SUCCESS.
Weekly Thought 26th July 2010 – Fear & Learning
Hi All,
Is fear holding you back from learning or doing things in your business?
Smash the fear – learn Anything
Fear is your friend – Fear is an indicator – Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do – more often than not it shows you what you should do.
Ask yourself…
“whats the worst that can happen”?
Tim Ferris on how to learn anything.
Weekly Thought – Do You Leave Time 19th July 2010
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things , that you then have no time to accept a real challange, when it comes along. This apply’s to having fun & play as well as work.
A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow.
Og Mandino
Weekly Thought 5th July 2010 – Don’t Quit
Weekly Thought
5th July 2010
Don’t Quit
Thought you might like a quick poem about hanging in there when you feel that the only thing left to do is quit. A reminder, the only failure in this world is the failure not to participate.
Don’t Quit
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out–
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.
Edgar A. Guest
Weekly Thought 17 June 2010
Weekly Thought
7th June 2010
What are you telling yourself?
What you tell yourself is one of the most important things when it comes to your success. Are you telling yourself you are no good at something? Then your subconscious believes it.
One the easiest ways is to train your sub conscious is I AM statements. Examples of these:
• I am an amazing husband / wife
• I am determined to achieve all my goals
• I am a successful business owner
• I am the world’s best leader
Telling yourself every morning and every evening and really believing it, you will train your sub conscious that you are actually those things and watch your success storm ahead.
An example of these I AM’s is attached in the video. If a small child can understand the power in them then so can you.
Have a fantastic week.
Weekly Thought – Live Life on Your Own Terms
A good friend sent me the following email today (Thanks Mr.
Beattie), which contained a goal written by the legendary
Bruce Lee:
“I, Bruce Lee, will be the highest paid Oriental superstar
in the United States. In return, I will give the most
exciting performances and render the best quality in the
capacity of an actor. Starting in 1970, I will achieve
world fame and from then onward till the end of 1989 I
will have in my possession $10,000,000. Then I will live the
way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.”
No real surprise’s that Bruce Lee was into personal
development material in a massive way. He practiced
visualizing how he would like this life to be everyday. It’s
obvious that he set goals that will challenge him to grow
out of his comfort zone.
Yet, as I look upon Lee’s written goal, I want to make a
couple comments that I think will prove helpful to you:
1. The first part of his goal is definite and clear. This
gives it power. 2. Following the advice of Napoleon Hill,
Lee states what he will render in
return for the money. This is key.
3. Lee’s final statement, however, “Then I will live the way
I please and
achieve inner harmony and happiness” – might not be
something you’d want to repeat in your own achievement
process.
Here’s what I suggest for when you are setting your goals.
Bruce states that
he will only achieve inner harmony and happiness once he
reached the goal.
This sends a message to your sub-conscious that say’s until
your goal is achieved, you will not experience Harmony &
Happiness.
My suggestion would be to state that you experience inner
harmony and happiness daily no matter what the goal is.
Remember, the goal is just something that allows us to be
challenged and get the lessons in life. How you feel along
the way is up to you!
Remember
Personal Change Comes From Deciding To Do So From Within And
Not From A List Of Achievements.
Live Life On Your Terms
Weekly Thought – from the desk of Nelson Mandela
Welcome to the first day of Autumn and now your business is
in full swing. If you are still finding business is a bit
sluggish, drop me an email for a complimentary coaching
session.
Here is the weekly thought….Based around a very passionate
topic for myself.
Weekly Thought
1st March 2010
Education
Education is the great engine of personal development.
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can
become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the
head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become
the president of a great nation.
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are
given, that separates one person from another.
Mabiba Nelson Mandela