Your Online Personal Brand- Mistakes with Twitter
Excellent Infographic on Mistakes you could be making on Twitter. A must read – and Twitter is a key vehicle for your online branding.
Goal Setting
The one thing most people don’t do is to set a goal. Many of us who try to do it are also easily dissuaded by the level of focus required.
But, there is no other way than setting goals to make your life matter.
Set a goal that looks high! And work towards it – every day, every hour, every minute. You will be surprised at what you will be able to reach!
What is your “Big” goal?
Make today a Masterpiece
“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? “
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are just completing the quarter end. Most of you, who are in sales, marketing or any other line of business, the last month of the quarter is when there is pressure to ensure that time counts. Everything that we were working on – comes to the fore now. If we miss it, the time is gone. The impact is lost.
So, the whole team works to achieve the goals- be it sales goals, budget goals or any other goals that are driven by a time limit.
It has happened every year for the last 20 years. The amount of work I see done by me, the team, and every other member in the company – in the last 5 days, is amazing. People bring a level of energy that they normally don’t… till these last 5 days.
The last 5 days are a masterpiece of success – for each of us.
And it makes me wonder!
Why?
Why do I (and many others) suddenly come to life in these last 5 days- and make impossible things happen! Why did we not do it every other day of the week, month, quarter and year?
Imagine, what we could have achieved, if we brought this level of energy to the table- every day.
And this is what I am trying to do.
Every day, start by asking these 5 words.
“What we I do today”?
Some of the best coaches do not focus on just the main match, but on every day when the team is practicing. By getting into a mode of doing the very best, every day, while becoming a habit, also opens up the avenues to achieve a lot more in our life.
Most of us tend to look at the outcome- and postpone many things that can be done now- to later, to tomorrow to another day.
Start today- and make this day a masterpiece.
If at home, make it a masterpiece for your family.
At work, make it a masterpiece for yourself, your team, you company.
The ripple effect of what you start, will start moving across others – and before long your team and your company will be bringing about change, that other can just dream of.
All because- you made your day today- a masterpiece.
The A-Z of Motivation
I found this article on the web. I found it very interesting and wanted to post it on the blog.
A – Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
B – Believe in yourself 100%, and in what you do and can do.
C – Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.
D – Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed many many times before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.
E – Enjoy. Work as if you don’t need money. Dance as if nobody’s watching. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you’ll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.
F – Family and Friends – are life’s greatest ‘F’ treasures. Don’t loose sight of them.
G – Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When you exert extra effort in doing things.
H – Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.
I – Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don’t let other people to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people – the kind of friends who hates to hear about your success.
J – Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
K – keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally cl earing out, paving the way to self improvement.
L – Learn to love your self.
M – Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.
N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.
O – Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and horse sense. They see things in 2 ways – how they want things to be, and how they should be.
P – Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our mistakes.
Q – Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your fate – are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?
R – Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others will get on their feet and try to push us around. Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah build the ark.
S – Stop procrastinating.
T – Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.
U – Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and to be understood the second.
V – Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.
W – Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.
X – X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to put on “extras” on your life like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on.
Y – You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because you’re just going to spend it once.
Z – Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!
Dream your life
Impossible is Just a Word!
Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn’t fantasized about being the one who hits the winning run? And how many times have we dreamed of being wildly rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships?
Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that – dreams. And our aspirations easily collect dust in our attic.
This is a sad turn of events in our life. Instead of experiencing exciting adventures in self actualization, we get caught up in the humdrum of living from day-to-day just barely existing.
But you know what? Life could be so much better, if only we learned to aim higher.
The most common problem to setting goals is the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking “I can’t do this. It’s too hard. It’s too impossible”. “No one can do this”.
However, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in human accomplishment.
Remember that scientists were baffled when they took a look at the humble bumblebee. Theoretically, they said, it was impossible for the bumblebee to fly. Unfortunately for the bumble, bee no one has told it so. So fly it does.
On the other hand, some people suffer from dreaming totally outrageous dreams and not acting on them. The result? Broken dreams, and tattered aspirations.
If you limit yourself with self-doubt, and self-limiting assumptions, you will never be able to break past what you deem impossible. If you reach too far out into the sky without working towards your goal, you will find yourself clinging on to the impossible dream.
Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and write down some goals in your life. Under one header, list down things ‘you know you can do’. Under another header, write the things ‘you might be able to do.’ And under one more, list the things that that are ‘impossible for you to do.’
Now look at all the headers strive every day to accomplish the goals that are under things ‘you know you can do’. Check them when you are able to accomplish them. As you slowly are able to check all of your goals under that heading, try accomplishing the goals under the other header-the one that reads ‘you might be able to do.’
As of the items you wrote under things I could do are accomplished, you can move the goals that are under things that are ‘impossible for you to do’ to the list of things ‘you might be able to do.’
As you iterate through this process, you will find out that the goals you thought were impossible become easier to accomplish. And the impossible begin to seem possible after all.
You see, the technique here is not to limit your imagination. It is to aim high, and start working towards that goal little by little. However, it also is unwise to set a goal that is truly unrealistic.
Those who just dream towards a goal without working hard end up disappointed and disillusioned.
On the other hand, if you told someone a hundred years ago that it was possible for man to be on the moon, they would laugh at you. If you had told them that you could send mail from here to the other side of the world in a few seconds, they would say you were out of your mind.
But, through sheer desire and perseverance, these impossible dreams are now realities.
Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Nothing could be truer. For one to accomplish his or her dreams, there has to be had work and discipline. But take note that that 1% has to be a think-big dream, and not some easily accomplished one.
Ask any gym rat and he or she will tell you that there can be no gains unless you are put out of your comfort zone. Remember the saying, “No pain, no gain”? That is as true as it can be.
So dream on, friend! Don’t get caught up with your perceived limitations. Think big and work hard to attain those dreams. As you step up the ladder of progress, you will just about find out that the impossible has just become a little bit more possible.