Archive for October, 2006
Ways to Stop Procrastinating
f you have a tendency to push things off, chances are you do it in your professional AND your social life. Best not to let it become a habit. 1. Schedule Schedule your time appropriately. Have a calendar and mark down all important events and dates.Make daily schedules and to-do lists, but make sure you [...]
Reasons for subscribing to podcasts
I’m volunteering for the pledge drive for WFAE Today I’ll be in between noon and 2 pm. As usual I’was way early. So, I’m sitting at the lobby of Hilton at University place waiting. I didn’t want to watch Price is Right featuring 150 years old Bob Barker and a screen full of happy people [...]
10 Things to Know About Enthusiasm
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo EmersonIn his article, “Enthusiasm Leads to Success,” Michael Bucci gives these tips: 1. Enthusiasm means you believe deeply in what your company is doing and you believe your job is important because it contributes to the cause. Therefore you’re willing to work your butt off [...]
Banker to Poor Gets Nobel Prize
Who says you have to cheat and steal to make it big? I listened Mr.Yunus’s imporessive story on NPR last year. I think it draws a great picture on what’s possible for any of us. Banker to Poor Gets Nobel Prize: “ Arab News: The Bangladeshi founder of a bank that specializes in helping the [...]
The Top 10 Strategies for Developing Leadership
Whether you are a corporate executive, manager, church leader, chamber director or teacher, leadership is the highest skill you can bring to the table, especially in these challenging times. Although we hear the term “born leader” often, more often than not leadership skills are developed rather than discovered. Here are a few ideas for developing [...]
Free Your Mind!
Free Your Mind!: “Nothing is more powerful than the human mind and its ability to create. Our thinking defines our reality. Sometimes our thinking creates thoughts which disempower us, however. Following these ten po” (Via Distinctive Results.)
What is the best way to make your dreams come true?
What is the best way to make your dreams come true?: “Everyone has dreams. For thousands of people I met over the years they are some combination of Financial Freedom, Happy & Loving Family, Better Physique, Pain-Free Life, Some Form of Recognition (“ (Via Distinctive Results.)
6 Ways to Develop Concentration
6 Ways to Develop Concentration: “Concentration means the action or power of focusing one’s attention or mental effort. If you were a trapeze artist it could be the difference between applauds and screams. Fortunately or unfortunatel” (Via Distinctive Results.)
How to subscribe to this blog (and others too)
If you’re new to the blogs or the orange RSS thingy you see in all th cool blogs including this one, but don’t know what they mean and how to use them. Here’s the explanation from the gurus of Blogesphere. RSS and Atom Feeds Explained
Learning in 21st Century
Once I went to photograph a horse race in England with a friend of mine who was a big deal photographer. (this was pre-digital era) He was not very happy with me for using my auto focus camera. His thinking was “True photographer should focus his camera without any problems” What I was thinking back [...]