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Archive for the ‘INSPIRATION’ Category
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
To make sure you achieve your goals:
Set aside time to work towards goals
Schedule a specific time each day to work on a goal. Make yourself inaccessible during that period so you can concentrate fully on the goal in front of you.
Set up a reminder system
Break each goal down into specific steps, each with a completion date. Write these dates down on separate pieces of paper and file them in chronological order. Each morning you can look in this reminder file and note the approaching deadlines. You can then set aside an appropriate period to work on each activity.
Establish priorities
Put your most important goals high on your priority list. Give busy work a low priority and only work on it when time permits.
Long range plans
Recognise that it may take you years to reach your ultimate goal. To get where you want to go you need long range plans. These plans will give direction to all the day-to-day activities you must perform to achieve the higher goals. If you don’t have some long range plans you’ll be tempted to focus on short-term gains, at the expense of greater but more distant achievements.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
There was a very cautious man, who never laughed or cried.
He never risked, he never lost, he never won nor tried.
And when he one day passed away, his insurance was denied,
For since he never really lived, they claimed he never died…
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
"This, – he said – isn’t any ordinary package."
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".
I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work.
I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.
I don’t save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday…" and "One Day…" are fading away from my dictionary. If it’s worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don’t know what my friend’s wife would have done if she knew she wouldn’t be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I’d like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It’s these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.
I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters… letters that i wanted to write "One of this days".
I would regret and feel sad, because I didn’t say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.
Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.
And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
If you got this, it’s because someone cares for you and because, probably, there’s someone you care about.
If you’re too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it "One of these days", remember that "One day" is far away… or might never come. .
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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"All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them."
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Walt Disney
1901-1966, Cartoon Artist and Producer
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs."
Dr. Maxwell Maltz 1899-1975, Author
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
A recent report commissioned by More Th>n Business which surveyed the over 60s found that 71% of people had significant regrets over not having been more ambitious.
Whatever your age now, do you have regrets, in your career or life? I love the quote, from an Orbital CD, that we regret more the things that we didn’t do rather than the things we did do.
Is there something that you have been thinking of doing but something holds you back … perhaps you could visualise the future, imaging what happens over different options – in business it is called Scenario planning.
So for example, with a career or personal dilemma – what will it be like if you say yes to the option, or say no, or what other options so you have?
If there is anything you would like to share, please do get in touch.
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water, at the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.
After 2 years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."
The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?" "That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."
Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I caught the news last night and there was a feature on Major Phil Packer who is climbing a mountain despite being paralysed from the waist down. Previously he walked the London Marathon despite being told he would never walk again.
He was injured whilst serving in Iraq and he is raising money for heroes.
Major Phil is setting himself challenges to prove what he is able to do.
It made me think – the way that people will react to situations in different ways. For some such an illness would be the excuse to sit back, to not try to do anything and slip into victim mode. For others, like Major Phil it is a challenge and can make the problems that others currently face be seen in a different perspective.
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
1: What do you **want** to do, rather than what do you have to do? Make sure to do something you actually want to do. The washing up and the tidying up can wait, but time to jump in puddles with your children won’t!
2: Take time to dream and do it now, don’t wait till tomorrow as tomorrow never comes
3: Be willing to say yes to what you want to do and no to what others thing you should do
4: Not everything can be done right now, so sometimes you do need to plan but you can make your first steps today
5: Believe in yourself, and ignore those who will tell you it won’t work
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