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Your one and only window of opportunity has arrived for you to outshine and also to outmanoeuvre your peers at work and convince your boss that your skills, experience and talents are indispensable to your organisation’s survival in toughening economic conditions. Regardless of Christmas, job layoffs are escalating. Daily.
You need to seize this chance to make certain your name is not on the Reduction In Force (RIF) list. Yes, your time has come to Release The Survivor Tiger In You to revamp, redefine and discover new Success Values.
It’s a talent everyone has, yet typically you think you don’t possess the power of innovation. If you’ve ever marvelled at someone’s creative prowess guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time.
Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten were not limited to only those children who displayed potential. Everybody has potential.
You know how long it took to learn to ride a bike or drive a car or to never make the same mistake again? It’s the same with innovation. It takes practice and a lot of time before this mind function comes easily. This article will teach you a few tips on how to bring innovation into your life.
I thought I heard someone ask “Where On Earth Is Robert?”
To find out click the picture below!
RULES:
1. Only 2.573 guesses per person
2. Do NOT drive and try to make a movie at the same time. Especially in cars with the roof down. Traffic cops can easily see where one of your hands is not. It is poking out above the sunvisor holding a video camera. And this multi-tasking is made specifically difficult in manually operated vehicles. Instead, may I suggest you get a passenger, (any passerby will do), to do the filming. This way the passenger gets to look at the essential buttons and stuff on the camera while you can safely focus on steering the car and doing necessary gearshifts at 80mph or whichever speed suits you.
“Opposites attract” is a law of attraction, at least where electromagnetism is concerned. But are there laws about attraction between two people?
“In a world that is full of strangers” as a line in a famous song of the 1980’s goes, is there a clear set of rules that allows two people to fall for each other?
Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa — and calls on the “Cheetah generation” to take back the continent.
Why you should listen to him: Ghanaian economist George Ayittey was a voice in the wilderness for many years. The “Cheetah Generation,” he says, is a “new breed of Africans,” taking their futures into their own hands, instead of waiting for politicians to empower them. Ayittey is a Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University in Washington, DC.
Life would be sweeter if at the moment of birth we were presented with $10,000 and our own copy of a user-manual titled “How To Succeed In Life” with a FAQ or knowledgebase to refer to from that moment on.
But the evolved plan of life as we know it, was to see who the fittest among us are and to see how we survive in life and try to rise above the rest of mankind at whatever we choose to do with our one shot at ‘life’. But all is not lost. If you ENGAGE your success values you will improve your chances at succeeding.
Incorporate these 5 Top Engage skills into your success values strategy and you’ll find that you may move forward quicker toward your goals than you dreamed!
Please remember in everything you set out to do, you MUST NOT settle on mediocrity. Being mediocre will never bring you the success you deserve. Go out and engage to be the best, get the best and to earn more than anyone else.
• Hustle: generally, people who make it big have one thing in common—they are dissatisfied with the status quo. They will not take what is “common” or “expected” and let that define their lives—they move past it and excel. You must work hard and hustle.
• Character: someone coined the phrase, “character is what you do in the dark.” In other words, when no one is looking, will you behave differently than if someone was looking? If not, then you have character. If you are attacked, be tough—not hard. Don’t be a pushover, but be compassionate, gentle, and flexible—especially on procedure (not principle).
• Risk Taking: this isn’t gambling, it’s a willingness to be bold, hearty, and to push forward. People who refuse to take risks are definitely going to lose. If you refuse a new promotion because you’re not confident of your skills, you will likely be passed over when a different chance arrives.
• Don’t be afraid of rejection, just take it as part of life and you’ll find there’s nothing to be afraid of—especially in the word “no.” “No” is just another opportunity to find a way around an obstacle and to use creative problem-solving skills.
• Time Management: we all know that one minute has 60 seconds and that one hour has 60 minutes. One day has 24 hours, and one year has 365 days. But one year also has 525,600 minutes. We don’t think about a year in such small increments, but maybe we should. We waste minutes as if they’ll always be around, and the fact is that time wasted is time we can never get back. We might miss a deal or promotion of a lifetime by wasting just a few minutes.
Proper time management is essential as you climb to success. Continue to break goals down in to manageable chunks—do that with relation to your day and the time you’ve been given. You’ll accomplish far more this way and you won’t regret using your time wisely.
• Master Non-Verbal Communication: it is said that our body language and facial expressions do much more communicating than our words will ever do. When the words that you speak don’t match the expressions on your face or the stance of your body, you confuse the listener and muddle your message.
Be aware that when you try to “multi-task,” you often end up short-changing something, and the last thing you want is to short-change people. Don’t try to do too much at once—your willingness to do this tells people they aren’t important, even if you’re expressing your appreciation of their work and effort. Be aware of what message your body is sending off!
Seth Godin is a genius at metaphor. None more so than by applying tribalism to marketing . And I am kicking myself for not picking up on this when for years in Africa I lived in a society where tribalism governed our lives. And nothing outqualifies ‘apartheid’ as being the premier example of tribalism in its worst manifestation at work.
However, what Seth uses tribalism for is for the betterment of society through encouraging leadership in marketing which benefits all peoples directly and indirectly.
Seth Godin has picked up on what Africa gave the world when the world began - “tribes”. The world today is a result of tribal expansionism and individual breakouts from an existing tribe to go off into the wilderness to create and lead one’s own tribe.
Survival of the tribe depended on leadership. And in today’s world, the principle remains as steadfastly paramount as it did when tribal leaders wore a loincloth and battered the heads of invading tribes with a newly adapted tool made of a T-Rex’s dainty femur bone or a shaft of wood with a stone attached at the other end.
Incredible.
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If you want to make money online and need to find out how to do it or even how to find a niche market, then you shouldmust have to sign up here now to read Brian Clark and Tony Clark’s “Teaching Sells” course about how to create the best ILE on the web that could earn you a fortune.
It has been light years since blogosphere trembled with exciting news. Said news arrived in a whisper that Jason Calacanis has retired from blogging. Calacanis, one of bloggings’ prodigal sons, a blogosphere beacon has just doused his light.
I am busy drafting some copy and I am struggling with two words:
1. Passion
2. Conversation
Is it only me who thinks these two words are grossly overused and now fall within the ‘glib’ bracket?
I don’t want to use them as they convey a sense of false reality to me. The word ‘conversation’ has been a pillar of blogosphere’s Web 2.0 for so long now and jumps out everywhere and far too often is used out of context which I suppose has caused me to think it is time for the word to be rested.
I am also experiencing a great deal of resistance to using ‘passion’ or ‘passionate’.
A bit like an Anglo-Saxon expletive, the word is a shortcut to save further meaningful explanation about why you like, enjoy and excel at a certain thing.
For example, “I am passionate about Tiddlywinks”.
Nah, it doesn’t quite cut the ice for me! Apologies to Tiddlywinks officianados. I mean no offense, but I can’t feel it let alone imagine how one gets passionate about a game called Tiddlywinks.
The site has been very quiet mainly because my attention has been diverted to other things.
One of which is to create a Members Only section. So over the next few weeks you will begin to see changes here at iScatterlings.
The blog will remain and will be updated regularly. Sometime over the next 10 days I will blog about the changes and explain what benefit you can derive from the Members Only area.
As we now enjoy the advent of Twitter to addictive levels I thought it appropriate to recall this post from 2007 to compliment the Trackside Communications piece below.
Don’t take this to heart! It is a cynical tongue in cheek nudge and a wink about the faddishness of our celebs and bloggers!
You know then that when your present life gets you down, you can always blindly follow the celebs and change to Life 3.0
