SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Single Handle Every T ask Eat that frog! Every bit of planning, prioritizing and organizing comes down to this simple concept. Your ability to select your most important task, to begin it and then to concentrate on it single mindedly until it is complete is the key to high levels of performance and personal productivity. The Requirement for Every Great Achievement Every great achievement of mankind has been preceded by a long period of hard, concentrated work until the job was done. Single handling requires that once you begin, you keep working at the task, without diversion or distraction, until the job is 100% complete. You keep urging yourself onward by repeating the words "Back to work!" over and over whenever you are tempted to stop or do something else. Reduce Your Time By 50% By concentrating single mindedly on your most important task, you can reduce the time required to complete it by 50% or more. It has been estimated that the tendency to start and stop a task, to p...

On a flight, when your plane takes off, the pilot tells all the passengers to stay in their seats with their seatbelts buckled. In many cases, the pilot will say, "We expect a certain amount of turbulence for the first part of the flight, so please stay buckled up." When you start any new business or job, you will experience turbulence as well. Control Your Responses Strong people expect to experience problems on their journey toward their goals and destinations. Weak people are surprised and dismayed when things don't work out the way they had expected. They become angry and lash out. They blame other people for their problems. Often they become depressed or irrational. Your success is largely determined by your ability to respond effectively to problems as they come up. Fortunately, you can learn a number of effective strategies practiced by successful people to deal with problems. Problems Go with the Territory First of all, expect to have problems, disappointments, an...

Your self-concept is made up of three parts, each of which affects each of the others. Understanding these three parts enables you to put your hands on the keyboard of your own mental computer. When you learn to take charge of the development of a new and positive self-concept of selling, you can then control your sales destiny for the rest of your career. Determine Your Direction The first part of the self-concept is the "self-ideal." Your self-ideal largely determines the direction in which you are going with your life. It guides the growth and evolution of your character and personality. Your self-ideal is a combination of all of the qualities and attributes of other people that you most admire. Your self-ideal is a description of the person you would very much like to be if you could embody the qualities that you most aspire to. Strive Toward Excellence Throughout your life, you have seen and read about the qualities of courage, confidence, compassion, love, fortitude, pe...

"Ferguson is right. Money does not guarantee success. I showed that last season when my Porto team beat Manchester United. It's all about leadership." – Jose Mourinho DURING the recent World Cup, I studied the work of leadership guru cum hostage negotiator George Kohlrieser on high performance teams. As the new football season kicked off, I started to think about high performance sports teams. And immediately, one name comes to mind – José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho. Jose Mourinho has built three high performance teams in the past few years. The moment he takes over the team, they quickly gel, start to perform and win trophies. How does Mourinho do it? When Mourinho was asked what the secret to his success was, he humbly responded: "I pray a lot. I believe in God. I try to be a good man so He can have a bit of time to give me a hand when I need it." Mourinho may pray a lot but so do other coaches. Mourinho is probably the only coach who has a PhD, earning i...

Self-assessment is one of the most important factors for any person appearing for an interview. You should know yourself very well before you present yourself to others. It is a process of knowing about oneself. It can be valuable to you in deciding what kind of occupations you can go for. You can do the self-assessment on your own by preparing inventories or you can take a self-assessment test available online or with some respectable institutes. Self-assessment- Inventory Preparation You can assess yourself by noting down all the relevant facts, i.e. your personality traits, your abilities, skills, strengths and weaknesses, etc. You can then assess yourself on the basis of good and bad qualities you have and can also find out the ways by which you can improve. Self-assessment- Structured Tests You can also take some structured tests available online or with some institutes to judge yourself. These tests help judge one's personality on the basis of the answers given. T...