SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

"Thank you." These two simple, monosyllabic words mindlessly slip off our tongues every day, almost reflexively. We utter them so much they've all but become meaningless, out and about, at home and especially at the office. If you merely grunt a quick, curt "thank you" to a colleague who just did you a solid, and then say nothing more, you might as well say "thanks for nothing." "This one especially applies to bosses, who often feel, 'I don't have to thank my employees because I'm paying them,'"as I mentioned to somemagazines tells  during a phone interview. "It goes a long way, starting at the top, where leaders can model gratitude, and not with employee-of-the-month programs that can cause animosity. It could be as simple as taking a few seconds to pop your head into someone's office and properly saying 'thank you' to them for expending their life-energy to make your business successful." Notice the ope...

Jim Rohn, the renowned management guru from the US once said, “Invest more in yourself than in your career because the most skilled and competent people are NEVER unemployed”. I certainly think that this is very, very good advice indeed and is something that everyone in the workforce should take heed of. To ‘invest in yourself’ first and foremost means treating yourself as an asset!! You must accept the fact that you are an asset either to your company, to your family, spouse etc. You must therefore do everything you can in order to increase the value of this asset. Improving your skills, academic qualifications and health for example will most certainly mean that the value of this asset goes up. You will then reap high returns as the effort you put into consistently improving yourself will certainly play a role in determining your destiny and quality of life in the future. Some simple ways to invest in yourself are as follows: a.  Invest in your health.  This is paramount as ...