Can you answer that without having to look back at your calendar for the last year? If you can, I'm impressed. And I hope you can. It means that you are living a life on purpose; you are the cause of your life rather than being at the effect of it. For that you get a big "Congratulations!" I'd love for you to share how you do it. See, there are many people who are living their life at the effect of everything and everyone around them. I've written about that in the past and, in fact, I call it 'being a victim'. It's energy level 1 in my Energy Leadership Index Assessment.
As a business owner, if you can easily share with someone your top successes and accomplishments then you are probably among the select 2% of successful business owners out there. You more than likely have a vision, a plan, take action and course-correct.
If not, don't worry. I'm here to help you. The below outline is a very quick way for you to have 2015 be all that you want it to be... even if 2014 was a bit disappointing to you.
In the Small Business Secret Weapon process we also work with a bonus step and that is: exercise the principle of autosuggestion. This means that as you take action and complete to-dos and tasks, stuff starts to happen. You run into someone who can help you move closer to your goal, you get an unexpected but needed surprise, and so much more.
I often do VIP days with my clients so that they can start outlining what they want for their business and what they will do to get it. We take a day to do this together but you can do this for yourself. I suggest you take several hours so that you can get very clear on what it is you want. Find a quiet place where you can spend some time and get comfortable. Have a notebook and writing instrument or your computer/tablet so that you can write down your ideas and your plan.
Here is what you are going to do:
Define your purpose. State your overall purpose and then all the other reasons you are doing what you are doing or want to do. Get very clear, visualize how you will feel, what you will be doing, and don't leave anything out - allow yourself time to create this.
Write out your roadmap. This is your to-do list so to speak. You will do x in order to reach $100,000 this year or x to get your business started and so on - write out each step that you can think of. While you want to be very clear, don't worry about being so specific that you get caught up here. Remember, your bonus step from above will help you here!
Schedule your actions. Put each step that you have in your calendar so that you know what you will do and when. If you have a deadline such as 'launch new business', that goes into the future, and then you put the actions that lead up to that date closer to the present so you can take action to get there.
Write out the reason(s) you desire to accomplish your goals. Be as detailed as you can. This is your touchstone so that when things get a bit challenging, you can come back to this to motivate you back into action. It will act as your motivator. Examples: I want to quit my full-time job and work for myself; I want to send my children to college without having to take out loans; I want to retire by 50; I want to do what I love and be my own boss; or I want to be available to my kids. It is what is important to you in your life. Do not judge, this is strictly for you.
Write out why you have faith, belief and confidence. This is another touchstone. I have faith because I know I will be successful, I have faith that this will be exactly as I envision it, and I am confident that I will succeed.
Be as detailed as possible, envision all that you want to accomplish and see yourself accomplishing it. Trust that once you begin taking action, opportunities will find you because the bonus step is real, it does happen.
Saturday 24 January 2015
How To Make A Decision
Humans are highly intelligent beings. Let us not spend our time and energy in doing mundane, repetitive tasks day in and day out for life is precious. Use your critical, analytical, logical thinking skills much more often because that's what differentiates us, humans from animals. We all have a 'leader' in us but often times we choose to follow others for it is an easy way out. It is also easier to blame someone else when things go wrong and we didn't make the decision.
To set you in motion, to fulfill your desire, to reach your goals, you have to gain confidence. This is possible only by learning to make decisions on time. Practice makes permanent.
Sometimes your decision may not produce the desired result nevertheless you made the decision. This makes it imperative to take the time needed before making the decision. Analyze the situation, look for the 'pros' and 'cons' and then make a well-informed, educated decision to get the results that you wanted.
Do you hesitate to make decisions because you think you might be make wrong decisions, if so, just remind yourselves that every human on this earth make mistakes. I would call it an 'error' when you make it the first time. It doesn't mean you can just brush it off when you make mistakes. It is normal for any human to make mistakes but when we repeat the same mistake over and over again that makes it non-learning, being careless on our part.
Don't be afraid to make decisions, make decisions as often as possible, and detour as you face challenges just like when you are on the street during constructions, road closures, or accident that warrants you to take a different path to your destination.
Putting off making decisions leads to nowhere. That can only make you stagnant. Make deliberate determined decisions that take you forward. You may slip once in a while but realize that it is only a slip not a fall. Even if you fall, decide to get up and move.
Expel inertia, tiredness and discouragement and choose to be active, glowing with optimism and believe in yourself for you are a unique flow of stream. There is no one on this earth like you. You are here to experience your life. Avoid procrastination and choose to decide on a daily basis, what's the worst that can happen?
Making decision is the first step that leads you to action. Action promotes detours, new experiences, new learning, facing challenges, adapting to changes and finally to the results you wanted.
When you make a decision, you are moving forward one way or the other. You will never get stuck.
The ability to make decisions at the right time is paramount to take you ahead. Sometimes you may miss the boat when you take longer to decide. Timely decision is vital.
Keep on making decisions and do not postmortem your decisions. Once a decision is made, keep on moving. Going back is like driving with looking in the rear view mirror. Remove the 'should have, would have, and could have' from your dictionary.
If you are parent, let your children make decisions early on. Let the toddler decide what to eat, when to play and when to eat. Talk to them about a balanced meal then they will choose a protein, carbohydrate and fat that they love to eat. When you teach them the 'why' they will make the appropriate decisions.
If you have people reporting to you, let them make decisions then they own the challenges, decisions and results.
Once you show them the why, they often times make the decision that is relevant to the situation on hand and will able to substantiate their decisions with reasons.
To set you in motion, to fulfill your desire, to reach your goals, you have to gain confidence. This is possible only by learning to make decisions on time. Practice makes permanent.
Sometimes your decision may not produce the desired result nevertheless you made the decision. This makes it imperative to take the time needed before making the decision. Analyze the situation, look for the 'pros' and 'cons' and then make a well-informed, educated decision to get the results that you wanted.
Do you hesitate to make decisions because you think you might be make wrong decisions, if so, just remind yourselves that every human on this earth make mistakes. I would call it an 'error' when you make it the first time. It doesn't mean you can just brush it off when you make mistakes. It is normal for any human to make mistakes but when we repeat the same mistake over and over again that makes it non-learning, being careless on our part.
Don't be afraid to make decisions, make decisions as often as possible, and detour as you face challenges just like when you are on the street during constructions, road closures, or accident that warrants you to take a different path to your destination.
Putting off making decisions leads to nowhere. That can only make you stagnant. Make deliberate determined decisions that take you forward. You may slip once in a while but realize that it is only a slip not a fall. Even if you fall, decide to get up and move.
Expel inertia, tiredness and discouragement and choose to be active, glowing with optimism and believe in yourself for you are a unique flow of stream. There is no one on this earth like you. You are here to experience your life. Avoid procrastination and choose to decide on a daily basis, what's the worst that can happen?
Making decision is the first step that leads you to action. Action promotes detours, new experiences, new learning, facing challenges, adapting to changes and finally to the results you wanted.
When you make a decision, you are moving forward one way or the other. You will never get stuck.
The ability to make decisions at the right time is paramount to take you ahead. Sometimes you may miss the boat when you take longer to decide. Timely decision is vital.
Keep on making decisions and do not postmortem your decisions. Once a decision is made, keep on moving. Going back is like driving with looking in the rear view mirror. Remove the 'should have, would have, and could have' from your dictionary.
If you are parent, let your children make decisions early on. Let the toddler decide what to eat, when to play and when to eat. Talk to them about a balanced meal then they will choose a protein, carbohydrate and fat that they love to eat. When you teach them the 'why' they will make the appropriate decisions.
If you have people reporting to you, let them make decisions then they own the challenges, decisions and results.
Once you show them the why, they often times make the decision that is relevant to the situation on hand and will able to substantiate their decisions with reasons.
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Answering Teacher Interview Questions
It is not difficult to find teacher interview questions and their tricky answers.However, your replies during interview produce the final effects. To present perfect answers, you should better understand these questions and know what information the interviewer want to get by these questions is. Fortunately, the recommended website can help you improve your understandings.
Here, we will take some examples:
1.Which method do you choose to assess your student?
It's easy to make the answer. But, this question is important for interviewer to find whether you are the right teacher. Through this question, interviewer could find whether you get the key about education and estimate your teaching level. If you have consensus with us, you could visit the recommended website to get more additional point. Then, you can talk with interviewer about the systemic education concept.
2.In your own opinion, what is the major shortcoming of yourself?
As common sense, you should answer I always pursuit perfect thing,I work hard so as to forget to have a rest, and so forth. However, these predictable answers have little effect to help you to get the job but annoy interviewer.
Actually, the main objective of this question is to find your sincerity. The interviewer think when you encounter this questions, you will seek the best answer. In case you present the previous answers, you cannot get the high point.
Conversely, you say sometimes you are late to reach school for your love sleeping, but the interviewer may give you good point. The sincere answer could increase the reliability of the following answers in the interview.
Have you got it?
In short, the recommended website offers some guidelines for preparing for teacher interview. There, you can find ideas about how to improve your teaching skills, renew your education concepts, get the viewpoint of interviewer, have a good equipment for the interview questions.
Then, you will be a good teacher in the soon future!
Here, we will take some examples:
1.Which method do you choose to assess your student?
It's easy to make the answer. But, this question is important for interviewer to find whether you are the right teacher. Through this question, interviewer could find whether you get the key about education and estimate your teaching level. If you have consensus with us, you could visit the recommended website to get more additional point. Then, you can talk with interviewer about the systemic education concept.
2.In your own opinion, what is the major shortcoming of yourself?
As common sense, you should answer I always pursuit perfect thing,I work hard so as to forget to have a rest, and so forth. However, these predictable answers have little effect to help you to get the job but annoy interviewer.
Actually, the main objective of this question is to find your sincerity. The interviewer think when you encounter this questions, you will seek the best answer. In case you present the previous answers, you cannot get the high point.
Conversely, you say sometimes you are late to reach school for your love sleeping, but the interviewer may give you good point. The sincere answer could increase the reliability of the following answers in the interview.
Have you got it?
In short, the recommended website offers some guidelines for preparing for teacher interview. There, you can find ideas about how to improve your teaching skills, renew your education concepts, get the viewpoint of interviewer, have a good equipment for the interview questions.
Then, you will be a good teacher in the soon future!
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