Success in life is always relative. Some people are happy with small achievements while there are others who won't be satisfied until mountains are moved.
Regardless of our ambitions, our career spans through a series of jobs and experiences that truly polish our personality and will. While we all have defining moments that will determine our core beliefs around hard work, persistence, determination, etc., these are all simply components of a greater foundation that defines 'you'. A rocking rise through corporate ranks involves a radical understanding and possible change in your attitude and behaviors.
There are millions of brilliant people who pursue aggressive career paths and have their sights set on great achievement. While their ability is nothing short of genius, many lack the soft skills that could put them over the top. These are the traits, qualities and understandings are what make good people great. Practical and time tested, mastering and practicing the following qualities will make if difficult for success to elude you.
1) Out of box thinking
All it requires is thinking of problems through a different set of eyes, or different dimension. Remember the best ideas come from people who are hands-on with their work. When everyone thinks and recommends a lackluster way, lackluster results will follow. Change your surroundings, change your views, change your thought process and come up with a killer idea!
2) Taking Ownership
When no one is willing to own it, be the first to grab the opportunity. Be the person that jumps in and takes on a new project (just don't over-commit). An ability to own and work towards success is a skill which gives long lasting returns.
3) Eagerness to Learn
Always remain eager to learn; you never know what knowledge or capability will push you up in your career. Remember, you need an open mindset and positive attitude to approach work. If you are constantly learning, it will be tough to be or appear to be interested in mediocrity.
4) An Eye for Detail
If you are hands on with your work there is no reason why you won’t know the intricacies involved. Therefore, have the confidence needed to make difficult choices. When you master something and know the minute details, your logic and ideas will be highly regarded. While people love to argue, they get easily impressed by intelligent reasoning too.
5) Willingness to Help
Much of life is give and take. Work is no exception. If you are the person that is constantly stepping out of your comfort zone in order to help others, people (most) will return the favor when you ask. That's the key though, you have to be willing to help someone and not too proud to ask them for help when you need it.
6) Networking
Your network should never be restricted to people in your domain but it should span other departments too. Again, break away from comfort and get engaged with someone from a different department. When you sell yourself in the market, you need people who can vouch for you and the broader the network, the better.
7) Solution seeking mindset
People love to mention and talk about problems. However, when you ask for their solutions to those problems, they aren't willing to go on record with sweeping changes. The majority of employees lack an attitude to solve issues and love to keep them burning for long time, almost to encourage sympathy. It is these times that a positive mindset can send the right vibes across and can really give you a lot of attention. Don't avoid complainers, listen to them just long enough to hear the problem, then try to come up with a solution.
8) Humility
Arrogance has its own advantages but it never attracts more people than the magic done by humility. When you know your work and are humble about it than there is no reason that you would not get the desired appreciation.
9) Being Practical
Human beings are emotional and many fall for popular decisions. A practical decision made at right time with right attitude has the ability to shower you with long lasting fame. Remember, the people who are at the top are nothing but practical.
It is a jungle out there where you not only need to survive but flourish too. Develop the killer attitude for success and no one would ever dare to stop you.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Be A Part Of Something Bigger Than Yourself - A Thought From Tasha
Here recently I find myself sitting in my spare time, thinking of how I can make a difference or impact someone else's life. With all the natural disasters that have occurred the past two years and with the economic devastation in the US, I realized that there are a lot of people that are in such need and less fortunate than I am. I am not sure how many of you can relate, but so many times I find myself feeling really sorry for myself and wishing that I had more... whenever really if I stop and look at my life, it's not so bad. So I don't have my dream car or own my home, but I do have a career that I love, work with people that I love, and I have a God that never forsakes me.
In 2010, I really tried to be as selfless and giving as our heavenly father commands. I gave to the homeless, I tithed 10%, I helped buy Christmas gifts and groceries for two families, and my boss and I organized a volunteer division in our company - we volunteered a combined 42 hours of service at The Children's Museum of Houston. Whenever I evaluate all these things, I see the beauty in helping others and it has truly driven me to want to help more. Seeing smiles on children's faces, hearing a homeless person humbly tell you "Thank You", and knowing that my tithes help fund missionary trips truly warms my heart. But I feel that I could do more, that I could inspire others to give, to see the beauty in helping those that are truly in disadvantageous positions in life and need to see hope and love through the body of Christ.
I was told about this organization called the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). I had never heard of the UNHCR so I went to the great google and researched it.... I was so excited about what I found! This organization is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. What a great mission! I was curious how much of a forgotten or known organization the UNHCR is since I had never heard of them or their mission.
The UNHCR is one of many great organizations out there so I encourage and challenge each one of you to evaluate your life and be selfless, practice humility, and find out ways to become involved and commit to being a part of something bigger than yourself in 2011.
-A thought from Tasha
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In 2010, I really tried to be as selfless and giving as our heavenly father commands. I gave to the homeless, I tithed 10%, I helped buy Christmas gifts and groceries for two families, and my boss and I organized a volunteer division in our company - we volunteered a combined 42 hours of service at The Children's Museum of Houston. Whenever I evaluate all these things, I see the beauty in helping others and it has truly driven me to want to help more. Seeing smiles on children's faces, hearing a homeless person humbly tell you "Thank You", and knowing that my tithes help fund missionary trips truly warms my heart. But I feel that I could do more, that I could inspire others to give, to see the beauty in helping those that are truly in disadvantageous positions in life and need to see hope and love through the body of Christ.
I was told about this organization called the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). I had never heard of the UNHCR so I went to the great google and researched it.... I was so excited about what I found! This organization is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. What a great mission! I was curious how much of a forgotten or known organization the UNHCR is since I had never heard of them or their mission.
The UNHCR is one of many great organizations out there so I encourage and challenge each one of you to evaluate your life and be selfless, practice humility, and find out ways to become involved and commit to being a part of something bigger than yourself in 2011.
-A thought from Tasha
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Monday, January 31, 2011
5 Vital Signs of a Top Sales Company Leader
A top sales company leader never relies on any asset more than himself to re-command the game at half time. Of course you don’t want to lose that guy that you poured your energy into during training season, but you know that you can replace him if and when you need to. People quit, technology breaks and deals go bad. No matter what challenges your team faced in 2010 (or even in the first week of 2011), you can make 2011 your team’s best year yet.
Your company will be an extension of your personality and discipline. If you are champion-minded, you preserve and enhance your own best asset: you.
Now it's almost a full business week into 2011. Check your vital signs. A champion leader is healthy and growing in these 5 vital areas. You should have tangible, written (yes, WRITTEN) goals in each of these areas.
1. Leadership & Growing Your Business
We cannot separate quality from quantity. Take stock of both.
To enhance the quality of your leadership, attend webinars or conferences. Read leadership books. Follow leadership blogs. Aside from all the sales training you get and give, seek out a business mentor if you dont already have one and commit to mentoring at least one up and coming business superstar in your company. Both mentors and mentees can also point out things in your interactions and leadership style that you can improve on. And when it comes to corporate leadership, especially in sales, improvement is the name of the game.
Set quantitative company growth goals. Something we say around the office over here is “numbers, baby, numbers.” Sure, remarkable leadership is vital to a thriving company, but the proof will be on the scoreboard. In what ways have you projected growth for your company or your team? Identify the bottom rung and top possibilities you can reach this year and set specific numbers that you can be held accountable for. Personal sales numbers? Hire a certain number of people for your company? Help coach a certain number of people to hit higher sales numbers or get promoted? Expand your company? Be specific, use timelines and revise quarterly.
2. Finances (AKA Discipline)
Personal finance gest its own category because it reflects our capacity for discipline and the way we set our priorities. You can tell a lot about a person by what they spend their money on and how they spend it. A recent study by Harris interactive found that 57% of households do not have a budget, which would explain why almost ⅔ of Americans have less than one month’s savings saved for emergencies. This reflects a haphazard attitude towards life in general. Think about what happens when you don’t make it a priority to set priorities.
Solution? Set a budget. Keep it.
Set a goal for how much you will commit to investing into savings this year. I’m less concerned about how much and what account (whether it’s 10% of your paycheck immediately locked into your savings every month or $25,000 into a money market account... you can find entire resources dedicated to the best way to invest your savings). The right numbers for you and your lifestyle are entirely up to you and you can revise as needed. The important thing here is your discipline- you make a commitment to order your priorities. Then you keep that commitment, every single month.
3. Physical. Read: your health (...and longevity)
Resolutions like “I’m going to get it shape” make me laugh. It sounds pretty flimsy to me. Your physical (health!) goals should be very personal and specific; and you should set them in each of the following categories:
a. Adequate sleep
b. Fitness (cardio AND strength-training)
c. Nutrition (including drinking enough water)
d. Self-renewal (learning or getting better at a sport, remembering your vitamins, remembering your pysicals, etc)...
How do you make these specific to you? Pick something attainable and meaningful that you know will enhance your health and therefore ability to prosper at work. Here are some examples: One guy I know is in incredible shape and has a goal to trim another 0.5% body fat and maintain it throughout the year. That’s specific. A girl at our company is a total type A and stays up til 3am working all the time. She’s going to learn how to set personal boundaries and reign in the quantity and quality of her sleep. By mid-February, she plans to be sleeping an average of 7 hours a night. A lofty goal- but specific- and reachable with commitment. What are you tangible goals to enhance your health this year?
4. Relationships & Social-Emotional Maintenance
I can’t even count how many successful CEOs have told me that their top priority is their family. Successful people are successful because they know how to set and keep priorities to maintain the important parts of their lives. It’s easy to get lost in the intensity of our work and neglect important relationships in our lives. There’s a deadline to get our data report in at the end of the day but there’s no deadline to pick up the phone and tell your mom you love her.
I’m sure I don’t need to talk about why it’s so important to maintain social-emotional balance and quality relationships with friends and family... so we’ll briefly cover the how. Evaluate who and what is important to you. Then set a deadline for yourself if you need to, with specific goals and stick to them. Some long-distance but important friendships may require a quarterly email update and check-in while other relationships (like your wife) need a goal that you aim for every day. I call my grandpa once a week; he’s kind of old school so I don’t tell him that I only make time to call him because I schedule it in my blackberry and force myself to do it! But that’s how I operate. And at the end of the day, my grandpa and I have continuing times to connect and we both have enrichment from each other in our lives that will carry on long past this Friday’s sales goal.
5. Spiritual & Character Development
These goals will obviously be largely personal as well but the bottom line is this: private victories always precede public victories. If you want to become and stay a champion in business, you must keep your inner world balanced, and in order.
A commitment to renewing yourself through spiritual and character development will keep you centered and grounded against the daily challenges that come along with a high-intensity industry like ours and the roller coaster of this economy. Some people find this balance through their community or religion. Some people find this in music, nature or literature like biographies of inspiring people. Without some type of reflection built into your life, when the sh*@ hits the fan, you WILL struggle.
So let’s reign it in: Did you lose your own attitude at any time in 2010? Did parts of your company crater? I’m sure you, like all of us, have had your share of frustrations and goals you didn’t hit. So now it’s midweek, the first week of 2011 and it’s a good time to take stock of where you’re at. No matter what challenges you’ve faced last year or even in the last two days, you can make 2011 your team’s best year yet.
***
2010 was the year of the “stealth bankruptcy.” Many people were shocked at the top 20 big name companies, like Blockbuster and Hummer, that finally collapsed. And a lot of job industries are still shrinking. How does this translate to us as leaders in the sales industry? Well, the good news is that we are actually growing. But we need to take ownership of our teams to accelerate them towards our goals in the uncertain economic shifts going on.-Michael Hertz: Chief Knowledge Officer and Head Coach
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Your company will be an extension of your personality and discipline. If you are champion-minded, you preserve and enhance your own best asset: you.
Now it's almost a full business week into 2011. Check your vital signs. A champion leader is healthy and growing in these 5 vital areas. You should have tangible, written (yes, WRITTEN) goals in each of these areas.
1. Leadership & Growing Your Business
We cannot separate quality from quantity. Take stock of both.
To enhance the quality of your leadership, attend webinars or conferences. Read leadership books. Follow leadership blogs. Aside from all the sales training you get and give, seek out a business mentor if you dont already have one and commit to mentoring at least one up and coming business superstar in your company. Both mentors and mentees can also point out things in your interactions and leadership style that you can improve on. And when it comes to corporate leadership, especially in sales, improvement is the name of the game.
Set quantitative company growth goals. Something we say around the office over here is “numbers, baby, numbers.” Sure, remarkable leadership is vital to a thriving company, but the proof will be on the scoreboard. In what ways have you projected growth for your company or your team? Identify the bottom rung and top possibilities you can reach this year and set specific numbers that you can be held accountable for. Personal sales numbers? Hire a certain number of people for your company? Help coach a certain number of people to hit higher sales numbers or get promoted? Expand your company? Be specific, use timelines and revise quarterly.
2. Finances (AKA Discipline)
Personal finance gest its own category because it reflects our capacity for discipline and the way we set our priorities. You can tell a lot about a person by what they spend their money on and how they spend it. A recent study by Harris interactive found that 57% of households do not have a budget, which would explain why almost ⅔ of Americans have less than one month’s savings saved for emergencies. This reflects a haphazard attitude towards life in general. Think about what happens when you don’t make it a priority to set priorities.
Solution? Set a budget. Keep it.
Set a goal for how much you will commit to investing into savings this year. I’m less concerned about how much and what account (whether it’s 10% of your paycheck immediately locked into your savings every month or $25,000 into a money market account... you can find entire resources dedicated to the best way to invest your savings). The right numbers for you and your lifestyle are entirely up to you and you can revise as needed. The important thing here is your discipline- you make a commitment to order your priorities. Then you keep that commitment, every single month.
3. Physical. Read: your health (...and longevity)
Resolutions like “I’m going to get it shape” make me laugh. It sounds pretty flimsy to me. Your physical (health!) goals should be very personal and specific; and you should set them in each of the following categories:
a. Adequate sleep
b. Fitness (cardio AND strength-training)
c. Nutrition (including drinking enough water)
d. Self-renewal (learning or getting better at a sport, remembering your vitamins, remembering your pysicals, etc)...
How do you make these specific to you? Pick something attainable and meaningful that you know will enhance your health and therefore ability to prosper at work. Here are some examples: One guy I know is in incredible shape and has a goal to trim another 0.5% body fat and maintain it throughout the year. That’s specific. A girl at our company is a total type A and stays up til 3am working all the time. She’s going to learn how to set personal boundaries and reign in the quantity and quality of her sleep. By mid-February, she plans to be sleeping an average of 7 hours a night. A lofty goal- but specific- and reachable with commitment. What are you tangible goals to enhance your health this year?
4. Relationships & Social-Emotional Maintenance
I can’t even count how many successful CEOs have told me that their top priority is their family. Successful people are successful because they know how to set and keep priorities to maintain the important parts of their lives. It’s easy to get lost in the intensity of our work and neglect important relationships in our lives. There’s a deadline to get our data report in at the end of the day but there’s no deadline to pick up the phone and tell your mom you love her.
I’m sure I don’t need to talk about why it’s so important to maintain social-emotional balance and quality relationships with friends and family... so we’ll briefly cover the how. Evaluate who and what is important to you. Then set a deadline for yourself if you need to, with specific goals and stick to them. Some long-distance but important friendships may require a quarterly email update and check-in while other relationships (like your wife) need a goal that you aim for every day. I call my grandpa once a week; he’s kind of old school so I don’t tell him that I only make time to call him because I schedule it in my blackberry and force myself to do it! But that’s how I operate. And at the end of the day, my grandpa and I have continuing times to connect and we both have enrichment from each other in our lives that will carry on long past this Friday’s sales goal.
5. Spiritual & Character Development
These goals will obviously be largely personal as well but the bottom line is this: private victories always precede public victories. If you want to become and stay a champion in business, you must keep your inner world balanced, and in order.
A commitment to renewing yourself through spiritual and character development will keep you centered and grounded against the daily challenges that come along with a high-intensity industry like ours and the roller coaster of this economy. Some people find this balance through their community or religion. Some people find this in music, nature or literature like biographies of inspiring people. Without some type of reflection built into your life, when the sh*@ hits the fan, you WILL struggle.
So let’s reign it in: Did you lose your own attitude at any time in 2010? Did parts of your company crater? I’m sure you, like all of us, have had your share of frustrations and goals you didn’t hit. So now it’s midweek, the first week of 2011 and it’s a good time to take stock of where you’re at. No matter what challenges you’ve faced last year or even in the last two days, you can make 2011 your team’s best year yet.
***
2010 was the year of the “stealth bankruptcy.” Many people were shocked at the top 20 big name companies, like Blockbuster and Hummer, that finally collapsed. And a lot of job industries are still shrinking. How does this translate to us as leaders in the sales industry? Well, the good news is that we are actually growing. But we need to take ownership of our teams to accelerate them towards our goals in the uncertain economic shifts going on.-Michael Hertz: Chief Knowledge Officer and Head Coach
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
What can each of us learn from the Jets’ victory yesterday?
What can each of us learn from the Jets’ victory yesterday?
If you had a bad month or year, you could turn it around the next month or year. You need belief, passion, intensity, preparation and hard work. You need a mentality that you will do whatever it takes to win and you need to communicate this to your team. You need them to feed off you so that they believe.
The Jets lost to the patriots 45-3, just one month ago. Yet, yesterday, they beat the patriots 28-14. An incredible turnaround. Both teams had the same players, coaches and plays. Nothing changed except the Jets’ mentality, passion, intensity, preparation and hard work.
What can we learn from this? Just because we have struggled at something that we want to achieve, we still have the ability to succeed. We just have to change our mentality. If you are not getting the results you want, what do you have to change?
Gary Polson
Chief Executive Officer, Cydcor
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If you had a bad month or year, you could turn it around the next month or year. You need belief, passion, intensity, preparation and hard work. You need a mentality that you will do whatever it takes to win and you need to communicate this to your team. You need them to feed off you so that they believe.
The Jets lost to the patriots 45-3, just one month ago. Yet, yesterday, they beat the patriots 28-14. An incredible turnaround. Both teams had the same players, coaches and plays. Nothing changed except the Jets’ mentality, passion, intensity, preparation and hard work.
What can we learn from this? Just because we have struggled at something that we want to achieve, we still have the ability to succeed. We just have to change our mentality. If you are not getting the results you want, what do you have to change?
Gary Polson
Chief Executive Officer, Cydcor
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Top Ten Reasons Why Ants Are Better Goal Setters Than You
You’re about to learn why ants have a philosophy that makes them unstoppable!
1. Ants follow proven instruction. When scout ants find food, they spray a pheromone and hightail it back to the nest. The pheromone makes a trail that leads back to the food. Worker Ants at the nest don’t argue that there’s a better way back to the food, they just follow the trail.
A human, though, will see a proven path to success and try to change it. They’ll think they see shortcuts and take those instead of the proven path.
I read a report recently the success rate with franchises was higher if the owner didn’t have a high IQ. Why? Because the franchisees who were smart usually veer off the proven path. They change the working formula and in doing so mess up their own success.
If you watch a scout ant, once he finds food he runs back to the nest, sometimes he gets excited and zigzags a little, he might even make a circle. When the other ants follow the trail do they say “hey we’re going in a circle? Let’s take this shortcut?” No! They follow the proven path back to the food. The result? Everyone gets the food.
2. Ants are determined. If you tell an ant there is food over a hill but there are 5 trees down blocking the path, does the ant think twice? No, an ant will climb a house 1000 times its size if it has to make its journey.
This makes a guy feel bad for putting down a research manual because it has too many pages doesn’t it? Just think of the number of people who quit because the path is “too difficult," too hard to follow. I face that a lot with the people I mentor on computer networking.
“Brad, that book is 1800 pages long, you mean I have to know all of that?” They ask.
What would an ant say? Would an ant ever say, “You know, now that you mention it, you’re right. I never thought about it that way. It is too hard. We might as well put that big book away and work at McDonalds.”
3. Ants see defeat as only temporary. Every fall, as most southern dwellers do, I go to battle with ants coming into our house from the cold. And although I love ant attitude, Kim’s arch enemy is the ant. So I must exterminate. We have a service that sprays; I also throw out ant stop powder and use borax bait to kill off the colony.
After a week or two they are all gone. They have been defeated. But not so fast! What happens the next year? They come back in the same numbers!
Isn’t it strange that they would come back? They lost. Why would an ant set 1 foot, let alone 6 tiny ant feet in my house? Because they see defeat as only temporary. They know eventually they’ll win. Truth is, I know it too. One day, I’ll be gone, but generations of ants will still be back – until one day – possibly 2000 years from now, this house will be demolished and the ants will live here freely.
4. Ants Collaborate better than Wall Street Executives. As I touched on before, when ants search for food, they set up markers along the way, letting other ants know where the food is. If the food happens to be an insect or grub, this trail is a call to action, they work together to conquer the bug or insect and then drag it back to the nest.
Humans have the ability to collaborate as well. But most don’t do it very well. We are all out searching for our version of food, be it happiness, be it money, or health. Yet how many people do we actively collaborate with daily? How many other people do you actively work on your goals with? One? Ten?
An ant doesn’t want to hear you are not collaborating with anyone. He’d think you are crazy. He’d say you are doing it the hard way.
Napoleon Hill called collaboration the Mastermind formula. It’s true. Two brains are better than one, 3 brains are better than 2. None of us know it all. Yet, if we sit down together and give perspectives, we can help each other get what we want.
An ant won’t waste any time following the path that says “lots of food here!!!” Of course, he has to trust his comrades. But that’s what collaboration is all about. Learning different perspectives and forming relationships that profit all parties. It can’t be a 1-0 relationship. It has to be a 1 to 1 or 2-2 or 3 to 3 relationship where everyone’s needs are met.
5. Ants defend what they have and expand it. Has anyone out there had the pleasure of stepping on a fire anthill barefooted? If you’ve made this mistake, you’ve seen firsthand how an ant will defend its colony. But not only do they defend it. They are constantly expanding it. Both above and below ground, they build, build, build.
If the wind or a boot knocks over their house, they build it right back and continue expanding it.
Yet, when it comes to humans, defending our homes in the form of insurance, paint and weatherproofing can feel like a major inconvenience. And what about expanding your home? Making it better? What an inconvenience! Who wants to build a deck or add on a sunroom? That’s too much work! Especially when a new season of 24 is getting ready to start.
An ant, however, would care nothing for 24. “Nonsense!” He’d say. I’d rather have that sunroom!
6. Ants never let personalities get in the way. Now granted, Bob the ant may be a raging jerk at home, or perhaps he plays the ant equivalent to video games once the kids are in bed. But when Bob gets to work in the morning he’s all business.
You never see Bob the ant wasting precious time gossiping about Mary the ant or the queen who passed you over for the formica sanguinea promotion. No, ants may well have their own personalities, but they leave that at home.
One ant doesn’t purposefully stab another in the back just to get ahead. Another ant doesn’t steal food from the rest to hoard it all to himself.
Ants adopt at a primal level the old saying “There’s a time for work and a time for play.” They never get the two confused. When they are at work, they work, non-stop till its time for rest, then they rest.
7. Ants never spend their whole paycheck. Ants are acutely aware that a storm is coming, winter is on the horizon or the possibility of a lawn mower in the area. That is not to be negative, in every life a little rain must fall. To think you’ll never have a setback is dumb. We all have setbacks.
Ants, know they’ll have setbacks too. So what do they do? They prepare for them. They don’t simply find enough food for one week and then eat it all until the next week. No, they eat some and save some. Yet, something like 30% of the American population lives paycheck to paycheck
Instead of saving a bit out of each check, people spend it all. You can almost hear them say “If something bad happens, I’ll deal with it then.” Again, not to be negative, but setbacks will happen. Accidents happen, winters come, floods take out houses, businesses downsize. You don’t have to dwell upon these facts, but you need to prepare yourself for them in case they do happen. If they don’t occur, then hey! You’ve got extra in your savings account.
Ants would never think to blow it all in a week’s time. They scrimp and save for the tougher times.
8. Ants expect more from themselves than should be possible. Have you ever seen an ant carrying a leaf or a stick 20 times its size? Sometimes you can catch two or three of them carrying a caterpillar and it looks like the caterpillar is floating on air.
Why would an ant ever believe that it’s possible to carry so much? Well one reason is ants brains are not so big, but the other is they are born without negative limits.
Humans, as a whole, give in to mental limits all the time. We don’t lift 10 times our weight because we either believe we can’t or never made it a focus.
I read in Men’s health last week that some bodybuilders are bench-pressing over 1000 pounds. That’s an incredible feat isn’t it? But one reason these guys can do that is they didn’t limit themselves to 100, 200 or even 500 pounds.
We have examples all around us of people who have severe handicaps, or who come from poor or abusive backgrounds, yet are able to “overcome” and achieve their life dreams.
How is that possible?
One reason is they don’t believe the limits in their physical makeup or background and upbringing. They expect more from themselves than should be possible. They know they are better than to set the ceiling so low.
9. Ants remain focused until they succeed. Have you ever seen an ant who is building its anthill suddenly stop what he’s doing and then buy a lottery ticket? No, of course not! Why? Because ants stay focused on what they are doing until they succeed.
When ants are working, they don’t take sudden detours. They don’t quit halfway through to play World of Warcraft. They pick up one rock, carry it where it needs to go and place it there. He picks up the next rock and does the same, and so on until he finishes his work.
In writing this article, I had to do something similar – so far, it’s taken 2 hours of focused attention. I sat down, wrote up the outline, point by point – until I was finished. Then it was time to write the first draft. I didn’t break off during this time and go to the driving range. I focused until I completed it. Finally, I went through the draft, correcting mistakes and misspellings, adding points where needed. But I had to keep focused the entire time. It’s not all fun, or entertaining. But if I want to finish and have something good to show for my time, the I have to stay focused on progress.
If you can focus like an ant on your progress, brick by brick, stone by stone, you can’t help but be successful.
10. Ants never give up. The typical human is easily discouraged. For some people all it takes is one “No” and that’s the end. If he is working on a goal and you say “no” that is usually the end. He’ll take that as the final word and stop trying. Isn’t that sad? If you said no to an ant, he’d simply find another way. You can step on them, spray poison, burn them with magnifying glasses but still they never give up.
Never give up..
by Brad Isaac
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1. Ants follow proven instruction. When scout ants find food, they spray a pheromone and hightail it back to the nest. The pheromone makes a trail that leads back to the food. Worker Ants at the nest don’t argue that there’s a better way back to the food, they just follow the trail.
A human, though, will see a proven path to success and try to change it. They’ll think they see shortcuts and take those instead of the proven path.
I read a report recently the success rate with franchises was higher if the owner didn’t have a high IQ. Why? Because the franchisees who were smart usually veer off the proven path. They change the working formula and in doing so mess up their own success.
If you watch a scout ant, once he finds food he runs back to the nest, sometimes he gets excited and zigzags a little, he might even make a circle. When the other ants follow the trail do they say “hey we’re going in a circle? Let’s take this shortcut?” No! They follow the proven path back to the food. The result? Everyone gets the food.
2. Ants are determined. If you tell an ant there is food over a hill but there are 5 trees down blocking the path, does the ant think twice? No, an ant will climb a house 1000 times its size if it has to make its journey.
This makes a guy feel bad for putting down a research manual because it has too many pages doesn’t it? Just think of the number of people who quit because the path is “too difficult," too hard to follow. I face that a lot with the people I mentor on computer networking.
“Brad, that book is 1800 pages long, you mean I have to know all of that?” They ask.
What would an ant say? Would an ant ever say, “You know, now that you mention it, you’re right. I never thought about it that way. It is too hard. We might as well put that big book away and work at McDonalds.”
3. Ants see defeat as only temporary. Every fall, as most southern dwellers do, I go to battle with ants coming into our house from the cold. And although I love ant attitude, Kim’s arch enemy is the ant. So I must exterminate. We have a service that sprays; I also throw out ant stop powder and use borax bait to kill off the colony.
After a week or two they are all gone. They have been defeated. But not so fast! What happens the next year? They come back in the same numbers!
Isn’t it strange that they would come back? They lost. Why would an ant set 1 foot, let alone 6 tiny ant feet in my house? Because they see defeat as only temporary. They know eventually they’ll win. Truth is, I know it too. One day, I’ll be gone, but generations of ants will still be back – until one day – possibly 2000 years from now, this house will be demolished and the ants will live here freely.
4. Ants Collaborate better than Wall Street Executives. As I touched on before, when ants search for food, they set up markers along the way, letting other ants know where the food is. If the food happens to be an insect or grub, this trail is a call to action, they work together to conquer the bug or insect and then drag it back to the nest.
Humans have the ability to collaborate as well. But most don’t do it very well. We are all out searching for our version of food, be it happiness, be it money, or health. Yet how many people do we actively collaborate with daily? How many other people do you actively work on your goals with? One? Ten?
An ant doesn’t want to hear you are not collaborating with anyone. He’d think you are crazy. He’d say you are doing it the hard way.
Napoleon Hill called collaboration the Mastermind formula. It’s true. Two brains are better than one, 3 brains are better than 2. None of us know it all. Yet, if we sit down together and give perspectives, we can help each other get what we want.
An ant won’t waste any time following the path that says “lots of food here!!!” Of course, he has to trust his comrades. But that’s what collaboration is all about. Learning different perspectives and forming relationships that profit all parties. It can’t be a 1-0 relationship. It has to be a 1 to 1 or 2-2 or 3 to 3 relationship where everyone’s needs are met.
5. Ants defend what they have and expand it. Has anyone out there had the pleasure of stepping on a fire anthill barefooted? If you’ve made this mistake, you’ve seen firsthand how an ant will defend its colony. But not only do they defend it. They are constantly expanding it. Both above and below ground, they build, build, build.
If the wind or a boot knocks over their house, they build it right back and continue expanding it.
Yet, when it comes to humans, defending our homes in the form of insurance, paint and weatherproofing can feel like a major inconvenience. And what about expanding your home? Making it better? What an inconvenience! Who wants to build a deck or add on a sunroom? That’s too much work! Especially when a new season of 24 is getting ready to start.
An ant, however, would care nothing for 24. “Nonsense!” He’d say. I’d rather have that sunroom!
6. Ants never let personalities get in the way. Now granted, Bob the ant may be a raging jerk at home, or perhaps he plays the ant equivalent to video games once the kids are in bed. But when Bob gets to work in the morning he’s all business.
You never see Bob the ant wasting precious time gossiping about Mary the ant or the queen who passed you over for the formica sanguinea promotion. No, ants may well have their own personalities, but they leave that at home.
One ant doesn’t purposefully stab another in the back just to get ahead. Another ant doesn’t steal food from the rest to hoard it all to himself.
Ants adopt at a primal level the old saying “There’s a time for work and a time for play.” They never get the two confused. When they are at work, they work, non-stop till its time for rest, then they rest.
7. Ants never spend their whole paycheck. Ants are acutely aware that a storm is coming, winter is on the horizon or the possibility of a lawn mower in the area. That is not to be negative, in every life a little rain must fall. To think you’ll never have a setback is dumb. We all have setbacks.
Ants, know they’ll have setbacks too. So what do they do? They prepare for them. They don’t simply find enough food for one week and then eat it all until the next week. No, they eat some and save some. Yet, something like 30% of the American population lives paycheck to paycheck
Instead of saving a bit out of each check, people spend it all. You can almost hear them say “If something bad happens, I’ll deal with it then.” Again, not to be negative, but setbacks will happen. Accidents happen, winters come, floods take out houses, businesses downsize. You don’t have to dwell upon these facts, but you need to prepare yourself for them in case they do happen. If they don’t occur, then hey! You’ve got extra in your savings account.
Ants would never think to blow it all in a week’s time. They scrimp and save for the tougher times.
8. Ants expect more from themselves than should be possible. Have you ever seen an ant carrying a leaf or a stick 20 times its size? Sometimes you can catch two or three of them carrying a caterpillar and it looks like the caterpillar is floating on air.
Why would an ant ever believe that it’s possible to carry so much? Well one reason is ants brains are not so big, but the other is they are born without negative limits.
Humans, as a whole, give in to mental limits all the time. We don’t lift 10 times our weight because we either believe we can’t or never made it a focus.
I read in Men’s health last week that some bodybuilders are bench-pressing over 1000 pounds. That’s an incredible feat isn’t it? But one reason these guys can do that is they didn’t limit themselves to 100, 200 or even 500 pounds.
We have examples all around us of people who have severe handicaps, or who come from poor or abusive backgrounds, yet are able to “overcome” and achieve their life dreams.
How is that possible?
One reason is they don’t believe the limits in their physical makeup or background and upbringing. They expect more from themselves than should be possible. They know they are better than to set the ceiling so low.
9. Ants remain focused until they succeed. Have you ever seen an ant who is building its anthill suddenly stop what he’s doing and then buy a lottery ticket? No, of course not! Why? Because ants stay focused on what they are doing until they succeed.
When ants are working, they don’t take sudden detours. They don’t quit halfway through to play World of Warcraft. They pick up one rock, carry it where it needs to go and place it there. He picks up the next rock and does the same, and so on until he finishes his work.
In writing this article, I had to do something similar – so far, it’s taken 2 hours of focused attention. I sat down, wrote up the outline, point by point – until I was finished. Then it was time to write the first draft. I didn’t break off during this time and go to the driving range. I focused until I completed it. Finally, I went through the draft, correcting mistakes and misspellings, adding points where needed. But I had to keep focused the entire time. It’s not all fun, or entertaining. But if I want to finish and have something good to show for my time, the I have to stay focused on progress.
If you can focus like an ant on your progress, brick by brick, stone by stone, you can’t help but be successful.
10. Ants never give up. The typical human is easily discouraged. For some people all it takes is one “No” and that’s the end. If he is working on a goal and you say “no” that is usually the end. He’ll take that as the final word and stop trying. Isn’t that sad? If you said no to an ant, he’d simply find another way. You can step on them, spray poison, burn them with magnifying glasses but still they never give up.
Never give up..
by Brad Isaac
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Overcoming the Fear of Success
I've got a problem. At least, I used to. Success freaked me out. I thought I wanted to be successful, but I really didn't.
Oh, I'd think a lot about wanting to make more out of my life, to do something that filled me with passion and excitement, but I never bit the bullet and did it. You know why? I was scared I'd fail.
Failure, to me, meant saying I was going to do something publicly, trying to do it, and then not being able to do what I wanted to do. I've always been like this, for as long as I can remember.
As a matter of fact, one of the earliest memories I have is of me playing baseball. I was probably seven years old, maybe even younger than that. I loved baseball (still do), and I was pretty good at the fielding part. I played shortstop, which isn't a position where you can hide someone who's not very good. If you want to hide a seven year old, you send him to the outfield, so he can pick dandelions.
I was terrified of hitting, though. Not because I was scared of the ball; I just didn't want to hit the ball. I thought it would be the most embarrassing thing in the world to make an out in a critical situation. So, every time I went up to bat, I prayed for a walk. I honestly never swung once the entire season.
Naturally, I ended up striking out a lot. Same result as I would have gotten had I swung, without the opportunity to ever get a hit. That thought never crossed my mind, though.
Finally, the last game of the season, my dad finally said something to me. He realized what was going on, I think, and explained to me that I never had a chance to get a hit if I never swung the bat.
So, the last at bat I got in that game, I swung. And you know what
I struck out. Again. And I cried.
But, after the game was over, my dad told me he was really proud of me. And his words started to sink in. I realized I had to be willing to fail in order to succeed. To my young mind, this was a new thought; one I'd never really considered before.
Is this kind of situation playing out in your life?
Here I am now. I'm 32 years old, and I'm still scared of putting myself out there. I think it's natural for pretty much everyone. We think that, if we say the way we'd like things to be in our lives (whether it's professing love to someone, or admitting we're dissatisfied with our jobs, or wanting to go back to school when we're definitely past our college years), people will laugh at us. They'll beat us back into conformity with everyone else, and that won't feel good.
I once heard of an experiment that was done with a group of chimpanzees. These chimps were placed in an enclosure that had a pole in the center. On top of the pole was a platform that had a treat on it (bananas or something). Whenever one of the chimps would try to climb the pole to get at the treat, the researchers would hit the group of chimps on the ground with water from a hose. Eventually, if one would try to climb the pole, the others would grab it, to prevent the group from getting sprayed.
After a while, the researchers quit spraying the chimps. The chimps behavior, however, continued. They still kept anyone from climbing the pole. After a while, none of the chimps tried to climb the pole anymore.
Later, the researchers introduced a new chimp into the group, and removed one of the originals. The new chimp tried to climb the pole, and was instantly pulled back down by the group. After awhile, it quit trying to climb the pole, too.
New chimps were introduced one by one, and original chimps were removed. Eventually, all of the original chimps were gone. None of the chimps currently in the enclosure had ever been sprayed with water. Yet none of them ever tried to climb the pole, because each time they did, the group would pull them back down.
Think about that. None of the chimps even knew why they weren't supposed to climb the pole, yet they all enforced it just out of habit. Because that's the way it's always been.
People behave in the same way. If we try to do something extraordinary with our lives, and we tell people about it, we're worried we'll be ridiculed for it. Mocked and shamed into conformity. People tell us it can't be done, simply because they've never seen anyone do it before.
Well, I think it's time that it stopped. Thumb your nose at the rest of the chimps and climb the pole. Do what you want to do, and don't worry about what other people think.
These are the lessons that I've learned since that day I struck out in Little League:
1.Everyone's scared.
No one has it all together. If you talk to any successful person, you'll find out that, not only were they scared to begin doing something different, they still get scared every time. It gets incrementally easier, but the fear never goes away. Professional athletes still get nervous before the game. Musicians still have butterflies in their stomachs before concerts. Authors freak out the night before their books are released. What you're feeling is no different that anyone else.
2.No one's paying attention to you.
This is a corollary to lesson #1. People are so worried about how things are going for them they don't have time to be concerned about anyone else - especially you. Consequently, people spend time worrying about other people, who really have no time to worry about anyone else because they have problems of their own. See how silly this all is? Oh, sure. There are some people who are paying attention to you. But, they're usually your spouse or family or really close friends. The kinds of people are going to be supportive of you, anyway. That's a good kind of attention.
3.You have to know where you want to go.
What's the old saying? “If you don't know where you're going, any road will do”, I believe is how it goes. You need to figure out what your dreams are for yourself. Once you've figured out what you want to do, you can put a plan together to achieve it.
One of the things that always concerned me about goals was hearing all of these “self-help gurus” saying you have to set huge, aggressive, audacious goals for yourself. The implication was that if you don't dream big, you might as well not bother. That always put me off, because I've never wanted anything really big in my life. No huge mansions or Ferarris, no yacht in the Caribbean.
I came to believe that everyone needs to start somewhere. If you have a lot of credit card debt that you want to get paid off, that's a fine dream. There's nothing wrong with your dream of a debt-free life. You don't have to want to build a multi-million dollar business in order to put the power of dreams to work for you. Just start dreaming, and however big or small they are is good enough for now.
4.Do what makes you happy, and don't worry about others.
Obviously, you have to be smart about this. I'm not saying run out on responsibilities and obligations you have set for yourself. What I'm saying is that there are very few people in this world who's approval you should be after. Your spouse and kids, maybe your extended family's, if they're supportive; that's about it. If a person doesn't have a vested interest in your success, you can confidently disregard what they think about what you're choosing to do. The only way you can count your life as truly successful is if you're doing what you're meant to do, regardless of what society at large thinks of it.
It's taken me over 25 years to fully absorb the lesson my dad tried to pass on to me that day on the baseball diamond. I've finally started to put something out there to the world that's reflective of who I truly am, without shame or apology. And I'm finally happy with who I'm becoming. I'm pressing on to be a better person, and, even though it scares me every time I hit “publish”, I'm learning to enjoy the butterflies. Because I'm starting to be who I'm supposed to be.
Written on 5/26/2009 by Jason Barr. Jason writes for LDCL, a blog about Life Design and forming the habits necessary to reach your goals, whatever they may be.
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Oh, I'd think a lot about wanting to make more out of my life, to do something that filled me with passion and excitement, but I never bit the bullet and did it. You know why? I was scared I'd fail.
Failure, to me, meant saying I was going to do something publicly, trying to do it, and then not being able to do what I wanted to do. I've always been like this, for as long as I can remember.
As a matter of fact, one of the earliest memories I have is of me playing baseball. I was probably seven years old, maybe even younger than that. I loved baseball (still do), and I was pretty good at the fielding part. I played shortstop, which isn't a position where you can hide someone who's not very good. If you want to hide a seven year old, you send him to the outfield, so he can pick dandelions.
I was terrified of hitting, though. Not because I was scared of the ball; I just didn't want to hit the ball. I thought it would be the most embarrassing thing in the world to make an out in a critical situation. So, every time I went up to bat, I prayed for a walk. I honestly never swung once the entire season.
Naturally, I ended up striking out a lot. Same result as I would have gotten had I swung, without the opportunity to ever get a hit. That thought never crossed my mind, though.
Finally, the last game of the season, my dad finally said something to me. He realized what was going on, I think, and explained to me that I never had a chance to get a hit if I never swung the bat.
So, the last at bat I got in that game, I swung. And you know what
I struck out. Again. And I cried.
But, after the game was over, my dad told me he was really proud of me. And his words started to sink in. I realized I had to be willing to fail in order to succeed. To my young mind, this was a new thought; one I'd never really considered before.
Is this kind of situation playing out in your life?
Here I am now. I'm 32 years old, and I'm still scared of putting myself out there. I think it's natural for pretty much everyone. We think that, if we say the way we'd like things to be in our lives (whether it's professing love to someone, or admitting we're dissatisfied with our jobs, or wanting to go back to school when we're definitely past our college years), people will laugh at us. They'll beat us back into conformity with everyone else, and that won't feel good.
I once heard of an experiment that was done with a group of chimpanzees. These chimps were placed in an enclosure that had a pole in the center. On top of the pole was a platform that had a treat on it (bananas or something). Whenever one of the chimps would try to climb the pole to get at the treat, the researchers would hit the group of chimps on the ground with water from a hose. Eventually, if one would try to climb the pole, the others would grab it, to prevent the group from getting sprayed.
After a while, the researchers quit spraying the chimps. The chimps behavior, however, continued. They still kept anyone from climbing the pole. After a while, none of the chimps tried to climb the pole anymore.
Later, the researchers introduced a new chimp into the group, and removed one of the originals. The new chimp tried to climb the pole, and was instantly pulled back down by the group. After awhile, it quit trying to climb the pole, too.
New chimps were introduced one by one, and original chimps were removed. Eventually, all of the original chimps were gone. None of the chimps currently in the enclosure had ever been sprayed with water. Yet none of them ever tried to climb the pole, because each time they did, the group would pull them back down.
Think about that. None of the chimps even knew why they weren't supposed to climb the pole, yet they all enforced it just out of habit. Because that's the way it's always been.
People behave in the same way. If we try to do something extraordinary with our lives, and we tell people about it, we're worried we'll be ridiculed for it. Mocked and shamed into conformity. People tell us it can't be done, simply because they've never seen anyone do it before.
Well, I think it's time that it stopped. Thumb your nose at the rest of the chimps and climb the pole. Do what you want to do, and don't worry about what other people think.
These are the lessons that I've learned since that day I struck out in Little League:
1.Everyone's scared.
No one has it all together. If you talk to any successful person, you'll find out that, not only were they scared to begin doing something different, they still get scared every time. It gets incrementally easier, but the fear never goes away. Professional athletes still get nervous before the game. Musicians still have butterflies in their stomachs before concerts. Authors freak out the night before their books are released. What you're feeling is no different that anyone else.
2.No one's paying attention to you.
This is a corollary to lesson #1. People are so worried about how things are going for them they don't have time to be concerned about anyone else - especially you. Consequently, people spend time worrying about other people, who really have no time to worry about anyone else because they have problems of their own. See how silly this all is? Oh, sure. There are some people who are paying attention to you. But, they're usually your spouse or family or really close friends. The kinds of people are going to be supportive of you, anyway. That's a good kind of attention.
3.You have to know where you want to go.
What's the old saying? “If you don't know where you're going, any road will do”, I believe is how it goes. You need to figure out what your dreams are for yourself. Once you've figured out what you want to do, you can put a plan together to achieve it.
One of the things that always concerned me about goals was hearing all of these “self-help gurus” saying you have to set huge, aggressive, audacious goals for yourself. The implication was that if you don't dream big, you might as well not bother. That always put me off, because I've never wanted anything really big in my life. No huge mansions or Ferarris, no yacht in the Caribbean.
I came to believe that everyone needs to start somewhere. If you have a lot of credit card debt that you want to get paid off, that's a fine dream. There's nothing wrong with your dream of a debt-free life. You don't have to want to build a multi-million dollar business in order to put the power of dreams to work for you. Just start dreaming, and however big or small they are is good enough for now.
4.Do what makes you happy, and don't worry about others.
Obviously, you have to be smart about this. I'm not saying run out on responsibilities and obligations you have set for yourself. What I'm saying is that there are very few people in this world who's approval you should be after. Your spouse and kids, maybe your extended family's, if they're supportive; that's about it. If a person doesn't have a vested interest in your success, you can confidently disregard what they think about what you're choosing to do. The only way you can count your life as truly successful is if you're doing what you're meant to do, regardless of what society at large thinks of it.
It's taken me over 25 years to fully absorb the lesson my dad tried to pass on to me that day on the baseball diamond. I've finally started to put something out there to the world that's reflective of who I truly am, without shame or apology. And I'm finally happy with who I'm becoming. I'm pressing on to be a better person, and, even though it scares me every time I hit “publish”, I'm learning to enjoy the butterflies. Because I'm starting to be who I'm supposed to be.
Written on 5/26/2009 by Jason Barr. Jason writes for LDCL, a blog about Life Design and forming the habits necessary to reach your goals, whatever they may be.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
How to Turn Up The Heat On Your Hot Button
Have you ever shaken hands with someone and their handshake resembled the very nature of a cold fish? Lifeless. Powerless. Unimpressive. Well the life at the end of that cold fish handshake is probably cold as well.
But I have great news for you. We weren’t born to be cold. We were born to be molten hot. The frozen food section of life is neither yours nor my destiny.
So let me heat you up, defrost you in fact and even bring you to not only the boiling point nor even the melting point – but in fact to your personal ignition point. Your personal flash will begin by me first lighting the spark within you, and by then igniting your internal dynamite that is set to explode.
Here are 4 ignition points that can take you from a state of coldness, or even lukewarmness and turn you into a blazing fireball that will radiate beyond your immediate sphere to the point that you could find yourself influencing people’s lives to the very reaches of the planet.
Ignition Point 1: Identify Your Hot Button
The trouble with most of us is that we’re so busy living a lukewarm life that we never take time out to really identify what really get us fired up.
It requires concentrated effort to stop and identify what is your hot button. Yes, the thing that really fires you up. The passion. The dream. The talent. The joy. The spark. The blaze.
At one point in my life I set aside three days in the pursuit of that very thing. My life was rolling along – like the rest of my peers – but there was within me a dissatisfaction with the status quo and with the direction my life was heading at that time – and I was actually experiencing quite a bit of success – but I knew that my current activities were not fully aligned with my deep passions. And unless I took time out from my busy schedule to clearly identify my hot button I was destined for one thing – and that was burnout.
Those three days – although I have traveled down many diverse paths since then – have been the defining days that have continued to draw me pack to my passion, my purpose, the reason I breathe, my destiny and of course my hot button.
Right now in my life I feel that I am sizzling because I’m once again being true to myself and true to the original vision that I had birthed within my life during those three days.
Ignition Point 2: Identify Your Cold Button
I have tried many things throughout my life. And no – not every moment has been a moment of defining success. Many valleys have been passed through to reach the mountain tops. But those valleys have confirmed to me time and time again that my success is just as much about identifying my cold buttons as it is to pressing my hot buttons.
No human being can be good at everything. Yes I am sad to inform you – but you and I have weaknesses. There are many things that we can’t do. In fact, there are probably more things that you can’t do than you can do. So why waste a moment pursuing the things you can’t do. Rather concentrate on doing the things that you can do well.
But first you have to identify them.
So how do you identify your cold buttons? By having a go and failing.
That’s why I have never been afraid to try new things. And I have never been afraid to encourage my children to attempt new ventures.
And if we fail – we respond with the one successful question. What did I learn from my failure experience? That way failure has just become part of your academic staff that has guided you towards success.
Ignition Point 3: Delegate Your Cold Button
So once you have identified your cold button, what do you do with it?
This is where you need to surround yourself with a team of people where your cold buttons are actually their hot button. They love doing that stuff that you are not good at – and they do it with a spirit of excellence.
So while you are off pushing your hot button and reaping the rewards associated with being someone who keeps turning up the heat in that area – your team members are pushing your cold buttons – because they are still necessary for your overall success – but man they are hot. They are strong in those areas. They are competent in those areas. And by pressing their hot button that is in alignment with you and supportive of you – they actually make you look darn hot.
Ignition Point 4: Turn Up The Heat On Your Hot Button
The one thing about a hot button is this: If you don’t keep applying heat to your hot button it could end up being transformed into a frozen button.
So yes, it’s time to jump out of the frying pan and straight into the fire.
None of us have ever arrived – so we’re going to have to continue to put pressure on our hot button, maybe even go to hot button school for some more tuition, or even find mentors who are even hotter than us and add their heat to our heat so as to achieve even more increased heat along the way. For this is the vital importance of ongoing education and learning.
Until the day you and I leave this earth we should never stop being the student. We must humbly sit at the feet of the masters – both alive and dead - and learn, for there is always more to learn.
So have you discovered your hot button yet? If not, make this year your year of the hot button. Don’t accept mediocrity as your lot in life. You were born to burn. So draw aside and set yourself on fire – internally – by identifying and then turning up the heat on your hot button.
Why?
So that the rest of us can all benefit from the warmth generated by your life both now and into the future.
What is your hot button, and what are you going to turn up the heat on in the coming year?
Motivational Memo: Pursue and develop the burning desire to live a blazing life – and then declare to the world ‘Watch me burn!’
Written on 12/29/2009 by Peter G. James Sinclair. Peter is in the 'heart to heart' resuscitation business and inspires, motivates and equips others to be all that they’ve been created to become.
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But I have great news for you. We weren’t born to be cold. We were born to be molten hot. The frozen food section of life is neither yours nor my destiny.
So let me heat you up, defrost you in fact and even bring you to not only the boiling point nor even the melting point – but in fact to your personal ignition point. Your personal flash will begin by me first lighting the spark within you, and by then igniting your internal dynamite that is set to explode.
Here are 4 ignition points that can take you from a state of coldness, or even lukewarmness and turn you into a blazing fireball that will radiate beyond your immediate sphere to the point that you could find yourself influencing people’s lives to the very reaches of the planet.
Ignition Point 1: Identify Your Hot Button
The trouble with most of us is that we’re so busy living a lukewarm life that we never take time out to really identify what really get us fired up.
It requires concentrated effort to stop and identify what is your hot button. Yes, the thing that really fires you up. The passion. The dream. The talent. The joy. The spark. The blaze.
At one point in my life I set aside three days in the pursuit of that very thing. My life was rolling along – like the rest of my peers – but there was within me a dissatisfaction with the status quo and with the direction my life was heading at that time – and I was actually experiencing quite a bit of success – but I knew that my current activities were not fully aligned with my deep passions. And unless I took time out from my busy schedule to clearly identify my hot button I was destined for one thing – and that was burnout.
Those three days – although I have traveled down many diverse paths since then – have been the defining days that have continued to draw me pack to my passion, my purpose, the reason I breathe, my destiny and of course my hot button.
Right now in my life I feel that I am sizzling because I’m once again being true to myself and true to the original vision that I had birthed within my life during those three days.
Ignition Point 2: Identify Your Cold Button
I have tried many things throughout my life. And no – not every moment has been a moment of defining success. Many valleys have been passed through to reach the mountain tops. But those valleys have confirmed to me time and time again that my success is just as much about identifying my cold buttons as it is to pressing my hot buttons.
No human being can be good at everything. Yes I am sad to inform you – but you and I have weaknesses. There are many things that we can’t do. In fact, there are probably more things that you can’t do than you can do. So why waste a moment pursuing the things you can’t do. Rather concentrate on doing the things that you can do well.
But first you have to identify them.
So how do you identify your cold buttons? By having a go and failing.
That’s why I have never been afraid to try new things. And I have never been afraid to encourage my children to attempt new ventures.
And if we fail – we respond with the one successful question. What did I learn from my failure experience? That way failure has just become part of your academic staff that has guided you towards success.
Ignition Point 3: Delegate Your Cold Button
So once you have identified your cold button, what do you do with it?
This is where you need to surround yourself with a team of people where your cold buttons are actually their hot button. They love doing that stuff that you are not good at – and they do it with a spirit of excellence.
So while you are off pushing your hot button and reaping the rewards associated with being someone who keeps turning up the heat in that area – your team members are pushing your cold buttons – because they are still necessary for your overall success – but man they are hot. They are strong in those areas. They are competent in those areas. And by pressing their hot button that is in alignment with you and supportive of you – they actually make you look darn hot.
Ignition Point 4: Turn Up The Heat On Your Hot Button
The one thing about a hot button is this: If you don’t keep applying heat to your hot button it could end up being transformed into a frozen button.
So yes, it’s time to jump out of the frying pan and straight into the fire.
None of us have ever arrived – so we’re going to have to continue to put pressure on our hot button, maybe even go to hot button school for some more tuition, or even find mentors who are even hotter than us and add their heat to our heat so as to achieve even more increased heat along the way. For this is the vital importance of ongoing education and learning.
Until the day you and I leave this earth we should never stop being the student. We must humbly sit at the feet of the masters – both alive and dead - and learn, for there is always more to learn.
So have you discovered your hot button yet? If not, make this year your year of the hot button. Don’t accept mediocrity as your lot in life. You were born to burn. So draw aside and set yourself on fire – internally – by identifying and then turning up the heat on your hot button.
Why?
So that the rest of us can all benefit from the warmth generated by your life both now and into the future.
What is your hot button, and what are you going to turn up the heat on in the coming year?
Motivational Memo: Pursue and develop the burning desire to live a blazing life – and then declare to the world ‘Watch me burn!’
Written on 12/29/2009 by Peter G. James Sinclair. Peter is in the 'heart to heart' resuscitation business and inspires, motivates and equips others to be all that they’ve been created to become.
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