Archive for the ‘Success’ category

Nine steps to get what you want out of work (and life)

September 14th, 2010

These are some of the steps that represents the foundation of a book called “The Get-it-Done Guy Book” by Stever Robbins

I didn’t read it yet, but it is shipped and I will have it in my hands shortly.
It sounds interesting from a personal management perspective.

I liked the foundation of this book, the nine steps:

Step 1: Live and work on purpose
If you’re anything like me, a lot of what you call work has very little to do with getting anything important done in life. Like when I compulsively check my social media sites every hour. That kind of thing must go.

Step 2: Stop procrastinating
What is procrastinating except the very art of not doing the very stuff you know is most important? We’ll cover how to nip this in the bud, or at least arrange for someone to kick you into action when you’re delaying. And just in case you’re someone who claims being kicked into action doesn’t work for you, we’ll get out an Ostrich feather and tickle you into action instead.

Step 3: Conquer your technology
Our supposed savior, technology, is for many of us, the greatest obstacle we have to being truly productive. You’ll learn how to use your technology to help you focus, instead of hey, hang on a second. There’s an instant message coming in.

Step 4: Cultivate focus
Do you have any idea how much time is wasted multi-tasking? A lot. If you keep yourself focused and eliminate distractions, you can toss yourself into the kind of flow where the results come fast and easy. And you’ll do it entirely without the use of pharmaceutical supplements.

Step 5: Stay organized
When you have a place for everything and everything in its place, it’s no work at all to find what you need, when you need it. I’m not just talking about physical clutter; this is also about organizing your thinking, your projects, and your processes. Reclaim all that time you otherwise spend hunting for the next step, the next paper, or the next person by knowing exactly where to go and what to do when you need it.

Step 6: Don’t waste time
Sometimes you appear to be doing exactly, precisely what you should be doing, but are actually wasting time that could be spent doing something more meaningful, like eating bon-bons and sipping fruit flavored beverages in a hammock strung between your computer and your doorframe.

Step 7: Optimize!
As I mentioned before, doing things twice bores me silly. Especially when it comes to making mistakes. In Optimize, you’ll learn how to do things once or twice, streamline them to the point where the task is completely brainless, and Let’s just say that I’ll leave you to connect the dots. Think, “brain-eating Zombies.” The implications will jump right out.

Step 8: Build stronger relationships.
You can’t get there alone; you need someone to program the GPS while you’re trying to read street signs. Relationships are, ultimately, how everything gets done. Together, we can do far, far more than we can alone. For example, one of us can measure while the other mixes, and then we can both eat the cookies when they’re ready. You’ll learn some excellent ways to create and deepen the relationships that matter most.

Step 9: Leverage!
The ultimate in Doing More, our final destination of leverage will give you several ways to make sure when you do get results, you get better, stronger, and faster than you’d ever dreamed possible.

You can find more materials and audio about this book here: http://getitdoneguynews.com/

7 Must Read Success Lessons from Ralph Waldo Emerson

September 13th, 2010

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, poet, lecturer, and essayist. Emerson is most noted for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was also regarded as a chief leader of individualism.

Emerson circulated his ideas through dozens of published essays, and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his classic 1836 essay, “Nature.”

Considered one of the great lecturers of his time, Emerson had an excitement and respect for his audience that captivated the crowds.

Emerson’s work has influenced nearly every generation of thinker, writer and poet since his time. Without further a due, here are seven success lessons from Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Read full article about 7 success lessons from Ralph Waldo Emerson here: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/09/7-must-read-success-lessons-from-ralph.html

Source: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/09/7-must-read-success-lessons-from-ralph.html

Sun Tzu’s 5 Factors for Life Hacking Domination

August 31st, 2010

Sun Tzu said: The Art of War, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one’s deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtained in the field. These five constants are the foundation of everything Sun Tzu instructs. They are the undeniable and nonnegotiable characteristics of any life crusade.

Read the 5 factors for life hacking domination: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/08/sun-tzus-5-factors-for-life-hacking.html

3 Secrets to Financial Success

August 2nd, 2010

This article contains a concise compilation of the primary principles requisite for the attainment of financial success.
What I will be discussing in these next few moments does not entail a get-rich-quick scheme, because there are no quick fixes. It is in the chasing of “fool’s gold” that the priceless gift of time is squandered and dreams lost.

Read full article here: http://thinksimplenow.com/finance/3-secrets-to-financial-success/

What Is Success?

June 21st, 2010

You see, personal success comes in many different forms and your concept of being successful might not be the same as mine.

If you want to be successful in your life, then the very first thing you should do is to take the time to decide exactly what that means to you.

Never mind what it means to anyone else, what does it mean to you?

If you want to succeed on a level that makes you feel truly satisfied, then I encourage you to take some time right now to write down your personal definition of success. Be specific for each area of your life.

Read full article about “What is success?”: http://advancedlifeskills.com/blog/what-is-success

When everything falls apart

June 16th, 2010

I’ve read this beautiful article about accepting and learning from falls.

About peaks and valleys of life.

It starts by asking:

Have you experienced the moment when everything in your life seems to be going well and then, suddenly, something unexpected happens and it feels like there is no hope and nothing is ever going to be the same again?

And then the shift to use the peaks to grow:

If you let confusion, anger and anxiety be, and accept even the worst things in your life, often something great happens.

Read full article on Dragos Roua’s blog: http://www.dragosroua.com/when-everything-falls-apart

Fear of Failure – Building the Right Mindset

June 9th, 2010

Found these days a beautiful article about using fear as a powerful tool to empower life.

Luciano Passuello present in the first article a perspective about:

How to create a first line of defense — a “psychological armor” — against fear of failure.

There are 6 ideas to help you look at the failure from a different perspective and stop being help back by it.

“If you hit every time, the target is too near or too big.” –Tom Hirshfield

So “Failing is the only way to go far enough”.

Read full article here: http://litemind.com/fear-failure/