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7 Tips to be more effective

31/01/2018 /

In a short video, Brian Tracy, motivational public speaker, provides 7 simple tips that can help us to be more effective. Some of them are well know, but it does not mean that they are put in practice:

  1. Set your goals
  2. Remember that you are never “stuck”
  3. Discipline yourself
  4. Practice self-evaluation
  5. Learn how to say “no”
  6. Delegate
  7. Declutter your life

If you want to know more watch the full video.

Thoughts That Can Super-Motivate You

23/01/2014 /

The true difference between success and failure is your ability to get and keep yourself motivated:

  • Motivation means choosing to do what you’d rather not do.
  • The most depressing and de-motivating sentences in the world usually begin with the phrase “Someday, I’ll…”
  • Don’t set goals that just excite you; set goals that scare you a little bit. That way they’ll strengthen your “motivation muscle.”
  • What holds people back is fear of failure, but if you don’t take action, you’ll fail by default, so what have you got to lose?
  • You can have whatever you want in life, but nobody is going to give it to you.  Everything of value must be earned.

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Thinking Strategically

27/09/2012 /

If you want to reach your goals it is necessary to formulate a strategy. You need a top-level overview of your organization to do your best and motivate your team.

“Thinking strategically“, a free ebook that you can download at Bookboon.com,  provides useful suggestions in order to help simplify your work.

In this book, Dr. Chris Peterson, Professor at Michigan State University, provides a list of what he calls the six P’s of thinking strategically:

1.     Plan – action that you have consciously intended
2.     Ploy – What you will do to out-do the competition
3.     Pattern – Establishing success as a consistent event over time
4.     Position – Creating and holding a market presence
5.     Purpose – Direction as a collective group
6.     Push – Goals that stretch the organization – push them outside   the existing comfort zone of performance

 

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