Jim Rohn- Goals & Dreams become magnetic (personal development)

Interesting video with Jim Rohn talking about Goals and dreams.


Jim Rohn for over 30 years has made people from all walks of life dig deep and pull out the greatness within themselves. In this video Jim describes how your goals and dreams can make you a magnet for success and the necessary steps to get on track. Motivational speaking at it's finest. Jim really knows how to make a person think of what they need to do in order to be successful and has a way to get them to take action . So if you are in a rut in life this video by Jim Rohn will boost you up. And show you how to turn your goals and dreams into magnets to attract the life you have always wanted.

Jim Rohn - 10 Steps to Achieving Anything You Want (Jim Rohn Personal Development)

Interesting video  by the great Jim Rohn on 10 Steps to achieve anything you want.

5 Tips to Help Projects Soar

Whenever you are planning to complete a project or do a task, think of Stephen Covey's habit no 2 from his great book: ' The 7 habits of highly effective people'. This is 'Start with the end in mind' . Think of the ideal outcome. For yourself and for all the other parties. Then think of measures to see how well you have achieved your outcomes.. Here's an interesting article by Paula Eder (see below) that talks about this in point 5. Enjoy!

Ready for a Strong Take-Off? Here Are 5 Tips to Help Projects Soar

Large projects can be daunting. So what do you do when confronted with a great big task that you need to take the lead on?

It's your responsibility, the clock is ticking, and you don't know where to begin.

Well, here are 5 innovative tips for getting even a large project off to a successful and quick beginning. And as you explore these 5 ideas, I am guessing that you'll start coming up with some creative ideas of your own, too.

Explore and use your power to think ahead. Your results will likely far surpass what a traditional approach will provide.

1. Open your mind to possibilities for structuring your project that are not typical.

If you rely on the usual methods, like outlining and using a Zero Draft, consider a fresh approach. Start by clearly defining your desired outcome, and then structure your project around it. Beginning with the results you'd like will stimulate your creativity more than automatically following a standard protocol.

2. Refine the definition of your results or desired outcome until it's comprehensive and specific. Make it shine!

Don't undermine your project by having your planned results remain non-specific. Traditional methods often undervalue the importance of creating a crystal clear image of your desired outcome before you begin. Vague descriptions may result in confusion for those who need to understand your project or whose help you may need in order to be successful. Clearly delineating your goal will also help you strategize more effectively when structuring your action steps.

3. Examine closely the scope and complexity of your desired outcome. If you have bitten off more than you can chew, streamline your project to make it manageable.

Planning your project realistically greatly reduces the chances of your having to revisit, and scale back, your original desired outcome. By staying laser focused and limiting the scope of your desired outcome, you sidestep a common pitfall: defining your anticipated results too broadly. Writing a doctoral dissertation or developing a strategic plan without a clear description of a feasible-to-achieve desired outcome can easily become a project that is impossible to manage. Learn to marshal your resources by simplifying.

4. Get everyone who's important on board at the onset.

Once you define your specific, comprehensive goal and pare it down to a realistic size, present it to everyone directly involved in your project. For example, a thesis advisor may not start with a mental picture of the desired outcome that is the same as yours. Invest time and energy up front preparing an initial, strong presentation of your endpoint for all key participants. You will derive two important benefits from this:

First, you are far more likely to obtain their approval and commitment when they understand you.
Second, the more they comprehend your clearly articulated objectives, the more you'll have valuable space to explore and experiment along the way.



5. Learn to work backwards.

Instead of beginning at the beginning, start from your desired outcome and work backwards to identify each necessary action step. This way, you are more likely to maintain a realistic pace and scale throughout the project. In contrast, beginning at the beginning can mire you in too much detail or overwhelm you with the enormity of your task.

It's deeply rewarding to plan a project effectively when first starting out. You will proceed with more confidence and develop a stronger base of support.


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Artcle by Paula Eder

Article source:  https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Paula_Eder/40911

The Secret to Success : Routine

The secret to success is consistency. Build a good daily routine and you are guaranteeing success.

For example , every day you could ask yourself -  What are my 3 goals for tomorrow?

Then at the end of tomorrow you could compare what you did with your goal.

This daily habit will start you focusing on what you want to achieve from the day. So throughout the day you can adjust your plans to ensure that your goals are reached as opposed to being a slave to other people's goal. 

Try it out and see how it works!

On the topic of daily routines, here is an interesting article by Katheryn Hobyn.

High Performance and Quality Equals Routine

Writer Stephen King, commits to writing two thousand words a day, and usually he does so between 8 am to 11:30 am every day. Swimmer Michael Phelps, gets up and does warm up exercises and creative visualization exercises every day before competition. Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey, who had worked 8 hours per day at each company, created the "themed" day, where he worked on one area per day, such as product development. On Saturday he has a free day, and Sunday he sets aside for reflection, strategy, feedback and planning for the next week.

Benjamin Franklin, who helped write the US Constitution, and was the inventor of Bifocals, and the lightning Rod, asked two questions every day, "What good shall I do today?" and "What good have I done today?" Every day, he also had morning routine for himself of what he called an 'Air Bath.' In which he sat in the very cold air as a way to purify himself, and open his imagination.

Albert Einstein, the physicist who developed, The Theory of Relativity, took a daily walk. He lived in the present moment. He focused intensely on a task at hand. Apple Computer inventor, Steve Jobs looked in the mirror every day and asked the same question to himself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today? If the answer was no, he would change his intention for the day. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the electric motor and laser, walked up to eight to ten miles per day, he avoided acidic foods, and he used a technique of creative visualization called a mind box, in which he could fully design and manipulate a thought version of his invention to completion prior to him building it.

A daily routine is important as a catalyst, which leads to tasks of productivity and creativity. Your natural rhythm decides the order which works best for you and there is no right or wrong. Instead of thinking about what to do next put it into your daily schedule. Gary Keller who founded Keller Williams Realty stated, "If it's not in your schedule it doesn't exist."

Consistent daily tasks are accumulative. Stephen King, has written 55 books, and several short stories, by consistently writing two thousand words per day. Nikola Tesla's many amazing inventions are still impacting the world.

As a yoga teacher for the past twenty years, I have a daily routine to stretch each morning for ten minutes, and then before I go to sleep I do another ten minutes. Every night before I get into bed, I wash my feet, because I believe that a cleanse discharges any accumulation of negative energy. Along with that habit, I wash under my finger nails and toe nails which I feel has kept me healthy and free of germs.

As a real estate sales person, I know that every day I have to lead generate to bring in the income that I want. So I consistently research owners, and businesses to find good phone numbers. I make daily calls, I walk and talk to potential owners, and sellers. I practice my presentations, so that I'm ready. Each day, I make time, to meditate and visualize what I want as results. I also practice, in my mind how it will feel when I complete the task, and feel the reward when it's done. (The winning of a prize, earn a commission, find a really tough phone number, do a masterful presentation and get a listing.)

I've always had the ability and desire to write, and now, I'm making a daily routine to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to write. The writing part doesn't always happen, because my mind says go back to bed, check your e-mail, read the news because you don't have anything to write. The alarm goes off, and I get to my desk. I'm establishing a pattern and routine. The writing will come. First, I need to be sitting at my desk, and not dreaming. Daily, I say, "This is me trusting myself. The work that I'm doing is paying off."

My daily practice and routines makes me confident, happy and relaxed. Because of daily routines, I have accomplished many of my personal goals. If you desire more productivity, and to pass milestones, set up your daily routines. Remember if it's not in your schedule it doesn't exist. Time can only do one thing. It will pass into another moment; which becomes another day and another year.

If you are doing daily habits that are sabotaging, downright unhealthy and dangerous, stop and create new daily habits. Instead of reaching for the food, take a walk, write a journal entry. Put down the daily shot of whiskey, tequila or a needle and pray or meditate instead, lift light weights, or get out for some air. If you are watching content that is polluting your mind, and heart, choose to watch something that is 100% positive, uplifting and no one gets hurt.

Daily habitual routines create the real long-term results. Ordinary moments done daily, are just ordinary. Put all the ordinary together, and you might end up with extraordinary. An extraordinary life, income, practice, and amazing results beyond anything that you had previously achieved. Right now, decide upon one daily activity and commit to it.

Article by Katheryn Hoban

Article source: http://EzineArticles.com/9904676

8 traits of successful people - Richard St. John

Ten years of research and 500 face-to-face interviews led Richard St.John  to a collection of eight common traits in successful leaders around the world



What really leads to success?

After 10 years of research, 500 face to face interviews, studying 1000's of success stories from other sources and interviewing careers from a to Z (including 4 Nobel prize winners) he had a lot of data.
He then spent a lot of time analyzing and sorting the interviews.This lead him to find common traits.

He found that successful people have 8 traits, which are:


1.Love what you do

2.Work really hard

3.Focus on one thing not  everything

4.Keep pushing yourself

5.Come up with good ideas

6.Keep  improving yourself and what you do

7. Serve others something of value

8.Persist

These traits were the fundamentals. There were also other skills that were helpful, based on the area you were working, such as:

Technical skills
Analytical skills
People skills
Creative skills
Management skills
Computer skills


So how many of the 8 successful traits do you have? If you don't have them all, could you try focusing on 1 trait per month?

The Secret To Organisation - The 5S model of Lean Six Sigma

Do you get frustrated by not being able to find something? Do you spend more time in trying to remember where that note was or trying to get back to the thoughts on a specific topic?

The 5S model of lean six sigma could be the solution  to your problems.

It is an organisation method to  ensure efficiency and effectiveness by identifying and storing items used and thinking about standardization  to increase productivity.

The 5S model is great for the workplace and fantastic for getting your personal world in order.

It comes from Japan and was one of the  techniques that enabled just in Time manufacturing.

So what does the 5S model say? Well there are 5 stages.:




1.Sort (Seiri)
2.Set in  order (Seiton)
3.Shine (Seiso)
4.Standardise (Seiketsu)
5.Sustain (Shitsuke)

The names are shown above (with the original Japanese names in  brackets).

So lets dive in to the detail. This is how I see the 5S model.

1.Sort

Everything in your environment needs to be considered. The items that are not necessary (or haven't been used in a while)  need to be thrown/given away. If you really can't throw it away put it in a storage for a couple of weeks and if it hasn't been used throw it away.
Also make work easier by removing obstacles to work.
Remove anything that is unnecessary.
Clear your workspace and desktop and this should make your world a bit clearer, less stressful and more relaxed.

2.Set in order

When anything comes in, into your world , you should think of the following questions:

   i) How will I use this?
  ii) When will I use this?
  iii) What else will I need when I am using this?
  iv) Who else will be using this/ Who else will be involved when I am using it?
  v) Where will I be using  this?
  v) What parts of this will I need/ do I not need

Once you know the answers to these questions, you can allocate in the correct place (e.g on your workspace or in your folders , etc.)
Make sure that all necessary items are correctly placed/stored so they can be easily selected for use.
For reports/work think how will users want to  see this and prepare the work in the format that will answer their predicted questions, efficiently and effectively.
Make it easy to select often used items/ files (Tools such as Workflowy.com or Microsoft OneNote or GoogleDrive are good to keep everything organised and easily accessible (on your computer or mobile)).
Place/file/store items based on their use and frequency of use, with the most often used items, placed in  the easiest to access areas.

3)Shine

Clean your workspace daily
Keep your workspace/filing/storage/documents clean and tidy and pleasing to be/work in.
This means that when you finish anything you should put things away.
This also means that when you finish your work on your computer, you close anything and reboot next morning. This should clear resources and refresh systems.

4)Standardise

Once you have a process that works, establish procedures and schedules to ensure consistency. This should be replicated by other people in your team or in other things that you do.
Ensure that your personal/work routine supports these new practices.
Make these new practices part of your daily routine.

5)Sustain

Make sure that once you have an improved system, this is maintained.
Ensure you track how you are doing to ensure that you do not fall back into bad practices.
Review regularly.

The secret to success - A Rubber Band?

If I were to tell you that you could change your life and be successful and all you needed was a rubber band, you would probably think I was crazy but it's an experiment lots of people have done and found to be truly empowering.

So what is this about? This is based on the original 21 day no complaint challenge by Will Bowen, popularised by Tim Ferriss.


The 21 Day No Complaint Challenge

The original challenge from (Will Bowen) is to go 21 days without complaining. So what do you do?

1) Put your rubber band on your wrist. You have now started and are on day 1 of  the challenge.
2) When you complain you move the rubber band to the other wrist. You are now back to day 1. Every time you complain you have to swap the rubber band and go back to day 1.
3) The goal is to go 21 days without moving the rubber band to the  other wrist (ie not complaining).


Why should you do it ?

Tim Ferriss comments on this in his article 'Real Mind Control: The 21 Day No Complaint Experiment'.

He found the following things happened.

1) Instead of complaining he started thinking what could he do/create to avoid this happening in future.

2) He was able to turn off negative thoughts as he had to give a solution instead of just continuing with the complaining (The complaining  just kept open - loops in GTD (Get things done) talk which just result in you wasting energy). This resulted in better sleep and nicer conversations.

3) He found this attracted people to him as people want to be around action orientated problem solvers.

From my point of view, doing this exercise gives you back control of your life. When something goes wrong and you blame the weather, your boss, the other guy, it means that you have given away your power. Not complaining means you have to think of a solution. You also have to accept that it is your responsibility to do something about it.

You have the power and suddenly the world has changed.

Productivity Tips from Elon Musk to Supercharge Your Success

Elon Musk is a super high achiever. He has multiple companies.

Tesla - electric car company
SpaceX - Spaceflight company
Boring company- Tunneling company
SolarCity - Solar panel and rechargeable lithium ion battery company
Neuralink - Neuroscience company

A recently email from him to his 37, 000 Tesla employees shows his  productivity tips for success.


1. Get rid of all large meetings (unless they provide value to the whole audience, in which case, keep them very short) and  all frequent meetings.

2. Meetings should be infrequent unless a matter is urgent.

3.Drop off a call/meeting as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value.
It is not rude to leave. It is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.

4.Avoid acronyms or jargon.
Anything that requires explanation inhibits communication.

5. Don't let hierarchical structures make things less efficient - Cut out the middle-man.
Communication should follow the shortest path. Bypass the managers and go straight to the person doing the work.

6.Don't follow rules, follow logic.

How many of these do you do? How many of these can  you start to implement today?

15 HABITS ALL SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HAVE

How many of these habits do you  have? Try and gain one new positive habit each week and see how you feel.

Successful People Unsuccessful People 1 Show Gratitude Have a sense of Entitlement Pay Compliments Criticize others without Justification 2 Know How To Forgive Hold Grudges 3 Live For The Moment Live In The Past 4 Take Responsibility For Mistakes Blame Other Around Them 5 Share Information Keep Secrets 6 Radiate Positive Feelings Express Negative Feelings 7 Talk About Ideas Gossip About Others 8 Celebrate Victories with Others Take All the Credit For Themselves 9 Are Always Ready For Change Are Scared Of Change 10 Hope Everyone Succeeds Secretly Hope Others Fail 11 Consider Other Points Of View Only Thinik About Their Own 12 Set Goals For Themselves Never Set Goals 13 Know What They Want Don't Know What They Want 14 Are Always Learning Think They Know Everything 15 Read Books Watch Tv

How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) HD

How bad do you want it? Watch this for some motivation!



The guru said I'l  meet you at the  beach. The young man got there at 4am.
The guru asked  how bad do you want success?
The guru asked the young man to walk out into the water. Then a bit further, then a fit further.
How bad do you  want to be successful asked the guru. Go futher
Then the guru held the man down,  under the water. Just before he was about to pass out.The guru lifted him up.
 I have a question for you, how bad do you want to be successful. When you want to be as successful as you want to breathe then you'll be successful.
When you have asthma you have shortness of breath you just want to breath that is all you care about. When you get to the point when all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe then you will will get it.

How To Become Happy And An Optimist - Shawn Achor

Here is a great talk by psychologist Shawn Achor talking about the work of Emmerson & McCullough where they made people go from being pessimists to optimists and improved the performance of the company.


This is based on work that was done by Emerson and McCullough. They went to a company much like yours and they had everyone of their employees, as a first thing when they came into to work,  write down 3 new (i.e. in the last 24 hours) things they were grateful for in a word document.
3 new things for 21 consecutive days results in 63 things you are grateful for but that is not the important thing. It doesn't matter what you write down , what matters is that the brain is scanning the world for things that are positive. a  lot of times we train our brain to scan for the negative and we are incredibly good at doing that because our brain is a single processor  so we denote our finite resources to scan the world for the negative and continue to miss out on the positive things that are happening in our environment.

If you do this for 21 days you  can take pessimists, who have always been tested as pessimists, who we know have genes for pessimism and they become optimists.  They ended up  testing as low  to moderate level optimists.

One thing they did at the company, is they started their meetings by saying one thing they were personally grateful for , one thing they were grateful about their team, and one thing about one member of their team.

Then they talk about the fires they need to put out, but not treat them as threats but challenges. The entire performance of the team then started to rise.

2 minute a day, 21 day program for success - The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor

We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.




He's worked with schools and companies in over 45 countries and found that happiness is not due to the external world but how our brain processes the world.

If you can raise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain at positive performs significantly better than at negative, neutral or stressed. Your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise. In fact, he's found that every single business outcome improves. Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed. You're 37% better at sales. Doctors are 19 percent faster, more accurate at coming up with the correct diagnosis when positive instead of negative, neutral or stressed.

If we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and more intelligently. We need to be able to reverse this formulaso we can start to see what our brains are actually capable of.Because dopamine, which floods into your system when you're positive, has two functions. Not only does it make you happier, it turns on all of the learning centers in your brainallowing you to adapt to the world in a different way.




When your brain is positive it produces dopamine which makes you happier. It also opens learning centres in the brain, making you better able to adapt to the world.




So how can you get more positive and productive? How can you rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully?

Spend 2 mins a day for the next 21 days doing the following daily:




1. Write three new things you are grateful for (Emmons & McCullough 2003)

2. Journaling one positive thing that happened in the last 24 hours (Slatcher & Pennebaker 2006)

3. Exercise (Babyak et al 2000)

4. Mediation (Dweck 2007)

5. Random acts of kindness (Lyubomirsky, 2005)

1. Write down three new things you are greatful for.

Write down three new things that they're grateful for for 21 days in a row, three new things each day. And at the end of that, their brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world not for the negative, but for the positive first

2.Journaling one positive experience you've had in the last 24 hours

Journaling about one positive experience you've had over the past 24 hours allows your brain to relive it

3.Exercise

Exercise teaches your brain that your behavior matters

4.Meditation

We find that meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD that we've been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once and allows our brains to focus on the task at hand

5.Random acts of kindness

random acts of kindness are conscious acts of kindness. We get people, when they open up their inbox, to write one positive email praising or thanking somebody in their support network.





So by doing these 5 things, you can train your brain, just like people train their bodies and create positivity, productiveness and success.