Renew

With the new year approaching, a decade gone, it is always a good time to sit down for a few hours (if not more) to determine what will happen to you in the coming year. Why would I want to determine what will happen to me in the coming year? You might ask. Well the reason is this: if you don’t determine what will happen to you then anything will happen to you good or bad. By determining what will happen to you, you set in you mind, the conscientious and the sub conscientious, the direction in which you want to go. You have the opportunity to set the location and start out on your journey to get there. Without any direction who know where you will go, you could go forward, or backwards! So I encourage you to take a few hours determine what will happen to you in 2010 and in one year you will be surprised at how accurate you are!

Studying

As the school semester comes to a close I recall the years when I was in school and I remember how important it is to study. So what happens when we leave school? Most adults quit studying. Today, I am suggesting that we don’t stop studying, that we continue to study and grow our minds. Study your competition, study your own products, study your kids, your mate, you can study just about anything. By studying you keep your mind fresh and active! If you study the components of your life that are valuable to you, you will increase that value. So send your mind back to school and start studying, again!

Disappointment

If you have not you will be . . . disappointed at some point in you life. How does this happen? How can we overcome the disappointment?




For starters disappointment stems from hope; hope comes from wanting something or someone, and to phrase a movie Hope does not float. With hope we have no control over the results. Thus when the results are not what we have “hoped” for we are disappointed.



To cure the disappointment we must eliminate the hope, taking control of the situation and of our futures. Changing our mentality from Hoping to willing we start to invest action into the results. When we put actions and efforts into the results we start to take control of the end results. By controlling the end results we will curtail the disappointment.



In short eliminate hope, take action, and disappointment will be reduced

Getting old

With another birthday here and gone it makes me think; What happens when you get older?
The answers that come to my mind are many and wonderful. Some see getting older as a step closer to the end line, I see getting older as opportunity to grow faster. How? By utilizing the knowledge and the skills that you have acquired in the past. You should know more this year than you did last year, you should be more skillfull this year than last year. So you can take that knowledge, take those skills and produce more results faster and better.
So do not look at a birthday as another day, another step closer to death, look at your birthday as a day in which you can benchmark yourself and know that you are better this year than you were last year! Keep living and keep striving, everyday you are better than the day before!

Giving Thanks

Every year in America we stop for a day fill our bellys full of food and give thanks. As my friend Bob said this is the one holiday that is not based on a war, someones death, or a religious event. It is truely a day to sit back and be thankful for what you have. But why show thanks on one day, why not be thankful year round? Another friend always said a day living is so much better than the alternative. How true is that! So sit down enjoy the feast on Thanksgiving but remember live is short, life is precious, and the year is too long to be thankful for just one day.

Top 20

If you are in business are went to school and studied business then you have most likely have heard of Pareto's Law. This law basically states that you get 80%of your reward from 20% of your activity. This law is true in everything, business, and in life. For example in sales you will get most of your income/sales from 20% of your clients. Can we utilize this law in everything that we do? Absolutely we can! Just think about it if you focus 100% on the top 20% we can see an 80% return! And we won’t have to worry about the other 80%.




First make a list of what is important to you

Then rank the list from most important to least important

Then draw a line separating the top 20% from the lower 80%

Everything above the line should get 100% of your attention, effort, and focus.

The other 80% will take care of its self.





Following Pareto's Law and the above simple steps will help you in all your endeavors regardless of what they are.



So now go out and focus on the top 20!

Stretching your mind

We all know that we should get a proper stretch in on our muscles before we do any strenuous activity, but what about for our minds? Have you ever though about stretching your mind, creating flexibility with in your cerebellum so your mind can stretch and mold to the problems that need attention? How can you stretch your mind so that it can be flexible? Well I am not a neurologist, but I do believe you can easily stretch your mind by doing one simple task about 15 to 20 minutes a day, READ! Reading will provide your mind with stimulation as well as information that will enable your mind to grow. So if you are in highly problematic situations the simple task of reading will stretch your mind so you will be more flexible. So go to the bookstore, library, or your old stash of unread books and READ!