Do Your Best!!!!

Do your best. Do your best at every job. No slacking! Success generates more success. So be hungry for it. People hire good people with passion for excellence…

NLP Solutions: Three Guiding Principles

Success depends on both what you do and how you do it.

Being creatures of pattern and habit, we unknowingly achieve success and construct our failures. Taken together, the three NLP guiding principles – (i) failure is not an accident; (ii) feedback is the foundation of success; and (iii) success has a structure – can help you change old habits of thinking and your success hit rate. Once you have taken these three guiding principles on board, you will have at hand a valuable source of information – an effective prescription for exactly the progress you desire. “These three principles make it possible to turn what we used to think of as setbacks into success, get the feedback we need in order to know what to do next, and figure out the key factors we need to get right if we are to succeed”.

The Trap of Fixation on Success

Success is nearly a magical idea for most people. In his Book The Active Life, Parker Palmer points out that in the West fixation of people on success discourages them from risk taking “because it values success over learning, and it abhors failure whether we learn from it or not. It always wants to win but win or lose, it inhibits our learning. If we win, we think we know it all and have nothing more to learn. If we lose, we feel so defeated that learning is a hollow consolation… It traps us in a system of praise or blame, credit or shame, a system that gives primacy to goals and external evaluations, devalues the gift of self-knowledge, and diminishes our capacity to take risks that may yield growth.”

Positive Emotions Are the Key To Life

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area…

The Low of Forced Efficiency

This law says that, “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”

The key question you should ask is “What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?” This is the question that dominates time management. This is the key to overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive person…

Building Relationships

“No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.” – Benjamin Disraeli

Successful people have the ability to develop relationships that last. Theodore Roosevelt said, “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”…

Persuade People – Earn the Support of Others

Persuasion power can help you get more of the things you want faster than anything else you do. It can mean the difference between success and failure. It can guarantee your progress and enable you to use all of your other skills and abilities at the very highest level. Your persuasion power will earn you the support of others…

How To Succeed in Business

“Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son-of-a-bitch.” - Peter McArthur

99 percent of businesses started by people lacking business experience fail within the first two or three years. However, 80 percent of businesses started by experienced businesspeople succeed. Why should this be so? The reason is because experienced businesspeople know what to do. They know how to purchase their products and their services. They know how to negotiate with their suppliers. They know how to raise money. They know how to negotiate leases. They know how to sell and to market. They know how to manage their finances. In other words, experience is the key. In order to start your own business and succeed, you have to learn how.

The Foundation of Leadership: Achieving Extraordinary Results

By: Brian Tracy

The most important quality of leadership, the one quality for which you want to be known, is extraordinary performance, with the goal of achieving extraordinary results. These results then serve as an inspiration to others to perform at equally exceptional levels. People ascribe leadership to those men and women who they feel can most enable them to achieve important goals or objectives…

A Leader’s Mood: The Dimmer Switch of Performance

How do you work on attaining the consistent, emotionally intelligent leadership behaviors that breed success in yourself and others? Here are a few other suggestions to consider that can improve your and your team’s performance…

 Case in Point  Getting the Best out of Students

Benjamin Zander, a celebrated music teacher, a conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, and the author of the book called The Art of Possibility, has an effective strategy for getting best out of his students. In NLP terms, this strategy is called ‘Creating Inevitable Success. On the first day of class, Zander tells his first year students that they all get an A. There is only one condition. Their first assignment is to write a letter to him – dated on the last day of class – explaining why they deserved the highest grade.

Zander believes there are several beneficial aspects of this dramatic role reversal:

1. It is a great confidence builder for his students.

2. It eliminates the often counterproductive sniping that people frequently engage in when they think only a few will win.

3. Students invariably knock themselves out for that A because they do more to earn their own personal A than they would ever do for the traditional A given by a teacher.

 Case in Point  Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel, a pioneering French couturier and the Founder of Chanel Inc., was willing to take the risks she needed to in order to reach the top. From day one, her career had been characterized by her willingness to defy convention time after time. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable,” said Chanel….

Like the heading goes, “do your best!”.Giving all you have to make things work out for your successes is worthwhile but count the cost before you start paying it. There are people who have regretted after paying the price because they lose things and people closest to them. Families, friends and people who know you must not be neglected once you are focusing on your future. They are the people who are supporting you already. A successful person gives their best all the time, not only when required on a tougher project or someone asks you to. One habit of a highly effective teen is to begin with the end in mind. This means to know what you want and willing to give your best to get there. You know whether you are only giving only half of what you can offer or staying in your comfort zone. Anyone in the comfort zone means that person is not going to grow anymore. Strive to be better than others because you are not the only one that is trying to be successful. Above all this, remember to sharpen your saw. Take time-outs. Do not stress yourself up because you want to succeed. We are humans, not robots. We recharge ourselves by taking well-deserved breaks that can improve ourselves. Like in the example stated, Coco Chanel went all the way, GIVING HER BEST before Chanel became a brand to be reckoned with.

article taken from http://1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/success_secrets.html on 30 jan 2008

and quotes from 7 habits of  highly effective teens.