The Secret To Constant Improvement

The Secret To Constant Improvement

By Meredith Keeney

Tip! Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you want your life to be getting better and better? I know, I know, that's a silly question. I know I want my life to be steadily improving, and I suspect just about everyone else does too. What a lot of people don't know, is that there is a very simple technique which makes that easy. The method is so easy to use and straightforward that this article will be rather short. It's just that simple.

I was reminded of this technique when I saw it show up as one of the steps in Mark Joyner's Simpleology program. That is just the latest incarnation, as it has been used by focused and successful people through history from great religious men to presidents.

It is the continual process of self-review. I know you were expecting some fancy name with a trademark and what I gave you sounded really boring, but hear me out.

What you do is to regularly (generally at the end of each day) think back over your day and write down the things you did wrong and what you can do in the future to keep from making the same mistakes. In the Simpleology program this is used to help analyze places where you are wasting time or reducing your energy, but the technique can be applied to anything.

Religious: I have read of great religious men of the past asking themselves each night how they could have been purer. If they had allowed some base thought in their minds, they would work to keep it from happening again.

Health: What better choices could you have made in what you ate, how you exercised, or the activities you engaged in?

Tip! A journey of personal development is about learning to see the world about you, not in terms of black and white, but in full colour. Your journey should open your eyes to the infinite shades, hues and intensities of colour that make up the world in which we live: you'll take the shadow puppet theatre world and transform it into the digital cinema technology we have today.

Financial: Did you spend money you shouldn't and how could you have used it better? What decisions could you have made to put yourself in a better financial position?

Social: Did you say something you wish you hadn't? Made some unwelcome joke or discouraging comment? Did you not say something you should have?

You get the picture. This technique is adaptable to any area of behavior you are focused on. Not only that, but you don't have to use it for some specialty. If you have a clear picture of the person you want to become, merely ask yourself what decisions you made that day that don't draw you towards being that person. Figure out how you can avoid making that same mistake or a similar one in the future.

Tip! This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything ~ Scott Reed

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! Don't forget to use this technique the other direction to help you reinforce positive behaviors. Whatever your goal is, ask yourself if you did anything that took you towards it, and figure out how to repeat that success.

I know, I know this all sounds so simple and self-obvious, but think of all the people you know who make the same mistakes over and over again. How many people do you know who seem to be on an endlessly repeating cycle of bad finances, bad relationships, bad morals, or whatever other area they struggle in? How many times have you wished that they could just see the same couple mistakes they make over and over again and fix them?

All of us can benefit from this little technique, even if our poor choices aren't major ones. In fact it is especially helpful because the little decisions which keep us from improving are not obvious so we don't automatically work on them, and the decisions which take us forward may not have caught our attention so we don't repeat them.

Tip! If selected properly, your life can tremendously change for the better with a personal development course. Look for courses that offer the right personal development to serve you and the support systems to help you change.

The best part about this little technique is that it isn't like those major goal setting sessions where you organize your life and try to change the entire course of your future in a single four hour euphoria-high session. That kind of overhaul can have it's purposes, but your enthusiastic plans and goals are normally forgotten within days, until desperation drives you to do it again (i.e. New Year's resolutions). No, this is a little habit that takes maybe five minutes an evening and keeps you on a steady even keel of continual improvement.

Tip! The fastest way to get to where you're going is to join like-minded adventurers on your quest.

Try it for a month or so. If you aren't used to keeping a journal, it might feel weird, but just do it for a few minutes each night and then review your entries every month or so. You will find your negative behaviors steadily decreasing and your positive ones increasing, and you will get your wish of a life that gets better and better each day.

Tip! The future depends on what we do in the present. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Meredith Keeney is a motivational writer and publisher of The Right Path newsletter, a free bi-weekly ezine that helps you achieve your dreams. Check out http://www.TheRightPath.bravehost.com!

Become a More Organized Person - Time Management Is an Area Of High Self-Improvement Potential

Become a More Organized Person - Time Management Is an Area Of High Self-Improvement Potential

By Terje Ellingsen

Tip! The future depends on what we do in the present. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

A general self-improvement plan should include how to get organized and how to improve your skills in managing your time. Here are some time management tips.

Accept the fact that we cannot rely too much on our memories.

The human mind is exposed to a hurricane of information every day. As a result the mind does a very nice filtering process and very little of what we see and hear is retained in our minds. So instead of depending on our very selective memory, an improvement would be to depend on a piece of paper instead.

Carry a tiny scribbling pad and a pen with you all the time.

The moment you fix an appointment or are asked to attend a meeting, improve yourself by jotting it down in the scribbling pad. Do not bother about others laughing at you. You will have the last laugh in the end.

A good improvement idea is to write it down assignments in a book.

Each time you tell somebody to do something or when somebody like your boss asks you to do something writing it down in a book along with the date and the time can provide significant improvement. Do not be afraid of being thought about as a person with a very poor memory. It won't be long before people start thinking of you as a highly organized person.

If you have an electronic pocket organizer be sure to use it.

Each time someone gives you his or her telephone number, immediately enter it into your pocket organizer, the name, number and any other vital information of this person.

Tip! A journey of personal development is about learning to see the world about you, not in terms of black and white, but in full colour. Your journey should open your eyes to the infinite shades, hues and intensities of colour that make up the world in which we live: you'll take the shadow puppet theatre world and transform it into the digital cinema technology we have today.

Use the backside of business cards to help your memory.

Usually we get a lot of business cards as we go about our daily business of life. The business card of course contains the name of the person, his or her telephone number and probably the name of the firm for which the person works. But the problem is, the next time we meet the person, the face may seem familiar but we won't have the foggiest idea as to where we met the person. The best thing to do would be to jot down a few points about the person and probably the reason for meeting him or her and the place as well. This will certainly lessen the load on your memory centre. This will help you in becoming a more organized person and improve your relationships.

File away the business cards properly.

As soon as you get back to your office take care to file away the business cards you collected and organize them properly. Don't just stuff them into your card folder. Take care to read them properly and perhaps keep the cards of important clients separately. If you do not find much use for a person's card, file it an a box marked "unlikely needed" or simply toss it. This will make you a more organized person

Tip! However, if you study the lives of successful and wealthy people you will be unlikely to find many, if any, that achieved their success with little effort. Most worked very hard for their success, and you'll find few, if any that didn't have one of the fundamental skills of self improvement and success � discipline.

Prepare a to-do list everyday.

I cannot over-emphasize the importance of to-do lists in getting yourself organized thus improving your time management. It is probably the most sensible thing a busy person could do.

Plan what you have to do well in advance.

For staying organized, it is a good idea to have daily, weekly and monthly plans for the activities of your business and yourself personally as well. This will improve your ability to manage your time.

Tip! Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn

Have a fixed timetable.

Although it may seem kind of mechanical, a fixed time for everything would make you more organized, especially if you stick steadfast to the time table. Believe me it really helps because in this way, you will have time for everything and everything can be done in the time allotted for it.

And so you are now moving towards becoming a more organized person.

Tip! We want to achieve but we are often not ready to follow the path success demands.

Terje Brooks Ellingsen is a writer and internet publisher. He runs the website 1st-Self_Improvement.net Terje is a Sociologist who enjoys contributing to the personal growth and happiness of others. He tries to accomplish this by writing about self help issues from his own experience and knowledge. For example, improving time management and other skills as well as improving self confidence.

There Is Always Room For Improvement

There Is Always Room For Improvement

By Steve Hill

Tip! Always opt for the personal improvement course that suits you and interests you. Grab one or two programs so you always have the right tools for the right challenge in life.

When I was twelve my parents bought me a five foot snooker table for my birthday. This turned out to be the best present I was ever bought and I quickly became hooked on the game. My friends would regularly come round to my house for a game and when they were not there I would practice on my own.

After a few months a few of us decided to join a snooker club where we could play on full size tables. I was amazed the first time I saw one of these tables at its sheer size, it was twelve foot by six foot. We started to play and it was much more difficult to pot the balls on this much larger table.

Tip! We want to achieve but we are often not ready to follow the path success demands.

The club itself was superb and had free coaching for children under the age of sixteen on a Saturday morning. The coach was called Glen who was aged around thirty at the time. He was a larger than life character and a very good snooker player. We were encouraged to join this free coaching which we duly did. There was regular tournaments as well as coaching and they gave us free drinks and toast.

Tip! Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of the players were not exactly the best in the world being so young and not one of us had ever had a twenty break. This was the first goal of all of us, to become the first player to reach this target. I was extremely determined that it would be me and listened carefully to what I was being taught and tried hard to implement it.

My progress was quite rapid and to my amazement I was the first person to score that elusive twenty break. People around the snooker table I was playing on started to applaud and I was walking around with a beaming smile on my face.

Glen who was on the other side of the room wondered over to find out what all of the noise was about. I thought he would be so proud of me and happy at my achievement, however he stated that if I could score twenty, I could score thirty. He told me to stop messing about and smiling, and to re-concentrate on the job in hand.

Tip! Just being aware of the incredible capabilities of our subconscious minds can help our self improvement � if we decide to pay attention to our hunches and intuition and act on them.

I had been brought straight back down to earth and was a bit gutted to say the least. This lesson was a very good one for me to learn at such an early age and I eventually went on to have breaks of over one hundred.

Stephen Hill has a number of websites including:

http://www.natural-health-cure.co.uk

http://www.alternative-therapy.co.uk

http://www.stress-management-game.co.uk

Goal Setting, Self Improvement & Decision Making - Words of Wisdom

Goal Setting, Self Improvement & Decision Making - Words of Wisdom

By Greg Nicholls

Tip! Keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing out, paving the way to self improvement.

We know right from wrong, we know good from bad, so instinctively, all our decisions are made right away. It is when we begin to rationalize our decisions that we make the mistakes that we regret. Millionaires know the secrets to Goal Setting, Self Improvement & Decision Making, learn their Words of Wisdom:

• You will know you made the right decision because your body tells you it is the right decision, from the passion and the focus you get from making that decision.

• Choosing the right decision, opens the door to new options, once you have made that decision, the key to making that decision is sticking to it to make it right.

• Making a decision is a commitment to follow through because it truly brings out your own integrity.

• When you make a decision, you have to use your heart; you have to listen to your heart.

Tip! If selected properly, your life can tremendously change for the better with a personal development course. Look for courses that offer the right personal development to serve you and the support systems to help you change.

• Understanding you have to opportunity to make your own decisions is truly the key to success.

• Our inner strength and trust in our abilities to draw from all around and within to make decisions, actually provides the ability to make the decision.

• The ability to make a decision is leadership!

• We learn to make goals in our lives to attain success, the S.M.A.R.T. way to make goals in our lives is simple and goals must be: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely.

Tip! We want to achieve but we are often not ready to follow the path success demands.

• Decisions often fall back on the attainment of goals by others ahead of us; most of our decisions are based on positive examples of people who have succeeded from similar decisions.

• Successful people make up their minds quickly and change their minds slowly. Unsuccessful people make up their minds slowly and change their minds quickly.

• Indecision leads to procrastination and can reinforce negativity.

• As you grow in personal/self development, you no longer need proof of success; self doubt fades and confidence in your decisions takes over, this is liberation.

• “You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.” – Mike Litman

• The decision process includes quiet and allowing, but taking too much time to make a decision limits your time to make more decisions.

• Making decisions allow ourselves to make more decisions, with liberation from not being afraid of what we are going to decide and that is what will truly lead us Beyond Freedom!

So what decisions have you made in your life?

Tip! Your journey should open your eyes to the infinite shades, hues and intensities of colour that make up the world in which we live: you'll take the shadow puppet theatre world and transform it into the digital cinema technology we have today.

Have you made more good decisions than bad decisions?

If you have historically made more good decisions than bad decisions then learn from the wisdom that suggests we make decisions quickly and change our minds slowly because by making more decisions there will be more good decisions made.

Goal setting, a focus on self improvement & quick decision making are keys to success, use these words of wisdom to unlock your possibilities today!

Tip! Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn

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Greg Nicholls

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Creativity Management - Measurement, Benchmarking, and Improvement

Creativity Management - Measurement, Benchmarking, and Improvement

By Kal Bishop

Tip! The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. ~ Barbara Pletcher

Contrary to common perception, creativity can be made tangible, measurable and useable. In terms of measurement, benchmarking and improvement, the first step is to decide on definitions, the second is to decide on methods of measurement and finally, to monitor each measurement for improvement.

Definitions of creativity are not elusive. In fact, the number of definitions helps the analyst better define creativity and refine its management:

a) Coming up with original ideas.

Misleading. It can be compellingly argued that all new ideas are actually evolutions of previous ideas. Implies a break from the past.

b) Recombination.

The recombination of existing elements to form something new. Thus creativity is not something completely new but relatively new. Offers a practical method. For example, Synectics - the practice of taking two elements and consciously creating new links and elements from them.

Tip! Just being aware of the incredible capabilities of our subconscious minds can help our self improvement � if we decide to pay attention to our hunches and intuition and act on them.

c) Novel and useful solutions.

Does not imply a complete break with the past and introduces the concept of applicability. Can be extrapolated to arrive at creative and critical thinking. Where creative thinking is used generate a large idea pool and critical thinking is used to reduce that pool to feasible ideas. Implies that creativity can be measured according to degrees of novelty. Someone who expands on Einstein's Theory of Relativity is not as creative as Einstein was as the ideas are not as novel.

Tip! Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn

d) Expressing unusual thought. Experiencing the world in novel ways. Effect significant changes in culture (Csikszentmihalyim, 1996).

Implies creativity has practical, expressive and cognitive elements. Closer to the common perception of "artist."

e) Producing a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of rare ideas. The most thoroughly "scientific" definition and practical on a quantitative level.

f) Creativity as problem identification and idea generation and innovation as idea selection, development and commercialisation. Provides a good distinction between creativity and innovation. Implies a number of differing competencies are involved and also implies the universality of creativity - we are creative on some level as we all solve problems.

Tip! This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything ~ Scott Reed

Other definitions, measurement and benchmarking techniques are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com. You can also receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your email address at this site.

You are free to reproduce this article as long as no changes are made and the author's name and site URL are retained.

Kal Bishop MBA, is a management consultant based in London, UK. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached on http://www.managing-creativity.com

Today .....

Copyright © Ali Brown

Achieve It Now

First and foremost, especially if you have been struggling in our industry, you need to let go. Let go of all those old habits that have kept you unsuccessful. Grab a copy of "The Secret". Watch it. Accept the principles and know you will be successful.

Today is a new day. You have no control over what happened yesterday. You do have control on what will happen from today forward.

I want to share with you something that sits above my desk. It has been there for years and will be there for years to come. It has been instrumental in keeping my focus where it needs to be.


Today I Will Delete Two Days

Today, I will delete from my diary two days: yesterday and tomorrow.

Yesterday was to learn and tomorrow will be the consequence of what I can do today.
Today I will face life with the conviction that this day will not ever return.

Today, is the last opportunity I have to live intensely, as no one can assure me that I will see tomorrow's sunrise.

Today, I will be brave enough not to let any opportunity pass me by, my only alternative is to succeed.

Today, I will invest my most valuable resource: my time, in the most transcendental work: my life; I will spend each minute passionately to make of today a different and unique day in my life.

Today, I will defy every obstacle that appears on my way trusting I will succeed.

Today, I will resist pessimism and will conquer the world with a smile, with the positive attitude of expecting always the best.

Today, I will make of every ordinary task a sublime expression.

Today, I will have my feet on the ground understanding reality and the stars? gaze to invent my future.

Today, I will take the time to be happy and will leave my footprints and my presence in the hearts of others.

Today, I invite you to begin a new season where we can dream that everything we undertake is possible and we fulfill it, with joy and dignity.

Have a good day and a better one tomorrow!

~~ Author Unknown

Zen and the Art of Internet Marketing

Copyright © Ali Brown
Achieve It Now

Yes, I know it's a corney title, and yes I know I'm dating myself, but what the heck ...

I had an interesting conversation the other day that really set my mind to wondering.

I was talking to an gentleman who was obviously experienced in our industry. He'd been around the block, so to speak and somehow I started to get a little philosophical. Any of you who know me well, know this often happens. And in all fairness to him I was probably being a LOT philosophical, when he told me our business isn't about mindset, it's about selling.

WELL with all due respect folks, that may have been true in the neighbourhood he in lives in, and the block he travelled around ... but I'm here to tell you, where I hang out, it is ALL about mindset. Hence, my latest blog.