Goals are the soul of successful life.
Yet many of us wander through life without seriously setting one. Creation of human being is a greatest miracle of our galactic times and we are destined to achieve the unthinkable. Yet thousands and millions of us keep our dreams locked up in the dream world – never to see the day light.
You have to set yourself for success. Here is how you do it:
Create Passion: You must create passion for your dreams. Get in love with your ideas. Get Angry with the status quo. Have an intense belief in yourself.
Dream Big: Let your imagination be free from the shackles of real life present or past. If you are going to dream, dream big. Let us reach out for stars. Find out what you really want and need.
Set Goals and Mini Goals: Cash your dreams by writing them down. Set milestones and create steps to achieve your dreams. Call them goals, mini-goals or tasks. Sit back and play with sequencing of the tasks and execute each step as you have planned. Identify the hurdles prior to setting tasks in motion. Ground your tasks in real life.
Reward Yourself: When you accomplish your goals, reward yourself with small treats. This will condition you for success and you will start to associate achieving goals as rewarding experience in itself.
Set Higher Goals: Do not lose sight of your eventual dreams. If you have achieved your goal, set another one that is more challenging.
You need to have a system of tracking your dreams, so you can be accountable. Get the tools that you need to excel in your life goals at www.timegoals.com.
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Nine Keys to Leadership
1. Personal Responsibility - You lead today by building teams and placing others first. It's not about you.
2. Simplify Constantly - Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.
3. Understand Breadth, Depth, and Context - It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.
4. The importance of alignment and time management - There is no real magic to being a good leader. At the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
5. Leaders are teachers - Leaders learn constantly and also have to learn how to teach. A leader's primary role is to teach. People who work with you don't have to agree with you, but they have to feel you're willing to share what you've learned.
6. Setting boundaries with freedom in the middle.The boundaries are commitment, passion, trust, and teamwork. Within those guidelines, there's plenty of freedom. But no one can cross those four boundaries.
7. Stay disciplined and detailed - Good leaders are never afraid to intervene personally on things that are important. Michael Dell can tell you how many computers were shipped from Singapore yesterday.
8. Leave a few things unsaid - I may know an answer, but I'll often let the team find its own way. Sometimes, being an active listener is much more effective than ending a meeting with me enumerating 17 actions.
9. Like people - Today, it's employment at will. Nobody's here who doesn't want to be here. So it's critical to understand people, to always be fair, and to want the best in them. And when it doesn't work, they need to know it's not personal.
2. Simplify Constantly - Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.
3. Understand Breadth, Depth, and Context - It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.
4. The importance of alignment and time management - There is no real magic to being a good leader. At the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
5. Leaders are teachers - Leaders learn constantly and also have to learn how to teach. A leader's primary role is to teach. People who work with you don't have to agree with you, but they have to feel you're willing to share what you've learned.
6. Setting boundaries with freedom in the middle.The boundaries are commitment, passion, trust, and teamwork. Within those guidelines, there's plenty of freedom. But no one can cross those four boundaries.
7. Stay disciplined and detailed - Good leaders are never afraid to intervene personally on things that are important. Michael Dell can tell you how many computers were shipped from Singapore yesterday.
8. Leave a few things unsaid - I may know an answer, but I'll often let the team find its own way. Sometimes, being an active listener is much more effective than ending a meeting with me enumerating 17 actions.
9. Like people - Today, it's employment at will. Nobody's here who doesn't want to be here. So it's critical to understand people, to always be fair, and to want the best in them. And when it doesn't work, they need to know it's not personal.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Secret Doctrine
Sixty thousand years ago Humans begin to exist on the face of this earth according to Wikipedia entry. 60,000 years of Nature’s programming is burnt into our genes. Some of our instincts have roots when our ancestors were hunters, gatherers and cave men. They were afraid of the predators who confronted them every day. Tigers, Lions and Diseases roamed the face of earth. The food chain was in place and we were at the bottom.
Fast forward 60,000 years – the food chain is still intact.
Now, at the top of food chain is Mankind. Humans have won over most diseases and ferocious beasts.
As our society has become more sophisticated, our lives have changed radically in the last 40 years. However, our instincts are lagging in the older times and they have not caught up with the changes caused by us. With the new systems and technologies, we need to train ourselves. With some guidance and conscious training, we can get there.
There is enough food in the markets so you do not have to hunt.
You can buy or rent a home and protect yourself from the extremes of weather.
The hospitals provide the care until you are healed.
All rosy picture – right. Well, mostly it is. We have made huge strides in terms of innovations and inventions. With all the good hearted people, there are few who prey and continue to find ways and means to exploit the rest of us.
Credit card companies and financial institutions charging hidden fees. Mortgage companies setting up the system against us. Media driving you to consume when you do not need to buy. Our government wasting our hard earned money and gouging taxes in hidden forms.
Who is looking out for you?
Answer: No one but yourself.
The saber tooth tiger has been replaced with the present day challenges and unlike the saber tooth tiger these things don’t kill you immediately but they surely take a stab at you – a little bit at a time.
Our ancestral instincts were honed to defend against the wild creatures. Unfortunately – we are not well equipped to face the present day challenges. We do not feel strong enough to protect our investments and income.
We need to train our instincts. We need to let go of the idea of instant gratification and replace it with the SECRET DOCTRINE.
Secret Doctrine is two pronged: Carrot and the Stick.
- You need to have a big enough Carrot to move you forward
- You need to be accountable to make sure you are making progress
We need to re-program our instincts that have roots going back million of years to be able to face the challenges of the new world.
Goals are the carrots. We need to have reasonably high value goals to create a force that pulls us forward towards our dreams.
We also need to have an accountability mechanism to keep us in check to ensure that we are on track and making progress.
We need to train ourselves to get the same feeling that you get through instant gratification by following your goals.
Once you have trained yourself, you will feel good by achieving a task that moves you towards your goal. Reducing 15 pounds to gain your ideal weight will give you more pleasure than indulging in chocolate.
We also need to have a system of tracking so we are accountable. When we make decisions based on this carrot and stick strategy, we can achieve anything.
Visit http://www.timegoals.com/ to get the tools you need to implement the secret doctrine.
Fast forward 60,000 years – the food chain is still intact.
Now, at the top of food chain is Mankind. Humans have won over most diseases and ferocious beasts.
As our society has become more sophisticated, our lives have changed radically in the last 40 years. However, our instincts are lagging in the older times and they have not caught up with the changes caused by us. With the new systems and technologies, we need to train ourselves. With some guidance and conscious training, we can get there.
There is enough food in the markets so you do not have to hunt.
You can buy or rent a home and protect yourself from the extremes of weather.
The hospitals provide the care until you are healed.
All rosy picture – right. Well, mostly it is. We have made huge strides in terms of innovations and inventions. With all the good hearted people, there are few who prey and continue to find ways and means to exploit the rest of us.
Credit card companies and financial institutions charging hidden fees. Mortgage companies setting up the system against us. Media driving you to consume when you do not need to buy. Our government wasting our hard earned money and gouging taxes in hidden forms.
Who is looking out for you?
Answer: No one but yourself.
The saber tooth tiger has been replaced with the present day challenges and unlike the saber tooth tiger these things don’t kill you immediately but they surely take a stab at you – a little bit at a time.
Our ancestral instincts were honed to defend against the wild creatures. Unfortunately – we are not well equipped to face the present day challenges. We do not feel strong enough to protect our investments and income.
We need to train our instincts. We need to let go of the idea of instant gratification and replace it with the SECRET DOCTRINE.
Secret Doctrine is two pronged: Carrot and the Stick.
- You need to have a big enough Carrot to move you forward
- You need to be accountable to make sure you are making progress
We need to re-program our instincts that have roots going back million of years to be able to face the challenges of the new world.
Goals are the carrots. We need to have reasonably high value goals to create a force that pulls us forward towards our dreams.
We also need to have an accountability mechanism to keep us in check to ensure that we are on track and making progress.
We need to train ourselves to get the same feeling that you get through instant gratification by following your goals.
Once you have trained yourself, you will feel good by achieving a task that moves you towards your goal. Reducing 15 pounds to gain your ideal weight will give you more pleasure than indulging in chocolate.
We also need to have a system of tracking so we are accountable. When we make decisions based on this carrot and stick strategy, we can achieve anything.
Visit http://www.timegoals.com/ to get the tools you need to implement the secret doctrine.
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