Creating Choices

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Awareness, Excuses, Failure, Personal Development by on March 24, 2012 at 9:32 am {4 comments}

I’ve been working in the space of personal development for the last 18 years and I’ve found how simple truths actually activate learning for people. One of these wise sayings, “You have the power to Choose” is a simple yet unmistakably impactful one.

Now, I know some people feel it’s just a motherhood statement. If you’ve always been left with no choice in your life, you will find that it’s not just a motherhood statement, it contradicts your experience.

In either case, I find that it’s telling when people say that “know” it but don’t apply it, or find that it’s not true and it doesn’t apply to them!

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Putting New Skills To Work

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Personal Development by on January 26, 2011 at 1:11 am {no comments}

It’s always amazed me that there are people who waste their time, even when learning something useful in school. As you may know, I run training programs for a very wide range of audiences, starting from as young as 9 years and as “young” as 76. The difference between those who actually apply their skills versus those who are in the “in one ear and out the other” mentality are very stark. In one group, there’s a lot of slacking. They don’t really take to heart anything that is mentioned by the teacher, trainer or instructor. They use everything as an excuse not to get started. It’s the cold airconditioning. It’s the bad weather. The teacher/instructor is boring. I don’t see any need for me to learn this. Blah blah blah, and the list goes on.

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Personal Development: You And Your Partners

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Awareness, Blaming, Business, Communication, Emotional Management, Failure, Leadership, Learning, Negative Emotions, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion, Relationship by on November 16, 2010 at 8:42 pm {no comments}

In a recent training on Creating Customer Intimacy, I tabled the idea that all the communication tactics in the world would never enhance your ability to have customer intimacy. Most of us live in a world where we think we have no customers. But as long as you have to work with at least one human being in the world, that person is considered a ‘customer’. It could be a team member, your family, a boss, a friend. At the end of it all, we have to be very clear that in order for customers to want us, we need to make a special change to the way we do things.

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Personal Development Tips: Why It’s Good For Business

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Business, Marketing Ideas, Organizational Leadership, Uncategorized by on November 13, 2010 at 12:28 am {one comment}

I took a trip to Japan recently and was all the rave about the culture and the people there. I’d been asking myself why there was such a difference between Japanese culture and other parts of the world. I’ve been to Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Australia and the US.

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Principles Of Personal Transformation: The Energy Factor

Filed under Achievement Mindset, How To Stop Procrastinating by on November 12, 2010 at 9:07 pm {no comments}

Although I’m a trained MBTI administrator and have been teaching that stuff for quite a number of years already, I am still surprised by the fact that there are other dynamics.

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Principles Of Personal Transformation: Learning From Mistakes

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Awareness, Balance, Building Virtues, Combating Vices, Decision Making, Emotional Management, Life Purpose, Personal Development by on November 5, 2010 at 1:17 pm {no comments}

Recently, I added some content in my seminars regarding the difference between people who capitalize on their strengths versus those who merely work on their weaknesses. According to the Gallup Organization, in a book written by Markus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, “Now Discover Your Strengths”, it’s become apparent that working on weaknesses doesn’t necessarily reap returns. That made perfect sense. In other words, you really need to know your strengths in order to capitalize on them.

One thing began to bother me though.

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Principles Of Personal Transformation: Decisions

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Balance, Building Virtues, Decision Making, Emotional Management, Personal Development by on October 31, 2010 at 9:01 pm {no comments}

I was having a ‘collective’ conversation with my wife over the last few meal slots we had at a seminar.. We were having a discussion about making changes to some plans we had and going to a conference, but there was a dilemma. We didn’t know how to make the decision.

I guess it’s common, right? I know a lot of people who kinda make decisions on a whim, or don’t make decisions at all. And I think the trouble with many people is that they can’t make decisions.

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Principles Of Personal Transformation: Balance

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Balance, Blaming, Personal Development by on October 28, 2010 at 1:03 am {one comment}

I’ve spoken time and again that the ability to succeed comes from the individual’s ability to balance. So let’s talk about the elements of balance and why it is so important.

The Reality Of Paradox Is… The Paradox Of Reality

In my previous introduction to the Principles of Personal Transformation, we are made aware of the concept of paradox as the reality. Paradox is essentially a contradiction of truth, and is always in existence because of perceptual realities. For instance, there may be a time where you are in pursuit of a goal. The paradox of your reality could be (i) you did not realize that you already encompass that goal in your daily being and your daily living, (ii) doing things to pursue that goal cause you to move further from the goal instead.

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Personal Development: Conquering Old Habits

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Executive Coaching, Habits, My Trainings by on October 17, 2010 at 12:46 pm {no comments}

Negative patterns of habitual performance occur as a result of your learnings in the past. It’s interesting to note that in the process of arriving at success, we will always meet with obstacles and barriers. Such challenges are the things that lead us to the next level of success, provided we are able to pick out the lessons from our past.

The Reason For Old Habits

No, it’s not your fault that you have habits. They are unconscious patterns formed because you absorbed them without incisively assessing whether or not you wanted them.

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Personal Development: Taking Action

Filed under Achievement Mindset, Blaming, Executive Coaching, Negative Emotions by on October 5, 2010 at 5:24 am {no comments}

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sidney J. Harris

You could say that I enjoy my life. I love being busy, my moments alone, sharing time with my loved ones and enjoying being in those moments. There is however with a tinge of regret, that there is little that I can do for those who do not open themselves to being remolded.

Yes, I do re-programming stuff.

Mind stuff.

Get you to change and get your best life yada, yada.

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