Sunday 29 May 2016

Take Charge of your life. Jim Rohn

Dog rose.


In this video, 
Jim Rohn explains the powerful formula of success by taking charge of your own life. He indicated that when you do the best you can, you are in the right path to success.
It is quite simple to start working on your own personal development plan but at the same time it is very easy to fall short, especially if you do not follow his advice. First, you need to set your goals, where do you want to be in the future, and then you establish your personal development
plan accordingly, finally stick to it no matter what happens. In this interview, he also shares with us some of his best ideas about how to be prepared for the challenges in this 21st century.
When you take charge of your life and establish your own Personal development plan,
you will have your best life ever..

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The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Thursday 26 May 2016

31 Inspirational Sales Coaching Tips


31 Inspirational Sales Coaching Tips
Keith Rosen

The new A.B.C.s of Leadership:
Always Be Coaching. Here are 31 tips and ideas for sales coaching or self coaching.
That’s one tip for each day of the month. Stay motivated so you can motivate others!

Tip # 1
If you find what you’re doing to be uncomfortable,
it’s probably the right thing to do to achieve greater results.
Tip # 2
What do you coach? You coach the gap. Build a bridge that takes your people from
where they are today to where they want or need to be.
Tip # 3
What you fear isn’t real.
Tip # 4
Help your salespeople direct their thoughts toward what they want to create (pleasure),
rather than what they want to avoid (fear, pain, or consequence).
Tip # 5
Rather than exploit all of the reasons why you won’t succeed,
develop the reasons why you will! 
Tip # 6
Changing your perception or beliefs empowers you to tap into the greatest freedom you have:
your freedom of choice. 

Tip # 7
Make fear your ally rather than your adversary so that you can learn and grow from it.
Then help your salespeople do the same. 

Tip # 8
The best coaching questions are ones you don’t know the answer to.
If you already know the answer, then you’re closing, not coaching. 

Tip # 9
Directive coaching is an oxymoron. If you’re being directive, then you’re not coaching people
to create a new solution or possibility. 

Tip # 10
Detach from the outcome to respond effectively to each situation
and eliminate the chance of unfulfilled expectations. 

Tip # 11
Be present. The creation of new possibilities only occurs in the moment;
not in the past or future. 

Tip # 12
Rather than make costly assumptions that can destroy coaching opportunities,
base your decisions and strategies on the facts.
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Tip # 13
You can talk yourself right out of an effective coaching opportunity.
Be cognizant of how directive you are being. 

Tip # 14
The amount of value received from coaching will be determined by the person you’re coaching,
not by you.

Tip # 15
Coaching is not an event based activity
but something that’s done in practically every conversation. 

Tip # 16
People respond in amazing ways when you give them the space and support
to work through a challenge on their own. 

Tip # 17
Remember the new A.B.C.s of leadership: Always Be Coaching! 

Tip # 18
Why is observation important? Because nobody can see his or her own blind spots. 

Tip # 19
Without trust, coaching can’t be effective. Instead,
you’ll likely feel your directs are just telling you what they think you want to hear. 

Tip # 20
Definition of Coaching: The art of creating a new possibility. 

Tip # 21
Are you coaching your salespeople or judging them? 

Tip # 22
The exaggeration of the truth leads to the dilution of one’s integrity. 

Tip # 23
People won’t always remember the product, service or deal you offered them.
But they will always remember how you made them feel. 

Tip # 24
Who you are is always more important than what you do. 

Tip # 25
Avoid coaching in your own image and tap into your people’s individuality. 

Tip # 26
Paradox: Believing you have no time to coach your team actually costs you more time. 

Tip # 27
Regardless of your company culture, your team interacts with you every day.
 In essence–you are the culture. 

Tip # 28
If you’re thinking about the next question to ask when coaching, you’re not listening!
Actively listen. 

Tip # 29
To engage in activities needed to reach your goals, if you don’t have the appointment,
you don’t have the commitment. Schedule it. 

Tip # 30
To shift from being a data manager to a people manager,
make coaching and observation your priority. 

Tip # 31
Most important question to ask yourself everyday,
“What can I do today to make my people more valuable than they were yesterday?” 


http://keithrosen.com/2013/04/31-inspirational-sales-coaching-tips/

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Monday 23 May 2016

The Truth About Multitasking: How Your Brain Processes Information


The Truth About Multitasking: How Your Brain Processes Information
Joe Robinson

It's the gospel of productivity in a maxed-out world: Multitasking helps you get more done faster. The only thing is, it doesn't, says David Meyer, a cognitive scientist at the University of Michigan--where he serves as director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory-
-and one of the country's leading experts on multitasking.
"When you perform multiple tasks; each require some of the same channels of processing, conflicts will arise between the tasks, and you're going to have to pick and choose which task
you're going to focus on and devote a channel of processing to it," he explains.
Meyer has been at the forefront of research for several decades on how the brain processes information and copes with multitasking. He has investigated the brain's speed, accuracy
and memory in information processing while working with psychologist David Kieras for the Offic
 of Naval Research. A study Meyer co-wrote on the limitations of multitasking
("Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching") went viral in 2001,
setting off the first awareness of the counter productivity of simultaneous activities.
Meyer's work has helped demonstrate that humans have distinct bandwidth challenges,
which can make multitasking problematic. It turns out the brain's ability to process information
is limited in a variety of ways -- from processing channels to limits on data volume,
velocity and working memory -- that confound true, simultaneous task actions.
Counter to common belief, you can't do two cognitively complicated tasks at once, Meyer says. When you're on the phone and writing an e-mail at the same time, you're actually switching back and forth between them, since there's only one mental and neural channel through
which language flows. "If you have a complicated task, it requires all your attention,
and if you're trying to spread your attention over multiple tasks, it's not going to work," he says.
That's heresy in a time-urgent world with the attention span of a macaque on crack.
Meyer admits that multitasking is not only getting more prevalent, but it's also "very often highly inefficient and can be dangerous to your health." Even the most adept multitasker will
"crash and burn" trying to resolve simultaneous conflicting demands, Meyer says.
That means you could wind up sending the wrong e-mail; blow an account; have a "brownout,"
in which too much access to the cerebral grid shuts down critical thinking; or worse,
find yourself in a truly hazardous situation, such as driving while using a cell phone.
"When you're driving, you have to use the language channel to talk, read signs, plan your next move. If you're trying to have a cell phone conversation while you're doing that,
either the phone conversation will suffer or the driving," Meyer says.
He points to the growing number of auto accidents caused by businesspeople sending work texts from behind the wheel. The conflicts triggered by incessant multitasking can set off chronic stress and slow you down, shredding productivity. In fact, trying to complete two or more tasks at once
can take 50 percent more time or longer, depending on the complexity of the tasks, Meyer says.
The good news is that there is hope for the attention-span-challenged, in the form of self-regulation through better time management and scheduling. "If you're disciplined enough, you can map out
the usage of your time in a way that minimizes your exposure to interruptions," Meyer explains.
Entrepreneurs are some of the most compulsive multitaskers--"macho master multitaskers,"
as Meyer puts it -- but he says you'd be wise to cool the scatterbrain jets and focus.
"If you want to be a creative entrepreneur, you ought to be setting aside large chunks of time
where you just think," he says. "Einstein was not multitasking when he was dreaming up
the special and general theories of relativity."

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224943


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The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Friday 20 May 2016

468 Public Speaking fear isn't really about speaking publicly!



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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Mind Tools Thought Awareness, Rational Thinking, and Positive Thinking


Mind Tools Thought Awareness, Rational Thinking, and Positive Thinking

Quite often, the way we feel about a situation comes from our perception of it.
Often that perception is right, but sometimes it isn't.
For instance, sometimes we're unreasonably harsh with ourselves, 
or we can jump to wrong conclusion about people's motives. 
This can cause problems and make us unhappy, and it can lead us to be unfair to others.
Thought Awareness, Rational Thinking, 
and Positive Thinking are simple tools that help you turn this around.

Introduction
A commonly accepted definition of stress, developed by Richard S. Lazarus, 
is that it occurs when someone thinks that the demands on them 
"exceed the personal and social resources that the individual is able to mobilize."
In becoming stressed, people must make two main judgments:
First, they must feel threatened by the situation.
They must judge whether their capabilities and resources are sufficient to meet the threat.
How stressed someone feels depends on how much damage they think the situation 
can cause them, and how far their resources meet the demands of the situation.
Perception is key to this as (technically) situations are not stressful in their own right. 
Rather it's our interpretation of the situation that drives the level of stress that we feel. 
Quite obviously, sometimes we are right in what we say to ourselves. 
Some situations may actually be dangerous, and may threaten us physically, socially, 
or in our career. Here, stress and emotion are part of the "early warning system" 
that alerts us to the threat from these situations.
Very often, however, we are overly harsh and unjust to ourselves, 
in a way that we would never be with friends or team members. 
This, along with other negative thinking, can cause intense stress and unhappiness, 
and can severely undermine our self-confidence.

Using the Tools
Thought Awareness
You're thinking negatively when you fear the future, put yourself down, criticize yourself 
for errors, doubt your abilities, or expect failure. Negative thinking damages your confidence, 
harms your performance, and paralyzes your mental skills.
A major problem with this is that negative thoughts tend to flit into our consciousness, 
do their damage and flit back out again, with their significance having barely been noticed. 
Since we do not challenge them, they can be completely incorrect and wrong. 
However, this does not diminish their harmful effect.
Thought Awareness is the process by which you observe your thoughts 
and become aware of what is going through your head.
One way to become more aware of your thoughts is to observe your stream of consciousness 
as you think about a stressful situation. Do not suppress any thoughts: instead, just let them run their course while you watch them, and write them down on our free worksheet as they occur.
Another more general approach to Thought Awareness comes with logging stress
in a Stress Diary  . One of the benefits of using a Stress Diary is that, for one or two weeks, 
you log all of the unpleasant things in your life that cause you stress. 
This will include negative thoughts and anxieties, and can also include difficult 
or unpleasant memories and situations that you perceive as negative.
By logging your negative thoughts for a reasonable period of time, you can quickly see patterns in your negative thinking. When you analyze your diary at the end of the period, 
you should be able to see the most common and most damaging thoughts. 
Tackle these as a priority.
Thought awareness is the first step in the process of managing negative thoughts, 
as you can only manage thoughts that you're aware of.

Rational Thinking
The next step in dealing with negative thinking is to challenge the negative thoughts 
that you identified using the Thought Awareness technique. 
Look at every thought you wrote down and rationally challenge it. 
Ask yourself whether the thought is reasonable, and does it stand up to fair scrutiny?
As an example, by analyzing your Stress Diary you might identify that you have frequently 
had the following negative thoughts:

Feelings of inadequacy.
Worries that your performance in your job will not be good enough.
An anxiety that things outside your control will undermine your efforts.
Worries about other people's reactions to your work.
Starting with these, you might challenge these negative thoughts in the ways shown:
Feelings of inadequacy: Have you trained and educated yourself as well as you reasonably should to do the job? Do you have the experience and resources you need to do it? 
Have you planned, prepared and rehearsed appropriately? 
If you've done all of this, then you've done everything that you should sensible do. 
If you're still worried, are you setting yourself unattainably high standards for doing the job?

Worries about performance:
Do you have the training that a reasonable person would think is needed to do a good job? 
Have you planned appropriately? 
Do you have the information and resources that you need
Have you cleared the time you need, and cued up your support team appropriately? 
Have you prepared thoroughly? If you haven't, then you need to do these things quickly. 
If you have, then you are well positioned to give the best performance that you can.

Problems with issues outside your control: 
Have you conducted appropriate contingency planning? 
Have you thought through and managed all likely risks and contingencies appropriately? 
If so, you will be well prepared to handle potential problems.
Worry about other people's reactions: If you have put in good preparation, and you do the best you can, then that is all that you need to know. If you perform as well as you reasonably can,
and you stay focused on the needs of your audience, then fair people are likely to respond well. 
If people are not fair, then this is something outside your control.

Tip:
Don't make the mistake of generalizing a single incident. 
OK, you made a mistake at work, but that doesn't mean that you're bad at your job.
Similarly, make sure you take the long view about incidents that you're finding stressful. 
Just because you're finding new responsibilities stressful now, 
doesn't mean that they will always be stressful in the future.
Often, the best thing to do is to rise above unfair comments. Write your rational response 
to each negative thought in the Rational Thought column on the worksheet.

Tip:
If you find it difficult to look at your negative thoughts objectively, imagine that you are your best friend or a respected coach or mentor. Look at the list of negative thoughts. 
Imagine that they were written down by someone you were giving objective advice to,
 and think about how you'd challenge these thoughts.
When you challenge negative thoughts rationally, you should be able to see quickly 
whether the thoughts are wrong, or whether they have some substance to them. 
Where there is some substance, take appropriate action. 
In these cases, negative thinking has given you an early warning of action that you need to take.

Positive Thinking and Opportunity Seeking
Where you have used Rational Thinking to challenge incorrect negative thinking, 
it's often useful to use rational, positive thoughts and affirmations to counter them. 
It's also useful to look at the situation 
and see if there are any opportunities that are offered by it.
Affirmations   help you to build self-confidence. By basing your affirmations on the clear, 
rational assessments of facts that you made using Rational Thinking, 
you can undo the damage that negative thinking may have done to your self-confidence.

Tip:
Your affirmations will be strongest if they are specific, are expressed in the present tense, 
and have strong emotional content.
Continuing the examples above, positive affirmations might be:
Feelings of inadequacy: "I am well trained for this. I have the experience, the tools, 
and the resources that I need. I have thought-through and prepared for all possible issues. 
I can do a really good job."
Worries about performance: "I have researched and planned well for this, 
and I thoroughly understand the problem. 
I have the time, resources and help that I need. I am well prepared to do an excellent job."
Problems with issues outside your control: "We have thought about everything that might reasonably happen, and have planned how we can handle all likely contingencies. 
Everyone is ready to help where necessary. 
We are very well placed to react flexibly and effectively to unusual events."
Worry about other people's reaction: "I am well-prepared and am doing the best I can. 
air people will respect this. I will rise above any unfair criticism in a mature and professional way."
If appropriate, write these affirmations down on your worksheet
so that you can use them when you need them.
As well as allowing you to structure useful affirmations, part of Positive Thinking is to look at opportunities that the situation might offer to you. In the examples above, successfully overcoming these situations will open up opportunities. You'll gain new skills, you'll be seen as someone 
who can handle difficult challenges, and you may open up new career opportunities.
Make sure that you take the time to identify these opportunities and focus on them as part o
f your positive thoughts.

Tip:
In the past people have advocated thinking positively almost recklessly, 
as if it is a solution to everything. The approach should be used with common sense, though. 
First, decide rationally what goals you can realistically attain with hard work, 
and then use positive thinking to reinforce these.
Key Points
This set of tools helps you to manage and counter the stress of negative thinking.
Thought Awareness helps you identify the negative thinking, unpleasant memories, 
and misinterpretation of situations that may interfere with your performance 
and damage your self-confidence. This allows you to deal with them.
Rational Thinking helps you to challenge these negative thoughts and either learn from them, 
or refute them as incorrect.
You can then use Positive Thinking to create positive affirmations that you can use to counter negative thoughts. These affirmations neutralize negative thoughts and build your self-confidence. You can also use this approach to find the opportunities that are almost always present, 
to some degree, in a difficult situation.

Warning: Stress can cause severe health problems and, in extreme cases, can cause death. 
While these stress management techniques have been shown to have a positive effect on reducing stress, they are for guidance only, and readers should take the advice of suitably qualified health professionals if they have any concerns over stress-related illnesses or if stress is causing significant or persistent unhappiness. 
Health professionals should also be consulted before any major change in diet or levels of exercise.
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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

A New Business Model

A beautiful corn flower.



You can TCR music, poetry or self development material for internal knowing.
I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
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How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Sunday 15 May 2016

True Value - How To Create Success Out Of Nowhere




You can TCR specialist and language dictionaries that are spontaneously accessed.
I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
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Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

10 Strategies for Working Much Smarter

This pansy seeded from those on top of a barge on the Leeds and Liverpool canal at Gargrave.

10 Strategies for Working Much Smarter
Thai Nguyen

Whether you’re in Australia, England, or America; blue-collared, white, or pink,
we’ve all got 24-hours to work with. Success comes down to what we’re able to do in those hours. No entrepreneur can keep the sun from setting or add hours to their day,
but there are strategies that will help maximize work habits and productivity. 
Here are 10 strategies for efficiency and effectiveness:

1. Parkinson’s Law
"If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do, "observed Cyril Northcote Parkinson. We’ve all experienced Parkinson's Law. We struggle for a month to finish a project,
then magically get it done in the final week. Or, the house is a mess for weeks,
then spotless within a few hours of the in-laws showing up.
The law provides great leverage for efficiency: imposing shorter deadlines for a task,
or scheduling an earlier meeting. Find the sweet spot for productive hustle.
Rushed work can be a recipe for reckless work.

2. Finding your flow
For athletes, it’s called being “in the zone,” where you’re so focused that you're numbed out
to any distractions. It’s a state we can all tap into: writers, musicians, and entrepreneurs. 
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi's research is focused on these flow states that optimize our performance
by finding that balance between challenge and skill. If the task is too challenging and beyond our skill, then we go into anxiety and frustration, but not challenging enough and we fall into boredom.
Stretch yourself, but don't snap. We're at our most efficient when in the zone.

3. Single-tasking
There’s many compelling cases against multi-tasking. 
A study found that even folks walking while talking on a cell phone run into people more often
and were so distracted, many failed to notice a clown riding a unicycle.
Telling an entrepreneur not to multi-task, however, is like telling a pig to stay out of mud
but the truth is, multi-tasking a misnomer better termed “task-switching.” We don't juggle so much as we jump around. The problem is ending up with too many open projects, and spreading yourself too thin. A good quote on scaling back is by Alexander Graham Bell: “Concentrate
all your thoughts upon the work at hand, the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

4. The 2-Minute Rule
From David Allen’s Getting Things Done, he explains that the most productive people capitalize
on the little windows of time opening up during the day. Having an inventory of two-minute tasks
on hand whenever windows appear will increase productivity. Cleaning out the inbox,
checking voicemail, approving a request, all in brief openings in the schedule,
builds our efficiency muscles and gets the ball rolling for bigger tasks. 
A major cause of procrastination lies in over-thinking the next step. 
Allen says it takes less time to do the action than the time spent thinking about it. 

5. Working to circadian rhythms 
Nerve cells in our brains control our circadian rhythms, which influences sleep-wake cycles,
hormone release, emotions and energy levels.
Constant operation outside circadian rhythms (e.g. international pilots) creates fatigue.
Efficiency lies in synchronizing specific work with these biological peak times. 
Dr. Steve Kay says analytical work is best within a couple hours of waking,
when the morning rise in body temperature increases blood flow to the brain. 
Alertness slumps after lunch as the digestive process saps energy. This analytical disengagement
is the best time for novel and creative thinking, according to Professor Mareike Wieth.
Exercise increases efficiency. Dr Gerard Kennedy notes more Olympic records are broken
in the late afternoon than any other time. Muscle strength, lung capacity,
eye-hand coordination and joint flexibility peaks between 4pm and 6pm.
Three sweet spots for maximizing your efforts: the morning analytic spike,
a creative spike after lunch, and a physical spike in the afternoon.

6. Reverse engineering
Most commonly applied to industrial machinery and computer software, 
reverse engineering can be applied to different fields, products, and strategies. 
It is disassembling and analyzing the components that make up the whole. Efficiency comes 
not only with seeing how parts relate, but being able to work on aspects out of order. 
Tim Ferriss notes his rapid mastering of the tango through deconstructing the dance,
and learning the female role along with the male. 
Expert linguists do the same, breaking a language into pieces and having a bird's-eye view
of the most common grammatical structures. 

7. The Willpower trinity
Stanford Professor Kelly McGonigal says the key to hitting goals is understanding the three powers of willpower: I will power, I won’t power, and I want power.
• I "won’t power'' is resisting temptation, such as saying “no” to social media.
• I "will power'' is to choose an alternate behavior -- sending a social, but networking email.
• I "want power'' is remembering your why, your goal, be it expanding your career,
   business or profits.
Willpower is like a muscle. When we fail to reach goals, it’s due to solely relying on I won’t power, but  we can only say “no” so many times before we crumble. However, bringing in backup,
and using all three aspects of willpower, will triple the likelihood of success. 
Resist, replace, remember.
8. 57 on, 17 off
The entrepreneurial hustle makes breaks non-existent. Recent studies show only one-in-five employees take lunch breaks, despite clear cognitive benefits for our fatigued brains. 
So what’s the perfect work/rest ratio? DeskTime App played Big Brother, monitoring employees’ computer use. They found the most productive 10 percent worked hard for 52 minutes,
then took a break for 17. It’s backed by scientists, pointing to the natural rhythms of our attention span. Our brain can focus for up to 90 minutes, then needs roughly 20 minutes of rest.
Strategic breaks equals efficient work.

9. Power poses
If it weren’t true, it’d be preposterous to think simply changing your posture affects productivity. Professor Amy Cuddy’s Ted Talk highlights the psychosomatic and neurological responses caused by our posture. Taking a high-power pose causes an increase in testosterone (confidence, assertiveness, energy) and a decrease in cortisol (stress, anxiety, nervousness). A confident, testosterone-perked person is much more productive than a cortisol-crippled, stressed person. 
Our brain is wired to respond to certain physiologies.
A forced smile will still release endorphins. 
Pulling yourself out of a figurative slump is as simple as pulling yourself out of a physical slump.

10. Validated progress
A good warning from Eric Ries: “If we’re building the wrong product really efficiently,
it’s like we’re driving our car off a cliff and bragging about our awesome gas mileage.” 
Along the same stream of the Sharpe ratio’s risk/return measures in finance, and the “minimum viable product” in the tech world, the strategy is about being calculated and conscious in our efforts, with a flexible, rather than fixed process and goal.
It’s being productive and ready to pivot, rather than simply charging full-steam ahead.
A case-in-point is Nick Swinmurn's startup of Zappos. He validated his idea without blowing cash
by first going to a shoe store, taking photos and posting them online.
When sales came in, he went and bought the shoes. He didn't need to pivot, just perservere.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239216

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