The Impossible Me - By Andre Barnett

It is at your highest pinnacle of the impossible, the possibility of overcoming the possible is conquered. We see through a mirror which is unknown, but then it is known to us what is behind the mirror. What is behind the mirror is the impossible. I believe that once we conquer the impossible, then we can achieve unlimited success. Success is like working out. To be healthy you have to exercise more and eat healthy food. To be successful you have to exercise more in the things you have passion for and seek mentors, teachers, or friends that are aligned in what you what to accomplish. A lot of people, including myself thinks that successful will happen at a certain age in life. Meaning, when I hit 35 all of a sudden, chances and opportunities will come my way and I will become successful. A lot of people has different meaning of what success really is. I came to an conclusion that success is a mixture of passion, chance, change and opportunity.

A million dollars is just one person away, I heard a pastor preach that Saturday morning around 4:30 am. Driving into work I have seen expensive cars that cost more than $100,000 driving next to cars that cost less than $25,000. What is the significant of this parable? Riches and wealth approaches everyone. The factor of this matter is that some people cannot tell if this is an opportunity or just a feeling of hope. Within hope there is faith, and faith is a believe system that conquers fear and doubt. It is strange to me to see people wanting less, when they are qualified to get more. Very creative people are very intelligent people. Some of you might agree with me some of you might not. That was just my opinion. The true of the matter is money do not answer all of our desires or fantasies. Oh! I meant money is not the answer to everlasting joy. Back to the expensive cars and the inexpensive cars philosophy; same road but different cars. Highways' rules and regulations applies to all drivers, but different drivers. Different drivers has different driving skills. What are you trying to say? We all were born to be successful, it is the same motivation or persistent that millionaires have that can be applied to anyone geared to success., the tricky part is what motivate us and are we persistent enough to say, i will not give up.

Slow motion and instant motion separates successful and unsuccessful results. What? I'm confused. You may ask yourself that, right? Change and opportunities are instant motion. Choices and passion are slow motion. New R&B artist getting a contract deal which in return change his/her lifestyle because of the opportunity presented to them; instant motion. Choices of songs to be release, radio stations playing songs that becomes a hit, managers to manage new artist, picking an agent are some of the choices that artist make; slow motion. If you make a bad choice, it slows down or alter your goals. Good choices speeds up your admiration towards your goals but require steps which is consider slow motion.

The last two minutes of your workout, is where you muscles are being develop. The beginning of your workout is to prep you towards the end. You are building momentum, towards the impossible. When you are in the impossible, you have no rivals or enemies. You are the King of your own palace, you are the pinnacle of what was unknown and now is known. You are not a subject, but an object of glory, an object of a rare diamond that are different from the rest of the other diamonds. The beginning of your goals is to prep you towards your end results which is success. It is not until you conquer the impossible, possibility to accomplish anything you set your mind to become possible. It is at the very last moment when you say to yourself that I cannot do this or I cannot do that, lies the impossible. Giving up is possible, not giving up and doing your very best is the impossible.

How to Efficiently Manage the Time By Larry Macdonald

Today, in the corporate world, the term 'time management' is used quite often. With the increasing demands in the market, efficient management of time becomes important to accomplish a task or goal in the allotted time with absolutely no error. Most of you have employed various strategies or techniques to succeed in managing time. Remember one thing! Unless and until you don't commit to change, you cannot yield the expected results. Also, time management is about you controlling the environment and not the other way round.

Your time management doesn't stop with planning, proper execution and monitoring should also be done. There might be a circumstance arise, where you have to coordinate with other departments. In such cases, you can be confident if you are good at time management. When a task or a project is assigned to you, break it into small, achievable goals. Set a deadline for each goal and come up with an efficient action plan to achieve it. If a task was not completed within the set time, analyze which is the hindering factor, whether it is the resource, skill, or external factors.

Organizing your work would prove to be beneficial in time management. For this, maintain a to-do-list (task list), categorize the work based on priorities, daily, weekly, and monthly. If you plan to perform a task at a specific time, stick to it. You can maintain the task list in a piece of paper, a notepad, or in your PDA, it is simply as per your convenience. Web-based task list applications are also available for this purpose. Strike out or check it off once you have completed the listed task.

Delegation is other important strategy in time management. It is true that you singlehandedly cannot accomplish a task or project. You would surely have people to work with, and it is better to delegate some of the work to your team members. Now, you can focus on the chore works, rather than spending time on works of least importance. The person who receives the work is also benefited, as he/she can be equipped to move up in the ladder. Even, you get an opportunity to move up, when your sub-ordinate can take up your job.

If you are addicted to email, try changing your approach. If you have set automatic alert on receiving messages, then its time to deactivate it. This is because, mail checking could consume much of your work hours and delay your work. You can decide when to check mails, say once you log in, before or after lunch, and an hour before you leave for the day.

It would be wise if to attend a formal time management training program. There are organizations that conduct real-time workshops on time management for different industrial sectors. You can approach them to have a training session to learn how to be more productive, beat stress, and enjoy the work.

Procrastination - The Improper Management of Time By Stephen Zaba

There is the time spent that creates abundance and prosperity, the time spent that you cherish and lingers long in the memory and then there is procrastination, the improper management of time. I am sure there is no doubt in your mind that you would rather spend your time doing the first two and definitely disregard the third.

The unfortunate thing is though we do not mean to procrastinate our time away, we either do not recognize that we are doing it and basically just cannot help ourselves. Have you ever had something either urgent or important to accomplish? It probably is something that takes you out of your comfort zone and would rather leave it for another day or you might even wish it would go away completely. To be perfectly honest, you know it won't. I bet you end up doing something totally unproductive and not even necessary.

You have guessed it! This is procrastination with a capital P. Commonly known as the improper management of time or the enemy of success. It is vital that you face things head on, no matter how uncomfortable they may seem. It will create a discipline that so many fail to realize and by doing so, you will not only be facing up to your own fears, but meeting procrastination head on.

There is nothing really to fear, it is just facing up to the fact that this improper management of time is taking you nowhere fast. The first thing to do is look at the things you are doing each and every day and recognize if your time cannot be better spent. It might not be obvious at first to you that procrastination is a big part of your life. If you like, write down the events and activities of your day. Analyze them and decide which and what might be better being removed from your life completely.

Are there things in your life that you want to change or even achieve? What do you need to do to accomplish these? Well I am sure you realize that a proper time management plan is in order and one that prioritizes saving time, not wasting it. This is probably the most important life skill in changing old habits and ultimate achievement.

There is an abundance of information on procrastination and good time management. The beauty is a lot of it is of no cost to you and you will never stop learning, as there is always new developments and techniques being introduced.

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MORTALITY-MOTIVATION TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

Do you know what mortality means? Do you realize at all that you have limited time to live? These questions came to me from my father-now of blessed memory- during my idle years. Now, twenty years after, I look back and thank God that my father had asked me those questions at that time. Reason? They have influenced my decision to change my ways and become who I am today.

Before those thought-provoking, life-changing questions came, life to me was just life. What it really meant, I didn't care. I lived everyday without a purpose. No direction. I couldn't have cared anyway because I had my family to take care of all my needs. Life was meant to be enjoyed. And that I was just going to do and do to the fullest. So, hearing people talk about setting goals and achieving them made me nothing but sick.

Mortality wasn't all totally a strange word to me. But the thought of it was dreadful. "Man ought to just break down in despair at the realization that he would have to die someday". But shouldn't the fact of mortality rather motivate him to achieve his goals? Yes, it should. The fact that a man has limited time to live doesn't mean he should stop living while still alive. Or why did he come into the world in the first place?

We are all in the world for different assignments. These assignments are our purposes and they form the essence of our existence. We are in the world to live our purposes. And no purposes can be achieved without goals because goals are the road maps that guide us as we take life on. The fact of mortality - man's ability to die- should therefore spur him into setting goals and charge after them in a dogged manner, till they are achieved.

No man exists without having dreams. We all have different things we aspire to attain, so that our lives will not just be in vain. My father's questions brought me back to my senses, making me sit down and ask myself what exactly I wanted to do with my life. What do I want to achieve in the limited time that I have to live? A lot, to my surprise! I discovered , all of a sudden that, for years, lurking somewhere deep in my heart has been a dream to excel in life. But if this dream was to come true, I knew I had a lot of grounds to cover, for all those wasted years. So, setting my goals and pursuing them with vigor not only became important but also very urgent. I had to start doing immediately many things that I had left undone over the years. This was a decision I took twenty years ago. And now that I have completed my University education, gained some years of working experience, got married and so on, I am considering quitting my job to start my own dream business.

Achieving one's goals starts with a decision - a decision to a meaning of one's life. This requires a clarification of one's dreams. And once such dreams are determined, goals should be set and followed to the letter, regardless of whatever distractions. Mortality and the fact that one has limited time to live should always be seen as a source of motivation to achieve one's set goals.

BY Olayinka Adebayo, CEO Successscript Ltd (www.successscript.blogspot.com)

HOW TO AVOID BEING RETRENCHED

Retaining a job is gradually becoming a big deal, especially in this era of stiff competition, occasioned by the high rate of unemployment.Many able-bodied men and women are unemployed, while those that are count themselves lucky to be. This situation makes job retention a great concern to the few lucky paid employees.

Business owners, on their own part, will not compromise standards, when it comes to their staff. They need only well-qualified, well-trained, competent, and hardworking staff. This, in turn, puts much pressure on them to lay off any staff that performs below standard, as there are thousands in waiting for the post thus left vacant.

Now what must a paid employee do to retain his job? He must be ready to update himself all the time, most especially, academically. As stated above, there is stiff competition these days in the labor market and one of the things one can do to maintain one's relevance is updating one's self. For instance, the Bachelor's degree you had some years ago, which fetched you your job, may not be too relevant now. Your boss may prefer somebody with a Master's degree now to you. It's advisable to find time to run a part-time Master's degree program, even though you are not being threatened yet with retrenchment. You have to be proactive and not reactive.

Your schedule of duties at your establishment may not be that tasking due to its size. But that doesn't mean that you should rest on your oars saying, "I know my job, I do it well, and my boss ain't complaining". You may need to get some experience from people elsewhere. For instance, as an accountant used to only profit and loss balancing in your establishment, you need to to tap from the experiences of professional colleagues in other bigger establishments, who do more technical and more brain-tasking stuffs. Being proactive is the word. Don't wait till when someone comes to take your place because you couldn't fit in when your company got bigger.

Now, adequate attention should be given to your personal qualities or traits. Over the years you have been working, you must have discovered your strengths and your weaknesses. If your weaknesses overshadow your strengths, you may lose your job! What are your weaknesses? Perhaps they are forgetfulness, nonchalance, lateness to work and to meetings, moodiness at work, and so on. Get rid of them. Simple. Your boss will prefer an employee who possess exact opposite of these qualities. That you have even stayed this long on the job is because he hasn't seen a replacement for you. Once he does, you are gone!

You should show your self-confidence and your self-esteem. Let it be evident that you are an honorable man - a man who is capable, competent, and honest. Let this show in your relationship with management, colleagues, and clients. Appear and carry yourself with dignity and not with arrogance. Just stand out as excellent.

The simple secret to avoiding being retrenched in this era of job losses and high unemployment is to be the kind of dependable hand your employer wants to always do his job. Endeavor to meet his expectations and your job will be as secured as the breaking of the day or, at least, till when you decide to quit and move on.

HOW TO AVOID SUCCESS INHIBITORS

Life is a journey towards actualizing a goal. The situations we find ourselves in are just stages in the journey. For every journey, there's a set departure time and an arrival time. You, taking the journey, set your schedule with high hopes and expect that things will just go accordingly. But as soon as the journey starts you begin to experience unanticipated events, some of which threaten to make you want to turn back. I call these "SUCCESS INHIBITORS".

The various types of Success Inhibitors being experienced by different people can be traced to a number of sources. People around you could be your primary source, when they let you down, cheat you, betray you, and fall short of your expectations. You can imagine what betrayal of trust from someone you had relied on so much (family or friend) could do to your morale.

Many people have turned back on their journey towards business success as a result of these success inhibitors. The slow pace of business growth, to some people, is enough reason for them to contemplate quitting the business. Perhaps it is difficult to get clients to patronize your products. You may even have them pricing lower, thereby taking you longer to exhaust your stock.

Poor finances is also a very serious success inhibitor. You have a lot of lofty ideas for business but no money to execute them. Yet you hear people say all sorts of things like making money by just thinking positively and visualizing yourself as wealthy! But how true is that? The reality is that making money is both easy and hard, depending on the individual. But for sure, making money is not as easy as losing it.

The most dangerous of these sources is YOU! Your refusal to take a step when and where necessary could be your greatest success inhibitor! You have talents in you that are only waiting to be tapped. There are skills you have to learn and master. There are some knowledge you need to acquire to succeed in that particular field of endeavor. But when you do nothing about all these, you become your very own enemy.

Now, having known the possible sources of your success inhibitors, you need to be up and doing to surmount them. If you can't climb a mountain, at least, you can carve your way round it and move on. Never allow lack of finances to kill your dream and make you refuse to start the business at all. Give no room for discouragement from people who turn you down when you need them the most. Work on yourself and do all that's required of you to succeed. You can blame the whole world for you falling down, but you have only yourself to blame for refusing to get back up.