Reach High

Quality-Skill Matrix

2009-06-15T07:06:00.000-07:00

A Skills Matrix is one of the most simple, but highly effective, tools available to assess training needs. It is easily reviewed and updated, and presents the skills of team members in a single chart.

A Skills Matrix will help you to: • Review the skills and competences required for roles within the team • Assess training needs • Identify gaps in skills within the team • Build commitment to the development of new skills. Steps in preparing a Skills Matrix: 1.Identify the job roles in your team List your team members in the left-hand column of the blank Performa. Identify up to 8 key tasks or roles that your team must fulfill to be effective and achieve its goals. It may help to use the following tips: • What are the main things that individuals in the team have to be able to do?” • Refer to Job Descriptions for the team. • Use KRA to help compile the key skills required to operate in a wide range of business areas. • Consider new tasks and skills that may be required of your team in the near future. • If it becomes too complicated, break the job roles down into some key areas, and create a Skills Matrix for each. 2. Coding and standards of performance -Another option is to rate the skill level of the individuals with a coding system: -Can complete the task -Can complete the task to the required standard. -Complete the task to the required standard, in the required amount of time. -Could do all of the above and train others. 3. Assess the requirement for on-the-job training -You are now in a position to see what requirements you have for new skills to achieve your team objectives. -You can update training as it is completed by each individual and keep track of progress. -The maximum number of people required to be able to complete a skill may vary, and will affect your requirement for on-the-job training. Point to be remembered -To avoid any unnecessary duplication of skills ,use column to show the maximum number of people requiring this skill. -Review this number with your team regularly, and according to changing circumstances. -To update the Skills Matrix regularly. This is a dynamic document that may change due to changes in priority, personnel, time of year. -To incorporate a review of the matrix into monthly team meetings. -To gain commitment to training and development by keeping the team involved in updating the matrix and assessing needs.

One liners - Definitions

2009-04-22T06:27:00.000-07:00

1. Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.**********2. Love Affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a 5 day test match.**********3. Marriage: It's an agreement in which the man loses his bachelor's degree and the woman gains her master's.********** 4. Divorce: Future tense of marriage. **********5. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through "the minds of either".**********6. Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.**********7. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in? such a way that everybody believes, she got the biggest piece.**********8. Tears: The hydraulic force by which the masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power.**********9. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage and success before work.**********10. Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everyone disagrees later on.**********11. Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.**********12. Classic: A book which people praise but do not read.**********13. Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.**********14. Office: A place where you can relax from the strenuous home life.**********15. Yawn: The only time some married men get to open their mouth.**********16. Etc. : A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.**********17. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.**********18. Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.**********19. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions. **********

Carnatic Music Lovers

2009-04-12T22:13:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends, www.sangeethapriya.org This is the very useful site which is actually a feast to the Carnatic Lovers. they have uploaded the songs artistewise which is very user friendly. Enjoy...Yaam Petra Inbam ivayyyagam peruga...

Overdue tech

2007-10-16T01:22:00.000-07:00

After years of waiting for these promising technologies, we think they're still far from mainstream. WiMax: Back in 2003, WiMax was heralded as the ultimate solution to the world's connectivity problems, capable of covering an entire city with ubiquitous broadband. WiMax today, however, is little more than an IT backbone for long-distance line-of-sight wide-area networks, largely because it's not very effective for the kinds of mobile devices that most people use for wireless Internet service. The basic technology of WiMax may yet evolve as part of future 4G cellular networks, but that's still a long way off. IPTV: Oh, how we've hungered for the video nirvana that IPTV has been promising. But while Verizon's FiOS TV and AT&T's U-Verse are finally rolling out, they've yet to produce the amazing lineup of HD channels, on-demand shows, integrated gaming, and digital voice calling the companies claimed would come, and they're still anything but ubiquitous. Meanwhile, digital cable has evolved enough to take some of the wind out of IPTV's sails. RFID: If early predictions were to be believed, today you would be walking through the grocery store filling up your cart as tiny radio frequency identification (RFID) tags announced the contents of the cart and an RFID-enabled credit card automatically paid the bill. Ummm, nope. The biggest holdup has come from the very companies attempting to roll out the technology, with industry infighting over standardization keeping RFID on the shelf. Virtual reality: Second Life boasts a 3D space in which users can buy and sell property, create objects, and socialize, but its relatively crude graphics still feel more virtual than real. Virtual reality as folks imagined it in the 1990s isn't likely to emerge until someone invents a wearable display that people will actually wear. At least we have "World of Warcraft".

Knowing Where to Tap...

2006-11-06T05:04:00.000-08:00

Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He nspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars. "What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!" So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill." The man sent a bill that read: Tapping with a hammer ........................ $ 2.00 Knowing where to tap ............................ $ 9998.00 Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.

Mentors

2006-05-05T03:51:00.000-07:00

Did you know that most Mentors have Mentors themselves, as they know that however good they are they could still do better?
"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you"- bob Proctor
Tony Robbins says that most people just drift through life as though they were floating down a river in a barrel, happy when the river current is gentle, helpless when they hit the rapids. You have to make sure you are directing the movie of your own life, you have to forward plan, develop strategies, get those LONG-TERM things done, not just firefight daily problems. It's tough to give priority to long-term projects eg studying for an exam which is a year away, paying for a pension which is 30 years away, progressing your dream project which is forever bobbing away on your horizon.
How can you counter this:- 1) Create a written Business (Time) Plan for your Project 2) Plan what daily or weekly time you will allocate 3) Put a checklist on your wall to ensure you complete these tasks 4) Detail the mini-rewards you will promise yourself when you complete an item 5) Find a colleague/friend (not easy) or hire a mentor who will hold you accountable
Mentors sometimes known as life coaches help you to rationalise your project(s), help you to decide a plan and a timetable then gently hold you accountable. Good mentors guide you without you ever being aware of it, however in fact mentoring mainly works because you make sure you reach your targets because it is embarrassing to say you've made no progress. There is also peer-mentoring where two Success Seekers mentor each other, the great of advantage of this is that it's free, disadvantage they likely have little experience, the real problem is finding one!
Make a list of all your long-term projects Consider which of the steps above you could complete now Think about whether Mentoring/Peer Mentoring would be useful to you

Give Money Away

2006-05-05T03:49:00.000-07:00

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Helen Keller
Many of the ideas you will find in the Great Success Classics will seem strange or even odd when you first meet them. Here's one of those principles if you want to succeed you have to GIVE AWAY MONEY. That's a tough one to swallow, the way it appears to work is that you attract good Karma. Now the more cynical might be more interested to know that eBay (learnt at eBay University) can prove from their statistics that eBayers who offered items for sale with a percentage donated to charity had a very significant boost to the sales of their other items. What you will also notice as you become more organised and ACTUALLY get round to sending thank you notes, or giving little unexpected extra services to friends, relations and businesses you deal with is that you much more back in return. Now is that Karma or just obvious!
Think of all the little services you could render to people in your circle, and actually do them. Don't expect any benefit but just be pleasantly surprised.

Procrastination

2006-05-05T03:47:00.000-07:00

Margaret Thatcher said, "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it is when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
There are many ways of tackling procrastination none seem to work when you most need it. I will suggest a brutal solution, make yourself so busy that you just don't get time to think about whether you can procrastinate. Where in fact you bounce from job to job, and squeeze in other tasks in between.
Think about times when you got things done and felt that pleasure of resolving problems, try and analyse why you were so resourceful then and not at other times.

Health is Wealth

2006-04-23T23:04:00.000-07:00

"If by gaining knowledge (or wealth) we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands." --John Locke
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health." --Hippocrates
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." --Thomas Edison
Many of the Success Gurus give health a VERY high priority, imagine you are successful and finally buy your dream home overlooking the beach don't you want to be healthy enough to enjoy it? The best information we have is that lots of fresh vegetables and fruit are good for us. There is a product called green drink which balances your alkalinity, but smoothies are much more fun to drink. Smoothies contain massive amounts of fruit and are delightful to drink (should be available in your local supermarket). Remember being successful is not just confined to m0ney making, you should find that you becoming naturally more active as you start participating more actively in the lives of your friends, family and community. Eating properly and being more active should help you to keep your weight down without wasting all that energy dieting. One of your rewards for achieving a mini-goal should be to go for a spin on your bike to a coffee shop, hey and try and pick a coffee shop that's a bit further away!
Try and audit your health, are you eating a balanced diet, are you getting enough exercise, do you sleep well and wake up refreshed? Do you feel right in yourself. Decide on a small improvement that you can make to your health today. See health as a long term investment in yourself .

Do the Most Important Thing First

2006-04-23T23:00:00.000-07:00

Successful people make a HABIT of doing things they don't like to do! Mike Litman
Millionaire steel magnate Andrew Carnegie once paid a consultant $64,000 for advice. The consultant gave Carnegie two ideas: Write down what you have to do today and DO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FIRST. In actual fact this story was the other way round. The consultant said I will give you some advice, and you pay me what you think it is worth, the $64,000 subsequently offered being at that time a fortune. If you can make yourself do this then you've won the battle and can leave this course. What happens to most people is the opposite they start doing the trivial painless tasks, then just as they get to the point where then can finally face doing the important task they get blown off course by that urgent request or emergency. This is one of the key reasons why they don't ever get to start their dream project.
Do your list, prioritise the list, then steel yourself and actually do the nasty top priority job. Make this a habit and see how good it feels!

Positive thinking

2006-04-22T06:19:00.000-07:00

Is your glass half-empty or half-full? How you answer this age-old question may reflect your outlook on life and whether you're optimistic or pessimistic.

In fact, studies show that these personality traits —optimism and pessimism — can affect how well you live and even how long you live.

Need an attitude adjustment? Find out how to reduce your stress by halting negative thoughts and practicing positive self-talk.

Be positive: Live longer, live healthier

Self-talk is the endless stream of thoughts that run through your head every day. These automatic thoughts can be positive or negative. If the thoughts that run through your head are mostly negative, your outlook on life is likely pessimistic. If your thoughts are mostly positive, you're likely an optimist.

Some of your self-talk comes from logic and reason. Other self-talk may arise from misconceptions that you create because of lack of information.

Researchers continue to explore the effects of optimism on health. The health benefits optimism may provide are:

Decreased stress
Greater resistance to catching the common cold
A sense of well-being and improved health
Reduced risk of coronary artery disease
Breathing easier if you have chronic obstructive lung disease, such as emphysema
Improved coping ability for women with high-risk pregnancies
Living longer
Better coping skills

It's unclear why optimists experience these health benefits. But one theory is that having a positive outlook enables you to cope better with stressful situations, which reduces the effects of stress on your body.

Getting into the State: Breathing Exercises

2006-04-21T23:00:00.000-07:00

At several points in the day, try simply closing your eyes and taking a deep breath.Turn your attention inward and remember whatever it is you need to, and as you let your breath out exhale all your tension and concerns. David Kundtz
Rebuilding yourself for Success can at times be emotionally stressful, in any case as you start succeeding you will certainly enter new unfamiliar areas. When this causes you anguish, you will find that deep breathing will bring you relief. Sometimes however you can feel unenergetic and demotivated deep-Breathing can help get yourself "into the state"
Just practice (discretely) pumping up your oxygen with rapid deep breaths, feel your energy levels rise and your mood improve.

Manifestation

2006-04-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face, which turns us from failure to success.
Some believe that you can achieve a successful outcome, just by imagining it or believing it strongly enough (Napoleon Hill). Sceptics might choose to see manifestation as advanced positive thinking, i.e you are so confident something is going to happen that you brush aside the difficulties that might previously have flummoxed you.
Start training your Manifestation abilities. Decide that you will find an item of clothing that you will like, decide that you will find a parking place, decide that you will win your squash game. When you think about it what can be wrong with thinking this way.

Be Positive!

2006-04-19T21:47:00.000-07:00

A study of Nuns showed those with a happy disposition lived an average of 9 YEARS longer and their morose colleagues!
From now on, every time anyone asks you how you are, the out loud answer is always and forever a very, very positive positive! (Great! Terrific! Fantastic!) NO MATTER HOW YOU REALLY FEEL! It doesn't matter! You are trying to change you! FOREVER!
Just be positive, be the bright spark in everyone's day. Just force yourself, see how differently people start treating you. Spread confidence!!

Time Slicing

2006-04-18T21:24:00.000-07:00

"The way to achieve inner peace is to finish off all the things you have started".
It is very difficult to get everything done. Worse there's always the problem of new 'urgent' projects pushing partly or nearly completed projects into the sidelines or dormancy. One trick is to do something even if it's just a little for each of your current projects. This is called time-slicing successful people are very good at this, success apprentices have to learn to make time-slicing a habit.
Make a list of your ongoing projects and do a little to advance each one today.Do this and notice how good you feel

Why You Need a Success Partner or Mastermind Group

2006-04-17T22:10:00.000-07:00

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." Zig Ziglar
As you are starting down your new-found business path, you need to find like-minded people. You can form a mastermind group. These will be the people you meet with or contact regularly to discuss your goals, strategies, successes and more. You keep each other on track, and help tweak each other's visions. Sometimes your job is to motivate one another. Sometimes you'll have incredible brainstorming sessions. Sometimes you'll partner up and form powerful, profitable joint ventures.
Think where you may find such valuable people it's not easy, many of your normal friends will only good intentionally discourage you. The best place to find your success-partner or mastermind group is at "Success/Internet/self-Improvement" seminars

Finishing Tasks

2006-04-16T21:35:00.000-07:00

The way to achieve inner peace is to finish off all the things you have started
Half-finished projects are a great hallmark of unsuccessful people. Sometimes people have put in vast amounts of work, nearly finish and then somehow let their project become dormant. Not only is this a great waste of effort and energy they actually carry on draining you with guilt feelings. There seems to be some enormous psychological barrier to restarting cold projects. There is a trick which is related to the half-job trick, decide what is the smallest easiest step you can take to revive the project, decide on it, decide what reward you will give yourself should succeed. Then take a deep breathe and do it.
Identify your dormant projects, and decide which to kill off and which should be resuscitated be brutal.

Success Mantra

2006-04-16T21:33:00.000-07:00

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!" Dr. Norman Vincent Peale Author of "The Power of Positive Thinking"
I expect excellence of myself and those around me I am a great coach and cheerleader to myself and others People like to be around me because I bring out the best in them I let go of all doubts about my own abilities My abilities are growing stronger today I expect to win
Print and stick up this mantra in as a discrete or obvious place as you feel suitable. Remember we need as much positive encouragement as possible, the trick is to repeat the mantra so often that it slips into your subconscious.

A person

2006-04-14T23:15:00.000-07:00

"A person cannot strengthen the weak or weaken the strong".........

Bouncing

2006-04-14T22:15:00.000-07:00

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson
To be successful you have to get more done, more efficiently. Try to always keep busy, 'bounce' from job to job (even if what you are doing is "unimportant"), always do something tidying, rearranging, take things out to the car so you don't forget them, the more you do the MORE energy you will have. This is the reverse of the couch-potato who is always tired. Bouncing stops you having enough time to worry about the difficulty of doing a task, because you find yourself doing it before you realise. Try bouncing, try keeping busy, feel your energy increasing, feel the satisfaction increase as you clear up your jobs.

Finding the Positive in the Negative

2006-04-14T22:01:00.000-07:00

One of the most beneficial practices I know of is that of looking for the good in everyone and everything, for there is good in all things. We encourage a person by seeing his good qualities and we also help ourselves by looking for them. Theron Dumont Unsuccessful people brood, wallow and sulk when they something bad happens, successful people move on and try to find the positive. In fact it often happens that life mini-disasters such as losing a job turn out for the best as people end up finding a better or more interesting job, or they get their act together and take their career seriously or get more qualifications. The technique to develop is say "OK something bad has happened, now how can I make use of it?".

Don't give up Loving.....

2006-04-13T08:14:00.000-07:00

There was a guy who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water.He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him.The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.

A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.

But the guy said:"It is the nature of the scorpion to  sting.It is my nature to love.Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the natureof the scorpion to sting?"

Don't give up loving.

Don't give up your goodness.

Even if people around you Sting.....

Inventory your Life Successes (Success Diary)

2006-04-12T22:41:00.000-07:00

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud Curiously we remember our failures more than our successes, ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) see to the job of recalling your disasters, but there is no equivalent APT to remind us of our successes. So start your list (everyone starts off thinking they've got nothing to write down) you will add to the list over the months as you gradually recall events. Put down qualifications, sport successes, hobbies, business ventures, adventures, holidays, interests, jobs, promotions, clubs, investments, good deeds, voluntary activities. Now everything you've done in the past is important, but what is more interesting will be your future successes. Note the first victories over yourself, the first time you beat a bad habit, the first time you move outside your comfort zone note these down. Start your Inventory immediately, rest assured it will grow both as you remember things in your past and then vitally as you add new successes.

Breaking out of your Comfort Zone

2006-04-12T22:36:00.000-07:00

Wouldn't you agree that it's crazy to think you'll get different results if you keep doing the same thing over and over again? One of the things that can prevent success is the difficulty of stepping outside your Comfort Zone. Once you get used to attacking your Comfort Zone, you'll find it gets larger but it will always be there. Luckily today there are many ways to launch say on Online Business , gradually , and part-time so you can expand your Comfort Zone gradually. Ask yourself where your comfort zone is, how far would you dare to try something new.

ANT - Automatic Negative Thoughts

2006-04-12T22:24:00.000-07:00

"Form the habit of thinking and talking of prosperity and abundance, and very soon material evidence of these will begin to manifest itself in the nature of wider opportunity and new and unexpected opportunity." Napoleon Hill Everyone suffers to a greater or lesser extent from attacks from their greatest critic: themselves! This is the inner voice which reminds you of your uselessness whenever you embark on a new project.Sometimes these ANTs cause us to replay a "video" of some previous disaster for the 100th time.With training you can learn techniques which will allow you to deflect these ANTs before they get going.But the tactic for today is for you to spend more time thinking strategically, planning the next meeting,your next project, your evening, your weekend. That's the best way of beating ANTs use your mind more effectively.

The Half-Job Tip

2006-04-12T22:22:00.000-07:00

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams." --Og Mandino Just think about this Tip, it's important. A major stumbling block for most people is they the keep putting off unpleasant projects. We'll keep coming back to this over the hundred days, but This is a great tip. Get a project STARTED by saying say "I will assemble the paperwork into a folder" and then STOP.

Listening

2006-04-12T22:20:00.000-07:00

When you talk to people avoid being "Interesting" instead choose to be interested, learn from them. Jim Canfield When meeting people however casually try to let them talk, learn something from them, ask their advice, don't entertain them with your brilliance. See other people, however unlikely, as opportunities to be "mined" THEY WILL KNOW SOMETHING that is USEFUL to YOU! Listen twice as much as you talk!!

Be tougher on yourself

2006-04-12T22:19:00.000-07:00

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson Remember you are usually (eventually) punished in a micro or macro way for any sloppiness, not emptying/refilling your sports bag as soon as you get back from the gym. Letting paperwork slip. Not putting a tool back in its exact spot, not having spare printer and computer media. The trick is to be tougher on yourself to be kinder to yourself in the longterm. Catch yourself being sloppy, and do the right thing!

Improve your Decision Making

2006-04-12T22:17:00.000-07:00

A decision without an action is valueless (Tony Robbins) Get used to making decisions quicker, avoid delaying decisions. Make a decision immediately or tell people at what time you'll make a decision (and stick to it). Decision making becomes easier with practice. Just watch out often you were called to make a decision today. Analyse how you reached your decision, decide whether you actually took a decision or procrastinated it.

A Man

2006-04-07T21:33:00.000-07:00

"The quality of person`s life is in direct prportion to the commitment to Excellence,regardless to thier chosen filed of endeavour"

Five Bad Leadership Attitudes

2006-04-03T07:41:00.000-07:00

1. "Because I'm the manager, you better respect me . . . or else!" 2. "People are lazy; I have to force them to work." 3. "I'm superior to everyone. I can do anything I want." 4. "If you work for me, you need to smile for whatever I say." 5. "If you don't like how I run things, you can leave."

Creating Urgency

2006-04-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive! It is difficult for people who earning an adequate living to break out of their comfort zone and launch their online career or achieve some other dream.What they lack is a sense of urgency or real deadlines. The trick is to artificially manufacture urgency, get busy, launch parallel projects etc. One technique I use is to jog between jobs, even menial jobs, keep busy-busy. This helps create the buzz required and sense of achievement required to get started on the important stuff. Decide to have a 5 minute frenzy where you get as much done as possible. Preferably physical things pay a bill, tidy your desk, prepare your briefcase for tomorrow. See how it feels afterwards, imagine the advantages if it became a habit. Finally, develop a sense of urgency. Pick up the pace. Move quickly from one task to another. Don't waste time. The faster you move, the more energy you will have. The faster you move, the more in control of your life you will feel and the more you will like and respect yourself.

Making Use of Your Dead-Time

2006-04-03T03:33:00.000-07:00

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." Harvey Mackay To succeed you have to get more done in a shorter time. See how much you can get done while the kettle boils, can you tidy stuff away, pay a bill. Remove invoices from your wallet. Use this technique to get the little things done so may be just may be you can attack the big things. When you can't do something physical, ie when you are in a lift/elevator or traffic jam, use the time to plan. Plan what you want to achieve in a meeting, run through the things you need to get done, how you will spend the evening. Next time you are waiting for the printer/kettle see just how much you can get done. Make it a game :)

Courage

2006-03-31T03:00:00.000-08:00

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

A Tip for success

2006-03-30T02:16:00.000-08:00

Unless you look forward to waking up tomorrow morning... you'd better start looking to make changes! :)

Motivational Quote

2006-03-28T05:23:00.000-08:00

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." - Earl Nightingale

Tips For Unstoppable Motivation

2006-03-15T03:22:00.000-08:00

Success is not achieved accidentally. It is a systematic, deliberate process of deciding what you want to do with your life, what you will do when you get there, and what the steps are to get you where you want to be. 1. One of the most important aspects of success is the ability to visualize your path and stay focused on your goal until you reach it. 2. The sooner you envision your dreams and develop a plan to turn them into reality, the faster you will accomplish your goals. Mental pictures are a mechanism to lead you down the path of true independence and motivation .Procrastination is a self-defeating behavior that develops in part due to low self-esteem and fear of failure. Your imagination is like a preview of your future. If you don't use your imagination your life will remain mundane and unfulfilled. 3. Overcoming procrastination is the first step in helping you create the lifestyle you desire. You must change the habits and behaviors that led you to procrastinate in the first place. 4. Several small jobs done over time are much more manageable that one large task with no end in sight. You'll be astonished at how much you can get done if you concentrate on one thing at a time instead of cluttering your mind with multiple tasks. 5. Relieve yourself of the pressure created by clutter in your office or home. Develop a filing system, rid yourself of unnecessary papers, and give yourself an organized place to work. 6. If people or outside forces distract you, use the power of the human mind to block out what impedes your progress and concentrate solely on the task at hand. You will make remarkable progress by refusing to let others alter the path you have chosen. 7. Review your habits and way of thinking to determine what you are visualizing most of the time. If your visions do not lead you in the direction of accomplishing your goals, then you must change them.Discipline yourself to concentrate on your goals the majority of the time, and if you stray from the path, get promptly back on.

Motivational Quotes

2006-03-14T04:37:00.000-08:00

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr -- Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -- Charles R. Swindoll -- Good is not good where better is expected. -- Thomas Fuller -- I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. -- Abraham Lincoln -- Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. -- Chinese Proverb -- A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. -- David Brinkley --

Present life

2006-03-02T03:26:00.000-08:00

"Yesterday is history Tommorow is mystery Today is Gift"... So spend your life as valuable and Enjoyable.

Winners

2006-02-27T00:39:00.000-08:00

To become a "Winner" "Winners don`t do different things They do the things differently"...

Cell Phones

2006-02-24T06:57:00.000-08:00

Now a days in the world a huge global issue is cell phones. Many teenagers, most if not all, have cell phones. In schools and colleges cell phones have been banned, but nobody knows when there will be an emergency. For an example the Columbine High School shooting, students were or would be able to call the police. Students should be able to have cell phones on campus as long as they have them turned off and they are not a distraction.

Difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet

2006-02-24T06:49:00.000-08:00

As a very profound user of the Internet, I reckon the use of it and how it works should be mastered. Devoid of getting into too much detail the Internet and the World Wide Web are different in some way. The Internet is in point of fact, a worldwide network. The history of the Internet started way back in the 1960s. Protocols and browsers make up the Internet and also have a lot to do with how the Internet works. Using the Internet is not very complex at all, especially if you are familiar with a few basics of a computer. Electronic mail is a feature that is used most frequently on the Internet. Viruses are a cause of some problems on the Internet. Search engines are used when you don’t exactly know where to get the information that you are researching on the Internet. The Internet and the World Wide Web is a very broad topic that can go into much detail further more than comparing the two.

There is a small difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet. Most people use them interchangeably. The basis for the Web is the Internet. The Web is built on the Internet, and makes use of many of the mechanisms the Internet provides. The Internet is the hardware or physical aspects such as computers, networks, and/or services.

Affiliate Marketing

2006-02-24T06:05:00.000-08:00

What is Affiliate marketing? Affiliate program is nothing but you hearten other webmasters to sign up and advertise your services and products on their sites, in exchange you pay them based on their performance. An affiliate program is an excellent way to gain additional sales. There are options for all budgets, but you generally get what you pay for. There are various way that affiliates are paid: Per Impression: The affiliate is paid a set amount for every time that your ad is shown. The downside is that affiliates have no incentive to send you traffic, or to put your ad in a attention-grabbing location. Per Click: You pay a set amount for each unique person that clicks on your ad. This is similar to a PPC engine. The downside is that you must pay even if the traffic is of a low quality. Per Lead: You pay your affiliates based on the number of unique people that click on your ad, and then proceed to complete a particular action (for example, a "lead" might be when someone downloads a trial, or signs up for a mailing list). This is very similar to Per Sale, but is more common on sites promoting free services. Per Sale: The affiliates are remunerated either a percentage or a set amount for each sale generated by a user that originated from the affiliate's siteAffiliates generally prefer receiving commissions on a Per Impression or Per Click basis, but site owners have a preference of the inevitability of Per Lead and Per Sale. There are three ways to start an affiliate program: Your own script, install a script, or use a third-party service. Your own script If your website's order system has been custom-made, then one option may be to ask your programmer to add an affiliate program to the system. The programmer would add some code to the payment script, and then develop a simple interface for affiliates to see how they're doing, and for you to check on your affiliates. This is an cost-effective choice for sites based on custom scripting, but site owners may be somnolent to trust your reporting (after all, it would be in your best interest to fudge the numbers). Established sites can get away with this, but new websites may have difficulty here. Also, if you roll your own then it will be entirely up to you to promote it. Installing a Script If you don't have a custom-made order script, or if the required modifications would be too pricey, then a similar alternative would be to install a ready-made script. The CGI Resource Index has a list of such scripts. Free scripts are out there, but are generally difficult to find if you're interested in the script's quality (which is important for an affiliate program). Expect to pay $20 to $60 for a good affiliate script. Like rolling your own, this presents the problem of finding affiliates. Also, affiliates may be just as apprehensive of using a script controlled by you as they would be of a custom-built affiliate system. Using a Third-Party Service The final alternative, and the one chosen by the largest number of sites, is to use a third-party service. Here, you let another company control your affiliate program. They will take care of managing it, and to some extent finding affiliates, but at a price.

Angry?

2006-02-23T04:54:00.000-08:00

Are you in anger .If yes ,Please have a look at the following lines. "To be angry with the right person to the right degree,at the right time,for the right purpose,and in the right way is not easy" If you follow the above words you will no longer get angry in your life.......

Quotes on SUCCESS

2006-02-23T01:55:00.000-08:00

Try not to be a person of success. But rather a person of value. - unknown Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R. Augustine Unless a man undertakes morethan he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. - Carol Buchner Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman R. Augustine Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. - unknown Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. - Henry Ward Beecher A mind troubled by doubtcannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson Do what you can,with what you have,where you are. - Theodore Roosevelt Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. - Francis Bacon The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. - Jacob Bronowski It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer,the achiever, the one who recognizes the challengeand does something about it. - Vince Lombardi One never noticeswhat has been done;one can only seewhat remains to be done. - Marie Currie Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. - George Eliot Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford After the game,the king and the pawngo into the same box. - Italian Proverb

Some cute quotes

2006-02-22T04:07:00.000-08:00

Smile- A small curve that makes manythings straight. God - Keeps you happy by keeping all the sorrows with him. Saint- The only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Vision of Tomorrow

2006-02-21T06:32:00.000-08:00

This is the passage that I happenend to see in a site today.I thought this is worth sharing.

Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher once said that:

"The greatest pull on your life should be the pull of the future because then you won't be pulled by your past or pulled apart by circumstances."

You have to a powerfully compelling picture in mind of future that produces passion in you so great that your personal transformation must occur if you are to obtain it!

Standing the Test of Time

2006-02-21T06:20:00.000-08:00

This is the passage that I happenend to see in a site today.I thought this is worth sharing. If we are to stand the test of time then we must be leaders to ourselves before we can be leaders to the world. We have to follow through on our commitments and remain true to ourselves at all times. No compromises.

We have to decide early on how we are going to define ourselves and then set out to make that a reality to world. The world will receive us only as we receive ourselves. If we want to know how others see us then all we need to do is examine how we see ourselves.

It doesn't matter what we say or set out to do. We will always have to be tested in the arena of life and only the fully persuaded and committed will win the day. Inside each and everyone one us is a leader and champion ready to take charge and contend for the best in life. To make the best of life we have to change. In order t change we have to be leaders to ourselves.

We must take responsibility for where we are today and the results we want tomorrow. It is time to chart your course and get on with getting in your life. Put and end to aimless wandering and drifting. Decide that you will build a more meaningful existence for yourself and your loved ones. You need to open your eyes to new possibilities. You have to see where you want to go, establish why you must get there and choose to become the person it is going to take in order to get there.

Tips for a Successful Leader

2006-02-21T05:35:00.000-08:00

Recently I came across the following words regarding leadership. They are really worth sharing.

A Leader must believe in teamwork through participation.He can never close the gap between himself and the group.He must walk,as it were, a tight rope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Successful teamwork requires doing lots of unspectacular little things,contant attention to the details,building one-one relationships, following up on commitments and on obsessive concern for communicating information.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Six reasons why you should Smile

2006-02-21T05:33:00.000-08:00

Smiles are the secret of the successful leaders.Given below are the six reasons why you should SMILE.

Smiles are instant Pick-Me-Ups.

Smiles make others Believe.

Smiles are Contagious.

Smiles make your Your eyes sparkle.

Smiles make your Dreams come true.

Smiles are stepping stones to Great things.

How do I change?

2006-02-21T05:31:00.000-08:00

I came across the following passage and really felt that it is worth sharing. If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labour. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions. Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt,Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly... They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky.

Reasons to submit your articles to article directories

2006-02-21T05:29:00.000-08:00

Writers can truly benefit from submitting their articles to online Article Directories for publishers to view. Below is my list of the reasons you should write articles and allow them to be published online. • The first, most obvious benefit to you as a writer, is the opportunity to get your work published. • The second reason is FREE PUBLICITY! - Most article Directories online allow you to include a “resource box” at the end of your article. The resource box is your prospect to SELL yourself, your web site, your products, your services. • By writing articles on a specific topic, you can establish yourself as an expert in that field. • By submitting your work to article Directories and allowing web sites to publish it for free, you multiply the potential number of visitors to your site dramatically. • There are literally thousands of article Directories publishers online all looking for one thing - GREAT CONTENT. Your article(s) (if written well and about a popular subject) are definitely in demand. • It costs you nothing - not a dime - to submit your articles to article Directories for free online. The only thing that’s required of you is your time (and your ability to write a good article that people will want to read). Think about it - is there any other FREE way for writers to get published, recognized and publicized online? • By listing your work in article Directories, you have the opportunity to establish new contacts and lasting relationships with professional publishers online. • By getting your articles published online, you have opened the door for more traffic to your web site, new readers (possibly paying publishers and/or agents looking for good writers in a specific field), and name recognition across the web.

Motivation

2006-02-21T04:27:00.000-08:00

Motivation is the compliance to exert towering levels of endeavor toward organizational goals, habituated by the effort's ability to satisfy some individual needs . For some business analysts, employee motivation is a good way to enhance yield in an organization. When people get motivated, they will have a rationale to put more efforts on what they are doing. Motivation is a essential management tool in elating the organization's work force's ability. Employers can motivate their workers as individuals, groups, teams, or the organization as a whole. Motivation takes forms like offering rewards, improving working conditions, or employee recognition.