Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Thank God Its Sunday
Dr. Eric Thomas has a feature video on his website every Monday entitled Thank God Its Monday. I'm guessing its because most people dread Mondays and need that extra push to get them through the day in a positive way. After listening to a few of his videos and listening a few interviews he has done, I can identify with what he's been saying about passion and trusting the process. This morning I woke up bursting with energy, my heart was going 1,000 miles an hour and my mind going 10,000 miles an hour. I just want to live, but I want to do it in the best way possible, surrounded by the best people possible for as long as possible. So today I am thanking God that it is Sunday. The day before Monday where I can get my thoughts together and plan for the week ahead. So to everyone who needs that push, that extra bit of encouragement that extra drop of greatness, I advise you to look within. To dig deep down inside and find what it is that you're really searching for and who it is that you really are. It won't be easy but like E.T. said, you have to "trust the process". If you need more inspiration/insight/information check out ET's website http://etinspires.com/ I'm sure you'll find something there to help you get out of whatever situation you may currently be in.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Motivated Mondays 2012 Edition
So on the first Monday of the year I must admit that I feel incredibly amazing. So much so that I almost wanted to stay home this morning and bask in the glory of the first Monday of 2012. The ride to work seemed too short as well as the hours seem to be passing by too quickly for my liking. Needless to say … I am having a great day. I’ve got on new pants and new shoes and by golly gosh darn it I feel brand new.
I opted not to write my first blog post for the year until I felt 100% like the motivational force that I sometimes convince myself that I am. Alas 2011 is no more and 2012 is just bursting with possibilities, pleasantries, and pure prosperity and pleasure (in case you have not seen Mr. Poppers Penguins, it might give you a case of the P’s).
So this is me telling you to grab 2012 by the horns and ride her till the wheels fall off. The start of a new year is more often than not the ideal time to get on whatever band wagon you need to get on. Whether it is personal, financial, spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical now seems more than likely the opportunity to get off the couch and start doing something with your life.
I may be wrong but I would bet the farm that gyms across the world see an increase in membership in the first few months of the year as well as supermarkets may sell more yogurt and fat free foods. For all intent and purpose it just seems like the most wonderful time of the year (after all Christmas was only a few days ago and we are still basking in its after glory).
On to the topic of resolutions, I thought to myself that most resolutions come as we would have done the opposite to the things we now resolve to accomplish. And then it hit me, if we did not fail at something last year we would not resolve to make it better this year. As such what we need is clarity. Let me explain with an example: For the first three months of last year I saved not a penny. Not that I am a shopaholic, I merely depended on my own will to take the money from one account and place it into another (big mistake). What became clear to me was that things will always pop up and unless you are a Shaolin Monk who is disciplined beyond belief, then more than likely you might falter. My plan was then to make my savings automatic from one institution to another eliminating myself (unreliable third party) and entrusting it to a more reliable source (barring a financial meltdown that is). Thus began my saving which has continued into this New Year. My resolution was to save but my clarity came as I realized that my will power was not my safest ally in this battle for better finances.
As may be the case for some us who join a gym with the intentions of gyming (not actual word) everyday but falter by the wayside under the guise of “I’ll go tomorrow and stay an extra hour, it’s raining, I’ll go on my day off, on the weekend for sure etc. etc. etc.” This by no means is speculation but excuses that I myself have given for my lack of effort. My clarity for my failed achievement of my six pack (at least 10 years in the making) came as I realized that my body by Jake transformation will not be swift and sever but slow and painful. As is I have resolved that fitness is a lifestyle and not a goal to be achieved (or whatever helps me sleep at nights).
So whether your battling finances, spirituality, personal growth, relationships etc etc. there is no time like the present to make a new start.
New beginnings call for new experiences and new experiences call for new adventures. After all life is an amazing adventure. So plot a course not simply for a “better” you but for a you that embraces the changes necessary to live a more fulfilled life.
P.S. don’t beat yourself up about things that don’t work out the way they should…Everything happens for a reason.
I opted not to write my first blog post for the year until I felt 100% like the motivational force that I sometimes convince myself that I am. Alas 2011 is no more and 2012 is just bursting with possibilities, pleasantries, and pure prosperity and pleasure (in case you have not seen Mr. Poppers Penguins, it might give you a case of the P’s).
So this is me telling you to grab 2012 by the horns and ride her till the wheels fall off. The start of a new year is more often than not the ideal time to get on whatever band wagon you need to get on. Whether it is personal, financial, spiritual, mental, emotional, or physical now seems more than likely the opportunity to get off the couch and start doing something with your life.
I may be wrong but I would bet the farm that gyms across the world see an increase in membership in the first few months of the year as well as supermarkets may sell more yogurt and fat free foods. For all intent and purpose it just seems like the most wonderful time of the year (after all Christmas was only a few days ago and we are still basking in its after glory).
On to the topic of resolutions, I thought to myself that most resolutions come as we would have done the opposite to the things we now resolve to accomplish. And then it hit me, if we did not fail at something last year we would not resolve to make it better this year. As such what we need is clarity. Let me explain with an example: For the first three months of last year I saved not a penny. Not that I am a shopaholic, I merely depended on my own will to take the money from one account and place it into another (big mistake). What became clear to me was that things will always pop up and unless you are a Shaolin Monk who is disciplined beyond belief, then more than likely you might falter. My plan was then to make my savings automatic from one institution to another eliminating myself (unreliable third party) and entrusting it to a more reliable source (barring a financial meltdown that is). Thus began my saving which has continued into this New Year. My resolution was to save but my clarity came as I realized that my will power was not my safest ally in this battle for better finances.
As may be the case for some us who join a gym with the intentions of gyming (not actual word) everyday but falter by the wayside under the guise of “I’ll go tomorrow and stay an extra hour, it’s raining, I’ll go on my day off, on the weekend for sure etc. etc. etc.” This by no means is speculation but excuses that I myself have given for my lack of effort. My clarity for my failed achievement of my six pack (at least 10 years in the making) came as I realized that my body by Jake transformation will not be swift and sever but slow and painful. As is I have resolved that fitness is a lifestyle and not a goal to be achieved (or whatever helps me sleep at nights).
So whether your battling finances, spirituality, personal growth, relationships etc etc. there is no time like the present to make a new start.
New beginnings call for new experiences and new experiences call for new adventures. After all life is an amazing adventure. So plot a course not simply for a “better” you but for a you that embraces the changes necessary to live a more fulfilled life.
P.S. don’t beat yourself up about things that don’t work out the way they should…Everything happens for a reason.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Jobs : the man, the legend, the ideas
So I came across this article via a family member. Needless to say that it hits home in more ways than I can imagine thus I am reposting it for those who may have missed it.
12 lessons for us all from the life of Steve Jobs Commentary: What Apple co-founder’s achievements tell the rest of us
The death of the Apple AAPL -0.25% co-founder has dominated the news from Cupertino, Calif., to Kuala Lumpur. Many are focusing on the way his products and services changed our world. Others are talking about Jobs, the man. But this was the most successful business leader of his era, and one of the greats. Few have achieved so much, so quickly, and so publicly.
It got me thinking: What are the lessons we can all take away? What do his extraordinary achievements tell the rest of us? Here are 12 lessons from the life of Jobs:
1. Yes, you can make a difference Anyone trying to achieve real change — in life, in a company or in any organization — probably feels the urge to give up half a dozen times a day. The naysayers and seat polishers will do everything to slow you down. No one is suggesting that what Apple achieved was the result of Jobs alone, but his career is proof of just how much one individual can change things.
2. You need a vision It’s not enough to conduct opinion polls and customer surveys, and rely on consultants’ projections. Those are all based on the conventional wisdom and the world as it is today. Jobs imagined things — most obviously the iPod, and the iTunes services — that didn’t yet exist and for which the market was uncertain. While his competitors were still building the products of yesterday, he was imagining, and building, those of tomorrow.
3. It’s not about you It’s horrifying how many business decisions are still made on the assumption that “well, we have to do something with the XYZ division, so let’s give them this project” or “Buggins has seniority, so he’s in charge.” Do you think the customer cares about Buggins or XYZ? Jobs built Apple into a streamlined operation, focused on the output, nothing else.
4. Focus, focus, focus Hard to believe, but mediocre managers everywhere like to keep their staff “busy” because they think that’s “productive.” It isn’t. (Ask them what their top priority is, and they’ll name two things. Or four. Or 16.) Apple sure was “busy, busy, busy” when Jobs arrived. And it was going bust. One of the first things he did was ax about 90% of the company’s activities and focus — first on the iMac, then on the iPod.
5. ‘OK’ is not OK Look at the way Apple’s competitors keep putting out mediocre or unfinished products and thinking they’ll get away with it. Are they for real? The days when you could get by with second best are so over. Jobs was famous for a fanatical perfectionism. It was a core element of Apple’s success.
6. It’s not about the money Steve Jobs’s life was a thumping rebuttal to all those who are obsessed with cash. The guy had billions: far more than he could ever spend, even if he had lived to 100. Yet he kept working, and striving to achieve greater things. Money? Bah. Something to think about the next time a CEO demands another $20 million a year as an incentive to show up.
7. It ain’t over till it’s over Fifteen years ago Steve Jobs appeared to be a has-been in Silicon Valley. And Apple was circling the drain: plagued with losses, executive turnover, reorganizations, desperate asset sales and research cuts. Apple’s stock hit a low of $3.23 in 1996, and hardly anyone wanted it even at that price.
8. Give people what they really want Sounds obvious, right? But most companies don’t do it. They simply produce what they’ve always produced, or what’s comfortable, or what Buggins thinks people want. For years the computer industry churned out ugly, clunky beige products with complicated operating systems. They all did it, and they all assumed that’s what people wanted. Turns out it wasn’t at all. 9.
Destroy your own products — before someone else does Jobs made sure that Apple kept innovating, and rendering its own products obsolete. Creative destruction came from within! That’s why Apple is a $354 billion company, and, say, Palm has vanished from Earth, even though a 2004 iPod is just as out of date as a 2004 Treo. How rare is this? Jobs knew full well that his $500 iPad threatens to cannibalize sales of $1,000 laptops. But he moved forward nonetheless. Most companies wouldn’t.
10. We are all spin doctors now Critics point out that a lot of what Jobs achieved at Apple was put down to hype and hustle. But that was the point. And Jobs was a master at it — the product teasers, the showmanship on stage, even the black turtlenecks. Truth be told, we live in a superficial age of infinite media. We are all in the spin business. Deal with it.
11. Most people don’t know what they’re doing It takes nothing away from Steve Jobs to point out that he couldn’t have done it without his competitors. Microsoft, Palm, Nokia, Dell, H-P — the list goes on. They missed opportunities, stayed complacent, failed to innovate and generally mishandled the ways their industries changed. It’s normal to assume that the people around us — and in power — know what they are doing. As Jobs proved, they often don’t.
12. Your time is precious — don’t waste it Steve Jobs was just 56 when he died — a comparatively young man — and yet during his short spell on Earth he revolutionized the way we live, several times over. What are we doing with our time? It is the resource we waste the most — and it’s the one we cannot buy. Make the most of your short spell on this planet.
Make each day and hour count.
12 lessons for us all from the life of Steve Jobs Commentary: What Apple co-founder’s achievements tell the rest of us
The death of the Apple AAPL -0.25% co-founder has dominated the news from Cupertino, Calif., to Kuala Lumpur. Many are focusing on the way his products and services changed our world. Others are talking about Jobs, the man. But this was the most successful business leader of his era, and one of the greats. Few have achieved so much, so quickly, and so publicly.
It got me thinking: What are the lessons we can all take away? What do his extraordinary achievements tell the rest of us? Here are 12 lessons from the life of Jobs:
1. Yes, you can make a difference Anyone trying to achieve real change — in life, in a company or in any organization — probably feels the urge to give up half a dozen times a day. The naysayers and seat polishers will do everything to slow you down. No one is suggesting that what Apple achieved was the result of Jobs alone, but his career is proof of just how much one individual can change things.
2. You need a vision It’s not enough to conduct opinion polls and customer surveys, and rely on consultants’ projections. Those are all based on the conventional wisdom and the world as it is today. Jobs imagined things — most obviously the iPod, and the iTunes services — that didn’t yet exist and for which the market was uncertain. While his competitors were still building the products of yesterday, he was imagining, and building, those of tomorrow.
3. It’s not about you It’s horrifying how many business decisions are still made on the assumption that “well, we have to do something with the XYZ division, so let’s give them this project” or “Buggins has seniority, so he’s in charge.” Do you think the customer cares about Buggins or XYZ? Jobs built Apple into a streamlined operation, focused on the output, nothing else.
4. Focus, focus, focus Hard to believe, but mediocre managers everywhere like to keep their staff “busy” because they think that’s “productive.” It isn’t. (Ask them what their top priority is, and they’ll name two things. Or four. Or 16.) Apple sure was “busy, busy, busy” when Jobs arrived. And it was going bust. One of the first things he did was ax about 90% of the company’s activities and focus — first on the iMac, then on the iPod.
5. ‘OK’ is not OK Look at the way Apple’s competitors keep putting out mediocre or unfinished products and thinking they’ll get away with it. Are they for real? The days when you could get by with second best are so over. Jobs was famous for a fanatical perfectionism. It was a core element of Apple’s success.
6. It’s not about the money Steve Jobs’s life was a thumping rebuttal to all those who are obsessed with cash. The guy had billions: far more than he could ever spend, even if he had lived to 100. Yet he kept working, and striving to achieve greater things. Money? Bah. Something to think about the next time a CEO demands another $20 million a year as an incentive to show up.
7. It ain’t over till it’s over Fifteen years ago Steve Jobs appeared to be a has-been in Silicon Valley. And Apple was circling the drain: plagued with losses, executive turnover, reorganizations, desperate asset sales and research cuts. Apple’s stock hit a low of $3.23 in 1996, and hardly anyone wanted it even at that price.
8. Give people what they really want Sounds obvious, right? But most companies don’t do it. They simply produce what they’ve always produced, or what’s comfortable, or what Buggins thinks people want. For years the computer industry churned out ugly, clunky beige products with complicated operating systems. They all did it, and they all assumed that’s what people wanted. Turns out it wasn’t at all. 9.
Destroy your own products — before someone else does Jobs made sure that Apple kept innovating, and rendering its own products obsolete. Creative destruction came from within! That’s why Apple is a $354 billion company, and, say, Palm has vanished from Earth, even though a 2004 iPod is just as out of date as a 2004 Treo. How rare is this? Jobs knew full well that his $500 iPad threatens to cannibalize sales of $1,000 laptops. But he moved forward nonetheless. Most companies wouldn’t.
10. We are all spin doctors now Critics point out that a lot of what Jobs achieved at Apple was put down to hype and hustle. But that was the point. And Jobs was a master at it — the product teasers, the showmanship on stage, even the black turtlenecks. Truth be told, we live in a superficial age of infinite media. We are all in the spin business. Deal with it.
11. Most people don’t know what they’re doing It takes nothing away from Steve Jobs to point out that he couldn’t have done it without his competitors. Microsoft, Palm, Nokia, Dell, H-P — the list goes on. They missed opportunities, stayed complacent, failed to innovate and generally mishandled the ways their industries changed. It’s normal to assume that the people around us — and in power — know what they are doing. As Jobs proved, they often don’t.
12. Your time is precious — don’t waste it Steve Jobs was just 56 when he died — a comparatively young man — and yet during his short spell on Earth he revolutionized the way we live, several times over. What are we doing with our time? It is the resource we waste the most — and it’s the one we cannot buy. Make the most of your short spell on this planet.
Make each day and hour count.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time to Fight
Tuning into a popular radio show on my way to work this morning I came across my blog post for the week. As the history books will reflect in years to come, famous West Indian fast bowler Curtley Ambrose has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. His name and legacy will continue to be mentioned among the greats of his era and also for those to come after. It was not until I heard Mr. Ambrose on the radio that I recalled seeing the story in the papers a day or two ago. A question that was asked of him that inspired the writing of this piece. The host asked “What is it that drove you and motivated you throughout the various games” to which Mr. Ambrose replied “It wasn’t until our backs were against the wall that I decided within myself that we weren’t going to lose". Simply as it seems this is the reality of what many of us are faced with not only where our jobs are concerned but also where family life is concerned as well. We might have been looked over for that promotion time and time again and facing the unemployment line when we finally decide to buckle down and decide that come what may we are not going to lose. For some this may be our normal mode of operation but for others our killer instincts may only present itself after we have failed time and time again. Rest assured that the day will present itself that you decide that you have had enough of being second best and you muster all the courage you have to fight your way out of the corner that you’ve been backed into for years. For Curtley Ambrose his crowning moment may have been being inducted into the hall of fame, what will yours be?
Friday, June 25, 2010
KEYS TO SUCCESS
So yesterday we started out by identifying success so it only stands to reason that today will focus on the keys to success. Hope you are enlightened.
KEYS TO SUCCESS
KNOW YOURSELF
Know your strengths
Know your weaknesses
Know your own self-worth
KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
Identify your objective(s)
Plan towards your objective(s)
Go for what you want
SET GOALS FOR YOURSELF
Set your own goals
Challenge yourself
Always aim high
WORK TOWARD SUCCESS
Organize your resources
Manage your time efficiently
Evaluate your progress regularly
And make adjustments
BE THANKFUL ALWAYS
Remember to be grateful
Return Kindness
Express your appreciation
KNOW HOW TO HANDLE OBSTACLES AND SET-BACKS
Accept failure as normal
Stick to your values
Keep faith in God
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS
Pass on what you have learnt
Prepare others to carry on
Be prepared to pass on responsibility.
St.Brice, H. (1994. Keys for effective living. College press. Trinidad
KEYS TO SUCCESS
KNOW YOURSELF
Know your strengths
Know your weaknesses
Know your own self-worth
KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
Identify your objective(s)
Plan towards your objective(s)
Go for what you want
SET GOALS FOR YOURSELF
Set your own goals
Challenge yourself
Always aim high
WORK TOWARD SUCCESS
Organize your resources
Manage your time efficiently
Evaluate your progress regularly
And make adjustments
BE THANKFUL ALWAYS
Remember to be grateful
Return Kindness
Express your appreciation
KNOW HOW TO HANDLE OBSTACLES AND SET-BACKS
Accept failure as normal
Stick to your values
Keep faith in God
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH OTHERS
Pass on what you have learnt
Prepare others to carry on
Be prepared to pass on responsibility.
St.Brice, H. (1994. Keys for effective living. College press. Trinidad
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