ABC's to Achieve your dreams!

1. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits.
2. Believe in yourself
3. Consider things from every angle.
4. Don't give up.
5. Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come.
6. Family, friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.
7. Give more than you planned to.
8. Hang on to your dreams.
9. Ignore those who try to discourage you.
10. Just do it.
11. Keep trying no matter how hard its seems, it will get easier.
12. Love yourself.
13. Make it happen.
14. Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal.
15. Open your eyes and see things as they really are.
16. Practice makes perfect.
17. Quitters dont win and winners dont wait.
18. Read, study and learn about everything important in your life.
19. Stop procastinating.
20. Take control of your destiny.
21. Understand yourself in order to better understand others.
22. Visualize it.
23. Want it more than anything.
24. Xcellerate your efforts.
25. You are unique creation, nothing can replace YOU!
26. Zero in on your target and go for it.

Powells Leadership Insight

Here's Colin Powell Leadership Guidepost

1. Being responsible means sometimes pissing people off.
2. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
3. Dont be buffaloed by experts and elites. They often possess more data than judgement.
4. Dont be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
5. Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
6. You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
7. Keep looking below surface appearances.
8. Organizations doesnt accomplish anything. Plans dont accomplish anything either. Theories of management dont much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish a great deal.
9. Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
10. Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
11. Fit no stereotypes. Dont chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the teams mission.
12. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
13. Look for intelligence and judgement, and most critically, a capacity for anticipate. To see around corners. And look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
14. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt. Offering solution everybody can understand.
15. Use formula P=40 to 70. If probablility of success is > 40, then go for the decision. Decision delayed is decision denied.
16. The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proven otherwise.

Thoughts?

Liking oneself as first step in liking and leading others

Do you agree? I heard or read this somewhere that the beginning to a truly nourishing relationship is to begin liking oneself. The logic goes that if one likes himself or herself, there is radiance or glow that emanates from the person's heart.

And that same person is able to share the inner stability, sensitivity to capture the hearts of other people. No wonder optimist people are usually leaders in their own right. I remember a cliche when it says,

If you are enthusiastic for 3 min, it will last 3 days.
If you are enthusiastic for 3 days, it will last 3 weeks,
If you are enthusiastic for 3 weeks, it will last 3 years
If you are enthusiastic for 3 years, it will last 30 years!

Enthusiasm, positive attitude and right frame of mind can indeed lengthen one's life.

Agree?

Ten Commandments of Continuous Improvement

I was intrigued by this very straightforward yet powerful principle I watched on continuous improvement. It is called the 10 commandments of Kaizen. Read along...

1. Open mind to change.
2. Think yes we can, if.
3. Attack process, not people.
4. Seek simple solutions.
5. If its broken, stop to fix it.
6. Use creativity, not capital.
7. Problems are opportunities in disguise.
8. Find the rootcause-why why why.
9. Wisdom of the many, not knowledge of one.
10. There is no final destination on the improvement journey.

To sum, perfect practice daily is key.

Someone said it takes 10,000 hrs of practice to perfect one craft. So if we practice daily (8 hrs) to learn one craft, it takes total of 3.5 years to master it. Wow! Is this the reason why average effectivity of a job is pegged around 3.5 years. Beyond that, a person is just cruising?