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Just smile
Take a moment to smile to yourself as you start the day. Take the day with a positive mind and hope.
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
– Yoko Ono
Starting and ending your day in a good way should become a habit.
You can influence your way of thinking as you take some simple habit.
End your day with gratitude and hope for your next day.
Grateful for what you got and positive for what you’ll get from life.
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Say and do
Leaders do what they say.
“As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.”
– Jon Gordon
Leaders are examples of what they say. If their actions differ from what they say, they lose all influence they had.
No one will be fooled by a false leader.
When you waste your reputation as a leader, it’s very hard to get it back.
Even if you don’t have any goal to become a leader, you should do what you say anyway.
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
You are beautiful when you think, say and do in harmony.
“It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
– Stephenie Meyer
Your word
Do you keep your word?
When you way that you’ll do something, are you doing it?
Can you show some resolve?
Keep your word, something that still has a lot of power.
Facing two people that need your help, you’ll always choose the person that has been there for you before. Someone who has kept his word with you.
Do you want to be that person? Someone that others trust and respect.
“Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.”
– Bill Rancic
People trust people who keep their word.
Keeping your word can be hard. It can be a lot of work. In the end it could be worth so much more than all the work you did.
Don’t help someone for the return. Do it because you think it’s the right things.
Let it be
Let your mind show us its wonders!
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
– Gustave Flaubert
Great books are wrote one word at a time.
Let your mind create wonders.
Status
Status does not guaranty greatness.
Base your value on goodness. Be good for others and good people will gather around you.
“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.”
– Thomas A. Edison
Be good, be social and be open to others. The good people will come to you.
Don’t be blinded by status. Listen to your guts and be good to all.
Gain pleasure
We’re all drive by the desire to avoid pain and get more pleasure. It’s at the base of all our behavior.
“All human have the desire for certainty that they can avoid pain and gain pleasure.”
– Tim Robbins
Avoiding pain and gaining pleasure can become something that rules your life. When it’s the case, you could end up feeling out of control. Or you could end up with a maniacal control on your life. As in everything, the middle path is always the better way.
Let’s say you got burned by the oven when you were 6 years old. That experience will be printed in your memory. If you let it grow, you could end up never be able to cook anything using an oven. But, understanding that you have to be careful and use the oven wisely, you can go over that bad memory and cook with it. Doing so will ask that you do some work on yourself and find the guts to overcome your fear of the pain.
Pain is a warning. It has to show you that you need to make some changes.
Learning and Doing
Learning is great. But doing is always better.
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
– Richard Branson
We all need to start up with the learning. Some will learn fast and some will be slower. It doesn’t matter, because it’s what they do with what they learned that will make an impact. In the end, the doers will always take the lead on the outside learner. Learning from the experience of other is great, but it won’t never as great as learning from your own experiences.
The more you’ll do and the more you’ll develop your special alarm senses. Yes, that special senses that will tell you if one thing is better than the other. That special senses cannot come from the experience of others, you have to build it on your own.
About that special sense, I have a story to tell you. My wife was working as a dispatch for a security alarm company. On that night, she was working as usual and doing her job. You have to understand that 98% of the alarm are false. So, to have a positive alarm is really rare. They were taking care of many thousands of alarm in an 8hrs shift. Among all those alarms, she got one alarm for a fire detection in a snack bar. She sent the fire department and went on with the other alarms. The fire department came back and report that there was no fire in there. She felt that something was wrong. She got a few more alarm from that place and she got that feeling that something was wrong. So she called back the fire department and told them that she kept getting an alarm and something was strange with that alarm coming back again and again. So the fireman got back to the snack bar and did some other test. They tested the place for gas and found out that there was a leak in there. It was a major leak. If it would have blown, the whole village would have exploded. In some way, she followed her feeling and saved many people. The feeling was good because she understood how the alarm where working and she had experience on the job. If this would have happen in her first week, there’s a good reason to think that she would not have push it further after the first check up from the fire department.
We all need to start up with some learning. Those who don’t take the time to learn the basics first will have to get it the hard way doing it. The problem with learning is there’s a lot of people that can’t take the next step into doing. You’ll have to find your edge in this. Some will need a lot of time and some a lot less. It’s ok to take the time you need. Because, in the end the ones who are doing and keep on doing will be the one to succeed.
Between learning and doing, doing is the best. But you need to keep on doing. Most doers who are quitting do it because they don’t have what is needed to keep going. They don’t know what they should do and they don’t know how they can find that information. And this could be helped with learning. You should keep on learning as you are doing. It will help you face the problem you’ll get on the way to reaching for your goal.
Learning the basics is like building a strong basement for your project. It will not assure you of success, but it’s a good way to start.
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
There’s no end to learning, even if you think you don’t have anything more to learn, you’ll learn anyway.
“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”
– Don Herold
Some very intelligent people think they know enough. That’s one more thing they’ll have to learn, that they have to keep on learning to the level of their capacity. You should always surpass yourself.
Success Anchor
Anchor your success in time and space.
When you reach a point of success, take the time to celebrate it. Take the time to anchor it with something special.
It can be a picture that you put on your wall. I can be a little something that will remind you of that moment. I can be a nice moment with your family to celebrate this success. It can be anything you want, as long as you create memories that you can come back to when you are in a difficult moment.
The anchor will help you remember the good times. It will help you keeping the faith that things can be better and that you can do great things.
As you go along, you’ll anchor more and more success. Doing so will give you lots of great things to go back to.
See the anchor as a diploma or a trophy. You set the level to achieve and the goal to reach.
“Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.”
– Sam Walton
Short or long post?
Each blogger build his or her style.
To me, the length of the post is not relevant. Because, my priority is the content. We can say a lot in less than 25 words.
Here’s my view of what is making a good post.
- Content: The priority should always be the content.
- Structure: The structure of the post is making it easy to read or not. One good advice: “If you want to know if your post is easy to read or not, read it aloud to yourself. If you can’t read it without bumping, then you should revise it.”
- True: The info in your post needs to be true for you. What does this means? It has to be from you. Never, ever, post a text from someone else. It has to come from you.
I think that a blogger should post a minimum of 3 post per week. But, its way better to publish one great post in a week than 7 bad ones.
Short post are great for people that don’t have a lot of time to spend reading.
Your post need to be interesting from the first line. If you don’t catch the reader on your first line, you will lose 90% of them.
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