See the Big Picture first

The Wheel of Personal Success

True Success: 4 Questions To Ask Yourself

Starting With the Right Mindset

Think of yourself as a work in progress. Actually, we all are.

If you stop learning and improving yourself you stop creating history and become history.

Your Character Ethic and Personality Ethic

The elements of Personality Ethic, such as communication skills, influence strategies, and positive thinking, are essential for success, but these are secondary, not primary traits. "You can pick up quick, easy techniques that may work in short-term situations. But secondary traits alone have no permanent worth in long-term relationships. Eventually, if there isn't deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationships failure will replace short-term success."¹

Only basic goodness gives life to techniques. To achieve great results, focus first on yourself – your deepest motives and perceptions – and then on your techniques.

Put Your Business Plan Into Action²

One of the best ways to identify the actions that you're ready and willing to take is by asking yourself empowering and powerful questions. You do need to be sure that your business plans are current and up to date. If they need some time to freshen them up, then I invite you to do this first.

Now read through your business plans and get in touch with the positive feelings you had when writing them. Once you feel in touch with your plans, ask yourself one or a couple of questions. You may choose to use your own questions or start with ones such as:

• What one specific action would have the greatest impact on bringing this plan to fruition?

• What is the one action that I most need to take today?

• What do I feel inspired and ready to do now?

5 Rules of Self-Motivation

Before asking the questions, quiet your mind and be willing to listen to your answer. Once you've identified the actions needed, get started now. This identifies the most effective action to take in alignment with what you most want through your business plan. As you build the habit of asking yourself these questions, you may want to add your own or choose different ones.

Take Action!

Modern Management: 12 Breakthrough Ideas for the New Economy

Source: Harvard Economic Review Executive summary by Anastasia Bibikova.

The best ideas related to the practice of management. If you know somebody has used them, don’t try to repeat. Simply consider them, debate them and let them inspire your own thinking!...

12. Management and the Self: New generation style of management – is self-management and self-coaching. You can’t change the others and the world around without changing yourself.  So start with your own consciousness!... More

Leadership-Management Synergy

Positive Emotions Are the Key To Life

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area... More

Yin-Yang of Happiness

The Low of Forced Efficiency

This law says that, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."

The key question you should ask is "What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is the question that dominates time management. This is the key to overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive person... More

Be Different and Make a Difference!

NLP Technology of Achievement: Circle of Excellence

This is a self anchoring process that allows you to draw on resourceful memories to create a resourceful state.

3 Pillars of Inspiration

It was developed by John Grinder, and these instructions are drawn from the excellent NLP Field Guide Part I by Jules and Chris Collingwood.³

1. Identify the external triggers for unresourceful state. These should be visual, auditory, tactile or smell or taste stimuli.

2. Build a powerful resource state using the circle of excellence technique. To create a circle of excellence, draw an imaginary circle on the floor or mark a circle in chalk large enough to step into.

3. Remember experiences where you felt powerful, creative, composed, or any resourceful state where you felt balanced and centred.

4. Step into the circle only as quickly or slowly as you remember and re-access the resourceful state through your inner senses, i.e. see what you saw through your eyes within the actual experience, hear the sounds and language used, and get in touch with the your posture, breathing and emotions when inside the desirable resource memory. Note that an observer would see changes in your physiology such as better posture, deeper breathing, and skin colour changes. If there is no noticeable change in physiology the resource state is either poorly accessed or low intensity. If it is low intensity, choose anther resource state that is more powerful.

5. Repeat step 4 with an additional resource state, continuing to add resource states one at a time. When you have enough resources, you step automatically into a very powerful state on entering the circle, which is truly now a circle of excellence.

6. Recall a trigger for the unresourceful state as you step into the circle of excellence. Repeat process with each old trigger. Or ask your partner to role play the various triggers (gestures, words, voice tones etc.) as you step into the circle of excellence.