Motivation Guides

LITTLE LADY

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:45:00 +0000

A little old lady was running up and down the halls in a nursing home. As she walked, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and say "Supersex.." She walked up to an elderly man in a wheelchair. Flipping her gown at him, she said, "Supersex.."

He sat silently for a moment or two and finally answered, "I'll take the
soup."

"I CAN HEAR JUST FINE!"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:44:00 +0000

Three retirees, each with a hearing loss, were playing golf one fine March day. One remarked to the other, "Windy, isn't it?"

"No," the second man replied, "it's Thursday."

And the third man chimed in, "So am I. Let's have a beer."

Human Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:09:00 +0000

To dream anything that you want to dream.
That is the beauty of the human mind.

To do anything that you want to do.
That is the strength of the human will.

To trust yourself to test your limits.
That is the courage to succeed.

By Bernard Edmonds

START WHERE YOU STAND

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won't help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through;
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don't give the vanished days a backward look,

Start where you stand.
The world won't care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,

Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
To-day's the thing, to-morrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history,
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,

Start where you stand.
by Berton Braley

Motivation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:56:00 +0000

Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in myself. - Robert Schuller

Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
- Joseph Sugarman

Manging Changes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:59:00 +0000

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.
Peter F. Drucker

Your employees pass through these four stages in the cycle, and you can learn how to manage this passage:
The Change Cycle
1. Objection: “This can’t be good.”
2. Reduced Consciousness: “I really don’t want to deal with this.”
3. Exploration: “How can I make this change work for me?”
4. Buy-in: “I have figured out how I can make this work for me and for others.”

Sir Winston Churchill

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Sir Winston Churchill

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty– never give in.
Sir Winston Churchill

Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:17:00 +0000

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion."
Theodore Hesburgh

Leadership translates vision into reality by inspiring followers to want to experience the change process. And to influence their followers to willingly jump into that experience, leaders need a specific set of competencies1 to guide their actions. Although competencies will always differ from one leader to the next, having a core set to draw from increases the chance for success. These competencies can be thought of as the inner tools for motivating employees, directing systems and processes, and guiding the business towards common goals that allow the organization to increase its value. This leadership guide is broken into three main parts that form a “Pyramid of Leadership”.

Core competencies form the foundation of leadership. Without a solid base, the sides of the pyramid will soon crumble away.
Leadership Competencies form the basic structure (walls) that separates leaders from bosses by building the knowledge and skills required for driving the organization towards the cutting edge of its business. Without these competencies, a leader has a shallow base from which to work, or as Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert best characterizes it, "a pointy-head boss."
Professional Competencies add depth to the pyramid. The main driver of these competencies arrives from experiences and LEARNING from these experiences. While a person might have a firm grasp on the core and leadership competencies, it is only through trial and error, and later through reflection to increase the depth of those experiences, that an average leader grows into a good leader. Each organization requires a different set of professional competencies for each leadership position.

More reading ..............
Leadership: Theory and Practice
Core Competency-Based Strategy

Keeping Yourself Motivated

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:52:00 +0000

As a manager you have to be motivated yourself in order to motivate others. Now you know the theory you can begin to apply it to yourself.

Regularly review what you have achieved each day, month and year; set SMART goals for yourself.
Develop a personal reward system for small, medium, large and milestone successes; contract with yourself that you will always give of your best.
Regularly review your personal goals and targets; go for everything you can.
Develop a mental picture of yourself doing and achieving what you aspire to; give everything you do total focus.
Keep a success file and record all your achievements; rejoice and celebrate success; keep learning from your experience (your successes as well as your failures).
Look after your health by eating, resting and exercising appropriately; look after your body so that you are fit, alert and healthy.
Ensure that your self-talk is positive; continually visualise success.
Keep a confidence file, a list of everything you like and admire about yourself.
Use positive affirmations and say them to yourself regularly.
Avoid making comparisons with others.

Quote of the day

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:08:00 +0000

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Motivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:01:00 +0000

Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

Warriors take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.
Ancient Samurai

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Chuang Tzu

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let him.
Napoleon Hill

Your brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.
Charles E. Popplestone

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Og Mandino

Quote of the day ...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:13:00 +0000

We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn't understand and therefore, we ask them why don t you just go ahead and take action; try to do something? You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you didn t like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement, or, should I say, the improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge.

Fujio Cho, President, Toyota Motor Corporation, 2002

Six Thinking Hats

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Early in the 1980s Dr. de Bono invented the Six Thinking Hats method. The method is a framework for thinking and can incorporate lateral thinking. Valuable judgmental thinking has its place in the system but is not allowed to dominate as in normal thinking.

The six hats represent six modes of thinking and are directions to think rather than labels for thinking. That is, the hats are used proactively rather than reactively. The method promotes fuller input from more people. In de Bono's words it "separates ego from performance". Everyone is able to contribute to the exploration without denting egos as they are just using the yellow hat or whatever hat. The six hats system encourages performance rather than ego defense. People can contribute under any hat even though they initially support the opposite view.

The key point is that a hat is a direction to think rather than a label for thinking. The key theoretical reasons to use the Six Thinking Hats are to:

encourage Parallel Thinking
encourage full-spectrum thinking
separate ego from performance

The following is an excerpt from John Culvenor and Dennis Else Engineering Creative Design, 1995)

There are six metaphorical hats and the thinker can put on or take off one of these hats to indicate the type of thinking being used. This putting on and taking off is essential. The hats must never be used to categorize individuals, even though their behavior may seem to invite this. When done in group, everybody wear the same hat at the same time.

White Hat thinking
This covers facts, figures, information needs and gaps. "I think we need some white hat thinking at this point..." means Let's drop the arguments and proposals, and look at the data base."

Red Hat thinking
This covers intuition, feelings and emotions. The red hat allows the thinker to put forward an intuition without any ned to justify it. "Putting on my red hat, I think this is a terrible proposal." Ususally feelings and intuition can only be introduced into a discussion if they are supported by logic. Usually the feeling is genuine but the logic is spurious.The red hat gives full permission to a thinker to put forward his or her feelings on the subject at the moment.

Black Hat thinking
This is the hat of judgment and caution. It is a most valuable hat. It is not in any sense an inferior or negative hat. The rior or negative hat. The black hat is used to point out why a suggestion does not fit the facts, the available experience, the system in use, or the policy that is being followed. The black hat must always be logical.

Yellow Hat thinking
This is the logical positive. Why something will work and why it will offer benefits. It can be used in looking forward to the results of some proposed action, but can also be used to find something of value in what has already happened.

Green Hat thinking
This is the hat of creativity, alternatives, proposals, what is interesting, provocations and changes.

Blue Hat thinking
This is the overview or process control hat. It looks not at the subject itself but at the 'thinking' about the subject. "Putting on my blue hat, I feel we should do some more green hat thinking at this point." In technical terms, the blue hat is concerned with metacognition.

Bad Memory

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:06:00 +0000

Mark Twain is reported to have said that "everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it." Similarly, everyone talks or brags about their bad memory, but few people ever do anything about it. Let's face it, there isn't much you can do about the weather, but there's a great deal that you can do about your bad memory.

Motivation & Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:24:00 +0000

While business is a game of numbers, real achievement is measured in infinite emotional wealths: friendship, usefulness, helping, learning, or, said another way, the one who dies with the most joys wins.
Dale Dauten

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Discipline is remembering what you want.
David Campbell

Qoute of the day - 17/01

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:16:00 +0000

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
- Samuel Johnson

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:16:00 +0000

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:52:00 +0000

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
Theodore Hesburgh

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. Warren Bennis

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

Leadership shows itself in the inspired action of team members. Traditionally, organizations have assessed leaders by their actions and behaviors. But, the best way to assess a leader would be to assess the leadership by the degree to which people around leaders are inspired. It is this inspiration that leads organizations on to success.

Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:43:00 +0000

When we take our eyes off the external realities, turning inward to admire the beauty of our own organization, we may be swept away by the swirling waters of change.
Kouzes & Posner

Leaders must . . . destroy routines because routines get us into ruts, dull our senses, stifle our creativity, constrict our thinking, remove us from stimulation, and destroy our ability to complete. Once-useful routines sap the vitality out of an organization and cause it to atrophy. Yet some routines are essential to a definable, consistent, measurable, and efficient operation."
Kouzes & Posner

Intrinsic motivation is the impulse to accomplish a task that emanates from the satisfaction that is inherent in the task itself--as opposed to motivation through external rewards and punishments.
Thomas & Velthouse

Leadership has about it a kinesthetic feel, a sense of movement. Leaders ‘go first.’ They’re pioneers. They begin the quest for a new order. They venture into unexplored territory and guide us to new and unfamiliar destinations.
Kouzes & Posner

Moivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:20:00 +0000

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to use it.
Confucius

People who feel good about themselves produce good results. Think about yourself. When do you work best? Is it when you feel good about yourself? Or when you don‟t?”
Unknown

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capability.
Bob Nardelli

Great coaches make great leaders. Yet great leaders are not always great coaches.
Unknown

Effective leaders are in constant communication with the people they lead. They are profoundly concerned for others and frequently use family-like terminology when they refer to their work team.
Unknown

Motivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:40:00 +0000

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Brian Tracy

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.

Earl Nightingale

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

Motivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Anthony Robbins

A great man is one who can make a small man feel great, and perform great.
Unknown

Delivering high performance is a journey rather than a destination.
Unknown

Motivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:43:00 +0000

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
James Allen

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.
John Kehoe

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Anthony Robbins

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Fortune favours the brave.
Publius Terence

Motivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:13:00 +0000

Every human has four endowments- self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.
Deepak Chopra

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

There are those who dream and wish and there are those who dream and work.
Jeune.E. McIntyre.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Motivation Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:11:00 +0000

Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates

The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Charles Schwab

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Lee Jampolsky

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt