I know you will be wondering what I’m up to in this article. What I have for you cost one man many years to discover through painstaking research. In fact, after making the discovery, he did not keep it to himself. He recognized the power of the secret in all the activities of man and nations including the economy of the world. The universal application of this mysterious rule motivated him to share it with the world. Since then, those who have been fortunate to know about the rule have applied it to their lives with tremendous positive results.
This Secret Covers Every Aspect Of Your Life
It does not matter what category of human endeavour you belong now. Just as the rule affect a student, it also affects a banker. It governs the activities of an accountant. It does not leave out a businessman. It rules all that the husband does at home. It does not leave out the wife.
If you like to call this rule the essential tool for personal success. It could be called the power to be your best. It is a Vital Tip For Effective Living. Those who are priviledged to know this principle has had their situation changed from grass to grace. Nonentities had been turned into celebrities by simple awareness and application of this rule. You can apply it to profitably manage your finance. You can use it to maximize profits in your investment. You need to do away with trivial things and focus on essential things at every stage of your life.
The Pareto Principle And Your Life
Pareto was the man who discovered the mysterious rule I promised to share with you. The rule is called the 80/20 rule. It explains that 80% of all human activities is responsible for 20% of the outcome. 20% of all human activities is also responsible for 80% of the outcome. Let me explain better. 80% of your knowledge is derived from 20% of the books you read. You only get 20% knowledge from the remaining 80%. This is to say that out of every ten books you read, you learn most from just two of them. You can therefore significantly increase your knowledge base by identifying these 2 books and concentrate more on them to get maximum benefit.
As a businessman, 80% of your profit is derived from 20% of your customers. Among 10 customers you have, 80% of your sales is from 2 of them. These 2 are your loyal customers. They will patronize you no matter what. If you concentrate on keeping them and making them satisfied at all times, they can help you grow your business.
You can use the Pareto principle to effectively manage your time. 20 percent of your daily activities give you 80% of satisfaction and good results. Just identify those activities and focus on them.
How To Benefit From This Rule
Once you identify the activities that give you the best results, focus on them and give them priority in your life. If reading and writing gives you the best result and satisfaction in your daily activities, focus on them and develop your skills in these areas. You will grow to become a highly influential author, writer and leader. The power of focus will open the door for you and enable you to make great discoveries sometimes extraordinary.
Think about this again. 20% of your activities give you 80% of your results and reward.
How To Apply The 80/20 Rule To Everything
Vilfredo Pareto who discovered this principle in 1895 noticed that people in the society seemed to divide naturally into the ‘vital’ few and ‘trivial’ many. The vital few represents the top 20% in terms of money and influence and the trivial many represents the bottom 80%.
The average person procrastinate on the most valuable and important tasks. They busy themselves instead with the least important things that contribute little to results. I hope you are not like those who appear to be busy but achieve little results. You may have observed that the most valuable tasks you want to do each day are often the most difficult and complex. The joy is that they yield the highest pay off and reward.
Before you begin any work, determine if it is in the top 20% o the bottom 80%.
Here are simple steps to follow in order to apply the 80/20 rule to your life:
(1) Resist The Temptation To Do Small Things First: don’t forget that whatever you choose to do over and over again eventually becomes your habit. Habits are very difficult to break. If you start your day on trivial things, you will eventually develop the habit of starting and working on low value tasks. The results you get from that ends up in the 80% below average reward. Get started on the most important tasks daily and you will be motivated to do more by the time you start seeing the great reward.
(2) Think About Starting And Finishing Your Daily Task Before Hand: You get enough motivation by just thinking about starting and finishing an important task. The motivation you get empowers you to overcome procrastination. The valuable reward you get subsequently from your effort makes you feel satisfied and happy.
(3) Manage Your Time Well: Time management is life management. It is also personal management. Managing your time well gives you absolute control over events and life’s circumstances. You control what you do next. The key determinant factor of your success in life and work is your ability to choose between important and unimportant tasks.
(4) Discipline Yourself To Start On Important Tasks: The place of discipline cannot be ruled out in your quest to applying the 80/20 rule in everything you do. Effective and productive people usually discipline themselves to start on the most important task before them. They force themselves to get the task done first whatever it is. They therefore accomplish more than the average person. They are also more complacent and happier. Adopt this as your way of working.
To Your Success,
Benard Solomon
Monday, January 19, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
How To Become A Superior Thinker And Predict Your Future
‘For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel, I returning and rest shall ye be saved: in quietness and I confidence shall be your strength and ye would not’
(Is. 30:15)
Not thinking is responsible for most people’s failure. Many had abandoned their goals because they cannot think. If you cannot think, you cannot plan. If you cannot plan, you cannot succeed. Thinking generates great ideas. Ideas rule the world. If you want to be great and highly successful, you must renounce mental laziness and think.
Can you mention anything good in this modern, information age that did not come to being through thinking? Henry Ford was a great thinker. He gave the world moving machines popularly called automobiles today against all odds. The Wright brothers were great thinkers. They gave the world flying machines- the airplane despite the resistance and persecution they had to endure. Thinkers see beyond the present.
Bill Gates is a great thinker. He left medical school as a result of superior thinking. He was what all the professors in the medical school and science could not see in the seventies. He followed his idea about the future of the computer. What is the result of that? The information age. The PC is a common machine today in homes and offices. Without his superior thinking, such could not have been possible. His superior thinking has not only made him successful, it has made him the richest in the world since he was forty.
The more you are able to think, the better your life becomes. You change your lifestyle. You generate extraordinary ideas and get uncommon results. You suddenly become visible. People begin to see you as someone who can solve their problems.
Okay, this is my question to you. Do you think? If you are not thinking, you will be an under achiever. This write up is to make available to you simple steps you can take in order to start thinking instantly.
4 Great Steps To Powerful Thinking
Here are the four powerful steps to take today so you can start thinking your way to superior performance and extra ordinary achievement.
(1) Create A Quiet Place
(2) Create A Conducive Time
(3) Concentrate Your Thoughts
(4) Convert Your Ideas Into Implementable Action
Create A Quiet Place
This is very difficult for most people. You may find it easier to stay among people talking the whole day. Let me tell you the truth. You are wasting your life. Do everything possible to create a place where you can be alone daily and periodically. Once you identify the place, your subconscious mind will begin to work on you to take the next step.
Create A Conducive Time
Just creating a place will not get you there. You must find a time when you can be alone and be at ease with yourself. This time should be your best time of the day. While for some it is during the day, for others, it is at night. Set this time to be the time you concentrate mostly on anything you are doing.
Concentrate Your Thought
You will need a writing material to do this. I have never seen a tool as cheap and readily available as the common pencil and paper.
Write your thought down on pending issues during your time of concentration. The thoughts and ideas you generate become tangible. More stimulation will come to your mind to generate ways of bringing the ideas to pass.
Convert Your Ideas Into Implementable Action
The world will not know about the ideas you have if no step is taken to actualize it. Turn your ideas into simple plan and turn your plan into action. Do it one step at a time. This is how to become a superior thinker and predict your own future.
3 Vital Attributes Of A Superior Thinker
You could either be a superior thinker or an inferior thinker. A superior thinker gets great ideas and results. The opposite is the case for an inferior thinker. A superior thinker ends up being a philosopher whose postulations affect the present and future.
Let us consider the following Factors and how they contribute to superior thinking.
Consider The Consequence
A superior thinker thinks about the consequences of doing or not doing something. He is able to think accurately of the consequences of his actions.
Your actions and inactions matter. They are responsible for the results you get in any given circumstance. Better decisions are taken when you give due consideration to the anticipated results of your actions.
Think Long Term
Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University carried out a research for more than 50 years. In his conclusions, he remarked that ‘long term’ perspective is the most accurate single predictor of upward social and economic mobility in America. He reasoned that long term perspective turns out to be more important than family background, education, race, intelligence, connections or virtually any other factor in determining your success in life.
One impact of time horizon on your behaviour and choice is phenomenal. Take a long view of your life and career and you will make much better decision about your use of time and the activities you engage in. You will be ahead of other people who give very little thought to the future.
Have A Clear Future Orientation
Long-term thinking improves short-term decision-making. Successful people often have a clear future orientation. They know where they want to be. They know where they are going. They know why they are doing what they do. They think five, ten, and twenty years ahead into the future. Careful analysis of their choices and behaviour is their past time. They make sure that what they do in the present is consistent with the future they desire.
Brian Tracy gives a lucid explanation of the benefit of long-term thinking. Here him:
‘In your work, having a clear idea of what is really important to you in the long term makes it much easier for you to make better decisions about your priorities in the short term. By definition, something that is important has long-term potential consequences. Something that is unimportant has few or no long-term potential, beneficial consequences. Before starting on anything, you should always ask yourself, what are the potential consequences of doing or not doing those tasks’.
Future Intent Influences And Often Determines Present Actions
‘The clearer you are about your future intentions, the greater influence that clarity will have on what you do in the moment. With a long term vision, you are much more capable of evaluating an activity in the present and to ensure that it is consistent with where you truly want to end up.’
(Is. 30:15)
Not thinking is responsible for most people’s failure. Many had abandoned their goals because they cannot think. If you cannot think, you cannot plan. If you cannot plan, you cannot succeed. Thinking generates great ideas. Ideas rule the world. If you want to be great and highly successful, you must renounce mental laziness and think.
Can you mention anything good in this modern, information age that did not come to being through thinking? Henry Ford was a great thinker. He gave the world moving machines popularly called automobiles today against all odds. The Wright brothers were great thinkers. They gave the world flying machines- the airplane despite the resistance and persecution they had to endure. Thinkers see beyond the present.
Bill Gates is a great thinker. He left medical school as a result of superior thinking. He was what all the professors in the medical school and science could not see in the seventies. He followed his idea about the future of the computer. What is the result of that? The information age. The PC is a common machine today in homes and offices. Without his superior thinking, such could not have been possible. His superior thinking has not only made him successful, it has made him the richest in the world since he was forty.
The more you are able to think, the better your life becomes. You change your lifestyle. You generate extraordinary ideas and get uncommon results. You suddenly become visible. People begin to see you as someone who can solve their problems.
Okay, this is my question to you. Do you think? If you are not thinking, you will be an under achiever. This write up is to make available to you simple steps you can take in order to start thinking instantly.
4 Great Steps To Powerful Thinking
Here are the four powerful steps to take today so you can start thinking your way to superior performance and extra ordinary achievement.
(1) Create A Quiet Place
(2) Create A Conducive Time
(3) Concentrate Your Thoughts
(4) Convert Your Ideas Into Implementable Action
Create A Quiet Place
This is very difficult for most people. You may find it easier to stay among people talking the whole day. Let me tell you the truth. You are wasting your life. Do everything possible to create a place where you can be alone daily and periodically. Once you identify the place, your subconscious mind will begin to work on you to take the next step.
Create A Conducive Time
Just creating a place will not get you there. You must find a time when you can be alone and be at ease with yourself. This time should be your best time of the day. While for some it is during the day, for others, it is at night. Set this time to be the time you concentrate mostly on anything you are doing.
Concentrate Your Thought
You will need a writing material to do this. I have never seen a tool as cheap and readily available as the common pencil and paper.
Write your thought down on pending issues during your time of concentration. The thoughts and ideas you generate become tangible. More stimulation will come to your mind to generate ways of bringing the ideas to pass.
Convert Your Ideas Into Implementable Action
The world will not know about the ideas you have if no step is taken to actualize it. Turn your ideas into simple plan and turn your plan into action. Do it one step at a time. This is how to become a superior thinker and predict your own future.
3 Vital Attributes Of A Superior Thinker
You could either be a superior thinker or an inferior thinker. A superior thinker gets great ideas and results. The opposite is the case for an inferior thinker. A superior thinker ends up being a philosopher whose postulations affect the present and future.
Let us consider the following Factors and how they contribute to superior thinking.
Consider The Consequence
A superior thinker thinks about the consequences of doing or not doing something. He is able to think accurately of the consequences of his actions.
Your actions and inactions matter. They are responsible for the results you get in any given circumstance. Better decisions are taken when you give due consideration to the anticipated results of your actions.
Think Long Term
Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University carried out a research for more than 50 years. In his conclusions, he remarked that ‘long term’ perspective is the most accurate single predictor of upward social and economic mobility in America. He reasoned that long term perspective turns out to be more important than family background, education, race, intelligence, connections or virtually any other factor in determining your success in life.
One impact of time horizon on your behaviour and choice is phenomenal. Take a long view of your life and career and you will make much better decision about your use of time and the activities you engage in. You will be ahead of other people who give very little thought to the future.
Have A Clear Future Orientation
Long-term thinking improves short-term decision-making. Successful people often have a clear future orientation. They know where they want to be. They know where they are going. They know why they are doing what they do. They think five, ten, and twenty years ahead into the future. Careful analysis of their choices and behaviour is their past time. They make sure that what they do in the present is consistent with the future they desire.
Brian Tracy gives a lucid explanation of the benefit of long-term thinking. Here him:
‘In your work, having a clear idea of what is really important to you in the long term makes it much easier for you to make better decisions about your priorities in the short term. By definition, something that is important has long-term potential consequences. Something that is unimportant has few or no long-term potential, beneficial consequences. Before starting on anything, you should always ask yourself, what are the potential consequences of doing or not doing those tasks’.
Future Intent Influences And Often Determines Present Actions
‘The clearer you are about your future intentions, the greater influence that clarity will have on what you do in the moment. With a long term vision, you are much more capable of evaluating an activity in the present and to ensure that it is consistent with where you truly want to end up.’
Monday, January 5, 2009
How To Change Your Thinking And Unlock Your Full Potential
You have full responsibility for your life. The way you think play a major, significant role on whatever you become in life. Greatness is an offshoot of how you think. So is under-achievement and failure. As a man thinks in his heart so is he. Do you know that the way you think and feel about yourself including your belief and expectations about what is possible for you determines everything you do and everything that happens to you? Do you know that when you change the quality of your thinking you can change the quality of your life?
There is one thing I know you have complete and absolute control over in the universe. That is your thinking. You are the only one who decide what you are going to think in any given situation. Your thought have powerful influence on your feelings whether positive or negative. All your actions spring from your thoughts and feeling which in turn determines the result and reward you get.
Get More Power Through Positive Thinking
You will have more power and influence if you learn to think positively against all odds. Positive thoughts enhance your life. It empowers you and make you feel stronger and more confident. Positive thinking have measurable constructive effects on your personality, your health, levels of energy and creativity. Happiness is a by-product of positive thinking. The more positive and optimistic you are, the happier you will be in every area of your life.
Get Negative Thoughts Out Of Your Mind
For you to stay positive always, you must get negative thoughts out of your mind as fast as possible. Negative thoughts bring opposite results to positive thinking. It dis-empowers you and make you feel weaker and less confident.
Negative thoughts take your power away whenever you think or say something negative.
Negative thoughts make you angry and defensive. You feel frustrated and unhappy. With time, negative thinking can make you physically ill and poison your relationships.
See the damage negative thinking does to you in summary.
(1) It renders you powerless
(2) It makes you angry and defensive
(3) You feel frustrated and unhappy
(4) It makes you physically ill
(5) It poisons your relationship
Do you see that list? Those 5 powerful effects of negative thinking can shorten your life.
You now have the responsibility to eliminate negative thinking from your mind permanently. Brian Tracy says ‘ the elimination of negative emotions is the most important single step you can take toward health, happiness and personal well-being.’
Decide To Choose Positive Thoughts TodayUse the law of substitution to eliminate negative thinking from your mind and replace them with positive thinking. The law of substitution says ‘ your mind can hold only one thought at a time- positive or negative’. You can substitute a positive thought for a negative thought whenever you choose. You can apply the law by deliberately thinking about something positive whenever you want to cancel out a thought or feeling that makes you angry or unhappy. Remember that your thought and feeling determine your actions which in turn form your habit. The law of habit says ‘ any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit’.
Thinking and responding repeatedly in a positive way helps you to take control over your conscious mind. Very soon, it becomes automatic and easy to think and act in that manner. Your will power is developed as a result of that singular process. You can go ahead to develop new habits of thinking and acting in a positive way.
You Can Starve Your Negative Emotions To Death
If you think you cannot do away with negative thinking, perish the thought. The secret I want you to know is that all negative thoughts have been learned. You started learning them in your childhood. When you were born, you had none of them. In short, you can unlearn them just as you initially learned them. What has been learned can be unlearned. You will be amazed how quickly you can do away with negative thoughts once you decide on it right now. A great expert on success says ‘ you can learn any habit or skill that you consider to be either desirable or necessary. You can learn positive constructive ways of thinking about people, money, health and other things to cancel out negative ideas that limit your potential and interfere with your success’.
Another secret you should discover about negative ideas is that they are based on false premises. A new information will surely change such perception and make you change your thinking in an instant’.
Negative emotion cannot survive without your cooperation. You can starve your negative thinking by the application of the law of emotion. The law states that ; a stronger emotion will dominate and override a weaker emotion and whichever emotion you concentrate on grow and become stronger’. Any emotion you dwell upon for a long time eventually dominate your thinking.
Withdraw your emotion, anger and attention from the person or thing that makes you sad and watch the negative thought give way. This technique will work wonders for you. It is a promise. Try it.
There is one thing I know you have complete and absolute control over in the universe. That is your thinking. You are the only one who decide what you are going to think in any given situation. Your thought have powerful influence on your feelings whether positive or negative. All your actions spring from your thoughts and feeling which in turn determines the result and reward you get.
Get More Power Through Positive Thinking
You will have more power and influence if you learn to think positively against all odds. Positive thoughts enhance your life. It empowers you and make you feel stronger and more confident. Positive thinking have measurable constructive effects on your personality, your health, levels of energy and creativity. Happiness is a by-product of positive thinking. The more positive and optimistic you are, the happier you will be in every area of your life.
Get Negative Thoughts Out Of Your Mind
For you to stay positive always, you must get negative thoughts out of your mind as fast as possible. Negative thoughts bring opposite results to positive thinking. It dis-empowers you and make you feel weaker and less confident.
Negative thoughts take your power away whenever you think or say something negative.
Negative thoughts make you angry and defensive. You feel frustrated and unhappy. With time, negative thinking can make you physically ill and poison your relationships.
See the damage negative thinking does to you in summary.
(1) It renders you powerless
(2) It makes you angry and defensive
(3) You feel frustrated and unhappy
(4) It makes you physically ill
(5) It poisons your relationship
Do you see that list? Those 5 powerful effects of negative thinking can shorten your life.
You now have the responsibility to eliminate negative thinking from your mind permanently. Brian Tracy says ‘ the elimination of negative emotions is the most important single step you can take toward health, happiness and personal well-being.’
Decide To Choose Positive Thoughts TodayUse the law of substitution to eliminate negative thinking from your mind and replace them with positive thinking. The law of substitution says ‘ your mind can hold only one thought at a time- positive or negative’. You can substitute a positive thought for a negative thought whenever you choose. You can apply the law by deliberately thinking about something positive whenever you want to cancel out a thought or feeling that makes you angry or unhappy. Remember that your thought and feeling determine your actions which in turn form your habit. The law of habit says ‘ any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit’.
Thinking and responding repeatedly in a positive way helps you to take control over your conscious mind. Very soon, it becomes automatic and easy to think and act in that manner. Your will power is developed as a result of that singular process. You can go ahead to develop new habits of thinking and acting in a positive way.
You Can Starve Your Negative Emotions To Death
If you think you cannot do away with negative thinking, perish the thought. The secret I want you to know is that all negative thoughts have been learned. You started learning them in your childhood. When you were born, you had none of them. In short, you can unlearn them just as you initially learned them. What has been learned can be unlearned. You will be amazed how quickly you can do away with negative thoughts once you decide on it right now. A great expert on success says ‘ you can learn any habit or skill that you consider to be either desirable or necessary. You can learn positive constructive ways of thinking about people, money, health and other things to cancel out negative ideas that limit your potential and interfere with your success’.
Another secret you should discover about negative ideas is that they are based on false premises. A new information will surely change such perception and make you change your thinking in an instant’.
Negative emotion cannot survive without your cooperation. You can starve your negative thinking by the application of the law of emotion. The law states that ; a stronger emotion will dominate and override a weaker emotion and whichever emotion you concentrate on grow and become stronger’. Any emotion you dwell upon for a long time eventually dominate your thinking.
Withdraw your emotion, anger and attention from the person or thing that makes you sad and watch the negative thought give way. This technique will work wonders for you. It is a promise. Try it.
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