Your C.V. is your sales presentation when hunting for any job you want. The way you package yourself will determine the kind of response you receive from your prospective employers.
Not many people can successfully sell themselves through this medium. Some C.V’s. flying around are so badly packaged that it never impress employers. Those without grammatical errors have nothing to differentiate them from others.
In order to grab the best job you so desire, you must write your C.V. attractively and make it irresistible.
This article is to reveal the secret techniques many job seekers never knew exist. They are not common and very few people could dare to implement the techniques.
Before laying the techniques bare before your eyes, let me bring to your notice what someone wrote about getting any position you want. ‘
He says ‘It is very easy to get any position one wants providing one has eh ability o fill it and make the right sort of approach in applying for the position’.
Now, let us get to business. Here are the winning steps to follow in writing an attractive and job pulling C.V.
1. Decide what position you desire: This is where to start. Edwin C. Barnes decided to become the business partner of Thomas Edison before he work for his company. The opportunity he sought came 5 years after he has worked as a cleaner in the same company. He grabbed that opportunity when it came calling. Thomas Edison promptly made him his sales manager. Decide ahead what kind of position you seek.
2. Accurately grade yourself in the following 17 principles of success:
i. Definite major purpose
ii. Self confidence
iii. Initiative
iv. Habit of saving
v. Imagination
vi. Enthusiasm
vii. Self-Control
viii. Covering Extra Mile
ix. Pleasing Personality
x. Accurate Thinking
xi. Concentration of Effort
xii. Cooperation
xiii. Profiting From Failures
xiv. Tolerance
xv. Golden Rule Application
xvi. Health Habits
xvii. Master Mind Applied
Score yourself marks in %.
3. State your age, nationality, schooling, work experience, email address, GSM number.
4. Send names and addresses of references
5. Write a covering letter stating
i. The C.V. sent
ii. The Position you seek
iii. Ask for opportunity to offer your service free for at least 1 month
6. Neatly type-set the C.V. without grammatical errors
7. Attach a recently taken photograph of yours.
Pitfalls To Avoid
1. Never apply for any position above you personal ability, education, race and experience
2. Do not make the mistake of grading yourself too high
3. Insincerity will kill your effort
Finally, remember that there is always a place for someone who sincerely follow he habit of rendering more service and better than that for which he is paid to do no matter how many depressions may come and go.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
How To Get The Job You Want Anywhere You Desire
How To Get The Job You Want Anywhere You Desire
The global recession has unleashed unto the world a precarious situation of severe job loss. Many young people currently in college are trained to pick up job in areas that matches their skills. The problem is, those who are in jobs are being retrenched by companies to save cost and survive the recession.
The ghost of unemployment is on the high rise. What hope is there for you as a job seeker?
Think Out Of The Box
Is it possible for you to still get any job you want in this seemingly difficult world unemployment situation? Yes. That is why I am writing this piece to open your eyes to creative principles that can land you the job you want.
Warning…………
If you are not ready to do what is unconventional and imaginative, don’t bother to read further. These job hunting techniques I want to reveal to you are not what the job seekers out there are doing. They are proven methods that work at all times if they are faithfully applied.
Get The Job You Want In 8 Simple Steps
Before I go into the proven secrets of getting any job you want, let me relate to you the life story of a young job seeker who used creative methods to get the CEO of his prospective company to want his service so desperately that he was engaged even before going for his national youth service.
This story I want to relate to you was narrated by the CEO of the company. Enjoy it……
‘I met Abdullahi in February 1996. No, I didn’t me him. He wrote me a letter from Kano, which he sent by courier. The letter reads:
Dear Sir,
I have just read the January 1996 edition of your un-put-down-able magazine; and I was most impressed by the practicability and workability of the ideas it espoused, especially those contained in the 6 Great Ideas To Brighten Your life in 1996; Roger Dawson’s You Can Get Anything You Wand and Ziglar Teachers You How To Set Goals to mention but a few.
It was after I was trough with it that I went back to the book I was reading-Enthusiasm Make The Difference By Norman V. Peale-where I read an idea which I believe if put to use by your organization will boost your sales, lead to production of top-flight managers in Nigeria who will better manage the Nigerian economy and also improve our lots.
I am 26-year-old graduate of Economics from Bayero University, Kano. I will be going for service in either late May or early June, so this leaves us with at least about 4 months to test the practicability or otherwise of this idea.
It will cost your organization nothing but a letter of introduction and a few unsold copies of your reputable magazine Success Digest. This idea has worked miracles in the United States of America, and I believe it can also work wonders in Nigeria.
I will give you a sketch of the idea when we meet-if you would give me an appointment to see you, Sir. I could be reached through….
I am presently in Kano, but I’ll be in Lagos in the first week of February 1996.
I patiently await hearing from you.
Kind regards.
Abdullahi Lawore.
That was the master piece written by this smart young Nigerian unemployed graduate. The CEO was so impressed that he promptly reached for the phone and contacted this ‘genius’ Abdullahi. He promptly gave him an appointment to see him in Lagos.
After their meeting in Lagos, the CEO has this to say about the subsequent events…
‘The young man left my office only to turn up with a comprehensive detail of his strategy for selling Success Digest. Again, it was an arresting piece of information he put together. I couldn’t resist the urge to tell him to go ahead to practicalize his dream. That was how Abdullahi Lawore found himself a job.
Should I tell you the end of the story? After this pre-national youth service freelance job placement, the CEO hired Abdullahi after his youth service. No one wants to lose a smart and diligent enterprising go-giver.
How To Get The Job You Want In 8 Simple Steps
1. Self Belief: No one can get any job he desperately desires without proven self belief. Think about the content of the letter the young man used as an example above wrote.
2. Prompt Action: When you have something to offer, act on it promptly. Express your desire and service you wish to offer in a creative and concise way as to make your offer irresistible.
3. Applied Faith: Without faith, you cannot bring to life what is not yet in existence. You want the job you want right? You must believe that you can get it. Imagine yourself doing that job the best way you could.
4. No procrastination: When idea comes to you, the best time to implement it is immediately. Don’t waste time. Contact the authorities you want to work for. Remember that the young man never waited for job vacancy advert before acting on his idea.
5. Go Extra Mile: Do something unusual to create an irresistible impression in your prospective employer. Don’t be afraid to sacrifice some amount to get across to your employer speedily e.g. using courier or speed post.
6. Handle Rejection Carefully: on your way to implementing your ideas, not everybody you contact will accept your proposal. Learn to handle rejection carefully.
7. Focus On Service Before Reward: Concentrate on what you want to offer. Build your interest in the special service you have to offer. The reward will surely follow in droves.
8. Package an attractive C.V. that forces your prospective employer to fall over themselves for your service. This is how to be in control of your job hunting exercise.
I'll be talking on How To Write An Attractive C.V. in the next issue....stay tuned
The global recession has unleashed unto the world a precarious situation of severe job loss. Many young people currently in college are trained to pick up job in areas that matches their skills. The problem is, those who are in jobs are being retrenched by companies to save cost and survive the recession.
The ghost of unemployment is on the high rise. What hope is there for you as a job seeker?
Think Out Of The Box
Is it possible for you to still get any job you want in this seemingly difficult world unemployment situation? Yes. That is why I am writing this piece to open your eyes to creative principles that can land you the job you want.
Warning…………
If you are not ready to do what is unconventional and imaginative, don’t bother to read further. These job hunting techniques I want to reveal to you are not what the job seekers out there are doing. They are proven methods that work at all times if they are faithfully applied.
Get The Job You Want In 8 Simple Steps
Before I go into the proven secrets of getting any job you want, let me relate to you the life story of a young job seeker who used creative methods to get the CEO of his prospective company to want his service so desperately that he was engaged even before going for his national youth service.
This story I want to relate to you was narrated by the CEO of the company. Enjoy it……
‘I met Abdullahi in February 1996. No, I didn’t me him. He wrote me a letter from Kano, which he sent by courier. The letter reads:
Dear Sir,
I have just read the January 1996 edition of your un-put-down-able magazine; and I was most impressed by the practicability and workability of the ideas it espoused, especially those contained in the 6 Great Ideas To Brighten Your life in 1996; Roger Dawson’s You Can Get Anything You Wand and Ziglar Teachers You How To Set Goals to mention but a few.
It was after I was trough with it that I went back to the book I was reading-Enthusiasm Make The Difference By Norman V. Peale-where I read an idea which I believe if put to use by your organization will boost your sales, lead to production of top-flight managers in Nigeria who will better manage the Nigerian economy and also improve our lots.
I am 26-year-old graduate of Economics from Bayero University, Kano. I will be going for service in either late May or early June, so this leaves us with at least about 4 months to test the practicability or otherwise of this idea.
It will cost your organization nothing but a letter of introduction and a few unsold copies of your reputable magazine Success Digest. This idea has worked miracles in the United States of America, and I believe it can also work wonders in Nigeria.
I will give you a sketch of the idea when we meet-if you would give me an appointment to see you, Sir. I could be reached through….
I am presently in Kano, but I’ll be in Lagos in the first week of February 1996.
I patiently await hearing from you.
Kind regards.
Abdullahi Lawore.
That was the master piece written by this smart young Nigerian unemployed graduate. The CEO was so impressed that he promptly reached for the phone and contacted this ‘genius’ Abdullahi. He promptly gave him an appointment to see him in Lagos.
After their meeting in Lagos, the CEO has this to say about the subsequent events…
‘The young man left my office only to turn up with a comprehensive detail of his strategy for selling Success Digest. Again, it was an arresting piece of information he put together. I couldn’t resist the urge to tell him to go ahead to practicalize his dream. That was how Abdullahi Lawore found himself a job.
Should I tell you the end of the story? After this pre-national youth service freelance job placement, the CEO hired Abdullahi after his youth service. No one wants to lose a smart and diligent enterprising go-giver.
How To Get The Job You Want In 8 Simple Steps
1. Self Belief: No one can get any job he desperately desires without proven self belief. Think about the content of the letter the young man used as an example above wrote.
2. Prompt Action: When you have something to offer, act on it promptly. Express your desire and service you wish to offer in a creative and concise way as to make your offer irresistible.
3. Applied Faith: Without faith, you cannot bring to life what is not yet in existence. You want the job you want right? You must believe that you can get it. Imagine yourself doing that job the best way you could.
4. No procrastination: When idea comes to you, the best time to implement it is immediately. Don’t waste time. Contact the authorities you want to work for. Remember that the young man never waited for job vacancy advert before acting on his idea.
5. Go Extra Mile: Do something unusual to create an irresistible impression in your prospective employer. Don’t be afraid to sacrifice some amount to get across to your employer speedily e.g. using courier or speed post.
6. Handle Rejection Carefully: on your way to implementing your ideas, not everybody you contact will accept your proposal. Learn to handle rejection carefully.
7. Focus On Service Before Reward: Concentrate on what you want to offer. Build your interest in the special service you have to offer. The reward will surely follow in droves.
8. Package an attractive C.V. that forces your prospective employer to fall over themselves for your service. This is how to be in control of your job hunting exercise.
I'll be talking on How To Write An Attractive C.V. in the next issue....stay tuned
Monday, May 11, 2009
52 Proven Path To Abundant Success
Discover The Simplest Steps To Motivate Yourself For Life-Time Achievement
The truth is, many people desire success and achievement but they are soon frustrated by lack of correct and timely information. If you really seek easy steps to life-time riches, here they are in a box…
1 No One Drift To Success. Understand that the person who acts with purpose and a plan attracts opportunities
2 Learn How To Live Your Own Life. Name any highly successful individual you know. You will find out that they are unique in what they do. You have the prerogative over your mind. Exercise it. It is the only unchallengeable right you have.
3 Motivate yourself To Achieve Success. How do you get this done? Develop a burning desire for something you wish to have in order to reach a greater goal. Stop wishing. Decide definitely that you will have it.
4 Budget Your Time And Income. The successful person budgets time, income and expenditures. This skill will empower you to be disciplined.
5 Create Strength Out Of Struggle. Struggle is a clever way through nature compels humanity to develop, expand and progress. Without it, success is unthinkable. Begin to see struggle and difficulty as your opportunity to fully realize your dream.
6 Be Sincere To Yourself And Others. Sincerity is a trait that pays off in self-satisfaction, self-respect and spiritual ability. Others can easily detect your sincere disposition. It will sustain you through difficult periods.
7 Be Hopeful At All Times. Hope is the raw material for building success. It transforms into faith. Faith into determination and determination into action. Hope never make ashamed. It has great powers and possibilities.
8 Cultivate Patience. Patience has been described as the courage to change the things you can, the willingness to accept the things you cannot and the wisdom to know the difference. Patience is a positive force to direct your destiny. The power of patience strengthens you to overcome obstacles.
9 Be Flexible. Flexibility means the ability to bend mentally and physically to adapt one’s self to any circumstances or environment while maintaining self-control and composure. This is the first trait of a pleasing personality.
10 Imbibe Enthusiasm. ‘Enthusiasm is the radio wave by which you transmit your personality to others’. It is more powerful than logic. Know for sure that nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. It is the winning skill to get others to accept you and your point of view.
11 Use Your Personal Magnetism. Here is the secret to influencing others and making friends. You can get people to find it difficult to resist you even on initial contact with this skill. Everybody has a measure of personal magnetism. Learn to use your own profitably.
12 Have Confidence In Yourself. Out there are people who are ever ready to shout you down and kill your dream. Self confidence is the only means to make your subconscious mind to work for you. Remember that your subconscious mind believe everything it is told. Use your subconscious mind to build your self confidence.
13 Strengthen Your Strength Of Humor. Develop a cheerful disposition. It will make you more likable and attractive.
14 Exhibit Creative Showmanship. You can get yourself into the heart of others by simply paying special attention to niceties of courtesy and politeness. You’ll be more appreciated if you appreciate the values of others.
15 Choose Your Goal. About 2 out of every hundred people actually know what they want from life. These are the leaders in every walk of life. They make life pay off on their own terms. Decide precisely what you want, how much of it you want and when you want to have it in possession.
16 Use Your Personal Initiative. Personal initiative is the only cure for procrastination. There is no more destructive human habit than procrastination. Take voluntary action daily towards achieving your goal. This is personal initiative.
17 Get The Job You Want. The best job offered you may not be the one with the highest pay. Always think about the future and what you really want to become when hunting for job.
18 Smartly Get Your Promotion. Though not in the conventional way. A creative way to get unusual promotion is to offer more and better service than is expected of you.
19 Be Resourceful. If you cannot do a task, find someone who can do it so that you still achieve your results. You will be marked out as a good executive material.
20 Lend A Helping Hand. One of the surest ways to achieve your own success is to help others to attain theirs. Almost anyone can contribute to those who are less fortunate.
21 Live Harmoniously With Others. If you can’t get along harmoniously with others, you cannot be successful. Follow peace with all men. Even without it, no man can see the Lord.
22 Let Others Help You Achieve Success. It is certain that success will come more quickly if you learn to use the education, experience, ability and influence of others.
23 Welcome Help From Others. In your time of worry, you cannot think clearly. This is the time to seek the aid of others whose minds are not clouded by fear and worry.
24 Work With Your Team. Cooperation is indispensable in your home, your job and your social life. Learn to induce friendly cooperation from others.
25 Operate Under The Force Of Humility. No. Humility is not a negative virtue. All of humanity’s greatest advances whether spiritual or material has been based on it. No matter what your goal is, humility is a powerful and positive trait you need to achieve personal success.
26 Boost Your Self Esteem. One of the most effective ways to boost your self esteem is to find some persons as models whose achievement you would like to equal or exceed.
27 Wake Up To Meet Your Positive Self. If you aspire to the higher planes of success in life, you should become better acquainted with that great, powerful, positive self who lives in your body.
28 Acquire The Power Of Positive Mental Attitude. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve. Learn to positively take possession of the power of your mind and direct it to ends of your own choice.
29 Tell Yourself ‘I Can Do It’. Remember that you cannot stand still. You must move upward towards success or downward toward failure. The choice is yours.
30 Practice The Habit Of Optimism. Optimism develop from good sense of humor, hopefulness, ability to overcome fear, contentment, positive mental attitude, flexibility faith, decisiveness and enthusiasm. Instead of worrying about the bad things that might befall you, spend a few minutes everyday enumerating pleasant events that will happen tomorrow.
31 Control Your Mental Attitude. Your mental attitude can be controlled by a burning desire, close association with people who are positive minded, daily devotion and definite directives.
32 Appreciate The Value Of Positive Thinking. A positive mind attracts opportunities for success while a negative mind repels opportunities and never take advantage of them when they arise.
33 Let Habits Work For You. All of us are ruled by habits. Reorganize your habits and build success habits by concentrating your effort on whatever the desire.
34 Think Accurately. Accurate thinking separates facts from fiction. Facts are also separated into important and unimportant ones. Accurate thinkers know that emotions are not reliable. Accurate thinkers protect themselves through the power of reason and rules of logic.
35 Cultivate Creative Vision. Creative vision reveals new ideas, concepts and plans. It operates through the sixth sense. This is the way to discover new inventions and products. New breakthroughs are impossible without creative vision.
36 Concentrate Your Effort. Most successful people have mastered the skill of concentrating on a single thing at a time, instead of spreading their efforts over many fields.
37 Have An Open Mind. Intolerance is a two edged sword that cuts off opportunities and lines of communication. Open mind helps you to develop vision.
38 Recognize Blessings In Failure. Surely, failure sometimes becomes a blessing. If often opens new doors to opportunity. It also provides firsthand knowledge of the realities of life.
39 Learn From Defeat. There is adversity in life. However, each adversity comes with the seed of equivalent benefit. Defeat bring people under a spirit of humility so that they can acquire wisdom and understanding.
40 Overcome Fear To Reach Your Goal. Fear is an obstacle to success. It is your responsibility to control fear and turn it into useful tool for your success.
41 Discipline Yourself. According to Benjamin Disreali-former British Prime Minister who developed his willpower to its greatest capacity after repeated failures, ‘The secret of success is constancy of purpose’. You should turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your life.
42 Stop Making Failure Out Of Your Children. Napoleon Hill’s step mother gave him the best chance to take a shot at responsible living. She created time to build him up in skills he never thought he could acquire. History shows the great success he later achieved. Learn to give your children reputation to live up to irrespective of their mistakes today.
43 Identify The Spiritual Power Of Grief. Sorrow can serve a highly useful spiritual purpose. It can break old, unproductive habit. It is also a medicine for the soul and mind.
44 Look In The Mirror. There is a man who can help you attain your life’s success. You must learn to depend upon him and get acquainted with him. Check him out in the mirror.
45 Never Surrender Your Emotion To Mean People. No one can make you angry or hurt your feelings without your cooperation. If anyone offend you, forgive and put your hurt behind as quickly as possible. Your state of mind is something you can control completely. Never surrender it to intruders who envy you and are determined to get you offended.
46 Use The Unbeatable Master. Faith is the unbeatable master. Choose faith instead of fear. Condition your mind to believe. Put your faith to work. Active faith knows no fear. No self-imposed limitations. With faith, you’ll be mightier than disaster, stronger than failure and more powerful than fear.
47 Give Thanks Everyday. Whatever status of success you may attain, remember that you did not do it alone. Some people contributed to it. Show gratitude to God and those who have helped you one time or the other. By so doing, your personality will become more courtly, dignified and gracious.
48 Close Your Door Against Unpleasant Experiences. Your experiences-good or bad are not important in themselves. What counts is your reaction to those experiences.
49 Be Contented. We brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. Be contented with whatever you have while working to attain your desired goal.
50 Not Too Much, Not Too Little. Seek happiness. Success is not all about riches. Money alone cannot bring peace of mind. Strive to be the master of money and not its slave.
51 Take Time To Assess Yourself. Critical and sincere self-analysis is very important. When often neglected, it is possible to derail from your target and be distracted so find time to review your activities and lifestyle.
52 Apply The Golden Rule. Life is a boomerang. What you sow, you shall reap. Be ready always to do to others what you want them to do unto you. Show love and kindness to others. By so doing, you too will get affection from them.
The truth is, many people desire success and achievement but they are soon frustrated by lack of correct and timely information. If you really seek easy steps to life-time riches, here they are in a box…
1 No One Drift To Success. Understand that the person who acts with purpose and a plan attracts opportunities
2 Learn How To Live Your Own Life. Name any highly successful individual you know. You will find out that they are unique in what they do. You have the prerogative over your mind. Exercise it. It is the only unchallengeable right you have.
3 Motivate yourself To Achieve Success. How do you get this done? Develop a burning desire for something you wish to have in order to reach a greater goal. Stop wishing. Decide definitely that you will have it.
4 Budget Your Time And Income. The successful person budgets time, income and expenditures. This skill will empower you to be disciplined.
5 Create Strength Out Of Struggle. Struggle is a clever way through nature compels humanity to develop, expand and progress. Without it, success is unthinkable. Begin to see struggle and difficulty as your opportunity to fully realize your dream.
6 Be Sincere To Yourself And Others. Sincerity is a trait that pays off in self-satisfaction, self-respect and spiritual ability. Others can easily detect your sincere disposition. It will sustain you through difficult periods.
7 Be Hopeful At All Times. Hope is the raw material for building success. It transforms into faith. Faith into determination and determination into action. Hope never make ashamed. It has great powers and possibilities.
8 Cultivate Patience. Patience has been described as the courage to change the things you can, the willingness to accept the things you cannot and the wisdom to know the difference. Patience is a positive force to direct your destiny. The power of patience strengthens you to overcome obstacles.
9 Be Flexible. Flexibility means the ability to bend mentally and physically to adapt one’s self to any circumstances or environment while maintaining self-control and composure. This is the first trait of a pleasing personality.
10 Imbibe Enthusiasm. ‘Enthusiasm is the radio wave by which you transmit your personality to others’. It is more powerful than logic. Know for sure that nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. It is the winning skill to get others to accept you and your point of view.
11 Use Your Personal Magnetism. Here is the secret to influencing others and making friends. You can get people to find it difficult to resist you even on initial contact with this skill. Everybody has a measure of personal magnetism. Learn to use your own profitably.
12 Have Confidence In Yourself. Out there are people who are ever ready to shout you down and kill your dream. Self confidence is the only means to make your subconscious mind to work for you. Remember that your subconscious mind believe everything it is told. Use your subconscious mind to build your self confidence.
13 Strengthen Your Strength Of Humor. Develop a cheerful disposition. It will make you more likable and attractive.
14 Exhibit Creative Showmanship. You can get yourself into the heart of others by simply paying special attention to niceties of courtesy and politeness. You’ll be more appreciated if you appreciate the values of others.
15 Choose Your Goal. About 2 out of every hundred people actually know what they want from life. These are the leaders in every walk of life. They make life pay off on their own terms. Decide precisely what you want, how much of it you want and when you want to have it in possession.
16 Use Your Personal Initiative. Personal initiative is the only cure for procrastination. There is no more destructive human habit than procrastination. Take voluntary action daily towards achieving your goal. This is personal initiative.
17 Get The Job You Want. The best job offered you may not be the one with the highest pay. Always think about the future and what you really want to become when hunting for job.
18 Smartly Get Your Promotion. Though not in the conventional way. A creative way to get unusual promotion is to offer more and better service than is expected of you.
19 Be Resourceful. If you cannot do a task, find someone who can do it so that you still achieve your results. You will be marked out as a good executive material.
20 Lend A Helping Hand. One of the surest ways to achieve your own success is to help others to attain theirs. Almost anyone can contribute to those who are less fortunate.
21 Live Harmoniously With Others. If you can’t get along harmoniously with others, you cannot be successful. Follow peace with all men. Even without it, no man can see the Lord.
22 Let Others Help You Achieve Success. It is certain that success will come more quickly if you learn to use the education, experience, ability and influence of others.
23 Welcome Help From Others. In your time of worry, you cannot think clearly. This is the time to seek the aid of others whose minds are not clouded by fear and worry.
24 Work With Your Team. Cooperation is indispensable in your home, your job and your social life. Learn to induce friendly cooperation from others.
25 Operate Under The Force Of Humility. No. Humility is not a negative virtue. All of humanity’s greatest advances whether spiritual or material has been based on it. No matter what your goal is, humility is a powerful and positive trait you need to achieve personal success.
26 Boost Your Self Esteem. One of the most effective ways to boost your self esteem is to find some persons as models whose achievement you would like to equal or exceed.
27 Wake Up To Meet Your Positive Self. If you aspire to the higher planes of success in life, you should become better acquainted with that great, powerful, positive self who lives in your body.
28 Acquire The Power Of Positive Mental Attitude. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve. Learn to positively take possession of the power of your mind and direct it to ends of your own choice.
29 Tell Yourself ‘I Can Do It’. Remember that you cannot stand still. You must move upward towards success or downward toward failure. The choice is yours.
30 Practice The Habit Of Optimism. Optimism develop from good sense of humor, hopefulness, ability to overcome fear, contentment, positive mental attitude, flexibility faith, decisiveness and enthusiasm. Instead of worrying about the bad things that might befall you, spend a few minutes everyday enumerating pleasant events that will happen tomorrow.
31 Control Your Mental Attitude. Your mental attitude can be controlled by a burning desire, close association with people who are positive minded, daily devotion and definite directives.
32 Appreciate The Value Of Positive Thinking. A positive mind attracts opportunities for success while a negative mind repels opportunities and never take advantage of them when they arise.
33 Let Habits Work For You. All of us are ruled by habits. Reorganize your habits and build success habits by concentrating your effort on whatever the desire.
34 Think Accurately. Accurate thinking separates facts from fiction. Facts are also separated into important and unimportant ones. Accurate thinkers know that emotions are not reliable. Accurate thinkers protect themselves through the power of reason and rules of logic.
35 Cultivate Creative Vision. Creative vision reveals new ideas, concepts and plans. It operates through the sixth sense. This is the way to discover new inventions and products. New breakthroughs are impossible without creative vision.
36 Concentrate Your Effort. Most successful people have mastered the skill of concentrating on a single thing at a time, instead of spreading their efforts over many fields.
37 Have An Open Mind. Intolerance is a two edged sword that cuts off opportunities and lines of communication. Open mind helps you to develop vision.
38 Recognize Blessings In Failure. Surely, failure sometimes becomes a blessing. If often opens new doors to opportunity. It also provides firsthand knowledge of the realities of life.
39 Learn From Defeat. There is adversity in life. However, each adversity comes with the seed of equivalent benefit. Defeat bring people under a spirit of humility so that they can acquire wisdom and understanding.
40 Overcome Fear To Reach Your Goal. Fear is an obstacle to success. It is your responsibility to control fear and turn it into useful tool for your success.
41 Discipline Yourself. According to Benjamin Disreali-former British Prime Minister who developed his willpower to its greatest capacity after repeated failures, ‘The secret of success is constancy of purpose’. You should turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your life.
42 Stop Making Failure Out Of Your Children. Napoleon Hill’s step mother gave him the best chance to take a shot at responsible living. She created time to build him up in skills he never thought he could acquire. History shows the great success he later achieved. Learn to give your children reputation to live up to irrespective of their mistakes today.
43 Identify The Spiritual Power Of Grief. Sorrow can serve a highly useful spiritual purpose. It can break old, unproductive habit. It is also a medicine for the soul and mind.
44 Look In The Mirror. There is a man who can help you attain your life’s success. You must learn to depend upon him and get acquainted with him. Check him out in the mirror.
45 Never Surrender Your Emotion To Mean People. No one can make you angry or hurt your feelings without your cooperation. If anyone offend you, forgive and put your hurt behind as quickly as possible. Your state of mind is something you can control completely. Never surrender it to intruders who envy you and are determined to get you offended.
46 Use The Unbeatable Master. Faith is the unbeatable master. Choose faith instead of fear. Condition your mind to believe. Put your faith to work. Active faith knows no fear. No self-imposed limitations. With faith, you’ll be mightier than disaster, stronger than failure and more powerful than fear.
47 Give Thanks Everyday. Whatever status of success you may attain, remember that you did not do it alone. Some people contributed to it. Show gratitude to God and those who have helped you one time or the other. By so doing, your personality will become more courtly, dignified and gracious.
48 Close Your Door Against Unpleasant Experiences. Your experiences-good or bad are not important in themselves. What counts is your reaction to those experiences.
49 Be Contented. We brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. Be contented with whatever you have while working to attain your desired goal.
50 Not Too Much, Not Too Little. Seek happiness. Success is not all about riches. Money alone cannot bring peace of mind. Strive to be the master of money and not its slave.
51 Take Time To Assess Yourself. Critical and sincere self-analysis is very important. When often neglected, it is possible to derail from your target and be distracted so find time to review your activities and lifestyle.
52 Apply The Golden Rule. Life is a boomerang. What you sow, you shall reap. Be ready always to do to others what you want them to do unto you. Show love and kindness to others. By so doing, you too will get affection from them.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Maintaining Honesty and Integrity by Jim Rohn (excerpted from Cultivating an Unshakable Character)
What has honesty and integrity got to do with success? In today's world, these are values not often appreciated and it cuts across all shades of life. Government tactically ignore it in burning national and global issues. In the place of work, those who dare to keep these virtues are looked upon as misfit-fools. But here is a reminder to the necessity of these values if you really desire true success. You will make them your inseparable companion. Find what Jim Rohn has to say about this evergreen concept......
For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware of the slightest nuances in your teacher's voice - all the little clues that distinguished levels of meaning that told you the difference between bluff and "now I mean business".
And you were able to do that after eight or nine months of observation. Suppose you had five or 10 years. Do you think there would have been anything about your teacher you didn't know?
Now fast forward and use that analogy as a manager. Do you think there's anything your people don't know about you right this minute? If you haven't been totally aboveboard and honest with them, do you really think you've gotten away with it? Not too likely. But if you've been led to believe that you've gotten away with it, there might be a good probability that people are afraid of you, and that's a problem in its own right.
But there is another side of this coin. In any organization, people want to believe in their leaders. If you give them reason to trust you, they're not going to go looking for reasons to think otherwise, and they'll be just as perceptive about your positive qualities as they are about the negative ones.
A situation that happened some years ago at a company in the Midwest illustrates this perfectly. The wife of a new employee experienced complications in the delivery of a baby. There was a medical bill of more than $10,000, and the health insurance company didn't want to cover it. The employee hadn't been on the payroll long enough, the pregnancy was a preexisting condition, etc,etc,..
In any case, the employee was desperate. He approached the company CEO and asked him to talk to the insurance people. The CEO agreed, and the next thing the employee knew, the bill was gone and the charges were rescinded.
Then he told some colleagues about the way the CEO had so readily used his influence with the insurance company, they just shook their heads and smiled. The CEO had paid the bill out of his own pocket, and everybody knew it, no matter how quietly it had been done.
Now an act of dishonesty can't be hidden either, and it will instantly undermine the authority of a leader. But an act of integrity and kindness like the example above is just as obvious to all concerned. When you're in a leadership position, you have the choice of how you will be seen, but you will be seen one way or the other, make no mistake about it.
One of the most challenging areas of leadership is your family. Leadership of a family demands even higher standards of honesty and integrity, and the stakes are higher too. You can replace disgruntled employees and start over. You can even get a new job for yourself, if it comes to that. But your family can't be shuffled like a deck of cards. If you haven't noticed, kids are great moral philosophers, especially as they get into adolescence. They're determined to discover and expose any kind of hypocrisy, phoniness, or lack of integrity on the part of authority figures, and if we're parents, that means us. It's frightening how unforgiving kids can be about this, but it really isn't a conscious decision on their part; it's just a necessary phase of growing up.
They're testing everything, especially their parents.
As a person of integrity yourself, you'll find it easy to teach integrity to your kids, and they in turn will find it easy to accept you as a teacher. This is a great opportunity and also a supreme responsibility, because kids simply must be taught to tell the truth: to mean what they say and to say what they mean.
Praise is one of the world's most effective teaching and leadership tools. Criticism and blame, even if deserved, are counterproductive unless all other approaches have failed.
Now for the other side of the equation, we all know people who have gotten ahead as a result of dishonest or unethical behavior. When you're a kid, you might naively think that never happens, but when you get older, you realize that it does. Then you think you've really wised up. But that's not the real end of it. When you get older, you see the long-term consequences of dishonest gain, and you realize that in the end it doesn't pay.
“Hope of dishonest gain is the beginning of loss.’ I don't think that old saying refers to loss of money. I think it actually means loss of self-respect. You can have all the material things in the world, but if you've lost respect for yourself, what do you really have? The only way to ever attain success and enjoy it is to achieve it honestly with pride in what you've done.
This isn't just a sermon, it's very practical advice. Not only can you take it to heart - you can take it to the bank.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware of the slightest nuances in your teacher's voice - all the little clues that distinguished levels of meaning that told you the difference between bluff and "now I mean business".
And you were able to do that after eight or nine months of observation. Suppose you had five or 10 years. Do you think there would have been anything about your teacher you didn't know?
Now fast forward and use that analogy as a manager. Do you think there's anything your people don't know about you right this minute? If you haven't been totally aboveboard and honest with them, do you really think you've gotten away with it? Not too likely. But if you've been led to believe that you've gotten away with it, there might be a good probability that people are afraid of you, and that's a problem in its own right.
But there is another side of this coin. In any organization, people want to believe in their leaders. If you give them reason to trust you, they're not going to go looking for reasons to think otherwise, and they'll be just as perceptive about your positive qualities as they are about the negative ones.
A situation that happened some years ago at a company in the Midwest illustrates this perfectly. The wife of a new employee experienced complications in the delivery of a baby. There was a medical bill of more than $10,000, and the health insurance company didn't want to cover it. The employee hadn't been on the payroll long enough, the pregnancy was a preexisting condition, etc,etc,..
In any case, the employee was desperate. He approached the company CEO and asked him to talk to the insurance people. The CEO agreed, and the next thing the employee knew, the bill was gone and the charges were rescinded.
Then he told some colleagues about the way the CEO had so readily used his influence with the insurance company, they just shook their heads and smiled. The CEO had paid the bill out of his own pocket, and everybody knew it, no matter how quietly it had been done.
Now an act of dishonesty can't be hidden either, and it will instantly undermine the authority of a leader. But an act of integrity and kindness like the example above is just as obvious to all concerned. When you're in a leadership position, you have the choice of how you will be seen, but you will be seen one way or the other, make no mistake about it.
One of the most challenging areas of leadership is your family. Leadership of a family demands even higher standards of honesty and integrity, and the stakes are higher too. You can replace disgruntled employees and start over. You can even get a new job for yourself, if it comes to that. But your family can't be shuffled like a deck of cards. If you haven't noticed, kids are great moral philosophers, especially as they get into adolescence. They're determined to discover and expose any kind of hypocrisy, phoniness, or lack of integrity on the part of authority figures, and if we're parents, that means us. It's frightening how unforgiving kids can be about this, but it really isn't a conscious decision on their part; it's just a necessary phase of growing up.
They're testing everything, especially their parents.
As a person of integrity yourself, you'll find it easy to teach integrity to your kids, and they in turn will find it easy to accept you as a teacher. This is a great opportunity and also a supreme responsibility, because kids simply must be taught to tell the truth: to mean what they say and to say what they mean.
Praise is one of the world's most effective teaching and leadership tools. Criticism and blame, even if deserved, are counterproductive unless all other approaches have failed.
Now for the other side of the equation, we all know people who have gotten ahead as a result of dishonest or unethical behavior. When you're a kid, you might naively think that never happens, but when you get older, you realize that it does. Then you think you've really wised up. But that's not the real end of it. When you get older, you see the long-term consequences of dishonest gain, and you realize that in the end it doesn't pay.
“Hope of dishonest gain is the beginning of loss.’ I don't think that old saying refers to loss of money. I think it actually means loss of self-respect. You can have all the material things in the world, but if you've lost respect for yourself, what do you really have? The only way to ever attain success and enjoy it is to achieve it honestly with pride in what you've done.
This isn't just a sermon, it's very practical advice. Not only can you take it to heart - you can take it to the bank.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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