If you give out energy, enthusiasm, positivity and laughter then people will reflect this and in turn give back energy, enthusiasm, positivity and laughter. This is how it works, remember that people become a reflection of you.
Life doesn’t need to be as complicated as so many make it. Jobs, family life, ownership, plans and creativity is always overcomplicated without good reason. This complexity caps your time, energy and money and almost always gives you a far less superior outcome. Take a moment to reflect on the things in your life that might be overcomplicated and try to focus on cutting back and streamlining them, you will be amazed at the difference this can make in your life.
One of the easiest ways to make friends, learn, understand and succeed is simply to listen and yet so few people do this effectively. Listening is not about waiting until it is your time to speak, listening is about concentrating, really concentrating, on the person you are listening to. There is nothing more attractive than a good listener. A good listener makes friends easier, networks better, enjoys people’s uniqueness more and learns the most. From now on try to listen more that you speak, you might just learn something.
Negative comments are incredibly powerful and so should be used in moderation.You will need to invest 5 positive comments just to draw out one negative comment from the comment bank and so they should be used wisely and only when absolutely necessary. Great relationships, marriages, business partnerships and friendships are built around this scaling system.
Next time you wish to draw out a negative comment, just make sure you have invested and counterbalanced it with 5 positive comments. Prehaps now, the negative comment really isn’t worth it.
Stories are powerful things. Stories can be used to inspire others, sell ideas, build visions, increase understanding, enhance experiences and many more things beside. Many superbly successful brands like Coke and Disney understand the power of a story and so they tell them on a daily basis to sell their products. A well told story by a well told story teller is almost impossible to resist and will be remembered for a long time. Visual stories that bring the imagination to life will last and create change.
Become a great story teller and you will become incredibly successful in all aspects of life.
Day dreaming, like oxygen, is incredibly important for you and leads to increased creativity, understanding and future planning – All vital elements for success and happiness in life. Like breathing, day dreaming and visualisation need to be built into your daily routine so that they happen naturally and consistently.
Sit back, relax and take 5 minutes to dream, it will be like a breath of fresh air for your mind.
If you are set with the task of eating an elephant then trying to do it on one sitting is just going to make you sick. However if you break it down and maybe eat a few steaks a day then you could conceivably polish it off in a few months. The same thing applies for problems and tasks. A huge problem never looks quite so large if you break it down into its core components and focus on each one in term. A large task can also be handled easily if broken down and undertaken in small mouthfuls.
Many problems and task look as big as elephants. Break them down into easily manageable chucks and eat your elephant.
So much time is wasted by people who revist tasks time and time again. Shopping and emails are core culprits. Develop your systems so that these time consuming tasks are done at set times and in one go so that further time is not wasted by constantly revisiting them. When you think time is slipping away from you remember the dead elephant and see if it the lack of batching that is really killing your time.
With this in mind it is essential always to put across energy, enthusiasm and smiles when speaking whether to a room of people or just one person. When presenting don’t worry too much about what you say, people are more interested and will remember how you said it. The same goes for communication with the individual. Chances are they will not remember most of what you say but they will remember how you said it what you looked and sounded like when you said it. There is what you will be remembered for so make sure you leave a good impression, the works will look after themselves. Be confident, be self assured and be a great communicator.
This method is so productive because it is based on the natural relationship between human attention span, recall and understanding. As you work on any task for a long period of time your understanding of the work increase however you attention span and memory decreases meaning your work becomes less productive. 2 Hours is the optimum amount of time for a person to be working on a given task without taking a 30 minute break. This can be split into four 25 minute working sections with a 5 minutes break between them to further increase productivity.
