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- ***Habits of successful people: an NLP perspective - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2011 from Mark HarrisonIf you have read any material on personal change or self improvement, you will have come across the idea that they way you think is a vital ingredient of success, and that one of main differences between people who experience success (whatever that means for you - financial, social, career, ...
Views: 2949 - ***P T Barnum on Success - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2011 from Mark HarrisonP T Barnum was a Victorian businessman who is remembered for his traveling circus – the ‘greatest show on earth’ – and the weird and wonderful ‘exhibits’ it contained. For some, Barnum was an exploiter and an opportunist, a man who took advantage of the weak and the vulnerable and who preyed on ...
Views: 1869 - ***Why you need direction in life - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2011 from Mark HarrisonSamuel Johnson said, ‘do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.‘ Motion, or change, is the one constant in life. We are always moving, whether it be forwards, backwards or in circles. Most of us would, I imagine, ...
Views: 1593 - ***Becoming a more effective agent of change – and why it matters - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2011 from Mark HarrisonChange is everywhere. It is a thread which runs through every aspect of our lives, and so to be able to deal with change creatively is of vital importance. Not only do we need to be able to handle change that happens to us, but all of us have parts of our lives (often our jobs, but also in many ...
Views: 2665(1 vote) - ***Greater productivity with the 80/20 rule - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonJoseph Juran died on Feb 28, 2008 at the age of 103. He was the man who coined the ‘Pareto Principle,’ named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy was received by 20% of the Italian population. We’ve all heard of the ‘80/20’ rule – books have ...
Views: 2585 - ***Being proactive in daily life - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonSteven Covey’s bestselling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effect People, starts off by telling us that the foundation of an effective life is proactivity. This is a term derived from Viktor Frankl’s remarkable book, Man’s Search for Meaning, in which Frankl recounts the time he spent in a ...
Views: 4383 - ***Ten traits of a good leader - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonA leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ~Lao Tzu Leadership isn’t just for CEOs and managers. Good leadership is needed in many different situations, and in the various roles we play in life, using the ...
Views: 3088(2 votes) - ***Change and productivity: lessons from nature - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2011 from Mark HarrisonWe can learn all that is important from nature. Perhaps nature’s most important lessons are that change is ubiquitous and that nothing is achieved by striving. Nature’s intelligence operates with an ease and a power which cannot be matched by the application of effort. Grass does not try to ...
Views: 3209(1 vote) - ***The easy way to achieve your goals - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonWe all want to grow. Whether that means being more successful, having more control over our lives, being more financially secure or being happier and more content. One thing we know for sure, day dreaming will not get us there. We need to have goals and we need to work towards achieving them. ...
Views: 2287(1 vote) - ***What is NLP? - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonIf you’ve read amount of self-help material, you’ll be familiar with the idea that the way you think creates your experience of life. It was Viktor Frankl, the famous psychiatrist and survivor of the holocaust who wrote that, 'between stimulus and response there is a gap, and in that gap lies ...
Views: 2358 - ***Ten ways to develop resilience - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonResilience or the ability to ‘bounce back’ after encountering problems is an essential trait. Inevitably, life will throw up some apparently adverse situations, and being able to deal with such circumstances in a positive and creative way is often a measure of how happy and successful a person ...
Views: 2470 - ***Change, the only constant - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonIt’s a cliché, but change has always been the only constant. In recent times, the pace of change has accelerated greatly, and we all need to find ways to deal creatively with this fact of modern life. Leaders, in particular, need to face and manage change in a constructive way, but everyone who ...
Views: 3046(2 votes) - ***Lessons from the Sigmoid Curve - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonAll things occur in cycles, ebbing and flowing as time goes by. In the west, we often think of things progressing in a linear way, but nature teaches us that this is not the case. Darkness and light, the seasons, the life cycles of plants and animals – all these things rise and fall ...
Views: 3613 - ***Effortless Abundance - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2011 from Mark HarrisonA few months ago I had a toothache and so I went to see a dentist. He had a look at the problem and then knocked off a bit of my tooth and smoothed the rough edge down. I can feel it now as I’m writing this. He told me that he could try to build the tooth back up, but that a basic rule of ...
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