For Personal Success Create Positive Momentum

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:09:33 +0000

With 2010 well under way, are you creating positive momentum or have you stalled out? If you’re looking for a surefire source of momentum, then make every effort to learn and implement new information and skills. Yes, you may have to invest time and money into learning. But it can make all the difference.

Here are three personal success tips to keep you building personal momentum.

1) Avoid Ignorance

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” – Elbert Hubbard

What you don’t know can hurt you. Whenever an individual or company ceases to learn or reduces its storehouse of knowledge, decline swiftly follows. In today’s climate, change happens too quickly for businesses and individuals to fore go learning. Unless individuals make a concerted effort to gather information and re-educate themselves, their organizations will suffer the negative momentum of ignorance.

2) Guard Against Negligence

“Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves” – Owen Feltham

Executives at Philip Morris were well aware of the health hazards of smoking, yet they chose not to warn customers about the harmful effects of their products. When the truth about tobacco became widely known, the public was outraged at the company’s negligence. Scads of lawsuits were filed against Philip Morris, alleging that it deliberately withheld information from customers. To date, the company has paid out millions of dollars in court-ordered settlements, and is on the hook for millions more.

When companies refuse to act on important information – then they are said to be negligent. Philip Morris failed to respond properly to the information at its disposal, namely that its products fostered addiction and had adverse health effects. In the end, the company paid dearly in financial penalties and lost significant momentum.

3) Take Action

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch

In 1987, Merck realized it had a drug that could counteract river blindness, a disease endemic to impoverished regions. At great expense to its pocketbook, Merck agreed to provide the drug to all who needed it, as long as they needed it. In the 20+ years since making that commitment, the company has provided over 600 million treatments.

Merck’s public image was boosted exponentially as a result of its generosity. The best and brightest minds in the pharmaceutical industry flocked to Merck to associate themselves with an organization that genuinely seemed to care. By putting its knowledge to work in such a benevolent way, Merck enjoyed a surge of momentum.

Wishing you a larger life,
BB

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Here’s A Tip On Using Your Master Plan For Personal Success

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:09:51 +0000

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, business philosopher

How Do We Use This Master Plan For Personal Success?

We’re going to develop five-year enabling objectives based on the four personal success Life Goals. Let’s pick a straight forward example. Assume you’re 20 years away from retirement. Let’s say one of your Life Goals is to have $1 million dollars cash in your bank account. What is the five-year objective that will enable you to get there? You might decide that “having $250,000 in my bank account” is your five-year goal. Note: I’m not telling you that this should be your goal, or that you would or should ever have that much money in a bank account. I’m just attempting to use an example that is mathematically straight forward.

Once you have your list of five-year personal success enabling objectives, you’ll develop your one-year list. So using our example above, the one-year goal becomes “having $50,000 in my bank account”. Next you use the one-year goals to develop your monthly lists and use each monthly list to create your weekly lists. Of course your weekly lists are the basis for your daily ‘to-do”lists.

I know this sounds like a lot, but the plan is pretty straight forward. Let’s review. We get the big picture of what we want our lives to be, that’s our personal success Life Goals. We look at the perceivable future, listing our five-year personal success enabling objectives. We then use the five-year objectives to decide what we need to accomplish this year (these are not New Year’s resolutions). We use this year’s personal success objectives to determine what we’re going to accomplish each month. We use the monthly objectives to develop our weekly list. Finally we use our daily “to-do” list to ensure that we making progress every day towards accomplishing our personal success Life Goals.

This is a fairly long post, so I’m sure you need a break as much as I do. Next post I’ll show you how I use this process myself.