Are You Willing To Risk The Chance?

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Woman Framing with HandsNugget: “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”~ Plato

Reflection drill: Stop and think things through — BEFORE taking action.

If you want a project with a happy ending, first visualize a happy beginning, middle and end.

Why it matters: Why leave your projects to chance? Are you really that lucky? Stack the deck by first seeing the entire process in advance. Then follow through with each critical step.

Thinking drill:

How many times today did you allow events to control you?

Have you blocked time into your schedule today to deal with what is most important to you?

Is tomorrow’s agenda prioritized, scheduled and ready to rock and roll?

What’s your take away?

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What’s Your Prediction For Success?

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Success and Failure Road Sign with dramatic clouds and sky.Nugget: “Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflection drill: Commit to Actually DOING Whatever It Takes — Then DO It.

Predict your success by doing everything possible to be successful.

Why it matters: To increase the positive expectancy of success, identify everything you can do to increase your probability of succeeding. Then do every one of them.

Thinking drill:

What’s one more thing you can do to insure the ultimate success of the project you’re working on?

To virtually guarantee your success in your current project, what’s one more thing you could do?

What are three more things you can do to assure your success on what you’re going to do next?

What’s your take away?

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You Deserve A Break Today

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2013-09-17 TakeABreakNugget: “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”~ Samuel Smiles

Reflection drill: Running full speed ahead can leave you stranded with no fuel. Pace yourself!

Why it matters: Take frequent breaks to stretch, breathe, walk around & snack. Take a break! Working for long periods without a break is counterproductive.

Thinking drill: When was the last time you stood up from your desk? Or sat down?

How’s your energy level right now?

What can you do to stop and regroup?

What’s your take away?

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Have You Ever Wondered What Your Future Holds?

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Cricket Team Holding HandsNugget: “What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”~ Benjamin F. Fairless

Reflection drill: Take at least one step towards accomplishing each goal — daily.

The best way to predict your future is to forecast a goal and devise a plan. Then, get busy!

Why it matters:  If you predict fish for dinner tonight, you’d better get your line in the water.

Thinking drill:

What one thing would you like to have most in your future?

If you don’t go after the dreams of your future, what kind of future will you end up with?

What action will you take today to ensure that your future will be as you desire?

What’s your take away?

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Hybrid Your Own; Why Not Create?

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Woman looking into distance whilst thinkingNugget: “The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.”~ W. Alton Jones

Reflection drill: The idea is to disrupt the status quo of the problem. As strange as it may sound, you can get comfortable with your problems. When you attempt a new, unorthodox approach, you have a better chance of finding a new, effective solution.

Why it matters: Search beyond acceptable; find the BEST alternatives.

It just may be that how you see the problem is the problem. Apply a creative approach: modify, maximize, minimize, substitute, rearrange, combine, reapply, synergize, fantasize.

Thinking drill:
What’s one problem you’ve been living with for just too long? Why?

What can you do to disrupt the standard way you see your current problem?

Who can provide additional creative approaches to your perception of a current problem?

What’s your take away?

 

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How Many Unfinished Projects Do You Have Lying Around?

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Man Running Reaching Finish LineNugget: “Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.”~ Robert Half

Reflection drill: Completing some stage of each project before moving on helps you give all your attention to the next one.

Why it matters: Seek some form of completion before moving on.

Action directed toward a single focused outcome is always preferred to going in a hundred directions at the same time.

Thinking drill:

How many incomplete tasks do you have in front of you right now?

Is this a good time to go back and reach some stage of completion on each of today’s “open” projects?

Will you be able to complete this task before your next scheduled appointment? If not, where would be a good place to stop?

What’s your take away?

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How Bad Do You Want It?

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RewardNugget: “There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.”~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Reflection drill: Increase your enthusiasm by imagining inspiring, magnificent, stupendous even ASTRONOMICAL rewards.

Why it matters: Stop picturing failure. Instead, visualize tremendous success.

To increase your motivation for any project, increase what you believe will be the reward for your effort. The bigger, brighter, more immediate and more personal you can imagine the payoff, the greater will be your desire to put forth the necessary effort to succeed.

Thinking drill:

What greater rewards will soon come from the completion of what you’re doing right now?

What other benefits will you receive in addition to the completion of the task you’re working on right now?

How much bigger, brighter and more personal can you make the reward for what you’re working on right now?

What’s your take away?

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How Do You Feel Right Now?

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Woman Eating Fruit OutdoorsNugget: “The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what you’re capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”~ Geoffrey Gaberino

Reflection drill: Eliminate any eating and drinking habits that steal more energy than they create.

Why it matters: Maintain the best diet for maximum strength and stamina …

The goal is peak physical performance — the power to perform at your optimum capacity every hour of the day. A significant factor that affects your energy level is the quality of the fuel you put into your body. Start noticing how you feel after you drink or eat different foods.

Thinking drill:

How energetic are you after eating a full plate of pasta?

How energetic are you one hour after eating an apple?

Do you have more stamina after eating a high carbohydrate lunch or a high protein lunch?

What’s your take away?

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Are You Dreading Your Next Task?

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2013-08-06 dreading taskNugget:  “The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time.”~ Merrick Furst

Reflection drill: A thing begun is a thing half done. When faced with an unpleasant task, either begin with the easy part to build momentum, or do the most difficult part first to get yourself over the hump.

Why it matters: Do it now & get it gone …

When confronted with an unpleasant problem or task, deal with it immediately instead of wasting time worrying about it. This will free up your attention, and allow you to be more productive with the time remaining .

Thinking drill:

What unpleasant problem or task will you confront this way today?

What have you been putting off that you could work on for even 10 minutes right now?

What unpleasant chores could you rotate among your co-workers?

What’s your take away?

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How Can You Win Without Scoring A Goal?

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Ball in the NetNugget: “Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.”~ Ralph Marston

Reflection drill: When you picture what it will take to accomplish your ideal world, you can automatically see specific, concrete milestones along the way to realizing this dream. Make these milestones your most important goals.

Why it matters: Keep goals aligned with your top 10 core personal values …

By identifying your values, vision and mission, you’ve determined what’s most important to you. Your most vivid, powerful and inspiring goals are those in direct alignment with what you value most.

Thinking drill:

Are you pursuing goals that are not directly in line with what you value most?

What’s your Number 1 Goal right now? What will achieving it help you further achieve once you’ve attained it?

Are your current goals vivid, powerful and inspiring?

What’s your take away?

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