What Every Employee Should Know About How to Maximize His Potential for Success
There are countless books that describe success principles. Here are a few principles that I have summarized for you: * Believe in yourself, your abilities, and in your God-given yet unused talents. * Have a dream. Write it down as a goal using specific guidelines and setting a realistic deadline by which you will accomplish it. * Speak in the positive. State everything you say as the glass being half full and come up with your unique plan to fill it. * Develop your action plan. Use it as a map to help you reach the destination of your dream. * Use Affirmations. They will help to build your belief in yourself. If you have difficulty finding books with them, create your own. * Take action NOW! Be persistent! Do something each day to move you closer to the realization of your dream and your goal. * Associate with successful people. From this collection of experts, select a mentor to guide you along. * Share yourself with others. Volunteer your time and your talents. Join civic and charitable organizations. * Develop a sense of humor. Learn to laugh at life; don't take it too seriously. Begin by laughing at yourself and your mistakes. * Exercise your creativity. Use your God-given imagination to see problems from a different point of view. They probably won't seem so big, after all. * Exercise your body. Exercise keeps the body tone, healthy, and vitalized. Not only will you be keeping yourself healthy, but you will be shedding the extra pounds without realizing it. * Balance your life. Take comparable amounts of time for fun and relaxation as you do for work and home. * Change the things you cannot accept. Accept the things you cannot change. Be a doer, not a complainer. Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose. © Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in ezines, newsletters, and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Although advance permission is not required, please notify us at execandgroup-consulting@yahoo.com when you use this article. Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer, conducts seminars, lectures, and writes articles on his theme: ... helping you maximize your potential. He offers management, marketing, and parenting resources at his Maximizing Your Potential blog.
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New York school allows yoga by another nameInternational Herald Tribune, France - 7 hours agoAP MASSENA, New York: A high school in the state of New York has won approval to offer students a voluntary yoga program — as long as it's not called yoga. ... |
Yoga as part of formal educationTimes of India, India - 20 hours agoBANGALORE: To popularize yoga among children, the government has planned to hold competitions for schoolchildren. Primary and secondary education minister ... |
Yoga "promotes physical and mental well-being"Totally Fitness Health and Fitness news, UK - 13 hours agoThose looking for a balanced workout which will increase their feeling of mental well-being and boost their physical fitness may wish to try yoga, ... |
Some yoga classes are reserved for older adultsDaily Gleaner, Canada - 17 hours agoAGEING GRACEFULLY: A group of women take part in a yoga class called Ageing Gracefully; most of the students are 50 and older. It is taught by Irene Brennan ... |
Yoga Classes Resume at Massena HSWCAX, VT - 11 hours agoYoga uses stretching and breathing techniques for exercise. But some parents claimed that teaching yoga in school would promote Hinduism, and violates the ... |
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