Tag: Growth

How To Change Your Day

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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If you don’t like what is going on in your life, then you have got to change your day.

Focus on others, not on yourself. Serve others, not yourself. That is how you are going to change your day.

‘Serving others requires a shift of focus toward the way you work, rather than the outcome of your work. It requires a shift in focus from feeling threatened or ‘under fire’ at work, to feeling challenged and useful.’

You can do it. To change your day, according to Andy Core, ‘Refuse to complain. Instead, infuse your day with expressions of appreciation and gratitude.’

‘Make it a goal to change the atmosphere in your workplace or home to one of relational strength, not stress. Remember to serve, and not shine.’

‘Settle on a set of patterns and attitudes that you believe will gain you the greatest possible fulfillments and satisfaction. And then stick with those patterns and attitudes. Don’t budge from them.’

‘Explore more of the ‘inner you.’ Choose to create an attitude that becomes the atmosphere in which you live and work.’

‘Think about mini-patterns now so you don’t have to think about it later.’

‘Decide where you need to jump in and make a change in your day.’

‘Be honest with yourself and own up to your junk hours.’

‘Take time to reflect on the way your daily behaviors produce attitudes, feelings, and ideas.’

‘Be a DO-KNOW-BE: Lasting motivation is an experiential lesson.’

‘Remember, ‘Nothing in your life gets better until your daily patterns do. But, when your daily patterns get better, everything gets better.’

Source

Andy Core (2014). Change Your Day, Not Your Life: A Realistic Guide to Sustained Motivation, More Productivity, and the Art of Working Well

How To Master Risk And Create A Sense Of Possibility

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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If you know what you want, then go ahead and do something about it. Don’t just talk about your future, do something about your future.

According to Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, ‘If you’ve determined your goal, … use risk-taking to help you discover and validate your goals and to open up new and unforeseen pathways toward achieving them.’

‘Real growth isn’t linear, but cyclical.’

‘Taking small risks early and often helps you to build risk-taking muscles, with compounding benefits.’

‘Rather than focusing solely on the potential for loss, we can reframe risk as decisions we make that afford us considerable upside potential.’

‘You don’t need perfect goals or clarity to start taking risks.’

‘A great plan is simple, efficient, and capable of evolving as we go. Whiteboard your way to the future.’

‘Embracing our inner risk manager helps us face our fears instead of avoiding them.’

‘Smarter risk-taking requires that we look inward as well, aligning our choices not just with our ambitions but also with who we are at our core.’

‘To achieve a larger success later, focus on delivering shorter-term outcomes and impact.’

‘By delivering impact through each larger chapter of ambition, iterating and taking smaller risks continually to create results faster, we’ll build successful overall careers.’

‘When we choose possibility consistently, we don’t need others to make us powerful. We generate power for ourselves.’

Source

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (2021). Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail)