BOSS GOES UNDERCOVER IN HIS FIRM TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS FIRM

I could not help feel emotional after watching this video. I believe it will be worth it if every leader or manager could just go undercover to determine truly how his/her people feel towards the organization and his/her leadership.

"most of the management are clueless" employee to CEO

In this video below Mitchelle Modell, the CEO of Modell's Sporting Goods goes undercover to have a first hand experience of what goes on in his company and he was shocked by what he discovered. Moreover, I was really impressed by what it means be truly dedicated employees no matter whatever the challenge is.
You know what? Do not ever let the situations control you, take responsibility of whatever the situation is.
Watch the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jadl9usH3s&feature=youtu.be

8 WAYS TO BE A BETTER PARTNER

From Psychcentral.com comes this article from Nathan Feiles, LCSW  titled  "8 Ways to Be a Better Partner in 2016". I prefer to remove the year in it because these are beautiful eight (8) ways that you can start even now in order to be a better partner. They are:

1. Constantly Communicate. This is the most important in ANY relationship and do communicate positively more often.
2. Do one thing everyday that will make your partner smile. It goes down in knowing what actually turns him or her on but the usual areas include: office phone calls to say "I love you", writing outdated love letters and sending to his/her office, surprise gifts and chores, etc.
3. Do a household chore and do it together (as a team)
4. Take your partner out for a date at least once a month.

Hope Makes Us Stronger Than What We Suffer

Behaviors of Genuine People

In life, we do all seek out for genuine people to do business with, build close relationships with and surround ourselves with. Genuine in terms of being honest, truthful, trustworthy, reliable or any other definition of genuine of yours. Well for me, a genuine copy of Windows 10 will be one directly from Microsoft itself.
Steve Tobak, a contributor to Entrepreneur.com stated behaviors of genuine people. They include:

1. They are not attention seekers. They do not need the attention of others to boost their ego
2. They are not concerned of being liked. Whether people like them or not, it does not give them sleepless nights.

7 Habits That Will Strengthen Your Parent-Child Bond

From  Katherine Lee a School-Age Children Expert on about.com comes this article that gives different ways in which a parent-child bond can be strenghtened. Enhancing the parent-child relationship brings in more trust, openness and confidence especially the child has for the parent. The habits include:

1. Eating together

FOUR PHRASES EVERY SPOUSE NEED TO HEAR

From parentsociety, a good site that deals with family and marriage issues comes these four things that every spouse needs to hear from each other in other to keep the marriage flame burning. They include:

1. “I’m sorry.”
2. “You were right.”
3. “I’m so proud of you.”
4. “I love you.”

Read the full article on: http://www.parentsociety.com/lifestyle/love-and-sex/how-to-make-your-marriage-work-4-things-every-spouse-needs-to-hear/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_315617   

Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful People!

MOTIVATED TO FAIL

Can you be motivated to fail? See this from Shimonkepha:

You have failed once; you have not failed the 2^nd time

You have failed the 2^nd time but not the 3^rd time

You have not failed the 1001^st time, that’s when I will include your name in my Guinness book of records as the greatest failure beating Thomas Edison’s light bulb record

You still have not failed the 1002^nd time.

You do not have to make the same mistakes twice (well, you might!).

 You can, yes you can succeed and I do and will always believe in you!

 

 

 

This article first appeared on: http://www.shimonkepha.blogspot.com.ng/2015/09/motivated-to-fail.html

FIVE (5) QUESTIONS TO USE IN EFFECTIVELY MANAGING FAILURES

Is there a failure? That is not the end of everything. The best path for failures is to effectively manage them. Shimonkepha Onwuneme stated five questions you can ask so as to manage the failures. They include:

• What symptoms are present? A first step for adequate troubleshooting

•  What actually happened?

• Why did it happen?

• How was it solved? this is asked after the solution has been found.

• How do we prevent further occurrence?

Read the full article at:
        http://www.shimonkepha.blogspot.com/2015/08/five-5-questions-to-use-in-effectively.html#more

  

Why Great Ideas/Changes Meet Resistance and How to Overcome

You are in a team ( possibly the leader) or a manager and you have a great idea you would like to implement. That idea is a great one and can bring about increase in profit, better working conditions and improved processes. It is always more of a shock when the team members or subordinates or even managers get to oppose such idea. Though there are quite a number of reasons why but Shimonkepha Onwuneme gave the main reason as missing out certain ingredients in communicating the idea.
The ingredients include:
1. Leaving out communicating how the idea will be useful to them personally. Just as Dale Carnegie stated in How to Win Friends and Influence People, many people do only think of how they can benefit personally and when you communicate the idea that way, they will easily embrace it. See an example as stated by Shimonkepha Onwuneme in the article.
2. Dividing the team in order to conquer them. As a leader, know the major players in your team: the people who are well respected in the team (they might even be the least ranked), the people who speak out most and the ones that do always challenge every idea. Meet them personally and try to convince them before pushing the idea out and life will be made easier.

Read the full article in:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-great-ideaschanges-meet-resistance-how-overcome-onwuneme?trk=mp-author-card

How to start a business with no experience!

Richard Branson argues the fact that you must not have an experience in an area before starting up a business in it. Having experience is good but not having should not be a barrier. 

The major thing you need in every opportunity is to create something different or unique, fill a gap or loophole. Do not build a business just because others are building it or the sector is currently the most lucrative one. 

An example is the Virgin Airlines in which he had no much idea but started it to solve the problems of high cost of flights and poor quality of service. A great quote from him is this: "We succeeded because we didn’t just create another “me too” airline"

You too can do it! 

Read the full article on :http://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/richard-branson-how-to-start-a-business-with-no-experience

Thou shalt not fear failure (3)

Since we are afraid that we might fail,
we fail to try,
we fail to see the possibilities inherent and we fail to take the risk,
thus losing the beautiful prize at the end.

True Nobility

Six Myths About Stress

From Psychcentral.com comes these six myths about stress. We, all, possibly do hold on these myths but one fact is that stress form an integral part of our everyday lives. The myths include:

Myth 1: Stress is the same for everybody.

Not the same things cause stress to all of us

Myth 2: Stress is always bad for you.

Stress is not bad when it is manageable but when out of hand it becomes a problem

Myth 3: Stress is everywhere, so you can’t do anything about it.

Effective planning and prioritizinng will surely debunk this myth

Myth 4: The most popular techniques for reducing stress are the best ones.

Everyone has a technique or two that works for him or her.

Myth 5: No symptoms, no stress.

"Many of us experience symptoms of stress in a very physical way, even though stress is a psychological effect. Feeling anxious, shortness of breath, or simply feeling run down all the time can all be physical signs of stress. Feeling overwhelmed, disorganized and having difficulty concentrating are common mental signs of stress."..psychcentral.com

Myth 6: Only major symptoms of stress require attention.

Overlooking minor symptoms can finally lead to the stress getting out of hand. The earlier the better.

Read more about this on:

 http://psychcentral.com/lib/six-myths-about-stress//

Practical Ways to Handle Stress

We do encounter stress everyday. Stress is not bad except when it becomes uncontrollable, just like fire. Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. an Associate Editor with psychcentral.com states ten (10) practical ways to keep stress under control. They include:

 1. Figure out where the stress is coming from.Well, if you do not know where the stress is coming from, it will be difficult to handle. Those sources are called stressors.

2. Consider what you can control—and work on that.
"While you can’t control what your boss does, what your in-laws say or the sour state of the economy, you can control how you react, how you accomplish work, how you spend your time and what you spend your money on"...Margarita Tartakovsky. Those things you can control, you can easily handle the stress from them.

3. Do what you love.
You can  easily handle stress from what you do love. Also, what you love doing bring happiness to you.

4. Manage your time well.
"One of the biggest stressors for many people is lack of time" ...Margarita Tartakovsky

5. Create a toolbox of techniques.
Use different techniques to control stress not only one.  

Read the full article through this link:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/07/11/10-practical-ways-to-handle-stress/ 

8 Lessons Learned Studying World-Class Achievers

Marty Fukuda studied different world class professionals and brought us eight (8) wonderful lessons we should learn from their way of living. Such lessons include:

1. They live a disciplined life.

2. They are always on a mission. They always have a goal in mind.

3. Those who aspire to achieve world-class status are intimately aware of how precious each day is and know better than to waste a second.

4. They are always different and think differently.

5. They have a frightening and compelling goals.

6. They turn setbacks into comebacks.  The world-class have a resiliency that is simply on a different level than most. They have the ability to treat setbacks as part of the process -- merely roadblocks that are never impassible.

7. They never arrive.They never allow themselves to fall for the “I’ve arrived” trap. They keep their eyes fixed on the prize.

8. Finally, they care less about what others think.

 Read the full article through the link

 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247757

Thou Shall not Fear Failure (2)

Failure is not an option, it's MANDATORY. To fall is mandatory for a baby learning how to walk. To write rubbish is mandatory for a rookie writer. To make a very uninteresting speech is a reality for an upcoming speaker. To make losses is part of a baby entrepreneur.
But to learn and to improve is the sweetest and true of those going to be great out of all these!
If you think  it is true and you have a story on it, feel free to share it through commenting!

Fight the Weakness in You!

ENVISIONING THE PERFECT SELF

"What's the nature of your life? Day to day living or do you have a mental blueprint of your perfect self you do always strive to be or to achieve?
Perfection is only theory, yes I do agree, but striving towards perfection is a true, achievable and worthy act. Nothing also prevents you from having a mental picture of the perfect person of yourself.
Day by day, week by week, year by year, strive hard to move steps closer to your perfect self.
Remember this: my definition of success is this-
Success is not a destination to arrive at but it is maintaining a steady, consistent, error based walk through the path to your perfect self"

YES YOU CAN: HOW I DEFIED A YEAR AGO IMPOSSIBILITY.

Shimonkepha describes how he surmounted what he thought that was impossible to achieve: running! He listed the strategies that made him achieve an eventful milestone (to him) which include:

• Having a "YES I CAN” thought
• Setting smaller milestone markers before reaching the final milestone
• Promising himself rewards.
• Believing he will motivate others by his achievement

Finally, he advised on how to get whatever you want including:

• Starting Little
• Being Consistent, Do Not Quit
• Believing in Yourself and Find Sources of Encouragement for Yourself.
• Rewarding Yourself for Every Little Achievement and Learn From Every Mistake.
• Believing That One Day, I and Other People Will Read Your Story, Attend/Download Your Ted Talk and Buy a Motivational Book Written By You! 

 
Read the full article via: 
 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yes-you-can-how-i-defied-year-ago-impossibility-shimonkepha-onwuneme?trk=pulse_spock-articles

 

Thou Shall Not Fear Failure

Top Five Regrets That Dying People Do Have

This article originated from Bronnie Ware, an Australian palliative care nurse who provides specialised medical care for people who are in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded the dying thoughts of her patient on her blog Inspiration and Chai, which became so popular and she wrote a book about the same  “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying”. The regrets of people were:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

You should not have to have the same regrets by doing the following as suggested by George Ambler:

1. Decide to live your dreams whilst you still have your health.
2. Don’t work too much. Get off the treadmill of endless work.
3. Take time to express your feelings to those you love and to those who care about you.
4. Cultivate friendships. Don’t let your friendships slip.
5. Happiness is a choice. Make the decision to be happy every day

Read the full article on    http://www.georgeambler.com/the-top-5-regrets-of-the-dying

6 Things Women With Great Skin Always Do

From about.com comes this good article: 6 Things Women With Great Skin Always Do. All women are created with beautiful and great skins but the challenge is maintaining them at that height of greatness. This post lists six things to maintain the skin's greatness and they include:

• Always Take Off Their Make- up 
•  Never Pick At Their Skin
•  Destress
•  Always Use Sun Protection Everyday
• Use The Right Skin Care Products
• Always Use Sun Protection Everyday

 Read the full article by clicking on this link
 

http://skincare.about.com/od/Skin-Care-Advice/ss/6-Things-Women-With-Great-Skin-Always-Do.htm#showall

10 Things Successful People Do Differently

This article by Steve Tobak in Entrepreneur.com really do give out what successful people do differently from others. There is something he said and I quote him "Over the decades I’ve worked with hundreds of executives and business leaders that meet that description. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that they have absolutely nothing in common that sets them apart from others except for how they go about accomplishing their extraordinary goals." Part of the ten things successful people do differently include:

• They make a real difference.
• When they see an opportunity, they act.
• They don’t balk at making hard choices.

Read the full article via the following link:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/15/10-things-successful-people-do-differently/

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO NOT USE THESE PHRASES

Sujan Patel gives us a list of fifteen (15) phrases successful people do not use. They include:

•  "We can't do that."

 

• "I don't know how."

 

• "I did everything on my own."

 

• "I'm sorry, I'm too busy."

 

• "I never read books." (I am a big fan of this one)

Do you believe you are successful or striving towards success? You should go through this article!

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238537

7 INSANELY PRODUCTIVE HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

An earlier post indicated Daily Habits of Exceptionally Happy People,
now, from Michael Simmons comes this article : 7 Insanely Productive Habits of Successful Young Entrepreneur. It includes such as:

• Create a regimented schedule.

• Ask yourself this question before going to bed.

• Take a hot-cold contrast shower every morning.
• and whole lot of others.

Follow the link and get the whole story:
 http://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/238847

Daily Habits of Exceptionally Happy People

"I will not be distracted by multiple notifications."

You don't need to know the instant you get an email or text or tweet or like. If something is important enough for you to do, it's important enough for you to do without interruptions. Focus totally on what you're doing. Then, on a schedule you set -- instead of a schedule you let everyone else set -- play prairie dog and pop your head up to see what's happening. Focusing on what you are doing is a lot more important than focusing on other people might be doing.
 
"I will not blame other people – for anything."

Employees make mistakes. Vendors don't deliver on time. Potential customers never sign. You
blame them for your problems.
But you are also to blame. Maybe you didn't provide enough training, build in enough of a
buffer, or asked for too much too soon. Take responsibility when things go wrong instead of
blaming others -- then you focus on doing things better or smarter next time. And when you get
better or smarter, you also get happier

21 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 21

Jordan Fried states 21 things he wished he had learned when he was 21 but even though you are more than that already, they are still worth learning. They include:

• Learning to love mistakes. 
• Telling people how you feel. 
• Learning to love change.
•  Stopping to worry so much about what other people think. 
• Being honest with yourself and others.
•  Meeting as many new people as you can.
• etc

Read the article through the link

http://success.com/blog/21-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-was-21