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.

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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

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! 

 
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 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

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

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

7 Things That Separate Average People From Amazing Performers

It is unarguably true that there are average performers and amazing performers in the world today. Well, I am looking for non performers if they exist!

Bill Murphy Jr.  the executive editor, TheMid.com, and founder, ProGhostwriters.com gives seven (7) things that create the distinction between the two types of performers. Go through this article using the link below:

http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/7-things-that-separate-average-people-from-amazing-performers.html