By Yency Garcia
Are you ready to answer the following questions?
How many times have you gone through difficult situations that had an easy solution but you did not figure it out in time, and things went wrong for you?
Have you ever thought: "If I had known the consequences of my decision, I would have decided differently"?
Do you have peace of mind knowing that your children are smart enough to take care of themselves when you won't be there for them?
Do you feel prepared to handle the hardships that are yet to come into your life?
Questions like these make us think about the better kind of life that we could be living now if we had acted wisely in the past...
They make us think of our kids, and all the problems that they will likely have to face later on in life, for which they had better be wise enough to handle or, suffer the consequences...
Life has good and bad moments for everyone, no matter what his or her live venue is.
People will always have to go through hard times in life, at some point and time, regardless of how wealthy they are.
That is why they need to face those hard times in a wise manner or they will suffer the consequences of all the bad decisions they will likely make.
At this point, you are probably asking yourself, "How can someone be ready for all situations in life?"
Also, "Which is the way to assure that you, or someone else, will take the best decision to face those situations?"
Great! It's good that you finally asked me!
It's good for both of us!
The unique answer to both questions is...
WISDOM!
There is no way to go back and re-create a situation that you had lived through in order to give you a second chance to make the wisest decision once the moment has passed.
The only time you have a chance to do things right is in the exact moment you are faced with the situation. You're given one opportunity to do what you have to do, no second or third chances.
All right then... what is your point? Please cut to the chase!
My point is this:
Everyone must do the best to acquire wisdom in life and to help others do the same.
But you're probably thinking, "wisdom is not something that you can buy or grab anywhere, so, do you have a solution to the problem you brought to my peaceful mind?"
I do! In fact, I have learned to benefit from the wisdom others have gained through their own life experiences, some people learn things the easy way with good results after their good decisions, while others do it the hard way, after making wrong decisions and suffering the consequences later. But hopefully all of them learn wisdom through the daily events they experience in life.
When people write about their lives they share their experiences with others who read them.
You become wiser the moment you apply other people wisdom to your life instead of trying to gain your own living experience and see what happens next.
You can do it! Read from people who have written about the events of their lives and what they learned from those events. You can profit from what other people have experienced by applying the morals of their stories to similar events in your own life.
Want to see a good example of this?
Visit theaesopforchildren.com
You will see what I mean.
I hope that this will be of help for you, as much as it has been for me!
Yency Garcia
http://www.theaesopforchildren.com
http://www.theaesopforchildren.com/Blog
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Yency_Garcia
Monday, 23 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
Positioning Yourself
By Victor Udoh
Very many people especially youths, with a lot of energy and time give up on life even before they get started. After all, they say, "Life begins at forty." Over the years however, I have come to believe that life actually begins when you want it to begin. This simply means that every effort at engaging life to the fullest depends on your outlook at things, when and why you look at them the way you do.
Positioning yourself comes with a choice to, and for what. You first have to make up your mind to do something and then whether for good or bad follows. If I were to be your counselor, I will definitely choose that you do something that would benefit you and others. That is the way to live life! Positioning yourself for Success & Excellence will be discussed here. What is SUCCESS in the first place? Author Robert Schuller, in his book Success is Never Ending Failure is Never Final, defined it as, to do something GOOD, when you can, where you can, while you can! So then, how can you be in the right position to do what is spelt out above; which conversely has Failure as its exact opposite?
For an Individual
Everything, I mean absolutely everything depends on you. What you will become, what you'll achieve, the heights you will attain are solely your responsibility. Only you can make YOU! No one else can. The following tips and many more will serve to guide you to become an achiever.
• Lean on God (Proverbs 3:6TLB) - Therein lies the secret of all success because without Him you and everything about you are nothing.
• Read good books, attend Seminars, watch and listen to educative programs that will develop your person- Your mind acts on what you feed at. (Phil 4:8).
• Be a person of character- Why you may ask? "Men of Genius are admired; Men of Wealth are envied; Men of Power are feared but Men of CHARACTER are trusted.(You Can Reach the Top by Zig Ziglar)
• Enlarge your mistake quota- Never be restrained by the failures you encounter along the path of life but learn from them and move on. They are good teachers if followed rightly. Someone said, "Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite."
• Work for everything you have and don't get anything you did not work for- Always know that nothing is free because 'the only free cheese is the one in the mouse trap.' Anything gotten for nothing will be valued as nothing.
• Have a Vision, a dream, a focus and a sense of mission- People who have a direction go farther, faster and get more done in every area of their lives than those who have none. Set goals or targets for yourself because 'he who fails to plan, plans to fail.'
• Keep an enlightened circle of friends- The type of friends you keep determines how far you will go. After all, 'birds of the same feather flock together.'
• Love whatever you are doing- What ever is worth doing is worth doing well. Put into your job much more than the required effort. Have a passion, a motivation from within and a heart that looks not out for immediate rewards or accolades. 'Be ready to Live for what is worth Dying for and to Die for what is worth Living for.'
• Strive to be effective and not efficient- Efficiency is doing things right while effectiveness is doing the right things. Someone has said that, "Of what good is running if you are on the wrong road?" just does not make sense to be doing so well the things you are not supposed to do whereas the things you are to do are begging for attention
• Make time work for you and not you working for time- This is the most precious of all commodities because it is offered in the same quantity to all. Never say I don't have enough time 'cause you will never have enough of it till you die. Create time for every important task!
• Work with your convictions- Ignore the "this is how it has always been done" syndrome. He that commands a great orchestra must back the crowd; go against outward conventions and go for inward convictions. Sometimes our convictions are not popular or widely accepted but that does not make them bad or not marketable. As long as they are morally alright please go ahead with them.
• Confront your worse fears- If you remember so of the things that use to cause so much discomfort to you back then when you thought of them as a kid, you realize now that they are not so scary after all. The reason its that way now is that they have been confronted by you one way or the other as you grew up. Many times we are tempted to run away from our fears. That does not take them away but make you to be even more aware of them. Confronting them therefore is the only sure way to get rid of them.
• Find a mentor- In whatever field we find ourselves there are other who have been through that path. Find them! This is most easily done by reading materials they have published or through their websites. They can be very useful as experiences they have gathered over a long period of time will come in handy for you. Once you have found the one you need, you are then positioned to achieve whatever success you want for yourself.
From a blog is set to help you become an achiever in life with its inspiring and motivational posts and messages. It is borne out of desire to get people to unlock the potentials in them so that they can literally surprise themselves and others on just how much they can achieve in life.
http://www.selfdevelopmenthaven.blogspot.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Victor_Udoh
Very many people especially youths, with a lot of energy and time give up on life even before they get started. After all, they say, "Life begins at forty." Over the years however, I have come to believe that life actually begins when you want it to begin. This simply means that every effort at engaging life to the fullest depends on your outlook at things, when and why you look at them the way you do.
Positioning yourself comes with a choice to, and for what. You first have to make up your mind to do something and then whether for good or bad follows. If I were to be your counselor, I will definitely choose that you do something that would benefit you and others. That is the way to live life! Positioning yourself for Success & Excellence will be discussed here. What is SUCCESS in the first place? Author Robert Schuller, in his book Success is Never Ending Failure is Never Final, defined it as, to do something GOOD, when you can, where you can, while you can! So then, how can you be in the right position to do what is spelt out above; which conversely has Failure as its exact opposite?
For an Individual
Everything, I mean absolutely everything depends on you. What you will become, what you'll achieve, the heights you will attain are solely your responsibility. Only you can make YOU! No one else can. The following tips and many more will serve to guide you to become an achiever.
• Lean on God (Proverbs 3:6TLB) - Therein lies the secret of all success because without Him you and everything about you are nothing.
• Read good books, attend Seminars, watch and listen to educative programs that will develop your person- Your mind acts on what you feed at. (Phil 4:8).
• Be a person of character- Why you may ask? "Men of Genius are admired; Men of Wealth are envied; Men of Power are feared but Men of CHARACTER are trusted.(You Can Reach the Top by Zig Ziglar)
• Enlarge your mistake quota- Never be restrained by the failures you encounter along the path of life but learn from them and move on. They are good teachers if followed rightly. Someone said, "Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely and the likely definite."
• Work for everything you have and don't get anything you did not work for- Always know that nothing is free because 'the only free cheese is the one in the mouse trap.' Anything gotten for nothing will be valued as nothing.
• Have a Vision, a dream, a focus and a sense of mission- People who have a direction go farther, faster and get more done in every area of their lives than those who have none. Set goals or targets for yourself because 'he who fails to plan, plans to fail.'
• Keep an enlightened circle of friends- The type of friends you keep determines how far you will go. After all, 'birds of the same feather flock together.'
• Love whatever you are doing- What ever is worth doing is worth doing well. Put into your job much more than the required effort. Have a passion, a motivation from within and a heart that looks not out for immediate rewards or accolades. 'Be ready to Live for what is worth Dying for and to Die for what is worth Living for.'
• Strive to be effective and not efficient- Efficiency is doing things right while effectiveness is doing the right things. Someone has said that, "Of what good is running if you are on the wrong road?" just does not make sense to be doing so well the things you are not supposed to do whereas the things you are to do are begging for attention
• Make time work for you and not you working for time- This is the most precious of all commodities because it is offered in the same quantity to all. Never say I don't have enough time 'cause you will never have enough of it till you die. Create time for every important task!
• Work with your convictions- Ignore the "this is how it has always been done" syndrome. He that commands a great orchestra must back the crowd; go against outward conventions and go for inward convictions. Sometimes our convictions are not popular or widely accepted but that does not make them bad or not marketable. As long as they are morally alright please go ahead with them.
• Confront your worse fears- If you remember so of the things that use to cause so much discomfort to you back then when you thought of them as a kid, you realize now that they are not so scary after all. The reason its that way now is that they have been confronted by you one way or the other as you grew up. Many times we are tempted to run away from our fears. That does not take them away but make you to be even more aware of them. Confronting them therefore is the only sure way to get rid of them.
• Find a mentor- In whatever field we find ourselves there are other who have been through that path. Find them! This is most easily done by reading materials they have published or through their websites. They can be very useful as experiences they have gathered over a long period of time will come in handy for you. Once you have found the one you need, you are then positioned to achieve whatever success you want for yourself.
From a blog is set to help you become an achiever in life with its inspiring and motivational posts and messages. It is borne out of desire to get people to unlock the potentials in them so that they can literally surprise themselves and others on just how much they can achieve in life.
http://www.selfdevelopmenthaven.blogspot.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Victor_Udoh
Monday, 2 June 2008
TIME USAGE
by Okechukwu Chigbu
Talking about time usage,how we utilize our time determines our achievement in life.
If you want to achieve your dreams,you must learn how to make adequate use of your time.
There is saying that 'if you loose an hour in the morning,you will spend the day looking for it'.
How does that sound? I think it is a true saying.
Let us consider some ways we can use to utilize any available time we have.
1. Procastination: Do not procastinate,'procastination they say is thief of time'therefore,anything you need to do at any particular time,do it,don't say tommorow,next week etc,tommorow will never come,
I say do it NOW.
2. Schedule your tasks: Each day,make a list of all what you want to achieve according their other of priority,follow it up and as you complete each task you mark it as 'done'.You will be suprised at what you will achieve.
3. Be Consistent: Use each time for what it is meant for,even the bible the bible acknowledged that fact when it says 'there is time for everything'. Don't use the time meant for reading to hangout with friends etc,once that time is gone you have lost the hour as we said earlier.
4.Use a Reminder: Make use of reminder to always remind yourself of any task you have to carry out,you are a human being and there is a tendency for you to forget,these days mobile phones have reminders included in their functions,you can make use of that.
As you apply all these,i beliebe it will help you accomplish a lot and achieve better results.
For more article on time management and usage,visit http://timeusage.blogspot.com
Okechukwu Chigbu is determined to give you ideas that will help you succeed.
http://successwithwealth.blogspot.com
Talking about time usage,how we utilize our time determines our achievement in life.
If you want to achieve your dreams,you must learn how to make adequate use of your time.
There is saying that 'if you loose an hour in the morning,you will spend the day looking for it'.
How does that sound? I think it is a true saying.
Let us consider some ways we can use to utilize any available time we have.
1. Procastination: Do not procastinate,'procastination they say is thief of time'therefore,anything you need to do at any particular time,do it,don't say tommorow,next week etc,tommorow will never come,
I say do it NOW.
2. Schedule your tasks: Each day,make a list of all what you want to achieve according their other of priority,follow it up and as you complete each task you mark it as 'done'.You will be suprised at what you will achieve.
3. Be Consistent: Use each time for what it is meant for,even the bible the bible acknowledged that fact when it says 'there is time for everything'. Don't use the time meant for reading to hangout with friends etc,once that time is gone you have lost the hour as we said earlier.
4.Use a Reminder: Make use of reminder to always remind yourself of any task you have to carry out,you are a human being and there is a tendency for you to forget,these days mobile phones have reminders included in their functions,you can make use of that.
As you apply all these,i beliebe it will help you accomplish a lot and achieve better results.
For more article on time management and usage,visit http://timeusage.blogspot.com
Okechukwu Chigbu is determined to give you ideas that will help you succeed.
http://successwithwealth.blogspot.com
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