Where you are and where you are going!

Something a little different this week. Please be patient, I don't have plans of starting to copy other articles as an entry, but this will make a point.

You, like me, probably have people who forward you so many emails that you just delete them or block them. But hopefully, like me, you have at least a couple of people who forward you emails that you know, if they are forwarding it, it will be good. This week, I got such an email from a friend. This is an entry about the power of our brain -- as you can see this work is credited to Cambridge University.

More Brain Stuff . . from Cambridge University

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I believe that the same is true for our goals and our lives. If we know where we are and where we want to go, we can get there. Consider these points.

1. What are you goals? If you know your goals and you write them down, you have created the desired end result. (The last letter of the word)

2. If you will honestly describe where you are right now (the first letter) you can begin seeing what you need to change to get to your goals. For example:

A. To hit your end goal you need better time management. So you might set aside some weekend time to make sure you are ready for the week to reduce the stress of getting ready everyday. Perhaps, you start getting up earlier in the morning.

B. To hit your end goal you need to become an expert on a subject. So you might reduce the amount of TV or computer time and read more. You could buy an audio series on the subject and turn your drive into learning time.

C. To hit your end goal you need to get into better shape. You go to the grocery store and buy healthier food, you set aside exercise time, and you begin the walk to a healthier you.

Once you know where you are and where you want to go and start the walk there, your powerful brain will figure out what you need next. If you have no goals, then life just happens and life is too precious to just happen. So how about it? Why don't you spend some time this week figuring out the details? Take the first step and engage your brain and subconsious mind and you will be amazed on what happens.

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Did you enjoy winter?

This week brings Spring. Everybody seems to love spring, the sun, the warmer temperatures, the countdown to days of summer. But my question remains, did you enjoy winter?

Life is a great teacher. One of the many lessons that it takes awhile to learn is to enjoy the trip. When we were younger, we couldn't wait to be older. Now that we have a few more years on us, have we learned to enjoy the moment, regardless of the season?

We know that life is precious -- but have we learned to treat everyday as a gift? This week, I challenge you to:

1. Enjoy the day. Regardless of how your day is going, it would not take very long to find someone who would love to have the opportunities that you are enjoying. Be in the moment and love it.

2. Tell someone how special they are to you. If life is a series of special moments, what are you doing to make these moments special? Think about your family, co-workers, the person behind the counter at the store, how do they make your life better? Why don't you tell them?

3. Do something nice for a total stranger. Look to do something extra nice for a complete stranger this week. It will blow their mind and you will have no idea what kind of impact it will have on them. Who knows, they might just pay it forward.

My point this week, if we are always just waiting for the weekend or vacation or the next season to get here, we are missing opportunities to live life. We can all agree that life is too short to wait. Go live!

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What can we learn from The NAIA Basketball Tournament?

For the past ten years, the NAIA Divsion II National Basketball Tournament has been held on the campus of The College of The Ozarks in Point Lookout, MO. It is truly an event that the entire area gets behind. I believe that we can learn two major business lessons from the tournament.

1. Cooperation. The business community, the schools, and the college all work together to make this event happen. Their entire focus is on making the tournament a great event.

What would happen if, as an area, we had the same kind of effort for all our events? The stronger we become as an area, the stronger we will become indivdually. One of my main concerns for the area is the "somebody should do that" attitude that seems to be developing. We could learn from the efforts put into this tournament.

2. The one thing is the one thing. The tournament is about basketball. Everything points to what happens on the court.

Everytime you split your focus, you jeopardize the quality of the product. The more focus that you can bring to your customer, the better chance you have to improve your product. As a business, you need to know what you do and do it better than anyone else.

Spend some time thinking about how you can apply these lessons to your business. Have a great week.

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Are you a duck?

A friend of mine owns a successful excavation company. This past week, he did us a huge favor by repairing our driveway. Afterwards, in a older brother kind of way, he told me to stop being like a duck and driving the same path down the drive way; that it is better for the driveway if I vary my path.

It got me to thinking. How many other things in our lives are we like ducks?

1. Personal Life: What if we have a "positive" surprise this week with something totally out of the ordinary? A mid week date night or flowers.

2. Work life: I believe a lot of the problem that we have at work is our unwillingness to try new things. This is the way we have always done it, this is the way we are always going to do it. This week try a different path, listen to a training tape, stop worrying about being the manager or the boss and allow the team to make some decisions, put away the cell phone, blackberry, and email for a day and just go see customers.

3. Spiritual Life: Sometimes we get in a rut here too. Our prayers sound the same, are at the same time and there is nothing personal about them. This week, get personal, get real, turn everything over to Him.

Try not to be a duck this week. Take a different route to work, meet someone new on the job, go forgive that person that you have been holding a grudge. If it works for driveways, it's has to be good for humans.

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