01/01/07
How to keep your email under control for 2007!!
Are you confronted by an inbox overflowing with last year's "stuff"? Start the New Year with an empty inbox and keep it managed with these simple steps!!
1. (Skip this step if too hard) Sort your inbox by sender. Move any messages you can into the appropriate folders (without re-reading them).
2. Create a folder called "2006 unfiled"
3. Move EVERYTHING that is left in your inbox into this folder - you should now have an empty inbox!!
4. Whenever a new message arrives do the following:
Read it quickly then decide:
a. Is it important?
- No: delete it.
b. Is this for someone else to deal with?
- Yes: forward it to them and delete it.
c. Is this for me to action?
- Yes: if you are using Outlook right-click the message, select 'Follow Up' and pick a flag colour. Move the message to the appropriate folder for storage.
d. Do I need to keep this?
- No: delete it.
- Yes: move it to the relevant folder.
5. Each day have some designated times (eg. mid-morning, after lunch, mid-afternoon) to review the 'For Follow Up' folder. Action whatever you can and mark complete.
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08/01/07
When you show up - the Universe shows up
and
The Universe doesn't care about your capability - only your availability
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15/01/07
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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22/01/07
What do you see?
OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE
Is it...
OPPORTUNITY IS NOWHERE
or
OPPORTUNITY IS NOW HERE
adapted from "Living Your Passion" by Keith Abraham
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29/01/07
A professor wrote the following on the board and asked the students to provide the punctuation:
a woman without her man is nothing
The boys wrote...
A woman without her man, is nothing.
The girls wrote...
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
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05/02/07
The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
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12/02/07
If you want a team that's excited, passionate, motivated & energised, that's exactly how you've got to be.
Culture is caught not taught.
- John McGrath
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19/02/07
The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
- Albert Einstein
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26/02/07
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- William James
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05/03/07
Truth has its own power. If a tree has 960 leaves, do not say it has a thousand.
- Harry M Miller
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12/03/07
There are no great acts, only small acts performed with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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19/03/07
Things turn out the best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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26/03/07
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
- Richard Bach ("Illusions")
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02/04/07
Freedom is having the ability to make meaningful and effective choices. If your life is controlled by another person, the government, a belief, a habit or a desire then you're a slave.
How free are you really?
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09/04/07
You get motivated by doing things, not thinking about them. Action gets you excited and action reveals opportunity. Take the plunge.
- Andrew Matthews
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16/04/07
Take care of your body.
It's the only one you've got and it has to last your whole life (which, hopefully, may be longer than you think).
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23/04/07
You can build a great business with lots of sales and zeroes on the bank balance. But if your health is poor, you've actually lost the game of life - you just have more money in the bank.
- John McGrath
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30/04/07
In the pursuit of success, time is of no consequence and effort has no limits. In many ways, being successful in business is no different from being a successful sportsman. To get you there you need drive, discipline and determination. You also need to cope with the pain of maybe not succeeding.
- Frank Lowy (Chairman of Westfield)
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07/05/07
Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
- Richard Carlson ("Don't Sweat the Small Stuff")
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14/05/07
Forget world peace - visualise using your turn signal.
- TRiXichick
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21/05/07
To get what we've never had, we must do what we've never done!
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28/05/07
You're not old until you have lost all of your marvels!
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04/06/07
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo
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11/06/07
Politicians are like nappies. They should be changed regularly and for the same reason!
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18/06/07
You are today where your plans from the past have brought you. You will be tomorrow where today's plans will take you.
- George Faddoul
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25/06/07
People don't buy from you because they understand, they buy from you because they are understood.
- Mal Emery
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02/07/07
The more contact and communication you have with a person, the stronger and richer the relationship becomes. In business the secret to keeping and growing clients, as well as growing a career, is to keep continual and meaningful communication with everyone important to you.
- Jay Abraham
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09/07/07
One of the biggest mistakes we make is assuming that everyone is like us; having the same values, beliefs etc. They don't!
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16/07/07
There's a sure way to bore people. Tell them everything you know.
- Voltaire
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23/07/07
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Good business is about good relationships. What are you doing to foster great relationships with your staff, suppliers and customers?
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30/07/07
Life's too short for long emails!
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06/08/07
Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right!
- Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson ("The One Minute Manager")
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13/08/07
Even though you're on the right track - you'll get run over if you just sit there!
- Will Rogers
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20/08/07
The five "D's" to Success are:
* DESIRE
* DETERMINATION
* DEDICATION
* DISCIPLINE
* DRIVE
The Sixth "D" - DISTRACTION - is to be avoided at all costs.
- Bill Newman ("The Ten Laws of Leadership")
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27/08/07
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
What do you talk about?
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03/09/07
The joy and excitement of being a pioneer or entrepreneur - You are out on your own, doing your own thing!
The pain and frustration of being a pioneer or entrepreneur - You are out on your own, doing your own thing!
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10/09/07
When we have a lot to get done, we tend to jump in and start doing. Here are a couple of thoughts on that...
I have so much to do I will have to meditate twice as long.
- The Dalai Lama
If I have 8 hours to cut down a tree - I will spend 7 hours sharpening my axe
- Abraham Lincoln
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17/09/07
Six essential qualities which are the key to success: sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
- Dr William Menninger
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24/09/07
Most businesses are operated according to what the owner wants as opposed to what the business needs.
- Michael Gerber
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08/10/07
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
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15/10/07
A boss says "Get going!". A leader says "Let's go!"
- George Shinn
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22/10/07
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confusius
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29/10/07
The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
- King George V of England
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05/11/07
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
- Charles Dubois
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12/11/07
The way we see the problem is the problem.
- Steven R. Covey
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19/11/07
Now for something completely different!
Click on the picture to view this short (1 minute) movie.
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26/11/07
Tolerance for failure is a very specific part of the excellent company culture - and that lesson comes directly from the top.
Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organisation won't learn.
- Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Jr. ("In Search of Excellence")
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03/12/07
People often say, ‘Zig, motivation is great but it doesn’t last.’ I just tell them, ‘Bathing doesn’t last either, that’s why I recommend it daily.’
- Zig Ziglar
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10/12/07
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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17/12/07
"I know" - one of the English language's most destructive phrases.
"I don't need to listen to you because I KNOW what you are going to say."
"There's no point in sharing my opinion/feelings/ideas with you because I KNOW you'll reject them."
"There's no point in trying anything because I KNOW it won't work."
.................
What do you know that is stopping you?
It's time to stop kNOwing!
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24/12/07
In this time of celebration we're often in need of an excuse NOT to do something.
If you can't think of anything, here are some we hope will help you out of a difficult situation :-)
Too cold
Too hot
Too tired
Not here
Not in the mood
The computer died
It's in the mail
Too far
Too close
Eaten too much
Haven't eaten enough
Too drunk
Not drunk enough
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