Top Ten Ways to Inspire People to be Their best

Written by Michael Angier


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8. Be a good communicator. Increasing your ability to communicate effectively is a critical element for you to inspire others. Watch how you speak and what you say. Invest in your communication skills.

9. Challenge people. Many of us have had teachers who at times seemed more like tormentors than mentors. They challenged us to do our best, and we were better for it. Practice "carefrontation"--the careful and caring confrontation of others.

10. Read. It may not follow that all readers are leaders, but certainly all leaders are readers. Stay informed. Share what you read with others. Tell people about books that have inspired you. Sharerepparttar knowledge.

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Hippo Rage

Written by David Leonhardt


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But inrepparttar real world, hippos have teethrepparttar 130903 size of your head. They can run faster than anyone in this room. And they weight upwards of 5,000 pounds. I mean, they are BIG! If you’re ever at a cocktail party and a hippopotamus starts, you know, flirting with you, whatever you do, do not let him sit on your lap.

Rage is allrepparttar 130904 rage these days. Road rage. Lineup rage. Waiting-room rage. Even river rage. You may also have heard of parking lot rage, elevator rage and airplane rage. What gives? Isrepparttar 130905 world getting angrier or just more crowded?

Both. It’s a fact that as our space and time grow increasingly crowded, our stress levels rise.

When it comes to space, we are cramming more people into more crowded cities, elevators, airplanes, stores. Our patience diminishes. Our good will diminishes. Our tolerance diminishes. Has anyone noticed they placerepparttar 130906 chairs at conferences – you noticed! -- so close together that even skinny people get to know each other well. My theory is thatrepparttar 130907 hotels are trying to develop their own niche rage market: conference seating rage.

Let’s look at our schedules. What are we trying to do? We’re trying to see how many items we can squeeze onto our “to do” list, and how many activities we can cram into a day. Andrepparttar 130908 stress, where does it go? Right up there, exactly.

I want to share this one little thought with you. We are inrepparttar 130909 process of moving, so we actually have two homes. Stress that builds in my stacked concrete box apartment they call a condo, I can’t get rid of. It sticks. I can’t shake it off. It won’t go. It sticks. When I’m at my farm house just a few miles south of here, surrounded by grass and trees, it’s amazing how quickly I can just excommunicaterepparttar 130910 stress. Can I say that? Excommunicate? Why not?

OK. What have we learned today? Three lessons, so please take note.

Number one, don’t let your space get too crowded.

Number two, don’t let your schedule get too crowded.

Number three, and this isrepparttar 130911 most important of all, don’t ever, ever let a hippopotamus sit on your lap.

The speaker is David Leonhardt, The Happy Guy. For tips on anger management, visit http://TheHappyGuy.com/anger-management-tips.html . For more self-help and personal growth articles visit the Self-actualization Resource Center at http://TheHappyGuy.com/self-actualization-articles.html or The Happy Guy's home page at http://TheHappyGuy.com .


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