COMPETITION IS BEST KEPT TO YOURSELF!Written by Rhoberta Shaler
Are you 'playing golf' at work? Richard Behrens, Golf Grand Master, says, "Good golf is all in mind....the golfer's own lower mind, and how person perceives situations s/he finds...on course are major reasons s/he suffers from unsatisfactory play." It's all in mental discipline of game. This mental aspect of 'the game' often eludes players. The same principles that affect your golf shots apply to workplace. Have you ever talked yourself out of executing a project that is well within your ability to make, or have carried anger with you from another poor situation and had it affect your entire day? In any game played with others, there is a winner. Either an individual or a team wins. Just about everyone who enters a competition does so with desire to win. This is healthy and natural, however, if you have a 'need' to win, things change. The need to win drives your mind into future and away from matters at hand. This is a problem. It is impossible to do something for pleasure and have a need to win. That 'need' will eradicate pleasure of simply doing activity. How is this applied in workplace? Hopefully, you enjoy your work. environment and people...most of time. Great start! This allows you to look forward to your work and your workplace.
| | ARE YOU ENTHUSIASTIC?Written by Rhoberta Shaler
Enthusiasm, dictionary tells us, means to have a strong excitement of feeling, something inspiring zeal or passion. In Greek and French it means to be inspired. It's origins are, and its first definition, comes from religious. An enthusiast is one who tends to become ardently absorbed in an interest--a cause, object or pursuit. The real key to success is enthusiasm, so, big question of day is, "What fills you with enthusiasm?"What is it that inspires you to look forward to each day as you wake up? What is it that gives you energy to stay up late and get up early because of your passion for what you are doing? What are you creating in your life that is so in tune with what stirs your interest that you can hardly wait to do it? It would be very sad if answer was “Nothing", however, for most folks, that is just not true. There is something that fires them up. It may be their families, their careers, their hobbies, their community service, their desire to travel. Whatever that something is, it deserves a closer look. You may have considered possibility that what you are passionate about can be turned into how you create your financial means. You may have only thought of it as a hobby, a respite, a refreshing balance to your career. Is it possible that it could be more? Would you want it to be more?
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