How To Maximize Your Downtime

Written by Ke o agile Khiba


"The time we spend in developing resources is what is going to really makerepparttar difference inrepparttar 107109 future."

Have you ever experienced ‘downtime'? Or are you going through it right now? I have! When nothing seems to be working. When you have done everything you know how to do, yet there seems to be no progress. It gets frustrating when you find yourself stuck in an un-resourceful situation. Or when you find it is getting harder and harder to achieve your goals, despite everything that you have done. This isrepparttar 107110 ‘downtime'. The system is down.

What do you do when things are like this?

'Engage in intense positive thinking?' 'Hope forrepparttar 107111 best?' 'Expend more effort in your task?' Blame your luck, stupidity, grandmother, nature,repparttar 107112 whole world, or even God?'

Embrace your downtime! Because its one of those rare opportunities to sharpen your blade and to take a new look at yourself. That isrepparttar 107113 message of this article.

How do you maximize your downtime?

1. Define your Success Assess your resourcefulness. Find those things that stand between you and your goal. If you do not haverepparttar 107114 resources to remove those things, find ways to createrepparttar 107115 resources that will dorepparttar 107116 work for you. Do this so that nothing will stand between you and your goals!

Secondly, develop a sense of purpose. Know exactly where you are going and how you are going to get there.

Thirdly, apply persistence to your success. There is only one condition under which you may accept failure. Accept failure as a step inrepparttar 107117 path of success!

2. Identify your Attitudes There are negative and positive attitudes, just as there are passive and ‘can-do' attitudes. You have attitudes about yourself as well as about others. Identifyingrepparttar 107118 attitudes that work for you and discarding those that do not work for you will help you.

Wanted: Free Agent

Written by Jonathan R Taylor


Once upon a time, it was reasonable to think a person could grow up, get a job and work at itrepparttar rest of his life until retirement. Those days are quickly becoming a thing ofrepparttar 107108 past. According to experts, a person who begins work today can expect to have as many as fourteen full time jobs in five or more different career fields. A study cited in Forbes magazine showed that 42 percent ofrepparttar 107109 working public is made up of free agents or contractors. These people are hired on by companies for a specific period of time or until a project is finished. As new businesses start up, current businesses grow and thousands of new products and services are introduced intorepparttar 107110 marketplace each year, these types of workers will be needed more and more. Torepparttar 107111 traditional worker, this may not sound very stable or secure, but in reality this puts security back intorepparttar 107112 hands ofrepparttar 107113 employee.

Brian Tracy often refers to this as “beingrepparttar 107114 president of

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