Ingredients for success

Written by Ophelia Sanchez


INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS By Ophelia Sanchez President Management Resources, Inc. (MRI) http://www.managementresourcesinstitute.com (c)1997 Management Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this article may be reproduced or copied by any means without written permission from Management Resources, Inc. Write MRI. Management by Objectives, strategic planning, quality, teams, re-engineering. Passing management fads? Consultants, more consultants. Training and more training. Businesses are littered byrepparttar corpses of all these attempts at findingrepparttar 122755 way to become better. What happened? What went wrong? How can simple and productive ideas like these have failed in some companies while succeeding in others? In some companies one finds employees sneering at management, not believing on anything, just lettingrepparttar 122756 days go by. In others one can see an uplifted employee force. They are committed to their work, they communicate with each other, they read company publications, they ask questions and hearrepparttar 122757 answers. What isrepparttar 122758 cause? What isrepparttar 122759 difference? ATTITUDES. Attitude is one of those words that we have difficulty defining. It is a state of mind, a disposition, it reflects in our moods and personality, it molds our perspectives and preferences. It can result in laxity or negligence: an "It’s Not My Job" mentality; or in an open-minded "Can Do" behavior. Attitudes makes us who we are, how we think and act, how we respond to challenges, how we look at things. Attitudes are created and modified. We are not born with them. They are developed from early childhood. There is a direct link betweenrepparttar 122760 way we think andrepparttar 122761 way we behave. When people come in contact with us they are responding to our personality, which isrepparttar 122762 outer expression of our inner attitudes. Our behavior (or personality) directly impacts our success. Since behavior is based on attitudes, attitude is one ofrepparttar 122763 key ingredients for success. Look at your favorite people in history. Why did they succeed? Was it their skills alone? There are millions withrepparttar 122764 skills andrepparttar 122765 knowledge who are not successful. In most cases winners have a driving attitude to succeed. Lincoln lost many elections before becoming president. John Paul II was shot and came close to death. Beethoven was deaf. Even in medical terms, positive attitude is a remarkable force. Positive thinking has been determined to be a "miracle drug" that you manufacture within yourself. As June Bierman, author of "Diabetes inrepparttar 122766 News" says "this miracle drug has no side effects, doesn’t require a doctor’s prescription and doesn’t cost you a penny." What a powerful force! What are your attitudes? Do you live thinking that any situation is an opportunity for success? Or do you believe that sooner or later something bad is going to happen? Do you look at things as "too much trouble," "there is nothing I can do?" Or do you say "this is an opportunity for me," "this is my chance to shine"?

Life Engagement

Written by Diann Cannon


What is your level of engagement? I'm talking about your level of involvement in your own life. If you check in with your spiritual, mental, emotional and physical selves, what do they tell you about how engaged you are in LIFE? If you had to put a score on yourself between 0 and 100, how would you fare?

Are you frightened of resolutions? Try engaging yourself. If you think you'd like to focus on a resolution forrepparttar New Year,repparttar 122754 following is a great place to start:

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Visit http://lge.perfprog.com and takerepparttar 122755 test, (max. 5 min.). When I took it,repparttar 122756 results said I was 80% engaged in life. The conclusion was that if I strengthened my physical side, my overall life would improve. I often view these kinds of tests with a grain of salt, but this time it seems as thoughrepparttar 122757 results were really on to something. I was looking through my "life" box of goodies filled with mementos and treasures from my life and came upon some old report cards from my school days. And what do you think they showed? Sure enough, my lowest grades were in physical education! I had forgotten that my average score in Physical Education was indeed a C. It was true,repparttar 122758 test was correct; my lowest level of engagement in life was and still is physical!

So, I made up my mind that I was going to become fully engaged. Doesn't that sound FUN????? Since then, I've taken up hiking and I am having so much fun!!!!! Downhill skiing is something else I enjoy, but I've found hiking to be an excellent alternative because it's inexpensive and accessible nearly year-round.

Let me back track for a moment. My husband hates hiking. He refuses to even walk aroundrepparttar 122759 park with me. I was afraid to go alone, afraid of being mugged, and since he wouldn't go with me, I initially allowed that to be a stumbling block. But then I began asking my women friends if any of them liked to hike. Some of them did but we just couldn't seem to coordinate our schedules. But I didn't give up. I finally struck up a friendship with a woman who walks atrepparttar 122760 park aroundrepparttar 122761 same time that I do. After a time, we decided to hike outside ofrepparttar 122762 park. Since then we've gone on several hikes together including this beautiful place called Red Rock Canyon right here in Clark County, Nevada that I never would have experienced if not for my willingness to engage in something different.

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