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While dressing for success initially meant having warm and protection against a hostile weather, modern dress for success means being accepted as quickly as possible. Are you looking for these dress for success tips because you feel you could make your social interactions easier? Probably you will. (more…)
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Dick Richards has a great post over on Syntax & Soul about arguing with reality. It was inspired by his experience with a delayed plane in the Nashville airport. As he watched people’s less-than-cool ways of responding to the situation, he says…
A phrase from Byron Katie’s book, A Thousand Names For Joy, came to mind: arguing with reality. That is what all of the agitation in the gate area was about. The plane was late. That was reality.
Passenger: I’m supposed to be in Vegas tonight.
Reality: The plane is late.Passenger: Why do things like this always happen to me?
Reality: The plane is late.Passenger: Damned incompetent airlines!
Reality: The plane is late.Passenger: We should have taken an earlier flight.
Reality: The plane is late.
And then comes the zinger. The paragraph that went - for me anyway - straight to the heart of it:
When you argue with reality, you just can’t win. Never. The attempt carries with it some measure of utterly avoidable unhappiness and stress.
How often do you find yourself arguing with reality? How much energy have you wasted railing against what is?
I know my own answers to those questions are, “Too often,” and, “Too much.”
As Dick points out, reality will always have the upper hand. You can’t win an argument with it, and the energy you waste with frustration and anger could be put to infinitely better use.
When I accept reality, I can start putting the time and energy into asking, “OK, given this situation, what can I do? What steps can I take? Where can I go? How can I use my time?”
In short, it takes me out of victim mode and lets me put my energy into moving forward.
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Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst (sm)
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The Occupational Adventure Guide:
A Travel Guide to the Career of Your Dreams
Originally
from The Occupational Adventure (sm)
by Curt Rosengren
on May 9, 2007, 4:29PM
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In a Life Optimizer post on generating ideas, Donald Latumahina wrote, “…ideas develop exponentially. The more ideas you have, the more ideas you will generate, both in term of quantity and quality.”
That got me thinking about how I’ve seen that play out. One of the things I often see people do is limit themselves because they’re afraid to be “wrong,” or to look “stupid.” In the interest of only letting their strokes of genius out into the light, they start to choke off their idea flow. Paradoxically, that makes it that much less likely that any strokes of genius will see the light of day.
Donald points out that there’s actually a multiplier effect at work when it comes to letting the ideas fly:
If I have two ideas - A and B - I can only derive one new idea from those which is AB. If I have three ideas - A, B, and C - I can derive four new ideas which are AB, AC, BC, and ABC. If I have four ideas - A, B, C, and D - I can then derive eleven new ideas which are AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD, ABC, ABD, ACD, BCD, and ABCD.
To give you clearer picture of the exponential effect, here are the numbers above and some more:
- 2 ideas generate 1 new ideas.
- 3 ideas generate 4 new ideas.
- 4 ideas generate 11 new ideas.
- 5 ideas generate 26 new ideas.
- 6 ideas generate 57 new ideas.
- 7 ideas generate 120 new ideas.
He goes on to outline some suggestions for ratcheting up the volume on your ideas.
If you want to create the best life for yourself you can, opening yourself to the broadest expanse of ideas possible is vital. You can only act on what you know about, and if what you know about is limited, so is your potential.
There is so much potential swirling all around us, it’s mind-boggling. Opening yourself to the exponential nature of ideas will help you discover that potential.
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Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst (sm)
Time for a career change? Launch it with…
The Occupational Adventure Guide:
A Travel Guide to the Career of Your Dreams
Originally
from The Occupational Adventure (sm)
by Curt Rosengren
on May 8, 2007, 4:28PM
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Dads, if you’re reading this, please don’t be offended — we’ll be heaping plenty of praise on you in a few weeks. But this Sunday is Mother’s Day after all, and we sons and daughters have a whole bunch of reasons to be thankful for our moms. Hare are five that come to mind:
Have your own lesson from Mom to add to this list? Drop it in the comments section below.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Originally
from The Monster Blog
by Bryan
on May 10, 2007, 10:06PM
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…if not better, says a CNN/Money article I read today.
I have always found mentoring to be a worthwhile venture for both me as a mentor and me being mentored. I don’t know exactly what the cause of this worthwhile feeling is but for me at least, it stems from a couple different things.
Great leaders can make a big difference by mentoring other employees and with such a small investment, can make a big impact not only on your own performance but the performance of others.
Originally
from YourHRGuy.com
by Your HR Guy
on Apr 20, 2007, 1:08PM
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