Start with Your Big Goals
Gurus will tell you to start the day with easy tasks. I think this works when your best time of the day is in the afternoon or in the evening.
Don’t Hire People Who Aren’t Competent
The first time I was employed, I immediately realized I was incompetent. The principal assigned me to teach World History, Economics, and Asian History. Of course, I knew these subjects very well. But I was lacking in something fundamental.
Write Your Next Steps to Save Yourself from Chaos
Consider the amount of time you can use for work. Meetings, planned or unplanned, will take you away from doing what you really want. Chaos will always be around, you know.
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Why People Enrolled for One Year Gym Membership
Planet Fitness has a ten dollar a month promo. It usually charges between $10 and $20 per month. It has, on average, 6,500 members per gym. That’s not the interesting part. Here’s the interesting part: most of its gym can hold around 300 people. That’s
You can’t multitask (and here’s what you can do)
Multi-tasking doesn’t make us productive. Our brains are not wired to focus on more than one string of information at a time. We get doses of unhealthy stress because we keep ourselves swimming in chaos. Multitasking hinders our ability to complete tasks at hand. Focus,
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What If Your Boss Is Your Friend
Hiring a friend or a classmate will not cause a lot of trouble when everyone observes professionalism. When your boss is a friend, respect him like any other boss. You are in the workplace because of your own merit. Oftentimes, even the best of friends
The Price of Motivational Speaking
Many speakers market motivational speaking like a commodity. So, people think that speaking is a commodity and every speaker is a vendor.
Things to Do When Working with Relatives
In the Philippines, many employees think that a relative is an extension of the boss. When you hire your relatives, treat them like any other professional. Let everyone know that your relatives are hired based on their merits, not on your blood relations. This is
Why do Filipinos procrastinate? And how to cure it.
People procrastinate not because they don’t want to do anything.
Procrastinators are busy people. They do many things so that they can find justifications for not doing what must be done.
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Overestimating Motivation Is Counter-productive.
The performance of employees dropped last month. Without hesitation, the manager said that the cause is lack of motivation. And everyone nodded in agreement. Lack of motivation is the safest alibi. It is safer to say that people lack motivation than to say that the
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Speaking is heart to heart.
I’ve spent most of my life speaking. To students in classrooms. To executives in boardrooms. To strangers in faraway places who later became friends. And here’s one truth that has become clearer the longer I’ve done this work: Speaking is not about words. It’s not
Choose the right commencement speaker.
Get a graduation speaker who can best guide the graduating class. He or she not have to be the most accomplished today. Celebrities attract the crowd, but you must always consider that the speaker must add value to the occasion. Your graduation speaker can be
How to Deliver the Mission of Your Organization
A clear and compelling mission moves people to action. It makes the indifferent committed. It makes the unsure confident. But a mission will lose its meaning if you do not enable people to act on it. Action gives flesh to ideals. Turn your mission statements
Know your audience.
Be interested with your audience. I bet that nine of ten speakers you’ll met are more interested in their stories than your stories. Ask them questions and they’ll give you answers faster than bullet trains in Japan. Give them opportunities to speak and they’ll be
Selfish Vision vs Transformative Vision
To be the biggest hospital in locality X. Somehow, most vision statements are like this. Many organizations’ vision statements indicate their future place or position in the marketplace. They don’t tell you what impact they’ll do to the world. This is why most visions aren’t
Heart of a Commencement Speech
You must begin now. You can make it. You have what it takes to succeed. This is the heart of a commencement speech. When you deliver a commencement speech, always remember that your audience is now obliged to leave the borders of their comfort zone.
Train Staff to Manage Stress
Re-imagine your workplace. Make it a place where people can smile and have fun. A place where people perform at their most productive best. Organizations must equip employees on how to master stress. This stress management seminar can help you be more productive and happy
Personal Vision Statements: A Tool for Finding Clarity and Focus
If you want clarity and focus, start with personal vision statements—because without a clear picture of who you’re becoming, your schedule will decide for you. In this article, Jef Menguin shares examples and a simple way to write a personal vision statement that reflects your values, goals, and long-term aspirations. Use it as your compass, then share it with colleagues to build a culture that chooses with intention.
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Commencement Speeches Are Stronger When Shorter
Deliver commencement speeches in under 17 minutes. Take out all the unnecessary and you will find that seventeen minutes is enough to inspire and make a point. As a commencement speaker, you must do your job well. You must do it also as quickly as
Behavior and Vision: Living Your Future Today
Behavior and vision come together. Make your vision both specific and inspiring so it can guide your people’s behavior. Your vision is a pitch for the future and your behaviors are examples of what is to come. It is an invitation for your employees to