It’s You Who Can Make Them Come Alive »
I hope you have been having a fantastic day feeling all alive and excited about what is in store for you.
Today, I want you to quickly think about three situations:
1. Life at home, as part of your family.
2. Life at work/school, with your colleagues.
3. Life at play, with your friends.
Take the first impression that comes to mind in each of the above three situations. How does it feel? Do you see the situations as dull and boring, or do you see them as enthusiastic and full of life?
Do you feel…
Phone an out-of-touch friend each day – The challenge »
Do you have friends with whom you have been out of touch for a long time? Do you somehow find it difficult to make the time to make contact, or are just waiting for the “right” time, which just never seems to come by?
As posted earlier, our challenge for this month is:
“Each day, phone a different friend whom you’ve been out of touch with”
Take this challenge as an opportunity to push yourself into making that one phone call that will rekindle the old friendship and change things in positive ways for you as well as your friend. Imagine how it would be to do this daily for 21 days. Twenty one rekindled relationships, and your life may never be the same again!
It’s the 4th of the month and it’s time to have a look at the Logical Goal for this challenge…
Announcing the challenge for September 2010 »
It’s a new month, and it’s time to prepare ourselves for a new challenge.
There were 7 candidates for the challenge this month, 2 of which received an equal number of votes from the Mark of Success community.
Taking the liberty to choose one from amongst those two, our next 21-day challenge, for September 2010, will be…
Be more than a manager, take time to be a leader! »
A manager most of the time just manages what his subordinates do and focuses mainly on achieving the goals. A leader however, in addition to managing, goes one step further and leads the team. A leader demonstrates through example, and shows the way. He is capable of doing that what he expects his team members [...]
Leading with cooperation vs. managing with power »
Do you pressurize your subordinates in order to get work done or to get more done? Some of my colleagues boast of being able to push their subordinates into get more work done, and of being able to get it done faster as well. A few of them even take sadistic pleasure in exercising their [...]
How to be assertive – A step by step guide »
In my earlier post, “Handle pressure the assertive way”, I wrote about the importance of being assertive in the context of handling pressure. It is important to note that pressure need not be only of an explicit kind, like for example, a manager pressurizing a subordinate to satisfy unreasonable demands, or a constantly nagging counterpart [...]
Handle pressure the assertive way »
We all encounter situations wherein we are being pressurized into doing something against our wishes, or doing something beyond normal limits. Pressure from managers at work, family at home, customers at business, friends and colleagues every now and then,… there are so many different types of demands and associated pressure. Do you feel overpowered by [...]
The ill effects of expectations and the magic of expectancy »
What are your expectations from your friends? I can imagine you sitting back and trying to figure that out… different expectations from different friends, right? When I was younger, I too had a very strong feeling of both sharing (giving out) as well as expectations (getting in return). The word friendship had a very strong [...]