Change Your Attitude & Change Your Life

Be Positive: Even If It's Not Your Blood Type Your Life Will Change ...

Life is Just A Moment ...

 

Beauty of Life!

A man died...

When he realized it, he saw God coming closer with a suitcase in his hand.

Dialog between God and Dead Man:

God: *Alright son, it’s time to go*

Man: So soon? I had a lot of plans...

God: *I am sorry but, it’s time to go*

Man: What do you have in that suitcase?

God: *Your belongings*

Man: My belongings? You mean my things... Clothes... money...

God; *Those things were never yours, they belong to the Earth*

Man: Is it my memories?

God: *No. They belong to Time*

Man: Is it my talent?

God: *No. They belong to Circumstance*

Man: Is it my friends and family?

God: *No son. They belong to the Path you traveled*

Man: Is it my wife and children?

God: *No. they belong to your Heart*

Man: Then it must be my body

God: *No No... It belongs to Dust*

Man: Then surely it must be my Soul!

God: *You are sadly mistaken son. Your Soul belongs to me.*

Man with tears in his eyes and full of fear took the suitcase from the God's hand and opened it...

Empty...

With heartbroken and tears down his cheek he asks God...

Man: I never owned anything?

God: *That’s Right. You never owned anything*.

Man: Then? What was mine?

God: your *MOMENTS*. 

Every moment you lived was *yours*.

Do Good in every moment

Think Good in every moment

Thank God for every moment

Life is just a Moment...

Live it...

Love it...

Enjoy it...... 

 

Saying Thank You is an Important Management & Leadership Skill !!

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."   --- Henry Van Dyke 

Tom Peters, in his book The Little BIG Things, feels that saying the words “thank you” is “The rarest (and most powerful) of gifts.” He further says “Recognition for contributions or support is of inestimable value in cementing relationships – and inducing future contributions and work-of-mouth support.” AND it must be done every day, several times a day!

He also wants us to be very generous with our “thank you”s . When you say thank you to someone for their work generally they had help from someone else. Peters says you should thank them as well. He says “Recognition and inclusion of ‘support’ members of a team, no matter how indirect, has multiplicative value when it comes to getting things done – perhaps nothing is of greater import.”

By the way, Peters thinks that saying “thank you” is a learnable and measurable skill. To help make it a habit he says measure it. Start noticing the changes in behavior and results. He feels that it will make a huge impact on your organization.

Thank you Paul Hebert for this book inspiration! Excellence is tough. That's why it's important to take time to relax, to celebrate, and to be grateful.

(https://www.amazon.com/Little-Big-Things-Pursue-EXCELLENCE/dp/0061894109/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=hrobs-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=4SEH2X6CTCTJNYMD&creativeASIN=0061894109)

Start from the Bottom But Call it Foundation

Organizations are built on the work of people who don’t get paid very much, don’t receive sufficient respect and are understandably wary of the promises they’ve been hearing for years.

Calling these folks the bottom of the org chart doesn’t help.

Imagine that throughout your career you were paid as little as legally possible, the last to be hired and the first to be laid off. Imagine that the boss gets more vacation days, doesn’t have to clock in and out, and is actually given control over how he spends his time.

Why is it surprising to bosses, then, that some workers respond to this arrangement by doing as little work as possible?

Here’s the thing: people actually want to do a good job. They want to be proud of their work, they appreciate being engaged, they thrive when they have some measure of control over their day.

Too often, though, the optimistic leader meets the pessimistic front line and distrust undermines all the good intent. The boss loses patience and reverts to the test-and-measure, trust-no-one, scientific-management tradition of dehumanizing the very humans who make the whole project work.

And so, back to being mediocre. Back to high turnover, low trust, no care. Back to workers who don’t believe and bosses who are now cynics.

Mostly, back to an ordinary organization that’s like so many others.

There’s an alternative. But it’s a process, not an event.

Step 1: A commitment, from the top, that this place is going to be different. The commitment is open-ended. It involves leading and showing up and keeping promises, for months and years into the future. It’s non-cynical, and it views leadership as an opportunity, the possibility of serving customers at the very same time you inspire and enable employees.

This is going to take a long time, and it’s not going to be the cheapest path. It turns out, though, in industries where people matter (which is more and more of the work we do) that this path pays for itself eventually.

Step 2: Hire for attitude, not for learned skills. You can teach someone to do just about anything. It’s far more difficult to build an instinct to care. When you hire trustworthy people who are willing to trust you, you have an opportunity to build trust, which enables communication, which allows you to teach, which upgrades everything.
If you are in a hurry to assemble a group of people who can ‘do the work’, you will end up with folks who merely needed a job. On the other hand, if you are willing to invest in people who are enrolled in the journey you’re on, you will end up with a team.

[Corollary: Fire for attitude, fix for skills. The attitudes you put up with will become the attitudes of your entire organization. Over time, every organization becomes what is tolerated]

Step 3: Be clear in actions and words about what’s important. It doesn’t do any good to hire for attitude but only reward for short-term results. If you reward a cynic merely because he got something done, you’ve made it clear to everyone else that cynicism is okay. If you overlook the person who is hiding mistakes because his productivity is high, then you are rewarding obfuscation and stealth.

Who gets the employee of the month parking space? Who gets laid off?

People are watching you. They’re not listening to your words as much as they’re seeking to understand where the boundaries and the guard rails lie, because they’ve learned from experience that people who do what gets rewarded, get rewarded.

Hint: if you tell people something is important but fail to give them the tools and the support and the training that they need to do that important thing, you’ve just told them that it’s not actually important.

Step 4: Be clear and consistent about how we do things around here. It’s going to be a long time before people act like they own the place. After all, you own the place and you don’t even act like you do most of the time.

This job is important. It feeds my family. It pays the rent. It’s connected to my self-esteem. I will act in the interest of my family, not your invisible shareholders.

Step 5: Your problem is not their problem. The people who build the foundation of your business have plenty of things to worry about. Your narrative about your day is not one of them.

Over time, it’s reasonable to expect that an engaged and respectful working environment will lead to ever more big-picture thinking. But it’s naïve and self-defeating to expect a 20-year-old who’s been on the job for a week to make a connection between the customer who just walked in, your big wholesale account, the loan that’s due soon and the espresso he just pulled.

Every day, you’re going to be tested on these five principles. Every day, there’s going to be a moment of urgency, a shortcut presented, a confusion. And in that moment, the first principle is going to come into question.

But this is the foundation, it’s not the bottom line - it's their values. This is the source for all your possibility, for the change you seek to make.

Isn’t it worth it?

Growing an Attitude of Gratitude

Being thankful for life's blessings is the key to a happier life...

Did you know that gratitude has the power to strengthen your immune system? Studies show that grateful people are happier and more optimistic--characteristics that correlate directly to physical health. Gratitude isn’t just something we practice on special occasions (like before that big Thanksgiving dinner); it’s a state of being, a way of life.

So how do you develop an attitude of gratitude? Here are some tips for the happier life that might help for the change management :

Keep A Gratitude Journal.

You don’t have to write a book, you don’t even have to write in full sentences, but every day, whether it’s while you’re drinking your morning cup of coffee or laying in bed about to turn off the lights, jot down a few things you were grateful for during the day. Maybe the weather was beautiful or you were able to pick up your child from school early and spend more time with them than usual--whatever made you happy, put it in writing so that you can look back, reflect and remember it later.

Be Present.

This may sound easy enough, but living in the moment is a rarity. How many times have you caught yourself thinking about work when spending quality family time at home? Or, how many times have you been caught daydreaming in a meeting, worrying about what’s for dinner or who’s going to pick up the kids from soccer practice? Our bodies may be in one place but our minds can be somewhere completely different. Let’s fix that. The next time you catch yourself worrying or stressing over something that isn’t happening right this minute, remind yourself to stay present. Be in the now. Absorb everything your boss is saying in the boardroom, listen attentively when your child describes their day at school, take a second to just be and see the peace and serenity you feel when doing so.

Help Others.

Find a project you’re passionate about or contact that charity you’ve been meaning to donate to and find out ways you can help others. Lending a helping hand to someone in need is not only an excellent way to remember how blessed you are, but it will give you a sense of purpose and a way to spread joy to others. Give others something else to be grateful for too … you!

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Create A Gratitude Board.

Who isn’t plugged into Pinterest any moment your computer screen is on? We love Pinterest boards because we can store all of our favorite things on them, recipes, hairstyles, dream vacations, remodeling projects, they’re all there at the click of a mouse. So why not create a gratitude board you can go to for inspiration when being thankful isn’t coming as easily as you’d like. Start a board and fill it with motivational quotes, scriptures reminding you how blessed you are. Try to stay away from the materialistic and instead focus on the intangible: love, family, trust, faith. Go to it whenever you need a pick me up in the gratitude attitude department.

Share The Love.

Another great way to practice an attitude of gratitude is to express how thankful you are for the things in your life. Tell your wife or husband how much you love them, how much you appreciate all that they do for the family. Talk with your kids, share what you think makes them special and unique and why you’re grateful to have them in your life. Send a short email to your co-worker, thanking them for their help with that difficult project or for taking some of the workload when you called out sick last week. Chances are there are plenty of people you’re grateful for in your life, start letting them know just how important they are.

Don’t Compare.

Comparison is definitely the thief of joy, but it’s also human nature. People compare in order to assure themselves that they’re doing a good job. But constantly trying to keep up with the Joneses rarely makes anyone happier (not even the Joneses). Instead of trying to make sure you have the flashiest car, the nicest wardrobe or the biggest house, look at the things you have that can’t be bought.

Find A Healthy Balance.

It would be easy to say that having an attitude of gratitude means never uttering another complaint again. There are plenty of challenges we could issue, like try going 21 days without complaining about something, to get you to practice the habit. But realistically, sooner or later, something will pop up that you’ll just have to grumble about. That’s okay. Life isn’t perfect and neither are people. There will be days where bad things happen and the only way to deal with them is to vent your frustration. But when you’re done complaining about getting another parking ticket, the mindboggling amount of traffic on your work commute or how your barista didn’t make your coffee the right way, take a minute and remind yourself of something you’re thankful for. Equal out the negative with a positive and end on a good note. 

Life is about balance and we can’t be grateful for the good if we don’t acknowledge the not-so-good every once in a while.

(Source - GuidePosts.Org)

Six Rules for Change By Esther Derby

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Esther Derby is quite right when she says people don’t resist change, they resist coercion. From our experience, when people understand the compelling reason why for change, feel actively involved, share the vision and are guided by trusted, inspirational leadership then change becomes “effortless”. Change happens one person at a time and by nurturing change amazing results happen.

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