Tag: Personal

When you least expect it

College admissions presentation
Last night.

 

College admissions presentation
Last night.

 

College admissions presentation
Last night at the College Admissions presentation. All four panelists are College Admissions Directors. The University of Moscow Director was absent due to a canceled flight.

 

When you least expect it, personal responsibility has a growth spurt.

Last night, i observed many parents taking notes, but only one student.

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Trying to fit a mold is dangerous

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Yeah but, i don’t want to ruin my chances for a promotion.

 

Big company or small company, the internal competition for promotion is relative.

Bad moves are remembered well.

So don’t ever make any, right?

You know, play it safe.

You can let loose and be yourself when you retire.

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11 mistakes personal (and corporate) trainers wish you’d stop making

Everyday Health photos
This photo title should say: You’re too Monotonous. Doing the same things and expecting your results to happen better and faster.

 

Everyday Health photos
You’re doing workplace initiatives you hate.

 

Everyday Health photos
You are starting with the wrong mindset.

 

Everyday Health photos
You’re always focused on the same things, in the same way.

 

Everyday Health photos
You refuse to do what it takes to have focus and discipline.

 

Everyday Health photos
You are neglecting a holistic approach to organizational vibrancy.

 

Everyday Health photos
You use a ready, fire, aim approach to making progress.

 

Everyday Health photos
You rush from one thing to another and don’t fully understand the inter-connectedness of the easy beginnings and easy endings.

 

Everyday Health photos
You only want to focus on what you’re good at, and not a 360 analysis.

 

Everyday Health photos
Rush, rush, rush. You do too many things that others can, and should, be doing.

 

Everyday Health photos
The long way is the short cut. Each important piece of cultural architecture has a positive ripple effect when you have it in place and a negative ripple effect when it isn’t.

 

The hardest thing in the world is to change who we are once we are well into our career. However, it SHOULD be the easiest thing because what we are really asked to do is to simply keep getting better.

Original article is here.

Summary of 11 points, jeff noel style.

  1. You’re too Monotonous. Doing the same things and expecting your results to happen better and faster.
  2. You’re doing workplace initiatives you hate.
  3. You are starting with the wrong mindset.
  4. You’re always focused on the same things, in the same way.
  5. You refuse to do what it takes to have focus and discipline.
  6. You are neglecting a holistic approach to organizational vibrancy.
  7. You use a ready, fire, aim approach to making progress.
  8. You rush from one thing to another and don’t fully understand the inter-connectedness of the easy beginnings and easy endings.
  9. You only want to focus on what you’re good at, and not a 360 analysis.
  10. Rush, rush, rush. You do too many things that others can, and should, be doing.
  11. The long way is the short cut. Each important piece of cultural architecture has a positive ripple effect when you have it in place and a negative ripple effect when it isn’t.

Personal trainers, executive coaches, High School Counselors, Physicians, and so on, they are at their finest when they are 100% honest, transparent, and forthcoming.

The truth hurts.

The truth can set you free.

Pick wisely.

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Please don’t waste your unique, divine gift of personal leadership

Walt Disney World Railroad photos
The Little Engine That Could…

 

Please don’t waste your unique, divine gift of personal leadership.

Respect & embrace your journey, no matter how challenging or impossible – it’s all you have. It’s your unique, divine gift.

Please don’t waste it.

 

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Even with as much experience as you have

Top Disney Keynote Speakers
It’s different when you aren’t working for the 5th most admired company in the world. Screenshot of ad from maybe eight years ago.

 

Even with as much experience as you have, you can still make dramatic leaps in your leadership development.

Being the CEO of your own business is vastly different than being in charge of something at someone else’s business.

Vastly.

Transformationally.

 

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This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.