BEING DISCIPLINED!

Discipline is nothing more than the process of focusing on any chosen activity without interruption until that activity is done. Discipline is something you do and not something you have.

To become what others refer to as a disciplined person required only that you “do discipline” over and over again as a conscious act until it becomes a habit.

Discipline is all of the following:

1. The process of total time control.

2. The ability to stay focused on your chosen action path without detour, distraction, or interruption.

3. The ability to keep all agreements with yourself and others without blame, excuses, or caving in to obstacles.

4. The ability to show up on time, every time.

5. The ability to complete important personal or business projects on schedule, even on budget.

6. Ability to keep your mind, body, and emotions in balance, no matter what’s going on around you-even if it produces fear, anxiety, embarrassment or guilt.

7. The power to keep going forward when everything around you seems to be pulling back.

Discipline generates trust and confidence in yourself and attracts trust and confidence from others. The constant act of discipline magnifies your power to accomplish things.

Are you disciplined?

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts

EFFICIENCY VERSUS EFFECTIVENESS !

Efficiency is the process of staying busy at all times, with no idle moments. Effectiveness is the process of producing the maximum results in the minimum time, with the minimum effort.

Efficiency, therefore, is not the key to getting more done. Have you ever had a day when your\ were so busy you didn’t get anything done? The feeling is a trademark of efficiency-lots of action, but lack of results.

The objective is to produce results with minimum time and effort, not maximum busyness and hard work. We all need to learn to work smart!

By transforming efficiency into effectiveness you will discover the following:

1. Every action has a purpose.
2. Interruptions are consciously eliminated.
3. Rushed motion gives way to rational movement.
4. Unbalancing surprises become a thing of the past.
5. You are seldom caught off guard.
6. Your life is planned, stress free, and seldom behind schedule.
7. Excuses for being late are left behind.
8. Deadlines are met.
9. Your life and your time line are under control.

Not all of your daily activities are of equal importance. Your mission is to organize and prioritize all activities into a working plan. You then work your plan from the highest priority activities to the low priority activities, until all are complete or you run out of time at the end of the day.

However, it is the number of priority activities that you complete that is important and ultimately determines your level of success. Use the 20/80 rule to prioritize your list of what is most important.

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts

THE 20/80 RULE!

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To increase our effectiveness this is a good rule to follow. Ever hear of it? 20% of the activities that you could choose to spend your time on will produce 80% of the results you are after.

Conversely, 80% of your possible activities will produce only 20% of the results you are after. This should get your attention. Just 20% of your activities will take you on the path to reaching your goals, whatever they may be.

The key is to identify the 20% of activities that are necessary and that are a priority. Once this is done, you need to spend the majority of your time and energy on those tasks.

It would be a waste of your time, talent, and energy to spend time on anything not in the top 20% of the activities on your list, at least until that 20% has been totally completed and that’s the point.

Applying the 20/80 rule also reduces the stress that often occurs when you feel like you are getting behind or just aren’t producing enough results for the time and effort you are expending.

With the application of the 20/80 rule, you will have learned to compress time-to accomplish in one day what previously would have required you two, four, or even ten days to accomplish.

Think about it and prioritize!

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts

ARE YOU LISTENING?

A good listener is more appreciated than a good talker. That is because a good listener always allows people to hear their favorite speaker: themselves!

Being a good listener is not an accident. Some things to consider:

1. Always look at the person who is talking. Anybody worth listening to is worth looking at.

2. Lean forward as you are listening. This forces you to concentrate on what is being said.

3. Ask questions! This lets the talker know that you are eager to hear what he has to say.

4. Stick to the speaker’s subject and don’t interrupt. Don’t change the subject to something you are interested in.

5. Use the speaker’s words: you and your not me, my, and mine.

These are nothing more than common courtesy. This will pay off for you as you are listening. Hey, you might just probably learn something!

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts

ARE YOU AGREEABLE?

If you want to be skillful in human relations this is a must! Nothing will help you more in your lifetime than learning to be agreeable.

Any fool can argue and disagree with people but is takes a wise main to agree-particularly when the other person is wrong.

Get yourself in a frame of mind and attitude of being agreeable. This doesn’t mean than you disregard your morals or put up with something you know is blatantly wrong, it’ s how you approach the matter and that person.

Let people know which points that you agree with them on. Do not tell people that you disagree with them unless this is absolutely necessary. If you don’t agree with them it doesn’t mean that you have to argue with them.

Admit it when you’re wrong. The average person will lie, deny, or alibi! Don’t argue! Nobody wins an argument.

You will run into people that are fighters-they are looking for a fight. Refuse to fight with them. Keep your mouth shut, as much as this may be difficult.

Remember: People like those who agree with them, people dislike those that disagree with them, and people don’t like being disagreed with.

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts

MAKING PEOPLE FEEL IMPORTANT !

1. Listen to them: Refusal to listen to people is the surest way of making them feel unimportant and of rating them a nobody. Listening to them is the best way to make them feel important.

2. Applaud and compliment them: When they deserve it.

3. Use their names as often as possible: Call people by their names as often as possible and they will appreciate you for it.

4. Use their words: You and Your, not I, me, mine.

5. Acknowledge people who are waiting to see you: If they are in line or you are talking to someone else, make sure you let them know that you have seen them. You are putting them first.

6. Pay attention to everybody in a group: Not just the leader or spokesperson.
Good points to ponder!

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts

BEST WAY TO TALK TO PEOPLE!

What is the most important thing people want to talk about? I, me, my, mine= me, myself, and I.

Talk about the other person. You can’t go wrong. Most people when they are in a conversation are focused only on themselves. You need to be actively focused on other people and make them # 1.

If you give up the satisfaction you get from talking about yourself and focus on the other person, you will find that you will have more influence.

People love to talk about themselves and you should let them. That’s how you become a better conversationalist.

Most of us are not effective when talking with others because we keep busy thinking and talking about ourselves. The thing to remember is that it is not how you like your remarks and subject, it is how your listeners like them.

Jacques
CreatingWealthThatLasts