Business Solutions BLOG
  by Greg Nolan, MBA     

Setting End Goals

Mission Statement" > People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It's as simple as that."- Earl Nightingale

Goal Setting > Success or failure as a human being or a Corporation is not a matter of luck, circumstances, fate, or any of the other tiresome old clichés. Those are only excuses. The power to achieve the life of your dreams is in your hands—and the first step toward activating it is identifying the specific goals that will make your dreams real. After all, it’s much easier to get what you want out of life or activities when you know where you’re going.

"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."
by Mark Twain
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Leadership

Communication - Four Fatal Assumptions  of Executive Communication ;   1. Do they understand what was said, 2. Agree with what was said, 3. Care about what was said& 4. Know how to act on what was said. Click here for the WEB Link to this book, The Leader’s Voice by Ron Crossland. 

Leadership & Management Development – i) Embrace responsibility, ii) Accept Accountability, iii) Develop others, iv) Create a top team,  v) Keep Strategic,  vi) Value Meetings,   vii) Advocate for Others,  viii)  Positive Approach,  ix)  Maintain Support,  x)  Treat Employees as Adults,  xi) Open up !!! Click here for the WEB Link to the Leadership BLOG site of Dan McCarthy.

Qualities of Leadership > Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Leadership is an art and a science.
It is an art because it continually evolves, changes form, and requires creativity.
It is a science because there are certain essential principles and techniques required.

A good leader knows when it is time to change shape because they are highly attentive to those around them. Coming from a position of strength, a great leader takes risks by freeing up the creative genius in their followers to build their capability and multiply the talents of the organization. This leads to community and greatness. By powerfully communicating a vision that animates, motivates, and inspires followers, a great leader is able to transform his or her organization. A good leader needs to be able to laugh; a great leader needs to be able to laugh at oneself.

What kind of leader are you being? Where is your organization in relation to your vision?
What do you think makes a great leader? Who do you think was a great leader?
What qualities did or do they routinely exhibit? What do your followers want to know in order to believe in you? What are the words that lead them to believe you?
Consider the following as a beginning list of Qualities:

Strategy

Climate change action requires supply chain Management.   Executives concerned about changing market conditions & Climate Change will have to look to purchasing & supply chain management.   Click here for the WEB Link for the McKinsey Quarterly Management Newsletter.

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"All great achievements require time."
— Maya Angelou: is an American Poet

Train for a week, and you can run a mile. Train for a few weeks, you can run a 5K race. Train for a few months, and you can run a marathon. Most of us — in our careers and our achievements — aren’t marathoners. We focus on one thing until it becomes good, yet abandon it before it gets to great. The truth is, there is no clear line that separates good from great. And you may be much closer to great than you think. Richard Koch presents the secret principle behind becoming a marathoner in life.

Motivation & Focus 
·  One of the most commonly asked questions… “How do I stay motivated and take action?”
·  What motivates you? And how do you get motivated?
·  We’re all motivated by different things.
·  Short term motivation vs. Long term motivation

Examples: Losing 5 pounds or getting a new car by a certain date = short term

Feeling good about yourself or living a certain lifestyle = long term
·  Goals = short term
·  Vision = long term
·  Your primary motivation should to be tied to your vision.
·  Your vision needs to inspire you for the long term.
·  This business requires self motivation.
·  External factors vs. Internal motivation
·  Externally influenced motivation is not a bad thing. It’s a natural part of life… But it’s not enough.
·  You need internal (intrinsic) motivation to keep you going when the going gets tough.
·  Some of my internal motivators include:

-Love
-Family (external factor, but there is also internal side to it)
-A sense of fulfilling my purpose
·  Figure out what your internal motivators are, and then make sure that they are a part of your vision.

Action steps:
1) Figure out what really motivates you internally
2) Make sure those things are a part of your vision
3) Think about whether your vision will motivate you for the long term, and if not, tweak your vision.

 Forget About Resolutions - What's Your  Mission?
 By Success Skills Coach Jim Rohrbach

© 2007 Nightingale-Conant Corporation

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18
If you're like most people, you've probably flirted around with New Year's resolutions: You've said, "THIS is the year I'm gonna lose weight and get in shape. Starting January 1, no more snacking. I'm joining the health club and I'm gonna work out daily. I may even do my first marathon." What happens? By March 1 (the latest ...) you're back on the junk food regimen, you've been to the club a total of five times (you're "just too busy to get there"), and you've filed that marathon application in the trash. And you've concluded, "Resolutions don't work for me." (You've got a lot of company on that one ...)
Maybe you need a better approach. Instead of making a mental resolution, create a Mission Statement. The difference?
A Mission Statement

• is a handwritten or typed-out paragraph
• is posted someplace you can see it regularly
• is committed to memory
• has specific, measurable outcomes
• has a deadline — in this case, December 31st

Here's a process you can use right now to create a Mission Statement for personal success in your career or business. Get out a pen and some paper, or if you'd like to do this online, go to http://www.nightingale.com/mission_select.aspx.
Step A. Write down 5 positive personality characteristics you like about yourself in your career/business. For example: willingness to learn, persistence, creativity, friendliness, sense of humor.
Step B. For the items you listed above, describe the way you express each positive characteristic on a regular basis in your career, using the word "by" to begin each phrase. For example, if you listed "willingness to learn" above, you might write "by being committed to ongoing professional development" below. Another example: If you wrote "persistence" above, you might write "by making sure the job always gets done" below.
Step C. Write down 5 goals you’d like to achieve by one year from today. Be sure to list a specific financial goal separate from these 5 goals.
Step D. Look back over Steps A, B, and C, circling the 3 most important items in each column.
Step E. Now fill in the blanks of the following paragraph:
"My purpose is to express my __________________________ ,________________________, and ______________________ (write in the three items you circled in Step A) by
__________________________________________________,
by ________________________________________________, and by ____________________________________________ (write in the three items you circled in Step B) to create ___________________________________________________, ___________________________________________________ and _____________________________________________, (write in the three items you circled in Step C) and at least ____________ (write in your financial goal) by ___________ (write in the date one year from today)."
When finished, you will have a short paragraph that reads something like:
"My purpose is to express my intelligence, creativity, and people skills by continually learning and applying new ideas, by finding unique solutions to my clients' problems, and by building a powerful network of contacts to create 15 new corporate accounts, a steady flow of referral and renewal business, and full technological competence, and at least $125,000 in gross commissions by this date one year from today."
I hope you give this deceptively simple exercise a try, and I encourage you to follow the guidelines above by posting it where you can review it, committing it to memory, and reciting it daily. Then you won't need to make any more fruitless resolutions — you'll be like The Blues Brothers ... you'll be on "a Mission from God."

Success Skills Coach Jim Rohrbach, "The Personal Fitness Trainer for Your Business," coaches business owners, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals on growing their clientele. He has helped hundreds of individuals to achieve their goals since he developed his first coaching program in 1982.

Positive Energy for Your own Thinking, Personnel Issues & Ideas

Think positive and change Your outlook !!!

"We forget the chains we wear in life"……   Charles Dickens
 
Embrace things in your life that drive you to achieve, and start letting go of all those that do not.  It is difficult to distinguish the category in which any of your activities belong, but paying attention to your choices and their consequences will sponsor the awareness you will need to make better life choices in the future.  Although things that bring us happiness outside of work can be our greatest inspiration for our professional success and in our personal life as well, and often they are so simple ..we cast them aside as inconsequential.  DO NOT do this..remember, the small things that make you happy, and use them to battle the things that loom much larger and stress you out. 

Consider these suggestions..

• Fill your mind with thoughts of love, peace, courage, hope and health
• Never try to get even with your enemies
• Expect ingratitude
• Count your blessings, not your troubles
• Try not to imitate others
• Create happiness for others and for yourself and especially the ones you love and cherish.

Communication >> Each of us is graced with the most powerful gift. With it, we are able to make people soar out of orbit with happiness, or plummet to the earth with despair if we are careless. What is this almighty gift? It is the gift of words and the ability to communicate

Truth >> Imagine how much good the ‘Art of Integrity’ can put out into the Universe. Providing a positive, truthful comment, helping someone turn a bad mood into a good mood, and speaking to ourselves with only love will have an incredible affect on many lives. Remember the Laws of Attraction are at work at all times. Watch your words and speak only of what you would want to have in your world.

Freedom >> Freedom is available to you at any time … even now. When you decide to pursue a lifestyle full of freedom, you make a commitment to be successful in your life dealings to W-I-N at all you endeavor. Like everything, it begins with you.

The ability to attract wealth is the starting gun in the freedom race. Why wealth? Because while money does not guarantee happiness, it does pave the way over the bumps that cause many to stumble. It helps eliminate the stress and worry associated with bills and debt, and takes away the should's and musts that accompany thoughts of lack.

What follows wealth? The freedom of Time. Does just the thought make you sigh? Imagine the time to do what you would like to do, not what you feel pressured to do. To have the time to pursue a hobby, spend unlimited amounts of time with your loved ones, or to go on a trip or for a walk for the sheer enjoyment of the experience? To have the chance to pursue your passions because you no longer come from a place of not enough money or time? Are you beginning to feel the energy of freedom? Intoxicating, isn’t it?Next there is health. While good health is vital to the pursuit of freedom, without money to ease stress and time to put good healthful practices into place, the ability to achieve the best possible health is often impossible. Would you enjoy the freedom to have a home gym and the time to devote to training for a marathon? Or the ability to schedule childcare for a session with a personal trainer or to hire a dietary nutritionist for meal planning and cooking lessons. Health freedom when coupled with wealth and time is the most valuable form of freedom there is. To have the freedom to do the best that you can for yourself for the rest of your life, and to help those around you do the same.

What about spirituality? The time to explore your beliefs, pursue them and integrate them into your life. Beliefs, no matter what they are, are important. It’s one of the things that many never have time to pursue due to daily demands and pressures. Something that lives in hearts, but is not allowed to blossom outside of the person. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to embrace and unleash your spirit too?When one has the freedom of wealth, time, health and spirituality, one has what the One Minute Millionaire describes as “Ultimate Freedom”. What does this term mean to you? Close you eyes and imagine a life with all of these freedoms already present. Can you feel it and embrace it? Are ideas for new projects, experiences, and concepts bursting forth? Are visions of happy faces and feelings of contentment filling your heart? Ultimate freedom provides you with all of the core tools necessary to propel you towards your passion and destiny.

Make the commitment today. Put your Laws of Attraction to work and take the first step towards wealth freedom with ultimate freedom being your eventual goal. It’s not elusive at all. You can soar to freedom.

About How to Stay Motivated
by Zig Ziglar

Drive >> A single word can change your life!

Do you want to make more money? This word can help you create vast amounts of it. Do you want to be famous? This word can make you a big star. Do you want to be an effective leader, with influence over large numbers of people? This word can bring you more prestige and respect than you ever imagined.

How is it possible for one word to bring a person so many good things? How is it possible to reduce all the complexities of “making it” in life down to a single word?

Simple. This word is the cause of every achievement men and women have ever made. Let me explain by giving you an example:

A reporter once asked Arnold Schwarzenegger how he was able to reach the top in bodybuilding and as a Hollywood actor. Without hesitating, Schwarzenegger replied, “DRIVE!” That was all he said.

In fact, throughout history, the people with the most DRIVE have accomplished the most, earned the most money and respect, had the most luck, and garnered the most power. The driven person always finds these things, even in the face of “insurmountable” obstacles. In fact, he or she often finds them immediately after overcoming such obstacles.

Since you’re reading this letter, I believe you’re already more driven than most of the population. Most people would have carelessly tossed this letter aside. But you’re reading because you’re smarter than they are - and more driven to succeed.

There are nuggets of gold in this letter - nuggets so valuable they can literally transform your life. If you have the right mind set, you’ll find each and every nugget.

About Mastering Influence

EASILY and AUTOMATICALLY persuade people to do what YOU want them to do!

Whether it’s landing a client, closing a sale, whittling down your to-do list, or even just enjoying some peace and quiet, most of the things you want to achieve in life depend in some part on the actions or decisions of other people.

Once you’ve mastered the power to influence, you will know — instinctively and automatically — how to create win-win situations for everyone you encounter. And when you can do that, there is literally NO LIMIT to what you can achieve.

Then...
Become the kind of person EVERYONE remembers and NO ONE can resist! You are a class act to me..and I'm sure your clients feel the same as I do. No question..

Whether you’re competing for a job, a candidate, a contract, a client, or anything else of value, there’s nothing more critical to your success than your ability to stand out as a uniquely qualified, valuable, appealing individual — someone whom other people really want to work with, work for, know, and help.

And nothing will set you apart, make people notice and remember you, and get you what you want like the unmistakable mark of class. Class acts are a rare breed. You can spot them right away. And you never forget them.

The 80/20 Principle
by Richard Koch

Your personal life. The 80/20 Principle in action: 80% of the people who read this will ignore it. Be a part of the 20% who take action and improve their lives...
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You, Inc.: Creating Your Life as a Free Agent
by Terri Lonier, Gail Blanke, William Bridges, Guy Kawasaki, Daniel H. Pink

Once you discover the freedoms, opportunities, and personal pride that independent professionals enjoy, you may never set foot in the corporate workplace again. Take the LEAP! Do you drag yourself out of bed in the morning, dread the commute to work, and look forward to getting home throughout your workday? You, Inc.: Creating Your Life as a Free Agent gives you all the information you need to make a successful move out of the traditional corporate structure and into the flexibility and fulfillment of independent business. You spend 20% of your life working — why not enjoy it!
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The Longevity Solution
by Eric Plasker, D.C.

ACT NOW to take the simple steps to not only live, but THRIVE — this year, next year, and every year until you're 80, 90, or EVEN OLDER! In this energy-filled program, Dr. Eric Plasker teaches you how to not simply maximize your years on earth, but get the most out of every single day. Through years of research, he has pinpointed the very health, financial well-being, and overall prosperity strategies and plan you can use to enjoy a sensational second half of life. Make each year better than the previous.
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