Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Great Playbook for All Employees and Jobseekers!
"Bulletproof Your Career...Secure Your Financial Future and Do Fulfilling Work on Your
Own Terms... for LIFE!" -- Patricia Romboletti
I recently read a book entitled "Bulletproof Your Career." It's a great playbook for all employees and jobseekers! As an expert in business strategy and development, I have read many books, articles, concepts and theories including how to manage business, people and yourself. Accordingly, I am impressed with how the author of this book, Patricia Romboletti has been able to use her tremendous experience as a career and executive coach to provide this playbook to help individuals in these times of change to arm themselves, bullet proof their careers and secure their financial future.
This book would help any reader to understand that in the gig economy, transition is not a matter of “if” but a matter of “when.” Even if you have a great career and not in transition, you should have a blueprint to bulletproof your career. How do you that? This book provides simple and practical guidance to help every employee to prepare yourself for any career change intentionally or unintentionally. The book also provides some practical and positive suggestions based on the author’s own solid experience to arm individuals in transition who were shocked or found themselves unexpectedly in difficult transition. If one’s transitional situation becomes unmanageable, this book could also become your playbook to guide you to change your mindset positively and improve your situation.
Finally, this book would help the reader to understand that managing your career is an imperative lifetime skill that is very necessary for all employees to develop consistently. As the economy evolves more and more into digital economy including the adoption of artificial intelligence (A.I.) in industrial productivity, corporate downsizings, reorganizations, and transformations would inevitably continue. Therefore, I would highly recommend this book as it is critical for all individuals to bulletproof their careers, and consistently manage their careers as a lifetime pursuit. I deeply encourage you to get a copy on Amazon.com by clicking on this link: Bulletproof Your Career
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Solve Problems Creatively - Part 2
“The imagination is man's power over nature.” — Wallace Stevens
No matter what our circumstances might be at any particular point in time of our lives, we have to try to say — okay time out! Then make the time to think things over. It doesn't have to be rigid, but take some time to relax, and do something different. Go for a walk without any electronic devices, especially cellphone — unplug for few minutes and let your mind be free to wonder around or roam the world. You may even choose to roam the whole universe in your mind and nobody can stop you!
By allowing your mind to ROAM-DREAM-PLAY, you begin to forget about your problems temporarily. In this less stressful state, you are free to allow your mind to start germinating new seeds of ideas. Simply learn to grow your creative spirit by nurturing your inner seed of creativity. To be creative, you have to let your inner creative spirit flow freely!
Playful experimentation, and willingness to learn from mistakes, and persistence are some of the keys to unlock creativity. This means you should try to relax, have fun, do some physical exercises, or play a game by playing around with some new ideas. Write down all your thoughts even if at first they seem to be nonsensical. It is reasonably acceptable if you make some mistakes, learn from the mistakes and keep on trying again and again until you make some progress towards some useful solutions. Sometimes, if you feel you are not getting anywhere with new ideas, you just have to relax, let it go, sleep on it, and start afresh the following day.
Therefore, “Creativity = time + resources.” Like all important endeavours in life, to be creative in anything including solving your problems creatively, you need some form of dedication, motivation, taking time off your busy schedule, making yourself available to think things over, and start experimenting with some new ideas. It does requires some daily effort through perseverance until the goal is achieved.
Ruth Richards, a psychology professor at Saybrook University and Harvard Medical School, has discovered many reasons to start thinking creatively. Just writing everyday to express your thoughts has been shown to improve immune system functioning, reduce stress, and make you feel better to some degree. Engaging in creative behaviours makes us more dynamic, conscious, non-defensive, observant, collaborate, and more courageous. Creativity makes you more resilient, more vividly in the moment, and, at the same time, more connected to the world around you. How about that…try it now!
“Creativity provides opportunities for self actualization.” - Ruth Richards
"You have no idea how far you can fly, until you spread your wings" - A Wiseman
If you have any question, need any help in achieving your goal(s), or working strategically to grow your business, then do not hesitate to follow/connect with me @ www.google.com/+EllAWilson, www.linkedin.com/in/ellawilson, or www.twitter.com/#!/Ell_Wilson
No matter what our circumstances might be at any particular point in time of our lives, we have to try to say — okay time out! Then make the time to think things over. It doesn't have to be rigid, but take some time to relax, and do something different. Go for a walk without any electronic devices, especially cellphone — unplug for few minutes and let your mind be free to wonder around or roam the world. You may even choose to roam the whole universe in your mind and nobody can stop you!
By allowing your mind to ROAM-DREAM-PLAY, you begin to forget about your problems temporarily. In this less stressful state, you are free to allow your mind to start germinating new seeds of ideas. Simply learn to grow your creative spirit by nurturing your inner seed of creativity. To be creative, you have to let your inner creative spirit flow freely!
Playful experimentation, and willingness to learn from mistakes, and persistence are some of the keys to unlock creativity. This means you should try to relax, have fun, do some physical exercises, or play a game by playing around with some new ideas. Write down all your thoughts even if at first they seem to be nonsensical. It is reasonably acceptable if you make some mistakes, learn from the mistakes and keep on trying again and again until you make some progress towards some useful solutions. Sometimes, if you feel you are not getting anywhere with new ideas, you just have to relax, let it go, sleep on it, and start afresh the following day.
Therefore, “Creativity = time + resources.” Like all important endeavours in life, to be creative in anything including solving your problems creatively, you need some form of dedication, motivation, taking time off your busy schedule, making yourself available to think things over, and start experimenting with some new ideas. It does requires some daily effort through perseverance until the goal is achieved.
Ruth Richards, a psychology professor at Saybrook University and Harvard Medical School, has discovered many reasons to start thinking creatively. Just writing everyday to express your thoughts has been shown to improve immune system functioning, reduce stress, and make you feel better to some degree. Engaging in creative behaviours makes us more dynamic, conscious, non-defensive, observant, collaborate, and more courageous. Creativity makes you more resilient, more vividly in the moment, and, at the same time, more connected to the world around you. How about that…try it now!
“Creativity provides opportunities for self actualization.” - Ruth Richards
"You have no idea how far you can fly, until you spread your wings" - A Wiseman
If you have any question, need any help in achieving your goal(s), or working strategically to grow your business, then do not hesitate to follow/connect with me @ www.google.com/+EllAWilson, www.linkedin.com/in/ellawilson, or www.twitter.com/#!/Ell_Wilson
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Solve Problems Creatively - Part 1
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert
According to the popular demand of society, a problem is mostly defined as follows:
1. A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome: E.g., you may have financial problems, or some actors are concerned about the problem of ageism in Hollywood.
2. A thing that is difficult to achieve or accomplish: E.g., motivating your staff to increase profit by 1000% can be a problem.
3. As a modifier — denoting or relating to people whose behaviour causes difficulties to themselves and others: E.g., practitioners help families develop strategies for managing problem behaviour in teens or let’s say a problem family.
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” — Joseph Joubert
According to the popular demand of society, a problem is mostly defined as follows:
1. A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome: E.g., you may have financial problems, or some actors are concerned about the problem of ageism in Hollywood.
2. A thing that is difficult to achieve or accomplish: E.g., motivating your staff to increase profit by 1000% can be a problem.
3. As a modifier — denoting or relating to people whose behaviour causes difficulties to themselves and others: E.g., practitioners help families develop strategies for managing problem behaviour in teens or let’s say a problem family.
As you can tell each situation requires that we find a way to get to the bottom of it all or find the cause of the problem. Once we understand the cause then we can begin to find the best way to solve the problem, or eradicate the roadblock. Most experts insist that creative thinking requires people to challenge their preconceptions and assumptions about the way the world works. This might help if people understand how they got to the point of those preconceptions and assumptions in the first place.
To create a (new) solution to solve a problem, you may have to improvise or innovate. But a practical question is — how can you innovate if your thinking is anchored in past experiences? Well, occasionally some past experience may sometimes add value to the process of problem-solving. However, we do not need to be completely anchored in past experiences. Like Einstein said “You can’t solve a problem with the same frame of mind that created it in the first place.” Therefore, new ideas and solutions require new ways of thinking.
It is highly advisable to put your new ways of thinking to the test. In other words it is reasonable to think through the new several ways of doing things in order to arrive at the best possible solution. This way you have the opportunity to question all your assumptions and biases from previous experiences that might have any impact on your solution. Sometimes it may be appropriate to rely on your intuition after a thorough examination of your decision making process has taken place. Warren Buffett, one of the best investors and richest man of our century, said that whenever he's making any important decision, he would first do his homework thoroughly, considering all the options that are available at his disposal before relying on his intuition for final confirmation of the decision to be made. Some people prefer to say — “sleep on it” and that also works sometimes!
Creativity is often associated with imagination, ingenuity, inventiveness, originality, and resourcefulness.
Everyone can be creative. You can truly practice daily to have an active, exploratory mind like that possessed by artists, writers, and inventors. Just relax and let your imagination run wild without any resistance. This could lead to a creative approach to problem-solving. Zig Ziglar said that imagination is the greatest nation on earth, and I totally agree! Out of the imaginative mind, airplanes, X-Ray devices, radio, smartphones and other necessities were born. Having an active and creative imagination, which often means that a person visualizes things quite differently than the way they appear in the real world can break any barriers. The practical side of imaginative is inventive; the inventive person figures out how to make things work. But where an inventive mind tends to come up with successful solutions to problems, a resourceful mind deals successfully with externally imposed problems or limitations. Someone who is ingenious is both inventive and resourceful, with a dose of cleverness thrown in (e.g., the ingenious idea of using recycled plastic to create a warm, fleece-like fabric). Wow!
“The imagination is man's power over nature.” — Wallace Stevens
If you have any question, need any help in achieving your goal(s), or working strategically to grow your business, then do not hesitate to follow/connect with me @ www.google.com/+EllAWilson, www.linkedin.com/in/ellawilson, or www.twitter.com/#!/Ell_Wilson
It is highly advisable to put your new ways of thinking to the test. In other words it is reasonable to think through the new several ways of doing things in order to arrive at the best possible solution. This way you have the opportunity to question all your assumptions and biases from previous experiences that might have any impact on your solution. Sometimes it may be appropriate to rely on your intuition after a thorough examination of your decision making process has taken place. Warren Buffett, one of the best investors and richest man of our century, said that whenever he's making any important decision, he would first do his homework thoroughly, considering all the options that are available at his disposal before relying on his intuition for final confirmation of the decision to be made. Some people prefer to say — “sleep on it” and that also works sometimes!
Creativity is often associated with imagination, ingenuity, inventiveness, originality, and resourcefulness.
Everyone can be creative. You can truly practice daily to have an active, exploratory mind like that possessed by artists, writers, and inventors. Just relax and let your imagination run wild without any resistance. This could lead to a creative approach to problem-solving. Zig Ziglar said that imagination is the greatest nation on earth, and I totally agree! Out of the imaginative mind, airplanes, X-Ray devices, radio, smartphones and other necessities were born. Having an active and creative imagination, which often means that a person visualizes things quite differently than the way they appear in the real world can break any barriers. The practical side of imaginative is inventive; the inventive person figures out how to make things work. But where an inventive mind tends to come up with successful solutions to problems, a resourceful mind deals successfully with externally imposed problems or limitations. Someone who is ingenious is both inventive and resourceful, with a dose of cleverness thrown in (e.g., the ingenious idea of using recycled plastic to create a warm, fleece-like fabric). Wow!
“The imagination is man's power over nature.” — Wallace Stevens
If you have any question, need any help in achieving your goal(s), or working strategically to grow your business, then do not hesitate to follow/connect with me @ www.google.com/+EllAWilson, www.linkedin.com/in/ellawilson, or www.twitter.com/#!/Ell_Wilson
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
This Year, Be Determined to Achieve Your Goal(s)!
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
“When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, ‘Let’s go, let's go,’ and ceilings start to move up." - Zig Ziglar
This year, be determined to achieve your goal. If you don't have a purpose, at least be determined to overcome anything standing in your way of progress, success, peace, or happiness. “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’ says Ralph Waldo Emerson. For example, if you are afraid of breaking a bad habit, be determined to break that bad habit by any means necessary. You could read books, ask friends and family for help or advice, make a step-by-step schedule, and follow it daily, or seek professional help.
Create a plan and break down your goal(s) into daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. If you set up a daily program for yourself and carry it through, you will find how happier you will be. Failure to keep to your schedule of daily improvement could paralyze your will to succeed and achieve your goal as planned. Do not let anything stand in your way of accomplishing what you want to accomplish - your daily goal. Nothing detrimental that happens can affect you unless you approve and accept it. Let nothing weaken your conviction that you can achieve whatever you want to accomplish. No one can obstruct you other than yourself. Therefore, do not accept any temporary or daily failure as defeat.
Think and act, think and act. Thinking through things thoroughly and making a sound judgment will also help you on the pathway to success. There is always a way to be found if you think hard enough. Do not give up on weakening your power of thought after a while. To succeed, you must persevere until your studies reveal how to achieve your goal. Castaway all doubts, negative thoughts, and fears. If you make up your mind with the utmost determination to win, you can achieve anything.
One cannot talk about self-improvement in any shape or form without mentioning habits. Bad habits are the worst enemies you can have. They make you do things you do not want to do, only to suffer the consequences. You must drop bad habits and leave them behind you as you move forward. Good habits are your friends as they work in your favour. Every day should be a transition from old habits to better habits. In your resolve, be determined to keep only those good habits for your highest good. The best way to get rid of your undesirable tendencies is to think and act in new creative ways to replace the old appalling, despicable, terrible, and dreadful ways. And stay away from those things that stimulate bad habits.
Another strategy you can apply when working on your goals is to include others in your achievements and happiness. Whenever you think of yourself, also think of others. If you do your utmost to make others happy, you will find that your happiness increases. Be always with people who inspire you. Surround yourself with people who lift you up. Do not let your resolutions and positive thinking be poisoned by bad company. Even if you cannot find a good company to inspire you, you can find it by reading good inspiring books. Focus on your new goals because your new life would be pleasant, enjoyable, pleasurable, satisfying, delightful, charming, and fantastic! Enter the portals of your new life with new hope, and you must succeed in conquering those daily challenges and be victorious no matter what. Achieve your goals one step at a time by accomplishing your daily goals persistently, be a winner!
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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking." - Steve Jobs
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Keep It Simple…
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
Sometimes, life could be complicated especially due to many circumstances beyond our control. Therefore, it is imperative that we do our best to keep things simple. One of the easiest ways is to always remember to use the good old ‘KISS’ (Keep It Simple Sweetheart) aphorism.
Handsome John (or Pretty Jane) weighs 300 lb., but decides he wants to lose 100 lb. within a year. If he tries to push himself beyond his limit, and then feels tired and couldn't move forward with it, he might be discouraged and give up altogether.
However, if he decides to lose only 40 lb. within a year, and then keeps it simple and reasonable by losing only 10 lb. every three months, it would be easier and realistic to accomplish that goal. So he sits down and develops a simple plan. The plan involves a simple step-by-step details of how he would accomplish his goal on a daily basis. Details such as ‘he will: go to sleep (after saying his prayers to the higher power) at 10 PM for 8 hours; get up at 6 AM to work out for 1 hr; shower and have a healthy breakfast; go to work thinking positive throughout the day; have a healthy sandwich and water (no sugar drinks) for lunch; have a fruit salad or mixed vegetables for dinner; read good positive self improvement book to end the day.’
Supposing John is able to achieve his goal within 9 months as a result of self-discipline and perseverance, he will be happy, excited and motivated to lose another 40 pounds within 10 months. As you can surmise, it would take a little longer than 1 year to lose 100 pounds, but step-by-step, John would definitely accomplish his mission.
Similarly, if your goal or project looks like climbing a very high mountain. Simply divide the project into four parts or stages. Develop a simple plan to accomplish the first stage, then the second, the third, and finally the fourth. The plan doesn't have to be perfect. But it is imperative that you have a plan. Just having an actionable plan to work on a daily basis removes any stress or doubt from the mind. Later on, if you think of a better plan during the implementation process, then go ahead and improve it, or change the plan completely to achieve to a better result if that seems to be the case.
Simply accomplishing the goal in small simple steps (mini-goals) gives you the confidence to move on to a better, bigger and more exciting challenges that will make your life worth living. So go ahead and start working on that big goal of yours today!
Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement. - Greg Warner
”Whatever you want (positively) in life is already waiting for you, just go and get it.” - Elliot A. Wilson
If you have any question, need any help in achieving your goal(s), or working strategically to grow your business, then do not hesitate to follow/connect with me @ www.google.com/+EllAWilson, www.linkedin.com/in/ellawilson, or www.twitter.com/#!/Ell_Wilson
Friday, August 15, 2014
It’s All About People!
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks to see if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller
Many organizations are trying hard to be very successful by pleasing their stakeholders. Many entrepreneurs are also working hard to be very successful in achieving their objectives both in business and personal life. Sometimes, a simple impeccable strategy and a flawless implementation and execution are all that is necessary.
To achieve this, you must have the right people with the right skills and enthusiasm in the right job. Invest in continuous training and coaching to enhance the capabilities of your people. An individual entrepreneur must do the same.
Any organization, small, medium or large, must have the right human assets, capabilities and drive to be a truly customer-centric organization. Treat your people right and they would treat your customers better. This also applies to a single individual operator or entrepreneur, who must have the best skills needed to provide the best service to h/her customers.
Organizations/entrepreneurs must continuously strive on a daily basis to advance their agenda, goals or objectives to exceed customer expectations.
Finally, they must go beyond the industry offerings, expand their network by adding more customers to improve the economies of scale to add value to the customers, and increasing the loyalty of existing customers by continuously finding new ways of treating them better.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
Many organizations are trying hard to be very successful by pleasing their stakeholders. Many entrepreneurs are also working hard to be very successful in achieving their objectives both in business and personal life. Sometimes, a simple impeccable strategy and a flawless implementation and execution are all that is necessary.
To achieve this, you must have the right people with the right skills and enthusiasm in the right job. Invest in continuous training and coaching to enhance the capabilities of your people. An individual entrepreneur must do the same.
Any organization, small, medium or large, must have the right human assets, capabilities and drive to be a truly customer-centric organization. Treat your people right and they would treat your customers better. This also applies to a single individual operator or entrepreneur, who must have the best skills needed to provide the best service to h/her customers.
Organizations/entrepreneurs must continuously strive on a daily basis to advance their agenda, goals or objectives to exceed customer expectations.
Finally, they must go beyond the industry offerings, expand their network by adding more customers to improve the economies of scale to add value to the customers, and increasing the loyalty of existing customers by continuously finding new ways of treating them better.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
If you have any question, need any help in achieving your goal(s), or working strategically to grow your business, then do not hesitate to follow/connect with me @ www.google.com/+EllAWilson, www.linkedin.com/in/ellawilson, or www.twitter.com/#!/Ell_Wilson
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