You Need to Be Able to Help Yourself , before Helping Others

Make Sure You're in the Right State of Mind before You Start to Help Other People, maybe you should watch this video, it could change your life by changing your thinking.

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Achieving Your Personal Best - Making the Leap From Good to Great

Jim Collins opened his book Good to Great with the statement, Good is the enemy of great. He explained that when we have good schools, good businesses and good government, we are prone to accept that level of quality as sufficient. Collins observed: Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is so easy to settle for a good life.

What about you and your business? Have you become comfortablepossibly complacentwith what you have accomplished? Sales have been good, your employees seem to be happy and customers rarely complain. Next year, you project, will match or even surpass (slightly) this year.

Yet deep down, you may have a silent yearning to move from being merely good to becoming recognized as great in your profession. What might prompt you to make that leap forward and upward?

Recently, several highly accomplished professional people recalled what had motivated them to shift from doing OK to launching a quest for their personal best.

Bill Bell, a retired advertising sales person, said his grand awakening came when he reached his fiftieth birthday. The occasion prompted him to review his financial picture: I woke up to the realization that I had accumulated very little money though I had been a better-than-average advertising space salesman for my employer, a publisher of trade magazines. Further, this companys retirement program was iffy at best.

So he set up my own firm as a publishers representative. One of my first clients was my former employer. Others came along fairly soon, and it was not long before I was able to start saving money for the future. The intense purpose of earning retirement money was the 24-7 motivating force that lead to attracting more clients, and hiring office staff and sales staff.

Today, Bill Bell enjoys his retreat-style mountain home in Otto, North Carolinapart of the reward for establishing his entrepreneurial firm.

Carol Moore, Executive Director of the Georgia Mountains Center in Gainesville, Georgia, credits her mentor who provided me with honest, on target advice. While he would never give me the decision to the dilemma, he would discuss the pros and cons to both sides of the issue and allow me to make the decision. At times when I perceived my career as stalled I would call Don and bemoan my fate. Don never allowed me to have a pity party. He would tell me If you're looking for a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your sleeve, or You get what you expect -- raise your expectations.

Lab Products Inc. President Betty Fatzie echoed the value of a mentor: My boss felt I had the initiative to move up the corporate ladder and gave me opportunities to do so. I always gave it that extra effort to prove I could do better than a mediocre job.

Does your companys environment provide the incentive to generate your personal best? That was the case with Steven Freund, a veteran Ritz-Carlton Hotel executive. Freund commented: The culture of an organization has a powerful impact on a persons behavior. Companies that are highly competitive, where high levels of performance are held in high esteem, generally promote highly motivated behavior.

Hospitality industry expert Dianne Henry of Baltimore wanted to excel because My passion became my profession. Pursuing her love of cruising, she plunged into the travel industry at top speed. Recently she ranked number four for September and number ten for the year 2005 in sales volume out of over four hundred agents.

Do any of these stimulating factors fit your case? If so, make the most of them. If not, consider these other incentives that propel you toward your personal best:

An excellent role model. This could be a parent, a friend or a nationally known individual.

Your reputation and legacy. Yes, you want to establish a record that your contemporaries and your successors will admire and emulate.

Internal rewards. You experience well-merited pride and serenity when you are sure you reached your highest potential in performing a task.

Family responsibilities. Your drive for success is not selfish, but is geared toward the well-being of those dearest to you.

A closing suggestion: List the people, circumstances and ideas that encourage you to set new goals, adopt more productive habits and steadily move from good to great. Keep the list handy for daily review, as a reminder of why you workand why you are determined to expand your expertise and emerge from the pack of the also-rans to become a winner.

Bill Lampton, Ph.D., helps organizations Finish in First Place by strengthening their communication, motivation, sales, and customer service. His speeches, seminars, and communication coaching have benefited numerous clients, including the Ritz-Carlton Cancun, Gillette, Duracell, Procter & Gamble, Missouri Bar, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Visit his Web site to sign up for his complimentary monthly E-mail newsletter: http://www.ChampionshipCommunication.com Call Dr. Lampton to discuss how his services will benefit your organization: 770-534-3425. E-mail him: drbill@ChampionshipCommunication.com

Jim Jones Impact On My Life

Think Twice about the Following Anyone

Large organizations do it, world governments and religions also do it. I'm not talking about sex, I'm talking about imposing their wills and doctrine on their followers. The control others have on our lives can be extremely stressful and full of guilt if we choose to believe that these people are right.
It never has made sense to me that God could let all the horrible things in the world continue to go on, even though he is a loving and compassionate parental figure. Religions and governments seem to be the biggest culprits here, they impose their will and doctrine on others less fortunate. When I say less fortunate, what I'm referring to is the people that don't get to make the rules and are known as the followers.
If the United States government chooses to go to war with another country, it can print money on paper and scraps of metal while convincing the rest of the world and United States citizens that this means something and has value attached to it. They can then use this money to finance what they would like to acquire or accomplish, even if it doesn't benefit others.
A good example of this would be sending your child to war to fight for something you believe in, at that time, but 10, 20 or even 30 years in the future you could find yourself changing your mind. This would become even more devastating if your child was killed in the war. Believing in someone else's cause might not benefit mankind and that's what we need to focus on. Improving the lives of people on the entire planet.
When you impose your will on other people, you eliminate free thinking. Freedom of thinking has added more good to the world than bad with great inventions, literature, people, philosophy, medical treatment and of course the list goes on and on. Some of these great thinkers had to change their thinking and sometimes is required going against their religion or government. Galileo was one of these people.
Think about it the next time you impose your will or your beliefs onto someone else without stating the fact that this was just your opinion and maybe you would like them to think about. But stating something in a way that suggests you're right and someone else is wrong will not benefit you or them in the long run.
Believing you're right, and someone else is wrong, seems to close people's minds. Closed minds lead to followers and we have plenty of followers in the world. We could use a few good leaders.