A Newsletter Valuing Change

January/February, 1999
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Tips for Change

Clean Up During 1999

• Doing it now!
• Delegating it.
• Eliminating it
• Paying to have it handled. Or
• Get over it.

Motivation:

What motivates you?

• Accountability?
• Fear?
• Success?
• Challenge?
• Knowledge?

Accountability is a structure that encourages you to do what you say you are going to do. Most of us prefer self-generated action steps for our personal goals, however we often don't follow through because of the lack of external accountability. Create an effective external structure to impose accountability into your personal deadlines and you'll reach those goals easier and faster.

Visualize Results

The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management: Proven Strategies for Increased Productivity and Inner Peace, by Hyrum W. Smith is a book that offers to help you be more in control of your life and experience inner peace as a result. Smith emphasizes tying your core values to your decisions and actions. His time management suggestions go beyond managing time more efficiently. The key is to deepen your self-awareness of your values and beliefs. He demonstrates through examples that changing basic beliefs results in a change in behavior.

Buy this book

Billie Jean King: "I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion." How self-aware are you?

Marketing

Develop a 15-word phrase to describe what is unique about what you do. Make it:

• Interesting,
  
• Informative, and
  
• Open to invite questions from the listener.

Consider what makes you special? What is your purpose? What are your talents?