What if you started today, and every day, by asking yourself this question: What kind of person would I like to be today? What one word would describe me? Well, that’s an interesting thought. Maybe you’re gonna say kind. Well, that would change the way you’d go about your day. Or maybe you’d be innovative. That would change the way you’d go about the day. Or maybe it’d be resourceful. I’ll just figure everything out. That too would shape the choices you made throughout the day.
(more…)- Blog Home
- Subscribe to RSS
Subscribe Now to Receive the THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY EZINE
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Company Culture Change
- Culture Transformation
- Customer Service
- Dysfunctional Workplace
- Employee Engagement
- Hoopla Team
- Improving Morale
- Leadership
- Managing Employees
- Managing Stress
- Marketing Strategy
- Motivating Employees
- Personal Health
- Personal Transformation
- Philanthropy
- Sales Culture
- Self-Growth
- Stay Focused
- Staying Focused
- Strategic Planning
- TGIM e-Zine Archive
- TGIM Weekly One-Minute Audios
- TGIM Workplace
- Training and Development
- Uncategorized
- Work-Related Stress
- Workplace Gossip
- Workplace Performance
- Workplace Productivity
Archives
Posts Tagged ‘Staying Focused’
Who do I want to be today?
Monday, April 5th, 2021Tags: personal development, personal growth, Personal Transformation, show up fully, Staying Focused
Posted in Personal Transformation, Self-Growth, Staying Focused | No Comments »
Keep your goals visible
Thursday, November 17th, 2016You made a New Year’s resolution to set goals, and you’re doing it. Bravo! But are you doing it as effectively as possible?
Goals are only effective if you act on them, and you can’t act on them if you can’t see them. Too many people create a list of personal or professional goals, then sock it away in a drawer somewhere. Those goals are as good as dead. They will never happen.
Instead of filing them away, create a very visible place for those goals.
I have a friend who made her list of goals the screensaver on her computer. She sees them a hundred times a day, which means there’s a good chance she’ll achieve them. Laminate them and put them up in the shower. Stick them to your steering wheel. Whatever it takes to keep them front and center.
Organize your goals into separate lists according to timescale—goals for the week, for the month, and for life.
Don’t include everything. Life offers thousands of opportunities, but maybe ten of those will take you where you want to go. Don’t let those crucial ten get lost in a list a mile long. Focus on the ones that count, then post them where you’ll see them every single day.
Tags: Employee Motivation Ideas, goal setting, Inspired Workplace, Staying Focused, Thank God It's Monday
Posted in Managing Stress, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Overwhelm
Friday, September 23rd, 2016A Princeton study shows that work is more overwhelming than ever—or at least that’s our perception. Three-quarters of the workers in the study said work is more stressful than it was a generation ago.
That’s certainly true in some ways. But overwhelm often has just as much to do with a conversation going in your head as in the real world. When you tell yourself, “I don’t even know where to start,” a feeling of helplessness sets in. Every task seems to be shouting your name.
STOP. There are priorities here. Take a deep breath and figure out what has to happen first, what can wait until later, and what doesn’t have to be happening at all.
Suddenly the priorities are standing in line, waiting patiently for their turn.
Finally, stop telling others how overwhelmed you are. That adds to everyone’s feeling of overwhelm, and it gives the tasks in your head permission to jump out of line again. They are not in charge—you are!
Once you step off the treadmill of overwhelm, you’ll NEVER go back.
Tags: High-Performance Culture, Increase Workplace Productivity, Staying Focused, Thank God It's Monday, Work-Related Stress
Posted in Managing Stress | 2 Comments »
Indecision IS a Decision
Monday, September 12th, 2016It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in—business is about making decisions. But sometimes we find ourselves paralyzed, unable to make a decision for fear of making the wrong one. So we say we’re “waiting for more data” or “crunching the numbers” before we decide.
It’s important to be well informed. But there’s always more information to be had, and there comes a time when the lack of a decision begins to impact the outcome. At that point, indecision is a decision. It’s the decision to do nothing, and it can be costly.
For every project, give yourself a timeline not just for the outcome, but for the decision making process that leads to that outcome. Say, “By November 14, the budget will be set. By November 21, all design specs will be in place.” Then hold yourself to those project benchmarks. Make a decision and keep things moving.
Tags: Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation Ideas, Staying Focused
Posted in Dysfunctional Workplace | No Comments »
Collaborate for Greatness
Monday, December 1st, 2014There’s a common idea that great breakthroughs and accomplishments come from solitary geniuses and lone heroes.
Much more often, great things come to pass as a result of a consistent commitment to collaboration. Jump on board, and like the world itself, you can take advantage of the minds around you.
Network, mastermind, and brainstorm with driven people around you. Share your struggles, and let others help you navigate your way through the hurdles.
Commit yourself to maintaining an open mind. Sometimes the right answer may not sound right to you simply because you did not come up with it for yourself. But the power that you can harness by gathering these many minds is simply an opportunity you cannot pass up.
And remember, people love to help others who take the help and implement. That is the greatest complement to someone who reaches out to help.
Tags: Culture In the Workplace, Employee Engagement, Staying Focused, Workplace Performance, Workplace productivity
Posted in Personal Transformation | No Comments »