25 Rules I Want To Share with So-Called “Aspiring ” (Blog) Writers

Fire Nation,

Let me start with the my blogging praying:

Dear Almighty in Blogosphere. I am the Commander of these powerful words. Give me the Power 7 Strengths to be the King of all my stories.I am the writer, I will finish all of the stories I Started with your blogging blessings. Blogmen.

It seems funny, but follow the words piece by piece to get the kick off power to move. In this article 25 things will be dropped to aspire writers all over the world. Straight to the point, no long stories at all.

Seen a lot of people giving advice to so-called “aspiring” writers these days, so, I figured what the hell… Might as well throw my nuggets of wisdom into the stew. See if any of this tastes right to you.

1. No More Aspiring, Dingbats

Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it. These days paper is digital.

2. Kick Your Lowest Common Denominator In The Kidneys or Stomach

You can aspire to be a lot of other things within the writing realm, and that’s okay. You can aspire to be a published author. Or a bestselling author. Or a professional freelance writer. Or an author who plagiarizes his memoir and gets struck with a wooden mallet wielded by Oprah live on prime time television. You should aspire to be a better writer. We all should. Nobody is at the top of his game. We can all climb higher. Look for the SKY !

3. Aspiring Writers, Far As The Eye Can See

Nobody respects writers, yet everybody wants to be one (probably because everybody wants to be one). Point is, you want to be a writer? Good for you. So does that guy. And that girl. And him. And her. And that old dude. And that young broad. And your neighbor. And your mailman. And that chihuahua. And that copy machine. Ahead of you is an ocean of wannabe ink-slaves and word-earners. I don’t say this to daunt you. Or to be dismissive. But you have to differentiate yourself and the way you do that is by doing rather than be pretending. You will climb higher than them on a ladder built from your wordsmithy.

4. We All Booby-Trap The Jungle Behind Us

There exists no one way toward becoming a professional writer. You cannot perfectly walk another’s journey. That’s why writing advice is just that — it’s advice. It’s mere suggestion. Might work. Might not. Lots of good ideas out there, but none of it is gospel. One person will tell you this is the path. Another will point the other way and say that is the path. They’re both right for themselves, and they’re both probably wrong for you. We all chart our own course and burn the map afterward. It’s just how it is. If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.

5. The Golden Perfect Path Of The Scrivening Bodhisattvas

Point is, fuck the One True Way. Doesn’t exist. Nobody has answers — all you get are suggestions. Anybody who tells you they have The Answer is gassy with lies. Distrust such certainty and play the role of skeptic.

6. Yes, It Always Feels This Way and no way else

You will always have days when you feel like an amateur. When it feels like everybody else is better than you. You will have this nagging suspicion that someone will eventually find you out, call you on your bullshit, realize you’re the literary equivalent of a vagrant painting on the side of a wall with a piece of calcified poop. You will have days when the blank page is like being lost in a blizzard. You will sometimes hate what you wrote today, or yesterday, or ten years ago. Bad days are part of the package. You just have to shut them out, swaddle your head in tinfoil, and keep writing anyway. BOOM Up the system.

7. Figure Out How You Write, Then Do That Thing Yourself

You learn early on how to write. But for most authors it takes a long time to learn how they in particular write. Certain processes, styles, genres, character types, tenses, whatever — they will come more naturally to you than they do to others. And some won’t come naturally at all. Maybe you’ll figure this out right out of the gate. But for most, it just takes time — time filled with actual writing — to tease it out. TEASE THEM

8. Finish Your Shit Yourself

I’m just going to type this out a dozen times so it’s clear: finish your shit. Finish your shit. Finish your shit. Finish your shit. Finish your shit. Finish your shit! FINISH YOUR SHIT. Finish. Your. Shit. Fiiiiniiiish yooooour shiiiiit. COMPLETO EL POOPO. Vervollständigen Sie Ihre Fäkalien!

9. You Need To Learn The Rules. . .

…in order to know when they must be broken.

10. You Need To Break The Rules. . .

… in order to know why they matter.

11. What I Mean By Rules Is–

Writing is a technical skill. A craft. You can argue that storytelling is an art. You can argue that art emerges from good writing the way a dolphin riding a jet-ski emerges the longer you stare at a Magic Eye painting. But don’t get ahead of yourself, hoss. You still need to know how to communicate. You need to learn the laws of this maddening land. I’ve seen too many authors want to jump ahead of the skill and just start telling stories — you ever try to get ahead of your own skill level? I used to imagine pictures in my head and I’d try to paint them in watercolor and they’d end up looking like someone barfed up watery yogurt onto the canvas. I’d rail against this: WHY DON’T THEY LOOK BEAUTIFUL? Uhh, because you don’t know how to actually paint, dumb-fuck. You cannot exert your talent unless you first have the skill to bolster that talent.

12. Yeah Oh,The Salad Days Of College!

Why are the days of our youth known as “salad days?” Is “salad” really the image that conjures up the wild and fruitful times of our adolescence? “Fritos,” maybe. Or “Beer keg.” I dunno. What were we talking about? Ah! Yes. College. Do you need it? Do you need a collegiate education, Young Aspirant to the Pen monkey Order? Need, no. To get published nobody gives a flying rat penis whether or not you have a degree. They just care that you can write. Now, college and even post-grad work may help you become a better writer — it did for me! — though, I’d argue that the money you throw into the tank getting there may have been better spent on feeding yourself while you just learn how to write in whatever mousetrap you call a domicile. You can only learn so much from someone teaching you how to write. Eventually you just have to write.

13. Reading Does Not Make You A Writer

That’s the old piece of advice, isn’t it? “All you need to do is read and write to be a writer.” You don’t learn to write through reading anymore than you learn carpentry by sitting on a chair. You learn to write by writing. And, when you do read something, you learn from it by dissecting it — what is the author doing? How are characters and plot drawn together? You must read critically — that is the key.

14. Here Is Your Tin Cup, Your Rat-Nest Undies

You’re going to starve for a while, so just get used to that now. Don’t quit your day job. Yet.

15. Commerce Is Not The Enemy Of Art

If you think commerce somehow devalues art, then we’re done talking. I got nothin’ for you. Money doesn’t devalue art any more than art devalues money — commerce can help art, hurt art, or have no effect. The saying isn’t Money is the root of all evil. It’s The love of money is the root of all evil. Commerce only damages art when the purpose of the art is only money. So it is with your writing.

16. Overnight Success Probably Isn’t

Suddenly on your radar screen is a big giant glowing mass like you’d see when a swarm of xenomorphs is closing fast on your position and it’s like, “Hey! This author appeared out of nowhere! Overnight success! Mega-bestseller! Million-dollar deal!” And then you get it in your head: “I can do that, too. I can go from a relative nobody to America’s Favorite Author, and Oprah will keep me in a gilded cage and she’ll feed me rare coffees whose beans were first run through the intestinal tract of a dodo bird.” Yeah, except, those who are “overnight successes,” rarely appear out of nowhere. It’s the same way that an asteroid doesn’t “just appear” before destroying earth and plunging it into a dust-choked dead-sun apocalypse: that fucker took a long time to reach earth, even if we didn’t notice. Overnight successes didn’t win the lottery. They likely toiled away in obscurity for years. The lesson is: work matters. Work Hard every moment.

17. Meet The Universe In The Middle

My theory in life and writing is this — and it’s some deeply profound shit, so here, lower the lights, put on a serious turtleneck with a hound stooth elbow-patched jacket over it, and go ahead and smoke this weird hash I stole from an Afghani cult leader. The theory is this: meet the universe halfway and the universe will meet you in return. Explained more completely: there exist components of any career (but writing in particular) that are well beyond your grasp. You cannot control everything. Some of it is just left to fate. But, you still have to put in the work. You won’t get struck by lightning if you don’t run out the storm. You must maximize your chances. You do this by meeting the universe halfway. You do this by working. WORK DIE HARD !

18. Self-Publishing Is Not The Easy Way Out

Self-publishing is a viable path. It is not, however, the easy path. Get shut of this notion. You don’t just do a little ballerina twirl and a book falls out of your vagina. (And if that does happen, please see a doctor. Especially if you’re a dude.) It takes a lot of effort to bring a proper self-published book to life. Divest yourself of the idea that it’s the cheaper, easier, also-ran path. Faster, yes. But that’s all.

19. No, Total Stranger, I Don’t Want To Read Your Stuff

I really don’t. And neither does any other working author. It’s nothing personal. We just don’t know you from any other spam-bot lurking in the wings ready to dump a bucket of dick pills and Nigerian money over our heads. That’s not to say we won’t be friendly or are unwilling to talk to you about your work, but we’re already probably neck deep in the ordure of our own wordsmithy. (Or we’re drunk and confused at a Chuck-E-Cheese somewhere.) We cannot take the time to read the work of total strangers. Be polite if you’re going to ask. And damn sure don’t get mad when we say no.

20. Your Jealousy And Depression Do Not Matter

All writers get down on themselves. It’s in our wheelhouse. We see other writers being successful and at first we’re all like, “Yay, good for that person!” but then ten minutes later we get this sniper’s bullet of envy and this poison feeling shoots through the center of our brain like a railroad spike: BUT WHY NOT ME? And then we go take a bath with a toaster. Fuck that. Those feelings don’t matter. They don’t help you. They may be normal, they may be natural, but they’re not useful and they’re certainly not interesting.

21. Talking About Writing Is Not The Same As Writing

Needs no further comment. It’s up to you to think about it.

22. Pack Your Echo Chamber With C4 And Blow It Skyward

Aspiring writers lock themselves away in echo chambers filled with other aspiring writers where one of two things often happen: one, everybody gives each other happy hand jobs and nobody writes anything bad and everybody likes everything and it’s a big old self-congratulatory testicle-tickling festival; two, it’s loaded for bear by people who don’t know how to give good criticism and the criticism is destructive rather than constructive and it’s just a cloud of bad vibes swirling around your head like a plague of urinating bats. If you find yourself in this kind of echo chamber, blow a hole in the wall and crawl to freedom.

23. Learn To Take A Punch and a Kick

Agents, editors, reviewers, readers, trolls on the Internet, they’re going to say things you don’t want to hear. A thick skin isn’t enough. You need a leathery carapace. A chitinous exoskeleton. Writing is a hard-knock career where you invite a bevy of slings and arrows into your face and heart. It is what it is.

24. You Can Do Whatever The Fuck You Want

As a writer, the world you create is yours and yours alone. Someone will always be there to tell you what you can’t do, but they’re nearly always wrong. You’re a writer. You can make anything up that you want. It may not be lucrative. It may not pay your mortgage. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about what’s going on between you and the blank page before you. It’s just you and the story. If you love it and you want to write it, then wire your trap shut and write it. And write it well. Expect nothing beyond this — expect no reward, expect no victory parade — but embrace the satisfaction it gives you to do your thing.

25. The One No-Fooling Rule

Is “write.” Write, write, write, motherfucking write. Write better today than you did yesterday and better tomorrow than you did today. Onward, fair pen monkey, onward. If you’re not a writer, something will stop you — your own doubts, hate from haters, a bad review, poor time management, a hungry raccoon that nibbles off your fingers, whatever. If you’re a writer, you’ll write. And you’ll never stop to look back.

Hope to have aspired all of you who like to become a blogging pen monkey. Start writing and never stop doing it. There are enough topics.

Blogzynergy Key points for Organizational Development

On special request of one of our blog readers, Team Blogzynergy loves to post an article regarding the subject down here.O yes it’s all about Organizational Development [OD] this time.Enjoy, update and execute.

Key basic points for Organizational Development

Understanding Organization:-

Organization like products and people have life cycle.

Corporate culture should be understood and should be looked at as a system.

Organization has to be understood and studied in totality. And should not be studied in parts.

The behavior of the system cannot be predicted from the behaviors of its parts.

If there is too much top-down control, creativity and productivity will be stymied, and the organization will

Every action within the organization would create a reaction and every reaction would not be predictable. A small instrument of change can create lasting effects or no effects at all.

Points that influence Organizational development:-

Span of control
Authority
Responsibility
Delegation
Chain of command
Accountability
Line authority
Staff departments

Points towards Organizational Development:-

Purposes
Structure
Identification of activities
Departmentally organizing the activities
Classifying the authority
Co-ordination between authority and responsibility

Organizational Development Process:-

Diagnosis (address business, process and people issues)
Suggestions
Intervention and implementation
Feedback

Points to maintain the organizational process consistent:-

Monitoring
Auditing
Continuous Follow up

It is to be clearly remembered that at all times open communication with concerned employees and the stake holder’s needs to be maintained. Before any organizational development planning all the concerned should be taken into confidence and suggestions from all levels of employees should be taken into consideration.

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FANTASTIC EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Employee engagement is a property of the relationship between an organization and its employees. An “engaged employee” is defined as one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work and so takes positive action to further the organization’s reputation and interests.Friends, I know many of you run businesses and like happy and engaged employees.Let us talk about EMPLOYEES ENGAGEMENT in this article.Let us roll down…

Employee Engagement

Employee engagement can be defined as an employee putting forth extra open effort, as well as the likelihood of the employee being loyal and remaining with the organization for long time. Engaged employees, perform better, put in extra efforts to help get the job done, show a strong level of commitment to the organization, and are more motivated and optimistic about their work goals. Employers with engaged employees tend to experience low employee turnover and more impressive business outcomes. Employee engagement is essential. In order for organizations to meet and surpass organizational objectives, employees must be engaged.

Engaged employees reflects in following way,

Higher self-motivation.
New ideas generation
Higher productivity.
Higher levels of customer satisfaction.
Reliability.
Organizational loyalty; less employee turnover.
Lower absenteeism.

Focus on employee engagement:

Organizations are focusing on the significance of employee engagement and how to make employees more engaged. Employees feel engaged when they know personal meaning and motivation in their work, receive positive interpersonal support, and operate in an efficient work environment. Organization is trying to refocused attention on maximizing employee output and making the most of organizational resources. When organizations focus attention on their people, they are making an investment in their most important resource. You can cut all the costs you want, but if you neglect your people, cutting costs won’t make much of a difference. Engagement is all about getting employees to “give it their all.” Some of the most successful organizations are known for their unique work environments in which employees are motivated to do their very best.

High-involvement, empowerment, job motivation, organizational commitment, and trust are focus on the perceptions and attitudes of employees about the work environment. In some ways, there are variations on the same fundamental issue. What predicts employees “giving their all?” Obviously, all organizations want their employees to be engaged in their work. Several standardized tools exist for assessing employee engagement and providing feedback for making changes. These tools tend to have several common goals and characteristics:

Create a Simple and Focused Index of Workplace Engagement

Many organizations are using very short, simple, and easy to use measures that focus on the fundamentals of a great workplace. Instead of conducting broad culture/climate surveys with 100 or more questions, organizations are opting for a focused approach that measures fundamental qualities of the workplace that likely will be important 10 years from now (e.g., feedback, trust, cooperation).

Competitors benchmarking

Most organizations want to know how they compare to other organizations. Using a standard measure of engagement allows organizations to see how they compare to other companies along a simple set of fundamental work qualities.

Direct action(s)

Engagement measures tend to be very actionable. This means that the organization can alter practices or policies to affect employees’ responses to every item in the measure.

Show relationship to company performance

Without a link to company performance or other critical outcomes, measures of engagement have little value. The whole idea behind engagement is that it leads to enhanced performance. The link to performance outcomes is a necessary underlying assumption of all engagement measures.

Engagement PREDICTS Organizational Success

Many studies have shown that investments in people (i.e., HR-related practices) have a reliable impact on the performance of organizations. People practices have significant relationships to improvements in productivity, satisfaction, and financial performance. When engagement scores are high employees are more satisfied, less likely to leave the organization and more productive.

Each organization is different and there are many factors that affect bottom-line outcomes; however, engagement scores can serve as meaningful predictors of long-term success. Some organizations use engagement scores as lead measures in their HR scorecards. When an organization can show the relationship between engagement scores and bottom-line outcomes, everyone pays attention to the engagement index. Establishing this critical link between people and performance helps HR professionals prove that people-related interventions are a worthwhile investment.

Elements of Engagement

Personal impact, focused work, and interpersonal harmony comprise engagement. Each of these three components has sub-components that further define the meaning of engagement.

Personal Impact

Employees feel more engaged when they are able to make a unique contribution, experience empowerment, and have opportunities for personal growth. The ability to impact the work environment and making meaningful choices in the workplace are critical components of employee empowerment. The perception of meaningful work is one of the most influential factors determining employees’ willingness to stay with the organization.

Focused Work

Employees feel more engaged when they have clear direction, performance accountability, and an efficient work environment. Aside from the personal drive and motivation to make a contribution, employees need to understand where to focus their efforts. Without a clear strategy and direction from senior leadership, employees will waste their time on the activities that do not make a difference for the organization’s success. Additionally, even when direction is in place, employees must receive feedback to ensure that they are on track and being held accountable for their progress. In particular, employees need to feel that low performance is not acceptable and that there are consequences for poor performance. Finally, employees want to work in an environment that is efficient in terms of its time, resources, and budget. Employees lose faith in the organization when they see excessive waste. For example, employees become frustrated when they are asked to operate without the necessary resources or waste time in unnecessary meetings.

Interpersonal Harmony

Employees feel more engaged when they work in a safe and cooperative environment. By safety, we mean that employee trust one another and quickly resolve conflicts when they arise. Employees want to be able to rely on each other and focus their attention on the tasks that really matter. Conflict wastes time and energy and needs to be dealt with quickly. Some researches also find that trust and interpersonal harmony is a fundamental underlying principle in the best organizations. Employees also need to cooperate to get the job done. Partnerships across departments and within the work group ensure that employees stay informed and get the support they need to do their jobs.

Making BIG USE of Engagement

Measurement of employee engagement can have many applications in the organization. Earlier, it is mentioned that engagement could serve as a general index of HR effectiveness in an HR scorecard. Also, engagement measures serve as an easy way to benchmark the work climate against other organizations.

Needs Analysis

The fundamental issues measured in engagement provide a quick index of what leaders and HR need to do to make things better. In addition, items in engagement surveys tend to be very actionable. This means that leaders or others in the organization can take action that will affect the score on a single item.

Evaluation

Many learning and performance interventions are designed to impact some aspect of engagement. When an engagement measure is used as a pre-implementation baseline, the impact of the intervention can be gauged by measuring post-implementation changes in engagement.

Climate Survey

Some organizations like to use engagement measures as simple indexes of the workplace culture. While more extensive surveys are valuable, sometimes it’s easier to focus attention on a few simple and proven factors.

Department or Leader Feedback

Depending on the demographic information collected when the engagement measure is implemented, one can create breakout reports by department or leader. This means departments and leaders can gain a better understanding of how engagement in their groups differs from the rest of the organization. This information can be used to create development plans or plans for larger-scale interventions.

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Free Hints When Writing Standard Operating Procedures

Here are 10 ideas to keep in mind when you write Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). An SOP is a written set of instructions that someone should follow to complete a job safely, with no adverse effect on health or the environment, and in a way that maximizes operational and production requirements.

How much someone knows about an entire process or job affects the way he or she does that job. Incorporate safety, health and environment into the traditional how-to-operate or how-to-do steps. This teaches the person comprehensively so that he or she has a complete picture of the responsibilities for doing a job properly. This knowledge base simplifies follow-up training.

Write an SOP to be as long as necessary for a specific job. All jobs differ in the number of steps required to complete them properly. Short changing someone by providing short and incomplete SOP sets up failure. Write an SOP to satisfy the definition of SOP, not a standard company format that no one has thought about in years.

1. People tend to ignore long SOPs because they cannot remember more than 6 to 12 steps. If your SOP goes beyond 10 steps, consider these solutions:

- Break the long SOP into several logical sub-job SOPs,
- Write an accompanying shortened SOP that lists only the steps but not detailed explanations of those steps, and
- Make the long-form SOP a training document or manual to supplement the shorter sub-job SOPs mentioned earlier.

2. Prepare the longer comprehensive training SOP first to get a picture of what training is needed. Then decide how to break it into shorter sub-job SOPs. Writing sub-job SOPs first, and then trying to put them together, may leave out linkage steps that make sub-jobs interdependent.

3. Write SOPs for people who perform under different interpersonal circumstances.

- Write some SOPs for people who work alone.
- Write some SOPs for two or more people who work together as a team.
- Write some SOPs for people who will supervise other people doing a job.
- Write some SOPs for people who not familiar with rules generally understood by your employees. For example, you may write for contractors, vendors or suppliers.

4. Consider the work culture within which people work. If you write for people in a culture in which shortcuts are accepted practice, explain the reasons behind certain steps so that SOP users will understand the importance of following all the steps in the proper order.

5. Consider the age, education, knowledge, skill, experience and training, and work culture of the individuals who will be performing the SOP steps.

6. Keep in mind that many people do not read all the steps before starting on step one. Many people read one-step, perform it, read the next step, perform it, and so on. To try to get around this habit, forecast future effects and steps at certain points in the SOP to tell reader things they should know in advance, such as upcoming steps that require caution, precision, timing, assistance, and personal protective equipment.

7. Once you have completed writing an SOP, have several workers test it and give you feedback. If you did not consult safety, health and environmental experts prior to writing the SOP, have them observe the SOP being tested so they can add comments.

8. Review the effectiveness of SOP’s after a few weeks and make necessary changes if in-the-field practice suggests that descriptions should be improved.

Review SOP’s when processes and equipment are changed.
When new equipment is installed, take the opportunity to write a new SOP, incorporating the good from the old, and adding what is necessary to satisfy the new equipment.

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8 most effective methods to keep up an inspirational state of mind

My Sweet Blog readers. Without any long story I like to provide you with just 8 FREE effective methods to keep up an inspirational state of mind.

BOOM Here we go………….

Become mindful of your thoughts and let them occur without judgment. As you recognize self-limiting beliefs and feelings, eliminate them by focusing on positive thoughts about the present and future.

Reflect upon your present blessings,of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Don’t brood over mistakes, carry grudges, or harbor hate.

Worrying is a wasted effort and the breeding ground of doubt. It will lead you to contemplate potential losses rather than effective solutions. The antidote to worry is positive action.

4. Adversity comes to each of us in time. Expecting rather than dreading this adversity can make challenging periods seem less daunting and will allow you to accept that you possess the strength to conquer each obstacle as you have conquered obstacles in your past.

Assume that hidden in every setback there is a lesson. Consciously choose to think of the challenges you face in a positive way: as a learning experience, an opportunity to demonstrate your strengths, or the first step on a new path.

6. Think about what you desire, not what you fear. Visualize future successes with the belief that you will achieve them, and then take action. When you are working diligently toward a goal, there will not be time to ponder the obstacles.

7. When negative thoughts and feelings threaten to overwhelm you, take a “time out” and do something that makes you happy. Letting yourself be swept away in a favorite activity or meditation will inspire well-being.

8. Be confident that no matter what adversity you face, you will be strong enough to remain positive and optimistic. Knowing that there is no obstacle you cannot overcome will give you that strength.

Isn’t it NICE and CLEAR to have it presented very effective. It’s up to you my friends to use the methods in your situation. Finally it’s your MIND your thoughts your everything. Life continue.

18 CLEAR IDEAS TO FIND YOUR PASSION TO MOVE HIGHER

here’s a big myth in our culture: that passion can only be spontaneous. You either love your job or you don’t. You either enjoy exercising or hate it. You are interested in reading books or you find them boring. That passion can’t be forced or created.

I disagree. Passion can be created. Even for things you don’t currently enjoy.

By tweaking the activities and pursuits you engage in, you can find a passion for anything. All it takes is a bit of patience and an open mind.

The benefit is that you end up loving the things you have to do anyways. Exercising, learning, studying, working and almost any pursuit can be made into a passion. And if you know how to do it, existing passions can be turned from mildly interesting to exciting. The skill of finding your passion is like turning up the dial for the amount of color you experience in life.Here are some ways to find your passion:

1. Get Curious – Curiosity is the basis of passion. Shake off your current understandings and begin from the view that you are almost completely ignorant on the subject. Then look for novelty to boost your interest.

2. Make it a Game – Give yourself rules, objectives and strategic constraints. The more creative thinking required, the better.

3. Set a Goal – Create a specific goal along with a deadline. This can infuse mundane activities with a sense of direction and purpose. Writing a report goes from being just another task, to a creative challenge that pushes you.

4. Express Yourself – Find hidden opportunities for self-expression. This could mean inventing a style for folding clothes. Changing the format you write code in or altering the style of your presentation. View each activity as an act of expression and originality.

5. Focus – Cut distractions and eliminate noise. The more you focus on an activity the better you can notice interesting qualities about it. The only truly boring activity is the one you can’t pay attention to.

6. Jigsaw Piecing – A jigsaw puzzle has hundreds of uniquely shaped pieces of a picture. View your activities as pieces of a larger image. This can turn dull activities into individual snippets of a more fascinating whole.

7. Dial Down Cravings – Have you ever noticed how the hungrier you are, the less able you are to enjoy the taste of food? This works the same way with passion. The more you crave a goal (instead of the process containing the goal) the less likely you are to develop a passion for it. Goal-setting is good. Goal-obsession is not.

8. Connect with Talents – How can you apply your existing talents to an activity? Find ways to use skills you already have in a new endeavor. An artistic person could draw pictures to help himself study. An athletic person might be able to use her strength and endurance as a speaker.

9. Overcome the Frustration Barrier – If an activity is too difficult for you to become enthusiastic about it, slow down. Worry less about results and more about experimenting until you build up skill. Whenever I try a new hobby, I strive to just try things out before building skills. This keeps me from getting frustrated and ensures the process is fun.

10. Leech Enthusiasm – Energy is contagious. If you spend time with someone who exudes passion about a subject, some of it will rub off on you. Seek out people who have the energy you want and get them to describe their motivation. Often it will point you to key information you had no idea could be so interesting.

11. Remove the Chains – Feeling forced into an activity is a sure way to kill any passion. Instead of flowing with the task, you rebel against it, making you miserable. Be aware of the consequences for not acting, but remove the feeling that you don’t have a choice. You always have a choice.

12. Tune the Challenge – For boring tasks, make them more difficult. For frustrating tasks, make them easier. This can be done by varying the speed or constraints you need to complete a task. Boring chores can be made more interesting by setting a time-limit. Frustrating assignments can be made easier by allowing yourself an awful first-draft instead of perfection.

13. Get instruction – Finding a teacher can give you the basic level of understanding necessary to enjoy an activity. Sometimes passion can be drained just by not knowing the basics.

14. Humble confidence – Confidence is necessary for passion, but arrogance can destroy it. Build a humble confidence where you believe in your abilities to handle the unknown, but you also have a great respect for it.

15. Focus Immediately – Look at the next immediate step. Don’t concern yourself over what needs to be done next month or next year if it overwhelms you. Focus on each step of the marathon, not how many miles you have left.

16. Play – If the process confuses or bothers you, just play with it. Don’t have a purpose until you can define one.

17. Eliminate – This one might not apply, but it is always good to use. If you really can’t enjoy something, find a way to eliminate it from your life. Don’t waste your time doing things you don’t enjoy. Either cultivate a passion or get rid of it.

As a BONUS I like to share with you the SUCCESS FORMULA:

2 plus 1 MANTRAS FOR BOUNDLESS INSPIRATIONS

You can’t leave your inspiration to risk. You can’t wake up and trust that today, you’ll be motivated. Anything work making or accomplishing requires devoted, steady advance notwithstanding when you don’t feel like it.

On the off chance that you need to wake up and get paid to do what you adore, you should turn into a power of relentless activity even with unusual impediments.

To do that, you need to wind up the wellspring of inspiration. You yourself must be large to the point that you make all circumstances immaterial.

Actually, I never leave my inspiration or motivation to risk. I make it a piece of my custom and propensities to encourage myself motivation consistently. These supplements are fundamental for my dreams and objectives to be legitimately fed. Without them, they can’t develop.

My III Mantras for Unstoppable Motivation

There are three mantras that have made the most difference for me in creating unstoppable motivation.

1. I am larger than my circumstances

Look, your circumstances are never going to be ideal. You might not feel like doing anything. Maybe you experienced a major setback in your life, you lost your job, or your responsibilities feel overwhelming. Whatever it is, you must be bigger than them. You must be more resourceful, more capable than anything life throws at you. Know this: the person with the most heart will outperform nine times out of ten the person with more skill and resources.

2. I’ll figure it out

You must banish “I don’t know” from your vocabulary. This is the dream-killer, the productivity-killer. It’s the bane of all progress and momentum. The more you allow not knowing to keep you from taking action, the weaker you become. Remaining in a state of indecision is the surest way to never create momentum, ever. No momentum, and you will never get your goal, business, or adventure off the ground. Start taking on the mindset of whatever is happening, I’ll figure it out. Just start making shit up, and you will be surprised at how much more capable you are than you imagined.

3. My power is in my purpose

This seems to contradict the first statement, because now we’re saying that the real power is within something bigger than you. But it can never be just about you. If it is, you’ll eventually burn out or get bored. Your power, your motivation must be rooted in something larger, something that inspires you indefinitely. Ideally you should find or create a purpose so consuming that you can never complete it before your death. Now that is the kind of motivation that will make you jump out of bed in the morning. Whenever you feel discouraged or unmotivated, go back to your purpose. Remember why you’re doing this. Remember that you are being fueled and supported by something bigger than just you.

Melt them SOLID together

I recommend putting these three mantras up on your wall. They are reminders that I find myself constantly going back to, whenever I need to remember how blessed I am to get to pursue my dreams. And that’s the most important point: we get to do this. It’s all a choice. You can do it your own way and maybe better then I do it. Anyway SUCCESS. Hope to hear soon from you in the comments.

IGNITE YOURSELF TO A HIGHER LEVEL OF A HAPPY LIFE.

WAKE UP PRODUCTIVE & EXITED EVERYDAY OF LIFE

Fire Nation,

Let me ask you this BIG NORMAL Question…..

How regularly do you wake up feeling like you’re going to win?

Like fate has been sealed, and that no matter what happens today, you’ve got this. You will follow through on your goals, you will overcome any obstacle in your path. Can you FOLLOW ME ?? OK LET US ROLE FURTHER IN THE STUFF………..

If you’re like most people, probably very rarely to never.

Most people wake up feeling like they’ve lost before the day has even begun.

Most people don’t even bother trying because they wake up feeling defeated.

There’s no way you’ll ever live a life on your terms if you wake up having already lost.

CAN YOU STILL FOLLOW MY FLOW…GREAT THEN CONTINUE READING…

If you want to wake up productive and excited about your life, you need to take back control of your day. But that can be a daunting task for most. I recommend that you start small (but think BIG), that you start with something doable. Something you can control. Crafting a morning ritual of empowerment and working on your own terms, I was slowly able to build up a side hustle that maybe could replace my day job income in the near future. I am working hard on it. Full speed and motivation. It’s my goal in 2016 and beyond to help you not just know what to do, but to execute. Try to build a bulletproof morning ritual, so you can dominate the first hours of your day. I know it is hard but it is executable my dear friends.

If you can even take back ONE hour of your day, you can get a foothold to take back control of your DAY and eventually, your LIFE.

MY LIST OF FIVE APPS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Being an ENTREPRENEUR has its perks. You make your own fate, you don’t need to answer to anyone and not to mention, you take all of the profit. However, it also comes with its ceremonially high levels of responsibilities and stress. Thanks to technology, however, multitasking for entrepreneurs is much easier today than it was a decade ago. As a tribute to entrepreneurs and technology, here 5 productivity apps no entrepreneur can do without:

Evernote
Creating a digital notebook has never been easier. Through Evernote’s Web, iOS or Android apps, you can keep track of our everyday life, take notes, pen down thoughts, create presentations, snip web pages and so much more. Whether you are a salaried employee or an entrepreneur with extensive burdens of daily work, Evernote is sure to have some utility for you.

Dropbox
The extraordinarily efficient file hosting service seems to be a hit amongst everyone, entrepreneurs and employees alike. Keeping your files safe, synced and connected, it makes it unbelievably easy to store and share files within your organization, not to mention that it has both free and premium versions available, accessible through Android, iOS and Web applications.

Humin
Networking is an integral path of entrepreneurship. The more your connections, the bigger your business. But isn’t it embarrassing to forget someone’s name after meeting them just yesterday? Humin takes care of that for you. By helping you remember the little details about each and every contact you have, it makes it a lot easier for you to build as many connections as you please.

Pingboard
Figuring out your organization’s hierarchy is important. Many entrepreneurs even believe that it is important to know each of their employees personally. Pingboard’s org chart software makes this process a whole lot easier by displaying a clear-cut chart that shows who reports to whom within your organization, no matter how small or big.

Letterspace
Provided that you haven’t yet settled on an exceptional note-taking app for your business, Letterspace might be an interesting proposition. Utilizing hashtags to keep notes organized, Letterspace helps you save time as you quickly pen down and read through pages of notes for your business. This makes for an efficient way to remember and recollect important information.

Are you an entrepreneur using other APPS ? For sure there are more Apps. What apps do you utilize for your business? Please let us know in the comments.

5 plus 5 Jaw Dropping Skills you need to become the NEXT Big Entrepreneur

Startups are the new kind of business every individual wanted to begin.

Becoming a successful entrepreneur involves a lot of effort, factors like taking risks, raising capital and moving past disappointment isn’t enough. Now with the rapid growth of trends and changing business dimensions, today’s entrepreneurs have to learn different skills, other than basics, to stay afloat.

After reading dozens of studies, I have compiled a list of qualities that help you becoming a great entrepreneur. Read on!

10. Resiliency

Striking it out on your own and raising capital for a new untried venture involves a healthy degree of risk. And risk means that things can and at some point probably will not go according to the business plan. Resiliency is a quality that will help successful entrepreneurs push through even “when the outlook is bleak”.

09. Long-term Perspective

While being a successful business person requires a good understanding of the present and an ability to make quick decisions, it also involves a keen ability to see the future. Overnight success can take up to 10 years to achieve. Patience and a long-term vision of where the organization must head is key to running a successful ship.

08. Pin-Pointing Goals

Being talented on a multiple levels is all part of the job description as an entrepreneur. Along with a healthy long-term perspective, you will also need a clear-cut focus on the very next step. Being able to tune out distractions as see your way to the ultimate end goal is an important business building skill.

07. People Skills

Being the captain means that you have people working with you and for you. A quality entrepreneur can identify the people he or she needs to bring on board. This to find the right vendors, resources and, of course, employees. After you have picked out the right people for the current scale of the company, the business leader must do just that: lead well.
Imperative skills include:

Delegation
Communication
Honesty

06. Know How to Sell

Forbes points out that “Every entrepreneur is a sales person whether they want to be or not.” This is because in raising funding and bringing people on board, you are essentially selling your ideas along with a product or service. And your audience will be varied including customers, investors and employees. While a knack for sales comes naturally to some, it is important for any entrepreneur to be able to represent his or her brand with conviction and passion.

05. Never Stop Learning

A common quality of some of the most successful people is their passion for learning. Realizing that you don’t know everything takes humility, and that might just save your endeavor in the end. “The truly educated never graduate,” says a popular bumper sticker from the Northern Sun. And it is an excellent adage for dynamic business men and women who should always keep up on market news, changing industry trends, advances in technology and up to date systems and programs.

04. Self-Reflection

Make sure that you allow yourself the time and the courage to think about the past and allow your reflection to inform future decisions. Allotting time for this kind of productive rest will also keep your ideas fresh and prevent the danger of physical and emotional burnout.

03. Personal Responsibility

As the head of a start-up, it is necessary to delegate to others but ultimately assume a degree of self-reliance. At the end of the day, you will take the brunt of responsibility for either failure or success. Sometimes this might mean drawing from your own personal finances or taking an to cover finances. Other times, it will mean representing the company at important events. This doesn’t make you autonomous. But entrepreneurs should learn how to depend on themselves and refrain from blaming others.

02. Confidence in Decision Making

There is something to be said for going with your gut. Balancing between wise counsel, information, reason and instinct is all part of decision making process. And as an entrepreneur, one of the largest parts of your job is simply making choices at every turn. These include decisions for everyday operating tasks as well as choices about goals and directions. And once you have been decisive, it is important to keep moving with confidence and not waste time second guessing and over analyzing.

1. Wise Courage

Being a daredevil in high school or college does not guarantee that you are going to be a great entrepreneur, but it may help you. A fearless person might not be that smart. So an entrepreneur needs to balance between realizing that which is frightening and then stomaching anxiety to make courageous moves. Successful business people recognize the risks, but choose to act in spite of them.

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