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“The results showed that doing something meaningful is more important than money or recognition to your employees. Twenty nine percent of respondents said that doing something meaningful was the most motivating thing about work. Money motivated 25 percent, and recognition 17 percent.” So how can you motivate employees to work better? Try these ideas: 1. Career Path Exploration You chose your employees because they are great at what they do, but maybe they don’t want to do that forever....

Stories and Characters With few exceptions, a presentation is an opportunity for you to tell a story to an audience. You have the conch shell. You are the wielder of the fire stick. And your audience enters into a relationship with you from the moment they choose to sit in your presence. (Here’s a hack- what if you gave a presentation and provided no chairs? What would a standing audience look and feel like?...

The good news is, however, that along with medication and counselling, there are a lot of natural lifestyle choices you can make to help support your journey back to good mental health. Most of them are so simple that they might surprise you! Regular Exercise This can be a difficult lifestyle choice to make because of the fatigue that depression can bring with it, but if you can manage it, regular and gentle exercise can support your emotional health....

To help you understand your leadership strengths and provide practical ideas to lead better, start with reading these books. This combination of personal development, biography and business books provide several perspectives on leadership skills. If you are a regular reader like me, you may find yourself reading the same category of books over and over again (e.g., only business books) and neglecting other genres. Take this opportunity to read widely — there is more than one way to lead successfully....

So why would you change your goals instead of your plan when things didn’t work out? Keep it in mind that when things didn’t work out as expected, it simply means there’s a better way to do it and all you need to do is to figure it out. Never give up on the things you want or the place you want to go. Change your plan, not your goal....

Fast Talk: Dream Jobs – [Fast Company]

The fact is that most notifications don’t deserve your attention immediately. These notifications that are pulling for you attention are pulling that attention away from more important things that you have to get done. Find what is important Some notifications are much more important that others. This usually has to do with the medium and format that is used for the incoming messages. Most knowledge-worker-types follow some sort of news feed (whether it’s RSS or just a simple site like Google news), have a calendar, email, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, use SMS and their phones....

“You must not have wanted it badly enough,” the authors of these philosophies seem to be saying. “There must still be something wrong with you.” I don’t think that, ultimately, God or the Spirits or the Universe or the world “provides”. I think a lot of times the world puts obstacles in our way, and no amount of positive thinking makes them go away. And I think that a lot of the people who are “successful”, by whatever standard you want to use, have as much “wrong” with them as a lot of the ones who aren’t successful....

10 Tips To Make Positive Thinking Easy

Of course when the feed is not worthwhile, remove them from Probation to avoid spending your time on it. Controlling RSS Overload…Animal House Style – [rethink(ip) via Creative Inteligencia]

Should I go on and write more? Maybe I should stop. Writing, Briefly – [Paul Graham]

If you want to learn faster but are tired of the hype, take note of these two common traits among individuals who learn faster. 1. They have growth mindsets and pursue knowledge with curiosity. Growth mindset individuals believe in possibility, including their ability to grow. Aware that they can develop and change their intelligence, these learners are less likely to shy away from challenging things. Fixed mindset individuals, on the other hand, are more likely to avoid subjects in which they struggle....

Pre-Conference Travel Checklist Clothes. This is a given to TAKE clothes, but be sure to have a mix of multi-use, casual-to-faux-formal clothes. Take fitness clothes, if you can, too. Toiletries. The US has just approved using a quart-sized sealable plastic bag full of travel-size toiletries (shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, etc). Business Cards. ALWAYS bring business cards. If you’re not traveling for your day job, print your own at somewhere like VistaPrint....

Not so many years ago, many people — including governments and businesses — thought that a rapid increase in individual and corporate productivity would lead to an explosion of leisure time; that we would all be working only two or three days each week, with the rest earmarked for leisure. There were concerns about how people would spend all this free time, and whether it would produce fresh possibilities for businesses, or some kind of social unrest....

The below list are quotes by highly successful people. By reading the list, I hope they will motivate and inspire you to be great today. I think we can all agree that the folks below had success and contributed to the world in some way that has had a lasting impact for society today. Don’t be afraid to change so you can have success. “Change before you have to” — Jack Welch...

The famous ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ are upon us again, and those of us jaded enough to realize all our previous year’s failures may not even bother anymore. This is not a good strategy either, as it promotes fewer goals and dreams. It’s good to know the difference between a reasonable new year’s resolution – which is more like a goal – and one that is just plain silly: if you are 100 pounds overweight, you should probably not decide to run the marathon this year....

1. Take time to celebrate. Back in college I celebrated Valentine’s Day as “V-D” and associated its festivities with the festering wounds I’d suffered from relationships gone bad. My friends and roommates got together for “anti-V.D.” parties and we crafted hearts from cloth and pinned them to our sleeves. We replaced the four-letter word “love” with an abbreviation that doubled as a pun. What changed? Well, I grew up. Got married to the right guy and had a couple of kids....

Memories are so important for human beings. Wedding photo frames can be one of the best ways to convey your feelings to your loved ones. These days, moments are fleeting. A beautiful frame can help someone preserve a memory and keep it for a lifetime. Consider gifting frames to your friends or to your relatives during the wedding season. You can also craft customized wedding photo frames to gift to your husband or your wife for your anniversary....

Or so says the promotional quote. I checked it out and the concept is interesting. Why? Because it’s a hack that lets you mix content in a way that you like, for your own small level of customization. Sure, I’d rather it be a tool to use with ANY content, but this is a great move in that direction. You decide. StudioMoto – from [Motorola.com] via [MocoNews.net]

The theory of self actualization was proposed by a psychologist named Abraham Maslow [1], and he believed that people who had achieved it were: Completely self-accepting Not afraid to take risks and step into the unknown Grateful and able to fully enjoy each moment Motivated by growth and development Capable of deep, meaningful relationships Sounds pretty good, right? Achieving self actualization requires a lot of hard work and dedication, but it is possible....