There is a serious difference between opportunity and luck. For the better part of the world it is lucky that their investment in a house or RRSP’s go up. Why is it lucky?
It is lucky because they have invested blindly, largely without control and in hope of an increase in value. Most people are lucky.
Opportunity is what people are presented in business when they are working hard, smart and happily. Strangely enough these people that get to the top often claim it was a bit lucky.
To actually feel successful one must have worked for their earnings, one must have struggled for success and one must be prepared for the opportunities that begin to open up when they are working for that success. Most great leaders are self-deprecating or in other words, they make fun of themselves and give credit to everyone else for getting them to the top. They claim luck.
Looking at the millions and millions who claim they were smart it again seems obvious who the great leaders are. They talk as if they are lucky and spend more of their work time working. They know how they became successful; they know what it took to get there and what it will take to stay there.
Are you really aware of how you will become successful? What is your secret ingredient? Is it luck?
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Luck
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Statistics suggest that only 10% of people will ever enter a bookstore and purchase after they have graduated. Only 10% of people will continue to read and expand their horizons.
Learning is an imperative part of maximizing your earning potential. Reading, taking courses, newsletters and consistently upgrading your knowledge base will allow you to have greater perspective and take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves.
As the statistics state most people are stuck at graduation level for their knowledge base so to increase your competitive advantage relative to your co-workers reading is one of the simplest and most effective tactics. It hardly takes any time at all to increase your learning relative to the others you work with and by applying many of the things you can take from books and programs you will certainly have a greater chance of maximizing your earnings and gaining the success you seek.
Spend one hour a day reading on a certain subject matter and with three years you will be a leading world expert. Cut out television, listen to audio books while you exercise or just simply find time to relax and read. The benefits are tremendous and the chances of you being the person chosen for promotion or a raise are dramatically increased by what you know and how you apply it.
Continue to learn. Just one more of the secrets of the successful.
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Reading
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Monday, May 28, 2007
Most people have real difficulty staying focused which is why we hear the overuse of terms such as ADD and ADHD being applied to our children and even our co-workers these days.
So what can you do to help yourself remain focused both at work and at home? Here are a few tips to get you started:
Answer your emails only twice a day at pre-scheduled times. For instance, if you start work at 9am and finish at 5pm [don't you wish!] then answer for no longer than 30 minutes at 9:30am and 3:30pm. This will allow you to communicate on things that are necessary for that day while at the same time making sure you aren't interrupting your focus from other important tasks to answer rouge emails.
Schedule focus times at least once a day. Focus time is where you work on one task without being interrupted, getting out of your chair to go to the fridge, answer the phone or do anything but time spent working diligently on your main job. This main job should be the one that makes you and your company the most money. [Note: it should also be your main passion...but that is another blog post.]
Answer your phone when you want to not because it rings. Blackberries, phones and other devices only serve others if you are not in control of how you use them. People that cannot control themselves with their phones and other hand-held devices are actually very rude when they are with others. Learn to use your phone for your own good not everybody else's.
Practice these few things and you will see your time management skills improve dramatically while noticing that your 20% of focus time will produce 80% of your revenue.
You will begin to surely maximize your earnings.
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Hints
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
There has been a lot written about the workplace mentality / reality shift. Flexible work hours, working from home, tenure reward programs, masters through work etc and although beneficial, we cannot overlook the reality that it's called "work" for a reason.
Stats show our North American workforce operates at about 4% of its productivity max. 4%. At first i thought this to be a convenient hoax, as 4% isn't even pathetic - its apathetic. However, investigating further, one does not have to look too hard to find sayings like - only 20% of your performers yield results while 80% don't. So somewhere in the 4-20% range is still apathetic.
If we have not been paying attention to what this attitude will do to the economy (at large), we should start. Smart people are continually finding ways to eliminate waste. 4-20% of any given workforce population being productive means there is a lot of waste to cut. Now, more than ever its going to be about who you know (as what you know) counts for little more than a certificate that is seldom seen. There are going to be less jobs available which will inflate a bull employment market where the people will be singing zero unemployment what a great job we have done! Sure, that's because there are also fewer jobs than there were 10-15 & 50 years ago.
The safest way to ensure you remain a part of the 4-20 range is to actually work each day you go to work. Carry the same attitude into the workplace you would when you are at home, at rest, on vacation or at play and you will reap the benefits of helping the forward progress of your organization, and hence your earning potential!
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Don't forget the reality.
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Tuesday, May 22, 2007
There are endless websites, books, magazines and articles written about how to be ready for an interview and yet so few ever make a great first impression.
The interview is a key part of securing your next job and yet most people are either unsure or totally unaware that the interviewer is trying to establish whether there is a cultural fit with their company based simply on attitude. Technical concepts have been established from the very beginning through a resume but there is little that can be understood about the right attitude from a piece a paper.
It is strange then that rarely do applicants help the interviewer understand that they have the right attitude for the job. There is a tendency to impress people with what they know rather than who they are.
Business owners are looking for who you are because they are confident that they can teach what you need to know for their business.
How you hold yourself, they smile you carry on the day [and hopefully forever], the professionalism you want them to see in you, and what you are willing to do for the company to help everyone succeed are things that Human Resource departments want answers for.
Do yourself a favour when you are next in an interview situation. Show up prepared for the technical needs of the job but impress upon the person asking questions that you are really wanting to learn, grow and do what it takes to help the business take the next step. Use the time at the end of the interview, when most will ask, "Anything else to add", to move the interviewer with your passion and attitude. Open yourself up and show them who you are.
While there is never a guarantee that showing a great attitude during an interview will get you hired it is certainly a platform that will help to keep you moving towards maximizing your income when someone does eventually appreciate the person you are and the person you want to become.
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Tell Me Who
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Monday, May 21, 2007
These are the top lessons we have learned over 10 years of business. These are great things to a) try yourselves and then b) coach others in your quests to be great leaders.
1. Planning is the cornerstone of success. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail and will never reach any ‘destination’.
2. Communication is the medium through which that plan is shared. Face to face is the most effective and it must be transactional.
3. Framing determines the level of success in communicating a point to someone else. Info has to be parlayed in language that is meaningful to the recipient
4. Introspection (people telling themselves) is much more effective than someone else trying to tell them. Only when we are able to tell themselves, will action follow.
5. Challenge is the catalyst to introspection. People will not naturally think to look inside and must be challenged to do so.
6. Adversity will follow that challenge. Few will embrace change, and will instinctively fight or flight it. Know this and using info from #4, support the adversity
7. Victories need to be captured. The rat race allows little time for reflection, which means lessons are not learned the 1st time. We must always seek to connect the dots for others.
8. This entire process needs to start with the self. You cannot advocate the information written unless you are doing & it at a high & consistent level.
9. Teaching and following up, are the final effective coaching continuum practices that enable the consistently of repeating the fundamentals to yourself
10. Fundamentals bring us all the way back to #1. Execute them at a high level and they pave the way for continued success.
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The Top 10!
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Thursday, May 17, 2007
Is there a difference between someone who decides not to read and someone who can't read?
We are a society that is relentlessly marketed to and we inadvertently let ideas into our brain without first deciding whether we believe in them or not. We listen and learn yet when it comes to actually taking the time to educate ourselves we procrastinate or just plainly don't bother.
Our learning has taken a major step back. We are doing little or nothing once we graduate to further our knowledge base and en masse we regurgitate what we hear through the media. We relive media messages as if it were actually something we learned or studied.
All the while our libraries, bookshops and educational institutions are full of information we could be learning from. It is a fact that after high school graduation only 10% of the North American population will walk into a bookstore and buy a book. Only 10%!
One sure way you can leap past your competition with a sure fire advantage is to continue to read and educate yourself. If you are one of the 10% then you are on the correct path.
I once heard a mentor of mine say that if I was to read just 1 hour a day on the same subject that in less than three years I would be a full-blown expert on that topic. Just three years and you could be a world-renowned expert in your chosen field.
If you want to succeed in this world and you want to maximize your earning potential then get out a library card and start to devour educational material, autobiographies and anything that will make you smarter.
Take control of what you are learning. Read, learn and move forward.
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Learning and Education
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Monday, May 07, 2007
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
-- Henry Ford
When all else fails just start.
Do something.
Take action.
Move.
Now.
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Start
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Friday, May 04, 2007
In today's ever demanding work force where technical skills are being trumpeted by our higher learning institutions it is worthwhile noting that these so all powerful skills are beginning to be matched or in some cases overshadowed by a subject that nobody teaches or even takes courses for. That subject is attitude.
To get into medical school ten years ago your grades needed to be at minimum a 4.0 and then you needed to do very well, some would say almost perfectly, on your entrance exams. While the standards haven't dropped that much there is now a further requirement that needs to be passed with flying colours. Applicants need to pass a very arduous interview process riddled with questions on their volunteer efforts, their team involvement and history, and numerous other attitude qualifiers.
The point of this interview is to try and isolate potential doctors that will have not only the aptitude to deal with a patients problems but will also properly care for the patient psychologically because they have displayed, understood, learned and natural showcase the appropriate attitude for each necessary situation.
Our leading headhunters proclaim, "Most employers hire on aptitude and then need to fire because of attitude." We then take form this that in order to have staying power and in order to maximize our earnings we must come to work and bring to our lives the proper attitude.
At the end of the day, one can be taught the appropriate technical points for virtually any job, but we need to bring a great attitude to make that knowledge count for something.
In today's market place, the well-paid employee understands that attitude is everything.
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Attitude Is Everything
posted by Hire Me Book - E-Hire Me on Wednesday, May 02, 2007