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Learn To Control Life

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When you are a leader, everyday brings a multitude of problems, challenges, and opportunities.  Each comes from a variety of sources with different people involved.  As you face the problems, challenges, and opportunities, think about how to control life.  You must realize what is within your control and what is not.  As a leader, it is very easy to want to control life completely to the point that you forget that you can’t control certain things.  When you try to control the uncontrollable it only leads to stress, frustration, burnout, and disappointment.  As a leader, you must truly think about and understand how to control life.

Do you control life or does life control you?

Do You Understand How To Control Life?

So, when do you control life and when does someone else control life?  This question is very important when approaching each day.  You should ask this question when you set your priorities and determine how to spend your time and money.  It is very easy to get caught up trying to control things outside your control, but that creates unneeded stress.

When deciding how to control life, you must grasp the controlled and let go of the uncontrollable.  How can you grasp the controlled?  How can you let go of the uncontrollable?  To control life you must understand what is controllable and what is not. [Read more…] about Learn To Control Life

The Correlation Between Goals, Expectations, And Success

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One of my main goals as a leader is to have success. Success comes in many forms. Seeing a big project get completed, helping an employee improve and overcome a weakness, hitting a budget target, meeting customer needs and keeping them satisfied, and implementing a new procedure within the given parameters are all forms of success. There are many other forms of success that you will see in your career.

Success

One important aspect of success is that success is in the eye of the beholder.  What one person sees as success may be failure to someone else.  Success is dependent on your expectations.  If you reach your expectations, you will feel successful whereas if you don’t meet them, you will probably not feel successful.

Expectations

In order to be successful, you need to set correct expectations.  You need to set your expectations based on your own desires and abilities.  It is very easy to get caught up thinking that you should set your goals based off of someone’s past performance, when in reality you should set your goals based on your past performance. I have seen many cases where one person is successful in a specific way so the next person has to have the same success in the same way for them to be as successful. [Read more…] about The Correlation Between Goals, Expectations, And Success

Why Don’t People Change?

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Isaac Newton was able to come up with some incredible advancements in the world of mathematics and science during his day.  Some of those advancements were:

  • Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
  • The development of the infinitesimal calculus
  • The discovery of refraction of light
  • Newton’s Laws of Universal Gravitation

Do you think Newton came up with all these discoveries on his own?  Did he have any information or knowledge to start from?  Newton was quoted as saying,

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

Standing on the Shoulders Of Giants

As a leader in math and science, Newton understood the importance of learning from others.  He took the knowledge he received from others and improved on it to make things better.  He constantly studied the practices of previous scientists and mathematicians so he could come up with new discoveries. [Read more…] about Why Don’t People Change?

Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges

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Recently, I received a comment on one of my blog posts asking for some insight on how I started out as a blogger. The question went as follows:

Brandon, I liked the article. However, I’d like to know how you overcame the blogging challenges to be a consistent blogger. Hearing your personal experience relative to the topic is like a breath of fresh air and sets your blogs apart from the rest. What problems did you face when starting out this webpage/blog? Did you have to do a little self “reprogramming” to be consistent? Were there any tools you used that helped? Thanks.

He brought up some very important questions that each blogger must ask him/herself when they start out blogging. If you want to be an avid blogger and gain a following, you must know how to answer the questions he asked. When you first start out blogging, there are many challenges you will encounter. If you want to be a blogger, you must set your goals before you even start so you know the direction you plan to go.

How do you overcome blogging challenges to become a consistent blogger?

I have been blogging for the past two years off and on. I started out blogging when I was in the MBA program at the University of Nevada – Reno. At that time, I had to blog for a class I took from Bret L. Simmons. The blogs we wrote were responses to case studies and articles we read.

I posted blog posts as often as we were required to in the class. By the end of the class I had gotten a few followers for my blog. I then felt obligated to continue blogging. I wasn’t very consistent at that time though. I would blog for a few weeks and then miss a few or sometimes even a month.  I was very sporatic.  [Read more…] about Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges

How A Cost Benefit Analysis Will Save You Time

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If my life is anything like yours, you have many opportunities that come your way everyday. People will come into your office and/or send you emails requesting your help on everything you can imagine. Can you participate in this group? Can you help me with this project? Can you review this report? Can you take care of this responsibility? There are many other questions that come regularly. So how can you wade through all the requests and still complete your core responsibilities? I have just the solution for you.

How A Cost Benefit Analysis Will Save You Time

Even though many of the requests are for very important things that need to be done, you don’t personally have to fulfill all of them. You can delegate. When you delegate these requests or responsibilities to others, it is important to sift through them so you know what things you absolutely have to do yourself compared to what you can have others do for you. That is where the cost-benefit analysis is very useful. [Read more…] about How A Cost Benefit Analysis Will Save You Time

Take The Challenge And Be Great

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One of the biggest challenges in life is allowing yourself to be excellent.  There are many opportunities to shine and be great all the time.   It is, however, hard to let yourself be great.  People like to be one in the crowd.  As you begin to be great, you also begin to stand out which can be uncomfortable at times.

Leaders have to be great.  Do not be afraid to be excellent. As you are excellent you allow other to be excellent also.

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