Being Happy is Being Grateful for What You Have.

By having a attitude of gratitude you can cut a lot of stress, relationship problems, and struggle out of your business, work and life.   If you are grateful for what you have got, you can enjoy life more and get the most out of life because you don’t need the next thing so desperately, that you work hard, long, neglect and step on others to get what you want now, or as soon as possible.  

Do you spend all of your time trying to get things and to have things that you don’t yet have, that you don’t have time to enjoy what you have got?  Do you like and enjoy what you have? If the answer is yes to any of the above than you need to look at how grateful you are. 
Many Professionals including Doctors, Phycologist, Motivational Speakers, Religious Books highlight the need for you to be Grateful for what you have.

Here is a few reasons why to be grateful for what you have, and build an attitude of gratitude, but there are many more

• People that like what they have, are contented and make time to enjoy what they have.
• Creates an ability to seeing positives in life’ situations
• Creates a sense of accomplishment and achievement Wins and achievements in life are not hollow and unfulfilling, they mean something.
• People have happy friendships, relationships and marriages and. (Probably because they are balanced and not trying to get what they want all of the time every time)

How to start to become a grateful person and build an and build attitude of gratitude

1. Make a list of things that you have
2. Make a list of your achievements
3. Look for the amount of work others have done to make it possible for you to experience these things and achievements.
4. Acknowledge and thank others that make contributions to your work, business and your life.
5. Review your list and Enjoy what you have every day. You will become a happy Grateful person.

Just think you cannot own or rent a house, unit or flat etc if materials weren’t invented. Did you invent your computer or someone else? Did you invent your food and grow it or someone else?

All of a sudden you realise that many people had to work together for you to have and experience what you have today. Many of these individuals gave their time for free, in research, study and even gave their money sometimes sending them bankrupt; some even lost their lives yet they and their families were grateful for contributing to society.

We sometimes get so focused on what we want that the big picture is lost, others are passed by, even those we love are taken for granted and are not acknowledged for their contributions and in our life and in our own self-centredness we miss out on of happiness and joy, because we are ungrateful for what we have and experience.

Build attitude of gratitude and make your world better.

A Simple List Of What Leadership Is

Leadership is hard work, but very rewarding, you need to know a lot, Take the responsibility and being always prepared to take the blame instead of passing it to others.

Your Leadership really shines when you take on problems and fix them, when you develop and maintain systems that work, instead of the edge of just working.
Hear is a list that I like of what leadership is.

Leadership is Motivation others
Leadership is Listening
Leadership is knowing Human Natures
Leadership is Interpersonal skills
Leadership is coaching
Leadership is Supervising
Leadership is empowering others
Leadership is team building
Leadership is monitoring
Leadership is developing others
Leadership is organising others
Leadership is all about others, and never about you.

Persuasion Tactics: Passive Facilitative

Sometimes the most effective way to persuade another person is to do nothing.  The passive facilitative approach recognizes that remaining silent, waiting patiently, letting others do the speaking, and similar passive actions can, at times b3 highly effective means of influence.  Victory doesn’t always do to the loudest, the longest winded, or the person armed with the most facts.  The astute persuader knows when to say nothing and let someone else state the offensive. 

I have been in meetings where the persons that are long winded and those with the most points to prove burn themselves out and people stop listening to them.  Not every meeting or person needs to be attacked with long winded verbal discourses to have the point made or proven. I have seen people that say little have huge influence because what they do say is correct, to the point, simple to understand, and logical.  The trick is not to become to passive and not to become overbearingly aggressive balance and use the best approach for the situation.

Neville Grundy

How to visualize your results until it becomes a part of you.

This is an simple technique that I learnt at a conference and it works.

1. Close your eyes
2. Visualize that result you want, for example you may want to complete a business deal or house etc.
3. In your minds eye go out to the day you achieve your results.
4. Intensify the visualization until it starts to really get into your mind.

An example of a business deal

Don’t just see yourself in the picture Put yourself in the picture and live it, as if your looking and living in it first hand like your view of a room when you walk into it.

• Visualize that you are completing the deal.
• Signing of the papers.
• Who is in the room with you?
• What building is it in?
• How do you know the deal is completed?
• What does it feel like to you.
• What is the color of the pens your using.
• Keep visualizing until you tingle, It must become a part of it. And become very real.

You can do this process to achieve any of your goals and dreams.  Many times the visualization will show you other things that must be done to get your results. 

I wish you great success, in your new skill.  Share results of your successes on this post.

Tips for Leaders on Implementing Organizational Procedures

People in many organizations implement procedures just to have others criticize and make fun of the hard work  I don’t know of anybody in leadership that has implemented procedures, without this ever happening to them. Here are a few tips in minimizing the adverse effects of implementing or changing organizational procedures.

1. Make sure that the procedure is required and that it is helpful for others. (some requirements by law may make this imposable, Be aware)
2. Announce the new or changed procedure before it has to be implemented and get people use to the idea of change.
3. Allow comments to be made about the procedure (Not always required or a good idea, use your wisdom )
4. State why it is necessary for the change or procedure to be implemented.
5. Implement the new procedure.
6. Allow feedback (You may not be able to do anything about it but it allows other people to get their bugs off their chest, and become more open with what is happening)
7. Monitor and make changes if necessary.

I have implemented many organizational procedures over the years, both in small groups and large organizational wide systems spanning over 100 locations, many people will accept procedures even if they are not perfect, if you allow people to work with you and input their idea.  On occasions, a system and it procedures have been far from perfect, but people will be prepared to accept and work with it until you or someone else has a better idea and make a change.  If in these situations I created a solid procedure and stated that this is what we will do and that’s it, I would have had much grater opposition and kayos, with people refusing to accept the new procedures.

I wish you success in implementing your ideas into your business’s and organizations.
Neville Grundy

Gilbreth: Scientific management techniques to reduce wasteful hand and body motions.

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth used Scientific management techniques to reduce wasteful hand and body motions in jobs.  The basis of study on job management was inspired by Taylor theories and indeed they were considered one of Taylors most prominent disciples.

By carefully analyzing the bricklayer’s job, he reduced the number of motions in the laying of exterior bricks from 18 to 4 ½ and reduced the laying of interior bricklaying to just 2.  In short this is a short list of his job management of Bricklayers.

Developed a new way to stack bricks.
Devised a different mortar consistency that reduced the need for the bricklayer to level the brick by tapping it with a trowel.
Utilized the scaffold to reduce bending.
New methods of laying bricks reducing the motions required from 18 to 4 ½ or 2.
Experimented in the design and use of the proper tools and equipment for optimizing work performance.

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth also developed equipment and methods to study job movements such as using film to record movements and Microchronometer’s that recorded time to 1/2000 second, to detect motions missed by the naked eye so as they could be identified and eliminated.

What can we learn from this.

1.Think about how we do tasks
2.Write up complicated tasks and all there steps to accomplish them
3.Find ways to streamline the tasks and create methods to do them more efficiently rather than accepting the norm.
4.Implement the new methods
5.Teach others to to the new methods
6.Do it in a fun way and don’t annoy everybody while doing your study.
7.Be aware that not all things need to be revolutionized, so choose your tasks to streamline carefully.

Neville Grundy.

Fun Facts #4: fees, and loonie’s with a wipe of Kleenex paper.

 The highest toll paid by a ship to cross the Panama Canal was by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993 in the amount of $141,349.97 U.S. funds.

In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a “loonie” because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the “twonie” because it is the equivalent of two “loonies.”  

Minimum wage was 0.25 per hour when it was first enacted in 1938.   

When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

When Kleenex was first introduced to the market in 1924, it was marketed as a make up or cold cream remover.

Facts taken from Amusingfacts.com

Goal Recovery: What to do when goals go bad.

Ever had a goal go bad? If you have not had the experience, than I might suggest that you have never set your goals properly.  Not all goals go smoothly, Actually a real goal rarely goes smoothly especially if you have set a challenging goal that will cause you to develop and grow.

Goal Recovery is what to do when you goals get off target.

1. Ask yourself Do you still need or wish to achieve the goal? but don’t give up just because the going gets tough.
2. Is everything still progressing and it’s just the time factor that is running out.
3. If the goal is not going anywhere and is tying up all your resources can you, or should you abort the goal.
4. If the goal is still applicable than what can you do to achieve it.

The goal may still be required to be achieved. If so than adjust your plan to accommodate where your at now and where you need to be.  You may need to keep the goal on the same deadline or you may be able to move the deadline further out in time, do what is required to obtain recovery.

If you cannot move the deadline and the goal must be achieved than I would use the laser approach.  The laser approach is where that goal if it is important become the most important goal and receives all the focus.  Put all your energy into it and get the workload completed to achieve it.

Do not hesitate to change plans and actions to achieve a goal. If something is not working than it is insanity to keep trying the same thing expecting a different result.  Goals are about achieving results. don’t make the mistake that the goal plan is the focus point and cannot be changed.  Often a plan will become more clear and there is possibilities that you may find better methods and processes to achieve a goal. Change it if possible and don’t lock yourself in a rut, make things easy for yourself and others.

Lastly some goals just have to be aborted, costs counted as a learning curve, or goals placed on hold for the time-being until an more appropriate situation arises. It is good to have a list of goals so that you have some success which buffer the losses or failures. 

Not everything you do in life is going to be a roaring success. But with the right attitude, goal recovery will take you a long way and you will have many successes, don’t let failure’s stop you, failure’s are just a positive situation to teach you and give you experiences that will enable you to have future success.

discipline is not always the Best Idea to increase Performance.

If there is any form of discipline whether an employee there are certain factors you need to take into consideration first.  Here is a short list that indicate that discipline is not always the best idea to increase performance..

If the reason for dicipline is acturaly out side the control of the employee, this may result because any one of the following.

• Traffic accidents on the way to work if employee is late.
• Faulty equipment that decreases employee performance
• Equipment that is inefficient, that is one piece of equipment may not function as fast at other pieces of equipment in the company resulting in low work output performance.
• Disruptions in the workplace by other employees that decreases performance.
• Excessive noise - especially if the noise levels have just increased due to other equipment or location changes decreases performance.

To solve incorrectly disciplining an employee always investigate the possibles causes for lack of performance and ask questions,  Work out an solution together is possible.  In cases there will always be employees that need discipline in some form or another.  I am not personally against discipline but rather like to investigate reasons before taking action.  There is no point in taking discipline action against an individual if there is nothing that they can do to correct the situation. 

Action that is fair whither discipline is involved or not always produces happy employees in the long run, as individuals are acknowledged appropriately.

Business Tool: Probability Theory

Business Tool: Probability Theory is the use of statistics to analyze past predictable patterns and to reduce risk in future plans.

 With the help of probability theory managers and marketers can use statistics to reduce the amount of risk by analyzing past predictable patterns, and managers can improve current and future decisions.  It makes for more effective planning when for example a marketing manager analyzing previous customers of a product is a set age range, The manager can use probability theory to calculate that 95 out of every 100 customers are between this age, and that age bracket can be used in developing marketing programs, making marketing business dollars more effective.

I have applied this busines tool when holding certain events that are targeted a certain age bracket.  The advertising has to be for the age bracket that you which to target.  The probability Theory is also not only used for age brackets but can be also applied to people groups, locations & areas of customers, Personality types of people and much more.

A application of the probability Theory is use-full if you have stats to an event, product or service where there is statical evidents that targeted marketing is needed. It is a great business tool to take into consideration.