by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 24, 2018 | Personal Growth
From time to time I’m asked a question which the answer might surprise you. How can you help someone become better? Improve skills and be the very best they can be? Could it be training? Read more books? Take online classes on improvement? No question self development is a great way to improve ones skills. However If you’re looking to help a person succeed you might consider working on your own self development first. Think about how valuable you’ll become once your skills improve. Imagine if your skills become 10 times better than they are now! Would your ability to lead by example help someone? You’ve been there and done that. A much easier model then just telling a person how to become successful. Have you ever been on a plane and noticed the instruction about the oxygen masks? It doesn’t say to help the person next to you firs, it states to put yours on first. How can you help a person if your not able to breathe? Same is true in real life, we must help ourselves improve before we begin to help another. In sports a valuable coach is one whom has been on the field playing the sport. In life same is true, a good doctor has made many diagnoses, an experienced sales person has been around the block sort of speak and has the ability to sell. An experienced person within their field is an asset to any company. In some sense I wish parents would take that same advice. You hear story after story of parents helping out their kid so they can...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 18, 2018 | Success
Today at the gym a person I’d never met asked me a question? Why is it the people who don’t look for opportunities get them handed to them? I paused and didn’t say a word, have to admit I was totally caught off guard. What I was missing was a guy at the other end of the facility was talking to a man in a suit. Looked like he’d singled out this person and was offering him something. When I’m working out my headphones are on and the music is playing, so I miss out on many conversations, I like to concentrate on my routine and not get caught up in distractions. The guy why asked me the question was just amazed by what just happened. Although strange, opportunities are all around us each day if we look hard enough. His question was real, but he missed the first part of why this man began offering this guy in the gym an opportunity. It’s no secret hard work pays off in the long run, keep your head down and focus at the task at hand, opportunities will come right? Well, that’s not always the case. Truth is you can chase opportunities and never find success. However if what you do creates value, you’ll attract opportunity. After observing what went on in the gym, I thought what was it which made this man to come to the gym late in the day and make an offer to this man. What did he do? As it turns out this guy was a licensed electrician and the owner of the gym was...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 11, 2018 | Personal Growth
Is wealth linked to happiness? Can a person who has never been wealthy learn to become financially free? Does more money make your life better? Many would say having enough money to pay your obligations and still have some to spend would say yes! But if we keep doing what we are currently doing how can life change for the better? In reality if more is what is desired then more is what you must become. The universe rewards the greater good. If we take from it the universe takes from us, if we give we are rewarded with the same. To understand the link between success and failure we must first understand the elements in conjunction with “Assembling The Puzzle Of Personal Development.” Our first assignment is to evaluate where we are in the world, what we have to add to the greater good and what we need to do to become more. For me personally this was one of the hardest assignments I’ve ever had to do. Determining what my strengths were and what my weakness were and how to address them became quite the experience. On paper it looks like no big deal, however once I began the journey I discovered how challenging it was. Life is nothing more then an assembling of experiences, yet along the way we tend to miss out on the message life is sending us. It’s not what we get in life it’s what we become along the way. Our view of where we are in life manifests through our own thoughts, our internal blueprint is obtained and designed by the...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Aug 4, 2018 | Success
Today if you’re looking for information the internet is a great place to start, there’s and endless supply of resources to obtain just about anything you can think of. With just a few key strokes a website is in front of you…But… Ever notice when you click on more info, a page comes up looking for you to enter an email or subscribe in order to gain access to the remainder of the info? There are fewer and fewer places to go where information is free. For most of us we rely on the internet for a majority of what we “don’t know.” Not to say we are all looking for free info all the time, people need to earn a living also, however when someone shares their knowledge with the world many benefit from what is written. It can impact and change a person’s life for the good. Don’t be afraid to share with others what you know, it can help make a difference. If what you know is helpful to one chances are it can help many, if you tell one person one time it is repeated only once, yet if you tell 12 people you’ll repeat it a dozen times, not only have you helped 12 people you’ve reviewed the info twelve more times! This can have a unique impact in your personal life, there is power in giving. We sometimes forget giving does not always in the physical sense it can be sharing an idea or a helpful way to solve a problem. Imagine the impact if your helpful idea was transformed into something which...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Jul 28, 2018 | Success
If your like most people success is on your mind, could be a simple goal or an aggressive plan with many mountains to climb nevertheless internally we all strive for success. This desire is the fuel for implementing actions which propel forward motion to discover a way to express our inner values for the world to see. If we desire success we will find a way to succeed. With each day we learn a bit more about who we are and why our plan is unique for us. Whenever there is a bump in the road our desire to succeed finds a way around those unforeseen issues. Some say that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! In life there are many obstacles which stand in the way, there is never a straight line to the top. Why some succeed and some don’t – is baffling and seems at times unfair. We’ve heard stories of people who came from good families, hung around with the right friends, went to the best schools got degrees, had perfect attitudes, a burning desire to better themselves, yet still struggle in life, live in quiet desperation. When you look at the past they had every opportunity to be at the top of there game. On the other side there are others who seem to just fall into it, never had a good education, have a poor attitude about themselves as well as others, sometimes not honest, however the only thing they have in common with those who have went down the right path in life is a burning desire for success. What can...
by stevengconnelly@aol.com | Jul 21, 2018 | Health
We all want to look in shape and physically fit and stay active, yet while it’s true exercise is good for our bodies there is one challenge we’re all faced with. Motivation, that is lack of? Going to the gym sounds good and most of us have very good intentions, we sometimes fall short of our goal. Long day at work fatigued late in the afternoon adds to our excuse as to why we’re not able to get there today. I’m busy this afternoon I’ll get there tomorrow night for sure, sound familiar? Truth is we do have many other obligations which need to be addressed every day and should never be ignored. However when it comes to our health we need to take notice. Many years ago when I was much younger, I was given a word of advice regarding my finances. I was young and thought earning more money would fix my financial issues, until one day at lunch an old timer I never spoke to heard my tails of woe , and said, son when you get your paycheck the first bill you should pay is yourself. It did not register at first, but after a few minutes I thought about it, he was right if I pay myself first I’ll always have money, a concept I still utilize today. This methodology can be applied to many areas in life. Health is an area which the same principal can be applied. If we make health our first priority we’ll always have time to get to the gym, or go for a walk, swim, bike or any...
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