Archive for February, 2010

"Fear kills more people than death" General George Patton .

Master success coach, Steve Chandler said, " The world’s best kept secret is that on the other side of your fear there is something safe and beneficial waiting for you. If you pass through even a thin curtain of fear you will increase the confidence you have in your ability to create your life."

Your ability to confront your fears is one of the most important keys to staying motivated. Because when you back away and do nothing, fear can quickly dominate your thinking and you emotions.

Everyone has fears and it takes courage to confront them. Mark Twain said, "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not – absence of fear." When you’re afraid, you have two choices: to do nothing and let fear fester like a cancer, or deal with it immediately. Can it be difficult? Of course it can, but the alternative to constant worry and pain is much worse.

[[Preferably the KJV]] Gracias mi amigos =)
I know the common ones, but I need some that this excerpt derives from, you know? Thanks again !

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and sound mind.

Can Someone help me i cant find answer in my textbook

i couldnt find it anywhere mate


An organisation’s success depends on two major components..

1) Customers
2) Service

The customer service and retention plans must be pretty good for a long term success and clientele expansion ..

The service depends on the quality of the ‘employees’ . hence it is almost as much important as having customers which is where I feel many organisations are found lacking ..

The employee quality depends on a lot of factors .. one of the major one is the treatment and office environment .. ofcourse the perks and salary too ..

I’d say repeated feebacks on employee and customer satisfaction and continuous improvement in all areas are the very key to success to an organisation ..

I have been doing it for 6 weeks and have lost 10 lbs. I have 22 pts a day and use usually between 18-22 daily and can probably count on one hand how many times Ive used any flex points. I average about 8 activity points a week. Is all of this along the Path To Success? I am not going to meetings, just doing it with a friend to be held accoutable.

it really depends on who is doing it and how! I went on it last summer for only a few weeks before school started and lost 17 lbs in a month! I didn’t attend meetings either, I started off exercising at least 30 hard minutes a day and really watched my points and it melted off!!! I lost 7 lbs the first week and it got slower from there. the exercise is the most credible part. the weight watchers just helps a lot with portioning! it all depends on you. :)
speaking of that, I’m totally going to get back on the bandwagon!

By success I mean financial success, as in having a big house and living in great environments.

Yes or no?

No I had a friend that had almost straight F’s in high school, he didn’t graduate. Got his GED a few years later. Went to community college, and got into UC Davis. SAT scores and good grades in high school don’t usually determine your success in life. They do however say something about the individual, and if they don’t change their act they will spend the rest of their life working for Walmart. I say this because if you tried to get a blue collar job that made decent money you would need to go to trade school, and most trade schools will not let you in if you don’t pass arithmetic test’s and other such testing. But if you want to go to Yale, Harvard or Cambridge, I would imagine you would have to worry about your grades from 7th grade. LOL Hope that helps. :)

Could a person not follow the key factors for success, yet be placed in a key position ?

I would be asking the question, who put the nincompoop in a key position in the first place :)

starting on 01/01 2010.
Are you in need of behavior modification or are you on the right Path To Success?

Why are people saying tonight starts a new decade? The decade still has one year left in it?
2010 has to be complete before the decade ends. 2010 is only beginning.

A decade is a ten-year period that begins with the beginning of a year ending in 1 and concludes with the end of the year ending in 0.

For anyone that says "well, it’s a ten-year period with similar characteristics," you could say that 1995 to 2005 was a "decade" too, but that wouldn’t make it any more true in terms of how English-speaking people refer to decades.>>>>>>>

Edit – Especially those successes which are difficult to quantify. Like what would be criteria of successful marriage ? When would you say you are successful doctor ? How would call yourself successful housewife ?

In my opinion, results as viewed and measured by self standards lead to the perception of achievements…… success, however, needs to be judged as viewed and measured by others around us (unless we can be totally indifferent to the norms and ideas set by them which is a utopian ideal for self satisfaction, almost impossible to attain while living in the society). The norms and ideas set by others in order to define success are not mathematical equations because success is a relative concept within the boundaries of a family or community or nation as the case may be. In that sense, what you say is absolutely right…. it is difficult to ‘quantify’.

Nevertheless, there is usually a reasonably well defined set of criteria to judge success, which would obviously differ in different cultures and societies, but is nearly unmistakable within a given culture or society because this is driven by the relative status of the members in the given culture or society, which remains fairly easily definable through customs, practices and relative attainments of the members in the given set up. Thus, in the Indian society, going by the traditional norms, a successful marriage is simply decided by the couple having lived together forever raising a few healthy, well mannered and reasonably well to do children whereas in a western society, one would more importantly talk about how equally balanced they were with each other both in respect of rights and responsibilities. What I mean is that the criteria need to be what are generally accepted and approved in a given society in line with its values and aspirations and these may not be quantifiable, but are reasonably clearly discernible when viewed and weighed through the collective eyes of the society as fairly consistently reflected by its reflections and reactions to different situations and individuals.

The above may look a bit vague to a mathematical mind, but I think it is as specific and well defined as anything relating to human psychology and behavior can be. Success is a psychological or behavioral judgment and not a mathematical or scientific evaluation….. the logic is not absolutely irrefutable, but it is firm and uniformly applicable within a given framework of time and context.

In the tennis world, Roger Federer is the unrivaled greatest of all time while still at the age of 28! He hardly seemed the hard-working type, and even if he thinks he trains hard, I will doubt Andy Murray or Nadal would agree.

He now has 2 kids to take care of, his coach is his wife, I doubt his desire to win outweighs other competitors and he still beat Andy Murray in straight sets! Who has a team of coaching staffs and a training schedule that should kill a man! On top of that, he has been injury-free throughout his career!

In a world where we are told to work hard and more importantly work smart, it only shows that no matter how hard an individual trains, there will be some God-given talent that lucked out in the gene pool or a pure luck-box in life to claim all the glory, all the limelight, all the fame, love and money.

Lets make it clear that I am not a Federer-hater, but I am jealous of/bitter-at the success he enjoys, especially so with a lot less effort than his competitor. Same applies to the lucky individuals in the world.

This is also a philosophical question, if you have any philosophical quotes or viewpoints derived from yourselves or from philosophers, please puke it alll out here.

I agree with you that God made Roger Federer talented because there is nothing he can’t do with the tennis ball. However, that talent is backed up with a lot of hard work. Just because he doesn’t sweat, it doesn’t mean he is not working hard. He can get lucky in one of the tournaments not in all the tournaments. Also he has the correct technique to play each shot so his game looks effortless.

Roger is injury free because he picks and chooses his tournament. He mentioned in one of the interviews that he refuses to get lured by the money offered by some of the tournaments. The ATP requires you to play at least 18 tournaments if I am not mistaken. He has been very selective about choosing tournaments and that’s why he is injury free. The fame, love and money all comes with the success.

He dictated Andy Murray right from the first point at Aussie Open and Andy Murray did pick it up at the last stages of the match but it was too late by then. You are right about Andy Murray’s team of coaching staffs. He seems to have more people working for him than Barack Obama but that is not going to do it. His team can help him condition for the match but when it comes to playing Roger in a Grandslam he has to take many decisions on the court depending on Roger’s tactics.

It’s the other players who have to step it up against Roger at the grandslams and take it to him and once that happens the trophies will be distributed equally and life will be fair for everybody.

Have you ever wanted to be an NFL or College coach?
Have you ever wanted to be an NFL or College coach?
well heres your chance
Pigskin Empire is an multiplayer online football game in which players are coaches in the Empire Football Universe.(EFU)

Players can seek head or assistant coaching jobs in either the College or Pro ranks within the EFU and try to guide their teams to pigskin success by building and developing their team and developing strategy. Players can also collaborate with other players by building a coaching staff made up of other players in the EFU.

Features

Build Your Team

* College coaches recruit players from around the country
* Pro coaches draft players from college teams, trade with other pro teams or pick up free agents
* Build up your player’s attributes through training drills and practices

Design Your Playbook

* Create limitless plays using our play design tool
* Set your formations, play calling tendencies and gameplan
* Set up practice sessions to watch your plays

Take The Field

* Watch your games live
* Call plays live with the unique play calling feature

Get a Job

Once you are a coach you need to find a job. When you log-in you will be taken to your “home office” which will be located in the hometown that you selected. To find a job click on the big MAP and find your way to a town that has a pro or college team (they are marked on the map) and interview for a job. Head Coaches are only hired after the season but can become an assistant
any time. If the team has a CPU Head Coach you will get an offer immediately. Otherwise it’s up to the player who is the Head Coach of the team you interviewed for

Rules

Although there are slight differences in Pigskin Empire, the general rules of the game are the same as in real life. In the college game they have added a playoff system. This system takes the winners of the 11 conferences plus the 5 best at-large teams and runs a single-elimination playoff. The pro game is mostly the same but they use the college rules for overtime situations.

Building Your Roster

The first step to building a team is getting your players. There are a few ways to do this in both college and the pros. In the college game you fill your roster by recruiting high school and junior college players or from players transferring from other colleges. Pro teams build their roster through the Draft, picking up free agents and through trades with other pro teams.

College coaches recruit H.S. and JUCO players using the map. Travel to a player’s hometown and click on their name in the balloon to visit and scout them. Keep players high on your list by visiting them often. You can also call them using the phone.

Pro coaches aquire players through the draft. See “The Draft” help page for more. You can evaluate college prospects by visiting their college town using the map. Pick up free agents at any time by going to the free agent page from the clipboard. You can also initiate a trade with another team from the clipboard.

Heres the link

http://pigskinempire.com/signup.asp?ref=4093

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