Everything is from a strong desire. Here is an audio from Gamy Rachel for all of us to get focused.
We all have limitations, but we can grow beyond our limitations, if we choose to.

Believe in our ideas.
Empower us with belief in ourselves.
Be open-minded.
Don’t let the others’ negative attitudes influence you.
Have a goal.
Stop making excuses.
Trust yourself.
Learn to say “no”.
Do not let others to limit you or influence you.

It is yourself who limit yourself. So go and analyze yourself and improve accordingly. You will grow beyond your limitations.

Tip of Today: Visit FreeIQ for ideas.

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A book can transform a person’s view about himself/herself, to enhance his/her potential to become a better person. A highly valued and quoted book is Napoleon Hill’s masterpiece “THINK AND GROW RICH“. If anyone who is serious about starting a new business, to improve himself/herself, it is a must-to-have piece. Before purchasing any book, buy this one first.

Think and Grow Rich

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My children came back home with their mid-term reports. When I was reading the reports, a section on the reports caught my attention: “Reflection and Goal Setting”. Some questions were listed:

What did I enjoy doing the most? What have I found difficult?

What have I learned?

What can I do well?

What would I like to do better?

How can I achieve this?

Wow, I was half amazed and half thrilled. I am amazed because the kids were really encouraged to reflect what they have learned and set their own goals based on their learning experiences. On the other hand, I am thrilled that these techniques practiced in the school are equally important for ourselves.

Evaluation and Reflection

It is important to know where we are right now and how satisfied we are at the moment. This is the foundation for us to decide what we want in the future and how we can get there.

Goals

Dreams and goals are what we want, not what we wanted in the past, not what we think we can get. They are what we want, born from our hearts and our minds. This can not be told by anybody else, or the society itself. The goals are unique because we are unique. The goals should be based on who we are and what we are talented at.

Setting the Goals

• The goals have to be specific. What do we want exactly?
• The goals have to be measurable. Each part of the goals have to be easy to be measured so we will know if we have achieve it or not.
• The goals have to be realistic. They have to be practical, real and doable.

Have you heard of the saying “the unexamined life is not worth living.”? Reflection gives us the chance to look at what we have done objectively; goal setting enables us to go higher to a next level.

However, with the daily routines, it is so easy to forget to set time to reflect and set goals. I myself haven’t done this for a while. Tonight I set the first goal is to become more disciplined at reflection and goal setting. How about you?

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“The shortest path between two points is a straight line.” Does it sound familiar? Yes, we have all studied it as one of the basic principles of geometry.

The straight line is the shortest route, following the shortest route usually take the least effort and least time. If we want to go to Paris from Atlanta, you will try find the simplest and most direct way, but not via Sydney. By the same token, if we want to achieve a goal, you would like to find the simplest and direct route.

Unfortunately we tend to add unnecessary steps when we try to get what we want. For example, I want to finish a report by the end of the day. I clean my table, take out a pen and a pencil to do mind mapping, I switch on my computer and I decide to do some research. I go to the internet and I find many resources relevant to my study and many not so relevant but interesting to read. I read the relevant materials, I also read the materials not so relevant hoping to get some inspiration. Time flies away, and the report is still unfinished…

Sometimes, when we try to get something done, instead of doing it, we tend to wander around preparing for the start, talk with other people for advice, read extensively for information, or pray for a solution. These extra steps are unnecessary, and sometimes they become the obstacles to get the things done. We should also be aware that even if we see the direct line between the start and the destination, the distractions we receive everyday can make the line no longer obvious. That is why regular reflection and goal setting is important.

Find the straight line, follow the straight line, life is much simpler and less stressful.

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I am not a well organized person. Whenever I see something inspiring or interesting, I find a piece of paper and jot it down. As a big fan of Note-it notes, I stick the note on my laptop, on my desk, on my plans, … almost everywhere.

It is easy to throw away the to-do-list. But it is not easy to organize the little gems scattered here and there. Luckily I have found a very useful handy freeware, Stickies.

As you can see, the stickies look like the real note-it notes, but in electronic formats.

You can enter all kinds of info you want to remind yourself, just as you normally do as with the normal note-it notes. You enter items, you can cross them out when they are done, you can update them. You can have several notes stuck on your monitor. You can keep them open, you can hide them. All very handy.

I have found it a huge way of organizing my findings, thoughts and ideas. And I am happy that I don’t rely on the note-it notes that much any more. Well, I guess I have saved some money plus a part of a tree.

If you are interested in downloading is, here is the link.

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I have to admit that I am not an organized person. I often get lost in various tasks and therefore got distracted. Then recently a friend sent me the link to Mark McGuinness’ e-book “Time Management for Creative People“. I thought it would be a normal e-book on time management, so I did not give too much attention at the beginning. One night I started to read it, and I could not put it down. It is a great book with great resources.

The index of the book contains

1. Why you need to be organised to be creative
2. Prioritise work that is ‘important but not urgent’
3. Ring-fence your most creative time
4. Avoid the ‘Sisyphus effect’ of endless to-do lists
5. Get things done by putting them off till tomorrow
6. Get things off your mind
7. Review your commitments
8. Resources to help you get things done

The point that we have to be organized to be creative makes a lot of sense to me. It also gives us a direction to improve our time management capacity.

I don’t want to say too much of the book so you will enjoy reading it better. However, when you finish reading it, I believe that you would feel the same urge to implement the mentioned tips.

I wish you a successful new year of 2008!

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It is important for a home business owner to come up with ideas. How to generate ideas? The best and most effective way is to use mind maps. Mind map is “the whole-brain alternative to linear thing. it reaches out in all directions and catches thoughts from any angle.” (- Michael Michalko, Cracking Creativity). If you don’t know much about it or how to use it, there are some extra readings for you:

Drawing mind maps on a piece of paper is fun. It really helps come up with brilliant ideas, find inspired solutions to any problem and set goals. However, sometimes it would be better to have the maps saved in a digital format and share it with other people. There are several mind mapping software available in the market, but most of them are not free and the functions are not completely satisfactory. But here came Exploratree–

Exploratree is a web-based application that allows the user to create mind maps, or to organize ideas and thoughts in a visual manner. The service is for free. There are a lot of ready-to-use templates for the user to start creating from the scratch. Users can share it as a group project. Users can save and print the created mind maps easily as well.

Let’s take a look at one of the many templates.

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I think it is a great resource for any home business owners of self-employed people to start using it to get ideas, to move ahead with innovative thoughts and plans. Well, of course, the next step, and more importantly, is to put the ideas into action.

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It is a clip from CBC “Fortune Hunters: Albert Lai”. Quite inspiring.

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Just read a great post “The Unsurpassable Productivity List: A Handy Guide to Getting Important Things Done” from Zenhabits, feel excited to share with you the list.

The list contains articles in the following areas:

• Get things done
• Tools help get things done
• simple productivity system
• limit your week work
• inbox
• Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From Home
• and lots more

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With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father’s wisdom.

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