Emotional Intelligence
August 23, 2014 2 Comments
How Successful People Say ‘No’
August 22, 2014 2 Comments
Most successful people know that how you say “no“ can be the difference between maintaining someone’s respect and ruining a relationship.
Telling people ‘no’ does not need to be an act of rejection. In fact, learning to say “no“ the right way can actually prove that you’re an attentive person.
First, understand the request. Hardly anybody will ask you to do something without a solid reason, so it’s safe to assume that when someone requests a favour, it’s meaningful to them. Successful people take the time to understand why each request is important to the person asking, as it shows they care even if they don’t have time to help.Total immersion in the request for even a short period of time tells the other person that you value them and what they are trying to achieve. Read more of this post
Control Perfectionism
August 22, 2014 Leave a comment
Successful people make decisions on how to make the best use of their time. They do not focus on perfection or being the best; instead they work on doing what is needed to get the job done.- Perfectionism and trying to know-it-all, gets in the way of being creative by learning new things.
- Successful business people need to think on their feet to respond to problems as soon as they arise. This is difficult for perfectionists. Perfectionism doesn’t allow minds to be nimble and flexible.The most successful people don’t worry about perfectly solving problem the first time,they keep trying new things till they discover what works.
- Don’t try to be perfect to earn admiration. Instead do the best work you can and let others be inspired by the way you deal with your imperfections.
Be Smart To Be Luckier
August 22, 2014 Leave a comment
My roommate would hardly ever prepare for exams, just do a night-out (study all night) before exams from my notes, leave out complete chapters and manage a decent 65%!
Lucky? No. Smart! She zeroed in on the right notes to read, had the sense to drop the non-payers and concentrate on the correct stuff.
Somewhere, the line between luck and smartness is thin and merges. What we see as being born luck is a sort of skill in focussing on getting the most out of life with the least expenditure of resources.
Richard Wiseman’s Experiment
August 22, 2014 Leave a comment
Psychologist Richard Wiseman surveyed a bunch of people to find out who considered themselves lucky or unlucky, then performed a very interesting test:
He gave both the “lucky” and the “unlucky” people a newspaper and asked them to look through it and tell him how many photographs were inside. He found that on average the unlucky people took two minutes to count all the photographs, whereas the lucky ones determined the number in a few seconds.
How could the “lucky” people do this? Because they found a message on the second page that read, “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper.”
So why didn’t the unlucky people see it? Read more of this post
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