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Hey Folks,

As you may know, I am currently in Kuala Lumpur attending Stephen Pierce’s Leadership course and helping out with his Internet Marketing Seminar subsequently.

What Am I Doing In KL
He has been my mentor in Internet Marketing for the past 6 months (if you had read my “About Us” page, you will know ) and I have much to thank him for my success at getting this blog up, running and progressed as it had.

So one of my objective to travel here at my own expense is to reciprocate what I have gotten from him and to help other marketers succeed in their online endeavor. My way of saying “Thank You”.

What I Learned
Now, back to my topic today. What I am going to share here is a small part of what I learn from Stephen yesterday but it got me thinking the whole night. Although the context he was referring the topic to was more about leadership, I can’t help but link it back to blogging. The subject that I would like you to think about today is “Caring”.

Ask Yourself These Questions:

“Do You Care About Your Readers?”

“Have Your Actions Shown That You Care About Your Readers?”

“Have You Been Replying Your Readers Comments? Paying Them A Visit?”

“Have You Been Posting Articles Of Value To Them?”

“Have You Been Engaging In Too Much Marketing Activities At The Expense Of Your Readers?”

Why Is It Important
So why am I asking all these question? Because if you don’t care about your readers, no one would be hanging around long enough to care for you, trust you and become your reader.

Think about it. Share with me if you Care or Not. And Why?

Cheers
James

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Procrastinating is thinking about
What you will be doing tomorrow
When it should have been done yesterday.

1. Your to-do list is getting too long. Clear them before you run out of paper or you would be guilty of killing trees.
2. Your health is heading south. Start exercising or you will need a wider door.
3. Your laundry basket is overflowing, soon you will run out of undies. You could wash them or buy more. Washing is the cheaper alternative.
4. If you spent the time doing the work instead of procrastinating, you would have completed the work already.
5. Taking action kills less brain cell as you concentrate on doing and not thinking!
6. You are not cool if you procrastinate! Have you seen a procrastinating celebrity? If they procrastinate, you won’t be hearing about them right?
7. Procrastination is Painful. Painfully slow.
8. You will be bored staring at the same thing day after day. Get it over with so you can stare at something new.
9. Your inertia is building up. If you don’t move now, soon you won’t be able to, even if you wanted.
10. You won’t be as successful as NIKE if you procrastinate. Stop Procrastinating, Just Do It!

Cheers
James

PS: If you notice that I am a bit quiet this couple of days, that’s because I am not feeling well. Too much work can be bad too, the long hours I drive myself couple with lack of water finally did me in. So I brought up my backup post to share it with you guys. It was meant as a humor but the content is still accurate enough

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Hey Folks,

I’m back with part 2 of this post. I encourage you to read part 1 first before reading this post to get a full picture.

How Do You Achieve It
To achieve your long-term goal in your career, you need to plan far ahead. For example, if your desire is to be a CEO in 15 years time, You need to plan your career path to learn the necessary experience and skill set that enables you to fill such a solution 15 years later.

You can start by defining the skill set and strength of a typical CEO (by check recruitment sources on the internet) and plan what other pre-requisite positions (again by checking similar sources) you need to fill before that. Soon, you will have a road map that is your planned career path.

More often than not, employees get to where they are by chance. If midway through their current career, they suddenly decide some other job is what they really wanted, they find that they have a huge mismatch of skills or lack of certain criteria to change job. It is still possible to get there but it will take a lot of extra effort to retool their skills and gain the necessary experience to fill in the new job.

Where Can You Achieve It
With your career plan in hand, you will next need to find a company that have a position that requires your current skill set and has the opportunity to learn and progress to the next pre-requisite position on your career plan. Once you achieve that position, reevaluate if you can learn the related skills and experience for the next higher pre-requisite position in your current company, if you can stay on. If you can’t, it is time to move on to another company to further your career.

Remember, your dream is to be a CEO, not whatever position you are holding at that moment, so it is important to learn, gain experience and move on. In this phase, you will always find yourself learning more then you contribute. But whenever you can contribute, you contribute massively. That is how you learn and reciprocate at the same time.

Keep repeating and learning until you have gained all the necessary skills and experience required for your dream job. At this point, you will need to stop moving and work to deliver the massive value appropriate of your dream job. This is the time you make the big push to show case your value, skills and knowledge to make a name for yourself and land the job you dream of.

Why Do You Need To Achieve It
The last question that you need to ask yourself is why you need to achieve this dream job? Here are some typical reasons and the associated job that allows them to meet their needs:

- Wanted a job that pays me to travel the world and meet people (Regional Sales Director)
- Wanted a job that pays me to make policy and help people achieve better life (Civil Servant, Social Development)
- Wanted a job that allows decent pay that allows me to work from home so I can raise my kids while working (Telemarketer)
- Wanted a job that allows me to meet the rich and famous (TV Reporter)

Everyone has his or her own reason but this reason must be a strong pull factor that you are willing to work towards. Focus on the benefits of achieving it, the type of lifestyle that you want to achieve at the end of that road. You will need to keep reminding yourself of what is at stake because along the way, there will be some transitional job position that you won’t like but is necessary. So if that push factor is stronger then the pull factor from your dream, you will most likely give up.

So remember, a reason such as “it’s cool to be a CEO” will never get you there. Find a reason for yourself and make it a good one.

Tomorrow I will share with you a goal setting tool. Stay Tuned!

Cheers,
James

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I am taking a day break but here is a piece of humor for you to think about! Not funny if you are on the receiving end but the fact is sometimes that’s how a company measure your value.

Some CEO’s were hired precisely to restructure the company to get it’s profit and lost statement back into the black and they get paid the big bucks for firing people. I know many people hate such a fellow and think he got his pay check by firing them (which in a sense is true). However, from the company’s point of view, he just made the company profitable and competitive again. That is his strength and he capitalized on it.

Everyone has a strength and you have it too. If you don’t know what it is, you just haven’t found it. Keep searching.

Cheers,
James

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Hey Folks,

Welcome back to Volume 4 of Positive Articles

This week we are sharing more like 2 stories then 2 articles but both meaningful nonetheless and I hope you enjoy it

The first story is entitled “SALES 101 - LOVING THE PEOPLE” by Corinne Edwards over at Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards . In this story, Corrine talks about her son learning how to do sales and how a change in his mentality changed his results. That single change was to love his customers. What got me thinking was this: How does it apply to Self Development? Simple. If you don’t love yourself, you cannot improve. Think about it.

Corinne has a very colorful and interesting life (how often do you get a TV host to blog with us, check her “About Me” page to know more) and she shares experiences in writing books, self improvement, some sales tips and even poems.

The second story if entitled “The Power Of An Hour” by Shaun Boyd over at LifeReboot. In this story, Shaun shares his experience with what working an hour a day on something (consistently the same thing) could help you achieve or waste (depending on what you are doing). I find that so true, especially since I started blogging. Blogging isn’t about getting a ton of articles up in a week and hope that everyone will drop by and read your post. It’s about working consistently everyday. Maybe you have only 60 minutes, 30 minutes or even 15 minutes. Over a couple of months, it all adds up to be more then you could ever hope to achieve in a week. So if you have a goal, work on it consistently.

Shaun’s blog is full of articles sharing his experiences and perspective of events around him. His articles are easy to read and relates what he want to say in a story telling way. So take some time to scan through the post there, some of them are thought provoking

Cheers,
James

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