10 TIPS ON HOW TO HAVE A ZEN LIKE FOCUS

1. LIVE LIFE AS IF YOU HAD 24 HOURS TO LIVE
   What would you do this day if it was your last?
   
   
2. WAKE UP
   What’s no longer working in your life and organisation?
   
   
3. PICK ONE THING
   What one thing if you did it today would make the biggest difference to your life and business?
   
   
4. FIRE UP YOUR PASSION
   Zen like focus is carried on the wings and breath of passion.
   
   
5. LIVE IT, BREATHE IT, COMPLETE IT
   When you live it and breathe the task or service you are doing, you will complete it.
   
   
6. BE IT NOW
   What does your company want to be when it grows up?  Focus on it now.
   
   
7. QUIT NOW
   What products or services no longer work?  Quit them today.
   
   
8. BE UNREASONABLE
   Make a decision now and write down what you will have a Zen like focus on within the next twelve months.
   
   
9. LISTEN AND ACT
   Listen to your customers.  Listen to your staff.  Then apply Zen like focus.
   
   
10. JOIN THE 3% CLUB
    Everything that is easy to do is just as easy not to do and that is why most people won’t be consistent and have Zen like focus.

10 TIPS ON HOW LEADERS USE TIME MORE EFFECTIVELY

1. GET UP EARLY
   Early morning stillness has secrets to tell you...
   
   
2. LEARN WHILE THE WORLD SLEEPS 
   Be ahead, read, research, write, learn for a minimum of 30 minutes early morning.
   
   
3. BE AHEAD
   Always do your ‘To Do’ List the evening before.
   
   
4. DIFFICULT TASKS FIRST
   Embrace that project that you have being putting off first.
   
   
5. AVOID EMAILS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
   Never get caught up in your emails first thing once in the office.  They will steal your time away.
   
   
6. ACTION TOP THREE THINGS
   Take action on your top three things first every day.
   
   
7. TIME BLOCK CALLS / EMAILS, ETC
   Batch tasks together.
   
   
8. SWITCH OFF NOISE
   Turn off the email notification and text sounds – it’s another distraction.
   
   
9. SUNDAY NIGHT DREAMING
   Build 20 minutes on a Sunday evening to dream, plan, action the week ahead.
   
   
10. LIGHTEN UP
    Do your best work in the moment.  Ask yourself what’s the most important task I need to achieve in this moment?

10 TIPS ON HOW TO LIVE A LIFE OF EXCELLENCE

1. BE AUTHENTIC
   Show up, be present, be real and make a decision to get out of your own way.
   
   
2. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR LIVES EXCELLENCE
   Walk into and embrace your fears and watch them dissipate.  Know that every step is a step closer to excellence.
   
   
3. DO WHAT YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO DO
   Don’t say yes if you don’t mean it.
   
   
4. CO-CREATE
   Who do you want to co-create with?  Time is precious.  Who do you admire for their excellence?
   
   
5. QUIT BEING AVERAGE
   It takes more energy to keep being average than being excellent.
   
   
6. EXCELLENCE IS A STATE OF MIND
   Live it and be it from this moment forth.
   
   
7. FEEL YOUR WAY TO EXCELLENCE
   Excellence is all about a feeling and knowing that things can be better, bigger and more possible.
   
   
8. BE ENCHANTING
   Enchant your friends, work colleagues and your customers.  It’s all about presence.
   
   
9. EXCELLENCE COMES FROM LEAVING FAILURE BEHIND
   Learn from the past and present and move on to excellence.
   
   
10. JUST START NOW
    Live it, be it and let the world one day wake up and see your excellence.
    

10 WAYS TO SIMPLIFY YOUR BUSINESS LIFE

1. HAVE A GREAT OFFICE CLEAR OUT
   Set the clock for 5 minutes and see how many papers, magazines, etc you can get rid of.
   
   
2. HAVE A ZEN LIKE FOCUS ON YOUR GOALS
   What two goals if you achieved this year would make the most difference?
   
   
3. DIARY CLEAR OUT
   What is currently in your diary that you could let go of and delegate?
   
   
4. TURN OFF THE NOISE
   What if you switched off the computer on your desk between email checks?
   
   
5. CUT DISTRACTIONS FOR 30 MINUTES
   What if you had no distractions for 30 minutes and you did a difficult task you have been putting off?
   
   
6. CUT JOURNEYS TO MEETINGS
   Why not look for alternative ways to connect?  Skype call, Teleconference call?  Imagine what you could do with the extra time...
   
   
7. SCHEDULE THINKING TIME
   Make it a habit to schedule thinking time in your diary.
   
   
8. STOP DOING
   What one thing could you STOP doing from today that would free your time up?
   
   
9. EMAILS USE NNTR
   To emails you don't want a reply to, sign at the bottom (NO NEED TO REPLY)
   
   
10. SAY NO
    Say no to anything that doesn't feel right.  Always trust your gut.

12 SMALL STEPS THAT WILL LEAD TO BIG RESULTS OVER TIME

1. LET GO OF YESTERDAY
   It's gone forever and you cannot change it now.
   
   
2. QUIT MAKING EXCUSES
   Make your some day today.
   
   
3. QUIT BEING INDECISIVE
   Today take just one small step in any direction and the next step will come.
   
   
4. QUIT PROCRASTINATING UNTIL TOMORROW
   Tomorrow may never come, move it and shake it today.
   
   
5. LET GO OF YOUR MISERY GENE
   Start right now and focus on what's great in your life.
   
   
6. BE IN THE PRESENCE OF NOW
   What small steps will you take right now in this moment?
   
   
7. QUIT RUNNING
   Stand and face today, right now and in this moment, what you have been putting off.
   
   
8. QUIT HAVING TO ALWAYS BE RIGHT
   Why not from this moment choose peace over being right?
   
   
9. BE GRATEFUL NOW
   Don't wait until tomorrow, next week or next year to be grateful.  Find three things to be grateful for right now.
   
   
10. STOP CARRYING OTHER PEOPLE'S CARGO
    It's not what others think, it is what you think about yourself that matters.
    
    
11. YOU WILL NEVER OUT PERFORM YOUR SELF IMAGE
    Own your presence and be proud of who you are.
    
    
12. SHOW UP NOW
    Be real, Be you, Be brilliant.

12 TIPS ON HOW TO MOVE FAST IN A CHANGING WORLD

1.  QUIT FAST
   What worked yesterday in your business might not work today.  Stop and make an inventory of what no longer works.
   
   
2. DON’T FOLLOW THE CROWD
   Be bold, take risks as Randy Gage says; when energy is zigging you want to be zagging.
   
   
3. GET SOCIAL MEDIA SAUVEY FAST
   From the explosion of iPhones to Tablets to the abundance of bandwidth, we are now connected 24/7.
   
   
4. RISKY IS THE NEW SAFE
   If you are not taking risks in your organisation right now, your days are numbered.
   
   
5. STAY CURIOUS
   To move fast and stay awake, the gift of curiosity will help you keep an open mind in a changing world.
   
   
6. DISCERNMENT IS THE KEY
   If something doesn’t feel right in business or collaborative relationships, trust your discernment and don’t go there.
   
   
7. BRAND MATTERS
   It’s all about the brand.  You and your people are the brand, pay attention to the brand.
   
   
8. OWN YOUR EGO, OWN YOUR PRESENCE
   Direct your ego to something good in the world.  Be a fire starter and leave a blazing trail wherever you go.
   
   
9. SAY NO TO MANY THINGS
   Say no to many things so as you can say yes to the right things.
   
   
10. BE DIFFERENT, STAND OUT
    Be proud to be different, unique difference creates opportunity.
    
    
11. LET GO OF WHAT YOU WERE YESTERDAY
    To thrive and succeed in the future as people and organisations, we are called more than ever before to let go of who we used to be, to become who we were meant to be.
    
    
12. ENJOY THE JOURNEY
    Stay awake, be aware, live at the edge and enjoy the moment.
    
    

24 Top Reflections of 2012

1. Life is too short to waste time on what doesn’t matter.
2. You become who you have coffee with.
3. Yesterday you said tomorrow....  Just Do It!
4. Outstanding Leaders let their people feel their passion.
5. Small steps every day over time become massive results.
6. Great Leaders always find a way that is not written down.
7. Be who you are, not who you think you are.
8. If you don’t live your own life, you will end up living someone else’s life.
9. Cut the outside noise out and just do it.
10. The way you do the small things in life is the way you will do everything.
11. Every day do the difficult things first.
12. Every critic was once a dreamer who has just lost sight of their dreams.
13. Stop being busy around the wrong things.
14. Time is free, but it is priceless.
15. Every action that is easy to do is also easy not to do.
16. You know a great leader by the amount of arrows in his or her back.
17. Listen to that something in your gut, trust it and follow it.
18. We see the world not as it is, we see the world through our own filter.
19. The ideas that you give to other people are very often the ideas you need to do yourself.
20. People don’t watch what you say, they watch who you are.
21. You are only ever alive at the end of your comfort zone.
22. What if you lived every day without fear.
23. Don’t give yourself permission to live a small life.
24. It’s amazing how spiritual most of us get when we are in trouble.

 

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