Taking tea may prevent weight gain caused by junk food, according to a new study.
Researchers found regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type-2 diabetes, reports dailymail.co.uk.
They said the research on mice could signal another set of health benefits from tea if they are confirmed in trials on humans.
In the study some mice were given a high fat diet and others a normal diet. Each of these two groups were then split into smaller groups and given water, black tea or green tea for 14 weeks.
Both types of tea suppressed body weight gain and the build-up of belly fat linked to a fatty diet.
But black tea, which is used in most ordinary cuppas, also counteracted the harmful effects on the blood normally associated with a high-fat diet.
These included increases in cholesterol, high blood glucose and insulin resistance – a precursor to type-2 diabetes where the body does not efficiently use the insulin it produces.
Rising obesity levels in Western countries have resulted in many more people having insulin resistance.
Taking tea has already been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease, cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Other research shows drinking tea on a regular basis for ten or more years may improve bone density.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Tea can prevent weight gain
Taking tea may prevent weight gain caused by junk food, according to a new study.
Researchers found regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type-2 diabetes, reports dailymail.co.uk.
They said the research on mice could signal another set of health benefits from tea if they are confirmed in trials on humans.
In the study some mice were given a high fat diet and others a normal diet. Each of these two groups were then split into smaller groups and given water, black tea or green tea for 14 weeks.
Both types of tea suppressed body weight gain and the build-up of belly fat linked to a fatty diet.
But black tea, which is used in most ordinary cuppas, also counteracted the harmful effects on the blood normally associated with a high-fat diet.
These included increases in cholesterol, high blood glucose and insulin resistance – a precursor to type-2 diabetes where the body does not efficiently use the insulin it produces.
Rising obesity levels in Western countries have resulted in many more people having insulin resistance.
Taking tea has already been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease, cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Other research shows drinking tea on a regular basis for ten or more years may improve bone density.
Researchers found regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type-2 diabetes, reports dailymail.co.uk.
They said the research on mice could signal another set of health benefits from tea if they are confirmed in trials on humans.
In the study some mice were given a high fat diet and others a normal diet. Each of these two groups were then split into smaller groups and given water, black tea or green tea for 14 weeks.
Both types of tea suppressed body weight gain and the build-up of belly fat linked to a fatty diet.
But black tea, which is used in most ordinary cuppas, also counteracted the harmful effects on the blood normally associated with a high-fat diet.
These included increases in cholesterol, high blood glucose and insulin resistance – a precursor to type-2 diabetes where the body does not efficiently use the insulin it produces.
Rising obesity levels in Western countries have resulted in many more people having insulin resistance.
Taking tea has already been linked to lowering the risk of heart disease, cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Other research shows drinking tea on a regular basis for ten or more years may improve bone density.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
GPS Navigation In India
Global positioning system (GPS) refers to a structured satellite constellation network comprising of around 24 satellites orbiting the earth’s atmosphere. GPS satellites are used for navigational, surveying, mapping, routing and time distribution purposes. GPS technology is a sophisticated as well as complicated form of satellite technology that uses a complex network of processors and servers to receive and transmit data to and from the earth. It is mainly integrated with GSM (Global System of Mobile Communications) data network protocol to locate and update data.
GPS gives you your position on earth. This is received in numbers-latitude and longitude. If you have a map and software along with it, you will easily know your position. GPS provides unequaled accuracy and flexibility of positioning for navigation, surveying and geographic information system to capture data.
A GPS device provides you with a route to reach the destination that you select. Only thing you need is a clear view of the sky for GPS to work, so it obvious that it won’t work inside a building, underground or even in forest.
Uses in India:
India has been using GPS technology since the early 90’s only to identify weather conditions, track traffic system, identify national borders etc. Now GPS is going mainstream, where more and more organizations are using GPS technology for making best use of their resources like transportation industry and the delivery services. It is also used widely in tourism and adventure sports purposes.
Driving in many Indian cities can be a nightmare experience for the uninformed and inexperienced traveler. With roads that don’t have any names, building blocks that don’t particularly follow a pattern, addresses that even the locals confused and traffic regulations that change overnight, finding the way around can be quite a task. Till now, printed maps, advice, tips from friends and directions from roadside dwellers have been the standard sources of information for travelers. However, with the development of in-car GPS navigation devices, no doubt these days will be over very soon. At this stage, a GPS product called Satguide added points of Interest (POI) to their maps to make landmarks easily identifiable. What’s more, you too can participate in making India more mappable by adding your address to their maps.
Car based GPS navigation systems are very popular these days in India for which Satnav Technologies is considered to be the pioneers of GPS systems in India. The modern navigation devices give drivers turn-by-turn directions while following a route. While using GPS navigation systems in car, all you have to do is, enter your destination address and the GPS system will plan a route for you using the maps it has access to. These are very helpful to people who travel for business and find themselves visiting unfamiliar destinations on a regular basis.
GPS navigation systems can be used anywhere in India. There is no subscription fee; only the GPS transmitting receiver set will cost you the money at the time of buying. A variety of GPS sets is available nowadays in the market. The easy availability of GPS navigation with mobile communication devices has made it very popular in India.
Conclusion:
Though vital developments have taken place in the field of GPS in last two decades in India, to make it more popular to the same extent will take more initiative and some time.
A country’s policies and basic infrastructure also play a very crucial role in developing a new technology like GPS. Recently the price of GPS devices has been dropped significantly. Hopefully, with the addition of numerous models in mobile phones, dropping prices and fair competition between the local as well as international GPS vendors will enhance the growth of GPS market in India.
GPS gives you your position on earth. This is received in numbers-latitude and longitude. If you have a map and software along with it, you will easily know your position. GPS provides unequaled accuracy and flexibility of positioning for navigation, surveying and geographic information system to capture data.
A GPS device provides you with a route to reach the destination that you select. Only thing you need is a clear view of the sky for GPS to work, so it obvious that it won’t work inside a building, underground or even in forest.
Uses in India:
India has been using GPS technology since the early 90’s only to identify weather conditions, track traffic system, identify national borders etc. Now GPS is going mainstream, where more and more organizations are using GPS technology for making best use of their resources like transportation industry and the delivery services. It is also used widely in tourism and adventure sports purposes.
Driving in many Indian cities can be a nightmare experience for the uninformed and inexperienced traveler. With roads that don’t have any names, building blocks that don’t particularly follow a pattern, addresses that even the locals confused and traffic regulations that change overnight, finding the way around can be quite a task. Till now, printed maps, advice, tips from friends and directions from roadside dwellers have been the standard sources of information for travelers. However, with the development of in-car GPS navigation devices, no doubt these days will be over very soon. At this stage, a GPS product called Satguide added points of Interest (POI) to their maps to make landmarks easily identifiable. What’s more, you too can participate in making India more mappable by adding your address to their maps.
Car based GPS navigation systems are very popular these days in India for which Satnav Technologies is considered to be the pioneers of GPS systems in India. The modern navigation devices give drivers turn-by-turn directions while following a route. While using GPS navigation systems in car, all you have to do is, enter your destination address and the GPS system will plan a route for you using the maps it has access to. These are very helpful to people who travel for business and find themselves visiting unfamiliar destinations on a regular basis.
GPS navigation systems can be used anywhere in India. There is no subscription fee; only the GPS transmitting receiver set will cost you the money at the time of buying. A variety of GPS sets is available nowadays in the market. The easy availability of GPS navigation with mobile communication devices has made it very popular in India.
Conclusion:
Though vital developments have taken place in the field of GPS in last two decades in India, to make it more popular to the same extent will take more initiative and some time.
A country’s policies and basic infrastructure also play a very crucial role in developing a new technology like GPS. Recently the price of GPS devices has been dropped significantly. Hopefully, with the addition of numerous models in mobile phones, dropping prices and fair competition between the local as well as international GPS vendors will enhance the growth of GPS market in India.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Adding Value At Work
It is much easier to retain your job, gain promotion or conduct a successful appraisal if your colleagues and bosses recognise the value that you add, over and above your job description. Which is why a value added strategy constitutes an essential part of career management.
We are all capable of adding value in different ways, but a good value added strategy can be built around three simple qualities: Competency, Enthusiasm and Dependency.
It goes without saying that you need to be competent at your job. But merely having the ability to do the job is not enough to demonstrate value. Demonstrating competency in the workplace means being able to show that even when the tasks exceed those normally expected of you, you are able to carry them out successfully and effectively. It is not just having the skills to do the job, it is having a sufficiently wide range of skills to be able to cope with the unexpected. So to be seen as competent you may wish to engage in training, or gain experience, that allows you to expand your skill base beyond the bare minimum.
Dependency is an essential quality for fostering trust and confidence. A dependable team member is one who is there when they are needed, who can be relied upon to perform a task when required, particularly the less pleasant ones, and who is seen as supporting their managers and colleagues. Dependability is, logically, the single most important quality in making yourself indispensible at work.
Enthusiasm is the art of making other people feel positive because you are seen to be positive. An enthusiastic team member appears to be glad to be doing their job, is better placed to override obstacles and minimise conflict. People enjoy being around an enthusiastic person and enthusiasm will boost your standing in the eyes of your colleagues and bosses. It is hard to display enthusiasm externally unless you are enthusiastic internally. But even if you do not enjoy your job, it is possible, with the right support, to develop and demonstrate an enthusiasm for it.
Enthusiasm, Dependency and Competency. They are all small things. But as part of a structured value added strategy they can save your job, or get you a better one.
We are all capable of adding value in different ways, but a good value added strategy can be built around three simple qualities: Competency, Enthusiasm and Dependency.
It goes without saying that you need to be competent at your job. But merely having the ability to do the job is not enough to demonstrate value. Demonstrating competency in the workplace means being able to show that even when the tasks exceed those normally expected of you, you are able to carry them out successfully and effectively. It is not just having the skills to do the job, it is having a sufficiently wide range of skills to be able to cope with the unexpected. So to be seen as competent you may wish to engage in training, or gain experience, that allows you to expand your skill base beyond the bare minimum.
Dependency is an essential quality for fostering trust and confidence. A dependable team member is one who is there when they are needed, who can be relied upon to perform a task when required, particularly the less pleasant ones, and who is seen as supporting their managers and colleagues. Dependability is, logically, the single most important quality in making yourself indispensible at work.
Enthusiasm is the art of making other people feel positive because you are seen to be positive. An enthusiastic team member appears to be glad to be doing their job, is better placed to override obstacles and minimise conflict. People enjoy being around an enthusiastic person and enthusiasm will boost your standing in the eyes of your colleagues and bosses. It is hard to display enthusiasm externally unless you are enthusiastic internally. But even if you do not enjoy your job, it is possible, with the right support, to develop and demonstrate an enthusiasm for it.
Enthusiasm, Dependency and Competency. They are all small things. But as part of a structured value added strategy they can save your job, or get you a better one.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sales vs Marketing
Sales and marketing are closely interlinked and are aimed at increasing revenue. As sales and marketing are closely intertwined, it becomes hard to realise the difference between the two. In small firms, one cannot come across much difference between sales and marketing. But bigger firms have made clear distinction between marketing and sales and they have specialised people handling them independently.
Well, how is that sales and marketing are different? In very simple words, sales can be termed as a process which focuses or targets on individuals or small groups. Marketing on the other hand targets a larger group or the general public.
Marketing includes research (identifying needs of the customer), development of products (producing innovative products) and promoting the product (through advertisements) and create awareness about the product among the consumers. As such marketing means generating leads or prospects. Once the product is out in the market, it is the task of the sales person to persuade the customer to buy the product. Well, sales means converting the leads or prospects into purchases and orders.
While marketing is aimed at longer terms, sales pertain to shorter goals. Marketing involves a longer process of building a name for a brand and pursuing the customer to buy it even if they do not need it. Where as sales only involve a short term process of finding the target consumer.
In concept also, sales and marketing have much difference. Sales only focuses on converting consumer demand match the products. But marketing targets on meeting the consumer demands.
Marketing can be called as a footboard for sales. It prepares the ground for a sales person to approach a consumer. Marketing as such is not direct and it uses various methods like advertising, brand marketing, public relations, direct mails and viral marketing for creating an awareness of the product. Sales are really interpersonal interactions. Sales involve one-on-one meetings, networking and calls.
Another difference that is seen between marketing and sales is that the former involves both micro and macro analysis focussing on strategic intentions. On the other hand, sales pertain to the challenges and relations with the customer.
Summary:
1.Sales target on individuals or small groups. Marketing on the other hand targets a larger group o the general public.
2.Marketing means generating leads or prospects. sales means converting the leads or prospects into purchases and orders.
3.Marketing involves a longer process of building a name for a brand and pursuing the customer to buy it even if they do not need it. Where as sales only involve a short term of finding the target consumer
Well, how is that sales and marketing are different? In very simple words, sales can be termed as a process which focuses or targets on individuals or small groups. Marketing on the other hand targets a larger group or the general public.
Marketing includes research (identifying needs of the customer), development of products (producing innovative products) and promoting the product (through advertisements) and create awareness about the product among the consumers. As such marketing means generating leads or prospects. Once the product is out in the market, it is the task of the sales person to persuade the customer to buy the product. Well, sales means converting the leads or prospects into purchases and orders.
While marketing is aimed at longer terms, sales pertain to shorter goals. Marketing involves a longer process of building a name for a brand and pursuing the customer to buy it even if they do not need it. Where as sales only involve a short term process of finding the target consumer.
In concept also, sales and marketing have much difference. Sales only focuses on converting consumer demand match the products. But marketing targets on meeting the consumer demands.
Marketing can be called as a footboard for sales. It prepares the ground for a sales person to approach a consumer. Marketing as such is not direct and it uses various methods like advertising, brand marketing, public relations, direct mails and viral marketing for creating an awareness of the product. Sales are really interpersonal interactions. Sales involve one-on-one meetings, networking and calls.
Another difference that is seen between marketing and sales is that the former involves both micro and macro analysis focussing on strategic intentions. On the other hand, sales pertain to the challenges and relations with the customer.
Summary:
1.Sales target on individuals or small groups. Marketing on the other hand targets a larger group o the general public.
2.Marketing means generating leads or prospects. sales means converting the leads or prospects into purchases and orders.
3.Marketing involves a longer process of building a name for a brand and pursuing the customer to buy it even if they do not need it. Where as sales only involve a short term of finding the target consumer
Awaking Entrepreneur
There's a commonly held belief that one becomes an entrepreneur by going into business, or going out on one's own.
I don't subscribe to that belief.
In fact, not only don't I subscribe to that belief, but I hold strongly to the opposing belief--with overwhelming evidence to support my position--that to go into business, or out on one's own, in the belief that by so doing you'll be an entrepreneur will result in tragic consequences of the greatest magnitude. In short, it's a very, very bad idea
So then what exactly is an entrepreneur? Let me share my view with you, and then let me give you three exercises to do to help awaken the entrepreneur within you.
An entrepreneur is not a person, but a personality, the personality living inside of each and every person on the face of the earth, the personality who dreams. The entrepreneur inside of you, of me, of your friends, of your relatives of every shape, size and dimension, no matter what they do for a living, no matter how bold or how shy, no matter where they live or what their education may or may not be, the entrepreneur in each and every human being is the dreamer who sees life as it could be, not as it is. It's the dreamer who sees mountains where only flat land exists; who sees great buildings and cities and countries arising with enormous energy where no buildings or cities or countries live as of yet; who sees the sweet juice of opportunity around every corner, in every nook, cranny and claptrap yard, in every square or rounded inch of misery. To the entrepreneurial personality living in each and every human being, there is a life larger than life, a beauty larger than beauty, a promise larger than any promise could hope to be. The entrepreneur in each and every one of us is the inventor, the creator, a lunatic of the most profound dimensions, the inconsolable pursuer of the impossible who sees visions where others only see work.
The entrepreneur in you and in me is holy, truly holy, and not to be believed.
Which means that Walt Disney knew who his entrepreneur was, as did Sam Walton and Ray Kroc, as did Steve Jobs and Debby Fields, and yes, even as strange as it might seem to you, as did Einstein and Chopin and Rumi and every "imagineer" who ever dared climb a mountain that wasn't there, reach the summit, and hold up his hands and head and scream to those who didn't see him or her--or even the mountain--until they came into view, "I'm here!" And there was no "here" until they said it. And there was no "there" until all the others saw it. And there was no summit until they created it. And that's what the magic of your entrepreneurial soul does when you invite him or her to go climbing.
The First Exercise:
Stop thinking about what you want to do. Stop doing what you're doing. Go to a place, any place will do, where activity ceases, where there is no itinerary, no schedule, no agenda, no responsibility, no work of any kind, no expectation, no result you've set for yourself, no goals, no objectives, no action plans whatsoever. Go to such a place to empty your mind.
And that's the first exercise to awaken the entrepreneur in you: to empty your mind. To dream and to create, there needs to be both space and energy. The entrepreneur in us wants to play with the idea of things, without constraint. To write without purpose, to imagine without an end game, to live fully and completely in the moment of his or her experience, now. Not in the past nor in the future, but now.
To prepare yourself for this exercise, try sitting down where you are, closing the door, telling everyone who might bother you to give you ten minutes without a disturbance of any kind. Unplug the phone, turn off your computer, sit down, face a wall, close your eyes, place your hands in your lap, breath deeply and just stay there, just like that. You'll see immediately what I mean, and why that's important.
You must do this first exercise every single day!
The Second Exercise:
Get a blank piece of paper. You have nothing in mind. Sit with the blank piece of paper, and let whatever comes to mind go to the paper. Whether it be a sentence, or just three seemingly unrelated words. Whether it be an entire paragraph, a thought, a concern, a conclusion, let it write itself down. The key here is to let "It" speak. To let "It" say what "It" wants to say. To let "It" have the room to breath.
My saxophone teacher once said to me many years ago, "Michael, you don't make music; music finds you." You need to let "It" play its music. That's what the entrepreneur in you wants more than anything: to play "Its" music.
You'll be amazed what appears on the blank piece of paper as you do this second exercise.
Do it for only 10 minutes. Do it once a day. And save those pieces of paper, with the date on the top right hand corner. Save them in a box, or a file folder, and know that that box or file folder is a sacred place. Because your dreamer has created it. Your entrepreneur has become vulnerable. Your creator has expressed himself or herself, and you've been a witness to it.
The Third Exercise:
Maintaining an entrepreneurial journal is a daily process, and I highly recommend it. Buy yourself a journal, preferably with leather covers, a rich-looking journal, a journal that impresses you because it looks so rich, so permanent, so significant. Write in that journal what you learned that day. Write in that journal what you felt that day. Write in that journal anything that came to mind that day, as you sat with a blank piece of paper, as you sat in your chair facing the wall for ten minutes with absolutely no interruption at all, as you felt your feelings come up, your feelings of being blocked, your feelings of being ashamed, your feelings of excitement, your feelings of despair...whatever came up that day, record it, even though you may not think you're an accomplished writer--or even if you think you are. Your entrepreneurial journal is not about the writing; it's about the recording. This is your life, someone once said. This is your life, and if you don't take it seriously, who will? This is your third exercise, and it will feed your first exercise and your second exercise, and you will know it.
Believe me, you will know it.
I don't subscribe to that belief.
In fact, not only don't I subscribe to that belief, but I hold strongly to the opposing belief--with overwhelming evidence to support my position--that to go into business, or out on one's own, in the belief that by so doing you'll be an entrepreneur will result in tragic consequences of the greatest magnitude. In short, it's a very, very bad idea
So then what exactly is an entrepreneur? Let me share my view with you, and then let me give you three exercises to do to help awaken the entrepreneur within you.
An entrepreneur is not a person, but a personality, the personality living inside of each and every person on the face of the earth, the personality who dreams. The entrepreneur inside of you, of me, of your friends, of your relatives of every shape, size and dimension, no matter what they do for a living, no matter how bold or how shy, no matter where they live or what their education may or may not be, the entrepreneur in each and every human being is the dreamer who sees life as it could be, not as it is. It's the dreamer who sees mountains where only flat land exists; who sees great buildings and cities and countries arising with enormous energy where no buildings or cities or countries live as of yet; who sees the sweet juice of opportunity around every corner, in every nook, cranny and claptrap yard, in every square or rounded inch of misery. To the entrepreneurial personality living in each and every human being, there is a life larger than life, a beauty larger than beauty, a promise larger than any promise could hope to be. The entrepreneur in each and every one of us is the inventor, the creator, a lunatic of the most profound dimensions, the inconsolable pursuer of the impossible who sees visions where others only see work.
The entrepreneur in you and in me is holy, truly holy, and not to be believed.
Which means that Walt Disney knew who his entrepreneur was, as did Sam Walton and Ray Kroc, as did Steve Jobs and Debby Fields, and yes, even as strange as it might seem to you, as did Einstein and Chopin and Rumi and every "imagineer" who ever dared climb a mountain that wasn't there, reach the summit, and hold up his hands and head and scream to those who didn't see him or her--or even the mountain--until they came into view, "I'm here!" And there was no "here" until they said it. And there was no "there" until all the others saw it. And there was no summit until they created it. And that's what the magic of your entrepreneurial soul does when you invite him or her to go climbing.
The First Exercise:
Stop thinking about what you want to do. Stop doing what you're doing. Go to a place, any place will do, where activity ceases, where there is no itinerary, no schedule, no agenda, no responsibility, no work of any kind, no expectation, no result you've set for yourself, no goals, no objectives, no action plans whatsoever. Go to such a place to empty your mind.
And that's the first exercise to awaken the entrepreneur in you: to empty your mind. To dream and to create, there needs to be both space and energy. The entrepreneur in us wants to play with the idea of things, without constraint. To write without purpose, to imagine without an end game, to live fully and completely in the moment of his or her experience, now. Not in the past nor in the future, but now.
To prepare yourself for this exercise, try sitting down where you are, closing the door, telling everyone who might bother you to give you ten minutes without a disturbance of any kind. Unplug the phone, turn off your computer, sit down, face a wall, close your eyes, place your hands in your lap, breath deeply and just stay there, just like that. You'll see immediately what I mean, and why that's important.
You must do this first exercise every single day!
The Second Exercise:
Get a blank piece of paper. You have nothing in mind. Sit with the blank piece of paper, and let whatever comes to mind go to the paper. Whether it be a sentence, or just three seemingly unrelated words. Whether it be an entire paragraph, a thought, a concern, a conclusion, let it write itself down. The key here is to let "It" speak. To let "It" say what "It" wants to say. To let "It" have the room to breath.
My saxophone teacher once said to me many years ago, "Michael, you don't make music; music finds you." You need to let "It" play its music. That's what the entrepreneur in you wants more than anything: to play "Its" music.
You'll be amazed what appears on the blank piece of paper as you do this second exercise.
Do it for only 10 minutes. Do it once a day. And save those pieces of paper, with the date on the top right hand corner. Save them in a box, or a file folder, and know that that box or file folder is a sacred place. Because your dreamer has created it. Your entrepreneur has become vulnerable. Your creator has expressed himself or herself, and you've been a witness to it.
The Third Exercise:
Maintaining an entrepreneurial journal is a daily process, and I highly recommend it. Buy yourself a journal, preferably with leather covers, a rich-looking journal, a journal that impresses you because it looks so rich, so permanent, so significant. Write in that journal what you learned that day. Write in that journal what you felt that day. Write in that journal anything that came to mind that day, as you sat with a blank piece of paper, as you sat in your chair facing the wall for ten minutes with absolutely no interruption at all, as you felt your feelings come up, your feelings of being blocked, your feelings of being ashamed, your feelings of excitement, your feelings of despair...whatever came up that day, record it, even though you may not think you're an accomplished writer--or even if you think you are. Your entrepreneurial journal is not about the writing; it's about the recording. This is your life, someone once said. This is your life, and if you don't take it seriously, who will? This is your third exercise, and it will feed your first exercise and your second exercise, and you will know it.
Believe me, you will know it.
Monday, December 20, 2010
A Thin Line Between Failure & Success
Most of the time, the difference between what makes something or someone a success instead of a failure is extremely narrow. You can walk a fine line between sheer success and utter failure. The thing is, the longer you walk that line, the larger the gap becomes. Let me give you a simple definition for both failure and success that you can easily use to assess what you are doing in your own life and help you get on the side of the line where you can get the most out of your existence.
What is failure?
Failure isn’t one occurrence. That would be an error. Failure is the accumulation of errors over a continuous period of time. For example, if you don’t clean your home one day, that’s not a failure. It might be an error. However, if you don’t clean your home 30 days in a row and your home is a big mess, then it’s no longer an error, but a failure. Usually, this is what causes people to experience failure whether it’s in their personal life or professional one. They repeat the same error day in and day out, and the sum of the errors just pile on until it’s a complete failure. You could eat junk food one day, but if you eat it every single day, then you suffer the consequences of such continuous errors with poor health and poor body image. What about if you put off doing a task for one day? What if you put it off every single day? I see this all too often in my line of work, where the accumulation of errors builds into failure, which then builds into disaster! Think about certain bad decisions or choices that you have been making in your life lately. Make the promise to yourself right now not to repeat this every day. One trait that I have noticed with high achievers, is that they are able to correct an error extremely quickly. If you want a chance to succeed, you need to learn from your errors and correct them FAST. The quicker you learn from your errors and avoid repeating them, the better you can avoid any failure, and the faster you can achieve success.
What is success?
On the opposite side of the spectrum, success is the accumulation of good decisions made continuously over a period of time. For example, if you work out one day, you won’t see any result or success. But if you work out every day for 5 months, you will see noticeable and measurable results, and that is real, tangible success. If you write one page a day for a year, you have a book. If you eat good healthy food every single day of your life, you will have a healthier body. Success is quite simply managing to accomplish good disciplines on a daily basis. The reason why the majority of people do not achieve a high level of success is the lack of consistency. They will eat well 3-4 days out of 7, and work out 1 or 2 days per week. They will complete their tasks 3 times out of 10. Mediocre consistency creates mediocre results. If you want to experience life on a whole other level of personal success, you need to be the most consistent person possible.
As you can see, the line between success and failure is very thin. Sometimes it’s not obvious that we are doing something that is wrong, so it’s crucial to have an open mind and be critical of oneself. But it’s the act of doing things a certain way over a period of time that widens the gap between success and failure so tremendously. The key here is to spot your errors early, learn from them, and fix them. Then, whatever you are doing that works, keep doing it every single day by developing the habit of consistency. This is an absolute sure-fire way to obtain massive amounts of success.
What is failure?
Failure isn’t one occurrence. That would be an error. Failure is the accumulation of errors over a continuous period of time. For example, if you don’t clean your home one day, that’s not a failure. It might be an error. However, if you don’t clean your home 30 days in a row and your home is a big mess, then it’s no longer an error, but a failure. Usually, this is what causes people to experience failure whether it’s in their personal life or professional one. They repeat the same error day in and day out, and the sum of the errors just pile on until it’s a complete failure. You could eat junk food one day, but if you eat it every single day, then you suffer the consequences of such continuous errors with poor health and poor body image. What about if you put off doing a task for one day? What if you put it off every single day? I see this all too often in my line of work, where the accumulation of errors builds into failure, which then builds into disaster! Think about certain bad decisions or choices that you have been making in your life lately. Make the promise to yourself right now not to repeat this every day. One trait that I have noticed with high achievers, is that they are able to correct an error extremely quickly. If you want a chance to succeed, you need to learn from your errors and correct them FAST. The quicker you learn from your errors and avoid repeating them, the better you can avoid any failure, and the faster you can achieve success.
What is success?
On the opposite side of the spectrum, success is the accumulation of good decisions made continuously over a period of time. For example, if you work out one day, you won’t see any result or success. But if you work out every day for 5 months, you will see noticeable and measurable results, and that is real, tangible success. If you write one page a day for a year, you have a book. If you eat good healthy food every single day of your life, you will have a healthier body. Success is quite simply managing to accomplish good disciplines on a daily basis. The reason why the majority of people do not achieve a high level of success is the lack of consistency. They will eat well 3-4 days out of 7, and work out 1 or 2 days per week. They will complete their tasks 3 times out of 10. Mediocre consistency creates mediocre results. If you want to experience life on a whole other level of personal success, you need to be the most consistent person possible.
As you can see, the line between success and failure is very thin. Sometimes it’s not obvious that we are doing something that is wrong, so it’s crucial to have an open mind and be critical of oneself. But it’s the act of doing things a certain way over a period of time that widens the gap between success and failure so tremendously. The key here is to spot your errors early, learn from them, and fix them. Then, whatever you are doing that works, keep doing it every single day by developing the habit of consistency. This is an absolute sure-fire way to obtain massive amounts of success.
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