Next time you are at a meeting with a large number of attendees, take a look at how many people are there in body but their mind is elsewhere. They are contributing nothing by their presence. If you commit to being somewhere, whether it is with one person or many, give it your full attention. There are times when we must change our plans or we suffer delays and this can impact on others.
This is a natural part of life. What should be equally natural is that we let the affected people know immediately that we have to change our plans. Renegotiating a commitment is usually understandable but breaking a commitment rarely is.
Making a mistake is generally a sign that somebody is trying to do the right thing. Where this is true, I try to praise the effort and rather than berate the other person, I apply the constructive feedback model to identify how things can be done differently the next time. I love learning. It helps me to feel more enthusiastic about life. Everyday, I try to learn something which I can apply in my life or my business.
When you learn a little each day, it soon makes a massive difference. In April , I decided to take my business online despite the fact that I knew nothing about online business or websites.
It was a steep learning curve but 11 months later, I have had over , page views and I am just about to launch my online store. That all came from learning something new each day and applying it. Small daily goals which help you achieve larger goals are a fantastic way to keep making progress without experiencing overwhelm.
Check out the Ultimate Guide to Goal Setting for more information. This principle is absolutely fundamental to me. Whatever life you envision for the future, that life is built with the actions that you start taking today. You are not going to just wake up one day to your dream life; that life is going be built with daily action. The sooner you start to take that action; the sooner that your ideal life will be created. So, start taking that action today.
I am the first to admit that I have on occasion failed to apply this principle. When I have failed, I have experienced guilt and regret. Whether you are trying to offer help, sell a product or service, or solve an argument; it is easier to do if you first take the time to understand the needs of the other person. Principles recognize what is true and help us apply truth to new or unknown situations. When my professor taught us the principles of economics, she hoped to give us a foundation for interpreting all the future information we would be receiving.
If we ever faced a proposal or idea that contradicted one of these principles, that would be a flag to us that the proposal was flawed. That is how principles should work—principles are sets of uncompromising truths that provide us with tools for evaluating thought and action. Principles, because they are based on truth, are universal and can be applied without exceptions. A good set of principles will enable us to make decisions very quickly, even if the situation we are facing is completely new.
Some of us were taught how to read by memorizing words. Once we have memorized a good number of words, we can read away happily, until we come across an unknown word.
On the other hand, some are taught to read by phonetics. You learn the alphabet and the sounds each letter makes. By itself, this information seems useless—but when you sit down to read, you can slowly sound out each word. You may have never seen the word before, yet the foundation you were given enables you to move forward, with great accuracy.
A unique feature of principles is that, unlike concepts and procedures, they are discovered rather than invented. Principles are the only kind of content which represents "truth" in any significant way.
Also, a procedure can either produce the desired outputs the goal or not. But procedures don't provide us with an understanding of how things work, and procedures can often be changed and still produce the desired outputs.
Furthermore, there are often several different procedures for accomplishing the same goal. Therefore, principles are probably the most important kind of content for us to include in the majority of our instruction. And it is usually helpful to learn how to apply the principles to new situations.
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