SPECIAL ARTICLES Mission Statement Nominations Links Contact Us Home Education Heroes 911-Remembered Donate/Sponsors    Heroes Inspirational/ Special Books     Special Articles   Motivating Self and the Soul By: Arjun Singhe Motivating assists us with discovering the soul and self. It gives us inner strengths, which helps us to complete our daily tasks. Instead of looking at a job as something negative, when we develop motivation, it helps us to see that jobs can become rewarding. Thus, we take control of our life. We also need self-control to find our self and soul. Control can hamper us, since we may let it go to our head and indulge in doing wrong. We must have balance with self-control. To find soul and self, one must endeavor. Once we embalm our skills to find self and soul, we see the need to consider our behaviors and thinking patterns. What is in my thoughts? Why do I think in such way? What makes me tick? One can achieve finding soul and self by developing a quick-witted insight and a physically and mentally powerful will to set unchanging boundaries. The fixed boundaries help us by not allowing us to take the control we gain to our head. The soul and self is a broad term in which it encompasses both steadfastness and regard. The soul and self plays a fundamental role in assisting an entity with working out control over their chagrin or mortification. We all need the ability to control the self. It takes strong willpower to enable us to take this control. Some individuals have heightened aptitude to exercise control in comparison to others. The aptitude to exercise control over the self could slow down however, when disagreeable knowledge from the past emerge. We need to develop motivation by using optimistic affirmations. It will enhance our process in finding the soul and self. This task is accomplished by learning to encode messages that stream from the subconscious mind. We can develop constructive energy that allots us to absorb positive thoughts. Our actions originate from our thoughts. What time an entity is highly focusing on positive energy, he then is prone to think and act positive despite what situations he encounters. Developing a keen insight while managing particular tasks drives one to feel the optimistic vibrations within self and it plays a substantial role in helping one to overcome his impediments. By developing positive affirmations it assists one with achieving control by facilitating him to breakout away from mentally challenging situations, e.g. exaggerated suffering, fretfulness and phobias. Affirmatives assist one with overcoming obstacles that get in the way of our journey to find the soul and self. We develop respect for self by maintaining positive affirmatives. These affirmatives serve to channel our energy cells giving us the aptitude to manage our performance in a number of areas. Motivation will allot us room to grow healthy and strong and we will enjoy enduring relationships with self and others. It enhances our memory by altering dysfunctional attitudes towards self and others. Self-development process is noted by tests conducted by Mischel. He made some good points when he discovered that development serves to control altering responses. During his testing, he spoke with a small child, asking him to restrain self. The child was asked to control his desire to eat a marshmallow. He was given fifteen minutes. If he were capable of controlling self, he would receive the marshmallow as the reward. The child maintained for the fifteen minutes, which Mischel predicted that the child would develop healthy skills. In short, we must control our impulses throughout the development stage to discover self and the soul without losing control. We must endeavor and develop motivation in order to become strong and willfully capable of finding this soul and self. Article source: Articlecat.com Author: Author sites: Home Remedies , Health Articles and Self Help Guides Simple Ways to Be a Better You By: Daegan Smith We all have goals in life. We have something beyond us to look forward to or to work for every time we do a task or we begin the day. Very few of us have achieved what we wanted. At times, some can get it simply by having lady luck on your side. However, most people get what they want when they work hard to achieve it. Still, there are times that working too hard can't get you what you want. This applies when there are many people who work just as hard as you do to get what you are aiming for. In these cases, you have to stand out from the rest. Let take for example an employee who wants to be promoted to a supervisory position since his current supervisor will be elevated to be a manager in a different department. Almost everyone in the team will work hard to make the management choose them for the vacant position. Since everyone will be doing his or her own job excellently, what will give a person the edge to be chosen? Therefore, simply doing your job well is not enough proof that you are capable of handling a leadership post. One has to strive to be a better person. Improving oneself cannot be compared with the progress one's co-workers are making. Unlike the performance statistics that can be compared among the workers, you can only determine how much you have improved by only gauging what new skills have you learned or can you perform. In short, you compare your "present self" with your "old self," and not with your co-workers. Consequently, how far you go or how much you improve depends on you, too. Usually, nobody tells you what you should do to make yourself better. You have to assess what new skills you needed to improve yourself or to make yourself qualified for your dream job. Making yourself better is not a difficult task. You may choose to enroll in a course. If you don't have that much time and resources, just attending seminars, reading books and learning new skills or methods to do things will do. Just make sure that you practice it everyday. In fact, if you get used to doing it everyday, you will not notice the effort that you are making. Or, it will not take that much time and effort anymore. Here are some simple ways to give you several ideas on how to start. * Be creative When you start doing creative things, you release stress. Being creative may be practiced at work where you can experiment on other methods to do your job, or by having a hobby that you enjoy doing or that has just caught your interest. Practicing your hobby may not directly mean your professional growth. However, just keeping your creative juices flowing means that you are prepared in case your work requires variations that need your creative skills. * Keep on reading Reading shouldn't stop when you graduate from school. In fact you should read more when you're no longer attending a school to refresh your knowledge and gain more information. Moreover, do not confine your reading in your work-related materials. Read anything - newspapers, books, advertisements, flyers, and even street signs. You don't know when the information will be handy. * Meet people. Apart from being sources of information or from having a mutually beneficial professional relationship, the people you meet and associate with help you know yourself better. When you meet different types of people in various situations, you learn what skills you may need to develop in yourself, what is really important for you and what direction you are taking. * Prepare yourself. While many people rely on fate or are dependent on the company's outlined contingency plans, you can also prepare yourself by checking what other areas have been overlooked in the contingency plans. When you get the opportunity, you may present your suggestions to the administration or implement the plan yourself. Also, managers prefer that their employees can look at the situation from outside the box. They value people who are observant, creative, and well organized to know what they needed to do when things are not as they should be. These are just the basics. From these you can devise your own ways to improve yourself. Just don't forget to share what you have learned especially those who are just at the beginning of their careers. Article source: Articlecat.com Author: Daegan Smith is an Expert Internet Network Marketer. "Learn How To Make $10,717 In Less Than a Week While Quickly And Easily EXPLODING Your Network Marketing Organization Without EVER Buying a Single Lead?" http://www.internetmlmsuccess.com mailto:netmlmsuccess@aweber.com Qualities To Look For In A Leader By: Dennis Sommer Copyright 2006 Dennis Sommer Are you ready to take over a leadership role in your organization ? You probably feel comfortable with your industry, managing staff, technology, and political culture at this point. But, have you developed and fined tuned the leadership qualities that make top leaders successful ? Your first step toward success is assessing your leadership capabilities. Let's see how you score on this 25 question assessment. The following survey can be used to assess your current leadership capabilities, assessing others in your organization, or as a guideline for hiring C-level executives. For each question, answer "Yes" if this leadership quality is consistently met. Answer "No" if this leadership quality is sometimes or rarely met. After answering all the questions, let's see how you score. 1. Inspires and motivates people around them to perform above and beyond expectations ? 2. Acts like an owner of the company no matter what position they currently hold ? 3. Has a vision for the future and communicates that vision to everyone they encounter ? 4. Recognizes the importance of long term personal, team, and company goals ? 5. Committed to succeed in all activities taken to meet goals. Never gives up ? 6. Constantly searching for new knowledge and new ideas that will improve personal and company performance ? 7. Willing to learn better methods to make sure employees expand their knowledge base ? 8. Encourages interactive communication throughout the organization ? 9. Receptive to both positive and negative feedback ? 10. Listens to employees, peers, and customers with an open mind ? 11. Maintains a high level of trust with employees. Does not closely monitor proven employees ? 12. Embraces diversity and is highly receptive to ideas and people who are different ? 13. Action oriented self starter who takes calculated risks ? 14. Thinks fast on their feet to come up with solutions to critical situations ? 15. Helps employees develop the habits they need to be more successful ? 16. Empowers employees to make decisions ? 17. Observes employee performance and provides constructive feedback ? 18. Stimulates and relishes change ? 19. Adapts quickly to change. Does not fear change but sees it as an opportunity ? 20. Realizes the importance of a positive frame of mind and attitude. Remains positive in all situations ? 21. Apologizes and admits mistakes ? 22. Documents and refers to personal, team, and company values on a daily basis ? 23. Personal, team and company values are regarded as guiding principles for all decisions ? 24. Values are documented and referred to on a daily basis ? 25. Basis employee performance on measurable data and uses these measurements as a training tool ? How did you score ? For each "Yes" answer you get 1 point. For each "No" answer you get 0 points. 21 - 25 points = Top notch leader in your field 16 - 20 points = Great potential to be a successful leader with additional experience and mentoring 0 - 15 points = Additional leadership training and experience should be a priority Article source: Articlecat.com Author: Dennis Sommer is a widely respected and world renowned authority on sales, business development and leadership performance improvement. He is a leading adviser, author, and speaker providing clients with practical strategies that improve personal and organization performance. Dennis can be reached at Dennis@btrconline.com or http://www.btrconline.com   Where Are The Dreamers By: Burk Pendergrass When the Tennessee Mountain Man was a young man, there were dream girls. Girls like Liz Taylor, Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Ross, Nancy Sinatra, Tina Turner and the Vargas girls. Man, we even thought Dale Evans, Annie Oakley, Miss Kitty, Della Street, and the girl next door were hot... probably a hormone thing. But, there were also dreamers. Dreamers like John Kennedy who had a dream that challenged and inspired a new generation. Dreamers like Martin Luther King, Jr. who had a dream that changed a nation. Bobby Kennedy had a dream. The Gipper had a dream. Then there were the dream makers... dream makers like school teachers who challenged you to be all you could be, professionals like lawyers and doctors who practiced their skills primarily because they cared for their fellow man often for a pound of butter, a dozen fresh farm eggs, a chicken for the dinner table, or a gallon of fresh churned buttermilk, and there were men of God who spread the Gospel out of love for something other than numbers, pride and money. There were local community leaders who inspired and they actually got out on the street and interacted with their citizens. The poet Langston Hughes: "Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow." Where are the Dr Kildare's that dare challenge one to a noble service bigger than themselves rather than seeking self aggrandizement? Where is America's future? Where are all the dream inspiring TV shows and actual road trips like Route 66? Where are real cars that people can fall in love with? Where are all the road side stands where a child's imagination could be driven for hours without anything being stolen or broken? Where have all the dreamers gone? Where have the dream makers gone? Why are those who started with nothing but a dream now setting comfortably in their million dollar homes sipping brandy in the evening and ensconced in their ivory towers by day while dreamers disappear from the landscape? Who do they think will inspire a new generation to dream, to dare if they don't? What we have been given, what we have accomplished comes with a price which cannot be abdicated. The dream, the inspiration must be passed to a new generation. They must strive for a new frontier. Oh, community pride, community love, community care, 4-H Clubs, Boy Scouts, FFA, school plays and cake walks where art thou? The Computerman don't see his grandchildren pursuing any of these things or dreaming about what could be. We have not arrived by a long shot. Where is the next generation and what will it accomplish? Will it add anything worthwhile to God's earth or be self absorbed or be couch potatoes playing with the latest gizmo? Does your pastor inspire the young people, or is he or she just there to count heads and collect dollars? If it is not the former, it is time for a new pastor. Do the teachers in your schools inspire and motivate students? If not, send them packing. Their grossly extended vacation schedule and short hours be damned. Let them do that for which they are best suited like slinging burgers at the Golden Arches rather than holding back our prodigy. Do civic and political leaders lead? If not, replace them, and the sooner the better for the next generation of dreamers. Why is hanging in the hood so popular today? Why are gangs and gang bangers so prevalent? Why can't our children dream beyond their current circumstances? We did! We wanted to be Wyatt Earp (at least the TV image), Matt Dillon, The Lawman, Perry Mason, Dr Marcus Welby, M.D., Paladin, Pat Garrett or perhaps even the Reverend Billy Graham or the next Reverend Dr Martin Luther King or a Sister Theresa or maybe Elvis or Ricky Nelson and we enjoyed watching Lassie while wolfing down a big bowl of pop corn or home parched peanuts while we dreamed. We had to dream before we acted, before we accomplished. Before we had the answers there were the dreams. There was a dream, then there was Rosa Parks. There was a dream, then there was John Glenn! We dreamed... we dreamed of being... we dreamed of becoming... we dreamed of serving... we dreamed of living... we dreamed of loving... we dreamed of giving... We dreamed. In the theater of our minds we slipped the surly bonds of earth and dared ponder the possibilities that lay before us. What happened? Where have all the dreamers gone? Are today's sick, addicted, anorexic pop stars tomorrows future? Where are the dream makers? Who can capture the imagination and propel it forward through the haze of uncertainty and through the unknown into a better brighter tomorrow? Who? Where are the dream makers?! Where are the dreamers?! Article source: Articlecat.com Author: Publication of Burk Pendergrass, J.D., a Cherokee Indian and Viet Nam Vet specializing in computerman website design http://computermanwebsitedesign.bravehost.com/ and http://remotehelpdesk1.com/ specializing in online computer repair. Reprint authorized with credits. Submitted by: Article Submitter   Mission Statement Education Heroes 9/11 Remembered Nominations Links Contact Us Home  Donate/Sponsors    Inspirational/ Special BooksHeroes SPECIAL HEROES needs your nominations/suggestions for Special Heros to be included here. Please click on the 'Nominations' button, above.