Everybody Wants to Win - Begin Your Next Job and Enhance Your Successes

That's right, I have never known anyone to begin a job with failure in mind. Yet, many fail and most are only mediocre. Why, would be a good question?

Even better would be a good answer to that question.

While I cannot be absolutely certain about all the reasons people fail, I can be certain about some. Here are those that come to mind:
Beginning a job without a clear understanding of SELF. Failing to be Self-Aware is like trying to find a target in total darkness. You know there is a target, but if you find it, it will not be because of your skills, it will be, simply luck. Are you willing to trust your future to luck. I am not. Know Thy Self!Taking a job because it is a job and you need one. To increase your chances of success, look for and accept a job that cries out for your talents, skills and experiences. Don't think you will develop new talents or skills. You will likely not have time to do that before accountability time comes. Know the Needs of the Job.Being given no direction or encouragement when beginning a new job. Ask about the companies "On-Boarding" and "Career Path" processes. If they do not have at least a powerful "On-Boarding" process, your chances of succeeding will be slim. Know what support you will be given.Little or no coaching or commitment from your direct supervisor. If you are a direct report to a manager who has no commitment to develop his/her people, guess what? He or she will not be committed to helping you. Know something about your supervisor.No clear picture of how your performance will be judged. If you can not see clearly, how you will be judged, chances are you will have to depend upon being liked by you supervisor. Most wish to be judged on how well they did the job. Know what is expected of you.

Success is not a result of talent alone, many very talented people have failed in their jobs because they failed to pay attention to the "little things," like the five points above. Finally, I do wish to point out that if there were only one thing you could do to enhance your success at work. It would be "work hard.." Hard work beats Talent every time. Want to Succeed at work? Start with a commitment to work hard and make certain that as many of the five (5) steps have been met or verified, as possible.

Then begin your new job with success in mind!

Stephen J. Blakesley is a "master coach" for those wanting to excel in their business role. He has selected and coached over 100 executives to enhanced performance. He is an author, speaker, trainer, coach and educator.
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The Seven Faces of Intention and How to Begin to Cultivate the Power of Intention Within You

Odds are you probably have more than just a mild curiosity on how to develop and cultivate the power of your intention in order to have a more abundant and extraordinary life.

In the book the Power of Intention Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer he talks about how intention is something that he believes we can all feel, connect with, know and trust.

Along these same lines he talks about how intention is an inner awareness of things that we can really feel within ourselves yet at the same time really can't even begin to describe it with words.

For this reason he attempts to explain this unexplainable power of creation by revealing the seven faces of intention.

In a nutshell the seven faces of intention are as follows:

creativitykindnesslovebeautyexpansionunlimited abundancereceptivity

And as you are sitting there reading this you may have already begun to realize that all seven of these faces of intention can be experienced and enhanced when you meditate on a daily basis.

Any expert on the power of intention will agree that meditating on a daily basis is one of the best ways for you to naturally begin to cultivate this power that is within you.

As a matter of fact people who meditate on a daily basis quite often notice how they suddenly find themselves no longer avoiding situations that use to cause them a lot of stress or anxiety.

This is a relatively important fact to remember because believe it or not, quite often the only thing that is getting in the way of you being able to create the kind of life that you want to live and experience are your unconscious or sometimes even conscious avoidance of things that seem to cause you a lot of stress or anxiety. Even though you know that if you were to face up to them in so many ways you would be moving towards the life you were intending on living.

Now keep in mind that there are a variety of different meditation techniques that you can use to enhance your power of intention and while Dr. Wayne Dyer has found Japa meditation to be an extraordinarily effective meditation technique in his own life.

I have found that the practice of Yoga Nidra to be a guided meditation technique that has led to some extraordinary transformations in my life. More than that when you consider that with the practice of Yoga Nidra all you have to do is lie down on your back in a comfortable position and then be guided into the deepest states of your being you really do have to wonder if it can get any easier than that.

Thaddeus Ferguson has dedicated himself to the cause of helping people heal themselves first in order to help heal the world during this amazing time of transformation.

The practice of Meditation and/or Yoga Nidra is just one of the many powerful tools that you can use in order to help Heal You First.

Discover many of the Benefits of Meditation Now!

Learn more about Yoga Nidra Now!

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