randori mind, control the chaos

Between the economy, the hunt for value, real value in life and the slipping level of personal values we are caught at many points for making decisions. These aren’t Earth shattering ones, those major moments when we must chose a path, but instead the insidious ones. These are the small choices that we scarcely notice [...]

Your acceptance of, or propensity for failure, if left unaddressed, will develop into chronic mental stress, affecting your decision making, mental processing, even the structure of your brain. Your alternative, which can turn your life and future into what you want it to be, is to understand how to learn and come away from each situation with greater personal insight and perhaps even a plan to avoid that failure in the future. Introducing positive programming will counter the effects of negative programming and rewire your brain, producing new neural connections (neurogenesis), further increasing your success potential. There is no situation where somebody will always fail, unless they choose to program themselves and manage the situation to fail. Your ability to create and expand successful neural connections means that you always have the ability to succeed when you choose to begin the process.

The Broken Windows Theory may also be applied to address and resolve individual negative programming. We’re human and personal guilt is a powerful motivator! We’ll spend hours, even days, seeking to discover what we did wrong. We look to find and fix our broken windows, in this case our personal problems, those behaviors or aspirations that we identify as the source of a past failure. We’ll even go so far as to find a rock and make a broken window to fix, such as locking onto a thought as the reason why something didn’t happen. These generated reasons often begin with, “If I had…” or “If I hadn’t…”. The facts are that our personal windows aren’t broken; they simply need a good cleaning…

I have written about professional change, delivered training and assisted a few hundred people to transition their careers. Most of these people succeeded and achieved the results that they desired. The mistake was not understanding what they took away. I thought it was skill, knowledge and practical abilities, but I was corrected two days ago.

I recently received an e-mail from one of my readers. He responded to some of my prior thoughts as follows… “here is my point: The most qualified candidate does NOT get the offer. The offer goes to the candidate the interviewers LIKED the most. In lucky situations and probably rare scenarios, those 2 people are [...]

If you don’t have your JOLT you may not know why you’re having difficulty finding your next job. The JOLT directly impacts your life. Your solution is an adaptive response, as you will see.
JOLT is the acronym for the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that highlights job openings and labor turnover (JOLT). It is one [...]

Have you ever met a person and wondered how they managed to get their job?
I recently chatted about this very question with a friend. He was frustrated because he had been on more than six interviews and had not received an offer.  My friend started the conversation by remarking that he knew in two companies [...]

Placing the best, most affordable and hopefully most desired product on the market is every businessman’s goal. Sometimes we prevent ourselves from reaching the optimal levels of product development because we take the product and process far too seriously.   The route to this end may be something other than what is taught in MBA classes.

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