Everyday tips to improve your value July 13, 2011 09:34 10 months ago
Take Action
- Read daily – mix it up, from success stories, to blogs, to books and magazines of all kinds.
- Go outdoors – being in nature is one of the biggest inspirations. Like seeing a rainbow after a storm, or the firey colors of a sunset, or the funny way squirrles look for nuts.
- Get to know new people – they’ll always expose you to new ideas or interesting things, if you’re open to it.
- Find time to meditate – creating time to sit and be silent can be more inspiring that you might think.
- Work with inspiring people – find creative, positive, and energetic people to work with.
- Break your routine – take a new route home. Go to a new coffee shop or restaurant. See things from a different perspective.
- Exercise – or at least get out for a walk. It helps get ideas moving around and the blood to circulate.
Luck is No Accident
- How many of you believe this? Why do you believe it? Are you one of the lucky ones? Or does luck seem to pass you by? And just what is luck, anyhow?According to John D. Krumboltz and Al S. Levin, there’s no such thing as luck. In fact, they shirk the use of the word in their book Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career, opting instead to use “happenstance”, a term with less baggage. Krumboltz and Levin argue that happenstance isn’t something that randomly effects us — it’s something that we create out of the chance situations and encounters that run through our lives: Luck is No Accident
The key is to recognize these opportunities and to act on them. Here are some techniques the authors suggest we can use to turn happenstance to our advantage.
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