The Little Girl Shall Lead Them

There was an atheist couple who had a child. The couple never told their daughter about the Lord. One night when the little girl was 5 years old, the parents fought with each other and the dad shot the Mom, right in front of the child. Then, the Dad shot himself. The little girl watched it all. She was then sent to a foster home.

The foster mother was a Christian and took the child to church. On the first day of Sunday School, the foster mother told the teacher that the girl had never heard of Jesus, and to have patience with her. The teacher held up a picture of Jesus and said, "Does anyone know who this is?"

The little girl answered, "I do, that's the man who was holding me the night my parents died."

- Author Unknown

A Winning Formula For A Great Life

In most of my seminars, I always say the following to the audience. "Your Winning Formula is Your Self-Transformation" No success is ever defined without self-transformation. You have to alter the way you do things. You cannot live by yesterday's standard. People often say that if you do the same thing the same way you do it before, you will get the same result. But if you want to get different result, you have to do it differently. The bottom line is you need to transform.

If you look up in the dictionary, the word 'transform' means to make someone or something completely different, usually in a way that makes them more attractive or easier to use. Therefore, transforming yourself is closely related to putting a lot more added values to yourself, and changing yourself for better reasons. There are notably few steps you have to go through to transform yourself. But first thing first, transformation starts from your mind. Your mind is the engine for your actions. Remember this! What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. You've got to make sure you have the right mindset.

Quite an analogy to self-transformation, you can observe the metamorphosis of a butterfly. However, before you can see a beautiful butterfly flying around, you will need to understand the process it has to go through from egg to larva, to pupa to a developed butterfly with vibrant colors soaring all over. Likewise, your self-transformation will sometimes come across pains you need to endure and challenges to deal with. Transformation is quite identical with change. Consequently, for a change to take place, it requires a considerable amount of energy and time in making its ways. Most of the time, you will even have to leave your comfort zone, which means to say that you have to leave unproductive conventional ways of thinking and doing things.

Transformation can only take place if you really want it. You have to consciously want it. Understanding your present state and what you expect to be are key issues you need to address at an earlier stage. You have to be crystal-clear of what you want and act accordingly. After which, there come another important element. It is commitment. You should not give up on your efforts. Upon realizing that transformation is never easy, you should bear in mind that changes will only prevail if you persist. More and more challenges are coming your ways. Do not worry much about them. They are in fact making you stronger and taking you higher to the destination of your journey. There's a saying "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."

If, by any chance, you arrive at this article this moment, I believe you miss to see great things happen in your life. Well, the good news is whoever you are, and whatever you do, you can make them happen. You can even witness your own self-transformation in a way you've never thought possible before. It starts with a decision. You've got to make your decision now. If you think you don't live up the life to your fullest potential, now make a decision to do so. If you have messed up many things before, now you can change for the future. If you still don't know how to do it yourself, get someone you can trust who demonstrates the characteristics of a person living a great life. Ask him/her to assist you throughout your transformation process. Keep this in mind. You will definitely succeed with your transformation because you really want it to happen. I wish you all the best with it.

- By Men Jung

Employee Motivation

How to Engage Employees & Lead from the Heart
- By Joe Hubbard


When working with successful companies, over the years I have noticed there is a common denominator: awareness. These companies encourage their employees to notice what isn't working. They empower them to take action and correct any deficiencies.

On the other hand, I've worked with many companies where employees make flying under the radar an art. Ultimately this leads to a dysfunctional environment where an organization slows or even stops achieving its stated mission or goal.

In an effort to solve the problem these companies spend thousands of dollars to engage a myriad of consultants who often have difficulty resolving the problem.

Why?

Because it's something no one wants to talk about.

Why employees are afraid to communicate organizational problems

For example, I recently worked with a large Neutraceutical Company whose products weren't being delivered on time. This greatly affected revenue and repeat business. The President was frustrated and couldn't seem to determine who or what was at fault.

Here's why...

1. Nobody was willing to speak up and courageously communicate the deficiencies they observed.
2. Employees, at all levels, closed their eyes, their ears and ultimately, their mouths.
3. They disengaged.

When I came in and began to have conversations with a number of people, I discovered there was a lot of fear that if they spoke up there would be negative repercussions. There was also a group of employees who simply became too comfortable with mediocrity and didn't want to do anything that might create more work or expose their deficiencies.

Once we were able to uncover these core issues and make them tangible for the company's president, he immediately empowered his employees and actively recruited and hired proactive and courageous managers. Within a matter of months the company began to re-align with its mission and achieve all of its stated objectives. This is not a unique example.

How silence is costing your business

A study was done at Harvard University investigating the "Cost of Silence." They looked at both Enron and 9/11 and realized that, collectively, people had the information necessary that could possibly have averted what happened. But they were unwilling to communicate it.

They discovered that many people have a fear of speaking up because they think there will be consequences. Interestingly, what the Harvard researchers also found is that the consequences of avoiding communication are much greater than those for speaking out. The cost to your bottom line is much greater.

This conflict avoidance principle that is prevalent in Government and Corporate America right now is drastically impacting our effectiveness and our relevance. It has disabled so many of our corporations that people walk away from taking the courageous stance.

Now that I have empowered you with this information, I have a question for you…

Are you willing to put your heart on the line and take strategic, intuitive and educated actions that are in alignment with your company and for the greatest good for all concerned?

I ask this because the heart is the barometer by which one determines what their next best move is. When I use the term "heart" in this way it is not meant as a romantic idea. It is courage personified.

80/20 Rule for Time and Life Management.

The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the "Pareto Principle" after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the "vital few", the top 20 percent in terms of money, influence opinion and success, and the "trivial many", were in the bottom 80 percent.

He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.

Each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the value of any of the others. Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together.
Interesting insight, isnt it? Apply it the best you can in your work day today.

- Author Unknown

Inspiring Story - His Mom Only Had One Eye.

His mom only had one eye.

I hated her... She was such an embarrassment.. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell... anything for the money we needed, she was such an embarrassment.

There was this one day during elementary school..it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed. how could she do this to me? threw her a hateful look and ran out.

The next day at school... "your mom only has one eye?!?!" ..and they taunted me.

I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, "mom.. why dont you have the other eye?! if you're only gonna make me a laughingstock, Why dont you just die?!!!" my mom did not respond.. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time..

May be it was because my mom hadnt punished me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.

that night...

I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, then turned away because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful, cause I hated; my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty..

Then I studied real hard.

I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had. then, I got married.

Ibought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too.. now I'm living happily as a successful man.

I like it here because it's a place that doesnt remind me of my mom. This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, When..

What?!

Who's this?!

...It was my mother.....Still with her one eye.

I felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom's eye.
and I asked her, "Who are you?!" "I dont know you!!!" as if trying to make that real. I screamed at her," How dare you come to my house and scare my daughter!"

"GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!"

and to this, my mother quietly answered, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address," and she disappeared out of sight. Thank good ness... She doesnt recognize me..I was quite relieved.

I told myself that I wasnt going to care, or think about this for the rest of my life. Then a wave of relief came upon me...

One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. So, lying to my wife that I was going on a business trip, I went. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, that I used to call a house...just out of curiosity.

There, I found my mother fallen on the cold ground. but I did not shed a single tear. She had a piece of paper in her hand.... it was a letter to me.

My son...

I think my life has been long enough now.. and... i wont visit Seoul anymore...but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come visit me once in a while? I miss you so much.. and I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school. ...for you... and I'm sorry that Ionly have one eye, and I was an embarressment for you.

You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye... So I gave you mine... I was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did.. The couple of times that you were angry with me,..I thought to myself, 'It's because he loves me..'

My son... Oh, my son...

I dont want you to cry for me, because of my death. please dont cry...my son, I love you so much

Remember:

People will forget what you said ...
People will forget what you did ...
But people will never forget how you made them feel ..

- Author Unknown

What Is Life ......

Life is full of thrills,
And life can be rough,
Yet life is full of chills,
And life can be tough,

Making decisions,
Fulfilling your dreams,
Choosing your future,
Isn't easy as it seems,

Dealing with pressure,
Dealing with school,
As people criticize you,
They make you look like a fool,

Drama and gossip,
Floating around,
People are talking,
No truth to be found,

Hang out with friends,
So the fun never ends,
Don't drink and drive,

..Maybe then you'll save a life,
Becareful who you trust...
Take a risk if you must,
Share all your laughter

Smile everyday
Forget all your problems
It's better that way,
Just know who you are,

Believe that you can make it
Live your life to the fullest.
And try not to break it.

- Author Unknown -

Use Your Probelms as Learning and Growth Experiences

One trait that almost all successful people have in common is the ability to turn negatives into positives. Disappointments and setbacks will come for everyone, even the super achievers. The difference with successful people is that they are able to benefit from everything that happens, positive or negative.

In fact, problems are a great source of opportunity. The way to change problems into opportunity is to adjust your attitude and your approach. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself and letting your problems get the best of you, take a proactive approach. Here are five steps that can turn problems into opportunities:

1. Emotionally detach yourself from the problem.
2. Don't get caught up in assigning blame.
3. Instead, determine why it happened and what can you do to keep it from happening again.
4. Ask yourself who else might have this problem.
5. If you knew this was going to happen again next month or next year, what would you do differently right now?

Moral :

Don't let your problems get the best of you. Instead, turn them into learning and growth experiences.

- Unknown