Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment.
Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Goals enable you to control the direction of change in your life.
The more you complain, criticize, accuse and blame other people the more you trigger feelings of bitterness, anger and hatred.
Positive emotions empower whiles negative emotions disempower.
Negative emotions of hurt, blame and anger make you weak, bitter, hostile and irritable.
Positive emotions of happiness, excitement, love and enthusiasm make you feel more powerful and confident.
You are responsible for the consequences of your actions and your behaviors. You are where you are and what you are today because of the choices and decisions you made.
By underestimating yourself, you set either no goals or low goals that are far below what you are truly capable of accomplishing.
The very core of your personality is your values. Your values are what make you who you are. If you have good values, you will belief yourself to be good and expect good things to come your way.
Your goals must be congruent with your values, and your values must be congruent with your goals. The unexamined life is not worth living. By Socrates.
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from; all that really matters is where you are going. You become what you think about most of the time.
Truly great men and women always live their lives consistent with their highest values, even when no one is looking. Mediocre men and women, on their hand, are always cutting corners and compromising their integrity, especially when no one is watching.
Realize what you really want. It automatically stops you from chasing after just anything.
You must be able to recognize at a point in your life whether the direction you are going has limited future or unlimited future.
See yourself as a bundle of resources capable of doing many different things.
Never allow yourself to get locked into a particular course of action; especially if you are not happy with the way your career is going.
Goal setting enables you to use vastly more of your thinking powers than most people.
As you set your goals and begin moving toward them, it is essential that you establish a series of benchmarks or measures that you can use to evaluate your progress, day-by-day and hour-by-hour.
A goal or a decision without a deadline is merely a discussion
What gets measured gets done. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
Between you and anything you want to accomplish there is constraint, or limiting factor, that determines how fast you get to where you want to go.
80 percent of the constraints come from within and only 20 percent comes from outside.
Look deep within yourself and identify the key constraints in your personality, temperament, skills, abilities, habits, education, or experience that might be holding you back from achieving your goals.
The two major obstacles to success and achievement are fear and doubt.
The fear of failure, poverty, loss, embarrassment and rejection.
Doubt of our own abilities.
The primary antidotes to doubt and fear are courage and confidence.
In our economic system, your income will be determined by three factors: first, what you do; second, how well you do it; and third, the difficulty of replacing you.
To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.
In management there are key result areas that can determine your success or failure at your job. These are: planning, organizing, staffing, delegating, supervising, measuring and reporting.
The very best way to develop your skills is in the direction of your natural talents and interests.
Your ability to form the right relationships with the right people at every stage of your life and career will be the critical determinant of your success and achievement.
The more people you know and who know you in a positive way, the more successful you will be at anything you attempt.
A team player is one who always comes prepared to every meeting and constructively contributes to meeting proceedings.
It’s always easier to get into something than it is to get out.
Planning is a list of every activity that you will have to engage in from the beginning to the end, to accomplish a specific goal or objective.
Without a goal or plan guiding you, you only react to events as they occurred in your day-to-day activities.
A great life, like a great ship should never be held by a single hope or a single rope.
Spend more time doing more of those tasks that can have the greatest possible consequences on your life and work.
Your goals must be written and described in the positive, present and personal tenses.
Successful people are those who visualize the kind of success they want to enjoy in advance. Your self-image is made up of the mental pictures that you feed your mind prior to any event.
You must be ready and flexible for a change at any time in order to match up with the timings.
Be willing to deal with the world as it is, rather than the way you wish it were or the way that it might have been in the past.
As a good leader is always willing to be open minded, flexible, calm, confident and curious if you want to be able to recognize new opportunities and possibilities as they open up around you.
Always do more than you are paid for. Do more than others expect from you. Go the extra mile. Get busy, get going, take action, don’t waste time and never looked back.
Ignorance causes us to fear change, to fear the unknown, and to avoid trying anything new or different.
The very best qualities of strength, courage, character, and persistence are brought out in you when you face your greatest challenges and you respond to them positively and constructively.
Persistence is the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up. Success is failure turned inside out.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
PURPOSE OF LIFE
Your valuables in life do not determine your value. The most valuable things in life are not assets. You may have all of the world’s most luxurious assets and still miss God’s purpose for your life.
Nothing matters in life more than knowing God’s purpose for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them. As you strive on daily basis to working towards an acceptable and a respectable place in life, so you must also work more assiduously to know God’s purpose for your life.
God’s purpose for your life is not all about success, wealth, fame or pleasure. All these are good though but without God, being pre-eminent in your life, your success would be nothing but piles of sorrows, your wealth would be subjected to endless worries from all angles. In addition, your fame would be nothing but a mere shadow and finally your pleasure would deceptively turn into heaps of pains. God’s purpose for your life goes beyond all these gains. Know God’s purpose for your life and everything pertaining to good life and godliness would be given to you from above.
Without purpose, life is trivial, petty, pointless, and is like events without reason.
Without God, life has no purpose and without purpose life has no meaning, without meaning, life has no significance or hope. Your life as a child of God becomes well structured and organized when you get to know your purpose in life. You become very much settled, well focused and prudent in everything decision or step you take.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. People who do not know their purpose try to do too much and that causes stress, fatigue and conflict upon conflict. To such people 24hrs in a day is just not enough for them. How they wish God had made it more than 24hrs!!!.
Without a clear purpose you would keep changing jobs, relationships, churches, thinking or hoping beyond hope that each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.
Get to know God more than before and get to know your true purpose in life. Your purpose in life is different from your ambitions and goals. Ambitions and goals are self-set-target, which of course is liable to extinction.
When God was creating you He breathed His breathe into you. What He breathed into your being was not just a mere air, but a purpose filled with ideas, abilities, capabilities, wisdom, and fullness.
Your purpose therefore on earth here is to exhale all that God inhaled into you. The ideas to bring out innovative inventions, the ability to achieve great conquests and the wisdom to excel at anything and everything you do.
Your purpose, which has been imputed into you even before you became known to the world by God, would last even to eternity. God’s purpose for your life knows no boundaries and is not subjected to any human regulations or limitations.
Until a discoverer tells of how to put his discovery into use, you can never make any good use of his discovery. Until a manufacturer gives out a written manual as how to use his product, the product would simply be of no good use and would never be no matter how prolific it might have been. Until you develop an intimate relationship with God to know his purpose for your life, you would always find yourself wanting and never satisfied in life simply because your life does not depend on the abundance of things that you might possess. Remember in his word he said, “Without me you can do nothing”. Know that the best legacy you can live on earth is not prosperity but how purposeful you were. You would be remembered not for how prosperous you were but how purposeful you were. God richly bless you.
Nothing matters in life more than knowing God’s purpose for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them. As you strive on daily basis to working towards an acceptable and a respectable place in life, so you must also work more assiduously to know God’s purpose for your life.
God’s purpose for your life is not all about success, wealth, fame or pleasure. All these are good though but without God, being pre-eminent in your life, your success would be nothing but piles of sorrows, your wealth would be subjected to endless worries from all angles. In addition, your fame would be nothing but a mere shadow and finally your pleasure would deceptively turn into heaps of pains. God’s purpose for your life goes beyond all these gains. Know God’s purpose for your life and everything pertaining to good life and godliness would be given to you from above.
Without purpose, life is trivial, petty, pointless, and is like events without reason.
Without God, life has no purpose and without purpose life has no meaning, without meaning, life has no significance or hope. Your life as a child of God becomes well structured and organized when you get to know your purpose in life. You become very much settled, well focused and prudent in everything decision or step you take.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. People who do not know their purpose try to do too much and that causes stress, fatigue and conflict upon conflict. To such people 24hrs in a day is just not enough for them. How they wish God had made it more than 24hrs!!!.
Without a clear purpose you would keep changing jobs, relationships, churches, thinking or hoping beyond hope that each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.
Get to know God more than before and get to know your true purpose in life. Your purpose in life is different from your ambitions and goals. Ambitions and goals are self-set-target, which of course is liable to extinction.
When God was creating you He breathed His breathe into you. What He breathed into your being was not just a mere air, but a purpose filled with ideas, abilities, capabilities, wisdom, and fullness.
Your purpose therefore on earth here is to exhale all that God inhaled into you. The ideas to bring out innovative inventions, the ability to achieve great conquests and the wisdom to excel at anything and everything you do.
Your purpose, which has been imputed into you even before you became known to the world by God, would last even to eternity. God’s purpose for your life knows no boundaries and is not subjected to any human regulations or limitations.
Until a discoverer tells of how to put his discovery into use, you can never make any good use of his discovery. Until a manufacturer gives out a written manual as how to use his product, the product would simply be of no good use and would never be no matter how prolific it might have been. Until you develop an intimate relationship with God to know his purpose for your life, you would always find yourself wanting and never satisfied in life simply because your life does not depend on the abundance of things that you might possess. Remember in his word he said, “Without me you can do nothing”. Know that the best legacy you can live on earth is not prosperity but how purposeful you were. You would be remembered not for how prosperous you were but how purposeful you were. God richly bless you.
CREATING OF MORE AWARENESS ON INSURANCE
Despite the increasing proliferation of insurance industries in the country, it is very sad to know that majority of Ghanaians have still not ventured into it. Currently there are close to fifty insurance industries in the country.
The question one may perhaps want to ask is why this phenomena? Is it because the much needed awareness is lacked or there are not enough educative and informative programs to enlighten people on issues relating to insurance?
Most people are easily thrown into confusion and despair especially when battled with the unanticipated life occurrences like fire outbreaks, floods, robbery, fluctuations of prices and extreme decline in profit margin.
These unanticipated life tremors are capable of rendering one incapacitated and even totally crushing one’s world into pieces especially when there are no insurance covers or investment plans to salvage the loss and harm caused.
I believe that it is about high time insurance operators in the country embarked on regular and more effective awareness creation programs to make people know the need to venture into insurance.
More so I believe insurance industries must not only limit their operations to the capital and urban centers where they can secure lucrative deals. They must extend their wings to the rural and deprived areas and also design suitable products and services to suit the economic stand of people living in these areas.
The fight of poverty in the country cannot be successful when majority of the citizenry do not have worthful plans to cater for life unexpectances.
It should be noted that the best future one can ever have lies on a good preparation today.
The question one may perhaps want to ask is why this phenomena? Is it because the much needed awareness is lacked or there are not enough educative and informative programs to enlighten people on issues relating to insurance?
Most people are easily thrown into confusion and despair especially when battled with the unanticipated life occurrences like fire outbreaks, floods, robbery, fluctuations of prices and extreme decline in profit margin.
These unanticipated life tremors are capable of rendering one incapacitated and even totally crushing one’s world into pieces especially when there are no insurance covers or investment plans to salvage the loss and harm caused.
I believe that it is about high time insurance operators in the country embarked on regular and more effective awareness creation programs to make people know the need to venture into insurance.
More so I believe insurance industries must not only limit their operations to the capital and urban centers where they can secure lucrative deals. They must extend their wings to the rural and deprived areas and also design suitable products and services to suit the economic stand of people living in these areas.
The fight of poverty in the country cannot be successful when majority of the citizenry do not have worthful plans to cater for life unexpectances.
It should be noted that the best future one can ever have lies on a good preparation today.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
NOTHING IS UPSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE
nothing is upsolutely impossible in this life. you have so many ideas lying dormant and unused. it is up to you and i to take that bold step of exploring every single opportunity that comes our way.
THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE THEORY
The hypodermic needle theory is one of the notable theories that looked at the relationship between audience and media. This theory was developed in the early 1920s with the beginning of mass media, radio and cinema. One of the prominent theorists of the hypodermic needle theory was Harold Laswell(1927).
Some propounders of the theory viewed the audience as passive viewers who are directly affected by what they view. the media content considered as "A magic bullet" is shot directly at the masses, penetrating their minds. to this effect the media is able to shape public opinion and persuade the masses towards any point of view.
Harold Laswell's use of simile to compare the media to the hypodermic needle is very thought provoking. By this Laswell explains how the media injects ideological biases into their audience in order to contaminate or "brain wash them". Laswell's use of the hypodermic needle theory only talks about the impact of the media on the audience who are mostly considered as inactive and passive, without considering responses from the audience.
Some propounders of the theory viewed the audience as passive viewers who are directly affected by what they view. the media content considered as "A magic bullet" is shot directly at the masses, penetrating their minds. to this effect the media is able to shape public opinion and persuade the masses towards any point of view.
Harold Laswell's use of simile to compare the media to the hypodermic needle is very thought provoking. By this Laswell explains how the media injects ideological biases into their audience in order to contaminate or "brain wash them". Laswell's use of the hypodermic needle theory only talks about the impact of the media on the audience who are mostly considered as inactive and passive, without considering responses from the audience.
FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA
1. The media informs
the media as a social responsibility ensures the accessibility of information needed to the audience. In this era of developement at its highest rate information is very indespensable. an uninformed person is lost.
2.The media acts as agents of socialization
the media tries to make us all one group of people, irrespective of culture, race and religion. the media is considered as the fourth agent of socialization.
3. The media acts as an agents of cultural integration
the era where people were ostracised and tied to a particular ways of doing things due to diverse cultural limitations, is soon fading away. thanks to the media who has helped to a large extent to bridge this gap.
4. The media promotes human rights
the media helps to preserve the rights and liberties of the people. the media is always on the look out to bring to the limelight incidence of human right infringements. A good example is the soldiers who were humiliated at Bawku in the North of Ghana.
5. The media acts as an agent of change.
the media causes a change in the lives of their audience through ideologies that affect their way of thinking, behavior and reactions attitudes.
6. The media creates platform for expressions.
the media creates an avenue where the voice of the individual is heard, where individuals regardless sex, religion and physical stucture are allowed to express themselves satisfactorilly, without fear or favoritism
ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA
1.The media provides employment
the media is considered as one of the largest employment centre that provides job opportunities for zillions of people anywhere in the world. eg. the television firms, radio stations, film casting, institutions, news vendors and so on.
2. The media publicizes and advertises
most institutions and organizations heavily rely on the media to make known their products and services to their customers as well as their core values. the media is considered as very indespensible as far as business continuity is important.
POLITICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA
1.The media acts as a watchdog by ensuring that the other organs of government do not exploit or misuse their powers to the detriment of the people. the media thus exposes the ills of the organs of government and also ensures that these organs operate within the constitutional provisions of the country.
2. The media criticizes
the media ensures that the incumbent government lives up to its expectations by criticizing some of its policies and decisions.
3.The media acts a propaganda.
the media for instance creat platforms for political parties within a particular electoral area to affirm their ideologies in order to canvass for support.
4. The media acts as agenda setters.
the media, through their manufacturing processes pick issues of national interest, highlight these issues in the form of news paper reviews and so on.
5. The media acts as gatekeepers.
this means they ensure that not just anything gets to the masses as well as ensuring that masses on the other hand do not misuse their freedoms, by educating, correcting and informing them.
1. The media informs
the media as a social responsibility ensures the accessibility of information needed to the audience. In this era of developement at its highest rate information is very indespensable. an uninformed person is lost.
2.The media acts as agents of socialization
the media tries to make us all one group of people, irrespective of culture, race and religion. the media is considered as the fourth agent of socialization.
3. The media acts as an agents of cultural integration
the era where people were ostracised and tied to a particular ways of doing things due to diverse cultural limitations, is soon fading away. thanks to the media who has helped to a large extent to bridge this gap.
4. The media promotes human rights
the media helps to preserve the rights and liberties of the people. the media is always on the look out to bring to the limelight incidence of human right infringements. A good example is the soldiers who were humiliated at Bawku in the North of Ghana.
5. The media acts as an agent of change.
the media causes a change in the lives of their audience through ideologies that affect their way of thinking, behavior and reactions attitudes.
6. The media creates platform for expressions.
the media creates an avenue where the voice of the individual is heard, where individuals regardless sex, religion and physical stucture are allowed to express themselves satisfactorilly, without fear or favoritism
ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA
1.The media provides employment
the media is considered as one of the largest employment centre that provides job opportunities for zillions of people anywhere in the world. eg. the television firms, radio stations, film casting, institutions, news vendors and so on.
2. The media publicizes and advertises
most institutions and organizations heavily rely on the media to make known their products and services to their customers as well as their core values. the media is considered as very indespensible as far as business continuity is important.
POLITICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE MEDIA
1.The media acts as a watchdog by ensuring that the other organs of government do not exploit or misuse their powers to the detriment of the people. the media thus exposes the ills of the organs of government and also ensures that these organs operate within the constitutional provisions of the country.
2. The media criticizes
the media ensures that the incumbent government lives up to its expectations by criticizing some of its policies and decisions.
3.The media acts a propaganda.
the media for instance creat platforms for political parties within a particular electoral area to affirm their ideologies in order to canvass for support.
4. The media acts as agenda setters.
the media, through their manufacturing processes pick issues of national interest, highlight these issues in the form of news paper reviews and so on.
5. The media acts as gatekeepers.
this means they ensure that not just anything gets to the masses as well as ensuring that masses on the other hand do not misuse their freedoms, by educating, correcting and informing them.
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