...Introduction What makes you feel alive? Jessie J. said, “Nothing makes me feel more alive than music!” As much as I would love to repeat those lines because I also love music but music doesn’t seem to be my craft. So, I’ll stick to what really, really, really makes me feel alive, writing! For the past few months, I felt drained, worn out, and really out of battery. I know I had to search within. I had to ask myself, “Are the things I am doing now really worth my time and effort?” That’s when I realized, I’m disconnected to my purpose. For the past few months, I have not been doing what I’m supposed to do. I have been busy doing something that I forgot what my real purpose is. So I decided to recharge and plug myself to the source of all blessings...
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...Muyiwa Afolabi Do you have your life? Please think about this question, do you really have your life? I've heard statements like ‘get a life’ on many occasions said to people who appear to be different and unconventional especially in matters of socializing. Many also think the whole concept of life and living is about fun, leisure and enjoyment. When an individual is having a great time, you hear remarks like he's enjoying life, when an individual is conservative and somewhat antisocial we conclude he doesn't have a life. Hmmm. What is life? I believe life is a season or a duration when an individual is conscious, aware and involved in matters of this world. It is a period when an individual is expected to fulfil a purpose, serve a purpose, make something great happen, impact the world and influence things positively. I believe we all exist and are in this world to improve things and make better the condition of this earth. We are all here to make the world a better place; to create value, not destroy value, to make people happier, mankind better and humanity more purposeful. We are here to improve the world. This, though being a collective purpose and objective for all mankind, as individuals our place, roles and assignments vary. That's why we are created and gifted differently. Our gifts and talents are indicators of our place, our projects and assignments in this world. The ability to recognise your place, your gift, your sphere and your assignment makes you truly relevant...
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...Everyone makes mistakes, whether big or small. That’s why no one’s perfect. We all learn from something – by observing, listening, asking. Sometimes, we learn from others’s mistakes. But other times, we find ourselves confronted with the consequences brought about by our own mistakes. Whether done intentionally or unintentionally, mistakes are mistakes. And as we are human beings, we have no power to press rewind and do things over. It’s done, it’s there, we have to deal with it – that’s life. I would like to thank you because : For the new experiences and adventures we gained from traveling For the stories we shared simply because we needed someone to talk to, For the mistakes we made that got us into trouble but made us closer, For the disagreements that helped us accept each other for who we really are, For the laughter and smiles we shared, For the times we helped each other out, For the nights we watched movies or series together, For the pictures we took together… The past will always be a part of our lives we can’t control. It’s done. Whatever happened, happened. Whoever came and stayed, stayed; and the others, well maybe they just weren’t meant to make it to the present. But who knows about the future, right? I’ve realized not too long ago that I’ve been trapping myself in the past, comparing whatever happens to what already happened. And by doing so, I’ve unconsciously been restricting myself of enjoying what I have now. The habit to compare the past...
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...ALOHA MR. NICE GUY Some Times You Need A Change Choose Who You Want To Be To Stop Hiding Under A Hood Hussnain Nawaz "Life is a movie till the very end". Dedication And Appreciation This book is dedicated to Thomas Malkin. You are my chubby bunny, my hero, and my best friend. If not for you, I would still be a hopeless, clueless Nobody. You are truly a gift from God. Thank you. For Arslaan, Ibrahim, Kai, and Ashley. You are the greatest friends a person could want. You are each so different and unique that you make friendships a never-ending joy. Thank you for all the times you asked, "What ever you are doing now, will change you're life forever" Don't ever stop being just who you are. Who can forget my beloved parents? You have been there for me not only when I needed you, but when I wanted you exactly at the right moment of time. Dad even though we don't really see eye to eye, I still want you to know that you will always have that special place right in the centre of my heart. I love you guys. Contents Introduction Chapter One – Nice Guys Chapter Two – The Truth About A Nice Guy Chapter Three – Family Chapter Four – Learning To Please The Person Who Really Matters Chapter Five – Is Love Real? - Thomas Malkin Chapter Six – Make Your Needs A Priority Chapter Seven – Me, Myself & I – Thomas Malkin Chapter Eight – Life Without Love Chapter Nine – The Prodigal Son – Arslaan Amjad Chapter Ten - Is It Worth Being Nice? Final Chapter – Will You Change? Introduction Two years of dramatic...
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...Guide By Patric Chan “Enrich Your Mind, Unleash Your Potential. Success Begins Within You.” http://www.esuccessmastery.com * Anthony Robbins * Dale Carnegie * Dr. Stephen Covey * Brian Tracy * Jim Rohn * * Napoleon Hill * Mark Victor Hansen * Robert Kiyosaki * Brought to you by : Noel Hynes http://ebookdirectory.com Congratulations on taking the first step toward achieving success!! Why I wrote and compiled this ebook ... Because I know how you feel. The burning desire for success and the determination you have to achieve it. The rich knowledge and resources provided in this ebook had been read personally by me, and I had benefited from it. I guess, all the featured successful men in the ebook don’t have to be introduced anymore as I’ll assume that you would have heard of them. If you do not know about them yet, just type their name in the search engine and you will find them. I will only recommend authors and coaches whom I know from my personal experience who are successful and inspirational. If you sell the product in which you believe in or you have benefited from personally, you will be a very successful person. I’ll always prefer to promote the products/services that I had used, reviewed, joined or read before. We live in abundance of wealth today. There is no limit to our earnings; we have the capacity to earn extraordinary income if we are determined to achieve it. What is most important is how we deliver our own self to others. If we give our best capability...
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...weekly questions we asked, "What makes a great boy/girlfriend?" We then compiled all the responses and created a list of our favorites! Someone who knows what you need before you say it. Someone who knows when to laugh and when to cry. Someone who truly listens when you have something to say. Someone that's there for you during the good and bad times. Someone who is caring . Someone who loves you with all their heart and soul. Someone who is interested in reality and not as a fashion display. Someone who is honest. Someone you can trust them like a sibling, confide in like a friend but most of all, love as the great lover they are. Someone who is open and responsive. Someone who is never critical and ill-tempered in respect to your needs. Someone who knows when things have to be compromised in the relationship. Someone who understands listening is a key, but using what is heard is even more important. Someone who's there for you no matter what. Someone who is trustful. Someone who is a friend. Someone who gives a shoulder to cry on. Someone with a great sense of humor. Someone who has things in common with you. Someone who takes time to listen and enjoy you for who you are and tries not to make you something else. Someone with a constant open ear, open heart, and open mind to accept and love people for who the really are. Someone who will always be there to support your ideas without argument and love you for everything that you are. Someone that can get...
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...Your environment can help shape who you become as a person what you believe is right and wrong and what is “normal”. It is hard for me to understand what “normal” really is because who is and who is it based off of? In our society it is told that a woman should behave as a woman should and a man as a man. Men are said to be tough, masculine, and the providers of the home and family. Their job is to work and make sure everyone is taken care of finically. A woman’s role is to be the care taker. To raise the children, clean the house tend to their husbands and family, cook and do what is asked of them. Women were seen as weak and inadequate to men. Men are seen as fearless and ready to conquer the world. Along with these views of society of a man and woman’s...
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...It’s like he picked me out from the crowd. Made me some type of target. For what? Does he not realize what he does? Does he not realize the effects his gazes or stares do to me? How paralyzing his words can be. I hate people who pity others. I hate pretentious people who look at others and think that they are better! Who are you to judge me, my life, and my behavior? I don’t go out to every party, so what? Does that make me sad and pathetic? Did you ever wonder that maybe I’m just not a party person? A party pooper is what you could call me. Just because I’m not out every night with friends, drinking and partying, does that make me a loner? It’s not everyone who is built like that. Some people are loud, talkative, very outgoing and yet some are quiet, composed, soft-spoken, something I could simply put as too chilled. They are not all over the place, they take their time as if they have all the time in the world. So what are they? Are they a mistake in creation? Were they never supposed to have been there in the first place? Is it better if they weren’t? Is that it? It doesn’t mean they don’t want to have fun, it doesn’t mean they don’t want to go out, because they do! Is it wrong sometimes that they like their own company, is it wrong that sometimes they prefer to curl up with a book by their side and watch TV at the same time? And maybe, have a cat as company? I know what you must think. Aren’t those the people that end up being 50, grey and old, never been married and living...
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... ARE YOU A GOOD COMMUNICATOR How do you know if you have effective communication? To have effective communication you have to have an understanding of ones ideas. Another good way to know if you have effective communication is observations among people. Communication is a two way exchange that must involve both a presenter and a audience. It is important to have good quality interpersonal relations particularly in the health care industry because when you are in health care, you are talking to multiple people. When you are in health care, you are always interacting with other departments, nurses, office personal and patients. So it is important to make sure that your communication skills are very effective when you are talking to your fellow co-workers and patients. When you think about supportive relationships in the health care industry, one can say that it's something that we all can agree on or disagree on. This can be true from time to time. When you are describing supportive and defensive relationships it can be where you either support ones decision or you are defensive by what one person either says or does that is not correct . A good example of defensive relationship would be where you are talking with medical personal and you tell them about a bill that was paid and they have zero records of the bill ever being paid. Now when this happens, you will get defensive because...
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...Questions 1. What qualities does a good manager have? 2. Do you think that communication skills and technical skills matter in the manager job? Why or why not? 3. How often do you conduct staff meetings? 4. How do you know that staff knows their daily jobs to do? 5. Who checks the staff’s performance? 6. Who sets the targets? 7. Who makes sure the targets are achieved? 8. Who is answerable if the targets are not achieved? 9. Who plans the overall targets? 10. Who plans the daily activities? 11. How many people are involved in planning? 12. On what basis is the management measured? 13. How do you know your practices you are using are efficient? 14. Who hires people? 15. How do you know the right people are hired? 16. What strategies do you have against your competitors? 17. What competitive advantage do you have over your competitors? 18. Is your company socially responsible? How? 19. How do you think is the atmosphere of work? 20. Is there a best way to organize any firm? 21. Is your organization flexible enough to change according to situation? 22. What distinguishes a successful organization? 23. Is your organization customer-responsive? 24. How can you make your organization attractive to customer? 25. What are the main functions managers should perform? 26. How can you generate new ideas? 27. How do you deal with complex situation? 28. How can you change the way people think? 29. What consulting style...
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...Without communication nothing within a health and social setting would be done to the highest standards, not only that but service users’ needs would not be met and this would have a negative effect on them as individuals. Effective communication allows you to communicate with your service users in a number of ways, you should always use formal language when speaking to them as it is polite and it is easier to start conversations with the service users, there is also non-verbal communication, this does not involve speaking to one another, but the facial expressions and your tone of voice will affect the way a service user reacts towards you as a person. Team communication- This is a key part to any health and social setting, all team members must be able to communicate with each other as they will be working with each other on a daily basis, if team members do not get on then this will cause conflict between people at work and this may then be taken out on the service users which will have a negative effect on them as they don’t understand why their careers are more interested in disliking their colleagues rather than helping them prepare for their day. Team members have rules and procedures that they must follow in order to make sure that they are dealing with their service users in the correct way, team workers should have a briefing every morning before they work to ensure that they all understand their tasks for the day and a briefing when they have finished work, this will...
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...people who have this unexplained magnetic attraction oozing out of them. They are very likeable, yet you can't explain what it is explain them that you like.You say, they have a very 'charismatic' or magnetic personality. They are the 'likeable' people who seem to get on well with anybody and everybody. Everyone of us wants to be more attractive and charm people, to have a long-lasting effect on people and be remembered as an exceptional human being. Well, this trait, the charm of one's personality is called charisma. Some are born with it, while others like me and you, develop it through our own hard work and wit. It doesn't take much, just a few behavioural modifications and you are good to go! There are some ways to develop charisma and make your personality more attractive. If you want to learn...
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...leading and motivating the people you manage. • Find out what motivates the people who report to you • Hire and keep people who are good at the work • Get people working on what’s important • Explain and train • Let people work • Be generous with praise and recognition • Expect excellence • Care about people and show it • Treat employees with respect • Lead by example Your ability to lead and motivate people is critical to your success as a manager. Your organization and your team count on you to provide leadership -- to navigate your group through change, make tough decisions, and focus efforts productively on the most important tasks. Leadership isn’t about being domineering or tough on people. It’s about having high expectations and helping people meet them. It’s about making tough decisions and having the courage to take risks. It’s about seeking opportunities for change, building enthusiasm for change efforts, and being an agent of change. Motivation is an equally important responsibility of management. It translates directly into productivity and team effectiveness. People working together with energy and enthusiasm are far more effective and productive than a group lacking that spark because of job dissatisfaction or boredom. As a manager, you play a big role in building team motivation. Following are ten keys to leading and motivating the people you manage. 1. Find out what motivates the people who report to you. The best way to find out what motivates people is to ask them...
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...A champion is someone who comes out victorious when competing against other people or going after something they really want. There are many different characteristics of champions that make them winners, and the good news is these characteristics are not magical or unachievable by ordinary people. They are human characteristics that everyone has access to. If you don't have them yet, you just need to understand why they are so important and then put in the practice needed to develop them. And, they do take practice. You can't just turn on a certain trait because you want it to. You have to change your beliefs around that trait and then use techniques and tools to help you develop it. Then, you need to work on maintaining it so that it becomes...
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...Leadership What is leadership? A simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. This definition of leadership, I think, captures the leadership essentials of inspiration and preparation. Effective leadership is based upon ideas, but won't happen unless those ideas can be communicated to others in a way that engages them. Put even more simply, the leader is the inspiration and director of the action. He is the person in the group that possesses the combination of personality and leadership skills that makes others want to follow his direction. In business, leadership is welded to performance. Those who are viewed as effective leaders are those who increase their company's bottom lines "Leadership is influencing people to get things done to a standard and quality above their norm and doing it willingly." As an element in social interaction, leadership is a complex activity involving: 1. a process of influence 2. actors who are both leaders and followers 3. a range of possible outcomes – the achievement of goals, but also the commitment of individuals to such goals, the enhancement of group cohesion and the reinforcement of change of organizational culture | Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience . This...
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