10 Positive Words to Motivate You (Part 2)

Here are 10 stimulating words to excite you.

 

1. Compliment: To compliment is to look for the good in others and express praise and appreciation. It shows that you pay attention to others and you are interested in them. It is a delightful way to lubricate relationships.   

 A compliment is verbal sunshine
. ~Robert Orben

2. Courtesy: Courtesy is more than just respecting others because it means you are also respecting yourself and want to be treated the same way. It is kindness and it warms the heart of the person that you have extended politeness. 

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3. Creativity: Creativity is doing things your way uniquely and originally. It is the way to be ahead of others and get noticed and be successful. 

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.  ~Albert Szent-Györgyi

4. Details: To pay attention to details is to work with responsibility. Taking a meticulous approach is the right way at work. It shows that you value the quality of your work. It also reflects your positive attitude.  

Details create the big picture. ~ Sanford I. Weill

5. Determination: Unless you want something passionately and fervently, there will be no determination or perseverance.  

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~ Colin Powell

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.  ~ Og Mandino

6. Discipline: To be able to control your wants is discipline. To do what you are supposed to do every day is also discipline. In the end, you discipline yourself and set yourself free to get what you want in life.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. ~ Alan Rickman

7. Dreams: A dream is an inspiration for your passion. It is the starting point of your goals. The most important thing is to believe that you can achieve what you have conceived.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~
Walt Disney

8. Effort: There is no shortcut to hard work. You can work smart but you have to work hard at it in order to be successful.

People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.  ~Author Unknown

9.      Empathy: Taking an active interest in another person is to find out more about his or her thoughts and feelings. The more you know, the more you will be able to do the right thing for the other person.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

10.  Encouragement: You may not get encouragement from others, but you can encourage yourself. Be happy with yourself for what you are. Thinking good about yourself and feeling good is the best way to support and encourage yourself.  

One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own. ~ John O'Donohue

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ~Winston Churchill

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7 Ingredients to Work Smart

To be successful, you need to work hard at working smart. Working smart is getting the right things done to produce the desired results. How do you develop smart working ways? Here are the 7 components of getting smart at work:   

1. Attitude:  Your attitude is the manifestation of your feelings and thoughts. When your thinking is positive you behave and work positively and avoid a couldn’t-care-less attitude. You work calmly with full concentration and energy.

You cannot hide your attitude because people will take note of the way you go about doing your work. Be smart and work with a positive attitude.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ~ Buddha

2. Enthusiasm: To realize your dreams and goals you work passionately. There is a fire in you when you find meaning in what you do.     

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.  ~Charles Schwab

3. Details: Paying attention to details is to work thoroughly. You don’t cut corners or take shortcuts. Quality is what you are looking for because your integrity and reputation are at stake. A completed assignment is made up of many small details.  

Details create the big picture. ~Sanford I. Weill

4. Planning: The most important thing to work smart is to get organized and plan ahead. Organizing is a smart way to manage time efficiently. A to-do list is a tool to get the right things done every day. The trick is to avoid being busy but not getting the right things done.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. ~Winston Churchill

5. Creative: To be creative is to work smart and be more productive. Doing more outstanding work in less time is the hallmark of creative people.  

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
~John Updike

6. Personal brand: To have a brand is to create trust. The question to ask yourself is:  what do you want others to say about you in your absence?  Take responsibility for what you do and develop reliability so that others can count on you.

Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability. ~Jason Hartman

7. Competent: Competency is about what you do best in your area of expertise. People look up to you for solutions to problems. They follow you because you have the answers.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. ~William Glasser

To work smart is to work with your mind effectively to produce excellent output.

15 Achievable Ways to be Successful

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

Success is achievable, the secret is to take action and do it now. You know what to do; this article is just a reminder.

1. Creative: Success is not about following and imitating others. It is about doing it your way. It is refreshing and exhilarating. It is the only way to get noticed.

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~George Kneller

2. Focused: To focus is to bring your attention and concentration to one single objective. When you focus, you are getting into the flow of things and you produce extraordinary work.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. ~Brian Tracy

3. Goals: You are eager to wake up early every morning to look forward to a new day because you have goals. Goals avoid drifting about aimlessness. Goals are the direction of your life.

Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt

4. Positive: Positive thinking is a powerful force. Fear and worry are replaced by confidence. A glass is half full instead of half empty. You see brightness instead of darkness. You are hopeful instead of despair.

The soul does not absorb negativity by accident, always by choice. ~Dodinsky

5. Time conscious: You are the master of time when you can take action and do it now. Time is the essence of your success. Delay will take you more time to reach your goals. Don’t wait for the right time, now is the time to do what is right.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? ~John Wooden


6. Organized: To be organized is to avoid confusion, doing the wrong thing at the right time and waste your effort and energy. To be organized is to be productive.


Organizing is what you do before you do something so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. ~A. A. Milne

7. Efficiency: Efficiency is doing things right. It saves effort and time

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. ~Alexis Carrel

8. Plan ahead: To plan ahead is to get organized and be efficient. Forward planning is about living an orderly life.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray


9. Balanced: There is a balance in nature, there are day and night. There should be a balance in your life between work and play. Going to the extreme in one area will create havoc in your life.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ~Euripides


10. Competent: Be good at what you do, it is your brand. People remember you for what you do.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ~Robert A. Heinlein

11. Motivated: You are motivated by the end results, you are optimistic that it is achievable. You carry on working on it enthusiastically.


Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~Jim Ryun

12. Persevered: Quitting is not your option. It does not matter how long it will take you. You will continue and go through thick and thin to get what you want.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

13. Passion: Passion is the fire in you to do what you intend to do wholeheartedly and single-mindedly.

Follow your passion, and success will follow you. ~Terri Guillemets

14. Confidence: Confidence is self-assurance. It is a positive mental attitude to get things done successfully.


What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. ~Henry David Thoreau

15. Facing challenges: The only way to face challenges is to take the bull by the horns and face them squarely. Your confidence is enhanced when you are able to deal with challenges successfully.

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. ~Nigel Mansell


Have you achieved the success you want in life?

10 Ways to Prepare for a Job Interview

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. ~Denzel Washington


Here are 10 steps to take and be ready for an interview:


1. Research the company: Go online and check the company‘s website. Find out how long the company has been established. What is the nature of their business? What are its products or services? Is the company a trusted brand? What is their business philosophy? Your keen interest to work in the company is shown by how much you know about the company.

2. Research the job: Get to know what the job entails and make sure that your skills and qualifications match the post that you are applying for.

3. Research the salary ranch of the post: Get online and check the current rate of the post that you are applying for. The knowledge is important for you to negotiate for a fair wage. Be willing to accept lower pay for a start.

4. Identify the location: Find out in advance the location of the interview and estimate the time to be taken to reach there on time. You don’t want to look for it on the day itself and be late for the interview. You will be creating a bad first impression.

5. Prepared the frequently asked questions: Get to know the usual questions and get ready the answers:

• Tell me about yourself.
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Why did you apply for this job?
• Are you qualified for this post?
• What can you do for the company?
• What is your career plan?
• Why should we hire you?

6. Dress: The night before getting ready what you want to wear for the occasion. It should be suitable for the post that you are applying for. Dress smartly to show that you care about yourself and it implies to others how you treat your work

7. Documents: Put all your documents in a plastic folder which opens on two sides so that you can easily retrieve an item. Get ready on the day before and arrange them in proper order.

8. Arrive early: To avoid rushing about, get there early so that you are composed upon arrival.

9. Be observant: Upon arrival, take a seat and look around the office. Pay attention to what you see, such as the mission statement, vision statement, organization chart, and posters. These things tell a lot about the company and the information is useful for you during the interview to answer relevant questions.

10. Be polite, cool, and calm: It goes without saying that you have to acknowledge all the people in the office and be polite. Behave confidently, sit still and walk with your head up.


The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli

15 Tips to Write Effective Articles

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~Benjamin Franklin


Articles are the life and soul of your blog. Without articles and without posting articles regularly and consistently, there will be no visitors.


1. Write title first: Your title is the question and your content supplies the answers. Your title is also the goal and the content is the way to reach your goals. Always write the title first so that you will write content to match it.

2. Ideas: The first thing to do is to generate ideas according to the article title. Ideas can come all of a sudden; the most important thing is to write them down quickly.

3. Actual writing: After gathering ideas, the next stage is to do the proper writing of the article. Arrange the ideas sequentially, neatly and avoid repetition of ideas.

4. Critical review: Getting ideas and writing an article is to be done at different time, so is the critical review of your article. You look at what you have written objectively to see whether the content is relevant to the article title. Is it written in a continuous flow cohesively?

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding Forrester

5. Editing: It is better to get someone else to do the editing and proofreading. You alone may not be able to spot all errors.

6. Opening: The introduction of the article should be powerful, short, and sharp to attract the attention of your readers and to capture their curiosity to read further. A meaningful quotation is an effective way to begin your article.

7. Body: On the Net readers don’t read word by word, they scan your articles so it is necessary to write scannable text by using bullet points and numbering, and highlight keywords

8. Closing: The end of a story is just as important as the beginning. It is to call for action and it should evoke soul-searching thoughts.

9. Grammar: When you master grammar, you master the language. Correct grammar has far-reaching consequences and legal implications. The story in a local newspaper illustrates the importance of grammar.

10. Spelling: You need more than a spelling checker to check your spelling; the software will not detect all your spelling errors. Spend time to check spelling carefully.

11. Punctuation: The proper use of punctuation is to assist your readers to understand a sentence. The wrong use of punctuation can cause readers to misunderstand your meaning.

12. Use the right words: Beware of near-identical words such as outdoor and outdoors, effect and affect, compliment and complement, foreword and forward, beside and besides, forceful and forcible. They look almost similar but each with a totally different meaning.

13. Keywords and your articles: In order for search engines to find one of your articles, you have to use keywords in your article title and in your content. Keywords are the words used by readers to look for things on the Net. If the search words match your article title, your page will be presented to the searcher. However, it is better to write naturally and meaningfully for your readers instead of writing for search engines.

14. Emotional Marketing Value of your headline: Your headline or title is the No.1 thing in an article because readers will base on your title to decide whether to read your content or not. Write a captivating and seductive title to attract the attention of your readers. The title of this article carries an EMV of 50% and it is appealing to others intellectually, spiritually, and empathetically.

15. Niche: Write within your niche so that you will develop over time as an expert and authority in what you write best,


The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. ~Robert Brault

10 Ways to Feel Good

Do you feel good about yourself, especially when you wake up in the morning? When you are upbeat about yourself, it signifies many positive things about your thinking, feelings, and the way you do things.


1. Confident: You are sure of yourself and believe confidently that you are able to get things done according to the way you do it. It is because you have planned ahead and organized your tasks according to their importance.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

2. Progress: You monitor your performance regularly. You notice there is an improvement in what you do and you see small successes along the way. What you have accomplished promotes great feelings in you.

3. Positive thoughts: Thinking good is feeling good. Positive thoughts always cheer you up, make you happy and get you peace of mind.

4. Determination: Your confidence grows when you make progress in what you do, you work harder because you are determined to do better than before and you think you will be successful.

5. Live the way you want: You are not worrying about other people’s thinking about you. You just feel good to follow your dreams and aspirations to do what you intend to do and live the life you want to be.

6. Goals: Goals are a wonderful source of motivation and hope. Every day when you get up in the morning, there is a good feeling in you because there is always something to look forward to in life.

7. Competent: Another good feeling about yourself is the ability to excel in what you do. You are able to provide solutions to problems in the area of your expertise and people follow you because you are able to lead them.

8. Energetic: Feeling energetic belongs exclusively to those people who exercise regularly. When you, as an example, jog outdoors, you sweat, perspire and accelerate your heartbeats, you improve your stamina. You feel calm and relaxed.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me. ~ Wilma Rudolph

9. Productive: Being productive is an indication of effective time management. You get things done according to priorities as listed in your to-do list. At the end of the day, you will be more than happy to know that it has been a great day.

10. Contentment: Satisfaction is an appreciation of your life and the things you enjoy. Fulfillment is the feeling that you are able to achieve what you want to do in life. When what you do is for the good of others, there is an even greater good feeling in you.


Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. ~ Dale Carnegie

10 Wonderful Ways to be Appreciative

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. ~Oprah Winfrey

Most of the time you think more of those things that you do not have and take for granted for those things that you have. You are not happy or satisfied because what you have is not treasured or appreciated. Be appreciative and be happy.

1. Be grateful: Show appreciation for what others have done for you. Extend courtesy to those who provide services to you by saying simple words like thank you and please.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~Henry Clay


2. Appreciate yourself: You have a job, a happy family, a roof over your head, and food is being served on the table for every meal. These are the most wonderful things in life to be thankful for. However, most of the time it is taken for granted and only regretted when you are unemployed, separated from your loved ones, or without a home or food. Vibrate gratitude before going to bed; think more of what you have instead of what you don’t have.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. ~Norman Vincent Peale


3. Express positively: Focus on the good of others and think of positive words to say and pay a compliment.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. ~ Margaret Cousins

4. Energy: Be appreciative of your alertness and enthusiasm. Being energetic is the way to enjoy and live life. You like what you do and there is never a dull moment.

5. Health: There is nothing more valuable than good health. Health equals freedom. You enjoy what you do freely every day. Health is taken for granted because you feel no pain or aches. When you truly appreciate it only when it is too late.

6. Relationships: To be appreciative is to take an active interest in the people around you. The right way to appreciate is to pay more attention to their strengths rather than their weaknesses. Just think of the fact that you are not perfect too.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. ~Confucius

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. ~William James


7. Work: I am very grateful for holding a job because I am already in my retirement age. I am grateful to God that my services are still valued and appreciated. Are you thankful that you are gainfully employed?


8. Success: Be appreciative of what you have done successfully in life. Be motivated by what you have achieved and continue to do even better.

9. Happiness: There have been so many books and articles written about getting happiness. It shows that many people in this world are unhappy. Cherish your happy mood and appreciate your good feeling inside out because happiness is a positive attitude.

10. Live in the moment: To live in the moment is to appreciate the present, the only time in your life to breathe, to feel, and do what you want to do.


The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things, and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton