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September 15, 2014
Inspiration for Self-Discovery
Have you ever asked yourself what would you like to be or to do in your life? What activity pleases you the most? What are the goals you want to achieve? And, why are you here in this world right now? These questions guide you to discover yourself which should be done as soon as possible. Because, time and tie waits for no one. There must be some clues leading you to answer all of these questions, right?
Self-discovery is the first important step for valuable way of life. You can’t set up your goals without knowing yourself first. But you know what? It is true that there are many people who don’t even know anything about themselves or don’t even care about what will happen to their lives. These kinds of people are the waste of our social system. Why do I say that? This is because I don’t see how they could do anything in return to their society when they don’t even know what to do for themselves. Don’t you think this is ashamed?
Despite the fact that no one can force you to do this or do that yet, you need to force yourself to improve your life. Your life is meaningful. You are not here just for a simple living. You life needs to be proved valuable. Don’t follow the flow of the present lifestyle which taking you further from how you are. You have no time to waste any more. It is now time to find out how you are, what you like and what you enjoy doing most. Discover yourself right now though you think you have no idea where to start. No matter about that at all because, there are some simple steps for you to follow step by step. Actually, they are really simple!
At first, you just have to answer all the questions asked from the first paragraph clearly. At the same time, don’t forget to make sure that your answers are certain. What would you like to be or to do in your life? What activity pleases you the most? What are the goals you want to achieve? And, why are you here in this world right now? After answering all these questions, you will get closer to your self-discovery. The next step you have to do is to set up your life goals according to the information gained from the first step. Subsequently, you can list down any ideas that come up vividly in your mind before arranging them in chronological order. Moreover, each goal you listed down should consist of specific details such as, amount of money you expect to get and when to achieve it. The last step is to create your action plans for each of your goal.
These are just the three simple steps you can use as tools to simply discover yourself. Nevertheless, there will be many other helpful approaches guiding you to discover yourself. Believe in the value of your life. Start seriously today because time and tie waits for no one.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Self-discovery is the first important step for valuable way of life. You can’t set up your goals without knowing yourself first. But you know what? It is true that there are many people who don’t even know anything about themselves or don’t even care about what will happen to their lives. These kinds of people are the waste of our social system. Why do I say that? This is because I don’t see how they could do anything in return to their society when they don’t even know what to do for themselves. Don’t you think this is ashamed?
Despite the fact that no one can force you to do this or do that yet, you need to force yourself to improve your life. Your life is meaningful. You are not here just for a simple living. You life needs to be proved valuable. Don’t follow the flow of the present lifestyle which taking you further from how you are. You have no time to waste any more. It is now time to find out how you are, what you like and what you enjoy doing most. Discover yourself right now though you think you have no idea where to start. No matter about that at all because, there are some simple steps for you to follow step by step. Actually, they are really simple!
At first, you just have to answer all the questions asked from the first paragraph clearly. At the same time, don’t forget to make sure that your answers are certain. What would you like to be or to do in your life? What activity pleases you the most? What are the goals you want to achieve? And, why are you here in this world right now? After answering all these questions, you will get closer to your self-discovery. The next step you have to do is to set up your life goals according to the information gained from the first step. Subsequently, you can list down any ideas that come up vividly in your mind before arranging them in chronological order. Moreover, each goal you listed down should consist of specific details such as, amount of money you expect to get and when to achieve it. The last step is to create your action plans for each of your goal.
These are just the three simple steps you can use as tools to simply discover yourself. Nevertheless, there will be many other helpful approaches guiding you to discover yourself. Believe in the value of your life. Start seriously today because time and tie waits for no one.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
September 14, 2014
Work Effectively for both Qualitative and Quantitative Results
“To work effectively for the most qualitative and quantitative result is to work a little bit every day without working too hard and forcing your body to work. All kinds of good work are done by working a little bit every day, but just have to do it.”
Work is the only tool used for evaluating man’s value. One who doesn’t work is not worth to live; because, his living is just for consuming the resources without giving anything in return to the public. Every organization needs people to work for maintaining and improving their businesses. As a result, everyone has to work. Nevertheless, working is not the only factor used to prove human’s value but, its result. A piece of good work which is good in both its quality and its quantity will be made by ones who know “Working Techniques”.
Get More Qualitative and Quantitative Works with Good Planning
Before doing something, remember to make a good plan for it every time. It is necessary to make a good planning if you want to obtain a good piece of work. Because, your plan will tell you what you want, the specific time you need to finish it including all details about how to work it out. It helps saving your time, your brain power and your energy.
Work a Little Bit Every Day Evenly
After planning, you can also split your work into small pieces and set up appropriate time to get each of them done. You may plan to work with only one small piece of work you split. If you do it like this every day, you will see that each small piece of work is harmoniously combined into a big one. Every piece of work will be done effectively because you will work without stress. Work less and get better quality.
Searching for Your Idol
Improving yourself by learning from your idol is also terrific. Try to think of someone you admire and examine his or her working behaviors that you like before developing those positive behaviors in yourself. This technique helps quite a lot because it is not only easy to imitate but also offers you strong inspiration.
Keep Practicing Your Working Skills
Nothing can be better without being developed. You should examine yourself to see what your strengths and your weaknesses are. When you know your strengths, you should maintain and develop them when you have time. In the mean time, improving your weaknesses is in urgent. Practicing your working skills is a great way to do that. When working, remind yourself to work faster and faster every time. Still, the result of your work must be in good quality even you do it very fast.
Bed Time or Working Time?
One of effective working techniques is working when other people are sleeping. Working late at night and early morning are the best periods of time for this technique. You may increase both the quality and the quantity of work just to work a few more hours during those times.
Eager to Work
This is the most important thing for working. If you like working, you will do it your best and do it with happiness. Think about your goals often and you will have power to work happily.
Applying the suggested techniques above with your working style will enhance your capacity that will increase the amount of your work as well as improving its quality. Beyond, apart from the effective result, you will also save lots of your time and your energy.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Work is the only tool used for evaluating man’s value. One who doesn’t work is not worth to live; because, his living is just for consuming the resources without giving anything in return to the public. Every organization needs people to work for maintaining and improving their businesses. As a result, everyone has to work. Nevertheless, working is not the only factor used to prove human’s value but, its result. A piece of good work which is good in both its quality and its quantity will be made by ones who know “Working Techniques”.
Get More Qualitative and Quantitative Works with Good Planning
Before doing something, remember to make a good plan for it every time. It is necessary to make a good planning if you want to obtain a good piece of work. Because, your plan will tell you what you want, the specific time you need to finish it including all details about how to work it out. It helps saving your time, your brain power and your energy.
Work a Little Bit Every Day Evenly
After planning, you can also split your work into small pieces and set up appropriate time to get each of them done. You may plan to work with only one small piece of work you split. If you do it like this every day, you will see that each small piece of work is harmoniously combined into a big one. Every piece of work will be done effectively because you will work without stress. Work less and get better quality.
Searching for Your Idol
Improving yourself by learning from your idol is also terrific. Try to think of someone you admire and examine his or her working behaviors that you like before developing those positive behaviors in yourself. This technique helps quite a lot because it is not only easy to imitate but also offers you strong inspiration.
Keep Practicing Your Working Skills
Nothing can be better without being developed. You should examine yourself to see what your strengths and your weaknesses are. When you know your strengths, you should maintain and develop them when you have time. In the mean time, improving your weaknesses is in urgent. Practicing your working skills is a great way to do that. When working, remind yourself to work faster and faster every time. Still, the result of your work must be in good quality even you do it very fast.
Bed Time or Working Time?
One of effective working techniques is working when other people are sleeping. Working late at night and early morning are the best periods of time for this technique. You may increase both the quality and the quantity of work just to work a few more hours during those times.
Eager to Work
This is the most important thing for working. If you like working, you will do it your best and do it with happiness. Think about your goals often and you will have power to work happily.
Applying the suggested techniques above with your working style will enhance your capacity that will increase the amount of your work as well as improving its quality. Beyond, apart from the effective result, you will also save lots of your time and your energy.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
September 13, 2014
Five Techniques to Overcome Laziness
All people used to be lazy and most of them are still lazy. This is a very normal behavior because it is a part of human’s nature. Nevertheless, you should not let it controls you for too long time. To drive away laziness is not so difficult but to get started is more to be concerned. You must have some techniques to WIN your laziness. Also, the five following techniques will enable you to drive away your laziness for sure.
Laziness is involving with mind conditions which are grouped into two types; want to work and don’t want to work. If you want to work, there will be no problem with that at all. On the contrary, whenever you don’t want to work, you must find out immediately what the causes of that feeling are.
Are You Lazy? Why?
To be lazy is a problem that you must try to solve as soon as you know it. Try to find out the causes of your laziness and how could you solve that issue. Can you answer these questions honestly?
Do you feel you don’t want to do anything about your work?
Do you tell yourself that you want to wait a little bit before working?
Do you think you still have a lot of time to get your work done?
If all the answers are “Yes”, it means that you are giving yourself excuses for not to start working. This is supposed to be called “lazy”. In addition, if you feel that you are not tired, your body is refreshing and your brain still can work properly, it is certain that you are truly lazy.
Is it Advantaged or Harmful to be Lazy?
What do you think of the advantages of being lazy? Yes! I am not typing it wrong. Seriously, the advantages of being lazy are such as, SAVING your time, saving your brain power, making you feel independent and relax and feeling enjoy. What do think? Is it interesting? Anyway, on the contrary, I haven’t talked about its harms yet. If you don’t try to push it away, it will severely destroy your work as well as destroying yourself.
You can’t make good quality of works because you will just do it roughly as you don’t have enough time and concentration to do your job. When you produce a bad quality of work, you will be judged as an irresponsible person. Finally, there would be no one trust you to do any job any more. Laziness makes you happy at first but hurt at the end!
Be Enthusiastic
The time in life is short so that you have to hurry up. Practicing to work faster to produce more works with shorter time. You can be enthusiastic by making a “to do list” every day and try to follow it. While you are working with something, think about the next thing you have to do. Do this every time so it will encourage you to work faster for moving to another job. At the same time, walking 25% faster is a great way to improve your enthusiasm.
Laziness is invisible and intangible. Therefore, you should never let it control you. Use your cleverness, drive away your laziness, and you will find success
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Laziness is involving with mind conditions which are grouped into two types; want to work and don’t want to work. If you want to work, there will be no problem with that at all. On the contrary, whenever you don’t want to work, you must find out immediately what the causes of that feeling are.
Are You Lazy? Why?
To be lazy is a problem that you must try to solve as soon as you know it. Try to find out the causes of your laziness and how could you solve that issue. Can you answer these questions honestly?
Do you feel you don’t want to do anything about your work?
Do you tell yourself that you want to wait a little bit before working?
Do you think you still have a lot of time to get your work done?
If all the answers are “Yes”, it means that you are giving yourself excuses for not to start working. This is supposed to be called “lazy”. In addition, if you feel that you are not tired, your body is refreshing and your brain still can work properly, it is certain that you are truly lazy.
Is it Advantaged or Harmful to be Lazy?
What do you think of the advantages of being lazy? Yes! I am not typing it wrong. Seriously, the advantages of being lazy are such as, SAVING your time, saving your brain power, making you feel independent and relax and feeling enjoy. What do think? Is it interesting? Anyway, on the contrary, I haven’t talked about its harms yet. If you don’t try to push it away, it will severely destroy your work as well as destroying yourself.
You can’t make good quality of works because you will just do it roughly as you don’t have enough time and concentration to do your job. When you produce a bad quality of work, you will be judged as an irresponsible person. Finally, there would be no one trust you to do any job any more. Laziness makes you happy at first but hurt at the end!
Be Enthusiastic
The time in life is short so that you have to hurry up. Practicing to work faster to produce more works with shorter time. You can be enthusiastic by making a “to do list” every day and try to follow it. While you are working with something, think about the next thing you have to do. Do this every time so it will encourage you to work faster for moving to another job. At the same time, walking 25% faster is a great way to improve your enthusiasm.
Laziness is invisible and intangible. Therefore, you should never let it control you. Use your cleverness, drive away your laziness, and you will find success
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
September 12, 2014
How to Manage Your Negative Thoughts ?
An ordinary man can naturally have negative thoughts in some situations of life, but you shouldn’t let them grow bigger and longer because they will make you feel anxious or depressed. Moreover, you may have problems to deal with others and live unhappily. Try these ways to manage your negative thoughts when they occur.
Think about good stories or good persons in your life
Good stories which happened in your life and good people who are beside you will help you forget bad things and can see beautiful side of life. They will show you the truth of life that has both good and bad things. All good and bad things come and go. Nothing stays forever. Bad things that happen to you today will leave in one day and good things will come again.
Do your beloved hobbies
Cooking , gardening , painting or anything else that you love to do are good friends when you are down because they will make you enjoy, concentrate, and forget all negative thoughts automatically. You will be proud after finishing them.
Talk to your good friends or your family
Having someone who is welcome to listen to your problems is splendid. If you have one, you shouldn’t hesitate to talk to. Although you don’t get any good advice, you will still feel better because you have a chance to release all bad feelings and you may sense sincerity and good wishes from them.
Try meditation
Only 5 to 10 minutes meditation will help you feel free. You only have to breath in and breath out. When you think about anything else, don’t let yourself go far. Try to concentrate only breathing. This way will make you live with present and erase all negative thoughts occurring that time.
Choose the one that fits you or doing all. Remember that negative thoughts are cancer. Don’t let them grow and kill you.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Think about good stories or good persons in your life
Good stories which happened in your life and good people who are beside you will help you forget bad things and can see beautiful side of life. They will show you the truth of life that has both good and bad things. All good and bad things come and go. Nothing stays forever. Bad things that happen to you today will leave in one day and good things will come again.
Do your beloved hobbies
Cooking , gardening , painting or anything else that you love to do are good friends when you are down because they will make you enjoy, concentrate, and forget all negative thoughts automatically. You will be proud after finishing them.
Talk to your good friends or your family
Having someone who is welcome to listen to your problems is splendid. If you have one, you shouldn’t hesitate to talk to. Although you don’t get any good advice, you will still feel better because you have a chance to release all bad feelings and you may sense sincerity and good wishes from them.
Try meditation
Only 5 to 10 minutes meditation will help you feel free. You only have to breath in and breath out. When you think about anything else, don’t let yourself go far. Try to concentrate only breathing. This way will make you live with present and erase all negative thoughts occurring that time.
Choose the one that fits you or doing all. Remember that negative thoughts are cancer. Don’t let them grow and kill you.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
September 11, 2014
Simple Habits to Improve Yourself
Self-improvement is a great strategy leading you to your achievement. The path of your goal may not always as smooth as you think so that you need sufficient positive habits to drive you to your goal. Although, no one is perfect but at least you know that you can improve yourself any time you want. But you just need to examine yourself first for you know what to be improved. However, there are some simple habits that help you to improve yourself.
Create Your Goals and Remind Yourself
Everybody should have his life goals as well as you. Without a goal you will never get any achievement in your life even how hard you have tried to achieve it. You need to create your goals vividly in your mind and remind yourself about them every day. When you know exactly what you desire for, you will be motivated to do everything to get them. In addition, you should always remind yourself about the goals for you will not forget them like many other people do. Do it every day and you will see that this simple habit is powerful.
Rise Early in the Morning
Succeeded people know the importance of rising early in the morning very well. After getting up, their brains will be refreshed by the quiet scene and by the fresh and clear air of the early morning. As a result, they can get more works done than working during the day. Alike, when you rise early, you will have a little bit more time every day to work for your goals. This is very important. Rising up early is a great habit that also helps improving your other habits. You will be both healthy and self-esteemed. This is a basic simple habit you should have.
Always Smile
This is a very simple way to improve yourself because you don’t need to do anything with that at all. You just smile to everyone you meet. Remind yourself to smile, smile and smile to other people, no matter who they are. They will be happy or at least feel good to see you. Because of smiling, you may make more friends who would be able to assist you something in the future. Smiling makes no harm but always reflects positive attitudes toward other people as well as a sign of friendship. Don’t you like to receive a smile? Don’t you think this is a charming habit? Don’t have to be shy, just smile!
Don’t Forget Positive Thinking
We can’t deny that life has its up and down times. Different types of feelings come up and disappear alternatively all the times. Even you can’t escape the law of nature; however, you can handle your hard times with your positive thinking. Remember, whatever happens to you, positive thinking will always help. Positive thinking is one of life skills that help to solve any problems by building up positive attitudes towards problems.
You have to try thinking of any advantages accompanying with a problem you are confronting instead of thinking about the problem itself. You may have heard that every bad situation contains at least one advantage in it. Just try to think of any ideas that would release you from the bad feelings you have at that time. Do this when you have a hard time then you will get succeed in cultivating one more great simple habit. Moreover, even one habit that has been improved may further develop many other good habits for you.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
Create Your Goals and Remind Yourself
Everybody should have his life goals as well as you. Without a goal you will never get any achievement in your life even how hard you have tried to achieve it. You need to create your goals vividly in your mind and remind yourself about them every day. When you know exactly what you desire for, you will be motivated to do everything to get them. In addition, you should always remind yourself about the goals for you will not forget them like many other people do. Do it every day and you will see that this simple habit is powerful.
Rise Early in the Morning
Succeeded people know the importance of rising early in the morning very well. After getting up, their brains will be refreshed by the quiet scene and by the fresh and clear air of the early morning. As a result, they can get more works done than working during the day. Alike, when you rise early, you will have a little bit more time every day to work for your goals. This is very important. Rising up early is a great habit that also helps improving your other habits. You will be both healthy and self-esteemed. This is a basic simple habit you should have.
Always Smile
This is a very simple way to improve yourself because you don’t need to do anything with that at all. You just smile to everyone you meet. Remind yourself to smile, smile and smile to other people, no matter who they are. They will be happy or at least feel good to see you. Because of smiling, you may make more friends who would be able to assist you something in the future. Smiling makes no harm but always reflects positive attitudes toward other people as well as a sign of friendship. Don’t you like to receive a smile? Don’t you think this is a charming habit? Don’t have to be shy, just smile!
Don’t Forget Positive Thinking
We can’t deny that life has its up and down times. Different types of feelings come up and disappear alternatively all the times. Even you can’t escape the law of nature; however, you can handle your hard times with your positive thinking. Remember, whatever happens to you, positive thinking will always help. Positive thinking is one of life skills that help to solve any problems by building up positive attitudes towards problems.
You have to try thinking of any advantages accompanying with a problem you are confronting instead of thinking about the problem itself. You may have heard that every bad situation contains at least one advantage in it. Just try to think of any ideas that would release you from the bad feelings you have at that time. Do this when you have a hard time then you will get succeed in cultivating one more great simple habit. Moreover, even one habit that has been improved may further develop many other good habits for you.
To read more, please visit www.christlewisbooks.com
September 8, 2014
8 Paths to The Successful Life Formula
To be successful in the business world, only good ideas and dedicating hard work are not enough. You must be confident, passionate, patient, enthusiastic, and love in what you are doing. You can learn from How To books or learn shortcuts from the businessmen that already succeeded. There are 8 Paths to The Successful Life Formula that you should pay attention to.
1) Don’t waste time with the job that you do not love
You should start doing things or dong business from what you love to do. Do only what one loves will be advantage to himself. You will be happy and do it better and better. You will have some kind of feeling that you are not working, but you are doing it because you love to. This way really motivates you to work your full capability.
2) Set The High Standard
Ask yourself, what is your standard that you want others to know about you. Be able to tell yourself where your standard is and be at that level. Don’t fool yourself. You shall set a high standard and spend time on what you aim to do. Be open-minded to the new ideas. What to expect must be flexible, not fixed. Find out what to learn or need to be done in order to become one of your interests. Find a way to meet new people and gain new experience that helps you to accomplish your target. Give yourself time to learn new things and to practice along.
3) Keep on Fighting and Don’t Give Up
Although you were not born rich, it doesn’t mean that you can’t succeed. Nobody is perfect. Try to find what you are good at. That will become your advantage. For example, good education, nice family, confidence, etc. These are good qualifications that you have and will push you to succeed.
4) Without capability and knowledge, Without opportunity
Learn everything from each project for any task you are responsible for. If you work in specific field, but you don’t know enough about it, then you will lose your time and your money. Study of the business itself very well. All businesses have to take risks, but the level of risk depend on the more or less you learn and experience on it. Be smart and genius. People will come to you and interest in you when you really know or become professionals about something. Age doesn’t matter as long as you are eager to learn and really want to be successful.
5) Work with People You Like
If we work with the people you like and appreciate, we will be happier and make a lifetime working. Some people work for 10 or 20 years because they like their bosses, their friends, and the work environment. Take them as example and find people like them to work with. That’s the best way to work with people you like. Most organizations always make a change. When there is a change, there means there is a variety of people and work. Difference will bring new ideas and more creativity.
6) Money is Not Always The Final Answer
In the real world, most of us want to make a lot of money. However, there is another purpose that is important as much as money such as our satisfaction with the work, the challenge of it, and the opportunity to grow and keep in touch with the people who stand out. You have to think of your work as a long term investment. Think about your objective, your future, and your company, not just the money.
7) Avoid the Fixed, Allow the Change
Be open and flexible during work. You have to know when to change and when it should be flexible. If you only do the same thing every day, it may restrict you and your future. Everything can change. You just need to be flexible and be able to work out the best solution.
8) Speed WINS the Competition
In every business, there is no time for those people who speak out of an issue. No matter what you do, be short, quick, and direct to the point. People love to listen only what they want to know. This will save both your time and their time. For the presentation, you should practice and speak on the necessary information. If they have more questions, they will ask you. Be speed and direct to the point.
To find out more, please go to http://www.christlewisbooks.com
1) Don’t waste time with the job that you do not love
You should start doing things or dong business from what you love to do. Do only what one loves will be advantage to himself. You will be happy and do it better and better. You will have some kind of feeling that you are not working, but you are doing it because you love to. This way really motivates you to work your full capability.
2) Set The High Standard
Ask yourself, what is your standard that you want others to know about you. Be able to tell yourself where your standard is and be at that level. Don’t fool yourself. You shall set a high standard and spend time on what you aim to do. Be open-minded to the new ideas. What to expect must be flexible, not fixed. Find out what to learn or need to be done in order to become one of your interests. Find a way to meet new people and gain new experience that helps you to accomplish your target. Give yourself time to learn new things and to practice along.
3) Keep on Fighting and Don’t Give Up
Although you were not born rich, it doesn’t mean that you can’t succeed. Nobody is perfect. Try to find what you are good at. That will become your advantage. For example, good education, nice family, confidence, etc. These are good qualifications that you have and will push you to succeed.
4) Without capability and knowledge, Without opportunity
Learn everything from each project for any task you are responsible for. If you work in specific field, but you don’t know enough about it, then you will lose your time and your money. Study of the business itself very well. All businesses have to take risks, but the level of risk depend on the more or less you learn and experience on it. Be smart and genius. People will come to you and interest in you when you really know or become professionals about something. Age doesn’t matter as long as you are eager to learn and really want to be successful.
5) Work with People You Like
If we work with the people you like and appreciate, we will be happier and make a lifetime working. Some people work for 10 or 20 years because they like their bosses, their friends, and the work environment. Take them as example and find people like them to work with. That’s the best way to work with people you like. Most organizations always make a change. When there is a change, there means there is a variety of people and work. Difference will bring new ideas and more creativity.
6) Money is Not Always The Final Answer
In the real world, most of us want to make a lot of money. However, there is another purpose that is important as much as money such as our satisfaction with the work, the challenge of it, and the opportunity to grow and keep in touch with the people who stand out. You have to think of your work as a long term investment. Think about your objective, your future, and your company, not just the money.
7) Avoid the Fixed, Allow the Change
Be open and flexible during work. You have to know when to change and when it should be flexible. If you only do the same thing every day, it may restrict you and your future. Everything can change. You just need to be flexible and be able to work out the best solution.
8) Speed WINS the Competition
In every business, there is no time for those people who speak out of an issue. No matter what you do, be short, quick, and direct to the point. People love to listen only what they want to know. This will save both your time and their time. For the presentation, you should practice and speak on the necessary information. If they have more questions, they will ask you. Be speed and direct to the point.
To find out more, please go to http://www.christlewisbooks.com
Goodreads is the Biggest Book Lover Community
Earlier, I have no idea what Goodreads is. When I start to write and write more, I tried to find the channel to get my books connect with other readers around the world. What I have heard about Goodreads is that there are about 20 millions of people check on Goodreads site everyday. Since I’m new in Goodreads, so I tried to find more information about this website and to learn from. Although there are many websites talk about Goodreads but I still can’t figure out and summarize it in the big picture of how I can use it effectively and benefit from this site. Finally I found the book “Goodreads for Authors” by Michelle Campbell-Scott.
I bought her kindle book in Amazon and it worth my reading! I spent two days reading and taking note. What I like about this book is that she explains each method very clearly and there are many screenshots explain along the content which making this easier to understand. In each chapter, she provides quick summary. This is good when you make a short note. This is my suggestion while reading.
Firstly, you should read the whole book without taking notes to understand the overall concept of Goodreads. While reading, you should practice along as well because this will make you fully utilize all the menus and functions of Goodreads in deep detail which the book recommends you to do. This might take time like 1-2 days but trust me, you will remember it easily.
Secondly, you should read it again, note it, highlight it, or write it as mind-map. This will work more efficient when you come back and read your note. You will gradually understand the process of Goodreads. For Goodreads, you must make other people know that you exist as readers or authors or both. You must join Groups, read books, review books, add Goodreads friends, create lists, create polls, and so much more that this book has recommended. Check in your Goodreads account and take action everyday. Every time you do any activities in Goodreads, other people will see your profile and they might check on you and your interests.
Goodreads is very powerful. They are the source of friends and families. You can find true and honest reviews in here. One thing I like about Goodreads’s activities is there is a book giveaway. An author can create a giveaway book (Paperbook). This really build your fans base and make many readers know you and your books. After reading this Goodreads for Authors Book, I have tried to give away my book and a lot of readers added my book in their shelves. Meanwhile, my sales in Amazon kindle has rise up during my giveaway period. This is very interesting and I have to try more. Therefore, I really recommend for those who still have no ideas what to do with goodreads or where to find more information about it, READ THIS BOOK! and you will realize how powerful it is.
To read more, please visit http://www.christlewisbooks.com/
I bought her kindle book in Amazon and it worth my reading! I spent two days reading and taking note. What I like about this book is that she explains each method very clearly and there are many screenshots explain along the content which making this easier to understand. In each chapter, she provides quick summary. This is good when you make a short note. This is my suggestion while reading.
Firstly, you should read the whole book without taking notes to understand the overall concept of Goodreads. While reading, you should practice along as well because this will make you fully utilize all the menus and functions of Goodreads in deep detail which the book recommends you to do. This might take time like 1-2 days but trust me, you will remember it easily.
Secondly, you should read it again, note it, highlight it, or write it as mind-map. This will work more efficient when you come back and read your note. You will gradually understand the process of Goodreads. For Goodreads, you must make other people know that you exist as readers or authors or both. You must join Groups, read books, review books, add Goodreads friends, create lists, create polls, and so much more that this book has recommended. Check in your Goodreads account and take action everyday. Every time you do any activities in Goodreads, other people will see your profile and they might check on you and your interests.
Goodreads is very powerful. They are the source of friends and families. You can find true and honest reviews in here. One thing I like about Goodreads’s activities is there is a book giveaway. An author can create a giveaway book (Paperbook). This really build your fans base and make many readers know you and your books. After reading this Goodreads for Authors Book, I have tried to give away my book and a lot of readers added my book in their shelves. Meanwhile, my sales in Amazon kindle has rise up during my giveaway period. This is very interesting and I have to try more. Therefore, I really recommend for those who still have no ideas what to do with goodreads or where to find more information about it, READ THIS BOOK! and you will realize how powerful it is.
To read more, please visit http://www.christlewisbooks.com/
September 5, 2014
How to Develop Your Leadership skills?
In work or activities that have to do with other people, you need to have the leadership potential in yourself and be able to lead the team to the desired goal. Being a leader is not easy because those who lead must have many skills. These are some tips to develop your leadership skills
Evaluate your capability
Evaluating your capability and your knowledge is the first priority because you have to know your own potential. You have to know what you are good at and what skills that you still lack of. Then you will be able to improve and develop your own skills to be better and practice more on skills that you are lack of.
Have a positive attitude and a clear vision
Having good vision is important because a leader must have a clear goal and positive attitude to work with their teams. Without this character, people in the team will not understand and the whole team won’t be able to achieve the goal together.
Commitment and dedication
It is inevitable that the leader must commit and dedicate more than other people in the team. You must be responsible in your role and be a good example. Others will agree and follow you. This way will help achieve your goals faster.
Understand other members in the team
A team leader and team members should not have bias towards each other. They should listen and discuss to each other in order to make things flow and avoid any problems that might occur in the future.
Try exploring yourself whether you have all the above leadership skills. If not, you should learn and improve the skills that you still lack of. Keep on practicing and you will be a good leader.
Evaluate your capability
Evaluating your capability and your knowledge is the first priority because you have to know your own potential. You have to know what you are good at and what skills that you still lack of. Then you will be able to improve and develop your own skills to be better and practice more on skills that you are lack of.
Have a positive attitude and a clear vision
Having good vision is important because a leader must have a clear goal and positive attitude to work with their teams. Without this character, people in the team will not understand and the whole team won’t be able to achieve the goal together.
Commitment and dedication
It is inevitable that the leader must commit and dedicate more than other people in the team. You must be responsible in your role and be a good example. Others will agree and follow you. This way will help achieve your goals faster.
Understand other members in the team
A team leader and team members should not have bias towards each other. They should listen and discuss to each other in order to make things flow and avoid any problems that might occur in the future.
Try exploring yourself whether you have all the above leadership skills. If not, you should learn and improve the skills that you still lack of. Keep on practicing and you will be a good leader.
September 3, 2014
I Want to be an Author, How do I Start?
If you want to be a writer, you have to find your own way and your own writing style. You should choose between fiction and non-fiction, which type you prefer to writing. After you find your writing style, don’t be shy, post them so that people can see your work.
The First Step
You should have a blog. You can sign up for the blog, for example, wordpress, blogspot, wix, or other blogs that you know and are familiar with.
The Second Step
Write it everyday. You should keep writing your story or article everyday because this way, you can practice and improve your writing skills. People will find you automatically and they will probably comment on your work. This means they are interested in your story. You should keep it going.
The Third Step
Create your Author Facebook Fanpage. Every author must have his or her own fanpage no matter he/she is a famous or non-famous author. You should link your fanpage and your blog together. What you need to do is you have to update news in your fanpage or have some activities to increase talking about. This way will increase the number of Like naturally. You can ask other authors in your genre to help you like your fanpage as well.
The Forth Step
Create your Twitter account. Twitter is very popular social media channel. You have to link your website and twitter together. The concept is the same as Facebook fanpage. Grow your fans naturally. You should start following other people and other authors that have the same interests with you. Then some of them will follow you back. Grow your fans. After that you should tweet news or things that make them interest, and they might favorite or retweet your message. You can also tweet part of article and put the link of your blog in it. This way will make others click at the link and go to your blog to check it out.
The Fifth Step
Goodreads is the most powerful channel to let the world know that you exist. This site connects between readers and writers. You should register this site immediately and you will find out that millions of people are waiting to read, discuss, and update all the time. If you want to be author, then Goodreads is the place where you should start. In Goodreads, you can join groups, have book recommendations/recommend books to others, list your favorites books, create events, create polls, giveaway your books, and add more friends! There are millions of people who check on Goodreads everyday.
Do these five steps to let other people know you and see your article or story. Start today or never!
To read more, please visit my website :)
http://www.christlewisbooks.com
The First Step
You should have a blog. You can sign up for the blog, for example, wordpress, blogspot, wix, or other blogs that you know and are familiar with.
The Second Step
Write it everyday. You should keep writing your story or article everyday because this way, you can practice and improve your writing skills. People will find you automatically and they will probably comment on your work. This means they are interested in your story. You should keep it going.
The Third Step
Create your Author Facebook Fanpage. Every author must have his or her own fanpage no matter he/she is a famous or non-famous author. You should link your fanpage and your blog together. What you need to do is you have to update news in your fanpage or have some activities to increase talking about. This way will increase the number of Like naturally. You can ask other authors in your genre to help you like your fanpage as well.
The Forth Step
Create your Twitter account. Twitter is very popular social media channel. You have to link your website and twitter together. The concept is the same as Facebook fanpage. Grow your fans naturally. You should start following other people and other authors that have the same interests with you. Then some of them will follow you back. Grow your fans. After that you should tweet news or things that make them interest, and they might favorite or retweet your message. You can also tweet part of article and put the link of your blog in it. This way will make others click at the link and go to your blog to check it out.
The Fifth Step
Goodreads is the most powerful channel to let the world know that you exist. This site connects between readers and writers. You should register this site immediately and you will find out that millions of people are waiting to read, discuss, and update all the time. If you want to be author, then Goodreads is the place where you should start. In Goodreads, you can join groups, have book recommendations/recommend books to others, list your favorites books, create events, create polls, giveaway your books, and add more friends! There are millions of people who check on Goodreads everyday.
Do these five steps to let other people know you and see your article or story. Start today or never!
To read more, please visit my website :)
http://www.christlewisbooks.com
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