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It is often even more important to be seen that way than to actually feel that way. For instance, necessary qualities for leading are optimism and courage.
One of the most exciting aspects of a life in business is that no day is just like the day before.
Constant change is both the stimulus and the challenge.
Learning how to relate to change is an obvious characteristic possessed by successful leaders and, indeed, by all s...
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Adapt the power of prayer to your business goals.
Early each day, find a quiet opportunity to say out loud an affirmation of faith having to do with some business challenge.
Constantly Change the Changeable While Steadfastly Clinging to the Unchangeable
If you are having a bad time, you can rest assured with the knowledge that things will be different a few months later.
Never can only two of the three sides of totality form an effective and durable union; all three sides are needed.
The answer is that one triangle represents a God Human Beings World matrix that never changes, whereas the other triangle depicts another God Human Beings World that must always be open to change.
“In times of great duress, tumult, and uncertainty, you have to have moorings.”
Spiritual knowledge can shrink as material knowledge expands.
The way he put it was that the constant march forward to ever newer ways of doing things was not just a lamentable side effect of commerce, but was an essential element of wealth creation.
The task of creating wealth absolutely depends on change.
How about setting aside 20 minutes each morning to do nothing but contemplate all that is good in your life and for which you owe gratitude? This should happen even before working out and breakfast.
when great change is happening in one area, you should try your hardest to focus on familiarity and consistency elsewhere.
Unlike a member of a culture who supposes creation to have been random and capricious, Newton was motivated to launch his investigations by a conviction that what he sought did indeed exist.
transcendent convictions about the nature of money and how it relates to change would also endow those who hold those convictions with superior chances of success.
You can prosper by integrating into your life the things that must never change along with an openness to the things that can and should change.
The lesson there is to always prepare for change. Expect the unexpected, plan on it, and profit from it. In areas having to do with wealth creation, never, never expect the status quo to be maintained. Your job next year will not resemble your job this year.
Either way, your days are numbered. If things are going well, you will be doing different things or more things.
everything God does has to do with enhancing human ability to interact peacefully and productively.
business success depends on change and on readiness to embrace change.
Businesses that don’t do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive.
Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn’t ever change.
Trust is probably their largest merchandising weapon.”
unmistakable power of human sexuality, men and women should never allow themselves to be secluded alone with a fellow worker of the opposite gender.
It certainly can, but it can also be exhilarating. It allows business to create wealth as changing conditions create new opportunities.
An audacious tortoise once challenged the famous runner Achilles to a race. The tortoise demanded a head start of 100 yards. Photograph the scene showing the tortoise ahead of Achilles by 100 yards.
At the starter’s signal, Achilles, who runs 10 times faster than the tortoise, sets off and quickly covers 100 yards, reaching the point from which the tortoise began.
The catch is that real life is not reflected accurately by a series of snapshots; it is correctly depicted only by a smooth and continuously running video. Watching a video of the race between Achilles and the tortoise would quickly have shown the runner outpacing the tortoise at a little more than 111 yards from the start. It is easy to be confused or even misled when trying to interpret reality with a sequence of snapshots.
Religious Jews were always more likely to view life through a video rather than through a dishonest sequence of snapshots.
Their familiarity with the Bible’s approach to recounting events accustomed them to seeing the moving timeline of history and to the ever repeating Biblical laws of cause and effect.
They recognize that not a single person has everything he or she needs or wants, and therefore poverty is more a state of mind than a state of pocket.
Set aside some time each morning, say 20 minutes or so, as a “stress equalization” period. Read something not directly work related, ruminate over your longer-term goals, or merely meditate spiritually. Thereafter, proceed with your workout at the gym or your breakfast or whatever else comes next as you prepare for the day’s work. This will help you ease into the day, instead of abruptly embarking on the day’s work.
Create a file in your computer or on a dedicated page in your organizer on which you make, modify, and maintain a list of those things that never change for you.
Keep in mind your core values—as an individual and in your business.
Many highly educated individuals are conspicuously unsuccessful
at predicting the future. Other people with no apparent educational advantage possess what seem to be almost supernatural abilities to see the future.
Within obvious limitations, seeing the future is quite possible,
(2) you can improve your ability to see it.
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House.”
“Whatever has been is what will be and whatever has been done is what will be done. There is nothing new beneath the sun.”
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CONSECRATING TIME FOR FORECASTING
For 25 hours each week, Jews are required to put aside all work related objects and activities.
In fact, all devices that assist Jews in reaching out of themselves into the outer world and impacting it are off limits.
restricting themselves from the usual acts of creativity and impacting the world, Jews are restraining themselves from being the subjects of creation, those who do the acts. Instead they become objects, those upon whom the world works its magic.
Whatever time you determine to set aside for stoking up your creativity and enhancing your future vision should be governed by three rules:
