Here is a great quote attributed to Henry Ford:
“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are usually right.”
For me, it’s another way of saying, you get what you believe.
If you believe you can do something, you may not achieve it, but you will certainly get a lot closer to achieving it than you would if you didn’t go for it. Likewise, if you think you can’t do something - then you won’t.
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I was in the mall the other day at a record store. A young teen was trying to decide what to get with his $50 store gift voucher he’s been given him for Christmas.
He was looking at all the DVDs and CDs as far as the eye could see and getting more and more frustrated trying to pick what to buy. He said to me, ‘It is a record store - you’d think I could just get an iTunes card but they don’t sell them. Why don’t they sell iTunes cards.’
I explained that an iTunes card is effectively a gift voucher for another music store. ‘Oh’, he said. He then went on to say that they don’t have anything in this store.
As we were in a store with a large range of DVDs I pointed to something I thought he might like and said why don’t you get something like this. He said, ‘I already downloaded that.’
He said, ‘I wish they’d just given me real money.’
It’s taking a very long time for some businesses to change with the times isn’t it?
Tags: Gift Voucher, Itunes
We’re in for another scorching summer day, so I was out for my jog in the cool morning air. I must admit that it was very difficult getting up at 5:30am and I lay in till 6.
I took it very easy today, after shin splint pain yesterday. I walked for a few kilometres and jogged for 8km, practicing rolling my feet and being very conscious of making my running style as smooth as possible so as not to aggravate the injury. It seems to have worked, I only started to feel a little niggle at the 9km mark.
Sometimes it is difficult to get up early, but invariably a little physical cativity wakes you pretty quickly.
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I hate it when that happens. I was doing my 10km jog this morning and I started to get shin splint pain in my left shin so I slowed to a swift walk for a while.
Next, I started to experiment with my running style. It seemed obvious that I was jaring a little too much. I know it can’t be my shoes because they aren’t that old.
Anyway, a new day and I have a few meetings today so I better get on with it.
For many of us, today is the 1st working day of 2009 and many of you will be thinking about scheduling our working lives.
For those of you who know me, you know I work on values based planning. After we’ve run through a number of exercises to establish your goals and values you can then prioritise your calendar, putting in the things that are most important to you in the right order.
This is how I did my calendar for 2009:
- We’ve already decided when and where we’ll be having our family holiday, so I block that month out.
- Next I put in all the times when the kids have important things on (and I mark in the school holidays so I don’t get any surprises when the house is suddenly not as quiet as usual).
- I put in four mini-breaks. These are times each quarter when Janine and I will take time off to switch off, chill out and reconnect. (This is very important)
- Then I block out time for an ‘adventure’. This is where I go off for a boys weekend, biking, canoeing camping etc.
- Then we pick at least four weekends in the year when we’ll take the kids somewhere for the weekend.
- What I have left is time for work. I then block out important dates such as conferences etc.
- I block out one week per month when I’ll work without interruption. Depending on what I’m trying to get done, I may go away from the office for the week to do this work.
- I then work out a basic fitness routine and overlay this over the entire calendar. In my case I go for a jog at 5:30am with the aim of doing an average 32km (20 miles) per week and then I go to the gym at 7:30am three times per week.
The key to making your life work the way you want it to is to ensure that the most important things are locked in and you leave plenty of flexibility in the other parts of your calendar. For me 1,2,3, 4 are locked in. I can move them within the year but I won’t delete them.
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