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Be careful who you listen to and what you make of it.

Alex Webley — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:46:26 +0000

Other people, their comments, influence and ideas can be a big hindrance at times.

Be careful.

Make sure that other people, some who might be well meaning and even love you, do not hold you back.

These people could be anyone. Parents, siblings, friends, lovers, spouses, teachers and so on.

If they do. The world could be robbed of your talents and contribution.

Watch this video and think about how the world might be different if the people in it had listened to their detractors.

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XSitePro makes building websites feel like blogging. Easy.

Alex Webley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:50:43 +0000

Today I am enjoying using XSitePro, my website builder software, to continue developing my Joy Wizard website.

XSitePro makes stuff so easy and over the years while using the program I have often found myself thinking that it is just like WordPress. Easy to use, slick and full of key functionality.

Another thing I like about XSitePro is that because it is so easy to use – adding pages, inserting links, converting and uploading videos and so on – there is no subtle subconscious disincentive to use it. It is so important to use good tools because then we do not have to motivate ourselves to use them. We want to use them.

I love XSitePro so much I’ll coin a phrase:

“XSitePro makes building websites feel like blogging. Easy”.

http://joywizardrecommends.com/EasyWebsiteDesignSoftware/

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Being Productive Despite Your Workload

Alex Webley — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:44:18 +0000

We all have goals which we want to achieve, dreams that we want to see come to fruition. Our goals differ from each other, but reaching these may not be as easy as it looks. Yes, you have the perfect work attitude, and yes, also know how to prioritize. There are, however, some things in life that you just cannot control.

A sudden blackout may hinder you from completing your work, or an important family gathering may require you to let go of all your tasks. What do you do when this time comes? Do you blame the things you cannot control for your failures? While this may be the easy way out, it is far from being right.

Life is made up of two types of people: the positive and the negative. The positive tend to win all the time because they also take responsibility for their failures by embracing them. The negative, on the other hand, simply walk away and point their finger at everyone and everything but themselves.

How do you win in life? How do you become a productive person and able to keep up with a very busy work schedule? The first thing you must know and accept is that you simply cannot win every time. It’s what you do when you fail that counts. Here are some helpful tips to help you get through trials and misfortunes as smoothly as possible:

1. Don’t blame other people for your failure – to blame them is to pass on your responsibilities. This is tantamount to throwing your arms up in the air and saying, “I give up!”

2. When problems arise, deal with them accordingly – plan what you need to do. Ask for help if you need to and let failures serve as lessons learned.

3. Never forget – remember what caused you to create the mistake in the first place. Keep these in mind and avoid situations where you will make the same mistake twice.

4. Never let anything stop you – as you strive for success, there will always be hurdles to face. These hurdles simply slow you down, but that’s all they will do.

5. Plan your life – make a careful schedule or to do list for each task/project. No matter how many tasks there are, each step achieved allows you to cross something off your list of things still to be done.

6. Know that you are in control of your life – have a firmer grip on your responsibilities. Familiarize yourself with each objective and do any necessary research. The more you know about something, the easier it will be for you to navigate your way through it.

7. Think positively – this may be the most important thing you can ever do. Believe in yourself and in your abilities. High achievers are the people who believe in themselves the most. Success is not so much about talent, but more about the idea that with effort and an optimistic attitude, you can do almost anything.

Productive, successful people can be defined in one way as those who know what they’re doing. You can be one of them if you simply work on honing your talents and abilities in accordance with your goals. It’s also a matter of fine-tuning and letting yourself be more in touch with the key aspects of your life.

Remember, nobody is excused from making mistakes. The fact is, every living person has made many of them. You simply have to figure out what you need to do to attain every single dream that you have.

Being Productive Despite Your Workload is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

Goal Setting – Putting Motivation Into Perspective

Alex Webley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:37:02 +0000

If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, especially in a management position, you’re familiar with the concept of establishing goals and their importance to any organization that practices management by objectives.

Even if you’ve never been in a position requiring you to define specific, measurable goals, you may not realize that every single day you’ve done so. Chances are, by not knowing you were actually setting goals, you were able to achieve them with far less analysis than accomplished through formal goal setting.

The difference between achieving formal goals versus informal goals is one of motivation. Quite often with formal goals, we may make progress towards our objective, but not have a clear understanding of the process required – and we often see a decline in our motivation to continue or to continue effectively.

This is perhaps most often seen in group work environments, where one or two members of the group seem to “Get It”, while others just sort of follow along, contributing as asked and simply waiting for others to ensure the goal is achieved at some hazy future point.

Yet as individuals, we are often able to accomplish our own informal goals almost subconsciously. Each and every day of our lives, we plan, act upon and accomplish innumerable short-term goals, while simultaneously working towards longer-term goals, by establishing patterns of activity.

For example, you may get up a 6:00 AM each weekday, shower, dress, have breakfast and drive to your place of employment. Odds are you’ve done these thousands of times without giving it a second thought and yet, you are in fact achieving five goals every morning.

You’re able to do this for several reasons – first of course, you understand the primary goal of getting to work on time each day at the task level. Next, your motivation for doing so no doubt includes the desire to avoid being fired for continually being late. Another motivation is simply a need to show that you are a reliable member of the organization.

On a longer-term basis, we often plan for and follow through on everything from vacations and holidays to paying off our mortgages and other debts. Here again, we have plenty of motivation to do these things and we do them subconsciously. And yet we often meet or exceed these goals with little or no effort.

What’s most interesting about this is that in our personal lives, we rarely use any elaborate system to track and complete these tasks. No software, no systems and at best might scribble down a reminder not to ourselves and stick it on the fridge.

If you really sit down and think about it, there’s no reason why you could not apply the same approach to your business or work related goals. A task is a task, whether it’s having to meet with a teacher at 2 pm or having to ensure a critical order was placed and is being tracked.

If you can find your motivation for staying on top of things at the office as you do at home, you’ll never again have any serious difficulty meeting your business goals!

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Goal Setting – In Theory And In Practice – Business Planning

Alex Webley — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:04:31 +0000

During the business planning process, establishing goals is of course fundamental so as to provide a clear vision of what you want to achieve. Setting one or more goals appears to be a straightforward process. You establish a specific goal, one that’s measurable and has a defined time frame for completion. You implement your action plan, measure your progress towards reaching your goal and then evaluate the outcome objectively to refine the process further.

On the surface of things, it reads very well and sounds easy enough to do. Unfortunately, it rarely works out that way for numerous reasons; primarily because we commonly fail to establish realistic goals. Additionally, we often casually set goals with only a hazy view towards how they’ll actually be accomplished. And while we’re typically motivated at the beginning of the process, it’s not at all unusual to lose our motivation somewhere along the track.

When deciding your own goals, it’s important to understand that every goal you set must be realistic and readily achievable, given an appropriate amount of time and resources. For example, setting a goal to earn $25,000 per month within three months, when your present earnings are less than $1,000, is likely unrealistic. On the other hand, setting an ongoing goal to increase your earnings by 5% or 10% per month is not only realistic, but more likely achievable.

Once you’ve defined a goal which you believe you can accomplish, the next step is to break it down into smaller, manageable tasks and schedule them in sequence (assuming one task depends on the completion of another). Before defining the target date the overall goal must be completed, be certain that each task is given a reasonable amount of time for completion and allow the sum of the tasks to determine and influence the completion date, rather than arbitrarily selecting one.

Depending on how far into the future your goals are planned for, it’s very helpful to schedule regular progress reviews, even if you’re the only person involved. For example, scheduling time every Friday afternoon to review your progress and make any necessary adjustments will keep your goals current. Don’t be surprised if something unexpected interferes with your scheduling from time-to-time. That’s normal and you will simply need to identify some way to compensate for it.

Another barrier to actually meeting your goals is the process itself. Be careful to avoid implementing a goal management process that eats up more time than the goal itself. On a smaller scale, a simple spreadsheet will often suffice to meet all of your management needs. For larger scale management, a variety of goal management software exists, usually scalable for most organizations or complexities.

Besides actually working the process towards eventually realizing your goal, the final step is to take some time to evaluate the overall process and your performance at the end. This should be done objectively and embraced as a learning opportunity, one that will help you to improve your performance in future.

With proper planning, setting realistic goals can only benefit you and your business in the long run, especially if you streamline the goal management process. If you think of it as an evolving process focused on continual performance improvement, over time you will see a measurable improvement in everything you do!

Remember the 5 P’s – PPPPP – Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance.

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Do you feel teased by the promise of "The Secret" and The Law of Attraction?

Alex Webley — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:57:16 +0000

Hi,

Do you feel teased by the promise of “The Secret” and The Law of Attraction?

Are you itching to know EXACTLY what you have
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Do you find yourself on that merry-go-round of
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Best,

Alex

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The Masters Are Gathering…

Alex Webley — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:52:46 +0000

The early bird catches the worm!

Hi There!

I just got word that the world’s top transformation
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Warmest,

Alex

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