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Success of the Far Side of Failure—Learning from Failures

Successful people often share similar characteristics. But I have come to believe that the single thing they have most in common is that they find success on the far side of failure.
 
What do I mean by that? I find that almost all successful people have experienced significant failures in life or in their work, […]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Begin with the end in mind”. 

These words coined by Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 1989) became part of a seven-part system of habits that effectively revolutionized the business world.  Specifically, the phrase “Begin with the end in mind” comprises Habit #2 and Covey refers to it as a Principle of Personal Leadership. It follows the Principle of Personal Vision – “Be Proactive”, which is Habit #1. Every job seeker or person in career transition recognizes the need to be proactive – even if the will to do so flags.  We are getting the idea, like it or not, that it is now up to us to carve out our own career niches and create our own paths. So Covey’s idea of pro-activity rests readily on the shoulders of today’s seeker.  But what about, “Begin with the end in mind”?  Do we accept its message for us today as well?

First, what does it mean for us to begin at the end?  For the competitive runner, it means to visualize yourself as the first to cross the finish line. For the financial planner, it means to answer questions about the type of retirement that it desired.  For the career planner, it means looking down the road to the place where you ultimately want to wind up. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?  10 years? Even 20 years from now?

In the PaperRoom® (Choice Points, Rice) personal process for change, long term goals are addressed in the first panel.  These are long term goals in the truest sense, as seekers are asked to identify goals 20 years out.  Why so far into the future?  Who knows what might happen in 20 years!  How you ever considered what your life might look like in 20 years?  Some people are energized by the thought.  They readily embrace the idea that they have a key role to play in helping to create their own futures.  I’ve seen individuals smile broadly as they describe their dream job, the home they want to have one day, or imagine life as a parent or a grandparent. Others initially shrink from the future ~ seeing it as too abstract or uncertain.  They need to be encouraged to dream, to be open, to be unsure and yet boldly move ahead.  A compelling reason to engage in this exercise is that it provides a reflective look at what we most want most out of life. Taking an aerial view of the diverse dimensions of family, finance, vocation, health, and spirituality allow you to more clearly see that which is most important.  It is a sobering and exciting step in knowing yourself and blazing your own unique path. Once identified, these long term goals form a metaphorical north point on your personal compass and offer a critical reference point again and again. They also provide momentum for the work needed to do to get there. 

Having done the look at 20,000 feet, you now know the general direction you want to go in.   Having painted a picture of your future, you are ready to address your shorter term goals.  Short term goals, also completed on the initial panel, are more specific, focused, and can be completed within 1 to 1 ½ years. Punctuated by dates and bullet points, short term goals are the action items on the seekers to do list.  Contacts to be made, documents to be prepared, information to be gathered – these are examples of short term goals.  Accomplished only with effort and good follow through, the short term goals are examples of the concrete choices we are making to move on.

There is one more piece to that initial panel – a little section called NOW.  It asks the question, “What is it you would like to see happen at your goal setting session right NOW?”  Are you seeking clarity?  New options?  Want to get unstuck?   Identifying your NOW piece is an essential element in breaking through the barriers that bind.  It requires you to thin slice all the immediate possibilities and declare your priorities ~boldly, succinctly, hopefully.

Through structured goal exploration with the PaperRoom process, something extremely valuable shows up – your authentic voice.  You can hear it in the words and phrases you’ve chosen. You can literally see it on the large page before you.   With it you can claim your unique contribution.  Stephen Covey didn’t stop with 7 habits.  In his newest book – The 8th Habit – the call is for greatness; “…It’s for fulfillment, passionate execution and significant contribution”. What are you seeking NOW?  

Marilyn L. Taylor, M.S. is president of Taylor Training & Development, Inc., offering career navigation, executive coaching, and other professional development opportunities.   She is a certified practitioner with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, The Strong Interest Inventory®, and the unique PaperRoom™ process. Taylor Training is located at 21 Sunrise Avenue, Suite 6, Lexington, NC 27292.   Marilyn can be reached at 336.249.3194 or via the web @  www.taylortrain.com. 

Choice Points, by Sydney Rice, is a practical workbook that provides deceptively simple and powerful exercises to get you started on your important journey into self-discovery.   Guided by a licensed facilitator or the PaperRoom Book Group Guidelines [download in PDF format], you will get the most out of the book's exercises and enjoy the support and camaraderie of fellow explorers. For more information, please visit www.thepaperroom.com.

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Goal Setting - Begin with End in Mind

Goal Setting - Begin with End in Mind

1. Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something that sounds good
2. A goal can not contradict any of your other goals
3. Develop goals in the 6 areas of life
4. Write your goal in the positive instead of the negative
5. Write your goal out in complete detail
6. By all means, make sure your goal is high enough
7. Write down your goals this is most important

Goal 1 -

Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something that sounds good.

When setting goals it is very important to remember that your goals must be consistent with your values.

Goal 2
A goal cannot contradict any of your other goals
   
For example, you can't buy a 5 crore house if your income goal is only 50,000 per year. This is called non-integrated thinking and will sabotage all of the hard work you put into your goals. Non-integrated thinking can also hamper your everyday thoughts as well. We should continually strive to eliminate contradictory ideas from our thinking.

Goal 3
Develop goals in 6 areas of life
Family and Home               Financial and Career
spiritual and Ethical           Physical and Health
Social and Cultural             Mental and Educational

Goal 4
Write your goal in the positive instead of the negative
Work for what you want, not for what you want to leave behind. Part of the reason why we write down and examine our goals is to create a set of instructions for our subconscious mind to carry out. Your subconscious mind is a very efficient tool, it can not determine right from wrong and it does not judge. It's only function is to carry out its instructions. The more positive instructions you give it, the more positive results you will get.

Goal 5
Write your goal out in complete detail
Once again we are giving the subconscious mind a detailed set of instructions to work on. The more information you give it, the more clear the final outcome becomes.  The more precise the outcome, the more efficient the subconscious mind can become.

Goal 6
By all means, make sure your goal is high enough.
Shoot for the moon, if you miss you'll still be in the stars

Goal 7
This is the most important, write down your goals.
Writing down your goals creates the roadmap to your success. Although just the act of writing them down can set the process in motion, it is also extremely important to review your goals frequently. Remember, the more focused you are on your goals the more likely you are to accomplish them.
Sometimes we realize we have to revise a goal as circumstances and other goals change, If you need to change a goal do not consider it a failure, consider it a victory as you had the insight to realize something was different.

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First of all, unless someone is critical to helping you achieve your goal(s), do not freely share your goals with others. The negative attitude from friends, family and neighbors can drag you down quickly. It's very important that your self-talk (the thoughts in your head) are positive. Reviewing your goals daily is a crucial part of your success and must become part of your routine. Each morning when you wake up read your list of goals that are written in the positive. Visualize the completed goal, see the new home, smell the leather seats in your new car, feel the cold hard cash in your hands. Then each night, right before you go to bed, repeat the process. This process will start both your subconscious and conscious mind on working towards the goal. This will also begin to replace any of the negative self-talk you may have and replace it with positive self-talk.
Every time you make a decision during the day, ask yourself this question, "Does it take me closer to, or further from my goal." If the answer is "closer to," then you've made the right decision. If the answer is "further from," well, you know what to do.
If you follow this process everyday you will be on your way to achieving unlimited success in every aspect of your life.


Finally a 20 Point steps to keep in mind

1. If it’s not in writing, it’s not a goal. An unwritten want is a wish, a dream, a never-happen. If it’s in writing, it’s a commitment.
2. If it’s not specific, it’s not a goal. Broad desires and lofty aims have no effect. It must be concrete.
3. Goals must be believable. If you don’t believe you can achieve a goal, you won’t pay the price for it.
4. An effective goal is an exciting challenge. It must demand your best and a bit more or it isn’t going to change your ways and elevate your lifestyle.
5. Goals must be adjusted to new information. Adjust them down if they become unbelievable or up if they’re too easy.
6. Dynamic goals guide our choices. If you want it badly enough, you’ll turn off the TV and get to it. Goals will show you the right way to go on most decisions.
7. Don’t set short-term goals for more than 90 days. If you set a short-term goal that takes more than 90 days, you may lose interest.
8. Maintain a balance between long-term and short-term goals. Long-term goals tend to be hidden in a fog of the future, so have some short-term goals – like clothes, cars, vacations— to keep your excitement up.
9. Include your loved ones in your goals. Involve them and they’ll buck you up when you need encouragement.
10. Set goals in all areas of your life. Have other goals besides career objectives.
11. Your goals must harmonize. Whenever you detect a conflict, set priorities that will eliminate the conflict.
12. Review your goals regularly. Remember, long-term goals can only be achieved if they are the culmination of short-term goals.
13. Set vivid goals. Define not only what you want but by when you want it, and concentrate on it for a few moments every day.
14. Don’t chisel your goals in granite. Sometimes you have to change goals to conform to your growing awareness of what’s really important in your life.
15. Reach out into the future. The idea of goal-setting is to plan your life rather than taking it as it comes. Begin by setting 20-year goals. Then 10-year, five-year, 30-month, 12-month, monthly, weekly, and finally goals for tomorrow and each day for the coming week.
16. Have a set of goals for every day, and review results each night.
17. Train yourself to crave your goals. Visualize yourself possessing what you’ve set your goals for.
18. Set activity goals, not production goals. Activity will lead to production by itself.
19. Understand luck, and make it work for you. Expect good things to happen, and they probably will.
20. Start now. Give goal-setting two hours of concentrated through today. Then set aside 10 minutes a day for the next 21 days to review and revise. After that, two minutes a day and one hour a week is all it will take to keep you on track.

Try this system if you want to achieve your goals and within 21 days you’ll be well on your way to an immensely greater and richer future.


Example
Olympics Korean swimmer - Park Tae-Hwan

In the 2004 Olympics Korean swimmer Park Tae-Hwan fell flat on his face in front of millions. as he was awaiting the starter’s gun for the 400 meter freestyle event, he ungracefully tumbled into the water. Immediately disqualified from the race he slunk away from the platform to the dressing room where he remained for hours so we would not have to confront embarrassment from encountering anyone.

It is those moments when Champions are made — not the obvious moments when they conquer all and receive the accolades and admiration.

A mere 14-years-old when he made his colossal mistake, Park could have done what most would do. Abandon his goal for fear of further defeat and embarrassment. But Park is a Champion for the same reason,

 “Success is Never Ending, Failure is Never Final.”

 At that moment when all seemed lost, when all looked so bleak, Park made a new commitment to his success and then he went to work. On August 9th he became the first Korean to ever win a Gold Medal in swimming and the first Asian male to do so in 72 years!

Thank you

Book Building for Dummies by ramesh dhanasekaran

Finally i managed to publish my book Book Building for Dummies. You can buy the book at lulu.com

Dreamweaver seminar - important topics covered...

version control in DW

DW has the feature of importing nbative file formats such as fla and PSD - Clocking files will not upload native files to server even if they exist in your locol host.

DW exchange - Dummy text
Site Map extensions
RSS / Atom - Rss config - extension available for DW>

Yahoo Calender in DW

Export all scripting done in DW to an external file.

In Context editing - define editable regions for DW site and enable users to edit content on the go.
Browser labs / to check browser and OS compatability of wab pages that you build.

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InDesign: Nested Style Sheets

This is an article i found in http://europaukblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/hello-everyone-on-this-lovely-summers.html.... it is being presented as is... enjoy... don't forget to visit the blog... for more useful tips...

Hello everyone on this lovely Summer’s day. This evening, in a wine-soaked stupor,  I’m going to be taking a look at one of InDesign’s most powerful and juiciest features. Nested styles appeared back in InDesign CS2 and I, for one, was excited by the possibilities of being able to nominate character styles to appear in any order or position in a paragraph. But then that's the kind of guy I am...

The following exercise is a real-world problem that I had to find a solution to a couple of years ago while working for a fairly big-name magazine in London. What the designers wanted was to have a paragraph style that began and ended with one line of a particular character style. At the time we were using QuarkXpress (sshhhssshhh!), which meant that we were had no choice but to manually apply character styles in a kind of hit-and-miss manner until we achieved the results we wanted. It worked – after a fashion – but InDesign, naturally, presents the more elegant solution. Read on...

1. For this exercise I’ve created a very simple A4 page with a two-column grid.



2. The next step is to create an equally basic body copy style. In this case I’ve named it ‘body copy’. No prizes for originality.



3. Now create a character style. In this case I’ve called it ‘ Red Intro’. It’s a very simple 12pt Arial Black, coloured red.



4. Next you have to create another character style that is identical to the ‘Body copy’ paragraph style. I’ve unimaginatively named it ‘body copy’. I hope that this isn’t confusing you.



5. Now we create a nested style. Alt-click the new button in the paragraph styles palette and head over to the Drop caps and nested styles pane. What I’ve basically created here is a ‘Red Intro’ sandwich.

In other words I have the ‘Red Intro’ character style applied to the next End Nested Style character; this is followed by the body copy character style applied to the next anything (it really doesn’t matter what you apply this to because you’re not really going to apply it, if you see what I mean). Finally, I have the ‘ Red Intro’ character style applied to another End Nested Style character.



6. The end result of this is that once you’ve applied the character style you only need to go to the Type menu and choose Type> Insert Special Character> Other> End Nested Style Here where you want the first ‘Red Intro’ style to end. And then you choose the same command at the place you want the Body Copy Style to end. And if you’ve done it correctly, this is what you get:

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