September 01, 2004
Strategic Services Business Tips newsletter, Issue #003
This month we have many fresh articles to truly inspire and educate.
Have you started to discover your area of Genius yet?
INDEX:
Strategic Services One Minute Tip
Power Quotes
This month’s Business Resource
Strategic Jobs and Applicants
Sponsored Resource
Editor’s Note.
Strategic Services One Minute Tip:
5 Questions to consider your current Priorities:
1. What is most important to me?
2. Which resources will be most beneficial in helping me to achieve it?
3. What are my greatest talents and abilities?
4. How can I make best use of them?
5. What is the most constructive action I can take right now?
Power Quotes:
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Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ---Spike Milligan
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"The man says, "If I had a fortune, I'd take good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and I don't know where it all goes." Wouldn't you love to have him running your company?" Jim Rohn
Strategic Business Resources – Articles & Tips:
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"Time stays long enough for those who use it." Leonardo da Vinci
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Besides being a painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci was a world-class entertainer, cook, and musician. In his amazing life, he drew the first known plans for an aircraft, including a helicopter, and made the first accurate human anatomical drawings. He was a genius who changed the world because he refused to put limits on himself. Leonardo referred to himself as a "man without fetters."
Michael Gelb in his best seller, "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day," writes about the way Leonardo lived his life. For one thing, he was insatiable curious and asked questions about everything. Like Leonardo, Gelb says we are all born curious, and as children, we asked endless questions. However, as adults we typically adapt to accepting things rather than questioning them.
Not only was Leonardo curious, he constantly experimented and recorded all his observations, ideas and queries in notebooks that he kept with him at all times. Over his life, he wrote more than 14,000 pages filled with creative ideas and possibilities.
Gelb's premise is that each of us has within ourselves a creative genius that remains untapped because we define ourselves narrowly based on one or two skills we have developed. What if you have unlimited natural gifts you haven't discovered?
What if Gelb is right and you can tap into a creative genius within yourself?
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Ways to unleash your creative genius:
1. Be insatiably curious- ask questions without assuming anything. Look at the world as if it is brand new.
2. Experiment every day with change and ideas. Look at mistakes and failures as ways to learn and grow.
3. Keep an "idea notebook" with you at all times to capture your creative ideas and observations.
4. Make a list of the most independent thinkers you know and hang out with them. Be open to new and revolutionary ideas.
5. Immerse yourself in life and experience all the possibilities and opportunities you can!
Strategic Business Resources - Jobs and Applicants:
Make sure you check out our site on a regular basis to view the new Resumes posted and Job Vacancies advertised. To take advantage of our free recruitment resource or to read more, go to:
http://www.strategic-services-aust.com
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Editor’s Note:
To be young Again...When we were kids
You lived as a child in the 50s or the 60s or earlier. Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
Our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paint.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable.
We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broken bones and broken teeth and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. And No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never overweight....
.....we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this?
We did not have Play stations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, video games at all, 101 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cellular phones, Personal Computers, internet chat rooms ... we had friends.
We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do it?
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment..... Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.....Horrors. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and I learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them.
Thank you for joining us this month, I hope that you have found some extra motivation and inspiration in your business endeavors for this month.
To update yourself on our new business resources or to check out the recruitment services, just go to:
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Your Editor,
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Helene Malmsio.