Lesson on Time Management
August 30, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Leadership Skills
In our daily lives, there are so many things waiting in our hit list to get fulfilled and at the end of the day there are still more to finish, even after spending the whole day working on fulfilling them they are still remaining or spring up from somewhere or the other, these are little pit holes in our lives which makes our lives congested and confused. If we do a little of time management we can conquer any race or any battle. Time management have been taught to us from the very beginning, may be when we were in our 1st grades but in a different manner, even you might not be knowing that time that those were time management lessons we were learning at that age, take for example, reaching your class on time, doing homework on time, playing sports on time, drinking milk on time, etc. these are just some of the examples which we were used to, when in school and as we grow up, these become more important for passing our semesters, you work upon different projects, collect databases, etc. if you don’t do any of these, are you going to fulfill the need of your assignments, its no, right?
Managing time is important to grow in life and achieve what you are striving for, there are a number of management lessons and at the same time there are even lessons which helps you get free to manage some time with your family or loved ones.
Work is not just the only criteria to fulfill in life, as men grows in life, there is more meaning to life and rather than just money he feels a need to belong, belonging to a family, and that can only happen if you fit in that family in your fully packed professional schedule. What I am trying to portray you here is as much as time management is important to you from a professional point of view, you need to manage the same time with your family, below is one example which I recently came across during one of our management classes and I am really keen on sharing that stuff with you.

The class was fully packed with going to be management graduates and everybody had to share some illustration and give presentation, starting with the professor, he bought out a wide mouthed glass jar and started pouring some big rocks inside, until there was no space left for other stones to fit in, asking excitedly to the class if it was full? They answered yes, but he shoved some gravel inside and filled up the parts left empty by big stones. Again he asked the class whether it was full, this time the class said “No”. Again the professor started pouring in some sand and it did fit in the parts left empty by big rocks and the gravel and asked the class whether now it was full, the class said “No”, more excited he started filling sand inside the jar and asked the class whether it was now full, still the class said, “No” so he got a glass of water and poured it inside and this time he was sure the jar is full and even the class agreed, he asked to students what did they learn from this illustration, there were various answers, and cool logics relating to management in that question answer session but what really made my heart sink was the answer from one shy guy sitting at the back row, the answer was amazingly perfect and reached everyone’s heart without a doubt.
Now, you guys must be as anxious to know the answer as I was that time, it illustrates that the big rocks if not fitted first inside, you never will and the big rocks indicate your children, your family, your dreams, your education, your health, your personal time, and many other important things. It teaches us that you should put big rocks first otherwise you will never get them at all, if you look after little things in life like gravel, sand which will fill up your life, these are actually small worries and office tensions that will occupy your mind so first give preference to big rocks and then give attention to smaller things of life so identify the big rocks in life and put them in your priority list first. I myself learnt so much from it and each person I meet up who is rushing towards life achievements I remind him or her of this story.
Excel In The Things You KNOW!
July 29, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Leadership Skills
As a business person, people learn so many things in life, some are good experiences, some are bad but still we go on, that is GROWTH. The entrepreneurs of today are far choosier of what they are doing and what they want to do or achieve on in life. Early it used to be just simple jobs, but now everything has specialization, whether its finance or medical each field has its own importance with respect to its qualifications. In my career I have learnt one very important thing about developing ourselves, I have found if you are doing the work you already know it becomes far easier to achieve your targets. When a person already has some knowledge, it shows that he has interest in it and will take keen interest in learning it further.
You must have noticed in the professional race, everybody is trying to out-do each other, and one person’s success is another’s envy because everybody wants to be on the same platform where his rival is standing, even when you think personally that you want to be like a particular person and enjoy his type of wealth, you should be thinking internally whether you really like the work he is doing to earn so much of wealth or whether you would be able to dedicate your time in working. When I look at such cases, I often feel sad about it because the chances of failure are high as the person wishing might not always be successful like his ideal so its best to follow the job or business, one is already doing.
You must have seen many popular businesses that people are doing online these days “making money over Internet”, tell me how many of them have really become successful in their endeavor? No matter how much ever simple the business may seem, it always take positive efforts and the right determination to earn money. It just doesn’t pour in, unless you have right attitude towards your work, my advice to you is to follow the path which you know and are expert at! Don’t overlook your shortcomings, work on them and one day you will reach the position at top in your own field rather than copying someone else’s profession.
Starting a business of your own may seem difficult, but its not impossible! Do you know what does the word “Impossible” say silently, it says “I M Possible”, so follow the path you feel you have good hands at and go on your way to help people. All of us born on earth have been gifted by one beautiful quality by God, its up to us to find out what we are expert at and how can we make a difference in someone’s life. Start by doing little, but perfect, show your skills in a positive and determined manner that will attract others in to your business, the way initially you felt. As the time passes, the little that you started will grow in to real big and you might not even know about it till the time you look back and recollect your past times. So finally, I would like to tell you to follow what you know, and Excel Ahead!
Quit Blogging Industry
After years of blogging I am at that stand point from where I don’t plan to come back, I enjoy my work, I enjoy my blogging, and I just love interacting with my readers. You can say blogging was always my passion, while I have seen some people disappear from networks suddenly, what is killing them? I think, may be due to high expectations of earning money, not getting expected response, or simply were they here for some time pass? There are so many things today people can take to like videocasting, lifestreaming, social messaging, networking, etc. the list is just endless, Internet and search engines have opened up great avenues for us and vast field of knowledge and entertainment.
Till recently, everything was fine when suddenly I started getting emails from my networks of friend whether they should quit blogging and take up some other serious job, I thought for a while, was that a joke, they have been doing all this time? Well some might say no, whatever it may be but that question digged deeper in my heart and that is why I have come up with this blog today, for all the people who have had great misconceptions about blogging industry, I had advice you:
- To stick to your blogging for its your passion and there are ups and downs, but you need not fear.
- Certainly blogging is not dead, its an evolving concept, thousands of people are getting hooked to it each day for making money, should you be left out?
- Evolve yourself out of your daily routine, like reading other’s blogs, getting ideas, interacting with users, etc.
- By useful to someone through your blogs, make needs meet and solve people’s problem by showing some sympathy and giving helping hand by supporting someone in their cause.
- Producing content is your mantra, excel ahead in that. Its just not networking and book marking, millions of people search web each day for content.
- Experiment different mediums for your blogging, you can use best of abilities to achieve your targets by hook or by crook by gathering people over your blogs.
- People often jump around different mediums and at the end they achieve nothing to call of their own, I want you to build your home base which you can call your own.
- Build a brand of your own, mediums are not forever they will come and go, a successful entrepreneur is the one who thinks beyond the present that will last forever that is “Brand”.
- Don’t get too possessive about your blogs, be open to ideas or comments given by people on your blogs, have full RSS feeds on the site. You should know what you want to achieve and blend everything towards that direction.
- Success doesn’t come in just one day, so don’t abandon your blog if you don’t see any results, it’s an evolving process so let it take its own sweet time. You have given your best so you expect best results which will follow, build more creative contents, and evolve through it and leverage that is the best technique to follow for all the bloggers.
For some, blogging is just not the only profession, people from different industries are taking up blogging not just to make extra money but because they like this job and want to engage some of their time in talking to people, although they might not have full time to write, writing few blogs per week isn’t that big deal. I have few of my friends, some are in to medicine, some are engineers, doctors, etc. they feel that they being left behind, especially when there is so much happening over networks each day because they are partial bloggers they feel that its just hopeless to keep blogging, if you are facing this dilemma, no worries, stick to both of your profession, even when I am a professional blogger I don’t have much time on my hands to engage in what is latest in blogging technology, things will evolve and emerge each working day that doesn’t mean you should stop doing your work. Even I get such overwhelming feelings some times, but see today where I stand, I see beyond present, the best thing you should be thinking, is “that although you don’t follow latest things you at least know what is happening”, from my view point this is more than enough.
There are so many people rushing from one end to another, achieving nothing, is this their final goal? These are mostly the people who are diverted or distracted from their jobs and they are experimenting new things, its not wrong to take up new things but not always there should be some place at the last you can call your own, as I mentioned earlier, something that you can call your “homebase”, the industry which you belong to. I know, I have good hands on writing and I know I have the ability to pull in audience, so I am making maximum advantage of my talent. Lastly my advice to all is keep blogging, your niche is blogging, if you have started off, don’t let it stop in middle and “Blogging Is Not Dead”, for God’s sake keep that fear out of your minds.
Is Blogging a dear Success?
Creating and writing a blog is as important and as special as attending a child, as your baby grows so does it needs, the same thing is with blogs. Your blogging network may not reach bigger heights in just one day it takes time to build its network as you tend to it lovingly, it will grow rosier by the day. Your blog is just not one thing that you want to convey to your audience but it’s that network through which you will open up your heart to people and make them listen to what you feel about any of the subjects. It’s a sense of reverence that you get while giving birth to your blog because there are endless possibilities through which you would be able to target your audience in a very unique way.
Giving birth to your own blog is as beautiful a experience as tendering to a new born child, a one of its type experience that you will never regret in your life, your blog may not attract attention from people in just one day it’s a gradual process and will get to the target as time passes by. The point that a written blog itself can stimulate anyone’s thought is itself a very amazing thing, you can change a person’s mind block through your writings. As a child comes to world after 9 months of its inception so does the same thing for work, to build its solid network of readers on your blogs it takes time and determination to grow to the highest peak.
There are so many things you have to look to while planning your blogging network, after a careful judgment and valid plans you can come upon a perfectly powerful blog which will influence your audience and listen to your say. Planning your own blog network is like planting a seed which will give you good seeds in the future, blogging just doesn’t come in one day, it doesn’t emerge out of no where, you have to put your efforts in bringing it up. Whenever you see any big network of bloggers, just think someone once made big decision and taking risk in starting their blogs, its so much exciting to see your network of blogging grow in to a real big blogger’s network, you can put up your own ideas, your own thinking, your own writings in your own blog. You can even build up your own community where you can share your views and also learn lots of things, writing blogs can earn you much more money than your 9 to 5 job may be paying you.
Before you head out for writing your own blogs make sure to write down your goals and plans on the paper, then slowly get your physical plans into implementation, also be specific to the point which you want to write your blogs on. May whatever time it may take to start with your blog, choose the right path even if it means letting your plans getting postpones. Hurrying up may speed your work but you will never get the quality for the same. Nurture your creations with creative ideas on the blog, get advise from experts in the field and make sure you write interesting things on the blog that is going to attract people from all genres of life. Shape your blog the way you always wanted using your ideas, advise from experience people and get your thinking into actual implementation, start thinking over the type of design, the colors that you are going to use in your designs and develop concepts which will attract more audience in to your project.
Put creative time in shaping your blogs, just don’t do it for the heck of it, try and give as much efforts you can give in shaping your blog because the efforts put at the start will yield good fortunes in the future. Pump your blog with good items for people to read as the baby is continuously fed with nutrients and energy food. Try and get maximum of information to put in your blog and make people addicted to read your blogs on a daily basis. In blogging world, remember the fact that the content is what makes the final say about the text you have written, introduce people slowly and steadily to the point you are trying to get them to agree, marketing is what makes your blog popular but only when it is good enough to market. A baby comes out of the womb after going through labor pain similarly for blogs you have to go through the pain also accept negative comments from people before reaching the highest point. When you nurture your blog with good informative topics then is the time that you have been really successful with the matter you wanted to convey to people.
Join different social networking site where you can make your blog popular by getting your creative ideas in to marketing of blogs, you can also try giving comments to people on other blogs network and also comment on your own blogs too. In the world of blogs, there is nothing like marketing in actual terms as you get your blogs in to A listings you will automatically become popular through suggestions of people. as you have started with your blog, your blog is born and you are also feeding it with information that people want to read but its not over yet, blog is a continuous process, new information has to come in and keep people entertained.
The only time you have to stop is when you want your blog to die, it is obvious that you will never want this till the time you are alive, so its obvious that you will try and keep trying your best to get the best in your blogs and make it worthwhile. While maintaining your blogs good things as well bad things will occur to you but you need not worry and get up set you have to drag it full-fledged with positive approach with positive talks on your blogs. When your blog is growing you are surely going to face many problems but never let those problems get in to your ideas of growing your network, you will face number of problems like spamming, hackers, haters, content scraps, bad comments, etc. but you only choose your path to success rather than getting distracted. This is the only way you will get to success. Listen to yourself and go ahead writing whatever you feel on a particular topic.











