Wha-Lite Tools acquired

Bon Tool, a maker of tools for the construction trade, has purchased a Chicago-based manufacturer of plaster and concrete hand tools.

In the first part of our series we discussed the lack of planning, organization and the fear of loss of control. In Part II I am going to continue this discussion. I am going to jump right in.

4.Failure to designate tasks This goes right along the same line as fear of the loss of control. When you finally do yield the reigns long enough to understand the necessity of allocating the menial tasks, you will have initiated the first steps of developing the team you will need to attain your goal.

Before you over commit yourself or limit your growth consider who can effectively assist you. Perhaps you need to hire a new employee but you dont want the headaches of the overhead. Consider the possibility of utilizing a placement agency that will handle all the financial and legal aspects of employee management. Maybe your need is for a contractor who will help you organize your workspace allowing you to become more productive. Perhaps you want to accomplish a task that you are just not trained to do. If that is the case, find someone that has the skill to assist you and ask them for their input or cooperation.

5.Failure to prioritize Once your goal has been decided upon one of the most important thing to accomplish is the development of a task list. Prioritize your tasks; write them down. Once you complete the first task it will equip you to initiate the next which in turn will enable you to remain focused on your goal. It is when we attempt to do everything all at once that we often become overwhelmed with the project at hand and loose focus. This is the precursor of failure.

6.Failure to implement Take action! The fact of the matter is if you don't implement your plan your plan is worthless! How many times have you sat down and figured out what you need to do, how you are going to do it, and what tools you'll need to accomplish the task only to fail at implementation?

Goal setting has two components, planning and implementation. The more realistic the planning the better the results of the implementation will be. Every year business professionals and managers set aside (or press their employees to allocate) time to design their business plan for the year ahead. Then once that task is completed they return to the same old habits of the previous year without even a hint of the required action to achieve their goals.

If your plan doesn't incorporate effective measures to ensure its implementation then it will likely fail. We are all familiar with the partially crossed off "to-do" list at the end of the day how about a trillion dollar real life example?

In 1980 President Reagan promised to balance the budget by 1984. In reality the plan was never implemented. He never proposed a balanced budget in his eight years in office or curbed Congress's ballooning spending programs. In 1985 the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings plan promised a balanced budget in 1991 -- it was never implemented. In 1990 Congress enacted a program to balance the budget by 1993 it was not implemented. In 1995 another plan never implemented.

The lesson here is that the plan must match expectations with reality and include measures to ensure execution in the face of obstacles and opposition.

7.Failure to establish a reward system For most people it's all about the reward. Think about it. How many game shows are there? How often are incentives given in sales meetings? It's all about discovering what keeps you focused on the task at hand. When you have rewards to eagerly anticipate you increase the chance of accomplishing the task.

Think of a reward that is realistic for the goal you want to attain. Don't limit yourself to just the end reward; consider also small rewards for accomplishments along the way. You may decide a night out, or a trip to a masseur is just what you need. Make it realistic and rewarding enough to keep you on track and go for it!

Create a plan, organize and prioritize, implement, designate, and follow-through. Accomplish your goal(s) one step at a time and reward yourself for a job well done.

Copyright 2005 Ginger Marks

Ginger Marks is the founder of DocUmeant, Your writing assistant. For more information, visit her website at http://www.documeant.net

She is also the Copy Editor for http://www.ladiesfirstmag.biz which is your first stop for business articles, profiles and resources for and by female entrepreneurs.

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How Can You Develop and Maintain a Success Mindset?

As you read this article you will discover a simple, yet profound, question that will help you instantly develop and maintain a success mindset.

This question will point your attitude and your actions in the most effective direction so that you will be able to accelerate your success and reach your goals faster than you ever imagined before.

One day I was watching a video by Jim Cathcart, a professional speaker and business author. He was sharing some secrets and principles to help sales people maintain the right attitude.

During his speech, Jim shared a very powerful question that created a true mind shift for me.

This question is...

"How would the person you want to be do the things you are about to do?"

Amazing, right?

That question puts you in a position in the future where you are the ideal person you would like to be, and helps you act from that perspective in your present life.

That simple question activates the power of the "Act as if" principle.

You act as if you have already reached your goals and have become the person you always wanted to be. Acting as if will focus your mind and shape your thoughts around your ultimate dream.

Acting as if you've reached your goals will also shape your character in the best and fastest way possible. You will immediately start modeling your ideal self, which will help you develop a success mindset and maintain that mindset and a positive attitude every moment of your life.

If you are not already acting as if you have succeeded, and using the qualities that are required to reach your goal, you will hinder your chances to succeed.

Thinking about how the person you would like to be would act in a certain situation helps you take the most powerful actions that will get you to where you want to be in less time.

From now on, before taking any action, ask yourself this question

*** How would the person I want to be do the things I am about to do?

Unleash the power of the "Act as if" principle. Act as if you've reached your goals and you will get there faster than you ever thought possible.

You're only living in this moment why not act as if you've already realized your dreams?

Live your purpose right NOW, in this moment.

Mohamed Tohami (The Success 'Pharaoh') is the author and creator of "The Life Purpose Discovery System: Your Ultimate Guide To A Meaningful Life". http://www.LifePurposeDiscoverySystem.com

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Everything I Needed To Know In Business I Learned From My Cells

There it was. Suspended in the undulating stasis of an eel grass bed. The dull pinkish claws of the hermit crab Pagurus Prideauxi were the only discernible feature that the Octopus can recognize of its sublittoral meal. As the predator inched closer, the camouflaged Cloak Anemone Adamsia carciniopados, who shared a lifetime lease on the crab's outer shell, exploded in a supernova of colors and acontia, microscopic poisoned darts, that stung and startled the Octopus to scurry away and seek it's lunch elsewhere. Systems Biology over the last decade has expanded our awareness of the important role that symbiotic relationships play in determining survival in the biosphere. This memeplex recurs in the evolutionary expression of the 50-trillion-celled creature known as a Human Being, where multicellular communities carry out specialized tasks that depend on 'free trade' among it's neighbors for survival and growth. Since Cellular Biologists tell us that "We are our DNA" and that our quality of health is intimately linked to the quality of our cells, we shall explore some of the 'hidden' lessons that our cells can teach us about achieving and maintaining vibrant 'fiscal' health.

In Dr. Bruce Lipton's Book, "The Biology of Belief", he shared some ground-breaking realization based on the peculiar behavior of a cloned Endothelial cell while working in his lab one day. He noticed that when he introduced nutrients into the petri dish, the cell inexorably gravitated toward the food source, and when he introduced a threat element into its environment, it tended to move away. Some of his conclusions are turning Classical Cellular Biology on its head. Dr. Lipton's main point was that we can learn a great deal from our "Miniature Humans", i.e., our cells. He posits that in order for cells to thrive, it needs to be (mostly) in an open exchange with its environment, because when it stays in 'protective' mode for too long, everything starts to shut down and die.

This closely correlates with Deepak Chopra's admonition in "The Book Of Secrets", where in the Second Secret, he states "To solve the mystery of life requires only one commandment: Live like a cell... You are not in the world; the world is in you.

... Cells have no problem fully participating in the mystery of life. Theirs is a wisdom of total passion and commitment. So let's see if we can link the qualities of bodily wisdom with the hidden dimensions we want to uncover:

. . . Communion: A cell keeps in touch with every other cell. Messenger molecules race everywhere to notify the body's farthest outposts of desire or intention, however slight. Withdrawing or refusing to communicate is not an option.

. . . Awareness: Cells adapt from moment to moment. . . Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.

. . . Acceptance: Cells recognize each other as equally important. Every function in the body is interdependent with every other.

. . . Efficiency: Cells function with the smallest possible expenditure of energy. Typically, a cell stores only three seconds of food and oxygen insides its cell wall. It trusts totally on being provided for.

. . . Giving: The primary activity of cells is giving, which maintains the integrity of all other cells. Total commitment to giving makes receiving automatic ~ it is the other half of a natural cycle.

. . . Immortality: Cells reproduce in order to pass on their knowledge, experience, and talents, withholding nothing from their offspring. This is a kind of practical immortality, submitting to death on the physical plane but defeating it on the nonphysical."

To significantly increase the organism's efficiency, cells create structured environments to subdivide the workload into specialized tasks. This process of cytological specialization enabled the cells to expend smaller amounts of energy and efficiently form the specific tissues and organs of the body. From a business perspective, Henry Ford revolutionized modern production methods by introducing this form of differentiation in his assembly line system of manufacturing automobiles. He organized each worker in the assembly line to specialize in one task and to pass on the aggregately assembled automobile from one specialist to the next to arrive at a finished product every 90 minutes instead of two weeks!

New data are emerging to suggest that the environment interacting with the cell membrane, and not genetic information in it's nucleus (as previously thought), controls the functioning of the cells. This underscores the importance of surrounding one's business environment with empowering mentors which impel one to single-minded success.

Since our Nervous Systems and cells rely and thrive upon 'free trade' within our multi-celled community network. The emergent benefits of 21st Century business, according to Joe Schroeder in his "Predictions for 2007", hinges upon the strength of our reputation in this new "Economy of Influence." The better we serve, the bigger our network grows, and the higher our reputation, the greater the rewards we receive. I believe, this was more or less 'hinted at' in "The Secret". As Mark Victor Hansen pointed out "Your Network determines your Net Worth!"

Finally, each cell is imbued with a purpose. Mr. Albert E. N. Gray, whose major address to the National Association of Life Underwriters annual convention in 1940, which later became a pamphlet classic called "The Common Denominator of Success" stressed the importance of a big "Why" in life. "...any resolution or decision you make today has to be made again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the next, and so on. And it not only has to be made each day, but it has to be kept each day, for if you miss one day in the making or keeping of it, you've got to go back and begin all over again. But if you continue the process of making it each morning and keeping it each day, you will finally wake up some morning a different person in a different world, and you will wonder what has happened to you and the world you used to live in. ...the strength which holds you to your purpose is not your own strength but the strength of the purpose itself. If it's a big purpose, you will be big in its accomplishment. If it's an unselfish purpose, you will be unselfish in accomplishing it. And if it's an honest purpose, you will be honest and honorable in the accomplishment of it. But as long as you live, don't ever forget that while you may succeed beyond your fondest hopes and your greatest expectations, you will never succeed beyond the purpose to which you are willing to surrender."

If you enjoyed this article, please pass it along and bookmark my blog: http://www.TheSecretInsights.Com in your 'Favorites', because there will be more exciting articles to follow, where we'll explore the unique synthesis of my research and insights on manifesting, consciousness, Law Of Attraction, Torsion Fields, Handwriting/Graphotherapy, and Quantum Mechanics.

James Sia researches Consciousness and the Zero Point Field as a hobby. His last J.O.B. of 9.5 years was a Executive Vice President for Sanyo Denki America, Inc. You have permission to reprint and circulate this article, as long as you publish it in it's entirety, warts and all, including the unobtrusive link to my blog, of course.

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You Must Name It to Claim It!

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. (Henry Kissinger)

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. (Ben Stein)

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower. (Maxwell Maltz)

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. (Maurice Switzer)

What do you want for your life? What do you want your life to be about? What will be your legacy? Youll bounce out of bed in the mornings when you have some crystal clear responses to these questions.

Most of us travel through time in reaction to all that comes our way, rather than being proactive in accomplishing our goals. The first step to achieving any desired outcome is being clear about your chosen direction and knowing your intentions.

One way to gain clarity is by spending some quiet time and pondering some questions. The following is a list to help elicit information that you might use, to be more in touch with your lifes purpose.

What are the things you really love?

What do you find disdainful?

What thrills you?

What do you live to do?

What is the most important thing in life?

What three values those who know me best would use to describe what you stand for?

What are the three values you hold that motivate you to get up and get going everyday?

If you absolutely knew you could not fail, what is it that you would now attempt?

What were the things you spent most of your time on when you were young?

What do you see in your life five years from now, ten years from now & fifteen years from now?

Currently, what are the things on which you spend most of your time?

Which are the ones you would spend much more time doing if you had complete freedom in these areas?

Which are the ones on which you would spend less time?

What are the activities in your life that you clearly have chosen to do and which activities do you believe have been decided for you?

Imagine for a moment that you are 89 years old and reflecting on your life:

Who are your friends?

What are the things you are doing?

What are the smells you smell?

What are the feelings you feel?

What does your environment look like?

What memories make you extremely proud about how you lived your life?

What do you regret because it's something you had not attempted or accomplished?

Be very specific, describing everything in vivid detail, as though it really were your history that youve recorded.

Then visit www.findyourpurposeinlife.com and www.soyouwanna.com or www.allexperts.com

Thea Westra is an international life coach who resides in Perth, Western Australia. She is editor and publisher of a free, monthly newsletter at http://www.forwardsteps.com.au Thea also publishes a few blogs, visit here inspiration -daily.blogspot.com/">http:// inspiration -daily.blogspot.com/ for directional links to each.

Bill Wilson
We attract into our lives, that upon which we place our dominant thoughts