Wal-Mart has made an online game that allow children to create “wish list” for the holiday and send the list via email to their parents as things to consider. But as kids, expectations are high and “things to consider” become “things I expect” this holiday season. What makes the online game horrible is how it applauds a kid when a toy is added to their list while whining they’ll lose their job when a toy is rejected.

I have talked about Laziness is all in the mind and procrastination syndrome which deals about accomplishing tasks and goals by using courage and the power of our mind as our main weapon for success. But what about small things like immediately getting up when our alarm rings in the morning, drinking our daily supplements, or washing dishes we have just used? These might be simple and routinary tasks but it seems it takes us a lot of rolling before we get out of bed or wait until we run out of dishes before we clean them up.

There are lots of leaders and managers who do their best to assess weaknesses of a person and come up with training plans to help them with those weaknesses. While I am a big fan of helping people improve on areas they lack, I am a bigger fan of helping the person take his strengths to the next level. There is no such thing as the one and only authority on an area and having said that, leaders should realize that boundaries to push a person’s strengths are endless.

Experience in Point

I seldom watch television but tonight, television caught my attention as my sister left it open and I unfortunately got glued with a show about conversations on our country’s politics.

I remembered years back about a beauty pageant being asked about her interest in politics; which she quickly answered she didn’t have any interest whatsoever because she did not want to make her life miserable.

Thirty minutes I spent on television today is more than enough to screw anybody’s mind trying to comprehend and understand issues surrounding politics. I doubt if I’ll ever do that again before I go to sleep.

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We are now in the Information age where battles are won through the power of the mind fueled by the amount of knowledge a person possess used at the right and at the right place. The ability and speed to acquire knowledge is one of the utmost important skills a person needs to become successful in his career.

HOWTO network without becoming a disingenuous weasel (43 Folders)
Procastination and the Long Queue (David Seah)
Secrets of Changing Minds: Travel Through Time (Life Coaches Blog)
Personal Planning (Lifehack)