The Penalties of a Negative Mental Attitude

“Your negative mental attitude is one most single factor responsible for the limitation placed on your potential.” Richard Onebamoi

This is a follow up of one of my recent post about Napoleon Hill’s book “ keys to Success” were he clearly elucidated the rewards of a Positive Mental Attitude. Mr Hill also went on to outline the penalties of a negative mental attitude. Our vernacular is not enough to describe the pain and devastation that a negative mental attitude can inflict on its victim. We can see and feel the devastation caused by it all about us our families, communities, marketplace and our society at large. The following list should serve as impetus to taking action so as to avoid these penalties.

Mr Hill reiterates If you neglect taking possession of your mind and directing it toward a worthwhile goal, you are doomed to:

1. Poverty and misery your entire life
2. Mental and physical ailments of all kinds
3. Self-limitations which trap you in mediocrity
4. Fears and all its destructive consequences
5. Hatred of the means by which you support yourself
6. Many enemies and few friends
7. Every brand of worry known to humanity
8. Being a victim of every negative influence you encounter
9. Subjection to the will of others
10. A wasted life which does nothing to better the human condition

There they are Mr. Hill’s lists on the penalties of a negative mental attitude. Which choice will you make? To grow and develop a positive mental attitude far more outweighs maintaining a negative mental attitude.

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Understanding the Importance of Time Management Part 2

Tips for Time Management

A to-do-list: Make and keep lists. It’s so much easier on your mind to get things out of your head and onto paper than burdening yourself with the task of remembering every single detail of what has to be done. This is especially useful if you’re super busy.

Setting priorities: Here’s how to work most effectively. As you are planning your day, first put everything to be accomplished on paper. Then, prioritize the activities with the most important task coming first and the least important task coming last. Work on the most important things first until completion. Then move on to the next task on your list. At the end of the day, no matter what, you will have worked on the first activity on your prioritized list. Incidentally, the apparent difference between high efficient people and low productivity people is how they manage their activities within the allotted time.

Goal setting: Goal setting is important in managing your activity to be done within the fixed time. Daily, weekly or monthly goals as the case may be will help you allocate time to the specific goals, which of course will help you know how your time is spent and how much can be accomplished.

Action plan: Someone said failing to plan is planning to fail. No one builds a house without first calculating how much it will cost, before jump-starting the building only to discover the lack of resources. To save time there must be action planned to getting the task done from the initial stages to the final stages.

Delegate: This is a method of sharing responsibility with eligible people with a view to enabling you focus your attention on and dedicates yourself to major issues within the framework of the activity to be accomplished. Learning to delegate tasks that can be done by others will free you up some time to concentrate on and get the most done.

Decision: Between you and the corresponding action to be taken is the decision to take action. You find that a lot of activities are left undone just because of indecision. As a result time is wasted. So as to manage your time a clear decision should be made and take action. Like NIKE; just do it.

Procrastination: This is one of the enemies of time management. You always have to push activities that should be done now forward or put on hold until it has piled up to the point where the stacks of things to be done is daunting to say the list.

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"Men and Women fail in their life not for lack of ability or brains, but simply because they have never organized their energies around a central goal."

Elmer Wheeler