Sunday 27 December 2020

Handy Hints To Land That New Job!



Most people watch 3 - 5 hours of screen time a day (although none of you, I'm sure, or you wouldn't be reading this article) and the kind of material they’re watching, doesn’t help improve their life one iota. 

The most successful people in life, get the most results - they’re result oriented.

Unsuccessful people waste most of their time. Unsuccessful people check emails, look at Facebook, Instagram, Tic Tok and all the rest, however they aren’t working. They aren’t improving their lot in life. They sleep in, they loaf around the house and then spend the minimum time they can at work, doing the minimum amount of work they can. 

With truly unsuccessful people, most of their time is wasted. Even busy people can fall into the trap of majoring in the minor. Instead of working on the trivial and unimportant, learn what you need to do to, get the most out of your day. 

If you want to be successful, when you go to work: work. Don’t chit chat, check your screens and the like. Work. This will get you noticed and help with promotions and pay rises. 

To be successful, you need to think more and make better decisions, take better action to grow yourself and your company. You need to be agreeable and have a pleasant manner.

Your most valuable asset is you. If you improve you, you can improve your earnings. Your earning ability is an asset, as long as you improve yourself and work hard.

If you don’t improve yourself, in ten years you’ll be in the same place you are now. If you want to increase your income, study your field well. 

Most people don’t learn after they leave school. If you want to stand out – work hard and study.

If you wish to apply for a job, look at the web site of the company you’d like to work in. Learn what it is they do and what they stand for. Go in with some knowledge and then when you have an interview, let them know you want to be the best in the field.

Ask, whether or not you get the job, what could you study to be the best in this particular job. Ask what do they recommend you read, or which is the best audio program you could listen to? Do they recommend any particular courses, or seminars? 

This shows your prospective new boss, you're keen for the position and you’re interested in doing a good job. When it comes to selection criteria, these questions put you well ahead of the field. 

Let the interviewer know you want to make a valuable contribution, to their company. Ask them, what one skill would they recommend you learn. Ask; how can you take action? Then act. 

Don’t be all talk and walk away. Let your new boss see, you’re true to your word. Follow their recommendations, even if you don’t get the job (conceivably there could be someone more qualified for the roll) and perhaps next time, you’ll be better prepared. 

10 hours each week, is all it takes to be the best at what you do, because no one else is doing it. There’s 168 hours in a week and if you work 38, you still have 130 hours; surely you can afford 10 hours to upgrade your skill level. 

Most high earners in the world today, started from nothing, to very little. They made it in the business world because they practised this one strategy and are probably still practicing it. Successful people never stop learning.  

We should all be working on developing a new skill, to go further in life. If you want to improve your life and your finances, you need to develop more and more skills, for the rest of your life too. 

If your income is not going up, it’s because you’re not working on yourself, to improve your skills. Learning new things and doing the hard work, is something you can do to improve your lot in life. No one is going to do it for you. You have to put in the effort.

Once you land the job, notice those who are successful in it and ask those who are successful, how they do it. Every single field has a success formula and if you do what other successful people do, you will become a success, as they are. 


Saturday 26 December 2020

Curry Chicken



 

Ingredients: 
1 tblsp olive oil
1 tblsp butter
2 onions chopped
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tblsp ginger
2 tsp curry powder
1 tsp chicken stock powder
2 tblsp tomato paste
4 Chicken breasts cut into 2 cm cubes
1 cup water
Pinch of salt, to taste
1 tin coconut cream
1 tblsp lemon juice
Chopped mint for garnish (to taste)
Serve with boiled rice

Method:
Heat oil and butter, add onions and cook until translucent.
Add garlic, ginger, curry and chicken stock powder. Mix well and cook until fragrant.
Mix in tomato paste and stir through.
Add chicken in batches (roughly a third at a time), so as not to boil the meat, but fry and cook each batch until lightly browned (cook for around 6-8 minutes). 
Add coconut cream and water. Bring to a rolling simmer. Taste at this point and if you feel it needs it; add salt. 
Squeeze in lemon juice and stir. 
Serve with rice and top with chopped mint.