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. 

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. 

Focus

 

Focus: One simple word, but not so simple to achieve. 

How do we achieve focus?

We start with a plan and don’t deviate from the plan. Without a plan, we get nowhere in life. Sure, occasionally we may fluke it, but do you want to live with the occasional fluke, or live with intention?

We need to stop time wasters. We need to stop mindless use of screen time; tv, iPad, computers, phones. Get serious about your intention, lay aside your screen time and your focus will improve. 

If you lay aside your screen time, you’ll have more ideas, new ideas, more plans and thoughts of your future and how it could look.

What does it take to focus and how does technology influence our ability to focus? We focus on 1 thing for 40 seconds, before our mind moves on and we easily become distracted. 

It’s not that our brains are distracted, it’s that our brains are overstimulated. When we’re hyper stimulated, short bursts of information keep our focus on the wrong things. Be intentional about what you want in life and bring all your focus toward that. Stop procrastinating and start doing. 

We’re easily bored and we like to be stimulated, however I’ve heard it said (although I can’t remember where), it takes 8 days for our minds to fully relax.

When we let our attention rest, we can begin to think about the past, the present and the future. Now there’s not anything we can do about our past, so let it go. Don’t waste time thinking about what could have been. 

However, the present and the future are in our hands. These we can do something about. Present and future is something we can direct and change.  

We need to let our mind rest, so it can sort problems and bring answers. That’s why, when we’re taking a shower, or going for a country drive, ideas come to us.

Find a hobby that calms you. Perhaps it’s knitting, or taking a bath, or photography. Anything you find relaxing.

While you’re relaxing, your mind will go to the areas that you need it too and it will be more creative.

Always keep a notebook handy and write those ideas, because it’s easy to lose them. Ideas flit through our mind and out again, in no time at all. 

When we think about intention, we think we need to fit more in, but in all actuality we’re doing enough. We’re doing so much, our minds don’t wander any more.

We like to think of distraction as the enemy of focus. The enemy of focus is not distraction, but overstimulation. Become less stimulated and the ideas will flow.

Have a disconnection procedure every evening, say 8 pm to 8 am and a sabbath every Sunday. After all, how important is what you’re doing anyway? Does it need to be all consuming? 

Rediscover boredom. Lay on the lounge and let your mind wander. If you feel you don’t have the time for all this relaxation, give yourself just 20 minutes a day. Allow yourself time to rest and renew and you’ll feel so much more revitalised. 

Yes, there are times when you need to take the bull by the horns and dive in, but life is meant to be lived with joy and peace, not all this frantic racing around in circles, getting nowhere fast. 

Learn what others did, to overcome their issues in life. Take years off the learning process, by following those who’ve gone before you and take time to smell the roses along the way. 

You might just be surprised at how much more you can achieve, when your focus is in the right areas. 

Bacon and Beans

                              Serves 2. 

       Cooking time; less than 30  minutes.

     Light in calories, but not light on flavour.

      Quick and easy for breakfast, or lunch.

Ingredients:

1 tsp olive oil

2 rashers bacon

1 tin 4 bean mix

½ tsp garlic

2 tblsp cottage cheese

1 zucchini

1 tblsp grated parmesan

Salt and pepper to taste

1 tblsp parsley

Method;

Heat fry pan on medium and add olive oil.

Dice bacon and begin to cook, until it starts to brown.

While the bacon is cooking, add the garlic to the pan.

Drain and rinse beans and add to pan, tossing all ingredients together.

Mix through the cottage cheese, salt, pepper and parmesan and heat through. 

Using a spiralizer, spiralize the zucchini. If you don’t have a spiralizer, you can just grate the zucchini and add this to the bacon and bean mix, stirring gently until warmed through. 

Serve onto platter and top with chopped, fresh parsley.

A little sage advice...

If you feeling a little low, I have a little sage advice for you, because in the past I've been where you are and I hope you don't mind and I hope it helps...Tony Robbins is, I believe, one of the greatest motivational speakers in the world. He's always upbeat and people constantly ask how he remains so upbeat in life. His reply is; “I do get down, I just don't stay there.”

22 years ago I wrote down what I considered my ideal day. These days I'm living what I wrote all those years ago and I did it by listening to the experts, people like Tony Robbins. And occasionally I do have my down moments, but I don't stay there.

Happiness is our choice and our responsibility. At the end of the day, are you going to say - I wish I had, or I'm glad I did?

Following the experts can take 10, even 20 years off your learning processes.

Where the Bible says take every thought captive, it means "every thought." Our thoughts can run away with us, into negativity and darkness. When we're not taking our thoughts captive, it's like having horses and a carriage, where the driver has lost to control and the horses have bolted and they're heading in all directions. The carriage is going to crash, sooner or later.

When we take control of our thoughts, we take control of our destiny and can shape that destiny to be anything we want it to be. I know because I've done it.

There's no excuses either. In life we either make an effort, or make an excuse. The choice is ours to make. God gives us freedom of choice and sitting on the sidelines, won't make it happen. We can sow the seeds of what we want in life and if we stick with it, watering, fertilizing, pruning and trimming, we will eventually see the result we're after.

 

It's taken me 22 years to get where I am. It doesn't take that long for everybody. I think I was just so low when I started, that I had a longer climb ahead of me than others, plus I didn't know anyone who's done it, so I didn't know if there was truth in what I was doing and that made me double-minded at times.

If I knew then, what I know now, I'd believe more readily. At least you know someone who's done it - me - that might make it easier for you to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Hopefully these words bring some encouragement and not condemnation, because when we're feeling low, it's easy to think to ourselves; here I am, doing it wrong again. But that's not my intention. Life is a joy and a great blessing, but we can only have that, if we're willing to work for it. I want to see you live the life of your dreams, not living a life of torment.

As I said, I've been where you are. I've also broken free and love the life I have now. It may have taken me over 20 years, but I've heard of people who have done it in as little as 2 years, so don't think this will take forever...just believe, then take action and it will happen.

Work out what it is that makes you happy and go for it. Don’t ever quit, until you achieve what you set out to achieve. 

I often say to people, if I had the chance to live my life over, I would believe more readily. Anyway, I hope these few words help and perhaps lift your spirits somewhat. Sent to you with much love. 

Seasons of life...

No matter how bleak the winter, spring invariably follows. If it's tough for you today, remember seasons come and go and the sun will shine again. Be patient, be brave and keep putting one step in front of the other. You will make it!

Mountain top experiences...

There’s beauty all around us. Sometimes we just need to open our eyes to it. 

Sometimes we’ve got to climb out of the hole we’ve dug for ourselves and make the effort to get to the top of the mountain. It’s a much better vista from up there. 

If you want the mountain top experiences in life, you’re the only one who can do it. You’re the only one who can put in the effort, to reach the summit. 

There will be challenges and difficulties on the way to the top, but if you dig deep and push through, you’ll get there. 

It all happens, one step at a time. One step today and another step tomorrow and before you know it, you’ll have that mountain top experience. 

Go for it! Do it! And remember; you’re stronger than you know.