Motivation on the Run

I discovered something interesting in searching for examples of personal mission statements on the Internet. Almost all of the examples I found are from career services. It seems they are the place where a personal mission statement makes all the difference. Here are parts of several located on the web. The first are from Quintessential [...]

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Jerry Pounds has written an interesting, if not controversial set of articles at the Management Issues website. I’m not sure I agree with some of what he says, but he does bring up some very interesting points that should spur conversation, at the very least. There are shots at Six Sigma and TQM styles of [...]

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“We live in a Knowledge Worker Age but operate our organizations in a controlling Industrial Age model that absolutely suppresses the release of human potential.” Stephen R. Covey for The 8th Habit. Companies seem locked into “old school selling” even in the twenty-first century. Why is that? Business is growing and maturing in most industries [...]

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This week on Motivation on the Run, I begin the journey to delve into my past and discover who I am and who I really want to be. Really! I have accepted the chanllenge to develop a Personal Mission Statement and decided to let you watch the process. On this episode, I cover a few [...]

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In researching for my Personal Mission Statement, I discovered the website Quintessential Careers and a great article on creating your mission statement. In the article, many different aspects are covered from defining to creating. Their focus is on the job seeker, but the information applies to me also. They emphsize the importance for defining core [...]

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Since David Allen’s, Getting Things Done, is responsible for this exercise to develop a personal mission statement, I thought it should be conducted as such. I have entered a PROJECT into Outlook Tasks: Develop a Personal Mission Statement. Then I entered these next actions in Computer – Web; Research PMS to determine good definition Research [...]

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What is your personal mission statement? What, you haven’t invested the time to work out that small detail of your life? When were you planning on doing it … when it’s too late? I admit, I am one of those that’s never taken time to think through a personal mission statement. I know, I know [...]

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Welcome to another edition of Motivation on the Run. This week we’re brought to you by all the fine folks over at Motivation on the Run where motivation is project one. So head on over and support our sponsors This week I give an update on reading Getting Things Done, the David Allen book and [...]

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Carl Rotenberg writes about the qualities of a leader in this article in The Times Herald. The information comes from a new book written by Peter J. Dean, titled, Leadership for Everyone. Mr. Dean teaches a course on leadership at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and American College. There is enough in this article [...]

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Brian Tubbs shares a bit of history with us in the article about Benjamin Franklin, the first success guru. Brian points to the contributions of Franklin and builds this article around a few of the sayings that have become commonplace today. This is a good, if not too brief, look at one of the success [...]

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