Do you know anyone who over and over again makes poor choices in their life, in their business and particularly, in managing their time? Yes, you probably do. Have you ever found yourself struggling with a decision, not knowing what to do? Maybe you are faced with a poor performance employee who has been loyal yet you know they aren't working out. Or perhaps you are being offered a chance-of-a-lifetime opportunity, but deep in your gut you don't feel it is right.
Every day we are faced with making choices for our precious resources (time, people and money.) Those choices either align us with our vision, or distract us. What highly successful people do very early in their career is leverage the power of a mentor.
Now some of us don't have the luxury of a personal mentor, maybe you work alone or you feel that you can't afford your own coach. So here is the little known secret that will help you leverage the power of a mentor even if you are already working with a coach. Model the mindset, behavior and choices of successful people you admire. Here are some tips on how to model others.
Pick 3 to 5 successful people you admire. You don't have to know them, you just have to identify what it is that you admire about them. You don't have to love everything they do, but you probably respect parts of their life. One of the successful people I admire is Oprah Winfrey. Not just because of her show, but because of the way she runs her billion-dollar companies.
Identify the key strengths they offer. What does their model of success represent to you? What do they do well? How did they get where they are today? Read about your model or, if you can, interview them. Find out their inner secrets of success. There are many resources out there for learning about your models of success.
Create your virtual board-of-advisors. Once you have researched your models, create a ?virtual board? so you have access to them when you need them. You may hire a coach (I did), or perhaps you gather articles and books, or maybe your models are just images in your mind to visualize.
Learn to think like your mentor. When you don't know what to do, put on your ?mentor's thinking hat? and ask yourself, what would they do? When I get stuck, I think, ?What would Oprah do?? This gets you out of your own thinking and into a bigger playing field.
Act-as-if. Every successful person has emulated someone they admired along the way. Why? Because they have already done it. When you model the behavior of another person, you can short cut your path, eliminate problems, and resolve issues quickly. Act-as-if you are already that successful and you will notice HUGE shifts in your life.
This may sound simple, but research proves that using a model of success can improve your bottom line. Remember, 90% of our success is determined by our inner game. Our inner game has a huge impact on our outer results. One of the fastest ways to up-level our inner game is to start thinking like other successful people. Right now, while you are still thinking about it, pull out a piece of paper and put a line from the top to the bottom in the middle. One the left side, write down the people you might want to model. On the right side, write down what you respect about them. You now have your first modeling tool to help you form your virtual board-of-advisors.
Take action today to strengthen your inner game! Have fun with it! And as always, we would love to hear your successes with this technique.
My nails are thick, yellow and seem to have something growing underneath them. I'm not a dirty person, how did this happen? I get asked this question more times a week than I can count. Why do some people have nasty toenails that look like little mountains of yellow, thick rock? Fungus is the most common culprit! And most women's answer is to cover it in toenail polish until it spreads and becomes painful. Men just wear closed toed shoes and hide the problem. Either way, this common infection is often ignored until it becomes a real pain in the toes!
Toe nail fungus strikes across class, ethnic, age and hygiene lines. In fact, one study showed that almost 50% of people over the age of 40 have experienced some type of toenail fungus. Fungal infections are incredibly common, but are more prevalent in athletes (due to chronic toenail trauma from shoes) and the aged or infirmed (due to a decreased immune response).
Dermatophytes, also known as your typical athlete's foot fungus, is the same fungus that infects your toenails. Fungus loves a moist, warm, dark environment, like in your shoes between your toes. The toenails can have a whitish, chalky superficial infection or a yellow to brown discoloration under the toenails that seems to eat and destroy the nail as it grows. Long standing fungal toenail look like thick, brownish-yellow mountains growing on the end of your toes. The thickness makes them painful and susceptible to a secondary bacterial infection. This infection can be quite dangerous and has been linked to gangrene in diabetics.
How is toenail fungus diagnosed? Diagnosis of toenail fungus, or onychomycosis, can only be made by a toenail biopsy. Your podiatrist can take a small piece of the leading nail and send it for a special stain that shows the fungus. A PAS stain is usually faster and more accurate than a fungal culture, because often the fungus does not grow in the laboratory. Do not assume you have onychomycosis. Psoriasis and other skin disorders as well as chronic trauma can look like fungus. Also, a melanoma under the nails can mimic fungus, but can be deadly if there is a delay in diagnosis. If you suspect you have toenail fungus, don't delay, see your podiatrist today!
How can I prevent toenail fungus?
1. If you get regular pedicures, bring your own instruments or go to a spa that sterilizes their instruments in an autoclave (like our in-office spa, Health Steps DFW).
2. Clean your toenail clippers with alcohol before you use them if you do your own toenails and make sure to replace Emory boards and orange sticks regularly.
3. We also recommend you regularly clean your shoes with either antibacterial spray like Lysol or even better an antibacterial with an antifungal like Mycomist (Gordon Laboratories) at least once a month and dry them with a hairdryer.
4. Keep your feet clean and dry! Change your socks regularly (even a few times a day if you have sweaty feet).
5. Keep your athletic shoes dry and also change them regularly. If you exercise regularly, buy your athletic shoes a half size larger than your street shoes so you won't bash your toenails as your feet swell with exercise.
How is toenail fungus treated? There are all kinds of home remedies for toenail fungus, but most are just misinformation. I have never told my patients to use white iodine, Vic's Vaporub or organic cornmeal soaks on their toes. There is no evidence I can find that it works (If you know of any scientific evidence please send it to me).
Topical therapy should have some penetration of the nail plate like Formula 3 Tolnaftate oil (tetra Corp), Nailstat (Tripod Labs), or prescription (now generic Penlac) ciclopirox nail lacquer. This should be coupled with a nail treatment plan from your podiatrist.
If this doesn't work after several months, oral medication, like terbinafine (generic Lamisil) or itraconazole (generic Sporonox) may be needed. Toenails take at least 6 to 12 months to grow out no matter how you treat the fungal infection. A combination of oral and topical medication has the best long-term results, but still does not have a 100% cure rate. Relapse is also common, so it's important to play offense (treat the fungus) and defense (try to prevent the fungus) at the same time.
Don't ignore nail fungus...This is not just ugly toenails, it's an infection!
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