No need to tell, but almost all of us need a planner. The human race has invented at least every kind of name for a planner. There's a daily planner, a weekly planner, a monthly planner, a yearly planner, holiday planners, electronic planners, game night planners and so goes on the list.
Indeed, our craze for getting organized and up to date has spilled over and now; we even have real people who use the concept of planning as a job. We now have party planners, wedding planners, business planners, and even funeral planners.
Today's lifestyle revolves around schedules and plans. Most of the time, we even have to arrange our schedule and make some plans in seeing our own family members. And for that, there are many possible ways of organizing our daily lives without the hassle of hiring a secretary.
For people who are always on the move or striding in an active lifestyle, a daily planner is such a chore to carry around. Imagine having to lug around a planner just for you to check up if your still schedule. Electronic daily planners, PDAs (personal digital assistant) and computer notebooks were specifically designed for active people.
These modern-day electronic planners and diaries are lightweight and compact that they readily available anywhere that you go. This type of personal planner gives you the freedom to do the things you want to do without the hassle of carrying around thing a lot of paper.
And because of the advancement in technology, mobile phones are now equipped with the capability of being a PDA too. Mobile phones today are also capable of sending and receiving emails and surfing the web.
The technology was integrated to phones with the same thing in the developers mind; how to make life a lot less complicated and still be able the schedule.
Moving to schedules again, there are some people that are just not yet ready to accept the fast changing hues of modern living and would rather be left to their devices and their lifestyle in the cavemen ages.
These people are usually uptight and too formal even for their own good. These kinds of people are always buried up to their noses staring at the bulky daily planners that they still carry around even though the leaves are already discolored and have turned brown with age.
For them it's still the Old school, because there's no school like the old school, as they would have it. The good old hardbound daily planner still manages their daily lives and keeps them promptly in schedule. Not taking anything from them or the old bloke, the old school planner still has its share of avid fans and screaming admirers.
True as it may seem that paperless is the way to go right now, there is no stopping millions of middle-aged executives from getting bulks of daily planners to be given out of course during the holiday season.
Besides being the perfect gift idea for people who have less time to custom fit every gift for everyone he knows, the daily planner is also a good way for you to be remembered because every time that they are late for a meeting they have you and your gift planner to thank for it. So, plan ahead and get a planner now.
If that's the case we each have the ability to manifest the genius within. Imagine how we could change life then and experience living beyond limits . Motivation seems to have many of us playing red light-green light. We're on, then off. Check out the following steps to keep the fire burning.
1- Be in tune to what lights your fire~ Dr Carol Dweck*, who received her PhD in psychology from Yale, and is currently on staff at Stanford University has studied motivation and offered the following, "... when you sift through the literature on creative genius, the researchers agree that motivation is perhaps the number one component in the realization of genius. Many of our most illustrious geniuses in every field were people who were considered ordinary as children, and then just caught fire around their topic and achieved amazing things that we know about today-from Darwin, to Coleridge, to Cè(c)zanne. All of these people were not necessarily extraordinary children." What provides the emotional charge that makes it easy to take action? List the topics, ideals, information, music, activities, causes, and passions that get you wound up? This is part of who you are, different from others, that deserves to manifest and be shared.
2- Get your daily dose~ Fill yourself up with the stuff that keeps your flame lit. Don't think about what you "should" do. Do what makes you feel great! Incorporate joy into your schedule daily. First, you will feel more energized, more complete, and in flow. Secondly, you stand apart from others. So if you hate building your business by cold calling, don't do it. What do you enjoy? If you are uncomfortable networking, shifting your focus to helping others may make a big difference if that's what you value. Filling your mind with exciting information, listening to uplifting music, or connecting with someone who inspires you may be just the daily habit to keep you whistling while you work.
3- Take responsibility to motivate yourself~ As motivational speaker Zig Ziglar would hear complaints about motivation wearing off he would sometimes respond saying, "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily." Too often we are looking for someone or something to provide motivation when it's really up to us to keep that spark ignited.
What makes you jump out of bed in the morning? What inspires you into action daily so that the genius in you is manifested fully? Ponder that. Starting Now!* The interview with Dr. Carol Dweck, PhD, can be read .
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