Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it's almost impossible to make others happy if you're not happy yourself.
With that in mind, here are nine small changes that you can make to your daily routine that, if you're like most people, will immediately increase the amount of happiness in your life...
For the past two decades, I've been interviewing and observing successful C-level executives to discover the secrets of their success.
In a previous post, I documented the core beliefs of extraordinary bosses. Now it's time for something more tactical--the simple ground rules for managing a team effectively:
Creativity is the result of how you think. Practicing the habits of creative thinking allows you to break the barrier of what’s achievable. Better freelancing skills, better clients, and the ability to get through tough situations are just a few of the things creative thinking brings.
According to a global study by Adobe, “only 1 in 4 believe they are living up to their creative potential.” That’s a sad fact due to what’s truly possible. But what’s the good news here? Well, freelancers know how important the strive for creativity is. Plus we have the opportunity to create all day long.
We may sometimes be interrupted by invoicing a client or getting organized, but creative minds always find time to be creative.
Whether you’re stuck in a creative rut or you want to maximize your creative thinking potential, here are the habits of creative thinkers to learn from.
Having the right set of habits is the key to your blog’s success on the Internet.
If you’re like me, you constantly obsess over improving your blog by reading through hundreds of blog tip articles and follow the progress of popular bloggers religiously. You’re always on the lookout for some new plugin, code snippet, color scheme, typeface, ad placement, or writing technique that will help get that extra subscription or organic visitor.
While this is a great way to find out what’s new and trending in the blogging world, it’s important to keep a set of good habits in place to make sure you stay productive and on task. Design, SEO, and writing tips will vary from blogger to blogger, but the mindset, or mental habits, tend to stay the same.
Facebook being a social network is an assembly ground for all sorts of people. At times we forget that it’s Facebook, a place where you can unwind, and do silly things, post pictures and funny statuses and make fun of friends – in essence, have a good time in. Then there are other people who do the oddest of things which are nothing but a source of petty annoyances.
As you read my half-hearted pleas to these individuals, see if any of them are familiar sights on your Facebook wall.
Want to change an old habit? You probably should: One study determined that over 40% of the "decisions" we make every day aren't really decisions.
They're habits.
Much of the time we don't really make decisions. We do what we've done before, and that makes us less productive, less effective, less healthy and fit—less everything—than we could be.
So what can we do? Change an old habit into a new habit.
The most successful salespeople are always experts at working with the people in their own firm. They make certain that their company provides the right products, the right support and the right hand-holding, so that the customer has the best experience possible.
Some salespeople, however, have exactly the wrong idea. They see the people in their own firm (including their own management) as obstacles or as irrelevant. As a result, they end up irritating the very people who will keep customer happy.
Times, they are a’changing.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., the pre-Wikipedia warehouse of knowledge, announced that they are ceasing production of books for the first time in 244 years and going completely digital.
Ever wonder what makes those wacky, creative types tick? How is it that some people seem to come up with all kinds of interesting, original work while the rest of us trudge along in our daily routines?
Creative people are different because they operate a little differently.
Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons couldn't have shocked the public more after he posted a graphic video of himself — accompanied by a small posse -- killing an elephant in Zimbabwe.
The documented hunt was supposedly conducted to target three elephants that were causing problems for farmers in the area. The video depicted someone shooting the animal in the dark before local villagers scramble to divide the carcass for food.
Whether you are a freelance graphic designer or a web designer, you both face the same challenges in freelancing. Both deal with clients, do their own accounting and even marketing. There are so many things that a freelancer has to do and has to take note of in order to be successful in freelancing. When we speak of competition, there are really so many other designers who will also be very much willing to work for a certain client. Hence, freelancing is not as easy as other people think it is.
Most of us need to exercise more. Being active isn’t just important when you’re trying to lose weight – exercising regularly also means you’ll have a decreased risk of heart disease, diabetes, strokes and even some cancers.
I’ve picked up a lot of new mentoring clients since I changed my price and timing structure, and I’m starting to recognize a common refrain:
New writers second-guess themselves all the time.
After the encouraging response we received from our previous post, “7 Habits of Successful Logo Designers”, we decided to get some feedback from our community as to what they think would constitute a good 8th habit for logo designers. We received a lot of great suggestions on our FaceBook page, and we concluded that good time management rightly deserved to be the 8th Habit.
