Live Life by Design: Day 4 — Find Your Talents

Live Life By Design: Day 5 — What Are You Passionate About?

The 10 Commandments of Effective Leadership

10 Commandments of Effective Leadership by T.D. Jakes from SajiGroup International

Happy New Year — How to Live by Design and Make the New Year Your Best Year Ever

The first of January is one of the most celebrated holidays in the world. It's a time we wish family and friends a Happy New Year, with balloons, confetti, fireworks, food, music, dance, and parties.

Like billions of people around the world, you too will likely make some New Year resolutions and promise yourself to start doing some good things and start doing some bad things.

If, like me, you are a Christian, you will probably be at a watch-night service on New Year's eve to make declarations and pray over your New Year resolutions. Unfortunately, many stop at declaration bus stop, and never make it to their goal because they have no strategic plan and are unwilling to do what is necessary to make the New Year a Happy New Year indeed.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan." — Jim Rohn

The New Year will not be a Happy New Year if you celebrate it with an old you. I will be discussing various strategies you can develop to make your New Year a Happy New Year and your best year ever, so you want subscribe to my newsletter to make sure you don’t miss any of these strategies. Here is #1: continue reading

How to empower people and extend your influence as a leader

Empowerment is giving your influence to others for the purpose of personal and organizational growth. Successful leaders delegate power and share their influence, position, and power with others.

If you are burnt out, stressed, and tired, you are probably not delegating authority and empowering those around you to take charge; you are insecure and afraid of someone taking your job.

Besides helping you as a leader to work with and through people, empowering and investing in people can help them reach their potential.

No matter how much work you can do, no matter how engaging your personality may be, you will not advance far in business if you cannot work through others — John Craig

When you decide to empower people, Leadership guru John C. Maxwell said “your goal in the beginning should be to hand over relatively small, simple tasks to the people you wish to empower and progressively increase the responsibility and authority.

Here are 7 foolproof ways to empower people: continue reading...

Excerpt from John C. Maxwell's Book: Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know.

There is no night shift in life

How many hours make one day? 24 hours? 12 hours?

If you answer 24 to the above question, you might be wrong—very wrong! There is no night shift in life because 24 hours do not make 1 day. So, stop procrastinating on life's most important tasks, you don't have that much time.

The belief that 24 hours make one day has robbed billions of people of their destiny—they waste precious time during the day, procrastinating on important tasks, doing useless work, and dedicating too much time to their work life while investing nothing in their life work.

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The U.S. Government Shutdown — Why the Government Shutdown is Good For You

For the first time since 1995, the U.S Government officially shutdown today due to the inability of Congress to approve a spending bill. The government shutdown will force about 800,000 government workers to take unpaid time off. While government shutdown might not be the best for your work life—if you are affected, it might be the best time to reflect on your life work.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why — Mark Twain

If you are affected by the government shutdown, take this time to reflect on who you are, why you are born, and what you are here to contribute. Here are five ways you can make the government shutdown work for you:

Take advantage of the government shutdown to re-ignite your passion

If you are not very passionate about your job, the government shutdown might be your opportunity to really take some time to think about what you love, what you have keen interest in, and activities you know you can pursue with passionate obsession.

If your job does not get you excited, it might be an indication that you should be somewhere else doing something different. Are you enthusiastic on your job? Are you happy when you are carrying out the tasks and the activities on your job? If you are not very happy with your job, if you are making money but not making progress, and if you are not fulfilled even after giving more than 8 hours to your job, it’s time to look within you to really discover what you are passionate about... continue reading