Buzy Bee?

Always on the run? Work fast, live fast, play fast......die fast? Over scheduled yourself? meetings after meetings, work after work? no life ? you are a rushaholic.

Here's a tip - DON'T DO THAT. You want to know why? you will accomplish less than what you really think. Do things more slowly. take your time to achieve something. Do it QUALITY not QUANTITY. How do you do it? Here's some tips...

1) You don't have to do EVERYTHING. Start to delegate your work. No, you are not superman. Say no to yourself first. Stop and think before you commit others of your time.

2) Take things slow - eat slow, walk slow, talk a little slower.

3) Patience. Don't rush things.

Practise - Good stuff don't come easy - take it easy.

How to "HIGHLIGHT" yourself

Question : How do you "highlight" yourself?

You ask a dozen of people, definitely you'll get a dozen different answers. Highlighting yourself well, in other words - you have to sell yourself. Wonder why you should do this?

Easy - by doing by SELLING yourself RIGHT, there are many advantages to you. No matter whether you are an executive, clerk, salesman, even a gargabe collector, there are advantages. Just think about it - by doing it right you can get people to follow your lead, trust you, love/like you or even adore you. Imagine what advantage that will give you.

So the hardest question - How do you do it right?

Personally, I think there is only one common answer to all answers given. It is Public Relation - I call it the 3Ps (nope, it's not the marketing 4Ps) - i.e. personal pleasant personality.

Here's what you can do when interacting with other people -

1) SMILE - yes, it's the most simplest mode of getting people to notice how nice you are. Smiling is contagious, but remember do it sincerely.

2) Always think POSITIVE about the person you are interacting with - hence when you see their POSITIVENESS (regardless of whether they are complaining, whining etc) - automatically you will SMILE and vise versa. Simple, eh?

3) Don't BOAST yourself - regardless whether you are a PHD holder or a CEO of a multinational company - just be MODEST.

4) Be CONSIDERATE to the person you interact with, no matter who they are. How you treat that person will actually show your inner self - especially to those person of lower ranks of you or those people who 'don't read good'.

5) Withhold your opinions and ideas on sensitive issues - yep, this is very important as if you start to show your smartness, people will just block you off. Rather, you just listen and try to understand their point of view. This way you will be able to avoid potential arguements, making it much easier for you to convince people with your ideas. Easy, right?

Use these 5 guidelines in your daily life and you will see the differences on how people will look and interact with you. Start practising & good luck.

Cheers.

Tips - Keep your MANNERS on the PHONE

Yes....I am PRETTY SURE that most of us all had experiences with not friendly 'Hellos' from the other side of the phone line. I personally get lots of that when I was doing sales back in the 90s. Funny it seems that we the callers seem to be seen as the PROBLEM that caused the receiver to become RUDE, BORED, IN A HURRY or just plain irritating.

Sometimes I caught myself - well, being not friendly to those who called me up - I presume it may be seen as intrusion or interruption to our work.

I've read in a research done somewhere, that if you smile while saying hello and talking to the phone - the tone will be different! Pretty useful for you salespeople out there and those people wanting to 'wow' the opposite sex.

You don't have to look up the research paper - try it yourself - record your voice while smiling. You will notice the differences!

Well, here's a tip - Place a mirror near your phone, and see yourself smiling while talking - it does wonders!