Focus is perhaps one of the most crucial qualities to develop when it comes to bringing your best to work. When you’re focused, you can get incredible amounts of work done in short periods of time. Focus makes staying on task easy. And there’s one question in particular you can ask yourself that’s supposed to…
Why Your Time is Valuable With so many things on your to do list, you can appreciate why time is so valuable. With the phone ringing every couple of minutes or somebody just stopping your production with a little ‘chit chat”, you are constantly reminded of just how fast the end of the day is…
Can “Baby Steps” Help You Achieve Your Goals? As Neil Armstrong steped off off the space shuttle, he uttered these words, “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.” If you can remember that historic first walk on the moon’s surface, you will understand why baby steps or just one small step at…
How to Let Go of Negative Thoughts Have you by chance possessed a negative thought? Have you ever before expressed it out loud, even in jest? Some of us have. More importantly, more reguarily than we would like to confess. Adverse thoughts can be harmful not only to our self- esteem, but can begin a…
5 Surprising Facts About Your Heart I talk a lot about heart, here at Monk At Work. In fact, it’s one of the things I talk about the most. But the heart I’m talking about is not just the heart of compassionate action, as in, “I want to hit my sales goal, but when I…
Defining Your Purpose, The importance of finding meaning in lifeWhat Is Life Purpose? One of the great distinctions that has come out of examining our Purpose, for me, has been the awareness that I have some definite core qualities that emanate into whatever I do. What I do may change, where I go always changes,…
Father Knows Best — Here’s the Greatest Advice We Got From Our Dads My dad’s my hero. He’s loved me when I wasn’t lovable. He’s encouraged me when I needed encouragement. He’s challenged me. He’s supported me and has provided me with a guiding example. He has made me laugh, and is to this day…
What is Carrot and Stick Motivation (and What’s a Better Way) To be motivated, we either need a whip from behind or the enticement of a carrot from the front. I don’t know about you, but I’d choose the carrot time and time again. But maybe there is a better way. I must admit that…
The very act of creation might be defined as inventing something new, making something from nothing. Mining the daily realities of our lives for creative opportunities, we teach our children to do the same. We can find fun in unlikely places as we approach seemingly humdrum activities with joy and imagination. Dealing with boredom and…
Self-Improvement: Myth or Reality? Unveiling the Truth Behind Personal Growth A few weekends ago, my wife, Rachelle, and I had one of ‘those’ conversations… Anyone who has been married for a while automatically appreciates the perennial sex-money-parenting challenges inherent in marriage. Rachelle and I do a pretty good job of communicating on these issues. Still,…
How can I go far beyond my thinking capability? ‘Aim beyond what you are capable of.’ Paul Arden Each of us has been endowed with gifts and talents peculiar to any other person, and you and I don’t have a clue of what we are capable of until we try. Someone once challenged me to…
The Power Within Self-Control is Strength, Calmness is Mastery ‘Self control is strength; Right thought is mastery; Calmness is power.’ James Allen I have never been impressed by the flamboyant, the bombastic nor the self promoters. I have never been moved by the foul-mouthed, the showmen nor the vile. What moves me are those who…
20 Tips to Improve Your Concentration The Power Of Concentration written and published by Theron Q. Dumont in 1918 is a powerful book that deals with a subject that is necessary for any forward movement in our lives. Following is the introductory along with a summary of the 20 lessons contained within this volume. Download…
Depressive Suppression: Effects of Emotion Suppression on Multiple Emotions for Depressed Versus Nondepressed Individuals When one of my business relationships failed and I resigned as director of the company, my life plunged into despair and misery. In retrospect, I can now see that I was in fact going through a period of mourning. There had…
Why It’s Important to Have High Self-Esteem The more I study successful people, the more I realise that success, or rather success as we perceive it and have thrust upon us via the media, is an incredibly fleeting thing. The True Nature Of Success To me, success that lasts a moment and then turns into…