Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, der täglich sie erobern muß. (Faust)
http://www.gutzitiert.de/zitat_autor_johann_wolfgang_von_goethe_thema_taetigkeit_483.html
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Declutter your Mind
Declutter Your Mind
http://www.lifeorganizers.com/Organize-Your-Wellness-/The-Organized-Mind/Declutter-Your-Mind.html
http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/15-cant-miss-ways-to-declutter-your-mind/ :
Choose a few to try out, and see if they work for you.
1. Breathe. So simple, and yet so effective. Take a few deep breaths, and then for a few minutes, just focus on your breathing. Concentrate on your breathing as it comes into your body, and then as it goes out. It has a calming effect, especially if you continue to return your focus to your breath when your mind strays. It also allows other thoughts to just float away. (Note: some people might call this meditation, but that word scares some people off, so we’re just going to call it breathing.)
2. Write it down. If you have a bunch of things on your mind, it helps to get them on paper and off your mind. This is one of the essential habits in Zen To Done (and GTD, of course) … writing down your tasks and ideas. This keeps your head from being filled with everything you need to do and remember.
3. Identify the essential. This one is practically a mantra here at Zen Habits. (Can you imagine it? All of us here at Zen Habits, sitting on a mat in lotus position, chanting slowly: “Identify the essential … identify … the essen … tial …”) But that’s because it’s crucial to everything I write about: if you want to simplify or declutter, the first step is identifying what is most important. In this case, identify what is most important in your life, and what’s most important for you to focus on right now. Make a short list for each of these things.
4. Eliminate. Now that you’ve identified the essential, you can identify what’s not essential. What things in your life are not truly necessary or important to you? What are you thinking about right now that’s not on your short list? By eliminating as many of these things as possible, you can get a bunch of junk off your mind.
5. Journal. Similar to “write it down” above, but with a little more depth. Journaling (whether it’s in a paper journal or online doesn’t matter) helps you explore different areas of your life that you don’t think about much. And this exploration might allow you to find some things on your mind that you didn’t realize were there, some things that can be eliminated or pursued. And just getting these thoughts into some kind of a journal is a way of getting them out of your mind as well.
6. Rethink your sleep. Sometimes we aren’t getting enough sleep, or our sleeping patterns aren’t ideal. I’m not saying that you should change your sleeping patterns, but sometimes it can do wonders. And if you don’t give it some thought, you won’t realize how much your sleep (or lack thereof) is affecting you.
7. Take a walk. Getting outside and doing some kind of physical activity is a great way to get stuff off your mind. I like to run or do yardwork, but whatever you do doesn’t matter. Spending some physical energy clears the mind.
8. Watch less TV. For me, television doesn’t relax me, although it might seem that vegging in front of the TV is good for relaxation. TV fills your head with noise, without the redeeming qualities of music or reading or good conversation. Watch less TV, and you’ll notice your mind begin to quieten.
9. Get in touch with nature. Similar to “take a walk” above, but without the bustle of activity. I like to go somewhere with water … the ocean, a river, a lake, even just a man-made fountain if nothing else is available. Or watching rain does the trick for me too. Somehow this can be calming and focusing at the same time.
10. Do less. Take your to-do list and cross off half the things on it. Just pick a few things to get done today, and focus on those. Let the rest go away. If you do less, you’ll have less on your mind.
11. Go slower. Seems kinda weird, I know, but walking and talking and working and driving slower can make a very big difference. It’s kind of like you’re saying, “I’m not willing to rush through life, no matter what artificial time demands others are putting on me. I want to take it at my pace.” And as a result, your mind is less harried as well.
12. Let go. Worrying about something? Angry about somebody? Frustrated? Harboring a grudge? While these are all natural emotions and thoughts, none of them are really necessary. See if you can let go of them. More difficult than it sounds, I know, but it’s worth the effort.
13. Declutter your surroundings. I’ve mentioned this before, but decluttering my desk or my home have a way of calming me. Having a lot of stuff around you is just visual clutter — it occupies part of your mind, even if you don’t realize it.
14. Single-task. Multi-tasking, for the most part, is a good way to fill your mind with a lot of activity without a lot of productivity or happiness as a result. Instead, try to single-task — just focus on one task at a time. Clear away everything else, until you’re done with that task. Then focus on the next task, and so on.
15. Get a load off. Sometimes it can make a huge difference to unload our troubles on another human being. If you have a significant other or a best friend or a close family member or coworker … unload your thoughts on them. And listen to them, to return the favor. Sure, it’s just talk … but it can make a huge difference to your mental sanity.
http://www.lifeorganizers.com/Organize-Your-Wellness-/The-Organized-Mind/Declutter-Your-Mind.html
Two types of detritus clog our spirits: Physical stuff and emotional or mental minutia. Learn to declutter your mind to achieve more control, sanity and clarity in your life.
Declutter Your Life
De-cluttering your physical space can have an amazingly uplifting effect on your mood. Feng Shui experts claim that buildings and furniture store the memories of events in the form of energy, and that by de-cluttering you can clear the energy of historic traumatic events. Whether or not you put any store in that kind of theory, nobody who has ever de-cluttered a space could deny the positive benefits of increasing the physical space in their environment.
However, physical de-cluttering can also have a cathartic effect on people emotionally. When we let go of things we've been hoarding for a long time, we often let go of emotional memories we've been hanging onto along with them (albeit unconsciously), and so by clearing physical clutter you can clear space in your head and in your heart as well as your home.
Clutter though is not only physical. We can also have mental and emotional clutter blocking the flow of energy in our lives, and clearing this out is guaranteed to help improve our emotional wellbeing. Examples include undone/unfinished tasks; people/activities that drain you of energy; remaining angry at people; busyness - filling up your schedule with activities you feel duty-bound to do, and leaving no time to nourish your soul and refresh your body.
Divide everything into four piles: Keep, Recycle, Donate and Dump. As soon as you're done, remove the items that aren't staying straight away and deliver them to their new destination.
• Once your big clear out is done, avoid a new build up by clearing out little and often.
Tips for clearing your Mental/Emotional Clutter:
• Make a list of anything you've been procrastinating over, and ask yourself why you have been putting it off. What can you tackle and what can you let go of? When you're clear on what you definitely has to be done, make a plan and get to it.
• Stop worrying. There is nothing constructive about worrying - it won't help you avoid the outcome you're worrying about and it'll destroy your ability to enjoy the present. When a worrying thought arises, quash it straight away and sing along with me "Everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright..." Focus your energy on what you'd like to happen instead.
• Follow through on promises and commitments. When you've said you'll do something but you keep putting it on the long finger, it drains you of energy. If you can't or don't want to see them through, then be upfront about it and withdraw your promise.
• Let go of anger and forgive. When somebody hurts you badly, it's a normal response to feel anger, and to not want to forgive. But anger is bad for your health, both physical and emotional, so it's actually in your interests to let it go and forgive the other person. Forgiving them doesn't mean you have to welcome them back into your life with open arms, it just means letting go of the memory of what they've done to you and the feelings that go with it. Maybe the other person doesn't deserve forgiveness, but don't you deserve to move on and leave the pain behind?
• Say no to people and activities that drag you down. Instead, surround yourself with people who uplift you and do things that make you feel great!
As with your physical clear out, don't make this a once-off project or an irregular purge. Develop clutter free habits in every aspect of your life, and you will enjoy an easier flow through life on a continuous basis.
http://www.lifeorganizers.com/Organize-Your-Wellness-/The-Organized-Mind/Declutter-Your-Mind.html
http://zenhabits.net/2007/12/15-cant-miss-ways-to-declutter-your-mind/ :
Choose a few to try out, and see if they work for you.
1. Breathe. So simple, and yet so effective. Take a few deep breaths, and then for a few minutes, just focus on your breathing. Concentrate on your breathing as it comes into your body, and then as it goes out. It has a calming effect, especially if you continue to return your focus to your breath when your mind strays. It also allows other thoughts to just float away. (Note: some people might call this meditation, but that word scares some people off, so we’re just going to call it breathing.)
2. Write it down. If you have a bunch of things on your mind, it helps to get them on paper and off your mind. This is one of the essential habits in Zen To Done (and GTD, of course) … writing down your tasks and ideas. This keeps your head from being filled with everything you need to do and remember.
3. Identify the essential. This one is practically a mantra here at Zen Habits. (Can you imagine it? All of us here at Zen Habits, sitting on a mat in lotus position, chanting slowly: “Identify the essential … identify … the essen … tial …”) But that’s because it’s crucial to everything I write about: if you want to simplify or declutter, the first step is identifying what is most important. In this case, identify what is most important in your life, and what’s most important for you to focus on right now. Make a short list for each of these things.
4. Eliminate. Now that you’ve identified the essential, you can identify what’s not essential. What things in your life are not truly necessary or important to you? What are you thinking about right now that’s not on your short list? By eliminating as many of these things as possible, you can get a bunch of junk off your mind.
5. Journal. Similar to “write it down” above, but with a little more depth. Journaling (whether it’s in a paper journal or online doesn’t matter) helps you explore different areas of your life that you don’t think about much. And this exploration might allow you to find some things on your mind that you didn’t realize were there, some things that can be eliminated or pursued. And just getting these thoughts into some kind of a journal is a way of getting them out of your mind as well.
6. Rethink your sleep. Sometimes we aren’t getting enough sleep, or our sleeping patterns aren’t ideal. I’m not saying that you should change your sleeping patterns, but sometimes it can do wonders. And if you don’t give it some thought, you won’t realize how much your sleep (or lack thereof) is affecting you.
7. Take a walk. Getting outside and doing some kind of physical activity is a great way to get stuff off your mind. I like to run or do yardwork, but whatever you do doesn’t matter. Spending some physical energy clears the mind.
8. Watch less TV. For me, television doesn’t relax me, although it might seem that vegging in front of the TV is good for relaxation. TV fills your head with noise, without the redeeming qualities of music or reading or good conversation. Watch less TV, and you’ll notice your mind begin to quieten.
9. Get in touch with nature. Similar to “take a walk” above, but without the bustle of activity. I like to go somewhere with water … the ocean, a river, a lake, even just a man-made fountain if nothing else is available. Or watching rain does the trick for me too. Somehow this can be calming and focusing at the same time.
10. Do less. Take your to-do list and cross off half the things on it. Just pick a few things to get done today, and focus on those. Let the rest go away. If you do less, you’ll have less on your mind.
11. Go slower. Seems kinda weird, I know, but walking and talking and working and driving slower can make a very big difference. It’s kind of like you’re saying, “I’m not willing to rush through life, no matter what artificial time demands others are putting on me. I want to take it at my pace.” And as a result, your mind is less harried as well.
12. Let go. Worrying about something? Angry about somebody? Frustrated? Harboring a grudge? While these are all natural emotions and thoughts, none of them are really necessary. See if you can let go of them. More difficult than it sounds, I know, but it’s worth the effort.
13. Declutter your surroundings. I’ve mentioned this before, but decluttering my desk or my home have a way of calming me. Having a lot of stuff around you is just visual clutter — it occupies part of your mind, even if you don’t realize it.
14. Single-task. Multi-tasking, for the most part, is a good way to fill your mind with a lot of activity without a lot of productivity or happiness as a result. Instead, try to single-task — just focus on one task at a time. Clear away everything else, until you’re done with that task. Then focus on the next task, and so on.
15. Get a load off. Sometimes it can make a huge difference to unload our troubles on another human being. If you have a significant other or a best friend or a close family member or coworker … unload your thoughts on them. And listen to them, to return the favor. Sure, it’s just talk … but it can make a huge difference to your mental sanity.
http://www.lifeorganizers.com/Organize-Your-Wellness-/The-Organized-Mind/Declutter-Your-Mind.html
Two types of detritus clog our spirits: Physical stuff and emotional or mental minutia. Learn to declutter your mind to achieve more control, sanity and clarity in your life.
Declutter Your Life
De-cluttering your physical space can have an amazingly uplifting effect on your mood. Feng Shui experts claim that buildings and furniture store the memories of events in the form of energy, and that by de-cluttering you can clear the energy of historic traumatic events. Whether or not you put any store in that kind of theory, nobody who has ever de-cluttered a space could deny the positive benefits of increasing the physical space in their environment.
However, physical de-cluttering can also have a cathartic effect on people emotionally. When we let go of things we've been hoarding for a long time, we often let go of emotional memories we've been hanging onto along with them (albeit unconsciously), and so by clearing physical clutter you can clear space in your head and in your heart as well as your home.
Clutter though is not only physical. We can also have mental and emotional clutter blocking the flow of energy in our lives, and clearing this out is guaranteed to help improve our emotional wellbeing. Examples include undone/unfinished tasks; people/activities that drain you of energy; remaining angry at people; busyness - filling up your schedule with activities you feel duty-bound to do, and leaving no time to nourish your soul and refresh your body.
Divide everything into four piles: Keep, Recycle, Donate and Dump. As soon as you're done, remove the items that aren't staying straight away and deliver them to their new destination.
• Once your big clear out is done, avoid a new build up by clearing out little and often.
Tips for clearing your Mental/Emotional Clutter:
• Make a list of anything you've been procrastinating over, and ask yourself why you have been putting it off. What can you tackle and what can you let go of? When you're clear on what you definitely has to be done, make a plan and get to it.
• Stop worrying. There is nothing constructive about worrying - it won't help you avoid the outcome you're worrying about and it'll destroy your ability to enjoy the present. When a worrying thought arises, quash it straight away and sing along with me "Everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright..." Focus your energy on what you'd like to happen instead.
• Follow through on promises and commitments. When you've said you'll do something but you keep putting it on the long finger, it drains you of energy. If you can't or don't want to see them through, then be upfront about it and withdraw your promise.
• Let go of anger and forgive. When somebody hurts you badly, it's a normal response to feel anger, and to not want to forgive. But anger is bad for your health, both physical and emotional, so it's actually in your interests to let it go and forgive the other person. Forgiving them doesn't mean you have to welcome them back into your life with open arms, it just means letting go of the memory of what they've done to you and the feelings that go with it. Maybe the other person doesn't deserve forgiveness, but don't you deserve to move on and leave the pain behind?
• Say no to people and activities that drag you down. Instead, surround yourself with people who uplift you and do things that make you feel great!
As with your physical clear out, don't make this a once-off project or an irregular purge. Develop clutter free habits in every aspect of your life, and you will enjoy an easier flow through life on a continuous basis.
Be your own life coach
http://www.coachesinstitute.com/aboutcoaching/aboutcoaching.htm
Coaching: Your Way to Success
Today more than ever before people are turning to professional life coaches for a variety of reasons. For some, they simply understand that professional life coaching assistance can help them achieve a higher level of success in business and in life. Others are motivated by the troubling realization their lives are moving on a random course without definition, direction or control. The stresses of everyday life, unstable economic conditions, career uncertainties, relationship challenges, a health crisis, and a failed marriage are but a few of the many factors that can contribute to a feeling of quiet desperation.
“If I could only get my life in order…do the things I know I should do…everything would be better.” This is where professional coaching can truly make a difference. And, the fact that the coaching industry has grown and continues to grow so rapidly is an indication people clearly understand the value of professional coaching.
When times are tough, more and more people turn to highly skilled, professional coaches for the help they need to achieve their goals.
CII Life Coaches around the world are prepared to offer the professional help clients demand. They know what it takes to provide great coaching and they are eager to help.
To Be a Great Coach, You Don’t Need the Answers.
You Do Need the Questions.
Successful life coaching is all about asking the right questions. It’s about helping your clients decide for themselves what their goals are and how they can achieve them. It’s about listening and understanding and helping your clients to identify and prioritize the appropriate actions needed to succeed. It is about helping clients to clearly articulate their desires and remain accountable to their objectives.
Great life coaches are not counselors, advisors, expert consultants or therapists. Great coaches are motivators. They are objective in their guidance, and passionate to help each client succeed.
Great life coaches come from many walks of life, and all have one thing in common: a sincere desire to help others
CII’s Certified Professional Coaches can choose from a variety of career paths with the confidence they gain …
Academic Coaching
ADD/ADHD Coaching
Alternative Lifestyle Coaching
Bereavement Coaching
Business Coaching
Career Coaching
Christian Life Coaching
College Entrance Coaching
Communication Coaching
Conflict Coaching
Couples Coaching
Divine Purpose Coaching
Divorce Coaching
Entrepreneur Coaching
Ethics Coaching
Executive Coaching
Family Coaching
Health and Wellness
Holistic Health Coaching
Leadership Coaching
Life Coaching
Men's Empowerment Coaching
Military Transitional Coaching
Motivational Coaching
Nature Coaching
New Age Coaching
Organization Coaching
Parenting Coaching
Personal Development
Personal Finance Coaching
Recovery Coaching
Relationship Coaching
Retirement Coaching
Sales Coaching
Self-Esteem Coaching
Singles Coaching
Special Needs Coaching
Spiritual Coaching
Stress Management Coaching
Success Coaching
Transitional Coaching
Transpersonal Coaching
Women's Empowerment Coaching
Coaching: Your Way to Success
Today more than ever before people are turning to professional life coaches for a variety of reasons. For some, they simply understand that professional life coaching assistance can help them achieve a higher level of success in business and in life. Others are motivated by the troubling realization their lives are moving on a random course without definition, direction or control. The stresses of everyday life, unstable economic conditions, career uncertainties, relationship challenges, a health crisis, and a failed marriage are but a few of the many factors that can contribute to a feeling of quiet desperation.
“If I could only get my life in order…do the things I know I should do…everything would be better.” This is where professional coaching can truly make a difference. And, the fact that the coaching industry has grown and continues to grow so rapidly is an indication people clearly understand the value of professional coaching.
When times are tough, more and more people turn to highly skilled, professional coaches for the help they need to achieve their goals.
CII Life Coaches around the world are prepared to offer the professional help clients demand. They know what it takes to provide great coaching and they are eager to help.
To Be a Great Coach, You Don’t Need the Answers.
You Do Need the Questions.
Successful life coaching is all about asking the right questions. It’s about helping your clients decide for themselves what their goals are and how they can achieve them. It’s about listening and understanding and helping your clients to identify and prioritize the appropriate actions needed to succeed. It is about helping clients to clearly articulate their desires and remain accountable to their objectives.
Great life coaches are not counselors, advisors, expert consultants or therapists. Great coaches are motivators. They are objective in their guidance, and passionate to help each client succeed.
Great life coaches come from many walks of life, and all have one thing in common: a sincere desire to help others
CII’s Certified Professional Coaches can choose from a variety of career paths with the confidence they gain …
Academic Coaching
ADD/ADHD Coaching
Alternative Lifestyle Coaching
Bereavement Coaching
Business Coaching
Career Coaching
Christian Life Coaching
College Entrance Coaching
Communication Coaching
Conflict Coaching
Couples Coaching
Divine Purpose Coaching
Divorce Coaching
Entrepreneur Coaching
Ethics Coaching
Executive Coaching
Family Coaching
Health and Wellness
Holistic Health Coaching
Leadership Coaching
Life Coaching
Men's Empowerment Coaching
Military Transitional Coaching
Motivational Coaching
Nature Coaching
New Age Coaching
Organization Coaching
Parenting Coaching
Personal Development
Personal Finance Coaching
Recovery Coaching
Relationship Coaching
Retirement Coaching
Sales Coaching
Self-Esteem Coaching
Singles Coaching
Special Needs Coaching
Spiritual Coaching
Stress Management Coaching
Success Coaching
Transitional Coaching
Transpersonal Coaching
Women's Empowerment Coaching
Serenity
http://www.gutzitiert.de/zitat_autor_reinhold_niebuhr_thema_gleichmut_zitat_10352.html
Gott, gib mir die Gelassenheit, Dinge hinzunehmen, die ich nicht ändern kann,
den Mut, Dinge zu ändern, die ich ändern kann,
und die Weisheit, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden.
Reinhold Niebuhr
amerikanischer Theologe, Philosoph und Politikwissenschaftler (1892 - 1971)
Gott, gib mir die Gelassenheit, Dinge hinzunehmen, die ich nicht ändern kann,
den Mut, Dinge zu ändern, die ich ändern kann,
und die Weisheit, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden.
Reinhold Niebuhr
amerikanischer Theologe, Philosoph und Politikwissenschaftler (1892 - 1971)
Tun und denken
Denken und Tun, Tun und Denken, das ist die Summe aller Weisheit, von jeher anerkannt, von jeher geübt, nicht eingesehen von einem jeden. Beides muß wie Aus- und Einatmen sich im Leben ewig fort hin und wider bewegen; wie Frage und Antwort sollte eins ohne das andre nicht stattfinden. Wer sich zum Gesetz macht, was einem jeden Neugebornen der Genius des Menschenverstandes heimlich ins Ohr flüstert, das Tun am Denken, das Denken am Tun zu prüfen, der kann nicht irren.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
deutscher Dichter (1749 - 1832)
Quelle: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre II, 9
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
deutscher Dichter (1749 - 1832)
Quelle: Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre II, 9
Mohamad Tohami and The Pharaoh's Code
http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=72360875&gid=27003&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ethepharaohscode%2Ecom%2Fblog%2F2009%2F09%2Fliving-with-passion-voiceamerica%2Ehtml&urlhash=BZtB&trk=news_discuss
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
How to Systemize Your Way to Success!
Beginning with the reign of Snefru, the first pharaoh of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, entire towns were associated with each of Egypt’s pyramids. These towns were full of people employed solely for the purpose of maintaining the king’s afterlife. New villages and agricultural estates were founded specifically to supply the pyramid cults and those who worked for them.
To build and maintain the pyramids an enormous support system must have existed. There would have been great need for facilities for production, building materials, pottery, supplies, and food, as well as storage depots and housing for the workmen and all those responsible for servicing the pyramid temples. In fact, evidence of sewage systems has been uncovered along with the oldest known paved street, complete with drainage facilities.
What is the lesson here?
When you have a big dream or goal, you need to create an equally big support system to help you achieve it. The purpose of any system in general is to create a set of well-defined actions that lead to CONSISTENT results 99% of the time. Of course, there will always be that 1% of special cases because no system is ideal.
There are two types of systems: Operating Systems and Support Systems.
An operating system is comprised of a set of actions that lead to certain results that are directly related to the goal you want to achieve. It provides a way of structuring the day-to-day operations of every person and every activity involved in that goal.
A support system takes care of the personal or operational needs and provides the optimal environment for you and all those who are working to achieve the goal.
For example, a sales system is a type of operating system that is directly related to the business goal of generating profits. A human resources system is a support system put in place to support the management and to provide employees with the basic needs necessary to help them perform at their best.
If your major goal or dream is related to your career, then developing a system for your personal growth would be a type of operating system because investing in yourself is directly related to your goal. Having a loving family, on the other hand, is a kind of support system that provides you with love and support and creates the relaxing environment you need to help you move forward with your dream.
After this long introduction, you’ve probably started to understand a BIG trap that most people and businesses fall into. Guess what it is?
Usually, the major focus is put on the operating system—and most people see support systems as a luxury. BIG MISTAKE! You can’t build a skyscraper without a very strong foundation, so laying that foundation is the first step you need to accomplish before you attempt to execute the rest of the blueprint. Don’t spend your time writing plans and taking action before you lay the foundation of success.
For example, when employee performance decreases, the boss may put more management pressure on the staff to increase performance—but the core problem is that the employees are not getting the rewarding salary they need to satisfy their basic needs and those of their families. Management didn’t provide them with a good support system and therefore their performance decreased.
On a personal level, when you focus solely on your career and ignore your family, you destroy one of the most important support systems in your life. You think that spending time with your family and nurturing your relationships with them is a waste of time, and that your time would be better spent pursuing your career goals. But as time goes by, you’ll lose the security and comfort of a blessed home and you’ll get steamed up by the stress and tension of your workaholic lifestyle. So don’t ever overlook the importance of developing good support systems in both your life and your business.
The first support system that you must develop is the “Basic Needs System” that will provide you with food and shelter. No one can achieve a big dream if he is starving or shivering out in the cold! Once you establish a good support system that CONSISTENTLY provides you with your basic needs, then you can build on that and start developing the operating system that will put you on the first step toward your ultimate goal.
The second support system is the “Sewage System”, which works consistently to get rid of the waste in your life and business—all those activities that exhaust your time, effort, and money but don’t lead to significant results. You can’t imagine how dramatically you can improve your life and business if you simply get rid of those fruitless activities.
Another useful support system is the “Storage System”, which provides a way to store any kind of information or materials that you might need in your operating system. For example, you can create what I call the “ideas treasure box” to store powerful ideas that you think could dramatically improve your life and business if you implement them now or in the future. In this age of information overload, this is a brilliant support system for organizing your ideas and thoughts. Instead of forgetting ideas or falling into the trap of implementing dozens of them at the same time—which would stretch you to the limit—you can just write them down and store them in a file. Then, when the time is right, you can simply take out your “ideas treasure box” and pick one idea that you can implement now—just one at a time!—and see the immediate improvements it creates.
When I started “The Success Avalanche” project, one of my aims was to create an “ideas treasure box” for people just like you. I recorded interviews with over one hundred successful people that led to over forty-five hours full of success stories, insights, and wisdom that you can use any time you need motivation or a new idea to take your life and business to the next level.
Yet another powerful support system is the “Paving System”—or, the “Problem-Solving System”—which eliminates the obstacles and resolves the conflicts that hinder you from smoothly achieving your goals. One of the main steps or actions that you MUST include in your problem-solving (paving) system is “finding a solution.” The biggest mistake people make when it comes to problem solving is that they spend endless hours focusing on or defining the problem itself, which actually shouldn’t take more than 10% of the time. Then 80% of your effort should focus on answering one important question: “What is the solution?” The remaining 10% should focus on answering the question “How can we prevent this problem from happening in the future?”
As a leader you must remember that your number-one role is to build either an operating or support system, or even both. As Stephen R. Covey has said, “Management works IN the system; leadership works ON the system.” Develop systems that even a fool can follow because the role of a system is to simplify, not to complicate. The role of a system is to provide clarity and well-defined actions that lead to consistent results 99% of the time.
When you develop systems for your life or business, work first on the support systems. Because without them, you will be subject to failure or total breakdown.
I shared with you some examples of powerful support systems for you to consider. Now I want you to think thoroughly about your specific situation in life and ask yourself, “What kind of support systems am I missing or can I develop to take my life or business to the next level?”
The pharaohs developed huge support systems to build the magnificent pyramids. Follow the pharaohs’ code and develop even bigger support systems to build your magnificent dream—and to build your own legacy. And remember that “systems” mean consistency, simplicity, and clarity.
Go systemize your way to success!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
How to Systemize Your Way to Success!
Beginning with the reign of Snefru, the first pharaoh of Egypt's 4th Dynasty, entire towns were associated with each of Egypt’s pyramids. These towns were full of people employed solely for the purpose of maintaining the king’s afterlife. New villages and agricultural estates were founded specifically to supply the pyramid cults and those who worked for them.
To build and maintain the pyramids an enormous support system must have existed. There would have been great need for facilities for production, building materials, pottery, supplies, and food, as well as storage depots and housing for the workmen and all those responsible for servicing the pyramid temples. In fact, evidence of sewage systems has been uncovered along with the oldest known paved street, complete with drainage facilities.
What is the lesson here?
When you have a big dream or goal, you need to create an equally big support system to help you achieve it. The purpose of any system in general is to create a set of well-defined actions that lead to CONSISTENT results 99% of the time. Of course, there will always be that 1% of special cases because no system is ideal.
There are two types of systems: Operating Systems and Support Systems.
An operating system is comprised of a set of actions that lead to certain results that are directly related to the goal you want to achieve. It provides a way of structuring the day-to-day operations of every person and every activity involved in that goal.
A support system takes care of the personal or operational needs and provides the optimal environment for you and all those who are working to achieve the goal.
For example, a sales system is a type of operating system that is directly related to the business goal of generating profits. A human resources system is a support system put in place to support the management and to provide employees with the basic needs necessary to help them perform at their best.
If your major goal or dream is related to your career, then developing a system for your personal growth would be a type of operating system because investing in yourself is directly related to your goal. Having a loving family, on the other hand, is a kind of support system that provides you with love and support and creates the relaxing environment you need to help you move forward with your dream.
After this long introduction, you’ve probably started to understand a BIG trap that most people and businesses fall into. Guess what it is?
Usually, the major focus is put on the operating system—and most people see support systems as a luxury. BIG MISTAKE! You can’t build a skyscraper without a very strong foundation, so laying that foundation is the first step you need to accomplish before you attempt to execute the rest of the blueprint. Don’t spend your time writing plans and taking action before you lay the foundation of success.
For example, when employee performance decreases, the boss may put more management pressure on the staff to increase performance—but the core problem is that the employees are not getting the rewarding salary they need to satisfy their basic needs and those of their families. Management didn’t provide them with a good support system and therefore their performance decreased.
On a personal level, when you focus solely on your career and ignore your family, you destroy one of the most important support systems in your life. You think that spending time with your family and nurturing your relationships with them is a waste of time, and that your time would be better spent pursuing your career goals. But as time goes by, you’ll lose the security and comfort of a blessed home and you’ll get steamed up by the stress and tension of your workaholic lifestyle. So don’t ever overlook the importance of developing good support systems in both your life and your business.
The first support system that you must develop is the “Basic Needs System” that will provide you with food and shelter. No one can achieve a big dream if he is starving or shivering out in the cold! Once you establish a good support system that CONSISTENTLY provides you with your basic needs, then you can build on that and start developing the operating system that will put you on the first step toward your ultimate goal.
The second support system is the “Sewage System”, which works consistently to get rid of the waste in your life and business—all those activities that exhaust your time, effort, and money but don’t lead to significant results. You can’t imagine how dramatically you can improve your life and business if you simply get rid of those fruitless activities.
Another useful support system is the “Storage System”, which provides a way to store any kind of information or materials that you might need in your operating system. For example, you can create what I call the “ideas treasure box” to store powerful ideas that you think could dramatically improve your life and business if you implement them now or in the future. In this age of information overload, this is a brilliant support system for organizing your ideas and thoughts. Instead of forgetting ideas or falling into the trap of implementing dozens of them at the same time—which would stretch you to the limit—you can just write them down and store them in a file. Then, when the time is right, you can simply take out your “ideas treasure box” and pick one idea that you can implement now—just one at a time!—and see the immediate improvements it creates.
When I started “The Success Avalanche” project, one of my aims was to create an “ideas treasure box” for people just like you. I recorded interviews with over one hundred successful people that led to over forty-five hours full of success stories, insights, and wisdom that you can use any time you need motivation or a new idea to take your life and business to the next level.
Yet another powerful support system is the “Paving System”—or, the “Problem-Solving System”—which eliminates the obstacles and resolves the conflicts that hinder you from smoothly achieving your goals. One of the main steps or actions that you MUST include in your problem-solving (paving) system is “finding a solution.” The biggest mistake people make when it comes to problem solving is that they spend endless hours focusing on or defining the problem itself, which actually shouldn’t take more than 10% of the time. Then 80% of your effort should focus on answering one important question: “What is the solution?” The remaining 10% should focus on answering the question “How can we prevent this problem from happening in the future?”
As a leader you must remember that your number-one role is to build either an operating or support system, or even both. As Stephen R. Covey has said, “Management works IN the system; leadership works ON the system.” Develop systems that even a fool can follow because the role of a system is to simplify, not to complicate. The role of a system is to provide clarity and well-defined actions that lead to consistent results 99% of the time.
When you develop systems for your life or business, work first on the support systems. Because without them, you will be subject to failure or total breakdown.
I shared with you some examples of powerful support systems for you to consider. Now I want you to think thoroughly about your specific situation in life and ask yourself, “What kind of support systems am I missing or can I develop to take my life or business to the next level?”
The pharaohs developed huge support systems to build the magnificent pyramids. Follow the pharaohs’ code and develop even bigger support systems to build your magnificent dream—and to build your own legacy. And remember that “systems” mean consistency, simplicity, and clarity.
Go systemize your way to success!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Demokratisierung des Wissens -Rororo Monographien
http://www.monographien.de/start
Adenauer, Konrad
Adler, Alfred
Adorno, Theodor W.
Alexander der Große
Allen, Woody
Andreas-Salomé, Lou
Aquin, Thomas von
Arendt, Hannah
Aristoteles
Armstrong, Louis
Arnim , Bettine
von Assisi, Franz
von Atatürk, Kemal
August der Starke
Augustus
Aurel, Marc
Austen, Jane
Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach-Söhne Bachmann, Ingeborg Barlach, Ernst Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn Beauvoir, Simone de Beckett, Samuel Beckmann, Max Beethoven, Ludwig van Benjamin, Walter Benn, Gottfried Benn, Gottfried Berlioz, Hector Bernhard, Thomas Beuys, Joseph Bingen, Hildegard von Bismarck, Otto von Bizet, Georges Blixen, Tania Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von Bogart, Humphrey Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Borchert, Wolfgang Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch, Robert Brahms, Johannes Brandt, Willy Braun, Wernher von Brecht, Bertolt Britten, Benjamin Bronte, Die Schwestern Bruckner, Anton Bruno, Giordano Brücke, Die Buddha Bulgakow, Michail Busch, Wilhelm Büchner, Georg Böhme, Jakob Böll, Heinrich
Caesar, Julius Camus, Albert Canetti, Elias Castro, Fidel Cechov, Anton Celan, Paul Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Cezanne, Paul Chagall, Marc Chaplin, Charlie Che Guevara Chopin, Frederic Christie, Agatha Churchill, Winston Cicero, Marcus Tullius Claudius, Matthias Clausewitz, Carl von Comenius, Johann Amos Cortes, Hernando Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Curie, Marie
d'Annunzio, Gabriele Dadaisten Dalai Lama XIV. Dalí, Salvador Dante Alighieri Darwin, Charles Debussy, Claude Der Blaue Reiter Descartes, Rene Dickens, Charles Diderot, Denis Dietrich, Marlene Disney, Walt Dix, Otto Doderer, Heimito von Dostojevskij, Fjodor M. Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von Dschingis Khan Dutschke, Rudi Dvorak, Antonin Dürer, Albrecht Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Dönhoff, Marion
Echnaton, Amenophis IV. Eckhart, Meister Edison, Thomas Alva Eichendorff, Joseph von Einstein, Albert Eisler, Hanns Elisabeth I. Elisabeth von Österreich Engels, Friedrich Erasmus von Rotterdam Ernst, Max
Fallada, Hans Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Faulkner, William Fellini, Federico Feuchtwanger, Lion Fichte, Johann Gottlieb Flaubert, Gustave Fontane, Theodor Foucault, Michel Frank, Anne Freud, Anna Freud, Sigmund Friedrich II. Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen Friedrich, Caspar David Frisch, Max Fromm, Erich Fröbel, Friedrich
Galilei, Galileo Gandhi Gandhi, Mahatma Gershwin, George Goebbels, Joseph Goethe, Frauen um Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goya, Francisco de Graf, Oskar Maria Grass, Günter Grieg, Edvard Grillparzer, Franz Grosz, George Gruppe 47 Gründgens, Gustaf Gutenberg, Johannes Günderrode, Karoline von
Habermas, Jürgen Haendel, Georg Friedrich Handke, Peter Hauptmann, Gerhart Hawking, Stephen Haydn, Joseph Hebbel, Friedrich Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Heidegger, Martin Heine, Heinrich Heinrich VIII. Heisenberg, Werner Hemingway, Ernest Herder, Johannes Gottfried Herodot Hesse, Hermann Hindemith, Paul Hitchcock, Alfred Hitler, Adolf Hoelderlin, Friedrich Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hofmannsthal, Hugo von Homer Horkheimer, Max Horvath, Ödön von Hugo, Victor Humboldt, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Hume, David
Ibsen, Henrik J. R. R. Tolkien Jaspers, Karl Jean Paul Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jeanne d'Arc Jefferson, Thomas Jesus Johnson, Uwe Joyce, James Jung, Carl Gustav
Kafka, Franz Kahlo, Frida Kandinsky, Wassilij Kant, Immanuel Karl der Große Karl V. Katharina II. die Große Kauffmann, Angelika Keller, Gottfried Kennedy, John F. Kepler, Johannes Keun, Irmgard Keynes, John Maynard Kierkegaard, Sören King, Martin Luther Kipphardt, Heinar Klee, Paul Kleist, Heinrich von Kleopatra Kollwitz, Käthe Kolumbus, Christoph Konfuzius Konstantin der Große Kopernikus, Nikolaus Korczak, Janusz Kraus, Karl Kreisauer Kreis, Der Kästner, Erich
Lang, Fritz Lasker-Schüler, Else Le Corbusier Lehár, Franz Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Lenin Lennon, John Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lindgren, Astrid Liszt, Franz London, Jack Ludwig II. Ludwig XIV. Luther, Martin
Machiavelli, Niccolo Mahler, Gustav Mahler-Werfel, Alma Malewitsch, Kasimir Mandela, Nelson Mann, Die Familie Mann, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mao Tse-tung Maria Maria Theresia Marx, Karl Meitner, Lise Mendelssohn, Moses Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny Michelangelo Miller, Henry Miro, Joan Modersohn-Becker, Paula Mohammed Molière Monet, Claude Monroe, Marilyn Montaigne, Michel de Montessori, Maria Monteverdi, Claudio Morgenstern, Christian Moritz, Karl Philipp Morrison, Toni Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Muhammad Ali Munch, Edvard Musil, Robert Mussolini, Benito Müller, Heiner Müntzer, Thomas
Nabokov, Vladimir Napoleon Neill, Alexander S. Nestroy, Johann Newton, Isaac Niemöller, Martin Nietzsche, Frauen um Nietzsche, Orff, Carl Orwell, George OvidFriedrich Nin, Anais Novalis
Paracelsus Paulus Perikles Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich Peter der Große Petrarca, Francesco Philipp II. (von Spanien) Picasso, Pablo Pinter, Harold Planck, Max Platon Poe, Edgar Allan Polo, Marco Popper, Karl Presley, Elvis Prokofjew, Sergej Proust, Marcel Puccini, Giacomo Puschkin, Alexander S.
Rachmaninow, Sergej Ramses II. Ravel, Maurice Reformatoren Reich, Wilhelm Rembrandt Reventlow, Franziska zu Rilke, Rainer Maria Rimbaud, Arthur Ringelnatz, Joachim Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Rossini, Gioacchino Roth, Joseph Rowohlt, Ernst
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von Sachs, Hans Sachs, Nelly Sade, Marquis de Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Saint-Saens, Camille Sand, George Sappho Sartre, Jean-Paul Satie, Erik Schiller, Friedrich Schinkel, Karl Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Schmidt, Arno Schmidt, Helmut Schnitzler, Arthur Schopenhauer, Arthur Schostakowitsch, Dimitri Schumann, Clara Schweitzer, Albert Schütz, Heinrich Schönberg, Arnold Seghers, Anna Seneca Shakespeare, William Shaw, George Bernard Sokrates Spinoza Stalin, Josef W. Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk Graf von Stein, Edith Steiner, Rudolf Stendhal Stifter, Adalbert Storm, Theodor Strauss, Richard Strauß, Johann Strawinsky, Igor Strindberg, August Svevo, Italo
Tagore, Rabindranath Telemann, Georg Philipp Thoreau, Henry David Tintoretto Tolstoj, Leo Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Trakl, Georg Trotzki, Leo Tschaikowsky, Peter Tucholsky, Kurt Twain, Mark
Valentin, Karl Van Gogh, Vincent Varnhagen, Rahel Levin Verdi, Giuseppe Vergil Verne, Jules Victoria Vinci, Leonardo da Vivaldi, Antonio Voltaire
Wagner, Die Familie Wagner, Richard Walser, Robert Warhol, Andy Wedekind, Frank Weill, Kurt Weiße Rose Werfel, Franz Wieland, Christoph Martin Wiener Kreis Wilde, Oscar Wilhelm II. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Woolf, Virginia
Zweig, Stefan
Adenauer, Konrad
Adler, Alfred
Adorno, Theodor W.
Alexander der Große
Allen, Woody
Andreas-Salomé, Lou
Aquin, Thomas von
Arendt, Hannah
Aristoteles
Armstrong, Louis
Arnim , Bettine
von Assisi, Franz
von Atatürk, Kemal
August der Starke
Augustus
Aurel, Marc
Austen, Jane
Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach-Söhne Bachmann, Ingeborg Barlach, Ernst Bartholdy, Felix Mendelssohn Beauvoir, Simone de Beckett, Samuel Beckmann, Max Beethoven, Ludwig van Benjamin, Walter Benn, Gottfried Benn, Gottfried Berlioz, Hector Bernhard, Thomas Beuys, Joseph Bingen, Hildegard von Bismarck, Otto von Bizet, Georges Blixen, Tania Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von Bogart, Humphrey Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Borchert, Wolfgang Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch, Robert Brahms, Johannes Brandt, Willy Braun, Wernher von Brecht, Bertolt Britten, Benjamin Bronte, Die Schwestern Bruckner, Anton Bruno, Giordano Brücke, Die Buddha Bulgakow, Michail Busch, Wilhelm Büchner, Georg Böhme, Jakob Böll, Heinrich
Caesar, Julius Camus, Albert Canetti, Elias Castro, Fidel Cechov, Anton Celan, Paul Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Cezanne, Paul Chagall, Marc Chaplin, Charlie Che Guevara Chopin, Frederic Christie, Agatha Churchill, Winston Cicero, Marcus Tullius Claudius, Matthias Clausewitz, Carl von Comenius, Johann Amos Cortes, Hernando Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Curie, Marie
d'Annunzio, Gabriele Dadaisten Dalai Lama XIV. Dalí, Salvador Dante Alighieri Darwin, Charles Debussy, Claude Der Blaue Reiter Descartes, Rene Dickens, Charles Diderot, Denis Dietrich, Marlene Disney, Walt Dix, Otto Doderer, Heimito von Dostojevskij, Fjodor M. Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von Dschingis Khan Dutschke, Rudi Dvorak, Antonin Dürer, Albrecht Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Dönhoff, Marion
Echnaton, Amenophis IV. Eckhart, Meister Edison, Thomas Alva Eichendorff, Joseph von Einstein, Albert Eisler, Hanns Elisabeth I. Elisabeth von Österreich Engels, Friedrich Erasmus von Rotterdam Ernst, Max
Fallada, Hans Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Faulkner, William Fellini, Federico Feuchtwanger, Lion Fichte, Johann Gottlieb Flaubert, Gustave Fontane, Theodor Foucault, Michel Frank, Anne Freud, Anna Freud, Sigmund Friedrich II. Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen Friedrich, Caspar David Frisch, Max Fromm, Erich Fröbel, Friedrich
Galilei, Galileo Gandhi Gandhi, Mahatma Gershwin, George Goebbels, Joseph Goethe, Frauen um Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goya, Francisco de Graf, Oskar Maria Grass, Günter Grieg, Edvard Grillparzer, Franz Grosz, George Gruppe 47 Gründgens, Gustaf Gutenberg, Johannes Günderrode, Karoline von
Habermas, Jürgen Haendel, Georg Friedrich Handke, Peter Hauptmann, Gerhart Hawking, Stephen Haydn, Joseph Hebbel, Friedrich Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Heidegger, Martin Heine, Heinrich Heinrich VIII. Heisenberg, Werner Hemingway, Ernest Herder, Johannes Gottfried Herodot Hesse, Hermann Hindemith, Paul Hitchcock, Alfred Hitler, Adolf Hoelderlin, Friedrich Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hofmannsthal, Hugo von Homer Horkheimer, Max Horvath, Ödön von Hugo, Victor Humboldt, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Hume, David
Ibsen, Henrik J. R. R. Tolkien Jaspers, Karl Jean Paul Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jeanne d'Arc Jefferson, Thomas Jesus Johnson, Uwe Joyce, James Jung, Carl Gustav
Kafka, Franz Kahlo, Frida Kandinsky, Wassilij Kant, Immanuel Karl der Große Karl V. Katharina II. die Große Kauffmann, Angelika Keller, Gottfried Kennedy, John F. Kepler, Johannes Keun, Irmgard Keynes, John Maynard Kierkegaard, Sören King, Martin Luther Kipphardt, Heinar Klee, Paul Kleist, Heinrich von Kleopatra Kollwitz, Käthe Kolumbus, Christoph Konfuzius Konstantin der Große Kopernikus, Nikolaus Korczak, Janusz Kraus, Karl Kreisauer Kreis, Der Kästner, Erich
Lang, Fritz Lasker-Schüler, Else Le Corbusier Lehár, Franz Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Lenin Lennon, John Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lindgren, Astrid Liszt, Franz London, Jack Ludwig II. Ludwig XIV. Luther, Martin
Machiavelli, Niccolo Mahler, Gustav Mahler-Werfel, Alma Malewitsch, Kasimir Mandela, Nelson Mann, Die Familie Mann, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mao Tse-tung Maria Maria Theresia Marx, Karl Meitner, Lise Mendelssohn, Moses Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny Michelangelo Miller, Henry Miro, Joan Modersohn-Becker, Paula Mohammed Molière Monet, Claude Monroe, Marilyn Montaigne, Michel de Montessori, Maria Monteverdi, Claudio Morgenstern, Christian Moritz, Karl Philipp Morrison, Toni Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Muhammad Ali Munch, Edvard Musil, Robert Mussolini, Benito Müller, Heiner Müntzer, Thomas
Nabokov, Vladimir Napoleon Neill, Alexander S. Nestroy, Johann Newton, Isaac Niemöller, Martin Nietzsche, Frauen um Nietzsche, Orff, Carl Orwell, George OvidFriedrich Nin, Anais Novalis
Paracelsus Paulus Perikles Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich Peter der Große Petrarca, Francesco Philipp II. (von Spanien) Picasso, Pablo Pinter, Harold Planck, Max Platon Poe, Edgar Allan Polo, Marco Popper, Karl Presley, Elvis Prokofjew, Sergej Proust, Marcel Puccini, Giacomo Puschkin, Alexander S.
Rachmaninow, Sergej Ramses II. Ravel, Maurice Reformatoren Reich, Wilhelm Rembrandt Reventlow, Franziska zu Rilke, Rainer Maria Rimbaud, Arthur Ringelnatz, Joachim Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Rossini, Gioacchino Roth, Joseph Rowohlt, Ernst
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von Sachs, Hans Sachs, Nelly Sade, Marquis de Saint-Exupery, Antoine de Saint-Saens, Camille Sand, George Sappho Sartre, Jean-Paul Satie, Erik Schiller, Friedrich Schinkel, Karl Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Schmidt, Arno Schmidt, Helmut Schnitzler, Arthur Schopenhauer, Arthur Schostakowitsch, Dimitri Schumann, Clara Schweitzer, Albert Schütz, Heinrich Schönberg, Arnold Seghers, Anna Seneca Shakespeare, William Shaw, George Bernard Sokrates Spinoza Stalin, Josef W. Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk Graf von Stein, Edith Steiner, Rudolf Stendhal Stifter, Adalbert Storm, Theodor Strauss, Richard Strauß, Johann Strawinsky, Igor Strindberg, August Svevo, Italo
Tagore, Rabindranath Telemann, Georg Philipp Thoreau, Henry David Tintoretto Tolstoj, Leo Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Trakl, Georg Trotzki, Leo Tschaikowsky, Peter Tucholsky, Kurt Twain, Mark
Valentin, Karl Van Gogh, Vincent Varnhagen, Rahel Levin Verdi, Giuseppe Vergil Verne, Jules Victoria Vinci, Leonardo da Vivaldi, Antonio Voltaire
Wagner, Die Familie Wagner, Richard Walser, Robert Warhol, Andy Wedekind, Frank Weill, Kurt Weiße Rose Werfel, Franz Wieland, Christoph Martin Wiener Kreis Wilde, Oscar Wilhelm II. Wittgenstein, Ludwig Woolf, Virginia
Zweig, Stefan
Kurt Goldstein - the father of the term (followed by Maslow and Rogers)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_actualization
Self-actualization is a term that has been used in various psychology theories, often in slightly different ways (e.g., Goldstein, Maslow, Rogers). The term was originally introduced by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive to realise all of one's potentialities. In his view, it is the master motive—indeed, the only real motive a person has, all others being merely manifestations of it.
According to Kurt Goldstein's book The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man, self-actualization is "the tendency to actualize, as much as possible, [the organism's] individual capacities" in the world. The tendency to self-actualization is "the only drive by which the life of an organism is determined."[1] Goldstein defined self-actualization as a driving life force that will ultimately lead to maximizing one's abilities and determine the path of one's life; compare Will_to_power.
Goldstein, Kurt. The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man. 1934. New York: Zone Books, 1995. The Organism-Kurt-Goldstein
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this age of computer-based, reductionist models of the human mind, Goldstein's (1878-1965) pioneering statement on holistic health, written in 1934 in Holland, where he emigrated to escape Nazi Germany, is welcome, especially since the U.S. edition has been out of print for decades. An influential German neurologist and psychologist who taught and practiced medicine in the U.S., where he settled the following year, Goldstein stresses the seamless activity of the whole organism, arguing that there is no independent realm of "body" or "mind." Disease, in his system, is an expression of the disturbed relationship between an organism and its environment; recovery is a newly achieved adaptation, not merely a return to a previous equilibrium. Using illustrative material ranging from brain-damaged soldiers to repression of childhood memories, this dense, philosophically informed study reevaluates such concepts as anxiety, dread, instinct, drives, the unconscious and the nature of physical and mental illness.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
foreword by Oliver Sacks
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) was already an established neuropsychologist when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s. This book, his magnum opus and widely regarded as a modern classic in psychology and biology, grew out of his dissatisfaction with traditional natural science techniques for analyzing living beings. It offers a broad introduction to the sources and ranges of application of the "holistic" or "organismic" research program that has since become a standard part of biological thought.
Goldstein was especially concerned with the breakdown of organization and the failure of central controls that take place in catastrophic responses to situations such as physical or mental illness. But he was equally attuned to the amazing powers of the organism to readjust to such catastrophic losses, if only by withdrawal to a more limited range that it could manage by a redistribution of its reduced energies, thus reclaiming as much wholeness as new circumstances allowed.
Goldstein's theses in The Organism have had an important impact on philosophical and psychological thought throughout the twentieth century, as evidenced in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Ernst Cassirer, and Ludwig Binswanger.
An essential read for any practising scientist., October 15, 2002
By Frank Bierbrauer (Cardiff, Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Kurt Goldstein was a highly experienced and respected neurologist in the earlier years of the twentieth century who after a lifetime of experince with patients of all walks of life, but especially brain damaged soldiers of World War I, came to the conclusion that the working of the human body is far more than just independently functioning mechanisms which make a kind of slapdash whole from the sum of these "parts".
Goldstein explores many kinds of brain disorders he met along the way involving damage to the cortex and other parts of the brain often associated with structures which control certain aspects of behaviour such as reflex actions. Goldstein analyses in great detail and without prejudice each particular case describing the standard approaches on the subject and what he actually observes directly rather than just using the theory to define what is happening. Through this method he is able to obtain a far richer description of the neurological aspects of man than is usually given. He does not speculate arbitrarily but rather convinces by objective analysis. This is a hardnosed scientific approach although he still gives himself time to consider the wholeness of the body and its repair and "coming to terms" with its situation. In the last chapters he discusses approaches to the wholeness of the body and how important and relevant they are to a truer experience of the world as such. He nonetheless maintains a strong contact throughout with real patients never once releasing his touch to reality.
An essential read for any practising scientist who wants to understand.
Self-actualization is a term that has been used in various psychology theories, often in slightly different ways (e.g., Goldstein, Maslow, Rogers). The term was originally introduced by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive to realise all of one's potentialities. In his view, it is the master motive—indeed, the only real motive a person has, all others being merely manifestations of it.
According to Kurt Goldstein's book The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man, self-actualization is "the tendency to actualize, as much as possible, [the organism's] individual capacities" in the world. The tendency to self-actualization is "the only drive by which the life of an organism is determined."[1] Goldstein defined self-actualization as a driving life force that will ultimately lead to maximizing one's abilities and determine the path of one's life; compare Will_to_power.
Goldstein, Kurt. The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man. 1934. New York: Zone Books, 1995. The Organism-Kurt-Goldstein
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this age of computer-based, reductionist models of the human mind, Goldstein's (1878-1965) pioneering statement on holistic health, written in 1934 in Holland, where he emigrated to escape Nazi Germany, is welcome, especially since the U.S. edition has been out of print for decades. An influential German neurologist and psychologist who taught and practiced medicine in the U.S., where he settled the following year, Goldstein stresses the seamless activity of the whole organism, arguing that there is no independent realm of "body" or "mind." Disease, in his system, is an expression of the disturbed relationship between an organism and its environment; recovery is a newly achieved adaptation, not merely a return to a previous equilibrium. Using illustrative material ranging from brain-damaged soldiers to repression of childhood memories, this dense, philosophically informed study reevaluates such concepts as anxiety, dread, instinct, drives, the unconscious and the nature of physical and mental illness.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
foreword by Oliver Sacks
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) was already an established neuropsychologist when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s. This book, his magnum opus and widely regarded as a modern classic in psychology and biology, grew out of his dissatisfaction with traditional natural science techniques for analyzing living beings. It offers a broad introduction to the sources and ranges of application of the "holistic" or "organismic" research program that has since become a standard part of biological thought.
Goldstein was especially concerned with the breakdown of organization and the failure of central controls that take place in catastrophic responses to situations such as physical or mental illness. But he was equally attuned to the amazing powers of the organism to readjust to such catastrophic losses, if only by withdrawal to a more limited range that it could manage by a redistribution of its reduced energies, thus reclaiming as much wholeness as new circumstances allowed.
Goldstein's theses in The Organism have had an important impact on philosophical and psychological thought throughout the twentieth century, as evidenced in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Ernst Cassirer, and Ludwig Binswanger.
An essential read for any practising scientist., October 15, 2002
By Frank Bierbrauer (Cardiff, Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Kurt Goldstein was a highly experienced and respected neurologist in the earlier years of the twentieth century who after a lifetime of experince with patients of all walks of life, but especially brain damaged soldiers of World War I, came to the conclusion that the working of the human body is far more than just independently functioning mechanisms which make a kind of slapdash whole from the sum of these "parts".
Goldstein explores many kinds of brain disorders he met along the way involving damage to the cortex and other parts of the brain often associated with structures which control certain aspects of behaviour such as reflex actions. Goldstein analyses in great detail and without prejudice each particular case describing the standard approaches on the subject and what he actually observes directly rather than just using the theory to define what is happening. Through this method he is able to obtain a far richer description of the neurological aspects of man than is usually given. He does not speculate arbitrarily but rather convinces by objective analysis. This is a hardnosed scientific approach although he still gives himself time to consider the wholeness of the body and its repair and "coming to terms" with its situation. In the last chapters he discusses approaches to the wholeness of the body and how important and relevant they are to a truer experience of the world as such. He nonetheless maintains a strong contact throughout with real patients never once releasing his touch to reality.
An essential read for any practising scientist who wants to understand.
Overhauling the Mental Organizer
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1365/is_10_35/ai_n13819876/
With so many thoughts swirling around, your mental organizer could use a serious overhaul. That's because a scattered brain is like a messy desk--both require that you work much harder than necessary.
A contract assistant city attorney for the city of Milwaukee cited a lack of mental organization or "stream of consciousness thinking" as a major cause of her unsuccessful first crack at the Wisconsin Bar Exam in July 2003. "There was no rhyme or reason to my study habits. I just went from one thought to the next.,"
Inefficiency and counterproductivity are just two of the many pitfalls of an unorganized mind, asserts Todd C. Campbell, a psychologist based in Milwaukee. "These can lead to greater stress, fatigue, insomnia, memory loss, and impaired judgment," he says. "Mental organization is extremely important."
Like the rest of our bodies, we need to "train our minds," says Stephen D. Eiffert, author of Cross-Train Your Brain: A Mental Fitness Program for Maximizing Creativity and Achieving Success (AMACOM; $17.95) Cross Train Your Brain. (Regular use of cognitive techniques to exercise the brain "smarter" is a proven method of improving thought agility and mental flexibility. In today's world where you need to be able to think on your feet even during the "low" times of the day, these are worth practicing. May I also recommend "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" as a companion guide to optimize general brain function as you exercise it with Eiffert's neat techniques...Ken Giuffre MD, author "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" Guifre's Questionable Book
Psychologist Todd Campbell gives four steps you can put into practice right now to help get your thought house in order and eliminate scatterbrained tendencies:
WRITE DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS
Crump wrote down her study goals to prepare for her second attempt at the Bar. "[Writing helped me] organize my thoughts better and stick to my study plan," says Crump, who passed the exam in February 2004.
REVISE YOUR THOUGHT
You don't have to act on every idea that passes through your mind. "Figure out what is important and urgent; important, but not urgent; not important, but urgent; and not important and not urgent," advises Campbell. Then, act on what's crucial, file what isn't immediately essential, and toss what isn't useful.
PRIORITIZE YOUR THOUGHTS
"Do the most important things first," maintains Campbell. Desiree Daniels-Green, of Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, successfully juggles a teaching career, marriage, and motherhood by keeping her most important tasks in mind. "As long as the bills are paid, the kids' clothes are washed, and they're fed, everything else is secondary," says Daniels-Green, 34, whose active children, Malcolm, 11, and twins Jasmine and Janaya, 2, make organization necessary.
PROTECT YOUR MENTAL SPACE
When you have a lot to sort out, Campbell advises minimizing nerve-racking interruptions whenever possible. "Turn off your phones, e-mail, and pagers. Close your door," he says.
With so many thoughts swirling around, your mental organizer could use a serious overhaul. That's because a scattered brain is like a messy desk--both require that you work much harder than necessary.
A contract assistant city attorney for the city of Milwaukee cited a lack of mental organization or "stream of consciousness thinking" as a major cause of her unsuccessful first crack at the Wisconsin Bar Exam in July 2003. "There was no rhyme or reason to my study habits. I just went from one thought to the next.,"
Inefficiency and counterproductivity are just two of the many pitfalls of an unorganized mind, asserts Todd C. Campbell, a psychologist based in Milwaukee. "These can lead to greater stress, fatigue, insomnia, memory loss, and impaired judgment," he says. "Mental organization is extremely important."
Like the rest of our bodies, we need to "train our minds," says Stephen D. Eiffert, author of Cross-Train Your Brain: A Mental Fitness Program for Maximizing Creativity and Achieving Success (AMACOM; $17.95) Cross Train Your Brain. (Regular use of cognitive techniques to exercise the brain "smarter" is a proven method of improving thought agility and mental flexibility. In today's world where you need to be able to think on your feet even during the "low" times of the day, these are worth practicing. May I also recommend "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" as a companion guide to optimize general brain function as you exercise it with Eiffert's neat techniques...Ken Giuffre MD, author "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain" Guifre's Questionable Book
Psychologist Todd Campbell gives four steps you can put into practice right now to help get your thought house in order and eliminate scatterbrained tendencies:
WRITE DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS
Crump wrote down her study goals to prepare for her second attempt at the Bar. "[Writing helped me] organize my thoughts better and stick to my study plan," says Crump, who passed the exam in February 2004.
REVISE YOUR THOUGHT
You don't have to act on every idea that passes through your mind. "Figure out what is important and urgent; important, but not urgent; not important, but urgent; and not important and not urgent," advises Campbell. Then, act on what's crucial, file what isn't immediately essential, and toss what isn't useful.
PRIORITIZE YOUR THOUGHTS
"Do the most important things first," maintains Campbell. Desiree Daniels-Green, of Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, successfully juggles a teaching career, marriage, and motherhood by keeping her most important tasks in mind. "As long as the bills are paid, the kids' clothes are washed, and they're fed, everything else is secondary," says Daniels-Green, 34, whose active children, Malcolm, 11, and twins Jasmine and Janaya, 2, make organization necessary.
PROTECT YOUR MENTAL SPACE
When you have a lot to sort out, Campbell advises minimizing nerve-racking interruptions whenever possible. "Turn off your phones, e-mail, and pagers. Close your door," he says.