Tag: improvement

Celebrating One Hundred

achieve“I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway,” said Joan Benoit Samuelson. This post represents my 100th post. I have published one article a week for the last 100 weeks. I never had a specific goal or milestone when I started, other than consistently posting information that can help others.

As I reflect on what I think this site has provided, and how it should it should look in the future, I have these thoughts.

1. Embrace video as a delivery method. In the last two years, video has grown as the most popular method to publish a short message. I should record and post short videos as well as written messages.

2. Increase the email frequency to my subscribers. A newsletter once a month can easily be lost in the deluge of mail each of us receive. A short weekly newsletter might better serve you and I.

3. Make the content easier to search. I did not use search tags when I started 2 years ago, and I have never added them. I did not realize at the time how it would help find articles on specific topics.

Those are three thoughts that I have. If you have a suggestion for an improvement, please send me a message. Thank you for reading, and keeping me motivated. One hundred articles was not a goal, and it is not something I have achieved so I can stop and be done. It is just a achievement that motivates me to keep on writing!

Help Others to Help Yourself

helpRalph Waldo Emerson once said, “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Helping others also increases your influence. As your influence increases, so does your leadership.

If getting better was as simple as helping someone, there would be many more great people. Making a habit of helping others will allow you to grow and improve. Creating consistent behaviors that drive success, and working with passion and diligence will allow you to succeed where others fail.

We get better at doing when we get better at teaching. We get better at teaching when we truly have a desire to help and teach.

Do you have a desire to help others? What action do you need to take today? What change do you need to make to increase your ability to help others? What lesson is here that you can teach?