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Imagine a good outcome for two

August 15, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Farmers Market Negotiations
Originally uploaded by jcgr

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The buyer in this farmer’s market scene clearly sees herself going home with a bundle of beautiful, fresh peppers.

The seller sees himself making a beautiful, healthy profit.

Whether she goes home pepper-fulfilled and he goes home profit-fulfilled depends on whether they can find a meeting point between their individual visions visions of success.

The same thing happens in any negotiation, and many different types of interactions.

Think back on a time when you found a good solution between what may have been two very different original visions of success.

Let that experience guide you to fresh success with a negotiating challenge ahead.

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Forget yourself

May 31, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Among recent thought-provoking quotes I’ve found, I love this one most of all:

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with splendid treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller

What about you?

What interests help you most to forget about your troubles, your fears, and sometimes, your goals and aspirations, too?

How can you most naturally get immersed in the moment, free of the past, free of the future?

As hard as it may be to do, in ways that are satisfying to you, as often as you can, fill yourself with the present.

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Filed Under: Musings, People watching, Quotes, Serendipity

Really…get excited and change things

May 27, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Get excited by vintage letterpress
Originally uploaded by flowers&fleurons

Do you see something that could be better?

Or see something that’s just not right?

Do you have a dream of better things…for you, your company, country or world?

Then muster your courage.

Follow the urge.

And take this poster’s sage advice:

Get excited and change things.

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You’re always creating

May 10, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

We’re constantly creating, each of us, in our own way.

We create products and services.

We create relationships with suppliers, partners, and customers, as well.

We create personal relationships. We create families.

We build bridges, networks, and communities.

We create moments. We craft futures, with decisions and actions, large and small.

We’re creating in more ways than we even know.

Here are thoughts others offer on the process of creating in various ways:

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
George Weinberg

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Unknown

We are creating the future.
Gunter Grass

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Celebrate along the way

April 23, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Don’t wait until the finish line. Celebrate along the way.

Here’s what others have to say on the all-important subject of celebrating well:

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
Tom Peters

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle.
Swami Sivananda

Celebrate the little things in life, appreciate tomorrow, love your neighbor or don’t, but never condemn yourself to a life without cause to celebrate and be thankful for what you have. Never forget the people you love and love them when you have an occasion to do so. Celebrate their life and celebrate yours.
Unknown

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
Barbara Hoffman

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Traveling the creative path

April 8, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Creating something new?

Or is a new phase of your life beginning to unfold?

The various phases of change take different energy and focus.

You can be sure that persistence will be needed, through it all.

Here are a few other thoughts about creating in work and life:

You need to save some mental, physical and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash. It requires long-distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning and evangelizing.
Guy Kawasaki

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
Michael E. Gerber

If I don’t put effort toward creating what I want, I have to put effort toward coping with what I get.
Unknown

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Keep moving, connecting all the way to the goal

March 20, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Success takes persistence.

It takes patience.

Success takes vision, serendipity and the ability to keep moving, through it all.

Here’s how a few others see the path to the goal:

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
Brion James

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
Marilyn Ferguson

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
Conrad Hilton

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Pursuing excellence? Persistence is key to success

February 19, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Inspiration is guaranteed each and every Olympics.

Watching the best in the world compete in so many sports is a powerful reminder of what it takes to excel.

It reminds us, as well, that if you're pursuing excellence of any type, being able to push over, around, or through the barriers you inevitably find somewhere on the road to your goal is an important part of success.

Here are a few pursuit of excellence thoughts from others who knew the path, too:

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Edison

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Seneca

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

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Grow new opportunities

February 16, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Watching the Olympics drives the lesson home:

You make many of your own opportunities, and for others, adapting well to whatever happens is the best course.

Here's what a few others have to say about opportunities and growth:

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.
Russell G. Alexander

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon

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Problem-solving perspectives

January 30, 2010 By Jan Richards Leave a Comment

Have a problem to solve? Or one you're trying to avoid?

How you approach a problem has a lot to do with how the problem-solving goes.

Here are perspectives from others on problem-solving…or not:

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

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