Prepare to Succeed

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." Confucius

I have a confession. I wasnt always a good planner. Sure, I had a Daytimer, used Outlook and scheduled my meetings. I even had an assistant for years who placed my calendar with my meetings and appointments on my desk every morning. I wrote my kids events at school and doctor appointments in my calendar. I hung birthday party invitations on the fridge at home. At the time, I thought I was organized. But man did things fall through the cracks. Do you ever feel like that? Yes, I knew we had a birthday party this weekend but always ended up buying the gift in a rush on the way there (and at the time I WORKED for the corporate office of a national toy chain! Couldnt I have picked up a gift in one of my many visits to the stores during the week?). So, what I discovered is that there is a difference between keeping a calendar and actually having a plan for what you want to achieve.

Success doesnt just happen at home or at work. just like a vacation, you need to at least plan where you want to go and figure out how youre going to get there. Then once you have the plan, you can deviate a bit if something interesting comes up but at least you have a framework. Otherwise, you would never get there if you didnt get driving directions or make a flight reservation, right? And if you only make the plans to get to your destination, you would waste a lot of time once you got there just figuring out what you want to accomplish. Chances are this wouldnt be the best use of your vacation time unless of course its one of those vacations where you just want to veg-out and do nothing (which is fine for a vacation but not a life).

Its so easy in our society to just jump in and start running. There was a time in business when there was actually training for jobs. Now, unless there is real technical information to learn, many times, we experience trial by fire. Thats ok and I believe theres real value in experience as opposed to theory however, we begin to live our lives that way too. What happens is that we become reactive and never take the time to step back and sharpen our saw as Stephen R. Covey says or sharpen your ax as Frank Vitetta, the owner of the first company I worked for used to say. If you keep chopping away at the tree that is your life with an ax or saw and you never take a step back to sharpen the ax, you become less productive. Additionally, if you dont plan what youre doing, the tree may fall on you.

So, you must determine where you want to go and devise a plan to get there. Weve all made resolutions and goals before only to have them fall by the wayside. I believe what makes goals achievable is if they support what you believe in. So when you are putting your goals in place, think about what is important to youtake a look from 3,000 feetthe big picture. What do you really value? (Not what do you think you should ) Some of my top values are:

• family relationships
• Authenticity
• Compassion
• Love
• business success
• respect
• fitness and health
• professionalism

These areas of importance help me reaffirm what is important to me and remind of what is not so I dont waste my time. From here, I work with my clients to create true goals for business and personal life that support these values. I start yearly and then break this down into monthly goals and tasks. Then, we break this down into daily habits we put in place to set ourselves up for success. I put my yearly and monthly goals as well as my daily tasks in my planner so I can see them every day.

Its important not to set yourself up for failure and to stop committing to things you know you wont accomplish. Start small. For example if you have always had the goal to be a size 8 but for at least 30 years you have been a size 12, understand that there has got to be something stopping you from achieving this. Stop beating yourself up (when you dont achieve this month after month and year after year) and stop putting it on the list because you either dont want it badly enough, dont know how to achieve it, need more support or have some medical and/or psychological issues around this. If you constantly made promises to a friend and never kept those promises, how long with this friend trust you? Not too long. Thats what you do to yourself when you constantly break your word. Set yourself up for successget some achievements under your belt and keep your word to yourself consistently.

Try these tips to help you plan for success.

• Use the beginning of the month as an opportunity to start anew. Write your goals for the month on the monthly summary page of your planner.
• Determine tasks to achieve these goals and write them on your daily planner pages.
• take ten minutes before you pack up to leave the office to plan the next day while tasks are still fresh in your mind. Write them in your planner so you can download them from your brain and prevent those 3AM wake up panic sessions.
• take 15 minutes during the weekend to plan your week. See where your appointments fall both personal and professional. Schedule your exercise (or a yoga class!) on days where you see some time.
• Have your children pick out their clothes the night before school. Planning isnt just about keeping yourself organized and making you successful. Its about them too.
• take another 15 minutes during the weekend and plan your meals for the week. 15 minutes on the weekend can prevent unhealthy eating and stress about food preparation all week.

Think about people and teams that are successful, do they just wing it or do they have playbooks, game plans and strategies to achieve what they want? Success doesnt just happen; like it or not you have to plan. The question is how badly do you want to succeed?

Karyn Pless is the creator of The Beyond Balance Home Study System and President of a U.S. company called Beyond Balance which conducts corporate training, keynote speaking, seminars and executive coaching. For 18 years Karyn built her career in marketing working her way up the corporate ladder to Vice President of Marketing of a U.S. retailer and then Vice President, Marketing and Creative Services of a U.S. promotional agency while also juggling two children and a husband. After turning to a personal coach herself to reduce the chaos in her life, Karyn decided to become trained and certified as a professional coach and pass on all she has learned to effectively guide business professionals who want practical, real-world, work/life integration tactics that actually work in the business world.

For more information, please visit http://www.WorkLifeExpert.com

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Grooved Golf Swing Series - A Further Article About Hitting From Difficult Lies

How do you get on hitting your ball from hard pan? Goodness, I used to lose some shots from his type of lie. I just didnt have a clue. Then, one day, I read how to do it and it became easy.

That is what I want to tell you today.

The first thing to do is to hit down onto the ball. If you hit your shots in a scooping motion, you will have great difficulty from such a lie. It is not a difficult shot as long as you know how to go about it. Set up with your ball opposite your right big toe. You have to hit down on the ball and make sure your pinch it cleanly between the club and the ground. Setting your ball so far back in your stance makes it easier to hit down on the ball and hit it cleanly.

Keep you head still and watch the ball. this is vital.

this will get the ball up and flying. The important factor is to let the loft of your club get the ball into the air. As mentioned, if you try to scoop, you will fail. You know how you keep your hands in front of the ball when you make a chip. Well, you follow the same mechanics here.

You make sure your keep your hands in front of the club face during contact and until after you have hit your ball.

Keep your wrists firm, as you do when you chip. When you do this, you havent got to think of the hard lie. You just have to change your technique a little and the result will be as desired.

practice it a bit and you should soon add this shot to your arsenal.

Now you have to hit your ball over some trees to get out of your trouble spot. There are a couple of minor adjustments to allow you to get your ball up quickly.

The first thing, of course, is to use a club with enough loft to clear the obstacle. Dont be greedy and try for more distance than is reasonable.

Always remember, it is most important to get your ball back into play with no dropped shots.

open your club face slightly, and be prepared for a fade as a result. The more you move the ball forward in your stance, the quicker and steeper it will rise. So, move the ball forward in your stance and make sure you get your club face under the ball.

If you are really close to a bush and have to get your ball into the air quickly, have the ball opposite your left big toe, and hit with your wrists to get the club head under the ball. The ball will go almost straight up into the air. You will get over, but you will not get much distance obviously. What about when you are in a situation in the trees, or near some bush on the side of the fairway where you have a very restricted swing? You know that if you make good contact with the ball you will be able to hit it far enough to get it back onto the fairway and into play.

However, the problem is making good contact. Obviously, the most important thing is your swing and not the lie of the ball in this situation.

The first thing you have to establish is how far back you can take your back swing. Once you are confident about this, having rehearsed several times, you can start to concentrate on hitting the ball.

I find it a good idea to take my stance and then make my back swing and stop here. Then making sure I watch the ball, make an unhurried down swing making sure I keep my body still.

It is important not to rush. Be as smooth as you can be both during the back swing, the slight pause and then the down swing. It is so easy to lift your head before you hit the ball due to anxiety about the outcome of the shot. Be very conscious of this and make total effort to keep your head still.

Bill Maitland is a thinking, inventive golf guru. He thought out and developed simple techniques and tips which enabled him to lower his handicap from 25 to 18, then from 18 to 15, and finally from 15 to 12. He is a passionate golfer, and delights in helping others with their game should they want his help. To receive a valuable weekly golf tip go to his web site http://www.onlinegolfershandbook.com and subscribe to his free hole In One News Letter. You will be so glad that you did.

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How To Clear Blocked Drains

Blocked drains are potentially messy, disruptive, upsetting and at worst a health hazard. They are usually noticeable by the fact that water is slow to drain away from a sink or water builds up in a toilet when flushing.

If you are installing a kitchen sink it is important to allow at least a 2 inch drop on the waste pipe, the reason for this is that over a period of time if the drop is not sufficient food particles and grease build up in the pipes and eventually reduce the diameter of the waste pipe in the drain causing a blockage.

When replacing a kitchen sink it is important to ensure that the waste pipes are maintained and checked for any blockages and removed as soon as possible failure to do so will result in a foul smell from your drains which can be awful especially in the summer months.

It is important to remember that as an householder it is your responsibility to ensure that a blockage is cleared as soon as possible.In the interests of public health the local council have very strong powers to ensure that blockages are cleared and any repairs are carried out promptly.

If you are planning on installing a bathroom sink it is important to regularly remove hair from the waste trap which can cause severe blockages,which if not spotted early enough will require the need for the entire waste system to be taken apart to remove the blockage.

Most blocked drains are caused by food particles entering the waste system if you are replacing a kitchen sink it may be worthwhile to consider installing a waste disposal system at the same time,these are relatively inexpensive and ensure that all waste food is broken down before it enters the waste system.

Also if your property is situated near a building site you may be experiencing a blocked drain from plaster or cement dust that as entered the system through an open grill.When water comes into contact with the plaster or cement this will cause it to set, narrowing the pipes as it does so.

About the author.

David Lee as Been involved with plumbing for 3 years,and i have helped many people with plumbing problems in there homes,from installing a kitchen sink to changing a tap washer

For further information on replacing a kitchen sink or installing a bathroom sink then please visit http://www.howtoinstallyoursink.com/index.html

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