My favourite tweets of the day

Being unique doesn't make any difference to anyone else. What makes you special is making a difference in someone's life.

Smiling doesn't always mean you're happy. Sometimes, it simply means that you are a strong person.

Sometimes, we spend so much time giving advice to other people that we don't realize we are the ones who need to be advised.

For every wound, there is a scar. For every scar, there is a story. It is a story that proves I survived and grew stronger.

A smile can mean a thousand words, but it can also hide a thousand problems.

Appreciate what you have, who loves you and who cares for you. You'll never know how much they mean to you till the day they are gone.

What you expect to happen is a big part of what the result will be. Think positive.

What happens when he's your Prince Charming, but you're not his Cinderella?

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

If you don't do stupid things while you're young, you'll have nothing to smile about when you're old.

Six Step Transformational Conversations

Good day to you friends. As I was going through the internet this morning I stumbled across this post in a blog like mine but with so much cool posts that will change your life. And I decided to import this particular post into my blog for peeps that love to read my posts( thanks for doing that, you are the best!). So please endeavour to ponder on this as it relates to communication. I have discovered that a lot of people speak but few really communicate. Enjoy!
6 steps to transformational conversations:
1. Listen to their passions and ideas. Ask them to tell their story. Listen for achievements and frustrations. Successes illustrate competencies; frustrations reveal unfulfilled passions .
2. Repeat it back. Tell them what you hear but don’t pressure them to agree with your initial impressions. Clarify and embrace, again.
3. Say yes to their hopes. Forget your hopes for them; uncover their hopes for themselves – hopes they don’t yet know theyhave. Your greatest power is helping others find their greatest hopes.
4. Explore next steps. Avoid eatingthe whole elephant; help them take a bite. Leadership is always about next steps, always. You aren’t leading till they can explain next steps .
5. Set the next meeting. Once you find a compelling next step, say,“I’d love to hear how that goes.When can we get together nextweek?”
6. Say, “How can I help?” Open doors and share insights but never do for.
Bonus:
Never let distant uncertainties prevent the pursuit of near certainties.
Culled from http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com

Living Fully

“A man who dares waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.”- Charles Darwin

These are no truer words from the evolution theorist perhaps the only ones I accept to be so. 24hours of living we are given everyday, but in different ways we spend them. Some days seem to be more productive than some others. It all goes back to how our time has been utilized that day. If we spend the hours in a day putting much effort into achieving the goals we have set for our lives, we can say that day has been fruitful but if we enter a “whim-mode”, we wonder what really happened that day. Time is given to us to manage, we are stewards of it. One day we will to be told to account for how we spent our time on earth. Will you give a full account that you can be proud of when that time comes or just stammer? The same amount of time Donald Trump has is the same the beggar on the roads in New York also has. Therefore as you put yourself at work today, make sure you spend your time well because time spent once cannot be regained. Have a nice time with your time!