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11 Relaxing Quotes For Leaders To Get Some Rest
When was the last time you were told that you needed to rest? Yesterday?!?
Maybe you are having a hard time resting. Though the bills don’t pay themselves, they wont get paid if you are out of balance.
There are several benefits to resting:
- You have more energy.
- You process while you sleep.
- You dont magnify problems.
- You look and feel good and cared for.
- You are in sync with yourself.
- You recover from setbacks faster.
- You heal your mind, your body and your soul when you are resting.
1. Resting is about stopping for a significant period of time during the day and to completely unwind. – Ben Bergeron
2. Resting is not a waste of time. It’s an investment in well-being. – Adam Grant
3. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes…Including you. – Anne Lamott
4. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid
5. Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax. – Bryant McGill.
6. It’s a good idea to always do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life. – Paulo Coelho
7. Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. – William S. Burroughs
8. The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep. – E. Joseph Cossman
9. When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap. – Tom Hodgkinson
10. He who cannot rest, cannot work. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
11. Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. – Ralph Marston
Last Words Of Advice
Resting doesn’t mean procrastinating.
Resting means taking time off from work to take care of yourself.
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6 Ways Leaders Get Out Of Their Feelings
They say, when you get to work, leave your feelings at the door.
I mean, that’s what they say…
In the workplace, most conflicts exist because of a gap in values.
Indeed, at work, you rub elbow with people who don’t necessary have the same values as you do.
Conflicts can simply result in one’s definition of work ethic or quality of work.
For instance, your feelings can easily be hurt by some people are less efficient and need extra hours, some are workahalics and do it for the love of work, some don’t care about the job or the work they put out…
In addition, your feelings can also be hurt by short deadlines or the way someone talk to you.
Leaders have different ways of getting out of these feelings.
1. They remember who they are
They don’t get lost in the drama of their feelings.
Instead, they separate themselves from their work.
Even if their feelings have been hurt at work, they separate their identity from their work.
2. They take responsibility
They realize that they are responsible only for themselves and for how they feel.
They acknowledge that they can only control of themselves.
3. They confront themselves and the situation
Confrontation always has the negative connotation of conflict, drama and unresolved issues.
However, confrontation can also be facing the situation head on and examining the situation for what it is.
You don’t necessarily have to go face to face with someone to solve an issue especially when we’re talking about values:
- You may have to confront yourself and ask yourself why you are feeling these feelings.
- You may have to assess the situation and ask yourself why is this situation triggering these emotions.
4. They stay on goal
One way leaders get out of their feelings is by having solid and clear goals that will keep them focused on something other than themselves.
5. They use humour
Leaders who have a sense of humour take life with a grain of salt and have a tendency to get out of their feelings faster than
6. They use affirmations
Words of affirmations remind people of who they are and who they want to be.
They remind leaders of the principles that they
Last Words Of Advice
Don’t forget to use your relationships, your hobbies, your favorite activities or exercise to help you shift your mindset.
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56 Things Leaders Need To Quit To Simplify Their Lives
It comes a time where we feel overwhelmed by life’s difficulties and desire to simplify our lives but we just don’t know how…
Wondering what are the things that you can stop doing as a leader to simplify your life?
1. Not being self aware
2. Neglecting your unresolved issues
3. Giving too much importance to your professional life over your personal life
4. Saying yes to everything
5. Doing too many things all at once
6. Working until you burn out.
7. Not making time for yourself or your loved ones
8. Disregarding the essentials and what matters most to you
9. Avoiding your emotions
10. Giving too much room to your emotions
11. Mistreating yourself
12. Mistreating others
13. Stressing out
14. Transfering your emotions to other people who could potentially help you
15. Trying to please people
16. Comparing yourself to people
17. Competing with other people
18. Running someone else’s race
19. Moving at someone else’s pace
20. Trusting the wrong people
21. Micromanaging and not letting people do their jobs
22. Making assumptions about people
23. Spreading and believing rumors about others
24. Making up lies
25. Worrying about your image and reputation instead of the work you produce.
26. Faking it until you make it.
27. Shifting blame
28. Creating drama
29. Stepping on other people to feel better about yourself
30. Wanting to be right all the time
31. Thinking that your solution is the best solution
32. Being resistant to change
33. Being too transparent
34. Being fearful about everything
35. Being overbearing
36. Being crowded all the time
37. Spending time around toxic people
38. Doing things that you hate
39. Getting distracted
40. Avoiding exercise
41. Choosing unhealthy foods
42. Allowing and participating in groupthink
43. Seeking control over other people
44. Seeking only power over others
45. Taking too long in the commute
46. Inviting clutter in your home
47. Holding to clutter on your office space
48. Letting emails stack up
49. Letting small tasks stack up
50. Doing all your tasks all at once
51. Setting boundaries with people
52. Managing your time effectively
53. Giving too much importance to deadlines
54. Constantly tracking progress
55. Not being flexible enough with your time
56. Not taking responsibility for your actions
Last Words Of Advice
Just remember, you cannot stop all these things at once.
But once you start simplifying your life, you won’t want to stop.
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Quote Of The Week #253
Quote Of The Week #251
So Smart But…: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility – And How They Can Get It Back by Allen K. Weiner
Credibility, the quality or power to inspire trust and belief, is essential and strategic to career evolution.
Credibility is so difficult to acquire and to maintain but so quick and easy to lose.
Credibility is 45% how you look, 45% how you sound and 10% what you say.
In agreement with McCroskey, scholar in West Virginia University, there are five factors of credibility:
1. Competence
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to champion the company’s vision, engage in innovation, focus on performance and results, and to build a high performance organization.
With competence, an employee is able to explain concept with the appropriate message and to calibrate a message to a specific listener.
Credibility is easily lost if someone:
- Is not understanding or is reacting inappropriately to an issue at hand.
- Is lacking better judgement in order to make the right decisions.
- Reflects too long before making a decision.
2. Character
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to foster a climate of innovation, to foster and model the company’s values.
Credibility is easily lost if someone:
- Is lacking passion and drive for their work
- Is arrogant. This character flaw can be corrected by changing your words when addressing your colleagues, expressing interest in them, asking for advice, listening more in conversations and sharing your personal weaknesses.
- Cannot manage emotions very well.
- Has it out for some people in their organization.
3. Composure
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to manage workforce performance and delegate appropriately.
Credibility is easily lost if someone:
- Is not timely (not punctual with deliveries, appears frantic and rushing,…).
- Cannot manage emotions very well.
- Maneuver their body language to manifest their belonging.
- Decorate and manage their personal space.
- Does not look the part by not applying the company’s dress code, by not grooming oneself when coming to work or even by not working out.
4. Sociability
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to demonstrate interpersonal skills.
5. Extroversion
Extroversion as defined in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to passionately drive the company’s strategy.
Review
So Smart But…: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility – And How They Can Get It Back by Allen K. Weiner is a self-development book is very relatable, accurate and was very difficult to read since I have met up with most of the scenarios and possess some of the corporate personality flaws discussed in this book.
Allen N. Weiner, in So Smart But…, provides tips on how to preserve and enhance your credibility in the workplace.
Furthermore, every argument is properly illustrated with realistic workplace scenario and is not gender biased.
According to Allen N. Weiner, to climb the social ladder, it seems that one needs to :
- comply to too many non written rules, indicative of a rigid and intolerant society that is the corporate world. Is it possible to apply every single one of these rules to the cost of spreading oneself very thinly?
- be likeable to succeed when, in my opinion, likeability can only take you so far. Indeed, in my experience, it is preferable and more effective to be respected in corporate culture because being liked puts you on equal footing with your pairs, constitutes additional emotional work and subjects you to fluctuating and random external opinion. Nevertheless, according to Allen N. Weiner, people who are not liked are trying to find excuses instead of trying to be liked.
- adapt, be accepted by your pairs or fitting in. Fitting in is very hard to do but not impossible to do. Check out the article Signs that You are a good fit for your new job.
Let me know below what you think about this book!
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12 Things Leaders Do That Demotivate Their Team
Through their actions and decisions, leaders highly impact your overall job experience.
For the most part, they are responsible for your motivation, responsibilities, career prospects, work-life balance, engagement and alignment.
Wondering how leadership can demotivate teams?
Motivation is the combination of traits that drive someone to achieve their goals.
Therefore, demotivation occurs when there is a significant loss of drive, eagerness or willingness to do the work.
The loss of motivation mostly translates itself into:
- Increased absenteeism,
- Long lunches and breaks during working hours,
- Unprofessionalism, distraction and disconnection from the job,
- Distance and disconnection from others,
- Desire to distract others.
Unfortunately, toxic leaders are often the cause of said demotivation.
1. Toxic leaders are closed to new ideas
Not only are they closed to new ideas, they will gladly criticize and shut others down.
Furthermore, they do not embrace change. They will usually think that they know best and will follow through on bad ideas despite the evidence of the contrary.
2. Toxic leaders encourage toxicity
They let bad behavior go unchecked.
Illegal behaviors such as toxic competition, sexual harassment, prurient curiosity, invasion of privacy, racism, sexism and discriminatory speeches are ignored, celebrated and are embedded in the company culture.
3. Toxic leaders don’t lead by example
They avoid engaging in difficult tasks or challenging conversations.
They also behave poorly but get away with it because they have the power to do so or because human resources turn a blind eye to their behavior.
4. Toxic leaders pressure their team to meet unrealistic expectations
As a leader, ensuring that your team members meet the bottom line is surely important.
However, employees who cannot meet unrealistic goals tend to get demotivated and quit.
5. Toxic leaders treat their team like a commodity
They feel free to disrespect their team members, take advantage of people or play with their team like pawns.
They also feel free to fire people or demonstrate that they are replaceable.
Demotivated perform at their minimal best but not because they lack discipline.
6. Toxic leaders are in constant competition
Competitive and jealous leaders have huge egos and very low self esteem.
In this scenario, high performers tend to go unrecognized and unrewarded.
Even worse, their ideas are stolen and their achievements ignored.
7. Toxic leaders micromanage
Leaders who micromanage lack trust in the abilities of their team members.
They don’t allow their team to make or correct mistakes.
8. Toxic leaders don’t listen
Bad leaders don’t listen to anyone or anything.
By doing so, they don’t understand their team members potential and don’t adapt projects to them.
The reality is that when teams don’t feel heard, they ultimately get demotivated.
9. Toxic leaders don’t believe in work relationships
They are unaware of their team members responsibilities.
Leaders who don’t work on a relationship with their team members rarely notice when a team member gets demotivated.
10. Toxic leaders don’t communicate objectives
When teams don’t see the bigger picture or feel like they are in the loop, they become unable to measure their performance, involvement and their impact.
11. Toxic leaders brew conflict
They pit employees one against the other, play favorites and treat others unfairly.
That way, while employees are occupied fighting, nobody has the time they question their poor leadership.
In that case, motivation is lossed and employees usually quit.
12. Toxic leaders are not flexible
They don’t allow remote working and don’t encourage a healthy work-life balance.
They are oblivious to the fact that motivated teams contribute twice as more than demotivated ones.
Last Words Of Advice
People don’t leave jobs, they leave terrible leaders.
destroy.
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