Life Plan

Life plan is important just as in business, we need a business plan. This is a guide that helps leaders to operate and run businesses effectively and efficiently. On a personal level one needs a life plan. This is not as hectic as a business plan, but it contains a structure of your life from today and in the future. It answers the following questions:-

Questions To Guide Your Life Plan

1. Where will you be in 3 – 5 years time from now?
2. How will you get there?
3. What strategies are you currently implementing to get there?
4. Who will help and guide you in getting there?

Answering these basic questions will assist you in developing your life plan. You can apply it in your work situation by mapping how you plan to achieve work related goals. Most of the leaders who plan using this strategy are able to achieve most of their personal and business goals. You do not need an accountant to check the financials in your life plan. It is a living document that can be changed and modified as time goes – as long as you stick to the main goal.

As things do not go well as they sometimes will, you life plan will come in handy. You will go back to it and review your strategies and also you can change them for the better.

Design Your Life Plan

‘If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much..’ This is a time to reflect and design your own life plan and make it a personal guide in your life. The beauty about life plans is that you do not have to take it to banks for approvals, not even your spouse. You are the Leader and CEO of your life, be in charge or someone will be in charge of your life.

Be bold in life and create a plan that will enhance you and most importantly guide you in achieving personal goals. There more you stick to it you will be seen as an achiever and as an authority in your life. You will be respected by those who are around you. If asked what is your reciepe for success? You may simply answer by saying – I have a life plan

As a leader in your life do you have a life plan, like a business plan for your business? Do you know where are you going in life?

Success Tips For You

Here are some success strategies for the years to come

1. “Whenever there is rain, there is sunshine.” “Nothing worthwhile will come to you without a price,”
2. No excuses. If you want something, go after it.
3. Follow what you love.
4. Compete to win—always. “You never go in there with a mindset of failure or you will never win.”

To your wonderful success.

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Hater by Dr. Maya Angelou

A hater is someone who is jealous and envious and spends all their

time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.
They are very negative people to say the least. Nothing is ever
good enough!

When you make your mark, you will always attract some haters…

That’s why you have to be careful with whom you share your
blessings and your dreams, because some folk can’t handle seeing
you blessed…

It’s dangerous to be like somebody else… If God wanted you to be
like somebody else, He would have given you what He gave them! Right?

You never know what people have gone through to get what they
have…

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story…

If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, you
can rest assured that the water bill is higher there too!

We’ve all got some haters among us!

Some people envy you because you can:
a) Have a relationship with God
b) Light up a room when you walk in
c) Start your own business
d) Tell a man / woman to hit the curb
(if he / she isn’t about the right thing)

e) Raise your children without both parents being
in the home

Haters can’t stand to see you happy.
Haters will never want to see you succeed.
Most of our haters are people who are supposed to be
on our side.

How do you handle your undercover haters?
You can handle these haters by:

1. Knowing who you are & who your true friends are
*(VERY IMPORTANT!!)

2. Having a purpose to your life: Purpose does not
mean having a job. You can have a job and still be
unfulfilled.

A purpose is having a clear sense of what God has called you to be.
Your purpose is not defined by what others think about you.

3. By remembering what you have is by divine
prerogative and not human manipulation.

Fulfill your dreams! You only have one life to live…when it’s your
time to leave this earth, you ‘want’ to be able to say, ‘I’ve lived my
life and fulfilled ‘my’ dreams,… Now I’m ready to go HOME!

When God gives you favour, you can tell your haters, ‘ Don ‘t look at
me…Look at Who is in charge of me…’

Dr. Maya Angelou

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So true what Maya has just shared with us here.  Remarkable!

What are your views on this thoughtful piece by Dr. Maya Angelou?

 

Leaders Allow Others To Grow…

Baleseng Basi Tau

Leaders of today allow their team members to grow within and with them. They differ with old fashioned leaders who demanded to be followed and respected. Leaders should create another leaders, so that when the main leader is not around, one of the subordinates should be able to run, lead and manage other team mates and project effectively and efficiently. When this happens, then we will be able to judge the success of the team leader.

 

Success of the team leader is judged on how many leaders has he created and also on how He / She has effectively delivered on the projects he is working on.

A leader will say – let’s go do it. I encourage young entrepreneurs to work with their team members and most importantly to share information.

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau is an Entrepreneur, Speaker and a Trainer, based in Johannesburg (South Africa). He also runs and operates the number #1 Advertising and Consultancy firm in Johannesburg.

To Your Wonderful Success.

Customers are not the same

Leadership

“If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only close one personality type. But if you learn how to effectively work with all four personality types, you can conceivably close 100 percent of your contacts.” — Rod Nichols

One of the mistakes that we small Entrepreneurs make is to assume that all customers are the same and then we conclude that there is no longer a need to learn more about other people. That is our flaw. Customers are people and they have unique characteristics and they will never be the same, just as a game of chess will never be same and yet you play it with the same pieces on the same board. It is very important that, we entrepreneurs, learn peoples skills. This will help us to adapt to different people and it may lead us to having more differing clients from all walks of life.

 

As much as we are encouraged to find specific target market.  No customer will be the same as the last one and/or the next one. As soon as we keep that in mind and learn about characteristics of our targeted customers, we will be able to tailor-make our services based on their problems. We entrepreneurs, we should create solutions to problems presented by our clients. There more problems we solve – the more money we will make. These solutions will also differ from client to client.

 

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau is an Entrepreneur, Speaker and a Trainer, based in Johannesburg .

 

To Your Wonderful Success,

 

Baleseng ‘Basi’ Tau

E-mail: tau@taa.co.za

Skype: basi.tau

“Women Only Workshop”

“Women Only Workshop”
At this 2 hour workshop … yes, leave your multitasking at the door!

… we will be discussing, brick walls, glass ceilings and what is really standing in our way!

Bring:

1. Your business cards

2. Yourself

3. Your smile

When: 16 March 2011

Venue: Beit Emanuel, 38 Oxford Road, Parktown

Time: 9 am – 11 am

Cost: R99.00

Who should attend:

1. Business Women

2. Entrepreneurs

3. Women who own or manage small and medium size business (SME’s)

The Benefits: Sharing, Caring, Coffee!

Pearl Seigel
pearl@trainingshop.co.za
Cell: +27 074 187 5137

 

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Take Time To Think

Advertising, Branding and Printing

An interesting article I just read and I would like to share it with you. Enjoy

Take time to play – It is the source of perpetual youth.

Take time to be quiet – It is the opportunity to seek God.

Take time to be aware – It is the opportunity to help others.

Take time to love and be loved – It is God’s greatest gift.

Take time to laugh – It is the music of the soul.

Take time to be friendly – It is the road to happiness.

Take time to dream – It is what the future is made of

Take time to pray – It is the greatest power on earth.

Take time to give – It is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to work – It is the price of success. There is a time for everything. . . .[Ecclesiastes 3:1-8]Bible

Take time to read – It is the fountain of wisdom.

 

To your Success,

Baleseng Basi Tau

E-mail. tau@taa.co.za

Skype. basi.tau