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Too many of us live like goldfish, swimming in the same orbit day in and day out feeling uninspired, tired, bored and sometimes worse. Life is much too precious to waste that way. Every person has a unique purpose in life. I implore you not to waste your days berating yourself for what you don’t know and don’t do well. Instead, discover your strengths,passions, purpose and build your life on those.

Here are 10 ideas about living a meaningful life, as I understand them. Embracing even a few of these will help you begin the exciting journey of self discovery.

• We are all here for a purpose. Your being here makes a difference. Your purpose may be obscure to you and a challenge to discover. Start now. There are many resources, coaches and books to help you with this endeavor.
• The secret to fulfillment is self knowledge. Start the exciting journey of discovery.
• The second part of the secret to fulfillment is to apply your self knowledge to what you do and how you live. The more you know, the more you can actively pursue your true purpose.
• Don’t waste time lamenting what you don’t do well. Concentrate on your strengths. Those reflect who you are. Leave the other things to people who do them well.
• Build on your strengths. Do more of them and give yourself recognition for doing the things you do well.
• Pay attention to the small details that you enjoy in your everyday life. Do more of them.
• Pay attention to the small details you don’t enjoy. Find ways (such as delegation) to eliminate as many of them as possible.
• Keep a journal and put particular emphasis on the things about yourself and events in your life for which you are grateful.
• Make an effort to release the negative aspects of your past. Try not be imprisoned by your past. Do not define yourself by your past.
• Jumpstart your self-esteem by giving back to the community. Volunteer in a meaningful way that suits who you are and your interests.

Enjoy the journey. You will get to know and like yourself in a whole new way. Work with a friend, hire a coach, and use the resources out there, to help you with objectivity. Have someone point out the good things about you that you have a tendency to overlook. As soon as you stop doing what you hate and start doing what you love, you may find your life more meaningful and fulfilling

To be a success is not always to be a success individually. In fact, most of the time we achieve our successes as part of a team. That is why I want to devote this issue to the secrets of successful team.

We are all part of teams. Our family is a team. Our place of work is a team. The community groups we belong to are teams. Sometimes we are the team leader or “coach,” while other times we fulfill the role of follower, or “player.” It is so important then for us to understand teams and how they work, especially those who achieve success – the achievement of their desired goal.

In my life I have been on some successful teams, and some not so successful teams. This includes both athletically as well as professionally. When I was growing up, I worked for seven years with the Seattle Supersonics, our local National Basketball Association team. They were at times unsuccessful, and, in 1979, my second year working there, the most successful team in the league, winning the World Championship. I have been able to see firsthand what makes the difference between the unsuccessful teams and the successful ones.

Here are some principles that I know, when implemented on a regular basis, can turn any lackluster team into an outstanding one! These principles can be applied to your family, your business, your organization, and yes, your sports team. Enjoy.

Communication Leader
The leader needs to communicate the vision. If they are setting the pace, they need to let people know where they are going so that the team can follow. The coach always does a pre-game talk, laying out the vision.

The leader communicates the vision frequently, so as to always be updating the team as to where they are at and what changes need to be made. The coach doesn’t relegate the direction he gives to the pre-game, he coaches and communicates all the way through the game.

Team
Watch a good basketball team. They are talking to each other all of the time. Helping one another out, encouraging one another, praising one another, and telling each other how they can make changes so the same mistakes aren’t made again. The same is true of successful teams in the professional world and in life in general.

Excellence
The truly great teams are teams that are committed to excellence. In everything they do, their goal is to achieve at the highest level. And this commitment is held throughout the team and at every level. A successful team cannot have members who are not committed to excellence because in the end they will become the weak link.

Followership
If you want a fascinating read, pick up The Power of Followership, by Robert Kelley. The author basically makes the point that the secret to getting things done lies not only in great leadership, but in how well the rest of the people, 99% of the team, follows the leadership. Good teams are filled with people who are committed to following and getting the job done.

Understanding Roles
Pardon the Chicago Bulls analogy, but it is so clear. When the game was on the line, with only one shot left, everyone, the coaches, the players, the 20,000 people watching in the stadium, and millions watching on TV, knew who would shoot the last shot. That was Michael Jordan’s role.

Every team works best when the members of the team have clearly defined and understood roles. Some do one thing, others do another. One isn’t better or more important than the other, just different. When teams operate out of their strengths and their roles, they win.

Strengths and Weaknesses
This brings me to strengths and weaknesses. Every team member has strengths and weaknesses. The successful teams are those who on a regular and consistent basis enable the members to operate out of their strengths and not out of their weaknesses. And what is one person’s strengths will cover another’s weakness. This is teamwork, enabling all of the bases to be covered.

Fun
The team that plays together stays together. Is your team all work and no play? If you’re smart, that will change. Get your team out of the office once a month and go have some fun. Enjoy one another. Enjoy life. It will bring a sense of bonding that can’t be made even in “winning.”

Common Goals and Vision
I have found that these need to have three aspects. Short, simple and clear.

Can you say it in less than 30 seconds? Is it simple? Can you and others understand it? Does the team all know what they are working together for?

Appreciation
All through the “game,” successful teams appreciate one another and show it in a variety of ways. The coach shows it to the players, the players show it to the coach, and the players show it to one another.

Here is a “Successful Teams” Checklist for you to evaluate with.

• Is there communication between coach and players and from player to player?
• Is your team committed to excellence?
• Do those on the team know what it means to follow?
• Does everyone on my team know their specific role?
• Do the individuals on our team regularly operate out of their strengths as opposed to their weaknesses?
• Does our team take a break from time to time to just have fun together?
• Do we understand our common goals and vision? Can we all state it (them)?
• Is there a sense of and communication of genuine appreciation among my team?

Being an administrator is about added than aloof starting a business or two, it is about accepting attitude and the drive to accomplish in business. All acknowledged Entrepreneurs accept a agnate way of cerebration and posses several key claimed qualities that accomplish them so acknowledged in business. Acknowledged entrepreneurs like the aggressive Richard Branson accept an close drive to accomplish and abound their business, rather than accepting a Harvard Business amount or abstruse adeptness in a accurate field.

All acknowledged entrepreneurs accept the afterward qualities:

Close Drive to Succeed

Entrepreneurs are apprenticed to accomplish and aggrandize their business. They see the bigger account and are generally actual ambitious. Entrepreneurs set massive goals for themselves and break committed to accomplishing them behindhand of the obstacles that get in the way.

Able Belief in themselves

Successful entrepreneurs accept a advantageous assessment of themselves and generally accept a able and absolute personality. They are focused and bent to accomplish their goals and accept absolutely in their adeptness to accomplish them. Their cocky optimism can generally been apparent by others as affectation or airs but entrepreneurs are aloof too focused to absorb too abundant time cerebration about un-constructive criticism.

Awful Motivated and Energetic

Entrepreneurs are consistently on the move, abounding of activity and awful motivated. They are apprenticed to accomplish and accept an affluence of cocky motivation. The aerial standards and appetite of abounding entrepreneurs appeal that they accept to be motivated!

Openness to Change

If article is not alive for them they artlessly change. Entrepreneurs apperceive the accent of befitting on top of their industry and the alone way to actuality cardinal one is to advance and change with the times. They’re up to date with the most recent technology or account techniques and are consistently accessible to change if they see a fresh befalling arise.

Competitive by Nature

Successful entrepreneurs advance on competition. The alone way to ability their goals and alive up to their cocky imposed aerial standards is to attempt with added acknowledged businesses.

Search for Fresh Ideas and Innovation

All entrepreneurs accept a amorous admiration to do things more good and to advance their articles or service. They are consistently attractive for means to improve. They’re creative, avant-garde and resourceful.

Accepting of Effective Criticism and Rejection

Innovative entrepreneurs are generally at the alpha of their industry so they apprehend the words “it can’t be done” absolutely a bit. They acclimate their aisle if the criticism is effective and advantageous to their all-embracing plan, contrarily they will artlessly apathy the comments as pessimism. Also, the best entrepreneurs apperceive that bounce and obstacles are a allotment of any arch business and they accord with them appropriately.

True entrepreneurs are resourceful, amorous and apprenticed to accomplish and improve. They’re antecedents and are adequate angry on the frontline The abundant ones are accessible to be laughed at and criticized in the alpha because they can see their aisle advanced and are too active alive appear their dream.