The Power of Positive Reinforcement
Most of us as busy people have a "to do" list. You probably write your list and then cross the items off one by one, usually beginning with the easy things on the list to give yourself a sense of accomplishment. Occasionally, at the end of the day you remember something that you accomplished during the day that wasn't on the list.....so, you stop and put it on your list and cross it off with a flourish. Yes, one more thing accomplished today!
Only one problem, you have been rewarding yourself for doing the least important, fun or easy things. When you reward yourself for doing these things of lesser importance, your to-do list will become a magnet for unimportant activities and small daily chores.
The feeling of being overwhelmed or the fear factor stops us from tackling our biggest challenges and our highly leveraged activities first. Generally when you hesitate or resist doing something the reason is fear of failure. Fear blocks our success. Fear is an expensive habit. Feel the fear and do it anyway!
May I suggest that you reward yourself for doing the critical and most important things and the world will reward you as well. The process of rewarding yourself is called positive reinforcement. When you reward yourself for your successes and your positive actions, you will find that you will have more and more successes...almost effortlessly. Experience the exhilaration of success. You deserve it!
The Power of Positive Reinforcement - To learn more about this author, visit Gloria Starr's Website.
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Gloria Starr
(Visit Gloria's Website)
Gloria Starr, President and Founder of
Global Success Strategies, Inc.
Established 1983. www.gloriastar
r.com
Areas of expertise include impression
management, business and dining etiquette
and communication skills.
Ms. Starr has been recognized by the
United States Government as a consultant
of extraordinary ability and talent and
ranked in the top 5% of consultants
worldwide.
The Society for the Advancement of
Consulting awarded Ms. Starr "Excellence
in Consulting and Coaching."
Clients include Hunt Oil, Seagate
Technology, Oracle, Hunt Refining, Levi
Strauss, Automation Technologies, Procter
and Gamble, the United States Pentagon,
the United States Army, United Gulf Steel,
Destiny's Child, Cunard Cruise Lines,
Princess Cruise Lines and the Hong Kong
and Canadian Board of Trade
Her trademarked programs the Executive
Finishing School, the Modern Day Finishing
School and the Professional Athletes
School have been conducted worldwide.
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