Section TED OF THE DAY: Programming your mind for success by Carrie Green

About the Section: THE TED OF THE DAY

Personally I consider TED one of the most powerful, insightful, inspiring and awesome initiatives for knowledge sharing. So many times I have been inspired for this talks and each time that this happen the minimum think that I can do is sharing it, this is the why I have created this section. I hope you enjoy it I do.

About TED

It is a non-profit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world. It believes in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world. 

Programming your mind for success | Carrie Green | 

Carrie Green started her first online business at the age of 20, whilst studying Law at the University of Birmingham. Within a few years she took the business global, selling throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe and receiving over 100,000 hits on the website every month. In 2011 Carrie launched the Female Entrepreneur Association as a way to help inspire and connect female entrepreneurs from around the world. The network has grown to over 140,000 women and they now produce a digital magazine, This Girl Means Business, weekly videos, free online classes and more.

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Professional career advice Step 2 - Set goals

What is a difference between a goal and a dream? Think for a minute.....

A dream is an Idea, It is a wish, it is generic, it is in your mind: "I want that dream job", "I want to travel around the world!"  "but I am not doing anything towards it, maybe it could happen or maybe not.... it's OK. finally it is a dream..."  A goal is a desired result, it implies a course of action, It's specific, it has a dead line and It is in the "Paper", "I am going to get this job in this company/start my international journey in this country, I will get done this before February 28 of the next year!, Tomorrow I'm going to start to look for opportunities which match with my profile and objectives, I'll track my progress weekly....." So just keep in mind this huge different between a dream and a goal but remember also that  If you put a dream on paper, and start to set a plan and specific actions for this, it becomes in a goal.

Our Job is the most time demanding activities of our life, researches reveals that we will spend about 99.127 hours of our life at work, so better to do this time the most worthy possible and bet for BIG  career goals! you must feel proud of what you want to become,  it has to be challenging, this journey have to be exciting!, Remember the Advice 1 - Set a Vision. 

When you have a huge dream which you have set as a goal, what you have to do is to plan the how and when to reach there, this will be a long term plan with short term and mind term goals that will let you get closer and stronger to catch  your Big goal.

The following questions will help you to start setting your Professional career goals: 

• What is my Personal/Professional Vision?  Advice 1 - Set a Vision. 
• Where am I now regarding my big goal?  (Self awareness)
• What do I have to learn, improve, strengthen? (Learning - development goals)
• Which goals do I have to reach before that big goal?   (Short term & mind term goals)
• Which opportunities there are around me? , what do I need to know? (Environment awareness)

Now that you have a clear picture about what you have to do,  is your decision to start! Once you have started you must push yourself to your vision and for that you need to set deadlines and check points, to analyse and make decisions regarding how is going your career plan.

Good look in your journey.

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Professional career advice 1 - Set a personal Vision

Consider the following before to start, do you remember this time when you read,  listened or saw something that have made you think about changes/goals in your life? That is called inspiration! Now think, how many times did you get to accomplish that changes/goals? I guess that the answer is not 100% of the times, unfortunately the most of us use to start personal projects so often but we do not get finish all of them. Conclusion: Inspiration is good it is the energy to start! but without your personal decision, actions and discipline you will never  improve or change anything!  So I really hope you get inspired with this post in some way and then work until the end of your life for your personal vision.

PERSONAL VISION 

This is the most important step that you have to take in order to set a successful professional career. Without knowing your destination, you will never reach it. Thinks that you are like a ship in that huge sea called life and you have to set your final destination and know the different stops (Experiences) that will let you reach there. 

Action step 

Take a couple of minutes of uninterrupted time. Take a piece of paper and a pen and write down the answers for the following question. Do not skip this! This is most likely the hardest part of this guide this will be your motivation and source of inspiration for the next steps!

- Who do you want to become (Your Vision)? 

Be your own wonderful creature. Think in your final destination

- Which are your biggest  Professional achievement? Dream Job?  Entrepreneur?

- What do you know or do better than anyone? Identify your strengths!

- What make you happy? Identify in your passion

- Which are my core values / Miles tones? What behaviours will lead you to your vision

- How do you want to be remembered after you die?

Seriously you need to really think about these questions and answer them. Do it now. As long as you've taken those few minutes on your time, you are already on the right way. You've already done more than 99% of normal people do. You are taking actions! and ownership! Feel great about yourself! 

The next post (The step 2) will be related with GOALS! So far the step 1 give us a self diagnostic , a dream, a big picture about what we want, with that we have the general objective to pursuit and starting a plan. 

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The best productivity tools!

Personally I have been using the following tools for years and each one have helped me a lot to bust my personal and team performance.  If these tools are new for you, my advice is that you should give you the enough time to know them and then according to your personal and job needs use the different features and solution that they offer.

Remember that to master any kind of tool you  have to read about them, watch YouTube tutorials, ask for advises to your friends  and of course use the tool as much as you can, include it within your routine of work and you will see how with the daily use you start discovering new and amazing ways to use it. In my case the following are my personal top 3:

Top 1  Google Docs

Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides let you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them online. You can access the documents, from any computer, anywhere in the world. — and all for free, you just need a Gmail account. 

To know more about google Docs visit the followings guides

Google Sheets  started guide

Google Docs started guide

Google Slides started guide

Top 2  Evernote

It is a really powerful tool! Forget the paper sheets and pencil and shift to the digital notes, but Evernote is much more than that. You will never lost again any paper with some important stuff that you wrote down! Now you will have a tool that give you quick access to your notes in any computer, at anytime and anywhere.

It really has became indispensable in my routine I wrote everything over there: Check lists, daily reminders, meetings outputs, thoughts, I also save links, docs, articles everything!

To know more about Evernote visit the followings link

Evernote.com/getting_started

Top 3  Trello

You will love this tool to manage projects,  It is flexible and visual way to organize anything with anyon.

Trello is a free web-based project management application. it uses a paradigm for managing projects known as kanban, a method that had originally been popularized by Toyota in the 1980s for supply chain management. Projects are represented by boards, which contain lists (corresponding to task lists).

To know more about Trello visit the followings link

Trello.com

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