Imagine you could find happiness? What would it look like? Imagine that you can do whatever brings you the greatest joy and fulfillment. What would you sacrifice to find happiness? It might just be a small adjustment according to what you do today. Maybe a few things you need to do more often, a few things you must stop to do and a few things you might just do differently? I do not have the answer, as it is asleep inside you.

On a scale from 1 to 10, how great is your day today?

Really awful, I hate everybody?
I wish I could sleep through this day and skip it
Don’t look at me like that, or I will punch you nose in
I do not know, I do not care
I am awake, aren’t I? So leave me alone
I am feeling ok, morning kind of sucked but it is a sunny day
I am actually looking forward for this day, listen birds are singing!
You know what? I started this morning at 5 am running, I feel so fresh
Hi, do you know the tune I am whistling? …

Business is a game with winners, losers, spectators and participants. It is your choice if you want to be a part of this game or not. But if you want to join the competition you mind should be tuned in correctly if you want to succeed beyond just being a participant. So what does it take to succeed as an employee in almost any kind of business?

Do you as a leader know why you should know the values of your employees? It will help you succeed in human relations with your staff. It will help you to find rewards and what will keep them safe and secure. The values of a person are like the tag on a plant telling you how to handle it. Does Susie need a lot of positive feedback? Does John need to know that his job is safe? Does Eric need a long term plan? All these answers and more will be answered if you know their values.
Here is how you …

You passed the nerve wrecking job interview and you are just about to start at your new job, what do you do? I will try to give you some pointers from managements view. I will relate this to my experience from sales and call centre life. I have been working with sales for almost 20 years, and I currently manage a call centre crew going on for the third year. So this article will be most useful for people with none or little education. Hopefully highly educated people just about to start a career might get something out of it …

Do you feel like not going to work in the mornings? Is it hard to motivate yourself to repeating the same crap routine work over and over again? Why so negative? If your work sucks, your boss suck, your co-workers suck and your company suck, you might be heading into a motivational valley in the very near future. This could be a challenge to turn around as everybody else has a problem, or not you? Or am I wrong?
I believe that there is no such thing as a bad company, a bad leader, bad management, bad co-workers, bad hair days… …