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Projects can often be chaos. To remain focused and achieve success, you need to work in a step-by-step manner. That way, you will have complete control over every action you take

How to Manage Projects Step-by-Step
You have a choice in how you manage projects. If you manage in an unstructured fashion, then much of your time will be spent fire fighting and trying to control the project scope. This is known as "project chaos".
Instead, if you manage in a more structured step-by-step fashion, then… Continue

Paul writes: '.I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But.I press on toward the goal.' (vs.13-14 NIV). It's inspiring when a leader shares with us his successes. But sometimes we're helped more when he shares with us his struggles. In his book Leadership Gold, Dr John Maxwell talks frankly about things he's had to work on in life: 'I am impatient, I am unrealistic about the time tasks take and how difficult most processes are. I don't like to give a lot of time or effort to peopl… Continue

Brian Dyson, former Vice Chairman of Coca Cola, delivered the commencement address at Georgia Tech in 1996. In it he said, 'Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them; work, family, health, friends and spirit. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls; family, health, friends and spirit, are made of glass. If you drop any of these they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, d… Continue

Incorporate these six principles into your life and see what happens
1) don't worry, when you're doing your best. God accepts no less, but He demands no more. 'Trust in the Lord, and do good.and He shall give you the desires of your heart!' (Psalm 37:3-4 NKJV)
2) don't hurry, when success depends on accuracy. 'Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty' (Proverbs 21:5 NLT)
3) don't form conclusions until you have all the facts. Everyone you meet has unmet… Continue

Everybody needs encouragement. None of us achieves anything without help. The great achievers in history became all that they were because of the people in their lives.

We've seen The Chr.icles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. But did you know that their authors, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, were professors at Oxford University and maintained a close friendship? Every week they'd meet to eat, talk about their fiction-writing endeavours and read passages of their yet unpublished works. It was T… Continue