Tran Harry – The Economy Needs A Fix

Being thorough is always a good thing. Spell check your life as you would your documents.

Getting more information is always better than less, giving just enough information is ideal.

Fear is a major crippler.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People:

1. Be proactive – taking responsibility for everything in life. When you’re reactive you blame others for obstacles or problems.

2. Begin with the end in mind – setting long term goals based on true north principles. Formulate a personal mission statement to document ones purpose in life.

3. Out first things first – prioritizing work that is aimed at long term goals, at the expense of tasks that appear to be urgent, but are in fact less important. Delegation is an important part of time management.

4. Think win/win – mutually beneficial solutions are sought.

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood – giving advice out before having empathetically understood a person and their situation will likely result in advice being rejected. Listen to another’s concerns increase the chance of establishing a working communication.

6. Synergize – working in teams. Apply effective problem solving. Apply collaborative decision making. Value differences. Build on divergent strengths. Leverage creative collaboration. Embrace and leverage innovation. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

7. Sharpen the saw – balanced self renewal. Regaining productive capacity by engaging in carefully selected recreational activity.

Great Quotes

“If is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair

“It’s like a big crooked game of poker by these frat boys are playing, except its with our money” – Anonymous from “Law & Order”

“If you learn to sell, it’s worth more than a degree,” he says.” It’s worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It’s even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell and you’ll never starve.” – George Foreman

“The only thing more important than what’s on the table is who’s sitting around it.” – Anonymous Mother

“The whole reason we have elected officials is so we don’t have to think all the time.” – Homer Simpson

“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi