The Last Scrambled Quote

Here is the answer to the last scrambled quote. Walt Disney said:

If you can dream it, you can do it.

On the other hand an old proverb says:

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Which one do you believe?

This is the last scrambled quote and it’s nice that it ends with something worth thinking about!

Scrambled Quotes: Personally Productive Part 2

Here is the answer to the last quote:

First the top task, then the Internet.

If you can stay off the internet till you finish your number 1 task for the day then you, my friend, can go places. If you are already doing that, then you must already be at a good place:)

The higher the lever of executive, the more likely it is that they observe a hour media fast for an hour or two every morning – no phones, no Internet, no email – just plain work.

A serial entrepreneur also gave this advice but in his book one should finish the top two priorities for the day before turning to the Net.

I’m still trying to take that advice. You?

The shout for today is an inspiring quote from Walt Disney:

Fi oyu nca rmade ti, uyo anc od ti

Wouldn’t this world be a different place if more people believed that and actually lived their dreams?

Scrambled Quotes: Personally Productive

Here is the answer to the last shout:

The story goes that after Charles M. Schwab took over Bethlehem Steel in early twentieth century, he hired a consultant to help increase the efficiency of his staff.  The consultant observed the executives as they worked and then made a recommendation which apparently greatly doubled executive productivity.

The recommendation was:

Plan the evening before.

If the next day is planned the evening before, when one gets into office then they are ready to go. It may seem like common sense now but how many of us manage to even plan the next day, forget about implementing the plan.

Of course in those days communication technology was not as advanced as today so people actually got work done. Which brings me to the scrambled shout for today:

Stifr het pot stsk tnhe eht ennttei

This one is guaranteed to increase your personal productivity and also falls in the realm of common sense.

Scrambled Quotes: Productive Business

Here is the answer to the last shout:

The players play only as well as their coach allows.

This re-affirms a fact of life. In many situations we can only do as well as the circumstances permit.  On some days even a middling player will hit the zone and play to the level of great. Often it will be on the days that they received encouragement from someone.

In business, it is often the culture encouraged by the boss that decided whether a company, be it large or small, will accomplish what it wants. A brutal culture, where everyone is always afraid of losing their jobs (remember  AT&T back in early ninties) will never permit a company to be great. A brutal culture will always keep the company from middling to below average.

But where bosses have the patience to figure out how to leverage the foibles of their players, there my friends, we have the makings of a great company, like Google and word has it, Amazon and Starbucks is on its way.

This holds true for small business too. But the problem with small business examples if you mention them by name then it hurts people and besides nobody knows the firms involved anyway.  And you don’t have to take my word for it. Organization behaviour literature is replete with studies that provide evidence about the importance of the boss and the culture in achieving organizational goal.

This next shout is about increasing your personal productivity or how to get more done in a day. The consultant who came up with this one tip earned, I believe several thousand dollars, way back in early twentieth century. Everybody may already know this tip but here it is all the same.

Nalp eht neneign fereob

Scrambled Quotes: Business

Here is the answer to yesterday’s shout:

To win, you must begin

And ain’t that thetruth?

The shout for today is a strategy used by a large part of the business world.

Fi eniw si odgo, neth si neve tebret

If you have any quotes you’d like to see here, drop me a line!

Scrambled Quotes for Superminds

This part of the blog is about revving up the mind.  It’s simple. Here is an scrambled sentence that turns into an inspiring ( I hope) quote when you unscramble it.  The answer will be here tomorrow approximately around the same time.

Ot inw, oyu smtu eignb

I enjoy doing this. Seems to make my mind move faster. And I make up sentences that are either inspirational or have some application for business. This one is bit of both.

What Three a Day Is

I like to do three things everyday:

1. turbo charge my brain before anything important by doing a little puzzle, preferably, on the inspiring side.

2. laugh a lot, specially in the middle of the day.

3. think about something new – a new way to do something or a fresh point of view or figure out how to get more done in a day or sit back with a friend and solve the problems of the world. Its always good to think about world hunger when you truly want to avoid thinking about anything more pressing.

Why do I do these three things everyday instead of something like:

1-eating a vitamin tablet

2-exercising

3- deep breathing?

WISI (what I say is) good habits are all very well but having fun is even better.

And if you must be logical about it then a body needs an active mind to function well and that laughter is probably as good as exercise and if scientists are to be believed then we live longer and feel a whole lot better when we try to include something new in our lives even if it is something as practical as trying to get more done in my day.

Oh – on occasion I do drown a vitamin tablet and run and breathe deeply. Just don’t want to make a habit of it.

So this blog will have 3 major categories:

Every morning a nice quote in a scrambled form. Unscrambling a quote seems to get my brain ready for action every morning.

Anything that I find funny – a creative way to insult my nearest and dearest or good one liner from a movie or something that I find cute – smart t shirt lines or a picture – anything really.

The third category will be something new. Might be a tip or an opinion or something. I’m not sure what – wouldnot be new, if I already knew, now would it?