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Celebrating milestones and benchmarks in work and in life might turn out to be a good way to carve your life.
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Prem Jagyasi
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Successes are like milestones while excellence is a never-ending journey.
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Majid Kazmi (The First Dancer)
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in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth, but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.
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James Dale Davidson (The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age)
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Some people celebrate birthdays and expect to be told, Happy Birthday to mark another year of getting older while others celebrate achievements and receive congratulations to mark another milestone. We are different, but happy birthday to you.
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Niedria Dionne Kenny (Phenomenally Me: My Sweet 2016™)
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Problem #3: Goals restrict your happiness. The implicit assumption behind any goal is this: “Once I reach my goal, then I’ll be happy.” The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone. I’ve slipped into this trap so many times I’ve lost count. For years, happiness was always something for my future self to enjoy. I promised myself that once I gained twenty pounds of muscle or after my business was featured in the New York Times, then I could finally relax. Furthermore, goals create an “either-or” conflict: either you achieve your goal and are successful or you fail and you are a disappointment. You mentally box yourself into a narrow version of happiness. This is misguided. It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out. It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there are many paths to success. A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.
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Ryan Lilly
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Once you accomplish one goal or reach one important milestone, you need to ask yourself, “What’s next?
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Darrin Donnelly (Old School Grit: Times May Change, But the Rules for Success Never Do (Sports for the Soul Book 2))
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Mile by mile one hits the milestone.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Once the baseline has been established, the startup can work toward the second learning milestone: tuning the engine. Every product development, marketing, or other initiative that a startup undertakes should be targeted at improving one of the drivers of its growth model.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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I Can Also Paint Around the time that he reached the unnerving milestone of turning thirty, Leonardo da Vinci wrote a letter to the ruler of Milan listing the reasons he should be given a job. He had been moderately successful as a painter in Florence, but he had trouble finishing his commissions and was searching for new horizons. In the first ten paragraphs, he touted his engineering skills, including his ability to design bridges, waterways, cannons, armored vehicles, and public buildings. Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. “Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible,” he wrote.
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Walter Isaacson (Leonardo Da Vinci)
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Girls start thinking about their ideal body at a shockingly early age. Thirty-four percent of five-year-old girls engage in deliberate dietary restraint at least “sometimes.” Twenty-eight percent of these girls say they want their bodies to look like the women they see in movies and on television.1 To put this into context, important developmental milestones for five-year-olds include the successful use of a fork and spoon and the ability to count ten or more objects. These are girls who are just learning how to move their bodies around in the world, yet somehow they’re already worried about how their bodies look, already seeking to take up less space.
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Renee Engeln (Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women)
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With this exponential growth of robots, we could soon have a fleet large enough to do the work of altering the desert landscape. They would mine the soil, construct new factories, and make unlimited copies of themselves cheaply and efficiently. They could create a vast agricultural industry and propel the rise of modern civilization not just on Mars, but throughout space, conducting mining operations in the asteroid belt, building laser batteries on the moon, assembling gigantic starships in orbit, and laying the foundations for colonies on distant exoplanets. It would be a stunning achievement to successfully design and deploy self-replicating machines. But beyond that milestone remains
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Michio Kaku (The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond)
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Guiding Your Success, One Approval at a Time. We are the cornerstone of compliance in the dynamic Indian market, ensuring your ventures meet every regulatory milestone seamlessly. With a dedicated focus on excellence, we pave the way for your innovations to flourish, navigating the intricate web of approvals. Our commitment: Empowering your ambitions, as your trusted partners in progress." By Brand Liaison
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Brand Liaison
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Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup. The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works within my definition of a startup: a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. That means entrepreneurs are everywhere and the Lean Startup approach can work in any size company, even a very large enterprise, in any sector or industry. 2. Entrepreneurship is management. A startup is an institution, not just a product, and so it requires a new kind of management specifically geared to its context of extreme uncertainty. In fact, as I will argue later, I believe “entrepreneur” should be considered a job title in all modern companies that depend on innovation for their future growth. 3. Validated learning. Startups exist not just to make stuff, make money, or even serve customers. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. This learning can be validated scientifically by running frequent experiments that allow entrepreneurs to test each element of their vision. 4. Build-Measure-Learn. The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. All successful startup processes should be geared to accelerate that feedback loop. 5. Innovation accounting. To improve entrepreneurial outcomes and hold innovators accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work. This requires a new kind of accounting designed for startups—and the people who hold them accountable.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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Problem #3: Goals restrict your happiness. The implicit assumption behind any goal is this: “Once I reach my goal, then I’ll be happy.” The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone. I’ve slipped into this trap so many times I’ve lost count. For years, happiness was always something for my future self to enjoy. I promised myself that once I gained twenty pounds of muscle or after my business was featured in the New York Times, then I could finally relax. Furthermore, goals create an “either-or” conflict: either you achieve your goal and are successful or you fail and you are a disappointment. You mentally box yourself into a narrow version of happiness. This is misguided. It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out. It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there are many paths to success.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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Hello everyone. I would like to thank all of you for getting me here. This day is a huge milestone for me. I would like to thank all of the people who have supported me from the start till the end. I would like to thank the people who have also given me advice. I would like to thank most my english teacher for making my vocabulary so rich and my language so fluent and readable. I am very grateful for her and my improvements are all because of her. I have published this book on my first anniversary of being an Author. I am happy beyond understanding and feel that I should make my next year of writing a much more successful one than my first year.
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Divyansh Gupta (Diary of a Human Hero 8: Unofficial Minecraft Book)
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The appropriate milestones measuring a startup’s progress answer these questions: How well do we understand what problems customers have? How much will they pay to solve those problems? Do our product features solve these problems? Do we understand our customers’ business? Do we understand the hierarchy of customer needs? Have we found visionary customers, ones who will buy our product early? Is our product a must-have for these customers? Do we understand the sales roadmap well enough to consistently sell the product? Do we understand what we need to be profitable? Are the sales and business plans realistic, scalable, and achievable? What do we do if our model turns out to be wrong?
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Steve Blank (The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win)
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Most Western managers believe that long-term success flows from a state of stability, harmony, predictability, discipline, and consensus-a state that I refer to as stable equilibrium. This belief leads them to demand general prescriptions that they can immediately convert into successful action. The most popular prescriptions are to formulate a vision of an organization's future state, to prepare long-term plans to realize that vision, to set strategic milestones and monitor achievements against those plans, to write mission statements and persuade people to share the same culture, to encourage widespread participation and consensus in decision making, and to install control systems that allow top executives to set the organization's direction and stay in command.
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Ralph D. Stacey (Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations)
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2019 is not only a year of 6912000 productive seconds, but it’s also the time to achieve the next milestone which is very important for me to achieve my vision. Mistakes and Failures(which is not exist) educate us, make us knowledgeable. Success & achievement motivate us and prove us that we have truly learned something from the Mistakes. I would like to do lots of mistakes within the year so that I can get a huge success in 2019.
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Chiranjit Paul
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Often, when the goal is daunting and the journey arduous, there is a sense of having achieved the goal, even if it’s really only a milestone. You see that with students who work so hard to make it to the IITs and IIMs and experience burnout once they get there. Sadly, they mistake a milestone for a goal and they feel that their destination has already arrived. It is true of young Indian cricketers who sometimes experience such joy and relief at being selected that they are not ready for what follows. Even companies are known to become complacent once they become market leaders. It’s easier for the number two and three to remain motivated since there is still an unfulfilled feeling and a higher sense of purpose. That is why managing success is always more difficult than achieving it and staying number one is more difficult than becoming number one.
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Anita Bhogle and Harsha Bhogle (The Winning Way 2.0Learnings from Sport for Managers)
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Unfortunately, we live in an instant Jell-O society, with everybody wanting microwaved success. So as you look at truth therapy to combat the lies you tell yourself, don't go overboard with your expectations.
Remember to lighten up and put your party hat on every now and then. Celebrate the little steps . . . as well as the significant milestones.
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Kevin Leman (What Your Childhood Memories Say about You . . . and What You Can Do about It)
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within three years of its founding, OverDrive had loaned one million books, and in 2012, it had reached a hundred million checkouts. By the end of 2017, it had reached the milestone of having loaned one billion books. On an average day, seven hundred thousand books are checked out through OverDrive. The company has been so successful that, a few years ago, the Japanese conglomerate Rakuten paid $410 million to acquire it.
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Susan Orlean (The Library Book)
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Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of WHY we do WHAT we do. Our achievements, WHAT we do, serve as the milestones to indicate we are on the right path.
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Simon Sinek (Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action)
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Where each entry is akin to a mini project charter for that work package; including such information as a description of the work, [Cost] estimates, [Scope] requirements & technical references, acceptance criteria & [Quality] standards, [People] & [Resource] needs, assumptions & constraints, [Time] duration & milestones.
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Joshua Boyde (A Down-To-Earth Guide To SDLC Project Management: Getting your system / software development life cycle project successfully across the line using PMBOK adaptively.)
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Gunning for the milestone payments is the key to the success of a project.
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Haresh Sippy
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FOGLAMP project checklist FOGLAMP is an acronym for focus, oversight, goals, leadership, abilities, means, and process. This tool can help you cut through the haze and plan your critical projects. Complete the table for each early-win project you set up. Project: __________________________ Question Answer Focus: What is the focus for this project? For example, what goal or early win do you want to achieve? Oversight: How will you oversee this project? Who else should participate in oversight to help you get buy-in for implementing results? Goals: What are the goals and the intermediate milestones, and time frames for achieving them? Leadership: Who will lead the project? What training, if any, do they need in order to be successful? Abilities: What mix of skills and representation needs to be included? Who needs to be included because of their skills? Because they represent key constituencies? Means: What additional resources, such as facilitation, does the team need to be successful? Process: Are there change models or structured processes you want the team to use? If so, how will they become familiar with the approach?
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Michael D. Watkins (The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter)
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By recognizing my mother’s limitations, I was able to realize she’d done the best she could. I finally began to accept that she would never be the kind of mom I had wanted or needed her to be. She was who she was. I didn’t have to like it, but I needed to accept it completely and unconditionally. If I was going to do that for her, I needed to do the same for myself. I needed to accept that my childhood programming was what it was, forgive those who had instilled it, forgive myself for living by it, and break the habit of needing the approval of others in order to feel validated. This was challenging because my need for approval was so strong. If my mother wouldn’t give it to me, who would? Answer: No one, and that was okay. The approval of others no longer needed to be criteria for my own self-worth. It had to be enough that I was proud of my accomplishments and milestones. No matter what happened to me in my life, regardless of the opinions of others, I had to accept myself.
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Jennifer Teske (Become a Manifesting Machine: Learn to Use The Law of Attraction to Embrace your Goals, Create Success, and Live the Life of your Dreams)
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The Delegation Feedback Conversation has a job to do. For it to be of service to the delegation project it must cover all the bases by allowing the following things to happen: The delegatee gives an accurate report on progress made in reaching agreed milestones. An assessment is made of the success or not of that progress. Barriers to success are explored. Strategies for overcoming those barriers are adopted. Ways you can help are identified. The delegatee is challenged where, however inadvertently, she is working against the aims of the project. Milestones are reassessed, with some kept, others dropped, and new ones agreed as necessary. She departs with new ideas, heightened clarity, and refreshed confidence and energy. So do you.
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Dave Stitt (Deep and deliberate delegation: A new art for unleashing talent and winning back time)
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Innovation accounting. To improve entrepreneurial outcomes and hold innovators accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work. This requires a new kind of accounting designed for startups—and the people who hold them accountable.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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Let the failure not be the destination but a milestone of the journey to success.
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (Rep By Rep)
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Better ways to reward yourself You can often compliment yourself on your milestones and achievements, no matter how small. Losing a few pounds is a great success you should be proud of. Look at yourself in the mirror every night and congratulate yourself on another successful day. Acknowledge your successes regularly for getting one step closer to your goal.
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Rick Taylar (The Obesity Factor: Blow Weight Loss Obstacles Out Of The Water)
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With a new habit, create a goal that’s too small to fail. Stay focused on what you need to do right now and ignore future milestones. Then make tiny, incremental changes. At first, you won’t notice a shift in your habits. However, on a long enough timeline, you’ll develop a permanent change to your routine.
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S.J. Scott (The Daily Entrepreneur: 33 Success Habits for Small Business Owners, Freelancers and Aspiring 9-to-5 Escape Artists)
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Every time a milestone occurs—a successful book launch party, a reading—you’ll be ready to add another milestone to your Timeline.
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Frances Caballo (Social Media Just for Writers: The Best Online Marketing Tips for Selling Your Books)
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Once a team is set up, what should it do? What process should it use? How should it be held accountable to performance milestones?
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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If a product milestone or project succeeds in delivering the expected business goal, it is a success from a business perspective, even if the delivered scope ends up being different from what was originally envisaged. On the other hand, if it delivers exactly the requested scope but misses the business goal, it is a failure.
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Gojko Adzic (Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects)
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the inherently risky nature of innovation means that companies can’t reward innovation efforts the way they reward core activities: an innovation team can do the exact right things and still fail, or succeed in spite of doing the exact wrong things. Worse, remember that when it comes to innovation, perceived failure is often an important step toward ultimate success. A seminal study in the mid-1980s found that that many new product “failures” were critical milestones that often presaged future successes. Typically, valuable insights came in the form of direct feedback about the viability of technology, consumer acceptance of features and pricing, and how to target new consumer segments and geographic markets.
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Scott D. Anthony (The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It)
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Charles Koch himself committed $1.5 million on the spot, but with strings attached, keeping him in control. As Mellor recalled, “He said, ‘Here’s what I’m going to do. I’ll give you up to $500,000 a year for three years, each year, but you have to come back each year and demonstrate that you’ve met these milestones that you’ve set out to accomplish and I will evaluate it on a yearly basis, and there’s no guarantees.’ ” The legal group, the Institute for Justice, went on to bring numerous successful cases against government regulations, including campaign-finance laws, several of which reached the Supreme Court.
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Jane Mayer (Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right)
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focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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Here’s another analogy. Human beings bring only a handful of facial features to the blueprint of how we look—two eyes, two eyebrows, a nose, a mouth, a pair of cheekbones, and two ears, all pasted onto a somewhat ovular-to-round face. That particular blueprint doesn’t often vary much, either. Interestingly enough, this is about the same number of essential storytelling parts and milestones that each and every story needs to showcase in order to be successful. Now, consider this: With only these eleven variables to work with, ask yourself how often you see two people who look exactly alike. In a crowd of ten thousand faces, you would be able to differentiate each and every one of them, other than a set of twins or two in attendance. Where we humans are concerned, the miracle of originality resides in the Creator, who applies an engineering-driven process—eleven variables— to an artistic outcome. Where art is concerned, there is something to be learned from that.
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Larry Brooks (Story Engineering)
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Success is defined not merely by the milestones achieved, but by the challenges surmounted and the positive impact made on others along the journey.
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Abdirizak Hassan
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Launch to Celebrate A launch is a stepping-stone. A thing that happens when your business already has customers, is doing well, and is going to last. Many companies go out of business within the first year. Why make a big deal out of a business before you’re sure it’ll stick around? Instead, build a successful business and “launch” as a celebration of your success. Spend your business’s profits on it, not your own money. Better yet, celebrate your customers’ success. I think celebrating a milestone is a great excuse to launch. What about having successfully sold to a hundred customers? Once you’re running a growing, profitable business with a hundred customers who love you and whom you care about, you can celebrate them—by launching. Throw a party. Invite all of your customers and thank them for their ongoing support. Do that, and you’ll have customers lining up at your door. They’ll be people you already know, and who know you. Some of them will bring their own friends and families and maybe even members of their own communities too. They may even help promote your event before it happens because you’ve told them about it and they’re excited about supporting you. Plus, they can actually speak to others about how great your product is and how much better it has made their life. Your customers may be even better salespeople than you are. Good—there’s more of them than there are of you! Or perhaps you decide you don’t need to launch at all. That’s fine too. But entrepreneurship can be lonely, and it can be a good excuse to rally—and reward—your community for helping you get this far. Once you have a hundred customers, some of them now repeat customers, selling your product better than you can, you’re ready to move on to the next chapter of your business: marketing.
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Sahil Lavingia (The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less)
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We do not fail until we are trying. We fail once we give up.
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Sukant Ratnakar (Quantraz)
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Incremental success is irrelevant in the exponential world. Anything less than radical is meaningless.
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Sukant Ratnakar (Quantraz)
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The accuracy of our vision depends upon the cleanliness of the lens and its alignment with our eyesight. How clean and aligned are your lenses to see yourself?
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Sukant Ratnakar (Quantraz)
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No one, myself included, ever considers that life doesn’t give two shits about what you planned for it. Mine certainly didn’t. Yet, there I was, beating myself up for not living up to those expectations I had set for myself as though my life’s dream board had caught fire. The mere thought of me not having reached certain milestones yet made me feel like it directly reflected on my successes in life. Therefore, I had to accept that this was my life—for now. It was nothing more than a resting place and not the final destination. And the only way it could have ever been the final destination as if I had chosen to settle there, and I refused to do that.
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Danielle Dexter (Stupid Love)
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One cannot achieve a million-dollar milestone with a cent-dollar mindset. In order to achieve financial success, one requires a bigger mindset, a wider thought process, and a relentless team.
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Aiyaz Uddin
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You don’t have to wait until you reach your goal before you celebrate your accomplishments. Instead, create short-term objectives and celebrate when you reach each milestone.
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Amy Morin (13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success)
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Having well-defined goals is an essential art of any life plan. These goals should be recorded in writing, and should reflect both short-term and long-range planning. Short-term goals serve as landmarks along the journey. They are the small stepping stones that lead to the achievement of our long-term fortune and help us to stay on track over a long period of time.
Long-range goals serve as milestones. They are the points of achievement along the way that give us cause to celebrate the fruits of our efforts.
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Jim Rohn (The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle: A Guide to Personal Success)
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Learning a language teaches you the value of patience, perseverance, and discipline, as you navigate the challenges and celebrate the milestones along the way.
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Pep Talk Radio (LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms)
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As the year draws to a close, a sense of anticipation mingles with reflection. We stand at the threshold of a new chapter, ready to bid farewell to the familiar & embrace the unknown. In this transitional month, it’s essential to cultivate a healthy, energized & determined attitude, setting the stage for a remarkable finish to 2023 & a vibrant beginning to 2024.
Darling listen – I want you to use this new month to do & say all the things that you’ve been putting off. The perfect time to say & do those things that matters is now.
I also wish & hope that instead of focusing on what you haven’t achieved, you focus on the milestones you’ve crossed, the growth you’ve experienced & the resilience you’ve demonstrated. Let you celebrate your victories (both big and small) & carry the lessons of your setbacks into the new year.
Sweetheart, December, a month of festivities, of togetherness, celebrations, of spreading cheers & goodwill, is the perfect time to cherish all the moments spent with loved ones, the memories created & the lessons learned.
Let this month bring you the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for & a pie so big that you’ll need a truck to carry it home… Cheers to a season of success & sweet treats!
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Rajesh Goyal
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Small wins lead to big victories! Let's celebrate each milestone on our journey to success.
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Felecia Etienne (Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women)
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A successful MBO system needs only to answer two questions: 1. Where do I want to go? (The answer provides the objective.) 2. How will I pace myself to see if I am getting there? (The answer gives us milestones, or key results.)
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Andrew S. Grove (High Output Management)
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In most situations, initiatives are not planned in terms of outcomes. Instead, they’re much more likely to be planned and tracked in terms of features built, or in terms of how they’re tracking to some promised delivery date or other milestone. For leaders in this situation, there’s a simple question that they can use to start the conversation about outcomes: “ what (user/customer/employee) behaviors has this initiative created that are driving business results?” That question is the key to tracking progress because it moves the conversation away from features and reorients it towards value delivery.
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Josh Seiden (Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success)
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I'm still prone to feeling inadequate when I define life as a series of milestones and find I'm not at the place I have decided is an arbitrary indicator of success.
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Rachel Kelly (Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness)
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Have you clarified the primary purpose of the project and communicated it to everyone who ought to know it? And have you agreed on the standards and behaviors you’ll need to adhere to in order to make it successful? Have you envisioned success and considered all the innovative things that might result if you achieved it? Have you gotten all possible ideas out on the table—everything you need to take into consideration that might affect the outcome? Have you identified the mission-critical components, key milestones, and deliverables? Have you defined all the aspects of the project that could be moved on right now, what the next action is for each part, and who’s responsible for what?
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David Allen (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity)
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Becoming independent and self-supporting is a milestone that, if not reached, can trigger a sense of failure for not meeting societal norms for success.
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Darlene Lancer (Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You)
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In addition to pioneering a new product, the Wave team had been run in an experimental way. We were exploring whether setting milestones and allowing teams the possibility of IPO-like rewards for the achievement of IPO-like ambitions would spur greater success. They had chosen to forgo Google bonuses and stock awards for the possibility of much larger rewards. The team had worked for two years on this product, putting in countless hours in an effort to transform how people communicated online. They took a massive, calculated risk. And failed. So we rewarded them. In a sense, it was the only reasonable thing to do. We wanted to make sure that taking enormous risks wasn’t penalized.
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Laszlo Bock (Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead)
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The vision is an inspirational view of the future and lets everyone know toward what goal they are working. The road map provides specific directions for how to transition from a bleak present to a bright future; it outlines specific tasks, milestones, and markers of the path ahead.
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William A. Haseltine (World Class: A Story of Adversity, Transformation, and Success at NYU Langone Health)
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The film version of Chicago is a milestone in the still-being-written history of film musicals. It resurrected the genre, winning the Oscar for Best Picture, but its long-term impact remains unclear. Rob Marshall, who achieved such success as the co-director of the 1998 stage revival of Cabaret, began his career as a choreographer, and hence was well suited to direct as well as choreograph the dance-focused Chicago film. The screen version is indeed filled with dancing (in a style reminiscent of original choreographer Bob Fosse, with plenty of modern touches) and retains much of the music and the book of the stage version. But Marshall made several bold moves. First, he cast three movie stars – Catherine Zeta-Jones (former vaudeville star turned murderess Velma Kelly), Renée Zellweger (fame-hungry Roxie Hart), and Richard Gere (celebrity lawyer Billy Flynn) – rather than Broadway veterans. Of these, only Zeta-Jones had training as a singer and dancer. Zellweger’s character did not need to be an expert singer or dancer, she simply needed to want to be, and Zellweger’s own Hollywood persona of vulnerability and stardom blended in many critics’ minds with that of Roxie.8 Since the show is about celebrity, casting three Hollywood icons seemed appropriate, even if the show’s cynical tone and violent plotlines do not shed the best light on how stars achieve fame. Marshall’s boldest move, though, was in his conception of the film itself. Virtually every song in the film – with the exception of Amos’s ‘Mr Cellophane’ and a few on-stage numbers like Velma’s ‘All That Jazz’ – takes place inside Roxie’s mind. The heroine escapes from her grim reality by envisioning entire production numbers in her head. Some film critics and theatre scholars found this to be a cheap trick, a cop-out by a director afraid to let his characters burst into song during the course of their normal lives, but other critics – and movie-goers – embraced this technique as one that made the musical palatable for modern audiences not accustomed to musicals. Marshall also chose a rapid-cut editing style, filled with close-ups that never allow the viewer to see a group of dancers from a distance, nor often even an entire dancer’s body. Arms curve, legs extend, but only a few numbers such as ‘Razzle Dazzle’ and ‘Cell Block Tango’ are treated like fully staged group numbers that one can take in as a whole.
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William A. Everett (The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music))
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How to use the law of attraction for successful life of Jack Canfield
The Law of Attraction says that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life.
Let Jack Canfield guide us
If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have first have to believe what you want is possible and you are capable of making it happen. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to do your dreams?
1. Whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
2. If you are clear about your goals and take several steps in the right direction everyday, eventually you will succeed. So decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals. — Jack Canfield
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3. Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
4. If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we’re not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to believe?
2. Whatever your dream is, look yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it – no matter what the price. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to think?
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day…between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they’re always positive. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to choose?
1. I choose to believe things are possible, even when I don't know how they will happen. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
1. All your dreams await just on the other side of your fears. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
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How to use the law of attraction for successful life of Jack Canfield
The Law of Attraction says that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life.
Let Jack Canfield guide us
If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have first have to believe what you want is possible and you are capable of making it happen. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to do your dreams?
1. Whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
2. If you are clear about your goals and take several steps in the right direction everyday, eventually you will succeed. So decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals. — Jack Canfield
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
4. If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we’re not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to believe?
2. Whatever your dream is, look yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it – no matter what the price. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to think?
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day…between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they’re always positive. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
How to choose?
1. I choose to believe things are possible, even when I don't know how they will happen. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
1. All your dreams await just on the other side of your fears. — Jack Canfield(Law of Attraction statements)
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● Developing your first-ever leadership strategy and don't know where to start?
● Are you stuck with a particular phase of leadership strategy?
● Having a tough time achieving corporational milestones with your robust strategy?
If you're facing these questions and confused regarding canvassing a robust leadership strategy, this article can help you solve these queries. Several factors affect the development of a leadership strategy, such as the influence of decision-making processes for leadership/management, the personnel brought on board for strategy development and the resources involved.
There are specific "keys" to effective leadership that help in efficient development and deployment of strategies. Professionals who want to develop robust strategies and move up in their leadership career can opt for online strategy courses. These courses aim to build concepts from the grass-root level, such as what defines a strategy leadership and others.
What is a Leadership Strategy?
Leadership is required for leading organisational growth by optimising the resources and making the company's procedures more efficient.
A leadership strategy explicitly enlists the number of leaders required, the tasks they need to perform, the number of employees, team members and other stakeholders required, and the deadlines for achieving each task.
Young leaders who have recently joined the work-force can take help of programs offered by reputable institutes for deepening their knowledge about leadership and convocating successful strategies. Various XLRI leadership and management courses aim to equip new leaders with a guided step-by-step pedagogy to canvass robust leadership strategies.
What it Takes to Build a Robust Leadership Strategy: Guided Step-By-Step Pedagogy
The following steps go into developing an effective and thriving leadership strategy:-
● Step 1 = Identify Key Business Drivers
The first step involves meeting with the senior leaders and executives and identifying the business's critical drivers. Determining business carriers is essential for influencing the outcome of strategies.
● Step 2 = Identifying the Different Leadership Phases Required
This step revolves around determining the various leadership processes and phases. Choosing the right techniques from hiring and selection, succession planning, training patterns and others is key for putting together a robust strategy.
● Step 3 = Perform Analysis and Research
Researching about the company's different leadership strategies and analysing them with the past and present plans is vital for implementing future strategies.
● Step 4 = Reviewing and Updating Leadership Strategic Plan
Fourth step includes reviewing and updating the strategic plan in accordance with recent developments and requirements. Furthermore, performing an environmental scan to analyse the practices that can make strategies long-lasting and render a competitive advantage.
All it Takes for Building a Robust Leadership Strategy
The above-mentioned step by step approach helps in auguring a leadership strategy model that is sustainable and helps businesses maximise their profits. Therefore, upcoming leaders need to understand the core concepts of strategic leadership through online strategy courses. Moreover, receiving sound knowledge about developing strategies from XLRI leadership and management courses can help aspiring leaders in their careers.
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Talentedge
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Most tools from general management are not designed to flourish in the harsh soil of extreme uncertainty in which startups thrive. The future is unpredictable, customers face a growing array of alternatives, and the pace of change is ever increasing. Yet most startups—in garages and enterprises alike—still are managed by using standard forecasts, product milestones, and detailed business plans.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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Unfortunately, standard accounting is not helpful in evaluating entrepreneurs. Startups are too unpredictable for forecasts and milestones to be accurate.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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This is the kind of storytelling that takes place at most startup board meetings. Most milestones are built the same way: hit a certain product milestone, maybe talk to a few customers, and see if the numbers go up. Unfortunately, this is not a good indicator of whether a startup is making progress. How do we know that the changes we’ve made are related to the results we’re seeing? More important, how do we know that we are drawing the right lessons from those changes?
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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For a report to be considered actionable, it must demonstrate clear cause and effect. Otherwise, it is a vanity metric. The reports that Grockit’s team began to use to judge their learning milestones made it extremely clear what actions would be necessary to replicate the results.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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David faced the difficult challenge of deciding whether to pivot or persevere. This is one of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs face. The goal of creating learning milestones is not to make the decision easy; it is to make sure that there is relevant data in the room when it comes time to decide.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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The method I recommend is called innovation accounting, a quantitative approach that allows us to see whether our engine-tuning efforts are bearing fruit. It also allows us to create learning milestones, which are an alternative to traditional business and product milestones. Learning milestones are useful for entrepreneurs as a way of assessing their progress accurately and objectively; they are also invaluable to managers and investors who must hold entrepreneurs accountable.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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Create a goal journal. Write it down to bring the much-needed clarity. Primary goal aligned with passion. The goal should be aligned with your passion to make it easier and workable. Small achievable goals. Think big, but target small, doable things for daily goals. It builds momentum. An accountability partner for your goals. Goals shouldn’t just remain on paper and this is where an accountability partner can help. Enjoy the journey, celebrate each milestone. Treat yourself to something small that you enjoy as you accomplish each task in your list.
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Rich Redwood (11 SIMPLE HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE: A QUICK READ FOR THE DISCERNING READER TO ACHIEVE GREATER SUCCESS, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS (SUCCESS, MONEY, HAPPINESS Book 1))
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Believe:-
"Almost you reach the MILESTONE of SUCCESS don't fed up
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ManiMaran
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The archetype of the hero in Tibetan Buddhism is a Bodhisattva, an evolved being motivated by profound compassion for the suffering of others who vows to reach complete awakening. Bodhisattvas who pursue the Gradual Path follow a succession of training steps through stages of psychological development and reach specific milestones, or realizations, along the way to enlightenment. Both physicists discovering the ultimate nature of reality and poet-activists, Bodhisattvas generate love and compassion as practical and constructive forces to skillfully redesign the matrix of interdependence we all share.
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Miles Neale (Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human)
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The three C’s, as I like to call them, are the real cornerstones to not only implementing a new milestone or behaviour, but to speed the process up for you and to ensure the behaviour lasts. These are as follows: Commitment: Once you make a decision to implement a new milestone or behaviour you need to really commit to it. You will get better and faster results by sticking to the plan. Consistency: Be consistent, once you commit to a new milestone or behaviour, make sure you stick to it. Repeat your steps/actions until successful and then the key is to maintain it. It usually takes around 3 days to start seeing the fruits of your labour. One vital note here is to make sure everyone involved in the child’s day to day care is singing off the same hymn sheet and not undoing all your hard work. Credit: Positive reinforcement is the final key to maintaining the desired effect. Focus on what it is you want them to do, not what you don’t want them to do. When they do it, be sure to celebrate this with them and praise the behaviour to encourage more of the same.
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Charlotte Scarbrow (What Every Parent Should Know: The fast track to take control and gain confidence in your parenting style, from before baby arrives to the toddler years: Parenting must knows for raising children)
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The implicit assumption behind any goal is this: “Once I reach my goal, then I’ll be happy.” The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone. I’ve slipped into this trap so many times I’ve lost count. For years, happiness was always something for my future self to enjoy. I promised myself that once I gained twenty pounds of muscle or after my business was featured in the New York Times, then I could finally relax. Furthermore, goals create an “either-or” conflict: either you achieve your goal and are successful or you fail and you are a disappointment. You mentally box yourself into a narrow version of happiness. This is misguided. It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out. It makes no sense to restrict your satisfaction to one scenario when there are many paths to success. A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones)
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ChiroCynergy - Dr. Matthew Bradshaw, Dr. Hilary Rutledge - Chiropractor Leland, NC
The road to better health starts with ChiroCynergy the best Chiropractors in Leland, NC.
Why choose us?
ChiroCynergy is dedicated to improving the health and wellness of the Cape Fear Region….naturally.
What we treat?
If you suffer from back, neck, arm, leg or other musculoskeletal pain, we can help alleviate it through chiropractic care.
At ChiroCynergy Leland, NC Location, our doctors first consult and then examine patients one-on-one to determine their injuries. We then embark on a specific course of state-of-the-art treatment based on those injuries. The goal is to get the patient out of pain and back to optimal function as quickly as possible – simple as that. Of course, some injuries take longer than others, and we use predetermined milestones to evaluate our success and the patient’s success with treatment.
We are a patient-centric office, meaning that everything we do is for your benefit. Our mission remains: “Reintroduce our patients to the pain-free life they have been missing.” ChiroCynergy - Leland, NC location has two female chiropractors.
Call us: (910) 368-1528
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Dr. Matthew Bradshaw
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A process is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone.
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Geary A. Rummler (Rediscovering Value: Leading the 3-D Enterprise to Sustainable Success)
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PROCESS is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-valued milestone so it Can be performed effectively and efficiently Can be managed effectively Offers the potential for a competitive advantage
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Geary A. Rummler (Rediscovering Value: Leading the 3-D Enterprise to Sustainable Success)
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He provided success metrics and milestones that he and others could track to gauge progress along the way (transparency was a key tenet).
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Peter A. High (Implementing World Class IT Strategy: How IT Can Drive Organizational Innovation)
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India's Best Highway Infrastructure: Forging a New Era of Connectivity
India's vast network of highways, spanning thousands of kilometers, is more than just an intricate system of roads. It serves as the lifeline of the nation, linking financial hubs, cultural landmarks, and strategic regions. This expansive infrastructure plays a vital role in driving the growth of a rapidly evolving country.
Turning Challenges into Opportunities
While India’s highway infrastructure has seen remarkable progress, it still faces hurdles such as congestion, road safety concerns, and maintenance gaps. Innovative Highway Builders view these challenges as stepping stones to success. Through advanced technologies and sustainable construction techniques, the company is redefining highway development, transforming obstacles into opportunities for progress.
Remarkable Achievements
Completion of a 124.52-kilometer six-lane expressway
Expansion of 750 kilometers of roadways
Development of 84.725 kilometers of new highways
Construction of three major bridges and 30 minor bridges
Completion of seven flyovers and seven railway overpasses
Installation of noise barriers over 3.08 kilometers
Deployment of street lighting across 44.68 kilometers
Total project investment: ₹3,244 crore
Concession period: 24 years
Innovative Highway Builders: Redefining Excellence
Pioneering a New Era of Infrastructure
Innovative Highway Builders is at the forefront of India’s road-building revolution. For them, highways are more than just paths—they symbolize connectivity and progress. From high-tech expressways to eco-friendly overpasses, their projects reflect precision engineering, meticulous planning, and an unwavering commitment to sustainability.
Uncompromising Quality and Timeliness
Every project undertaken by Innovative Highway Builders is rooted in the pursuit of excellence. With a skilled workforce and strict quality control protocols, they ensure projects are completed on time, with minimal disruption, meeting the growing demands of India’s transportation needs.
Community Engagement and Environmental Stewardship
Recognizing the importance of community collaboration, Innovative Highway Builders actively address local concerns and minimize environmental impacts. By integrating sustainable practices at every stage of construction, they ensure India’s highways remain valuable assets for both current and future generations.
India’s Highway Triumphs: Milestones of Progress
Iconic Expressways and Engineering Feats
From the iconic Golden Quadrilateral to the cutting-edge Eastern Peripheral Expressway, India’s highways stand as testaments to remarkable engineering. Innovative Highway Builders takes pride in contributing to these transformative projects, bolstering the country’s legacy of connectivity and growth.
Empowering Communities and Driving Economic Growth
India’s highways do more than connect places—they drive economic progress, enhance trade, create jobs, and improve living standards. Innovative Highway Builders is dedicated to building infrastructure that empowers communities and supports businesses, reinforcing the critical role highways play in national development.
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Modern Road Makers
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With a great sense of resilience, do not let anything stop you from making progress. Be persistent until your dreams are made manifest. Celebrate your milestones without any fear, because you have done your level best by taking the first step toward success.
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Gift Gugu Mona (The Gift of Thanksgiving)
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With a great sense of resilience, do not let anything stop you from making progress. Be persistent until your dreams manifest. Celebrate your milestones without any fear, because you have done your level best by taking the first step toward success.
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Gift Gugu Mona (The Gift of Thanksgiving)
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Top Retention Marketing Strategies for Clinics to Boost Patient Loyalty
Retention of patients is just as important as the acquisition of a new one, particularly for a clinic that aims for long-term success.
As the competition in healthcare becomes tougher, clinics have to definitely engage in retention marketing that would really build patient trust and loyalty.
This article looks into some actionable strategies that clinics could make use of enhanced with tools such as loyalty programs, referral systems, and automated follow-ups into their patient engagement strategies toward building long-term relationships.
Why Retention Marketing is Critical for Clinics
Retention marketing aims to build strong relationships with the current patients and encourage them to return for every service, needing not to go anywhere outside for competitors.
Unlike acquisition, retention is cost-effective and gives a better return since it hardly requires huge effort and cost. Studies reveal that most repeat patients are easier to convert, and they also tend to spend more as years go by.
For clinics, patient retention guarantees:
a steady flow of income.
satisfaction rates that improve because of personalized service.
positive word-of-mouth referrals that bring new patients automatically.
How to Improve Patient Retention in Clinics with Practical Tools
Different clinics can make a patient feel special and improve retention by using different ways and methods. Here is how:
Trust and benefits through loyalty programs for clinics
A loyalty program is an excellent way of encouraging repeat visits and helping in keeping the patients engaged over the longer term. It does entice the patient to connect with your clinic in a much more tangible sense.
Point-Based System: Earn Points Every Visit or Service: redeemable for discounts for future treatments.
Exclusive Offering: Members Benefit: Exclusive Priority Booking or Free Health Check-up.
Tiered Programs: More Levels, More Rewards Offer different levels of engagement with increasing rewards to motivate retention.
Such programs should therefore be simple to understand and available on easy-to-use platforms such as a mobile app or via a patient portal.
Referral Systems: Harnessing Patient Advocacy
Satisfied patients advocate best for your clinic. A referral program naturally helps them tell friends and family about your clinic, thus converting the most powerful source of marketing into incentive-driven word-of-mouth.
Discount: Offer discounts for both referring and referred patients.
Recognition Celebrate the most referring patients with personal thank-you notes or gifts.
Progress Tracking: CRM tools should be used to monitor referral activity for eventual reward.
Referral systems not only bring new patients to the practice but also assure already existing patients because this is a way of telling them that their efforts are appreciated.
Top Loyalty Programs for Healthcare Clinics: Proven Models
The incorporation of loyalty programs is not a silver-bullet solution; instead, design them to specific needs of both clinic and patient demographics. Membership Plans: Offer bundled sessions with annual membership at discounted rates.
Health Tracking Rewards: This would involve encouraging patients to enroll in wellness programs, rewarding them for achieving certain milestones like losing weight or better blood pressure levels.
Event Access: This could mean hosting health workshops or webinars exclusive to the members of the loyalty program.
Such initiatives better patient experience and make your clinic the hospital of choice for continued care.
Automated Follow-Ups: Staying Connected with Patients
Retaining marketing is a new thing because there comes the automation. Scheduling the appointment confirms such follow-ups, reminders, and personalized messages that usually help the clinic in reaching out to patients continuously without occupying staff.
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Sajida Parveen
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The “owner” is responsible for funding it; moving it forward or killing it; selecting both the team leader and the members of the innovation team; allocating resources, reprioritizing when necessary; doing reviews of the team’s output, using milestones to measure the various phases; and rewarding success and dealing with failure.
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A.G. Lafley (The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation)
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5. Innovation accounting. To improve entrepreneurial outcomes and hold innovators accountable, we need to focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work. This requires a new kind of accounting designed for startups—and the people who hold them accountable.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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MVPs provide the first example of a learning milestone.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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It also allows us to create learning milestones, which are an alternative to traditional business and product milestones.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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It also allows us to create learning milestones,
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses)
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In my vernacular, achievement comes when you pursue and attain WHAT you want. Success comes when you are clear in pursuit of WHY you want it. The former is motivated by tangible factors while the latter by something deeper in the brain, where we lack the capacity to put those feelings into words. Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of WHY we do WHAT we do. Our achievements, WHAT we do, serve as the milestones to indicate we are on the right path. It is not an either/or—we need both.
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Simon Sinek (Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action)