As we rush around frantically preparing for the summer season we all have a sense of anticipation. Love or loathe Christmas that those of us who live in the western world are affected by it.
Anticipation has many forms. For children there is a wide eyed wonder how twinkly lights and colorful decorations appear overnight as if by magic. A visit to Santa's Grotto increases the sense that something really special is about to happen.
Children's belief in Santa is finally replaced with a strong sense of excitement for Christmas gifts that will bring morning. As we focus our older changes. For many adults the anticipation is focused on seeing their loved ones together. This can take a pleasant and positive sense of anticipation.
Much less on a positive note anticipation can be much less positive, anxiety about getting everything done in time, worry about the financial cost and bills that will follow in January. For some a sense of deep foreboding is a sense of fear held around management truculent teenagers or elderly relatives difficult, fuelled arguments for too long in a society of another and alcohol too.
For those of you who work long hours and are married with the work, at Christmas can be lonely. The vacuum left by the work allows enough time for you to recognize what you need to do something radical to your work life balance, but enough time to respond to resolve the problem before it is time to go back to work where it is once too busy to do everything possible to make any significant changes.
Negative anticipation has the power to ruin our fun. Concern of what could ever happen is such a waste, as alone so rarely change anything.
Developing the capacity of anticipation gives you the opportunity to take control of your personal and professional life in a very different way. If you want to start the extraordinary power of anticipation to read… ..
The power of anticipation is surprising. This is a responsibility we can learn and, when used on a regular basis that can optimize the resources available to you and helps you to manage your time efficiently. Change your mode of operation of a fire at a time that allows for strategic planning.
The strategies work, in every walk of life.
Think of a football match. If the disc passes the ball to the point where his team is when he starts the player has moved the shooting and therefore be wasted. All good players anticipate where their team will be and send the ball to that place. The competence to judge the speed and direction of the player.
In business success is closely tied to its ability to anticipate the market. The business hundred list published in the United States each year rarely has the same organizations in the top ten. I find it fascinating that many non-slip a few places, but disappear all together. Anticipation to buy raw materials and best price. The plan for spreading the workload over the years with minimal peaks and troughs of the workload. Appointment of staff can grow with the needs of the organization difficulties; anticipating training needs in order to avoid stagnation.
As leaders and managers the ability to anticipation begins with a clear and shared vision and translates into an action plan made feasible by well-trained people who know what is expected of them. The plan is dynamic, and there is a constant monitoring of performance based on the pursuit of growth and excellence. Time is made to look strategically at what is needed in the medium and long term and plans put in place to reduce risks and maximize performance.
As a member of the team must be clearly anticipating tuned to achieve the objectives of the team. People know what must be achieved and are looking at ways that we can make the most effective and efficient way possible. There is a constant curiosity about how things could be improved. Underlying the whole process is trust, good communication and a sense of contribution.
If you are always things to plan and the here and now, it is likely to be constantly chasing to catch up. I have been working with a new client, who is constantly late. He underestimate how long things will take, things often not for others, when probably have more spare time and finds it difficult to say no. It is stressed and feels overwhelmed by her life. She is very intelligent and caring for others has an interesting but challenging work, but not the time to organize their lives. The result is that it is constantly tired, sleeping badly and is constantly chases its tail. His story is not unique by any means.
Learning skills anticipation is incredibly useful if you want to take control of your life. Let me demonstrate what I mean by using the Christmas theme. I have three resources available to me - time, energy and money. All their resources are limited, even if other people can buy the time and energy with my money.
I love Christmas, but when I worked as Head Teacher I worked very long hours and a few weeks before Christmas were completely manic I needed to have all my attention on school and the time the term ended had little energy to spare. I wanted to enjoy my own way of Christmas had to find a way to make things work. Anticipation was the key. Although I no longer have the same pressure that surrounds Christmas benefits of applying the rules of anticipation are still incredibly useful.
I anticipated that I would give about 500 Christmas cards and would need plenty of wrapping paper, bows, ribbons and labels. I always bought these sales in January. They went to loft until November. Net income was a considerable financial savings.
My long list of people to buy for God includes seven children, five grandchildren, and a great Niece Nephew, brother, sister and partner, father and a bunch of friends. During the year, I have listened carefully and made note in the diary I feel if one of my "list" to quote something that could result in an appropriate present. I keep an eye on things during the year and if something catches my eye is bought and put away for Christmas. This can save significant time and energy to fight against the crowd of Christmas. I happen to miss them presents "a safe place" and not finding them until February or buying twice for the same person. I solved these problems by having a Christmas list on the computer, which is rapidly updated every year. Also helps me to monitor what I saw in the Corsican time. The advantage is that the spread of the financial burden and shopping lists last minute are kept to a minimum.
I used the same principle I use with papers when it comes to gifts. I try to handle as little as possible, so often wrap things batch before getting in the loft. They are put into "family" carrier bags and are ready to go just before Christmas.
Labels paper envelopes Christmas were computers, and updated in advance and Christmas cards for friends and family, staff, governors and those who have been associated with the school written into lots whist watching TV from November onwards. This made it much less of a nightmare. I was also careful to choose card designs, which required less written by me. I learned this the hard way have bought a set of cards a year that were blank for your message to make the work much more difficult.
I like to find fun, but I need a creative approach to make the whole thing as free of stress as possible. I cooked in advance, using the freezer to ensure that the next day I was still enjoying the festivities. For example, I prepared roast potatoes and parsnips in advance - parboiled, brushed with oil whist were still hot. I put on the cooker rays, cover with foil and freeze their once cool. Christmas morning off the film and pop into a hot oven frozen. You save the peeling, washing and the time until the morning allowing more time to enjoy your company.
The principle of looking ahead to see what it can be useful to advance priorities of the use of energy and time and money to break down jobs into manageable blocks applies to any context. (You can not eat a whole cow at one sitting, but it is easy to do if you face it bite by bite.)
Consider your life. Where you can use the ability to anticipate more effectively?
Anticipation has many forms. For children there is a wide eyed wonder how twinkly lights and colorful decorations appear overnight as if by magic. A visit to Santa's Grotto increases the sense that something really special is about to happen.
Children's belief in Santa is finally replaced with a strong sense of excitement for Christmas gifts that will bring morning. As we focus our older changes. For many adults the anticipation is focused on seeing their loved ones together. This can take a pleasant and positive sense of anticipation.
Much less on a positive note anticipation can be much less positive, anxiety about getting everything done in time, worry about the financial cost and bills that will follow in January. For some a sense of deep foreboding is a sense of fear held around management truculent teenagers or elderly relatives difficult, fuelled arguments for too long in a society of another and alcohol too.
For those of you who work long hours and are married with the work, at Christmas can be lonely. The vacuum left by the work allows enough time for you to recognize what you need to do something radical to your work life balance, but enough time to respond to resolve the problem before it is time to go back to work where it is once too busy to do everything possible to make any significant changes.
Negative anticipation has the power to ruin our fun. Concern of what could ever happen is such a waste, as alone so rarely change anything.
Developing the capacity of anticipation gives you the opportunity to take control of your personal and professional life in a very different way. If you want to start the extraordinary power of anticipation to read… ..
The power of anticipation is surprising. This is a responsibility we can learn and, when used on a regular basis that can optimize the resources available to you and helps you to manage your time efficiently. Change your mode of operation of a fire at a time that allows for strategic planning.
The strategies work, in every walk of life.
Think of a football match. If the disc passes the ball to the point where his team is when he starts the player has moved the shooting and therefore be wasted. All good players anticipate where their team will be and send the ball to that place. The competence to judge the speed and direction of the player.
In business success is closely tied to its ability to anticipate the market. The business hundred list published in the United States each year rarely has the same organizations in the top ten. I find it fascinating that many non-slip a few places, but disappear all together. Anticipation to buy raw materials and best price. The plan for spreading the workload over the years with minimal peaks and troughs of the workload. Appointment of staff can grow with the needs of the organization difficulties; anticipating training needs in order to avoid stagnation.
As leaders and managers the ability to anticipation begins with a clear and shared vision and translates into an action plan made feasible by well-trained people who know what is expected of them. The plan is dynamic, and there is a constant monitoring of performance based on the pursuit of growth and excellence. Time is made to look strategically at what is needed in the medium and long term and plans put in place to reduce risks and maximize performance.
As a member of the team must be clearly anticipating tuned to achieve the objectives of the team. People know what must be achieved and are looking at ways that we can make the most effective and efficient way possible. There is a constant curiosity about how things could be improved. Underlying the whole process is trust, good communication and a sense of contribution.
If you are always things to plan and the here and now, it is likely to be constantly chasing to catch up. I have been working with a new client, who is constantly late. He underestimate how long things will take, things often not for others, when probably have more spare time and finds it difficult to say no. It is stressed and feels overwhelmed by her life. She is very intelligent and caring for others has an interesting but challenging work, but not the time to organize their lives. The result is that it is constantly tired, sleeping badly and is constantly chases its tail. His story is not unique by any means.
Learning skills anticipation is incredibly useful if you want to take control of your life. Let me demonstrate what I mean by using the Christmas theme. I have three resources available to me - time, energy and money. All their resources are limited, even if other people can buy the time and energy with my money.
I love Christmas, but when I worked as Head Teacher I worked very long hours and a few weeks before Christmas were completely manic I needed to have all my attention on school and the time the term ended had little energy to spare. I wanted to enjoy my own way of Christmas had to find a way to make things work. Anticipation was the key. Although I no longer have the same pressure that surrounds Christmas benefits of applying the rules of anticipation are still incredibly useful.
I anticipated that I would give about 500 Christmas cards and would need plenty of wrapping paper, bows, ribbons and labels. I always bought these sales in January. They went to loft until November. Net income was a considerable financial savings.
My long list of people to buy for God includes seven children, five grandchildren, and a great Niece Nephew, brother, sister and partner, father and a bunch of friends. During the year, I have listened carefully and made note in the diary I feel if one of my "list" to quote something that could result in an appropriate present. I keep an eye on things during the year and if something catches my eye is bought and put away for Christmas. This can save significant time and energy to fight against the crowd of Christmas. I happen to miss them presents "a safe place" and not finding them until February or buying twice for the same person. I solved these problems by having a Christmas list on the computer, which is rapidly updated every year. Also helps me to monitor what I saw in the Corsican time. The advantage is that the spread of the financial burden and shopping lists last minute are kept to a minimum.
I used the same principle I use with papers when it comes to gifts. I try to handle as little as possible, so often wrap things batch before getting in the loft. They are put into "family" carrier bags and are ready to go just before Christmas.
Labels paper envelopes Christmas were computers, and updated in advance and Christmas cards for friends and family, staff, governors and those who have been associated with the school written into lots whist watching TV from November onwards. This made it much less of a nightmare. I was also careful to choose card designs, which required less written by me. I learned this the hard way have bought a set of cards a year that were blank for your message to make the work much more difficult.
I like to find fun, but I need a creative approach to make the whole thing as free of stress as possible. I cooked in advance, using the freezer to ensure that the next day I was still enjoying the festivities. For example, I prepared roast potatoes and parsnips in advance - parboiled, brushed with oil whist were still hot. I put on the cooker rays, cover with foil and freeze their once cool. Christmas morning off the film and pop into a hot oven frozen. You save the peeling, washing and the time until the morning allowing more time to enjoy your company.
The principle of looking ahead to see what it can be useful to advance priorities of the use of energy and time and money to break down jobs into manageable blocks applies to any context. (You can not eat a whole cow at one sitting, but it is easy to do if you face it bite by bite.)
Consider your life. Where you can use the ability to anticipate more effectively?
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