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Guest Article
Practice Uncommon Appreciation
by Jack Canfield
A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they
feel unappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people; and
88% said they don't receive acknowledgement for the work they do.
Whether you are an entrepreneur, manager, teacher, parent, coach or simply a friend, if you
want to be successful with other people, you must master the art of appreciation.
I've never known anyone to complain about receiving too much positive feedback. Have you? In
fact, just the opposite is true.
Consider this: Every year, a management consulting firm conducts a survey with 200 companies on
the subject on what motivates employees. When given a list of 10 possible things that would
most motivate them, the employee always list appreciation as the number-one motivator.
Managers and supervisors ranked appreciation number eight. This is a major mismatch, as the
chart below so clearly shows.
10 Ways to Really Motivate an
Employee
Employees
·
Appreciation
·
Feeling "in" on things
·
Understanding attitude
·
Job
security
·
Good
wages
·
Interesting
work
·
Promotional
opportunities
·
Loyalty
from management
·
Good
working conditions
·
Tactful
discipline
Supervisors
·
Good
Wages
·
Job
Security
·
Promotional
Opportunities
·
Good
working conditions
·
Interesting
work
·
Loyalty
from management
·
Tactful
discipline
·
Appreciation
·
Understanding attitude
·
Feeling
"in" on things
Notice that the top three motivators for employees don't cost anything, just a few moments of
time, respect and understanding.
Keeping Score
When I first learned about the power of appreciation, it made total sense to me. However, it
was still something that I forgot to do. I hadn't yet turned it into a habit.
A valuable technique that I employed to help me lock in this new habit was to carry a 3" x 5"
card in my pocket all day, and every time I acknowledged and appreciated someone, I would place
a check mark on the card. I would not allow myself to go to bed until I had appreciated 10
people. If it was late in the evening and I didn't have 10 check marks, I would appreciate my
wife and children, I would send an e-mails to several of my staff, or I would write a letter to
my mother or stepfather.
I did whatever it took until it became an unconscious habit. I did this every single day for 6
months--until I no longer needed the card to remind me.
Appreciation as a Secret of
Success
Another important reason for being in a state of appreciation as often as
possible is that when you are in such a state, you are in one of the highest emotional states
possible.
When you are in a state of appreciation and gratitude, you are in a state of abundance. You are
appreciating what you do have instead of focusing on, and complaining about, what you don't
have. Your focus is on what you have received... and you always get more of what you focus
on.
And because the law of attraction states that like attracts like, the more you are in a state
of gratitude, the more you will attract, and even more to be grateful for. It becomes an
upward-spiraling process of ever-increasing abundance that just keeps getting better and
better.
Think about it. The more grateful people are for the gifts we give them, the more inclined we
are to give them more gifts. Their gratitude and appreciation reinforces our giving. The same
principle holds true on a universal and spiritual level as it does on an interpersonal
level.
I challenge you to discover ways to immediately appreciate someone in your life, starting
today!
For more tips and suggestions on how you, too, can find ways to appreciate those in your life,
read Prinicple 53 in The Success Principles.
© 2009 Jack Canfield
Guest Book Review
Best Self Help Review - How to Turn
Stress Into Energy and Enthusiasm by Michael Licenblat
Book Review By Stephen
Winters
For seven years, psychologist Michael Licenblat ran a Shiatsu Health Centre in Australia.
There, he found himself encountering stressed and anxious people every day. Although shiatsu
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were. So, he set out to create a system that would focus on the causes of stress, rather than
attempting to combat the symptoms.
This self help system does precisely that.
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Think about those people at work who don't seem to experience any form of stress and anxiety.
They may well be carrying out precisely the same tasks as you and coming into contact with
precisely the same prickly customers and objectionable supervisors, but stress just seems to
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Be Inspired II
by Roger Thomas Lincoln
He was rejected by every major record label for being "too country". So
rather than accept defeat he submitted all the demos yet again. In 1978 he recorded two singles
for Paula Records but neither of them was successful. He kept on singing.
Finally in 1982, still unable to get a record contract he recorded an independent album called
Randy Ray Live. The album led to a deal with Warner Brother Records.
When his first single, "On the Other Hand", was released it failed to reach the top 40 list. It
peaked at 67 on the Country charts. His next single, "1982" hit the Top 10 and prompted the
re-release of his first song, "On the Other Hand". This time the song went to Number One. In
1985 Randy
Travis was named top male vocalist by the Academy of Country Music, the
first of many awards to come. Since then the songs and albums have continued to flow.
"It is not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you
when you go." - Randy Travis
Everything can be improved. Never give up on that. Always strive to improve
yourself and what you do. - Daniel R. Murphy
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