Years ago Tyler Whittaker, encouraged me to read a book called “The E-Myth Re-visisted”.  It is a book that wonderfully explores all of the myths surrounding what it takes and what it is like to be an entrepreneur.  It’s a quick, insightful, and inspiring read.  From the pages of that book comes today’s T4D.  After reading it - I invite you to join me in living a more full life, starting today,  by living a more full Monday!

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.”  ~  Michael E. Gerber

Make it a Great Monday - Kirk

A lot of new folks signed up to the T4D “Thought 4 the Day” yesterday… Hello and WELCOME!  To maximize your experience and help set your expectations I invite you read the brief “hi-story” of the T4D by clicking HERE.

It’s Friday and so I say let’s have a great laugh and some Friday Fun with this wonderful piece shared by long time subscriber and listener Brenda Iniguez.

Kirk,   Whatever you do, you have to listen to this !!!!!  
Turn up your sound and click on the website below.

This accident happened in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. It is a phone call from a man who witnesses a car accident involving four elderly   women. It was so popular when they played it on CHUM FM that they had to put it on their website.
 
If you close your eyes and picture what he is watching, it is even better than a video clip!

 http://www.chumfm.com/MorningShow/bits/march24.swf
 

Make it a great Day, and a Great Weekend!  And don’t crash into any cars filled with elderly women.

 PS  Thank you to all those who listened into the HDI SPIN Webinar I did yesterday.  Thanks to you guys I easily won the competition for most video views for my presentation “Giddy Up Your Engagement!”  They tell me over 500 people were listening in yesterday and the feedback is still coming in and looking positive….Thank you for that as well. 

The whole thing was recorded and is available at http://www.thinkhdi.com/SPIN/ in the archives which I think you have to be a member to access.  But I will have it available for download on my website in a couple of weeks.

 Kirk Out

As I was doing a bit of reading on the sad state of employee engagement in the US I came across an article that I think is more than worthy of the 3 minutes it will take to read it.  Any organization or individual who is not aware or not prepared for the significant demographic shifts coming in our workforce will almost certainly fail to realize even the smallest fraction of their true potential in the coming decade.

 For the full article click HERE!

Employers, meanwhile, are being lulled into a dangerous sense of complacency. They tend to be so excited about controlling the job market that they’ve stopped developing their people. A study by International Survey Research released in 2002 revealed that only 67 percent of U.S. employees want to continue at their current positions, while a Conference Board survey of 5,000 workers found that only 1 percent were satisfied with their jobs.

Over 40% of workers say they have “strong negative feelings” about their jobs.

When the economy improves, Herman predicts a mass exodus from positions that will only become harder to fill. “A lot of employers are going to be extinct,” he says. “They won’t, have the people to get the job done.”

Keep “re-recruiting” your people now to keep them, Herman says. Offer quarterly reviews, training and advancement opportunities, and interesting projects. Find out if employees are still getting what they came for. Talented employees who once saw your company as good “for now” may stay a lot longer.  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_4_31/ai_99388286

Kirk Out

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first - ahead of personal glory. ~Paul Bear Bryant

Thanks to Mike Huff from Davita for sharing this one with me yesterday!!

I Had the wonderful experience last week to again be a guest of Dr. Paul’s, The “Shrink who expands your life” radio show.  Get this it’s called “Live on Purpose”!  Is that cool or what?  The one hour show is available to be listened to online or downloaded as a PodCast Simply go too http://www.liveonpurposeradio.com/radio/ and the lead segment titled “Watch Your Language, Flip Your “But” is our interview.  If you scroll down some of the other intriguing past interviews you might consider subscribing to his weekly podcast, as I have, so you can LIVE YOUR LIFE even more on PURPOSE than you do now.  

If you listen closely during the interview you’ll hear Dr. Paul twice repeat his personal mission statement.  It’s good, so you may want to have a pen at the ready.

 Kirk Out

KIRK on the Air — Had a wonderful experience last week to again be a guest of Dr. Paul’s, The “Shrink who expands your life” radio show.  Get this it’s called “Live on Purpose”!  Is that cool or what?  The one hour live show is available to be listened to online or downloaded as a PodCast Simply go too http://www.liveonpurposeradio.com/radio/ and the lead segment titled “Watch Your Language, Flip Your “But” is our interview.  If you scroll down some of the other intriguing past interviews you might consider subscribing to his weekly podcast, as I have, so you can LIVE YOUR LIFE even more on PURPOSE than you do now.  

If you listen closely during the interview you’ll hear Dr. Paul twice repeat his personal mission statement.  It’s good, so you may want to have a pen at the ready.

Now on to today’s T4D

“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.” - Mark Twain