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1. BE FIRST WITH A PURPOSELots of employees, managers, and business owners are the first to arrive each day. That’s great, but what do you do with that time? Organize your thoughts? Get a jump on your email? Instead of taking care of your stuff, do something visibly worthwhile for the company. Take care of unresolved problems from the day before. Set things up so it’s easier for employees to hit the ground running when they come in. Chip away at an ongoing project others ignore. Don’t just be the one who turns on or off the lights – be the one who gets in early or stays late in order to get things done. Not only will your performance stand out, you’ll also start to...

2. BE KNOWN FOR SOMETHING SPECIFICMeeting standards, however lofty those standards may be, won’t help you stand out. So go above the norm. Be the leader known for turning around struggling employees. Be the owner who makes a few deliveries a week to personally check in with customers. Be the manager who consistently promotes from within. Be known as the employee who responds quicker, acts faster, or always follows up. Pick a worthwhile mission, then excel at that mission. People will notice.

3. CREATE yOUR OWN SIdE PROjECTExcelling at an assigned project is expected. Excelling at a side project helps you stand out. For example, years ago I decided to create a Web-based employee handbook my then-employer could put on the company Intranet. I worked on it at home on my own time. Some managers liked it but the HR manager didn’t so it died an inglorious death. I was disappointed, but the company wasn’t “out” anything, and soon after I was selected for a high visibility company-wide process improvement team

because my little project made me “that guy.” The same applies for a business owner. Experiment on a new process or service with a particular customer in mind. The customer will appreciate how you tried, without being asked, to better meet their needs, and your business will become “that business.” 4. PUT yOUR MUSClE WHERE yOUR MOUTH IS. Lots of people take verbal stands. Few take a stand and put effort behind their opinions. Say you think a project has gone off the rails; instead of just pointing out its flaws so you can show everyone how smart you are, jump in and help fix it. Everyone talks about problems. The people who help fix them stand out.

4. SHOW A lITTlE OF yOUR PERSONAl SIdE. Personal interests help other people to identify and remember you. That’s a huge advantage for a new employee or a company competing in a crowded market. Just make sure your personal interests don’t overshadow professional accomplishments. Being “the guy who does triathlons” is fine, but being “the guy who is always training and traveling to triathlons so we can never reach him when we need him” is not. Let people know a little about you; a few personal details add color and depth to your professional image.

4. WORK HARdER THAN EvERyONE ElSE. Nothing – nothing – is a substitute for hard work. Look around: How many people are working as hard as they can? Very few. The best way to stand out is to out-work everyone else. It’s also the easiest way, because you’ll be the only one trying. triathlons” is fine, but being “the guy who is always training and traveling to triathlons so we can never reach him when we need him” is not. Let people know a little about you; a few personal details add color and depth to your professional image.

Great employees spend the majority of their time helping other people succeed: Their company, their employees, their customers and vendors and suppliers... the list goes on and on. Great employees also spend some time helping themselves succeed, both for “selfish” reasons and because their success creates success for others. To succeed you must stand out from the crowd. Here are six ways:

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HI FRIENDGrand Pineapple Negril

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Shana gave birth to her bouncing baby boy, Dante, in late 2014 marking the end of one journey and the start of yet another.Dante was 41 weeks old at the time of his birth and weighed 7lbs 7ounces.Detailing her journey, Shana says it was certainly one filled with both challenges and excitement.She recounted the loss of her own mother while she was just 4 months into her life-changing journey with Dante – an experience that caught her off guard but at the same time revealed a level of strength she had

previously thought to be absent in her.“Being a mom for the second time after 10 years was definitely an extraordinary experience for me especially after losing my mom,” Shana says. “I was overwhelmed with joy seeing Dante’s little face for the first time especially after being induced and then eventually delivering him via an emergency c-section,” Shana revealed.“He was the missing piece to complete my family and he was certainly worth the wait”.

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7 WAYS TO GeT rid OF neGATiVe enerGY And BeCOme POSiTiVeNegativity affects ourselves and everyone around us. It limits our potential to become something great and live a fulfilling, purposeful life. Negativity has a tangible effect on our health, too.

When we make a decision to become positive, and follow that decision up with action, we will begin to encounter situations and people that are also positive. The negative energy gets edged out by all positive experiences. It’s a snowball effect. Although negative and positive thoughts will always exist, the key to becoming positive is to limit the amount of negativity that we experience by filling ourselves up with more positivity.

Here are some ways to get rid of negativity and become more positive.

1. BECOME GRATEFUl FOR EvERyTHINGWhen life is all about us, it’s easy to believe that we deserve what we have. An attitude of entitlement puts us at the center of the universe and sets up the unrealistic expectation that others should cater to us, our needs, and our wants. People that don’t appreciate the nuances of their lives live in a constant state of lacking. And it’s really difficult to live a positive life this way. When we begin to be grateful and appreciate everything in our lives–from the small struggles that make us better, to the car that gets us from A to B every day–we shift our attitude from one of selfishness, to one of appreciation. This appreciation gets noticed by others, and a positive harmony begins to form in our relationships. We begin to receive more of that which we are grateful for, because we’ve opened ourselves up to the idea of receiving, instead of taking. This will make your life more fulfilling, and more positive.

2. lAUGH MORE, ESPECIAlly AT yOURSElFLife gets busy, our schedules fill up, we get into relationships, and work can feel task oriented and routine-driven at times. Being human can feel more like being a robot. But having this work-driven, serious attitude often results in negative and performance oriented thinking. Becoming positive means taking life less seriously and letting yourself off the hook. This is the only life that you get to live–why not lighten up your mood? Laughter helps us become positive by lightening our mood and reminding us not to take life so seriously. Are you sensitive to light sarcasm? Do you have trouble laughing at jokes? Usually, people who are stressed out and overly serious get most offended by sarcasm because their life is all work and no play. If we can learn to laugh at ourselves and our mistakes, life will become more of an experiment in finding out what makes us happy. And finding happiness means finding positivity.

3. HElP OTHERSNegativity goes hand in hand with selfishness. People that live only for themselves have no higher purpose in their lives. If the whole point of this world is only to take care of yourself and no one else, the road to a long-term fulfillment and purpose is going to be a long one. Positivity accompanies purpose. The most basic way to create purpose and positivity in your life is to begin doing things for others. Start small; open the door for the person in front of you or ask someone how their day was before telling them about yours. Helping others will give you an intangible sense of value that will translate into positivity. And people might just appreciate you in the process.

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4. CHANGE yOUR THINKINGWe can either be our best coach or our best enemy. Change starts from within. If you want to become more positive, change the wording of your thoughts. We are the hardest on ourselves, and a stream of negative self talk is corrosive to a positive life. The next time you have a negative thought, write it down and rephrase it with a positive spin. For example, change a thought like, “I can’t believe I did so horribly on that project–I suck.” to “I didn’t do as well as I hoped to on this project. But I know I’m capable and I’ll do better next time.” Changing our self-talk is powerful.

4. SURROUNd yOURSElF WITH POSITIvE PERSONSWe become most like the people that we surround ourselves with. If our friend group is full of negative energy-suckers and drama queens, we will emulate that behavior and become like them. It is very difficult to become more positive when the people around us don’t support or demonstrate positive behavior. As you become more positive, you’ll find that your existing friends will either appreciate the new you or they will become resistant to your positive changes. This is a natural response; change is scary. But cutting out the negative people in your life is a huge step to becoming more positive. Positive people reflect and bounce their perspectives onto one another. Positivity is a step-by-step process when you do it solo, but a positive group of friends can be an escalator.

4. CAlM dOWN, THEN GET INTO ACTIONNegative thoughts can be overwhelming and challenging to navigate. Negativity is usually

accompanied by a “freak-out” response, especially when tied to relationships, people and to worrying about the future. This is debilitating to becoming positive and usually snowballs into more worry, more stress and more freak-outs. Turn the negative stress into positive action. The next time you’re in one of these situations, walk away and take a break. With your eyes closed, take a few deep breaths. Once you’re calm, approach the situation or problem with a pen and pad of paper. Write out four or five actions or solutions to begin solving the problem. Taking yourself out of the emotionally charged negative by moving into the action-oriented positive will help you solve more problems rationally and live in positivity

4. TAKE FUll RESPONSIBIlITyYou are responsible for your thoughts. People that consistently believe that things happen to them handicap themselves to a victim mentality. This is a subtle and deceptive negative thought pattern. Phrases like “I have to work” or “I can’t believe he did that to me” are indicators of a victim mentality. Blaming circumstances and blaming others only handicaps our decision to change something negative into something positive. Taking full responsibility for your life, your thoughts and your actions is one of the biggest steps in creating a more positive life. We have unlimited potential within to create our own reality, change our life, and change our thoughts. When we begin to really internalize this, we discover that no one can make us feel or do anything. We choose our emotional and behavioral response to people and circumstances.

Make positive choices in favor of yourself.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch

your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your

character; it becomes your destiny

Lao Tzu

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