Sunday's vitamin: A simple idea to improve my results!

Simple motivational ideas... for a good start of your week

Many of us write daily To Do lists, including the tasks we need to accomplish through the day.

However, those who want to make a breakthrough in their lives have to write a Not To Do list!!

This Not To Do list includes the things in which I daily waste my time, and the mistakes I frequently make, reducing my results & accomplishments.

An example of a Not To Do list may include:

- Extra social networking, triggered by the instant notifications on my mobile.

- Wasting time in reading junk email.

- Long personal telephone calls during working hours.

- Extra talk-show watching.

- Forgetting to follow up on my sales orders or marketing requests.

- Postponing my tasks until their critical deadlines.

- Avoiding to visit profitable customers in some remote areas.

- ………

Write your personal Not To Do list on your mobile, to make it beside you all the time, and get committed to stop wasting your life & minimizing your achievements by doing these ugly things!

Steve Jobs (the founder of Apple) said that what made Apple Apple was not so much what they chose to build, but all the projects they chose to ignore!!

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم

"احرص على ما ينفعك، و استعن بالله و لا تعجز"

صدق رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم

Sunday's vitamin: Can I make a daily improvement in my performance?

Simple motivational ideas... for a good start of your week

To grow & succeed in today's tough business environment, there is a great need to make a continuous & daily improvement in your knowledge & skills.

To guide yourself along this journey, you can simply ask yourself 4 smart questions at the end of each day:

1- What are the positive things I made today?

Successes, endured challenges, achievements, ….

2- What about the negative things?

Mistakes, failures, …

3- What did I learn today?

New information, ideas, skills, experiences, …

4- How can I act better tomorrow?

Build on the positives, correct the negatives, use what I've learnt, …

قال عمر ابن الخطاب رضى الله عنه

"حاسبوا أنفسكم قبل أن تحاسبوا"

Sunday's vitamin: Can I speed up my promotion?

Simple motivational ideas... for a good start of your week

Four simple tips to speed up you career promotion (باذن الله):

1- Identify the top priorities & the most important goals for your manager.

2- Be committed & work hard to accomplish these tasks as perfectly as you can.

3- Deliver the results to your manager quickly & continuously, and ask for more responsibilities!!

4- Invest..invest..invest in learning & developing your business skills & knowledge.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

"و قل رب زدنى علما"

صدق الله العظيم

Sunday's vitamin: Are you rich?

Simple motivational ideas... for a good start of your week

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

"و ان تعدوا نعمة الله لا تحصوها"

صدق الله العظيم

Before reviewing your bank accounts to answer this question, know that your true wealth (ثروتك) is composed of 7 accounts:

The 1^st account, spiritual wealth:

Your personal satisfaction with life in general, & the strength of your relation with God.

The 2^nd account, physical wealth:

Your body health & fitness.

The 3^rd account, social wealth:

The quality of your relations with your family members & friends.

The 4^th account, career wealth:

Your success & satisfaction with your job.

The 5^th account, intellectual wealth:

Your knowledge, culture, the books you read & the arts you understand.

The 6^th account, variety wealth:

The new experiences & the challenges you face in your life (in contrast to a routine monotonous life).

The 7^th account, economic wealth:

That is the money, deposits & properties you own.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

" وأسبغ عليكم نعمه ظاهرة وباطنة "

صدق الله العظيم

Now, give me the true answer, are you rich?!

Sunday's vitamin: Why to set goals? And what are their benefits?

Simple motivational ideas... for a good start of your week

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

"ومن يرد ثواب الدنيا نؤته منها ومن يرد ثواب الآخرة نؤته منها وسنجزى الشاكرين"

صدق الله العظيم

Setting goals for your career & personal life gives you 5 great benefits:

1- Focus:

"Where your focus goes, your energy flows"

Goals help you direct your effort, time & resources into the directions that matters most for you, instead of being scattered in different directions.

2- Growth:

Goals help you take a step after step to create a better life & build a successful career. Without clear goals, you will just stay where you are.

3- Pro-activity:

"If you don’t act on life, life will act on you".

Goals push you to improve your conditions & find valuable opportunities to reach your dreams. Without goals, you are just waiting for the conditions to be better and for good chances to come to you.

4- Measurement:

Goals give you awareness about where you are now compared with your dreams. This makes you happy when you see yourself moving day after day towards what you want.

5- Inspiration:

When you have a vision of your life in the future, this motivates you to put more effort & to work hard until you reach what you dream with.

Managing My Team (17 September 13)

A district sales management course, with business & people management skills:

1- Overview on management.

2- Management skills bouquet.

A- Planning (setting SMART goals & action plan design).

B- Prospecting & customer profiling (specialty, potentiality, rate of accepting new ideas & profitability/loyalty).

C- Improving people’s performance:

- Diagnosis (ability, motivation, resources or selection).

- Coaching (GROW model).

- Counseling (facilitative vs. authoritative styles).

- Disciplining (+ve reinforcement, -ve reinforcement, extinction & punishment).

- Motivation (expectancy theory & Maslow's needs hierarchy).

D–Time management (put 1^st things 1^st).
E- Negotiation skills.

You can download the presentation here:

Watch some photos of the workshops:

Looking forward to work with you

The Manager's Sandwich, September 2013

Brief & healthy insights

in management

Helping you deal successfully with daily work challenges

September 2013 topic was:

"Retaining my Good Players"

You can download the presentation by clicking
on the sandwich above