Perfection - Driven To Succeed
Lets define perfection. Being perfect is your ability, your efforts, your desire to achieve, to accomplish goals. If you mess up it doesn't mean your not perfect. In this article you will find perfection is not easy, but can be accomplished.
Coach Thomas Flanigan who helps run a girls fastpitch softball organization in Dallas Texas is driven! Determined! And has the relentless desire to achieve!
Through his coaching career and leadership positions held at Wal-Mart, Thomas Flanigan has found that helping people from all walks of life and various ages has many rewards. Helping people achieve perfection is a difficult task, but is worth the effort.
A team can obtain perfection based on pure efforts and the right leadership, regardless of the task at hand. A team can accomplish so much more than an individual - this giving the team an advantage to reaching perfection much easier and much quicker.
On your way to perfcetion comes failure, failure are good stepping stones to perfection. You don't just wake up and decide your perfect. What efforts did you put forth to become perfect. In fact, you can't be perfect at anything unless you use effort. 100% effort is the single biggest stepping stone to reaching perfection.
So how did Thomas Flanigan reach perfection?
Do you really ever accomplish perfection? Yes, Thomas Flanigan quotes "If you have the desire to achieve, and are willing to put forth the effort it takes, then yes you can reach perfection. He says" in order for you to reach perfection you must teach others how to do the same and then give the credit to those that helped you, because the reality is this, without them you would not obtain perfection on your own. Those around you who put forth the effort deserves the credit. You lead them and prepare them, but they did the actual work.
Thomas Flanigan is one of only two coaches to ever win an Amatuar Softball Association "A" Fastpitch National Championship. The ASA "A" level is the highest level of competition in Fastpitch Softball.
There is only one other coach from Texas who has claimed this title and current Fastpitch Softball Olympian Cat Osterman was his pitcher.
Thomas Flanigan's leadership ability doesn't stop there-winning eight State Championships and one United States Specialty Sports Association "A" World Series, along with being nominated coach of the year by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
Coach Flanigan has an amazing winning percentage of 94% over his coaching career, talk about a leader and a winner.
Coach Flanigan's professional background in Leadership, Exercise Science, Athletic Training and Instruction puts him at the top. The Dallas Morning News says, "Flanigan is a genius" in the field of Fastpitch Softball and Leadership.
Coach Flanigan has helped over 1000, 8U to collegiate level athletes on an individual basis to achieve their personal best. Coach Thomas Flanigan on a continual quest for perfection. Perfection is effort - Thomas Flanigan has put forth the effort it takes to be perfect along with many of his students, associates and co-workers.
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Making Online Postcard Design Easily
On what fuel does creativity run? Sometimes, it cannot be helped that we need a little help sometimes. Postcard design is not something that can easily be made, out of whim or out of dire need. Sometimes, it takes a bit of inspiration.
However, when inspiration is not at hand, there still are plenty of resources to go around. One can easily make a postcard design without acquiring the help of professional graphic designers. If you cannot afford to hire them and pay for their fees, then you need an online design tool to make everything effortless.
The Online Design Tool Basics
An online design tool is a feature or program that you can find in a printing company’s site. It is not downloadable, you can only use it and work on it on the printer’s site.
A design tool is similar to a design software but it is made simpler and uncomplicated. It does not carry out complex layers and brush strokes and other effects. You can, however, do the most basic things there are and it may be enough to come up with original and varied designs.
Nevertheless, here is a short guide to familiarize you with an online design tool and what it offers.
1. A design tool is popularly available for the most common print products such as business cards and postcards. There are, however, other printing companies who offer more and even give you the ability to design your banners online.
2. A design tool is organized by categories wherein you can easily scroll down and select a category closest to your interests. However, you need not be limited by the selection as some of the categories and even designs may overlap.
You may want to explore the Restaurants category when you are looking under the Food & Drinks category. You may also find the category Travel interesting aside from Transportation.
3. Online design tool platforms differ. It means, there are different ways or means for you to accomplish your design since each printing company is different. Nevertheless, you can easily input information through the empty boxes available. If there are not, you can just click or double click on the dummy text and put in your personal text.
4. You can easily delete objects such as text in your postcard design if you do not want them. If you change your mind again, you can easily input more text as well.
5. You can also upload your own images and use them as part of your postcard design. Put in picture of your products or display your company logo and brand among so many other things.
Just make sure, however, that the images you upload are saved in the CMYK color format. Remember that at the end of it all, the printer only processes prints in CMYK.
Hair Extensions And Your Natural Hair
The maintenance and the styling of hair extensions are two factors that are surrounded by negative stereotypes. The freedom that you actually get with hair extensions is continually overlooked; you can do a lot more with them in your hair than is realised and the maintenance required isn’t some complex chore but more like how you would treat your natural hair.
There is only one aspect that comes to mind where hair extensions are involved and this is adding colour to your hair or having touch-ups done on your existing colour. As you may or may not be aware you are unable to place colour on your hair extensions due to the fact that they have already undergone an intense chemical process to get them to the colour that they are now so adding more colour to them would cause damage and has the potential to cause your extensions to fall out. If your natural hair requires a touch up you should have this carried out before your extensions are placed in as doing this afterwards will become difficult and will leave your hair uneven as you wont be able to place any dye near to your extension bonds. It is highly important that you don’t get any chemicals in the bonds of your extensions unless you want them to fall out.
Ok so we have covered the colouring of your hair, now onto the styling. You are able to style your hair with extensions in the same way that you would style your natural hair. You are able to use appliances such as hair straighteners and curling tongs as long as your extensions are made from human hair; if your extensions are synthetic it is not advised to place heat on them but if they are human hair you can blow dry, straighten or curl, you can style them in anyway that you wish without causing damage as long as you don’t directly disturb the bonds.
If you’re natural hair is either permed or naturally curly you can still get hair extensions. This is because as well as coming in a wide range of colours your hair extensions are also available in a range of textures; you are able to buy your extensions already curled so that it is in keeping with your natural hair.
One of the main problems that can arise with your hair extensions is the fact that they can tangle easily. The easiest ways of stopping this from happening is by using a wide toothed comb to de-tangle your hair. Also it is a good idea to run a mild mousse/conditioner through it using your fingers. One more way of stopping it from tangling is by loosely tying it back when you are sleeping.
If you want your hair extensions to last you will have to treat them with respect. This involves a good aftercare routine as well as giving your extensions regular maintenance. This will ensure that both your natural hair and extensions are kept looking great.
Five Ways To Alienate Your Employees
1) Blamestorm, don't brainstorm. When you investigate errors, focus on the people, not the business process. Frame your questions around the assumption that the employees are at fault. When you write up your corrective actions, use such terms as "Employee needs to be more alert" or "Employee assigned to be retrained". Your employees will never realize that these terms are business-speak for "This employee is a negligent moron."
Your corrective actions should never include engineering or procedural changes. These changes are a waste of time because they address basic business processes. After all, management designed the business process, and so couldn’t possibly be wrong.
2) Don't use a Standard Operation Procedure for investigating errors. Use a different method for investigating errors every time. This makes so many good things happen. First of all you will never have to worry about getting better at root cause investigations. How could you, if you use a different technique every time?
Another advantage is that your employees will never know what's going to happen. Predictability allays fear. You don't want that to happen. You want to show them who's boss.
3) Assume that none of your employees want to do a good job. You'll be surprised how people will live down to your expectations. Sure, you might get disappointed. Every once in a while someone will overcome your expectations and actually contribute a thoughtful suggestion during problem solving sessions. But those occasions will be rare. They will feel your attitude and will cover up problems just like you assumed they would.
4) Don't be concerned about fear in the workplace. W. Edwards Deming, the famous quality guru, insisted that managers must drive out fear. But why should employees fear you? After all you're a nice person and besides, you are just doing your job.
Forget that Deming said that fear arises from the structure of the employee – manager relationship. Forget that in the mind of the employee the manager has all the power in the relationship. Forget that the manager determines the employee's raise, that the manager can hire, that the manager can fire.
You don't have to drive out fear from your relationship. You don't have to build trust on a daily basis. You don't have to meet simple commitments that you make to employees. If you say that you will meet an employee at a particular time to discuss something of concern to him, don't worry about it. You're the boss. He'll understand it if you just blow him off.
5) Management By Walking Around. Stay parked in your office all day and don't get out where your employees work until the next crisis comes up. Make sure your employees only see you when you storm out of your office with a problem and an attitude.
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