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Improve Your System

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
June 7, 2021
What is your typical workday like? For many people, work consists of a series of various urgencies.
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Training

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
April 4, 2021
Thinking about buying the latest business book or taking a training class?
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Change Perspective

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
February 21, 2021
Since we are human, it is a safe assumption that at some point you have said to yourself, "Nothing ever goes right for me?"
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Fail Successfully

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
December 21, 2020
I recall a study where many people believed they failed more than half the time.
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Self-Accountability

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
November 24, 2020
It has been argued that in recent years personal accountability seems to be diminishing.
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Education vs Learning

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
September 14, 2020
The question we learn to ask from an early age is “Will that be on the exam?”
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Advantages of Wait Time

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
August 10, 2020
This may sound ridiculous but there are advantages to waiting and what we do with that time.
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Success

July 6, 2020

How much time do most people spend thinking about success and how it is achieved? Likely not as much as we should because the world really revolves around success or elements of success. 


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Jim's Gems: Keep Going

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
June 18, 2020

We need to carefully consider each commitment before making it. After deciding to make the commitment, create a plan and move toward the goal.  


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The Future

QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
May 26, 2020

Maybe it is not something you have thought much about, but a single action, taken now, can have significant consequences far into the future. This can be a blessing or a curse, depending of course on what the action is.


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