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The power of habit
Someone once said “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!” A pertinent quote when we look at how often we fall into habits in our life - both good and bad! Too often we do the same things we did yesterday, the day before and every day for the last month.
Habits, good or bad, make you who you are. The key is controlling them. If you know how to change your habits, then even a small effort can create big changes. Individuals that achieve personal success have empowering habits; individuals that have personal failure have disempowering habits. Habits are a force that can produce amazing results, or deliver huge disappointment.Look at your life. Have you a habit you should break? OR, are there any you would like to form?
The Power of Habit (author unknown)
You may know me.
I'm your constant companion.
I'm your greatest helper;
I'm your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am at your command.
Half the tasks you do might as well be turned over to me.
I'm able to do them quickly,
and I'm able to do them the same every time, If that's what you want.
I'm easily managed; all you've got to do is be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want it done; after a few lessons I'll do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great men and women;
of course, I'm the servant of all the failures as well.
I've made all the winners who have ever lived.
And, I've made all the losers too.
But I work with all the precision of a marvelous computer,
With the intelligence of a human being.
You may run me for profit, or you may run me to ruin;
It makes no difference to me.
Take me. Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.
Be firm with me, and I'll put the world at your feet.
Who am I?
I'm Habit!
Remember! Habits can be your best friend or your worst enemy, which is up to you!
Posted by Kate Sutherland on 13 November 2011 in : KDS Training
NLP Techniques - Timeline
Timeline is a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order. It is a way of exploring challenges and opportunities from different perspectives of time.
It can be easier to come up with a plan to meet a challenge or opportunity from a perspective in the future when it has already been solved. It can be easier to resolve an issue which happened in the past from the perspective of going back to that time.
In business, timelines are incredibly important as different scenarios must be planned for in advance to ensure operations will run as smoothly as possible.
At Stevie Kidd People, we very much believe that “Failure to plan is planning to fail!” Timelines help us to plan for the future and make us more aware of the timescales involved – at present, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or in 5 years!
It is also important to set goals for yourself and this can be achieved using timelines. Visualise your goal - when do you expect to achieve this? How long do you have to make this happen?
Visualising your goal on a timeline will help you to imagine the feeling when you achieve it and the milestones on your journey to get there and in turn, gathering useful experience and learning; bringing it all back and integrating it into the present day.
We all ultimately learn from our experiences in the past, enabling us to make changes for the future. By using timelines, we can visualise these experiences and map them onto our lifelong timeline - separating the significant experiences that will stay with us forever, to those we have learned from and left behind us.
“In my own timeline I have now conditioned my mind to focus on a 80/20 split on my timeline, 80 being focus on tomorrow’s agenda and 20 on today’s, my mistakes from the past float beside me unconsciously and when we reach a map reference of a previous timeline it comes to my focus so I never make same mistake again.” – Stevie Kidd
Posted by Lynsey Mackay on 31 October 2011 in : KDS Training, Personal Enhancement, Training corporate, Training employability
Stirling stars shine!
13 candidates graduated in style at the Stirling Highland Hotel this afternoon. 7 of whom had only just finished their final exam to pass the challenging IOSH certificate. This final week of the Stirling Retail Academy has stretched, frazzled and pushed candidates further than they ever thought they could go. Some were on work placements, others completing the IOSH health & safety course. However it all ended in exchanged numbers, smiles and a celebration of just how far each one had come. Certificates were presented and photographs taken, and a recognition that this was the start of a new chapter, despite being sad the course was complete.
Roger, KDS Trainer for the Retail Academy summed it up, "This course hasn't been about changing one big thing, but getting better at improving lots of small things." Now it's up to the canidates to pursue their next step."
Posted by Roger McGeachin on 14 October 2011 in : KDS Training, Personal Enhancement, Training employability
The dot’s are being joined!
After Stevie taking time out of his holiday Monday to work with him, you will all recognise Eric’s face from the picture above! Eric attended the work club again today showing a new focus in achieving his goals and realising his dreams! Still on a high from what he covered with Stevie he has taken control of his own life and is now actively job searching and has booked to come onto the next Construction Works ILA course in Renfrewshire! Joining the dots as this will enable him to gain his CSCS card which he requires to work on building sites as a labourer – one of his options for future employment! But taking Stevie’s advice on board he is not limiting his options and is away with 3 leads into jobs in other sectors!!
Joining the dots proved successful for another individual who attended the work club and was keen to re-enter employment within the child care sector. A highly talent and experienced individual who had lost her confidence in her own ability and needed assistance with her CV! It quickly became evident just how much of an asset she would be to employers – with over 17 years experience in the sector and having continued her learning and development throughout this time – she adopted the join the dot thinking and started making contact with employers and not waiting for positions to be advertised. It was no surprise to us that she was immediately given an interview with a local company, filled out the relevant paperwork and was given a tour of the premises and is now awaiting a start date!
JOIN THE DOT’S and see how much progress you make this week!
Posted by Kate Sutherland on 10 October 2011 in : KDS Training
Training Teen’s Edinburgh: Youth, enthusiasm and reaching greater heights!
What image does it conjure up when you hear the words young people and vocational training? Be really honest with yourself and hold onto that image.
Does your image include young people...
• Who want to own their own business?
• Who have left school with several Highers and chose not to go to university but to pursue vocational training options?
• Who rise to meet every challenge they are given and exceed their own expectations?
• Who can make a brilliant and positive first impression on anyone they meet?
• Who can set their own goals and remain focused on meeting these goals to achieve their dreams?
It didn’t? Well it should! Training Teens: Reaching greater heights (technically the JHP Pathways to Apprenticeship programme but that didn’t sound inspiring or set out what they were all going to achieve so we changed that!!) in Edinburgh were all of the above and more and after 6 days of Training KDS Style they all realised the potential that they had!
Covering Skills identification, introductions to Retail and Hospitality Sectors, Health & Safety, Manual Handling, First Aid, communication, understanding emotions and behaviours, Personal Enhancement, a session with Stevie Kidd, Identifying skills and the legendary Mind Over Matter day all in 6 days! They bonded further as a team to be reckoned with and quickly realised they had all achieved more than they thought they would with the support of this team! They got a first hand experience of the range of emotions that you go through when you are having a good, and a very hard, day at work and importance of recognising how to do deal with these in a positive way rather than resorting to negative coping strategies. This group showed that there was no challenge they couldn’t rise to and that everything is easier when you work as part of a supportive team! What a fantastic team they became – from the 15 quiet (ish!!) individuals that came into the training on day one they blossomed into a team to be reckoned with! Individuals that were confident to set their own goals, opinions and directions in life and were not afraid to express these, take on board the input of others and communicate assertively their needs!
When this group and I hear the Bon Jovi song “It’s my life” (well they will all remember it as it became their theme tune!) and are singing along to the lines “I ain’t gonna be just a face in the crowd” and “it’s my life, it’s now or never” I can say without doubt that they will all reach greater heights and will never just be a face in the crowd!!
Posted by Kate Sutherland on 09 October 2011 in : KDS Training, KDS Youth Training, Training employability