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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
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
TRAINING TEENS - Rising to Greater Heights!!
AMAZING and OUTSTANDING would be the words best used to describe Thursday and Friday last week in Edinburgh! Yes there was a blue sky and sunshine but the words above are describing the Pathways to Apprenticeship group that are undertaking employability training the KDS way! (in partnership with JHP Training) SHINING examples of young people who, given the right opportunities and support, will go on to achieve great things! The world of Retail and Hospitality better be ready for the burst of positivity, ability, confidence and determination to progress when these 15 young people hit their work placements and subsequent employment!
Having looked at both the sectors, their skills, their goals, their communication styles, who they are, their lifestyle, the opportunities that are open to them and what employers want this group have quickly taken on board all the learning’s and have quickly come together into one supportive team!
Discussions around assumptions we make about ourselves and assumptions people can make about young people in general and young people entering employment led us to re-brand this team (complete with mission statement tagline) to show the world they were dedicated to progressing in employment, had a plan for the future and were going to be a knowledgeable workforce who would rise to the top of their chosen career areas!
World meet TRAINING TEENS Edinburgh - Rising to Greater Heights!! Newly re-branded and impressing the world!! A BRILLIANT, FANTASTIC, ENTHUSIASTIC, OUTGOING, SPARKLING, AWESOME, INSPIRING group of young people with a POSITIVITY and FOCUS to ensure that they FLY!
This coming week see’s them rise to the challenge of Workplace First Aid, Health and Safety, Manual Handling and also rising to the next level of looking at their own lives and planning the next steps with a day of life coaching and the LEGENDARY Mind over Matter day! All of this and a visit from Stevie Kidd – It’s going to be a PHENOMENAL week for this team!!
Posted by Kate Sutherland on 02 October 2011 in : KDS Training, KDS Youth Training, Training employability
Livingston Wk 4: Livingston Academy Love their new lives!
After 4 exciting weeks the Retail Academy in Livingstone has come to an exhilarating conclusion! Today’s Graduation gave all of the candidates their chance to celebrate their successes and achievements!
Mark, who believed he just needed one opportunity to prove to an employer he had what it took to be a great employee, shared that after his interview with Poundland, they offered him a job straight away, Cheryl explained that her job offer from the same employer would make a major change to her life and that of her daughter, 20 hours per week being the perfect contract! It seemed like success after success when Rhys told us today he'd secured an offer from Morrisons, as did Dawn too.
Graduating candidates leave with First Aid certification, Manual Handling certification, and an Introduction to Food Hygiene, allowing them to apply for a wider variety of jobs. Additionally, Rhys, Susan, John, David, Dawn and Fiona put in much effort in their last week to also PASS the very tough IOSH certificate in Health & Safety management. Determination indeed!!
The ripple effect will make waves across all the candidates' lives. Job outcomes aside, personal changes have taken effect too with candidates making positive, and sometimes tough decisions to fix their focus on what they CAN achieve, rather than what others have told them they can't achieve.
It's not the end of this story for these candidates, it's only the start!
Posted by Roger McGeachin on 26 August 2011 in : KDS Training, Training employability