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Empowering Youth: Think Like A Time Management Ninja

As a young person, the world seems like one big playground. With choices abound, you want to try everything you see. You say “yes” to everything that comes your way. You manage to meet deadlines, complete homework, study for exams, work a part-time job and still have time for yourself (dating, partying, online surfing etc.). Suddenly, all of your activities start to overlap resulting in not only missed deadlines but missed opportunities too.

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Building Thinking Skills

It is a misconception to think that only a select few are gifted with creativity. Not true at all. The truth is – creativity is just like a muscle that can be exercised in order to achieve great results. In this case, exercising means practicing creativity. 

Here’s how:

Become a sucker.

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Living is learning

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence.”                                                                     - Denis Waitley

Continuing education has never been as important as it is today. For people of all ages, lifelong learning is the key to longer, healthier, more satisfying and productive lives. The information revolution demands changes not only in what you learn but also in how you learn in the classroom and beyond. To keep up with the times you have to know not only how to access information, but also how to think and use the information wisely.

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Get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. You may find it easier to stay in the same patterns of behavior, the same job and the same habits, but you will risk getting stuck in a rut. It’s a well known fact that if you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always got.  To achieve anything different you need to push yourself and make changes in your life.

Try doing this one step at a time on a small scale, for example trying new foods, buying an outfit you wouldn’t normally go for, or taking up a hobby that challenges you. Once you start making small changes you will find it easier to take on bigger challenges.

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What are the secrets of success? What makes somebody more successful than you? How come others appear to work much less but achieve greater results? What do they know that you don’t? You will be pleased to hear that the secrets of success are not as secret as you may think- you can learn and apply them if you are willing to change your mindset and put in a little effort.

Here are six secrets of success you can act on today:

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During the dinner break at the Glazer-Kennedy Super Conference my mom and I hosted The Youth Entrepreneurship Pizza Party!  We all had a good time hanging out eating pizza and discussing business.  Everybody at the party pokened each other which I mentioned in my Friday, April 30, 2010 blog post.  And at the end of dinner nobody wanted to leave.

At the closing ceremonies we had a drawing and I was one of the youth entrepreneurs that got to draw a ticket from the jar!  I confidently walked up onstage and stood beside Bill Glazer.  Then I shuffled the tickets all around the jar.  I drew a ticket from the jar over and over and over and over again. I’m not sure why but every card that I seemed to draw from the well nobody had the ticket number.  I drew and drew until finally somebody won and I quickly walked back to my seat where my mother greeted me with a loving smile.  I also received praise from the successful adults around me!

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