Define Success Before Trying To Pursue It
Posted: June 23, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Everyones definition of success is different and it depends on a lot of different factors. But what remains the same is that everyone wants to succeed in life, and as productivity blog Dumb Little Man points out, the first step is to define what success means to you so you know when youre satisfied.
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The question might seem obvious, but as Dumb Little Man points out its probably not as concrete of an idea as it seems. Most people are going to list a good salary, health or a happy family life as their idea of success, but they need personal definitions:
Unless youre clear on exactly what a good salary means to you, its going to be hard for you to be satisfied. And the same goes for other areas, like your health and your family life. Sure, you cant put a figure on those but you can write down a detailed description of what success will look like in those areas.
Until you define your version of success, you dont really have anything to strive for and you dont know when to stop pursuing it. Defining success might seem simple, but its worth the extra mental effort to make sure you have a good working definition for yourself.
Do You Know What Success Means for You? [Dumb Little Man]
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(RRW) Athletics: Reborn Lucas Poised for Trials Success
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EUGENE, Ore. (21-Jun) -- Julia Lucas only lives about a mile from historic Hayward Field, site of the USA Olympic Trials which open here on Friday. But, her journey to the starting line started thousands of miles away in North Carolina last September when the battered and then dejected athlete tried to reconnect to what she truly loved about running.
"I said after U.S. Nationals last year that this is the last year I've got to make it work," the 28 year-old athlete told Race Results Weekly in an interview here today.
Lucas had finished ninth in the second heat of the 1500m, and would not run another track race for the rest of the summer. Her body, plagued over a 15-year running career with seven different stress fractures to her feet and legs, wasn't cooperating, and her spirits were low. She needed to reconnect with the roots of her success: her time competing at North Carolina State University, where she won the Atlantic Coast Conference 5000m title in 2005 and 2006, and finished fourth in the NCAA 5000m in 2007. She contacted her old coaches, Rollie Geiger and Laurie Henes, and asked if she could essentially rejoin her old team.
"I felt like it could work," Lucas remembered. She continued: "Also, just being around my college teammates that are truly supportive. I went back to North Carolina, and left beating my chest in warrior mode. It was an emotional rebirth."
Staying in Henes's attic, she worked out with the N.C. State team for six weeks last fall, living apart from her husband, Olympian Ian Dobson, for the longest period of their marriage. She loved the feeling of being surrounded by a team of young women.
"The team environment to me is extremely important," Lucas said. "When I left the team in college and went out to be a professional runner, that was impossible. I'm still not making any money. I've got to do it for some other reason. If I don't have that reason, it's impossible. Having teammates, it's not that they are my reason but they remind me of my reasons that I do this."
Feeling the healthiest she had in years, Lucas did two races last fall --a road mile in England and the USA 10-K Road Running Championships in Boston-- and put up satisfying results. She finished fourth in the 10-K, getting a road personal best of 33:39.
Returning here to Eugene to train with the Oregon Track Club Elite, a Nike-sponsored track and field team here, Lucas said she finally had learned to train in a way which would keep her from breaking down. Working with her coach Mark Rowland, she said she got the support she needed from him and the group, but was able to train in her own style. She said she was prone to injuries because of her running style.
"You've seen the way I run," Lucas said, looking embarrassed. "I'm just goofy. I'm just not the physical specimen, I'm not a thoroughbred."
Describing her running style as "gawky," Lucas said that grinding hard until it hurt was a recipe for disaster for her, and only led to the boom and bust cycles of getting fit only to get hurt again.
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Child Care Providers Complete Over 700,000 Hours of Online Professional Development through CCEI
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DULUTH, Ga., June 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), an IACET approved, nationally accredited, online child care and education training institution, is proud to announce that its students have completed more than 700,000 professional development course hours and more than 4,500 certificate programs online.
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CCEI has provided quality online professional development and certificate programs across the country since 2005, allowing child care professionals to continue their education from anywhere they have web access. CCEI students work in a wide variety of child care settings and appreciate the self-paced, user-friendly coursework that fulfills licensing, Head Start, and other training requirements. Most importantly, CCEI's research and competency-based professional development programs promote high-quality, effective early childhood education practices.
"ChildCare Education Institute continues to introduce new coursework on critical issues in the child care and education industry," said Maria C. Taylor, President and CEO of ChildCare Education Institute. "This latest milestone confirms our role as a top provider of quality training solutions."
All CCEI certificate programs and courses are available for purchase through online enrollment on the CCEI website. Professional development coursework is available as individual courses or as part of an annual, unlimited individual or center-based subscription.
About CCEIChildCare Education Institute provides quality, affordable professional development programs for continuing education, including over 100 English and Spanish online child care training courses to meet annual state licensing and Head Start training requirements. In addition to online training, CCEI offers online certificate programs, such as the Online Child Development Associate (CDA), Online Director's Certificates, and several other options.CCEI is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council, approved by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training to award IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs), and authorized under the Nonpublic Postsecondary Educational Institutions Act of 1990, license number 837.
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Boulder Pilates instructor leading international competition
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Hayley Hobson instructs Laurie Silver, of Boulder, in Pilates in her private studio earlier this year. ( RACHEL WOOLF )
Boulder Pilates instructor Hayley Hobson is leading an international competition, ahead of dozens of contestants from around the world.
The Next Pilates Anytime Instructor Competition is sponsored by the Pilates Anytime website and Pilates Style magazine.
"I consider myself a great teacher," said Hobson, 43. "My teachers were taught by Joseph Pilates himself."
Hobson leads Pilates and yoga classes at her private studio, at 5122 Second St., the Little Yoga Studio, at 2525 Arapahoe Ave., and the Colorado Athletic Club, at 1821 30th St. in Boulder. Hobson also serves as the "mind and body coordinator" at the Colorado Athletic Club.
Before turning to Pilates and yoga 15 years ago, she worked as a lawyer in Los Angeles.
"I didn't feel like being in the corporate environment was the right fit for me," Hobson said. "I am really into making people feel good in their bodies -- I feel like I can just look at somebody and feel what they're feeling, where they have pain or where they are off-balanced."
By Friday evening, Hobson had received 337 votes in the competition, putting her in first place among the 53 contestants. Voting began this week and concludes July 15.
"I feel lucky," Hobson said. "I have a lot of gratitude to a lot of the people voting for me. I feel blessed that all of my knowledge and education has finally paid off."
The winner will be featured in a four- to six-page spread in Pilates Style magazine, as well as with an instructional video posted on the magazine's website.
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