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Is it Bettering or Changing?‎


What is the Difference between Bettering and Changing?‎
• To Better is a positive attitude but to Change is a negative attitude
• To Better, shows your power of acceptance
• To Change, shows your power of resistance to acceptance
• To Better, shows your will and ability to make an added value to the ‎current situation
• To Change, shows your ability without a will to devalue what in hand
• To Better, enhances creativity and sense of reality
• To Change, is a discouraging source which makes you step forward‎
• To Better, is a passage to continuity
• To Change, is your steps to go back wards
• To Better, is your life dynamic status
• To Change, is your life standing still status
• To Better, is human sense
• To Change, is an inhuman sense
• To Better, is your efficient results
• To Change, is your effective results
• To Better, is your expressive talk‎
• To Change, is your impressive talk
• To Better, is to Do the Right Things
• To Change, is to Do Things Right
• To Better, is to function your positive stress and positive aggression
• To Change, is functioning the negative stress and aggression
• To Better, is to work with your assertive and firm human elements
• To Change, is to work with your submissive, aggressive, offensive, ‎manipulative and passive human elements
• To Better, is your concern of people and results
• To Change, is your focus only on results
• To Better, is a Winner Life Status
• To Change, is a Loser Life Status
• To Better, lies in cooperation and team spirit
• To Change, lies in individuality, egoism and isolation
• To Better, you are a broad minded person
• To Change, you are a narrow minded person
• To Better, is to think of making up the situation
• To Change, is to think blaming all who are present in the situation
• To Better, is self initiatives and keeping a role model
• To Change, is self positioning and personal prestige ‎
• To Better, is where actions count
• To Change, is where intentions counts
• To Better, is how you are slaving life
• To Change, is how you are slaved by life
• To Better, is to Know what you Need, and Want what you Have
• To Change, is to lament the inability to achieve neither the Needs nor ‎the Wants
• To Better, is the flexibility to be dealt with
• To Change, is the rigidity in communicating, dealing and interacting
• To Better, is to promise the minimum and achieve the maximum
• To Change, is to promise the maximum and to achieve the NON
• To Better, is the credibility and the mutual human trust
• To Change, is the incredibility and leads to the mistrust
• To Better, is the responsibility and the accountability
• To Change, is in the irresponsibility and unaccountability‎

What to do to Better?‎
• Set a life objective or number of life objectives
• Design a SMART of objective‎

S-Simple and Specific
M-Measurable
A-Achievable
R-Realistic
T-Time limited

• Plan more than a plan to achieve your objective
• Differentiate between a Goal and a Wish
• Simplify your goal or objectives in wording
• Be ready with alternative scenarios when facing any managerial crises
• Match your internal abilities with the external capabilities and facilities
• Analyze your objective into minute goals
• Think of people who can share or cooperate or assist in achieving your ‎goals and objective
• Make a moment of discovery; why you want to achieve this goal or ‎objective
• Plan ahead what are the tools needed to achieve and what are already ‎in hand
• Think if you have the tools, are you aware of the know how
• What is the step after this kind of achievement if happened
• How will you be able to save and protect the achievement
• Which passage you will chose to take, to save and protect, then to ‎move ahead, for another new step
• Who are to be affected positively from this achievement, in addition to ‎your self
• Calculate the loss and the risk factors
• Think how to minimize the loss, as much as you can
• Keep your indicators and signals to move, or stop, or to withdrew
• Sometimes, withdrawal decision is a strength in itself
• Plan check points for your self in the process of achievements
• Double check every now and then your To-Do-List
• Measure your elements of power and authority to make a Dream come ‎True
• Deal with reputable people and sources
• Avoid any discouraging sources

How to avoid Changing?‎
• Accept what in hand
• Keep a positive attitude not negative
• Function positive thinking and perception
• Find always solution, alternatives and room out for any current ‎negative situation, but to change is to escape, or blame, and ‎consequently regretting
• Do not waste time, to lament, or regret, think always of a passage to ‎continuity
• Start ahead of time and avoid procrastination
• Analyze success factors not only failure reasons, and motives
• Keep a willing Will
• Work on the wreckage of yesterday, to design a new structure for ‎tomorrow
• Do not blame others, but find out, what you can do
• Think constructively not destructively
• Never demonstrate power of money nor authority
• Do not work on proving who is right and who is wrong
• If you compare, people or results, so you are digging a path to failure, ‎deal with each case separately, deal with it As It Is
• Think out of the box, to make an added value, and not devaluing
• Speak your ideas out, in concrete not abstract‎
• Be clear, and establish the ability to phrase and rephrase
• Be simple and humble not meticulous and snob
• Be open minded, listen to others, as to be listened to
• Respect other ideas, and do not be an opponent ‎
• Never to give a bad mouthing about others, neither people nor things
• Avoid speaking negatively
• Before fighting for your right, just get to know, what other people rights
• Speak and act freely, without stepping on the toes of humanity to ‎others
• Respect time and do not leave it to drop through your fingers‎
• Do not waste to much time planning, as life is happening when you are ‎busy planning
• Approach problems positively and optimistically, and think that there is ‎always endless hope and it is not a matter of hopeless end
• Always think, that it is never too late, and even late is better than never‎

It is not your not Aptitude, it is your Attitude that determines your Altitude

Ghada Salah Gomaa
Business Etiquette & Protocol Consultant
Middle East