Pegine’s Motivational Times Newsletter:

Title: Learning Never Stops
Copyright Pegine Echevarria, MSW 2004
Date: Sept. 04 Volume 5 Issue 9

It doesn’t matter how old you are or when you graduated from high school, college or your doctorate…learning never stops. The most important education you can have is about yourself. Learning why you do what you do, learning what behaviors work for you and which ones no longer apply. Managers, leaders and team leaders who learn about themselves and define how they want to change and grow become more capable of motivating and encouraging others to grow.

People communicate with others based on their past experiences and what they learned from those experiences. Often, you will get people within your team, family or network who behave in non productive ways, because they haven’t learned effective ways to cope with their feelings, thoughts, and emotions about people, places, things or situations. An experience at work can remind them (unconsciously) of a past negative experience. To protect themselves from a similar hurt that they felt back then, they choose a behavior that is really inappropriate for the situation. This is replayed throughout workplaces around the world.

A manager is introduced to the new VP. The VP reminds the manager of someone who betrayed the manager during his first job. The manager super imposes onto the VP the same character traits of the person from his past. Over time, this relationship strained and filled with conflict. If the VP is continually learning about himself and human behavior, he would notice the barriers being built in the relationship, call the manager in and discuss the behavior. Often, the manager isn’t even aware of his behavior or how it is affecting his work. It is only through open discussion that the manager learns how his behavior is affecting the relationship and that he has a choice to change his behavior or not, both have consequences.

Everyone needs to continually learn about themselves and others. It is a never ending process that brings wonderful results in your life.

Thank you in advance for forwarding this issue to your staff, co-workers, business associates and anyone interested in increasing productivity, increasing their ability to achieve, and increasing their ability to manage and be part of an effective team! I am dedicated to the personal and professional success of each and every one of you!

If someone sent this newsletter along to you know that you can receive a free copy of Pegine’s new e-book "Go Fish: For Friends, Business and Opportunities" when you sign up for her free Monthly Motivational Times Newsletter at www.pegine.com. This networking how-to book will allow you to be more successful by making you more confident and better prepared to meet people when you go to meetings, conferences and parties!


Your all access pass to your potential!
With you in mind,
Pegine

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In this months e-zine you’ll find
• Pegine’s Thought of the Month
• Quote of the Month
• Try-its – Simple Steps for Magnificent Rewards
• Kick Butt Actions – Strategies to make an impact
• News from Pegine
• E-zine Recommendations
• Spam Alert – make sure your receive your newsletter

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Pegine’s Thought of the Month:

“Learning about ourselves and then choosing to change what needs to be changed and strengthening our strong points make us become the people we dream of being.”
Pegine Echevarria, MSW

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Quotes of the Month:

“You never find yourself until you face the truth”
Pearl Baily

“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self –control – these three alone lead to power”
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Try-its:

Each year retail and wholesale companies take an inventory of their businesses. They find out what is in good condition, what is in poor condition and what is non-serviceable. They take their time evaluating the condition of the business because their future depends on it.

You must make an inventory of yourself so that you can evaluate each area, motivation, belief and desire. During your evaluations you would want to observe whether it helps your hinders your relationships?
Here are some questions you will want to answer:
How are your relationships?
What would you change?
Each time asking yourself about a particular person or situations ask yourself:
What is my role?
What part have I played in it?
How has it affected my ego, pride, finances or relationship?
What are your strengths?
How do they affect your relationships?
What could be better?
What are your motivators?
What are your weak points?
What is good? What are your strengths?

Learning about yourself is never a one hour process. Take your time answering these questions. Look for more questions in your religious study books, philosophy books, self help books and 12-step books. The more you know, the more you can accept yourself and others and the more effective you will be as a manager, team leader and person.
By the way…honesty is critical when going through this process.

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Kick-butt actions:

When you are finished reading this newsletter call two people from your network and meet them for coffee this week. The two people must be come from the following two areas:
1) Your business network. Someone you know but have never had lunch with or coffee with.
2) Your community/social network: Someone you know, maybe you say hello at the grocery store or a school function or someone who lives a few house down from you but you don’t really know, just someone you say hi to.

WHY?

The only way to expand yourself and learn about others is by reaching out. The most important thing you can do is share yourself with others. By communicating and building relationships with others outside of your comfort zone you:

1) Build confidence in yourself
2) Create a stronger network for your future
3) Learn about yourself by learning about others
4) Identify those traits in people that you value (or don’t)
5) Learn about opportunities that you didn’t know exist

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News from Pegine:
We live in Northeast Florida. Hurricane Francis gave us a touch of what he had to offer. We lost power for one day and had some damage to our roof. We (my family) were awed by the power of 50 and 60 mile per hour winds and can’t imagine what it must be like to be near the eye.

Our hearts go out to everyone who has experienced damage to their homes or businesses. Our thoughts are with you.

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E-zine Recommendations

www.AchieveEzine.com a wonderful site that I recently came across. It is filled with information that will help you achieve.
Outstanding contributions by some of the best self-help authors in the world accompany this weekly newsletter about what works in his life, and what doesn't. Click here to visit Friday's Inspiration or www.n-spire.com
Josh Hinds has one of the most comprehensive motivational and self help sites on the web. He is also a great guy. Go to his website at http://www.getmotivation.com to get inspired.

You may have heard that Attitude is Everything! Jeff Keller is the master of attitude. I’ve received his material for over seven years and always find nuggets of truth! www.attitudeiseverything.com

www.AsAManThinketh.net If you have not read the classic motivational book, As A Man Thinketh, now you can for free as an e-book, just go to this great site and sign up for their free newsletter.

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Pegine is described by magazines as one of the nation’s top motivational success and leadership experts with business and team building experience! Her teambuilding and motivational programs are experiential, fun and filled with content. Companies use her to motivate people, develop strong leaders & teams, and increase productivity.

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