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Blog postA dear friend of mine once told me his story; He was engaged in a very serious relationship with somebody, for several years they were together. And then, one day, out of the blue, their relationship ended; his fiancé messaged and told him that they cannot stay together anymore because of multiple issues and reasons. Her reasons to breakup were valid, but the way to end a relationship that was serious simply over a text message left more questions than answers.
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Blog postOne day you wake up, and look at the mirror and see a person you don’t know, a person that looks a lot like you, has your features, but strangely you don’t recognize that person. Because deep inside of yourself, you realize that this is not YOU… and if it was indeed you, you fail to acknowledge how did you end up here. When did you lose track?
I was having a coaching session with a fantastic individual recently, and she was describing how her life lead her to a crossroads, where eithe -
Blog postHave you ever woke up one day with that strange feeling that you don’t want to get out of bed? That going to work feels like going to a slaughter house and you’re the cow? have you ever felt that even on your vacation days, you don’t feel like having fun? How many times have this occurred to you? if more than once in the past month… Then you must be Burned Out!
In so many occasions, we don’t feel the weight that we are carrying, because it’s been there too long that we no longer feel -
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Blog postSince a long, long time. I have read this in one of the books and it’s one of the most important parts in management. And in particular, how to manage people.
If I could get $1 every time I heard about somebody not liking to work with another person, or having pain from their own business relationship, I would have been a millionaire by now.
There’s a big confusion between liking somebody and liking to work with somebody, or simply being efficient in working with someone; I se -
Blog postOpinions are a matter of personal tastes; You can always have an opinion about whatever you want. You can talk about the universe, the earth, about relationships, business and you can also think about whatever you want and express your opinion in so many ways, but actually understanding and changing an opinion takes more than just courage, it takes a deeper and more progressive way of thinking.
A lot of people among a research that I’ve done for the past 12 years (and still ongoing) o -
Blog postWhenever I used to coach on public speaking and advise on subjects related to communications especially in conjunction with leadership and personal leadership in particular, there was one point that I kept emphasizing more and more: It’s to the way you talk, and the words that you use to talk to the person.
No matter how much you think you and another person or a group of individuals have in common and are coming from the same – almost exact – background, ( or whatever you want -
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Blog postOne of the most common, I would not call it mistake, but one of the most common downfall of problem solving, is being stuck. And the ONE element, which is the immediate influencer is the following: Rather than thinking strategically about the solution of the problem, you get stuck into details. You see, if I … Continue reading Moving on past the obstacles and seeing the bigger picture →
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Blog postFor some reason when things go well in any project or idea or task or behavior and when everything is just great, most would stop looking at the details; This one relationship is meant to be when you meet that right person, even if you met him or her at the most awkward of situations, but as long as the end result is good, somehow people are okay with whatever happened before that while if things didn’t go well, then people will start questioning all sorts of errors and start talking about wh
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Blog postThe story I’ve heard a while back about the famous Pablo Picasso who was sitting at a cafe somewhere when a woman passed by and saw him and asked him to draw her.
He took a pencil, sketched her and gave her the result; she looked at it, it was a nice sketch, and then he asked for 5,000 Franc, she looked back in shock, “This only took you five minutes to draw!”, she was surprised because of the amount that he asked for.
Then Pablo Picasso looked at her and smiled. He said -
Blog postNo Matter if this was your first job after graduation or you are a seasoned professional who is planning their next move. Job interviews are always tricky and they are not easy most of the time, and preparing for them – if done properly- demand a lot of energy (mentally, and psychologically). This week’s tip … Continue reading 5 Things to remember when Preparing for your next job interview →
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Blog postAre you familiar with Murphy's Law?Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base. It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
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Blog postOne of the most common and fundamental change an individual receives after he or she go through an intensive Leadership training program would be how they look and perceive others.When I was still working back at Microsoft, I remember a talk I’ve had with Naseem Tuffaha, a Senior Director at the time and one who truly possess genuine leadership qualities; Naseem was simplifying to me an important leadership quality, he said:“A true leader can simply be a person who sees through the eyes of the p
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Blog postIn my humble experience in the field of education, and especially when talking about “Innovation in Education”, I get stumbled by the old and new approach of problem solving techniques, especially how teachers used to teach students on how to use a specific process that should pay off.For so many years now, I’ve concentrated my work on Innovation, whether in Business, in Life and in Education; there was a common item that, depending on how you perceive it, can make or break your plan or solution
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Blog postEveryday, we go through our online social feeds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc, and we get bombarded by 100s and even thousands of information, some may be useful, some may not, some may be funny, some are sad... You sometimes wonder how much of these you would actually retain in your head after a while?Facebook introduced a feature recently, called Memories, where you can actually check some of your posts years before... I saw some posts that were 9 years old and I could still remember the
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Blog postIf you have ever had the opportunity to study psychology, you would know that one of the foundations of this magnificent study is about learning and the way we learn. And to be able to understand the evolution of the Brain & Mind in this, they normally start with studying babies.There’s a fascinating small game that parents play with their infant child that is almost universally known as “PEEK-A-POO”. The parent (adult) hides his/her face from the child and then shows it again while saying t
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Blog postانه يوماً لا اعتقد بأنني سوف أنساه أبداً يوماً عادياً كالذي سبقهخلدت فيه الى النوم منهكاً من تعب النهار لتبدأ معه رحلة الى مجهولٍ فيً أثير ليل الأحلاموجدت نفسي أقف أمامهاامام ابتسامتها التي تبعث الدفء في نفسيدفء نظرة أُمِّي وأختي وزوجتي رغم انني لا أعرفها ما سِرّك ايتها الطاهرة، سألت نفسيأيّامٌ مضت في ثوانٍ وأنا أسافر مسافاتٍ طويلةلأمضي معها دقائقَ معدودة وأجد في ابتسامتها معانٍ لأسرار القلب الدفينة كانت تعيش في مستشفىً في مكان معزول بعيداًعندما يراني الآخرون يبتسمون ويوسعون لي الطريقكأن الابت
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Blog postAt one point in time, I felt as if my life was just standing still, waiting and watching for my planted seed… hopelessly, to grow.They say that when a seed is planted in the ground, there is nothing much you can do, you can water it and try to take care of it as much as possible, but then that’s it… You cannot control the weather, the sunshine, you can’t make it rain, you cannot stop the rain, you cannot control the insects etc…and you can’t influence it to grow faster either. All you can do is
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Blog postقصّتُنا هذه المرةُ من جنوب أفريقيا... فتاةٌ اسمُها "ليليان" أحبّت أن تشاركَنا في قصّةٍ حصلتْ معها ضمنَ عملِها. تعملُ ليليان في أكبرِ شركةِ تكنولوجيا، والتي لديها فروعًا في مختلفِ أنحاءِ العالمِ، والفرعُ التي تعمل فيه ليليان يقعُ في جنوبِ أفريقيا. عادةً أغلبُ الشّركات الكبيرةِ لديها الكَثير من الموظّفين، فلهذا أغلبُ الموظّفين لا يعرِفون بعضَهم من كثرَتهم. لكن، من بين الموظفين الكُثُر لفتَ نظرُ ليليان موظفًا، تظهرُ على ملامحه "العُبوس الدائم"، وفي نفسِ الوقت هو جديٌّ وصارمٌ في
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Blog postفي مكان ما في دبيسامر: مرحباً، التقني الذي طلبته لم يأتي بعد، هل هنالك أي مشكلة؟الموظّف: لقد أتى ولم يجد أحد في المنزلسامر: غريب لقد كنت في المنزل طوال الوقت في انتظاره... الموظّف: لقد قرع جهاز الانتركوم ولم يردّ أحد، فربّما اعتقد أنه لا يوجد أحد في المنزل يا سيّدي، أعتذر عن ذلكسامر: ولكنّه أتى ليصلح جهاز الانتركووووووومممممم!!!!!!العبرة من القصّة#FiSystemفي سيستم
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Blog postبين سنة 2005 و2006 حصلتْ معي حادثةٌ غيرَتْ مَجري حياتي، وغيرتْ طَريقتي ونَظرتي وأيضًا تَفكيري، وتَقييمي لبعضِ الأمورِ الحياتيّة بشكلٍ جذريٍّ.استمع الى القصة وحمّلها أو اقرأهاماذا حصلَ معي؟كنتُ في ذلك الوقت في أمريكا، وكنتُ مسافرًا من ولايةٍ إلى ولايةٍ أخرى...كما تعلمونَ الأشخاصُ الذين يسافرونَ كثيرًا، يصلون لمرحلةٍ تُصبح السّفرات كلّها مُتشابهةً، نفسُ الأشخاصِ والوجوهِ والمشاهدِ. حتى من كثرةِ رؤيتِنا للمضيفين والمضيفات نحسّ أنهم يُشبهون بعضهم بعضًا.كلّ هذه الأمورُ تتكررُ دائمًا في السفرِ مع فارق
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Blog postIt was almost 10 years ago at a time that I had delivered a talk with Education Leaders in one of the countries in the middle east (Jordan at that time) about the future transformation of our world beginning with the classroom, and how students' behavior is shifting as Life is Shifting at the same time, and what was once a norm in the teacher's time became a "weird" in today's students time; I started my keynote speech with a Question: "Ladies & Gentlemen, are we sitting here
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Blog postI had an interesting discussion back in October 2015, when I was delivering a workshop in Casablanca - Morocco, about some of the essence of happiness, what makes us happy and what should we change in our behavior to increase the chances of us staying that way.The beginning of that conversation, erupted from a simple emphasize that the more a person is happy and fulfilled, the less he or she will feel the need to require acceptance from others, so at the end of that, I was asked, what would be t
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Blog postOne of my favorite and most probably one of the first stories I heard when I was a kid at school, was the story of the Ant and the Cricket, the cricket that was singing all summer while the Ant was working, and when the winter arrived, the cricket paid the price while the ant ripped off the benefit of hard work.The summary of the story is goes something like this:Once upon a time… one hot summer, a cricket sang cheerfully on the branch of a tree, while down below, a long line of ants struggled g
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Blog postThis story originally happened in March 15, 2014. In the past 2 weeks, I’ve been to 4 different countries, was speaking at conferences and conducting workshops and trainings all day long, and taking red eye flights (Midnight or very early AM) most of the time and sleeping on planes… Bottom line with the lifestyle I have, socializing with someone on a plane, was pretty much the least of my concerns, as I preferred to sleep or at least to preserve my vocal cords .On that flight back from Tunisia t
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Blog postThis story is one of the most popular posts, I did receive it in a chain email about 17 years ago. It got stuck in my mind, and I published it maybe 8 years later. Believe it or not, the story DID change some people's lives, including one person who wrote me back saying that this has stopped him from committing a very bad bad decision about his life. This is how I remember it, and how I published it long time ago.There was a Man a his wife who has been married for a long time, and they were happ
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Blog postI'm republishing this one popular Blog post that is 7 years old, but remarkably still getting lots of views.Today (the time I originally posted this) is 10.10.10 and one of the GEEKEST Days, so I decided to dedicate this Post to WHOM IT MAY CONCERNSo you’re dating a Programmer, a Techy or an IT Guy…Here’s some GOLDies you need to take into consideration and This will save you lots of headache and sleepless nights talking to your self and saying .. WHY THE HELL MY GUY DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ME!!!10.
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Blog postAlthough most of what you’re about to read can be applied almost anywhere in the world, I’d like to dedicate this post to my readers from the Middle East as most of the experiences behind this were developed based on samples of individuals from the Arab World.Over the past 7 years, I have LITERALLY interviewed over 300 persons for different roles within my companies and coached over 2,000 individuals from different parts of the world on topics like Personal Development & Career development a
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Blog postI Once heard a great story about a Very Famous JAZZ Player, who was like 85 at the time but still plays his instrument passionately in a small pub, and at that night barely 2 –3 people showed up (there was Super Bowl finale or something at the same time) … and once asked WHY??? he replied…“it’s For the Music…” When you’re doing what you’re doing… most of the times you will need to remind yourself WHY you’re doing so… Community Presentations is never about money, it’s not for Fame, not about fanc
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Blog postBelow is an extract from a GREAT Book I read; Jim Collins’ Good to Great. The analogy seems just like the way I explain things in my books so I thought I would share it with you.How change doesn’t happenPicture an egg. Day after day, it sits there. No one pays attention to it. No one notices it. Certainly no one takes a picture of it or puts it on the cover of a celebrity-focused business magazine.Then one day, the shell cracks and out jumps a chicken.All of a sudden, the major magazines and new
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Blog postIt all started when I received a lot of similar questions that had similar answers, and I had limited time to answer few of them, so I said why not create a platform to share the answers to common question while educating the rest of the world on what is the logic used in solving the problem in the first place?So I went Live on Facebook, and received some good encouragement to go through with this project... and here we go!
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Blog postOn The Occasion of the 3rd Year of the Launch of 7 Minutes Motivation, the purpose is finally stated! Video Transcript
It all started in 1998, I needed to do a research for one of my courses in college about techniques of communication; I wanted to get to the bottom of how human communication take place… I went to visit a center that works with Hearing Impaired children, to see how you can communicate when you can’t actually talk;
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Blog postLast night, I had a dream… A dream that a plane I was in crashed As most people know me, I’ve lived the past 10 years of my life with one simple principle… I live everyday with NO REGRETS… So that dream didn’t affect my day or me in a way that made me START to look back and reflect on how I lived my life, and what I did right or wrong… I kinda did that years back, and decided that I’m not going to be in that situation ever again… So the Same risk is and will always be there… a
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Blog postLast night, I had a dream… A dream that a plane I was in crashed As most people know me, I’ve lived the past 10 years of my life with one simple principle… I live everyday with NO REGRETS… So that dream didn’t affect my day or me in a way that made me START to look back and reflect on how I lived my life, and what I did right or wrong… I kinda did that years back, and decided that I’m not going to be in that situation ever again… So the Same risk is and will always be there… and the possibility
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Blog postFrom a Nobody, to a DJ, Geek, Professional and Finally to a CEO & Best Selling Author. Thank you All for making the past 10 years of my life, Worth Mentioning.
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Blog postAfter he discovered a rare disease that made his intellectual abilities grow stronger than any normal man alive, Bob receives an irresistible offer to be among the elite team who planned the new middle east. Along the way, Bob (who later on became known as “The Feel Doctor”) used his unique analytic brain to plant the seed of what changed the world of more than 2 Billion people.
The Feel Doctor is Samer Chidiac’s first Purely Fiction Novel.
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Blog postPart of the “Influencing the Life of Others” personal social responsibility project of Samer Chidiac, The Monday Tip has started as a weekly blog Discussing Strategy, Motivation, Communication & Productivity.
Although the blog is a free resource for everyone to enjoy and benefit from, a CHALLENGE has been created out of it, the REFRESH! Challenge… Are you able to Refresh your Life in Just 30 Days? Get the Book, Read the Tip and Ta -
Blog postWe all Strive to better manage our lives, and for Samer Chidiac, Managing your life is all about Managing your time in it.
The 10 Unbreakable Rules of Time Management is a simple approach to learn all the core concepts and best practices of probably what would be the most important skill you can master in your entire life.
The 10 Rules are interesting to read and easy to understand and can instantly impact your life.
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Blog postPart of the “Influencing the Life of Others” personal social responsibility project of Samer Chidiac, the 7 Minutes Motivation podcast has started as a free podcast in Arabic targeting the Arab speaking world.
on a Weekly basis, 7 MM was broadcasted with a story or a theme that would only take 7 minutes to listen to and a motivational energy that last for at least 1 week.
Due to the huge popularity of the podcast, the book was produced (in english)
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Blog postThe First Book of the Series is out!
Join the young Adam’s story where he discovered his potential and worked toward realizing his dreams. During his path, he meets an interesting couple, The Kays, who coached & mentored Adam along the way on how to approach the Professional & Personal life based on their long experience in Business & Psychology. A story about Friendship, Work, Love & Life and a transformation from the average young man into the Successful & Aspiri
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