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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 postThere was that day, a day like any other, when I started my laptop, maybe I was feeling a bit down, maybe just one of these days… All I could remember is that what you are reading right now, is the last post of a project that I never knew that I would be starting that morning… The Monday Tip, a Weekly Blog that aimed at sharing positive vibes, and assist others one way or another.
3 years later; thousands of readers from all over the world and a lot of articles have been written -
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 postWe’ve all heard the sentence that you need to ask the right questions in order to get better answers; While it is valid and true in most situations, it could be useless if you were – per example – not being able to interpret the answer one it was given to you :).
On one of my trips to Minsk – Belarus, I needed to perform a relatively simple task that every tourist would’ve done, which was taking the metro; My Russian language was more elementary, meaning that I could construct se -
Blog postIt is no secret that Tunisia is a dear country/city to me, it has a wonderful nature, exceptionally nice people, superb spirit and a long history of intellectual culture, and of course its people are always smiling :). But that is not the reason why I’m writing this week’s tip.
You see, since 2007, while I work across the Middle East and Africa, my travel schedule is usually very filled, and traveling across east and west is not exactly a bus trip, so you can imagine hours of tra -
Blog postOne thing about routine is that you have a very good chance of excelling, when you know you can pause and reflect and then enhance your current way and eventually become better and better. Whether you have a desk job, or you simply go to the GYM to exercise; Routine Habits is a great way to become “better” at where you are.
As defined in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online: “Routine” is
a usual or fixed way of doing things:There’s no set/fixed routine at work – every day is differen -
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In one of my books, I spoke about the importance of timing, especially in taking decisions. How much does it cost us, NOT to take a decision or taking a decision too soon or too late; Each one of us experienced the following statement at least few times: You take 1 hour to take a decision to do something that actually take 10 minutes to execute… and NO, the 59 Minutes Spent were not for Brainstorming and Planning :).
It’s totally true in relationships, but it’s mor -
Blog postSo you wake up one day, and while you are walking out of your room, you suddenly see a Cockroach on the floor and you start having a mixed feeling of disgust and fear, then you would start thinking that this insect might certainly have been in the kitchen and marched over the area where you place your food on… No Wait… The reason is because the person who was suppose to clean up MUST have been not working well, and Needs to be fired… and you continue with stuff like “Oh My god, I ha
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Blog postAt one point in time, I was doing a coaching session for a young woman, who was explaining to me how she couldn’t cope with all the problems she had, and how difficult this life is… And while most individuals would consider the amount of problems they have as being the Worst scenarios, I’ve had a different response to that young woman:
“It might sound weird to you, but I don’t think that these are the real problems you’re having… You see what you listed to me – Given that they re -
Blog postThis morning on my way to work, I stopped by the gas station’s supermarket and wanted to get myself some breakfast (by the way I start work REALLY early), it was almost 6 AM already, and while I was browsing the items in that mini-market, I saw a young girl, she was around 13 or 14, and all dressed up with her school uniform for preparation for school, and I continued browsing around… and then I saw her again across the hall.. I was a bit surprised of how fast she could move from 1 meter behi
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Blog postI still remember a small chat I’ve had with one bright young man on my team a while back, we were discussing the impact of data and change on the course of business, it was more about decisions than it was about the science of data and the example I’ve share with him at that time was simple:
When you go to have a shower, (and if you’re like most people ) you will need to balance the hot & cold water to find the perfect relaxing fit so you would enjoy your shower, however most tend to -
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If you ever had the opportunity to study Psychology, one of the foundation of this magnificent study will be about learning, and how do 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”, where the parent (adult) hide his or her face from the child and then show it again -
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;
Well, That was the start of an experience tha -
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 -
Blog postThe Year 2013 has just started, and we just launched a New Bonus Episode.
The Episode is all About Words vs Actions and how we can change the way we talk and get a higher benefit on many scales.
Speak Louder than Actions
You can listen to it following this link
Cheers,
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Blog postAfter an unexpected success with more 10,000 unique download of the Podcast in over 79 Countries around the world, we received loads of requests on making the content of the podcast availalbe in english as book, there you go:
For Paperback & Kindle edition: http://amazon.com/author/sc
For iPhone & iPad edition: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9781300442493
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