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بفضل الله تعالى ودعمكم المستمر احتل برنامج ريادي من بلادي المرتبة 22 على مستوى العالم للبرامج المسجلة Podcasts في مجال الأعمال Business، ويكون بذلك هو البرنامج العربي الوحيد في فئته والذي ورد ضمن قائمة Top Audio Podcasts. وعند البحث عن البرامج الجديدة التي تستحق المتابعة بناءً على اختيارات المستمعين، يظهر برنامج ريادي من بلادي في المرتبة الأولى متصدراً بذلك جميع البرامج عربياً وعالمياً (شاهد الصور):

وكذلك وصلت 5 حلقات من برنامج ريادي من بلادي إلى قائمة أفضل 100 حلقة على Apple iTunes. وكانت منها مقابلة الريادي محمد خواجا مؤسس شركة Startappz التي احتلت المرتبة السادسة “6” على مستوى العالم لأفضل الحلقات. استمع لمقابلة محمد خواجا الآن.

وكانت الحلقات الأخرى التي وردت في قائمة أفضل 100 حلقة على مستوى العالم كالآتي:

• إيمان حيلوز – المؤسسة والرئيسة التنفيذية لموقع أبجد Abjjad: استمع الآن.
• ماهر الجيلاني – شريك مؤسس في شركة بليكسابيل انكوربورايشن Plexable: استمع الآن.
• علي دهمش – مؤسس ومدير شركة الاقتراب لبرمجيات الحاسوب Reach 2.0: استمع الآن.
• عبدالله عبسي – المؤسس والرئيس التنفيذي لشركة ذو مال Zoomaal: استمع الآن.

استمعوا لحلقات أخرى رائعة من ريادي من بلادي مع رياديين عرب متميزين:

• السيدة حنان خضر – المؤسسة والرئيسة التنفيذية لموقع عقار-إستيت Aqar-Estate.com: استمع الآن.
• علي شحادة – المؤسس و الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة The Dream Matcher: استمع الآن.
• أنس العبار – شريك مؤسس والمدير التنفيذي لشركة حاوي 7awi التي تضم موقع مجلة ليالينا، موقع تيربوالعرب وغيرها من المواقع الرائدة في الوطن العربي: استمع الآن.
• غسان نقل – نائب رئيس مجلس إدارة مجموعة نقل Nuqul Group: استمع الآن.
• رائد بلبيسي – المدير التنفيذي لشركة القمة للاستشارات الإدارية والتسويقية: استمع الآن.

ريادي من بلادي هو برنامج منكم ولكم وها هي عشيرة الرياديين تكبر بمشاركتكم وطموحكم أعزائي. انضموا الآن إلى عشيرة الرياديين على الرابط التالي.

ليكون برنامج ريادي من بلادي رفيقك في كل الأوقات ولكي تتمكن من الاستماع لأروع المقابلات على هاتفك الذكي اشترك الآن على Apple iTunes إن كنت من مستخدمي الآيفون، أو على تطبيق Stitcher Radio لمستخدمي نظام الآندرويد. 

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ظهرت المقالة Ending 2014 with Amazing News! The Arab Entrepreneurs Podcast Hits iTunes’ Top Charts أولاً على أكاديمية سائد يونس.

While it’s true that a day has 24 hours in it, still each one of us might have more or less than 24 hours in their day! Or else how would you explain the huge differences in achievement and productivity between individuals?

Personal management skills, including time management, will pay some dividends in terms of increased productivity and enhanced success rates, but still time management alone won’t do the trick if you’re aspiring to be the next stave jobs – You need something else . . something more powerful.

The key hides in one word, and that is “LEVERAGE”. Utilizing the power of Leverage is the key denominator between all world-class successful people.

No matter how masterfully you manage your time, you would still have 24 hours a days to work with – I’m not denying that. But on the results level you will either end up with 24-hour based results, or a greater multiplier of that – it all boils down to the extent you leverage your skills and talents.

Let’s take a closer look on a super successful person like Richard Branson of Virgin Group. Branson wakes up each day with 24 hours, but ends up with more than 1,200,000-hours value of results! How is that humanly possible? Well, if you consider the fact that there are more than 50,000 employees currently working in virgin group under Branson’s leadership – it becomes much more understandable. Each one of those employees probably has 24-hours’ worth of results each day, but on Branson’s side of the story, he has (24*50,000 = 1.2 Million hours) – since all their individual work efforts and success will eventually pure into his bigger jar! So technically, Branson achieves each year the equivalent of what 50,000 people do, or let’s put it another way: each day he achieves more than what a normal person achieves in 137 years!!

So scale this up or down to fit your own life. If you want more results, start building your team right away. Study yourself and find out your most powerful strengths and focus on them, also find out what can be leveraged to other people and give it to them. A little by a little, you’ll become much more skillful at maximizing your results and leading others. They will benefit from working with you or even from just being around you as well – so it’s a win win situation for all.

Always remember that the major goal of leverage is freedom, NOT efficiency. You want to manage your time well and Leverage your skills and talents in order to free more space to be able to do what matters to you the most. Do not fall into the trap of productivity for the sake of productivity, because then you’ll go into a vicious circle that will bring you more stress and anxiety.

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According to Psychology Today, The most common self-sabotaging behaviors are procrastination, self-medication with drugs or alcohol, comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting. These acts may seem helpful in the moment, but ultimately undermine us, especially when we engage in them repeatedly.

It is all about “activation energy”! Stop looking at self-sabotage as a stand-alone issue that keeps you from getting what you want in life and start seeing it simply as a lack of motivation for doing what needs to be done when it is supposed to be done. Once you get a grasp on this concept, your life will never be the same again! Totally a game changer.

You’ll definitely learn great stuff out of this short video. Enjoy it then apply it

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The market is full of books, articles, tools and various sorts of content on time management. Yet we see more and more people complain about their inability to manage their time effectively. If you’ve read this fare, most probably you too struggle a bit with time management and so did I, until I found a magical formula that worked like charm for me.

The fault of traditional time management is at its core. The books on this topic are great and you get really excited motivated while reading one. You might try a method or two or even all of them, yet slowly but surely you’ll get back to the normal state you’re accustomed to. If you’ve ever tried one of those methods where you should track every minute of your time for a week or so, you’ll know what I mean. Tracking itself is ok; it gives you a good and accurate insight of the measured variable/variables, but in the case of time, it is not as easy as portrayed in books!

So what should you do? Here are 7 simple steps that you can start applying today:

1. Never try to micromanage your time

Micromanaging your time will not bring you any good. Instead, it will stress you out and turn you to a living freak. We live in a world of high uncertainty where nobody can predict for sure what’s going to happen in the next couple of hours, not to mention calibrating a schedule for 24 hours or even a week.

Continuously breaking your schedules and pushing away appointments and tasks will make you feel bad. It will affect your self-image and weaken your trust of your ability to ever stick to a schedule of any sort again.

Action step: instead of micromanaging your time, macro-manage it. Always look at it as a whole, divide it into blocks of 2-3 hours each or regions – morning, noon, afternoon, etc. – and try to allocate important tasks into those regions without specifying a numerical hour:minute:second value to it. This will give you flexibility and reduces the stressful urgency you feel when you try to chase your time by the minute. Also it will eliminate the amount of guilt you feel when you –for example- send that important email on 4 pm instead of the scheduled 15:35:20!

2. Focus on your most important outcomes for the day

An outcome is a desirable result you want out of something. Each day should be defined by its most important outcome. Usually a day will have an outcome or two that can be classified as important outcomes and rarely there will be more than three.

Action step: before you go to sleep in the day before, grab a small piece of paper and a pen (I chose to do it the old fashion way and leave the sophisticated mobile apps for something else) and write down your most important outcome/outcomes for the next day. By doing this you will clear you mind and most importantly you will be more likely to achieve those outcomes.

3. Beware, to do lists are dangerous

Entrepreneurs are fond of to-do lists. They’re a practical way of keeping track of all what you want to do. They also give you an exaggerated sense of achievement; since the mere act of writing stuff down makes you sometimes feel as comfortable as when you’ve achieved them – sounds familiar?

Do you remember being so eager to buy that great book/audio program/online course you’ve wanted for so long and felt like it will be the book that will change your life forever, and finally you bought it? What happened next; just after you’ve put it on the shelf or laid it on your desk? You were so satisfied and felt so comfortable that you didn’t have to read it anymore! This is exactly where the danger of to do lists resides; writing them might subtly sedate you into not taking any further action. Even worse, by the end of the day when you review what you did and didn’t, you easily postpone the uncompleted tasks to the next day. Surprise! This will satisfy you for the rest of that day – because scratching items out of to do lists is linked subconsciously with achieving them even if you’ll rewrite them for the next day, and then to the next and so on.

Action step: instead of being obsessed with to do lists, use them as a ways to remember things without falling in the trap of the to-do illusion. Never postpone a task more than one time; make it a personal must and stick to it.

4. Utilize the power of NOT-to-do lists

“Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When I read that quote for the first time, I immediately fell in love with it. Our days are full of tasks that should be done – or at least so we think. Most of these tasks are trivial matters that don’t contribute substantially to our wellbeing and success. In this sense, NOT-to-do lists play a much more important role than to-do lists. They allow you to live a richer, more fulfilled life.

Action step: Put it your goal to differentiate between what matters the most to you and what doesn’t. This should originate out of your heart and guts. Then start to eliminate as much as you can of the trivia and daily nonsense.

5. Schedule time for recreation and relaxation and stick to it

Usually people falsely assume that productivity is related exclusively to workplace or business. However, being productive simply means that you produce large amounts of desirable results and goods. In order to be able to do that, you should rest; relaxation and recreation are integrated parts of productivity.

The time you spend resting is not wasted at all; as long you do it consciously for the sake of your wellbeing. If you want to cut trees you can’t do that forever without sharpening your saw every now and then; because it will wear gradually until it becomes useless.

Action step: put aside an hour a day for total relaxation. It has nothing to do with the time you allocate for sleeping. During this hour you can meditate, listen to calm music or just lie down and admire the lovely clouds and the blue sky. Consider it a chance to recharge you batteries and increase your productivity.

6. Use the Pomodoro Technique®

The Pomodoro Technique® is a time management method. This Technique helps you to transform time into a valuable ally by helping you accomplish what you want to do and charting continuous improvement in the way you do it.

This technique helps you eliminate distractions by working in 25 minutes time blocks. You should totally focus on the task for 25 minutes then you take a 5 minutes break. You repeat this cycle 4 times and after that you take a longer break for 20 minutes. Your brain will use this time to assimilate new information and rest before the next round of Pomodoros.

Action step: learn more about the Pomodoro Technique® by visiting their website (Link) and try to integrate it into your daily routine. You will notice large increase in productivity within a couple of days. Try it, it is amazing!

7. Use the 7-minutes rule

Procrastination is one of the worst productivity killers on earth. It sneaks into your life unnoticeably a little by a little until it takes control over your whole being. One of the biggest reasons behind procrastination is that our brain gets intimidated by the perceived complexity of a certain task and therefore, it tries to protect you by moving away from that task.

The 7 minutes rule is a diplomatic way to ease your mind into doing any task you want. You simple say that you will do that task you’ve been putting away for just 7 minutes. Then if you like it you’ll continue and if you don’t you stop. Once you get started, you’ll gain momentum and find it much easier than what you thought. You’ll hardly stop at that point and before you know it, the task is done!

Action step: make a list of 3 important tasks that you’ve been postponing for a long time. Pick one of them and give it a try for 7 minutes. Once the task is completed, do this for the remaining 2 tasks.

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Start today and notice your progress for the next week. I will be glad to receive your feedback and comments on what worked best for you and which other methods you use as well.

Stay Lively
Saed

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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~Plato

Many people would say that fear is their worst enemy. That might be true; because fear can paralyze people from taking action and moving forward. It comes hiding in different shapes and forms- like fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of heights, fear of closed places, fear of success, and the list goes on and on. It is the main reason that most people live and die without achieving their dreams or even a part of them. It is the reason behind many failed marriages and broken relationships. And it is the reason why people fail – personally, professionally, socially or in any other arena in their lives.

Fear is really a monster that can eat you alive. In some extreme cases it turns to a mental illness called paranoia – which is defined by the Collins English Dictionary as “a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion.” The majority of us haven’t reached this extreme level, but we do struggle with fear and fearful thoughts every now and then.

To get a closer look on how powerful fear is, watch this video:

Fear has tremendous amounts of control over humans just as with animals. So wouldn’t it be great if we can leverage this power and use it to our benefit? The answer is yes it will be great and yes we can!

The key is to shift your perception and start looking at fear from a whole new perspective; a simple mind game that you play with yourself. That’s it.

Have you heard the saying “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” before? Since fear is your worst enemy, then you should keep it the closest. This means that you first have to know what your fear/fears are, understand them and employ them to work for you rather than letting them enslave you.

If you try to ignore your fears and pretend like they don’t exist, they will fire back big time. What if I told you: Do NOT think of a pink elephant. What happened in your mind? Have you NOT thought of it? You did, right? This happens all the time when you try to dictate on your mind what NOT to do – it goes and does the exact same think you are trying to avoid.

That’s why you should always focus on what you want and keep your eyes on the result/outcome that you want to get. The twist here is to make your fear of failure very strong so that instead of paralyzing you, it forces you to take action forward.

Here’s one simple, yet powerful technique that you can use right away to leverage the power of fear to work for you:

“Close your eyes and take several calm deep breaths. Visualize yourself 5, 10 or 20 years later all sad and lonely because you haven’t achieved any of your dreams or goals. Imagine the amount of pain and regret you’ll have and make it feel as real as possible. Now imagine that everything around you is disappearing one by one; furniture, buildings, trees, people etc. then you’re standing alone in the middle of an empty desert screaming for help, but no one answers! Suddenly you start drowning slowly in a sand whirlpool and you’re scared, helpless and hopeless. Now take a deep breath and open your eyes. Have a look around you. And be thankful that none of that has happened yet. Promise yourself to do whatever it takes to succeed.”

You have only one life time, so make it worthwhile. Don’t waste your time in fear and regret. Go out there and show the world what you’ve got. Try to add as much value as you can and seek to help as many people as you’re capable of. Eventually the law of reciprocity will work for you – you will start to see the fruits of the all good that you did and you’ll defiantly reap a hundredfold what you’ve ever sown.

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Has there been any fear in your life that kept you from achieving your important goals? Have you successfully overcome a major fear before? If yes, how did you do that?

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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ― Socrates

We have been told over and over again that life is the greatest school ever, and that is absolutely true. As entrepreneurs, we are on an ongoing quest for a greater success and achievements. Therefore, we must be committed to lifelong learning and growing.

Of course we learn a big deal out of our mistakes and failures, but if you want to live a remarkable life that exceeds all expectations; then you have to learn from other people’s mistakes as well. Simply because no matter how long you live, you won’t have enough time to do all mistakes by yourself!

Wise people learn from everybody and everything. They consider every day as a gift and a chance to learn and grow. They learn from friends, babies, birds, waterfalls and even stones!

A couple of years ago, I came across a wonderful philosophy for success. The idea was so simple yet so profound that I pondered on it for a long time. It is the Ant Philosophy as narrated by the late motivational speaker and coach, Jim Rohn. It had a huge impact on my life and the lives of many others; for that reason I wanted to share it with you to give you a fresh boost of motivation and to inspire you to take substantial action toward your goals.

Here is the short list on the Ant Philosophy:

1. Ants Never Quit

If they’re going somewhere and you stop them or block their pathway they’ll look for another way; up, down, all around. How long will they keep looking? Until they find another way. See, that’s good philosophy – the Ant philosophy.

2. Ants Think Winter All Summer

That why ants appear to be on a hurry all summer. Go go go – why? Winter winter winter . .hurry hurry hurry . . The clock is running out, time is running out. Hurry hurry, get the food, bring it back, bring it back. The winter is almost here . . hurry hurry hurry. That’s a good philosophy!
Think winter all summer, don’t think summer all summer and get faked out; look how lovely and look how nice. Ants don’t do that.

So be careful; do NOT build your house on the sand during the summer. You have got to think storms when the weather is nice. You should build your house on  rocks because the weather will not stay nice long.

3. Ants Think Summer All Winter

In the winter you’ve got to say: we won’t be in here long – we’ll soon be out of here. We’ll be out there working and gathering more food providing for the future. Winter won’t last long; we’ll soon be out of here.

So the key is to think summer in the winter and think winter in the summer. Think negative when it’s positive and then think positive when it’s negative. Isn’t that a challenge? The answer is yes that’s a challenge; but that’s life, that’s the DEAL!

How often does winter follow fall? Every year!

Do you know how the next ten years are going to be? About the last ten! Winter follows fall, summer easy and summer hard, summer difficult and summer simple. Then spring follows winter. It has been so for at least 6,000 years of recorded history; so it isn’t going to change.

We can’t rearrange the coming of winters. But here’s what we can do: be stronger, wiser and better – so that we can survive better and our life will be less eroded by learning to handle the next winter. The next winter of a crisis, a divorce, a death of a close one, a financial lose etc.

The essence of life is: OPPORTUNITY MIXED WITH DIFFICULTY. That’s about as simple as you can put it. Sometimes there seems to be more difficulty that opportunity. It does! Then it turns and there’s more opportunity than difficulty. The key is to take advantage when the opportunity comes in excess. Take advantage, build the city, build the economy and build everything.

I leave you now with the original sound recording of Jim Rohn explaining the Ant Philosophy and I hope you enjoy it.

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So what do you think? Did the Ant Philosophy resonate with you? feel free to share any ideas or comments you want.

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