LinkUP Thursday: What Are You Reading This Week?

Good Morning Folks,

Here are some of the interesting articles I've discovered this week and have been sharing on my social networks. If we have not connected, I invite you to do so. Friend me on Twitter HERE and LinkedIN HERE.

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  'The Person Who Says It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt The Person Doing It' http://pulse.me/s/3bTsuM
  

  

  'The Person Who Says It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt The Person Doing It'

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  One unexpected but inevitable part of achieving entrepreneurial success is learning how to handle the haters.

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  10 Ways You're Already a Success

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  Be proud of every value you haven't compromised in the entrepreneurial pressure cooker.
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  Are Lawyers Forced To Evolve?

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  Lawyering will always be lawyering, but the business of lawyering will depend more and more on integrating technology into your office.

  
  
• 5 Radical Things You Can to Do to Motivate Employees http://pulse.me/s/3cvScb
  

  

  5 Radical Things You Can to Do to Motivate Employees

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  Here are a few ideas on how to motivate employees beyond the typical promises and vague assumptions.

  
  
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  Shout Out Wednesdays: "Everyone Stepped Up And Juggled Multiple Crazy Requests With...

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  Every day I walk through and it is like a breath of fresh air. They say good morning and wish you a good night and always have a smile. It also hear less chitter chatter from guests about getting through security...
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• Everyone on this planet deserves to be happy, nobody deserves sadness. You and you alone have the power to change your thoughts, feelings, actions and everything else about yourself that you want to change. If you want to be happy, the only thing stopping you is you. #happiness #FSO-ONSITE-...more
  

  

  Ted Tuesday: Matt Killingsworth Want To Be Happier? Stay In The Moment.

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  'People want a lot of things out of life, but I think, more than anything else, they want happiness. Aristotle called happiness "the chief good," the end towards which all other things aim. According to this view,...

  
  
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  15 Ways To Become A Better Person

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  Life is a journey and becoming better everyday is the goal.

  
  
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  Start Today Differently, IT’S THE FSO EXPERIENCE!

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  "Myself, as well as everyone else who has written the morning message, approaches this honor with the same intentions; to make an impact, to inspire & to allow everyone to feel the FSO EXPERIENCE! So… considering I recently...
  
  
  
  
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  How Successful People Make The Most Of Their Weekends

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  The most successful people know better than to squander their weekends scrubbing the floors.

  
  

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Ted Tuesday: Matt Killingsworth Want To Be Happier? Stay In The Moment.

'People want a lot of things out of life, but I think, more than anything else, they want happiness. Aristotle called happiness "the chief good," the end towards which all other things aim. According to this view, the reason we want a big house or a nice car or a good job isn't that these things are intrinsically valuable. It's that we expect them to bring us happiness."

Good Morning Folk,

Today I’ve decided to share a TED that is relevant to what I want this blog to be, and my role in life as the Chief Happiness Officer. This talk hasn't broken the Internet, nor has the popularity of the Grump Cat, but with over 3 million views in its own right, its worth a look.

Everyone on this planet deserves to be happy, nobody deserves sadness. You and you alone have the power to change your thoughts, feelings, actions and everything else about yourself that you want to change. If you want to be happy, the only thing stopping you is you.

I watched an amazing TED Talk a while ago titled Want to be happier? Stay in the moment by a guy called Matt Killingsworth. According to Matt:

"It’s an important question but one that science has yet to fully answer. Yes, people are generally happier if they make more money rather than less, or are married instead of single, but the differences are quite modest." 

My research is driven by the idea that happiness may have more to do with the contents of our moment-to-moment experiences than with the major conditions of our lives. I

A few years ago, I came up with a way to study people’s moment-to-moment happiness in daily life on a massive scale, all over the world, something we’d never been able to do before. This took the form of trackyourhappiness.org, which uses iPhones to monitor people’s happiness in real time. 

My results suggest that happiness is indeed highly sensitive to the contents of our moment-to-moment experience. And one of the most powerful predictors of happiness is something we often do without even realizing it: mind-wandering. 

Among the surprising results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. 

Now in the last 50 years, we Americans have gotten a lot of the things that we want. We're richer. We live longer. We have access to technology that would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. The paradox of happiness is that even though the objective conditions of our lives have improved dramatically, we haven't actually gotten any happier 

As it turns out, people are substantially less happy when their minds are wandering than when they're not. Now you might look at this result and say, okay, sure, on average people are less happy when they're mind-wandering, but surely when their minds are straying away from something that wasn't very enjoyable to begin with, at least then mind-wandering should be doing something good for us. Nope. As it turns out, people are less happy when they're mind-wandering no matter what they're doing. For example, people don't really like commuting to work very much. It's one of their least enjoyable activities, and yet they are substantially happier when they're focused only on their commute than when their mind is going off to something else. It's amazing.

So how could this be happening? I think part of the reason, a big part of the reason, is that when our minds wander, we often think about unpleasant things, and they are enormously less happy when they do that, our worries, our anxieties, our regrets, and yet even when people are thinking about something neutral, they're still considerably less happy than when they're not mind-wandering at all. Even when they're thinking about something they would describe as pleasant, they're actually just slightly less happy than when they aren't mind-wandering. If mind-wandering were a slot machine, it would be like having the chance to lose 50 dollars, 20 dollars or one dollar. Right? You'd never want to play. 

My hope is that over time, by tracking people's moment-to-moment happiness and their experiences in daily life, we'll be able to uncover a lot of important causes of happiness, and then in the end, a scientific understanding of happiness will help us create a future that's not only richer and healthier, but happier as well."

The lesson here isn’t that we should stop mind-wandering entirely—after all, our capacity to revisit the past and imagine the future is immensely useful, and some degree of mind-wandering is probably unavoidable. But these results do suggest that mind-wandering less often could substantially improve the quality of our lives. If we learn to fully engage in the present, we may be able to cope more effectively with the bad moments and draw even more enjoyment from the good ones.

So.... stop worrying about your future, what will happen will happen and you have little control over it until the moment arrives. Stop dwelling on the past, the past is the past and it’s now over. There is no need to dwell on it because you cannot change it now. Live in the present moment. You won’t regret it.

I want fanatical happiness to be way that YOU can make yourself happier. 

Have a GREAT Day,



Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer  

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Surviving Digital Darwinism: Keeping Pace With Technology Change in The Practice of Law

"It's a simple but often forgotten principle - how does technology add value to the advice you provide? Successful technology for lawyers will allow you to make better decisions that ultimately benefit your client."

Good Morning Foks, 

Information technology is the backbone of the modern organization.

For organizations to remain credible in today’s world, you need an innovative partner like FSO to look to the future and help to constantly improve IT and software capabilities. FSO helps you meet this challenge with an integrated, holistic view of technology that combines infrastructure support, application development and strategic.

Competing for relevance is now a mission of every business and as such, it should be relentlessly pursued. The future of business is not about technology, greed, or short-term deals. It’s about people, purpose, and experiences.

It takes vision.

It takes empathy.

It takes courage.

The future of business lies in the shift from a culture of management to that of leadership and it begins with you.

Blogs Brian Sollis, "We live in an era of "digital Darwinism," a time when technology and society are evolving faster than the ability of many organizations to adapt. It is for this reason (along with a myriad of other problems of course) that in fact killed Borders, Blockbuster, Polaroid and the like. Not only did digital Darwinism cost us close to a half billion job, it's only accelerating. As Leon C. Megginson once said in paraphrasing Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

Over the years, Brian's studied how disruptive technology affects consumer behavior and decision-making. He's also researched how businesses react (or don’t) to these changes. What he learned is that barring a few exceptional instances of complete ignorance, organizations are open to adaptation if there’s indeed a case made for it and a path outlined to safely and cost-effectively navigate change.

Without vision or direction, businesses will always miss the true opportunity...

Here's what you need to know...

• Digital Darwinism is already here and it's only going to accelerate.
• Business as usual doesn't stand a chance.
• You're not too big to fail, you're not too small to succeed.

There is no shortage of technologies available to the legal community. The need for change is widely recognized, but many firms don’t yet have a framework with which to evaluate ‘solutions’.

According to Tanya Gleeson's "Legal Technology Buyer’s Guide", these three questions very quickly distill the merit of new technologies and the impact it will have on you, your firm and your clients:

1. Who really benefits?

The recent surge of automation and practice management solutions has meant that many support staff hours are saved... but what is the real value of this time saving? Is your firm measuring where these savings are occurring?

It's critical to understand who the time and cost savings are realised by; the two hours saved for a support person are significantly different to the two hours saved for a practitioner.

2. What is the problem being fixed?

Speak to your people. What are their frustrations, annoyances or pains experienced trying to achieve their goals? It can be as small as having to turn a light on or as big as understanding massive corporate structure in large scale M&A transactions. 

Solving a problem by looking into the business is far more effective than waiting to be approached by providers solving problems you never even knew about.

3. How will your client benefit?

The pressure for legal practices to remain competitive is higher than ever, which means as a legal management professional, you need to be the advocate for your client in the evaluation of a new technology.

It's a simple but often forgotten principle - how does technology add value to the advice you provide? Successful technology for lawyers will allow you to make better decisions that ultimately benefit your client. 

FSO has invested millions of dollars to date in the development and utilization of cutting edge CRM, operational and cloud based software and technology and we will continue to do so in our commitment to keep our clients ahead of the curve.

Our FSO Tech Center – a dedicated team lead by our CIO – Thomas Pategas provides comprehensive IT services. Whether your support needs are contract or on-demand based, FSO can provide professional onsite and offsite certified technicians to service all your Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 service needs.

Call me for a free evaluation of your current technologies, and ideas for new products and services to drive efficiency and profitability in the future.

Thanks to Brian Sollis and Tanya Gleeson for inspiring me today and to you, for listening,

Call me personally at 212.204.1193 and I’ll show you how to take technology headaches off your mind and plate, put the fun back into work and a smile on your face.

Have a GREAT DAY as I look forward to seeing all of you soon.

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

   
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Inspire ME Friday: Rise Up With A Happiness Recipe From Down Under

“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.”- Swedish Proverb

Good Morning Folks,

No matter what you do, making sure your happiness and well-being are intact are major priorities. If you’re stuck in a position, work long hours, or hate your job, this can be a difficult thing to maintain.

Here from Stylishoz.com is a millennial's guide to "5 Thing That You Need To Carry Along For Your Happiness"...

1. Stop comparing
All the problems arise when we start comparing ourselves to other people, that is just ridiculous. Stop doing that right now. Just be yourself. You do not have to impress anyone.

2. Stop holding on to the past
So what if you dated one wrong person that does not mean the entire human race is flawed  Let go off your past and move on if you want to be happy.

3. Accept compliments
When someone compliments you accept it and enjoy.

4. Do not spend time with wrong people
We usually drain our energy on people who deserve nothing. You need to stop doing that as soon as possible. Just wave them goodbye and chill. As they say its better to be alone then to be in a wrong company.

5. You do not have to explain everything to yourself
You do not have to. Everything happens for a reason. At the end of the day ewe eventually adjust.

In addition to these suggestions, Ariella Coombs blogging for Careerealism.com offers four more ways you can be happier at work today:

1. Eat Your Veggies
Constantly feeling down in the dumps? Maybe you need to eat more colorful foods! Researchers found that eating fruits and vegetables every day can actually increase happiness and overall well-being. For optimal results, eat seven servings of fruits and veggies each day.

2. Have Goals
How ambitious are you? Turns out, people who set high goals for themselves are happier than those with lower expectations. Make a list of things you want to accomplish – both short term and long term goals. It’s always good to have something to work toward!

3. Don’t Make Money Your First Priority
You know that saying, “Money can’t buy happiness.” Well, it’s true. According to U.S. News and World Report, seeking more money can actually make you less happy. Instead of focusing completely on finances, make sure you take the time to celebrate your own personal growth – What you’ve learned, who you’ve connected with, and how you’ve improved yourself.

4. Smile
You were late for work, got chewed out by the boss, and spilled coffee on your favorite white blouse. The last thing you want to do today is smile. However, studies show forcing a smile can actually make you genuinely happy. Not only that, but putting on a fake smile can help decrease stress. So, what’s not to smile about?

Thanks to Stylishoz.com and Careerealism.com  for your Friday dose of inspiration and to you, for listening.

So lets all join hands and be happy!

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, 
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
~~ Carl Bard

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