The difference between being an average leader and being a great leader is your willingness to learn from everything and everyone. I am amazed however, that so many leaders don’t listen to the people that oftentimes have the best information. These are the very people that you lead. It’s almost like a leader is more willing to pay large sums of money to outside companies to help grow their organization before they will listen to the people who generate the pulse of the organization.

I have found that one of the reasons leaders won’t listen to their own people is because they don’t feel like they should be confronted, or have an idea challenged by one of the ’subordinates’. To me this is just crazy.

For your organization to grow and succeed you need to encourage people to speak their mind even if it is controversial. Dudley Field Malone once said, ‘I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.’ If all you are looking for in your organization are ‘yes men’ you will find that underneath a seemingly successful exterior there is actually a rotting and disgruntled core.

Allowing people to speak their mind doesn’t mean that they will lose respect for your authority as a leader. Actually, quite the opposite will occur. People will begin to feel like they are a contributing factor to the organization and morale will actually increase. Not only that, but you will find that people will actually start to respect you more because you care about how they feel because you seek out their specific area of expertise. So don’t be afraid, let your people speak their minds.

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I read a quote the other day that got me thinking about how perceptions have a lot to do with your happiness and satisfaction in life. I will share the quote with you in just a bit but first, think about how your own perceptions affect your life. Do you perceive things with a negative connotation or do you perceive things with a positive connotation?

The quote that I saw was from Tom Wilson who said, ‘You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.’ You see, there will always be thorns in life and there will always be roses, but the way you perceive each life situation will dictate your happiness and the level of success that you will attain.

As an example, I will tell you about a friend of mine. Every time I talk to them they always have something negative to say. Even when something great is happening in their life they always seem to perceive the situation negatively. Because of this, they aren’t really happy in life. It’s not that they hate life or anything, it’s just that they perceive more thorns than roses.

What about in your life? Do you see thorns in the majority of your life or do you see roses? If you can learn to see the roses among the thorns you will find that life becomes so much better and you will begin to experience a level of happiness that you may have never experienced before. You only have one life to live so you might as well live it to its fullest and experience life with as much happiness as possible.

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Have you ever made an assumption about something only to find out that you were totally wrong? Your assumptions in life could be stopping you from experiencing the best that life has to offer. By automatically assuming something you are closing off potential opportunities for happiness and success in your life.

John Sales once said, ‘Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.’ Have you noticed that most of the time, assumptions have a negative connotation? Very rarely do people assume the best about another person, the economy, the weather, their finances, their jobs, and so on. By always choosing to assume the negative about things, you are willing to allow incredible opportunities to walk right past you to never be seen again.

Instead of assuming, try doing a little investigation into the subject at hand. Give things a chance instead of just going into something with a negative attitude and assuming the worst about it. You never know if the very thing that you assume will never work could be just the thing that propels your life into great success and happiness.

There will always be an element of risk in trying something new or giving something a chance, but think about the alternative. If you always assume the negative then you risk never having anything successful in life happen to you and therefore stop yourself from having great happiness. I would rather try a few things and get them wrong then to never try anything at all. If you do nothing you will have nothing.

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Change is one of the fundamental keys to having a better life. Show me someone who won’t change their ways and I will show you someone who will live a mediocre life at best. Ghandi once said something that puts it into perspective. He said, ‘You must be the change you wish to see in the world.’

Now maybe you don’t want to change the world but you want to change your life. You must be the change you wish to see in your life. To have a better life you can’t just wait around for everything else around you to change. If you are not in control of your life, your life will be in control of you, and the circumstances of life usually aren’t very nice.

So what is it that you need to change about yourself so that you can have the better life that you dream of? Are there certain habits or routines that you need to break and create better ones in their place? What things do you need to learn and educate yourself with so that you can handle the change that will come with a better life?

Your willingness to change is a very important part of you being able to have a better life. With each new level of success in your life you will have to learn a new set of success principles. Change will always be necessary for as long as you want to make your life better and more successful. So just make the decision right now that you will be willing to change whatever is necessary without loosing your integrity. If you do, a better life is sure to come for you.

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Having a better life is a great goal, but you should be properly prepared for what lies ahead. So many people want their life to get better but don’t realize that, at times, it won’t be a comfortable journey. You may be experiencing that right now.

Have you ever noticed that almost as soon as you do something which will create a better life for you, all kinds of opposition happen? Don’t worry; you are not doing anything wrong. The reason that this is happening is because you are creating change in your life.

Arnold Bennett once said, ‘Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.’ This is way most people never succeed in having a better life. They don’t like the drawbacks and discomforts associated with change. So instead, they just choose to live a life less than they know they could live because they are comfortable where they are.

Think about it, if a better life was just as easy as desiring it, and it required nothing else, then everyone would have a great life. But a better life isn’t the easiest thing to achieve, that’s what makes it so great. Most people are not willing to make the necessary changes and adjustments to make their life better. They think that they can keep doing exactly what they are doing and make their life better. This is the furthest thing from the truth.

You were born to have a better life than you currently have, even if you feel like life is pretty good right now. Be willing to change and grow so that you can learn how to have a better life and live your life to its fullest potential.

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To have a better life you have to be proactive in everything you do. You can make goals, action plans, speak affirmations over your life, and read as many books as you like, but none of that will do you any good if you don’t actually DO something. Without action there will be no success.

A better life will come to you as soon as you begin to line your actions up with your plans. Aesop once said, ‘It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.’ Or in the case of having a better life, it’s easy to make your life look great from the outside but until you actually do the work, you will never have the life that you want.

How many books have you read, how many goals have you made, and how many affirmations have you said but still haven’t found the better life that you are looking for? Don’t get me wrong, all of those things are great and necessary but you are leaving out the key ingredient.

Think back to when you were learning to drive a car. You probably had to pass a theory test before you were ever able to drive. In theory, you knew everything there was know about how to drive a car but you never actually got behind the wheel to make it happen. Having a better life works a lot like that. You may have all the theory down but without the action to back it up you simply look like you know what you are talking about.

Don’t just talk about a better life, have a better life by doing the things necessary to get there.

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I am often given a blank stare when someone asks me why is it that they haven’t achieved what they want to in life, and I reply, ‘Because you don’t believe it can happen!’ Then they go into this long explanation telling me they really do want it and all that stuff. But you see, there is a BIG difference between wanting something and actually believing that you will get it.

For instance if you ask someone if they want a million dollars you will get a resounding ‘YES’, but if you ask them if they believe that they will ever have a millions dollars you will get all kinds of doubt-filled answers. Wanting something isn’t good enough; you HAVE to believe that you can get it!

David Schwartz once said, ‘Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.’

Once you actually believe that you can and will have something, your mind begins to find and formulate ways to achieve it. You see, once you truly believe you can have something the doubts and what-ifs aren’t an issue anymore. It’s no longer ‘if’ you can have it but ‘how’ can I get it. As soon as you start asking yourself the right questions like ‘what’s the best way to achieve it’ and ‘how do I overcome any obstacles that I may face’, you will formulate a path for success. From now, on don’t just want something in life, begin to truly believe that you are able to achieve it and find the way to get it.

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Have you ever noticed that people who always seem to be focused on the worst case scenario seem to attract the worst case scenarios? Likewise, people who always focus on the positive things in life seem to attract success-related things to them even when nothing else seems to be going well!

If the truth be told it’s not always the case that you attract what you focus on, but rather, that you are drawn to what you are focused on. Bo Bennett wrote, ‘While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.’

Let me try to explain this quote a little better. Have you ever seen a horse with those eye blinders on? Blinders are strapped onto the horse’s head and there is a flap on either side that comes up and blocks his view. It actually blocks out all of the peripheral things around him and makes him see only what’s in front of him. This is exactly how it works in your own life. If you are focused on negative things, you have put blinders on your eyes so that, even if something great is going on right next to you, you are not able to see it because the only thing that you are focused on is the negative stuff.

The opposite is true if you focus on the positives of life. There may be bad things happening all around you, but people will be amazed at how you always seem to have great things happening to you in spite of them. The reason is because you are not focused on the bad things, you are only focused on the good things. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you live in denial, but you do have a choice on what you focus on. Deal with the negatives that you have to deal with but don’t let it loose your focus on the positives.

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At this very moment you have a certain attitude as you read this. Your attitude could be bad, good, indifferent, melancholy, excited, and so on. Every second that you are awake you are experiencing some type of attitude. So, if you constantly have an attitude operating in your life, then you had better believe that your attitude matters.

There is a great quote by Charles Swindoll who said, ‘The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company …a church …a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past …we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude …I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you …we are in charge of our attitudes.’

So the question to ask yourself is, ‘How are you reacting to the things that are going on in your life?’ Are the circumstances in your life controlling your attitude or are you in control of your attitude? Your attitude will affect every outcome in your life. Make a decision that you will control your attitude so that you are not a slave to all the myriad of circumstances that bombard you every day.

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A book maker’s job isn’t easy, it’s a world of jargon & calculations and if you want a job with a betting company you would benefit from knowing as much as you can in advance.
In the simplest of terms, betting is placing money on the likelihood of an event taking place. If that event happens you get your money back plus winnings related to both your original stake and how likely the book maker thought the event was. If you are correct you win & if you are wrong you lose.

There are experts working at the book makers who job it is to work how likely any event is to happen. The less likely the event is the more anyone who bets on that occurrence has the chance to win if it happens. The process behind choosing these odds is complex, relying on form, betting that has already taken place & the price being offered by rival firms.

While the basics behind betting are straightforward there are number of more complicated bets which can be placed by gamblers, each with their own name and intricacies.

The easiest of these more complicated bets to understand are singles, doubles & trebles. As the name implies these bets are where one bet is made on a number of events occurring. One in a single, two in a double and so on. For the bet to be successful each of the events has to occur. The benefit of these types of bets is that as each bet is successful the money wagered on the next event is the money won from the previous winning bet.

When more than 3 events are part of the bet they become known as Four Fold Accumulators, Five Fold Accumulators etc. With every additional event added to the accumulator the event becomes statistically less likely but the potential rewards for being correct get significantly higher. For those hoping to win major money from gambling accumulators are more appealing than bets on unlikely events, as each of the bet individual bets might not be that unlikely, but collectively are unlikely.

There are a number of other interestingly named combination bets such as a Trixie. This consists of 4 bets involving 3 selections in different events. The bet includes 3 doubles and 1 treble. At Least 2 selections must be correct for a gambler to collect winnings.

A Patent works on a similar principle and is made up of 7 bets with 3 selections in different events. The bet includes a single bet on each selection, plus 3 doubles and 1 treble. Just one successful selection provides winnings. There are a large number of bets like this each with a different number of bets, selections & outcomes.

In a betting shop someone might also place a forecast bet where they predict the first and second in a horse or greyhound race. A Tricast works in a similar manner but relies on they gambler predicting the first three past the post.

This is just a taster of some of the more intricate betting opportunity betting companies offer. If you are considering applying for a betting job its good to have a good understanding of the different kinds of bets.

Charlie Young writes for Pentasia the world’s leading recruitment website for eGaming Jobs If you are interested in working for an online casino or in a betting job please visit Pentasia for more information.