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Kentucky Fried Chicken

The real-life story of Colonel hardland Sanders who was disappointed umpteen times in his life and skill made dream come true late in his life is really inspiring.

He is a seventh grade dropped out who tried many ventures in life but tasted bitter every time. He started selling chicken at his age of 40 but his dream of a restaurant was turned down many times due to conflicts and wars.

Later he attempted to franchise his restaurant. His recipe got rejected 1,009 times before the final approval. And soon the secret recipe, “Kentucky Fried Chicken” became a huge hit worldwide. KFC was expanded globally and the company was sold for 2 million dollars and his face is still celebrated in the logos.

Moral: Have you stopped your attempts to a venture just because you were rejected or failed a few times? Can you even accept a failure of 1009 times? This story inspires everyone to try hard and believe in yourself until you see success despite how many times you have failed.

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What are the benefits of listening to a motivational speech ?

Althought we have mentioned various motivational speeches for you to listen to, do these help / it turns out that there are various benefits of listening to these speeches, such as :

1. Motivational speeches for students help in changing their perspective toward things. This can help you sail through the challenges life throws at you with a positive attitude.
2. If you are listening to a motivational speaker from your industry, it might help you gain new skills by listening to their innovative ideas. 
3. You can enhance your knowledge about different career fields by following motivational speakers of diverse fields, and being well informed always gives you an edge.
4. You might find something to relate to while listening to these best speeches for students. Listening to their struggles and how they moved past them can help you face your challenges head on. 

Qualities of the best motivational speakers

If you are confused about which motivational speeches for students you should listen to, check out these qualities in the motivational speakers to follow.

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How to reduce stress and be happy on the job

Have you any quick, simple suggestions for how I can reduce the stress I’m under at work ? I’m a manager in a large bank, and between company politics, customers who don’t pay back their loans, and may heavy workload, I find myself under what seems to be unrelenting stress and pressure at work. The stress is beginning to affect my work and family life, and any suggestions would be appreciated.

          Suggestions range from “get more sleep”  to ‘use transcendental meditation”. But in a recent book, Stress and the Manager, Dr.Karl Albrecht suggests the following to reduce stress on the job :

• Build rewarding, pleasant, cooperative relationship with as many of your colleagues and employees as you can.
• Don’t bite off more than you can chew. Take on only those assignments that you know you have time for.
• Build an especially effective and supportive relationship with your boss. Understand his or her problems and help the boss to understand yours.
• Negotiate realistic deadlines on important projects with your boss. Be prepared to propose deadlines yourself, rather than have them imposed.
• Study the future. Learn as much as you can about likely coming events, so that you can anticipate them well in advance.
• Find time every day for detachment and relaxation.
• Take a walk now and then to keep your body refreshed and alert.
• Make a noise survey of your office area and find ways to reduce unnecessary racket.
• Get away from your office from time to time for a change of scene and a change of mind.
• Reduce the amount of trivia to which you give your attention. Delegate routine paperwork to others whenever possible.
• Limit interruptions. Try to schedule certain periods of  “interuptability” each day and save other periods of time for your own purposes.
• Make sure you know how to delegate effectively.
• Don’t put off dealing with distasteful problems such as counseling a problem employee.
• Make a constructive “worry list” Write down the problems that concern you and beside each write down what you’re going to do about it, so that none of the problems will continue to bother you unconsciously.