15 Phrases You'll Never Hear Successful People Say

                                                        " Good pieces of advice are to be kept in your mind to further   
                                                                                                          develop  yourself to the best." 

                      

            I normally don't post any articles from a website in my blog, but write my own ones. However, absorbing, thought-provoking and educating, an article titled "You'll Never Hear Successful People Say These 15 Phrases" published on October 27, 2014 at www.entrepreneur.com brings about my thought to do it once so that my fellow men can benefit from it. Hence, in the following article, you will read about the 15 phrases that successful people will never say. Enjoy!

1. "We can't do that."

One thing that makes people and companies successful is the ability to make solving their customers’ problems and demands their main priority. If a need arises repeatedly, the most successful people learn how to solve it as quickly as they can.

2. "I don't know how."

Instead of automatically shutting down solution-finding, successful people learn what they can in order to succeed in a project or in their career. For example, you would never see a truly successful international business consultant who travels to Italy multiple times per year refusing to learn Italian.

3. "I don’t know what that is."

Pleading ignorance doesn’t make the problem go away. It just makes the asker find someone who is able to work with them to solve the problem. While’s it’s always good to be honest with those you interact with, finishing this phrase with “but I’ll find out” is a surefire way to become more successful.

4. "I did everything on my own."

The best people know to surround themselves with others who are smart, savvy and as dedicated as they are. What makes this work is always giving credit where it’s due, as due credit to you will always come back in hand. Recognize those that have helped you or made an impact and you’ll continue to earn success and recognition yourself.

5. "That's too early."

You would never hear Benjamin Franklin or someone such as Steve Jobs say, “that is too early for me to be there.” If there is a networking meeting, project launch or interview opportunity at the very beginning of the day, the most successful people do what it takes to be there. Part of being successful is being at the right place at the right time, no matter if you’re a morning bird or night owl.

6. "That’s too late."

Along the same lines, if you’re asked to a 9 p.m. dinner by a potential business partner, and you can make it, definitely go. You may be tired the next day, but the connections you will make during a small dinner or after-hours meeting can make all the difference when it comes to your career or next project.

7. "It's too bad we couldn't work together."

Truly hitting it off with someone can be a rare occurrence, but if you truly connect with someone and want to work with them, find a way to make it work. Finding people that you really enjoy communicating with don’t come along too often, so whether it’s a case study or a new business, successful people know that working with those who truly align with your personality and interests are the path to true success.

8. "Let's catch up sometime."

Many times, this phrase is said as filler, without any true follow up. Successful people know that if they really want to catch up with someone, they follow up to make it happen. This also builds on the idea that the most successful people have worked hard to build genuine connections and relationships within their network, without any hidden agenda. Nurturing your network means being thoughtful of others, while keeping your relationships with them on top of your mind.

9. "I'm sorry, I'm too busy."

If an opportunity comes their way, successful people do what it takes to make it happen. Sure, this might mean longer hours occasionally, but if you want something to work, that is what it takes. After all, according to Lao-Tzu: "Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’”

10. "That was all my idea."

Again, as mentioned in number four, the most successful people spread the wealth when it comes to doling out praise from a successful project. No idea is truly one’s own -- it’s a sum of their experiences from interacting and building off of collaborative ideas with a team. Doling out praise and encouragement is a crucial part of building a successful company and culture.

11. "I never read books."

Tom Corley of Rich Habits found that rich people read (and listen to) books at a much higher rate than poor people: “63 percent of wealthy parents make their children read two or more non-fiction books a month vs. 3 percent of poor.” Also, “63 percent of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5 percent of poor people.” Reading non-fiction (as well as fiction) can help reduce stress, enhance creativity and boost your memory.

12. "I'm not good enough."

Part of being successful is having a high sense of self-worth. Being yourself is one trait that promises success in business and your personal life. Follow your true interests. What you would do in your life if you didn’t need money?

13. "It's OK." (over and over)

Successful people know when to walk away and stop taking excuses from others. If there is a bottleneck and something (or someone) is preventing you from completing a project on time, build up your business, or move you forward in your goals, then it’s time to set boundaries and decide to limit your involvement.

14. "If our competitors don't have it, then we don't need it."

Copying competitors is one of the many possible deaths for most companies. True innovation comes from the flip side: figuring out what competitors aren’t doing and fill that niche to answer a need in the industry.

15. "Time off is for suckers."

True success should be seen as a well-rounded approach, one with vacations, weekends with friends and family and hours of downtime on the weekdays. While workload varies for everyone at times, take vacation can make you better at your job.

Sometimes to get to where you want to be, the best and easiest thing to do is to simply follow the examples that others set for you.

What phrases are you going to eliminate from your day-to-day conversations and thinking?

The Pearl in the Sky at Sunset

Holding a Canon Power Shot SX510 HS Wi-fi, with a Zoom Lens 30*IS (4.3-129.0mm 1:3.4-5.8) and containing FCC ID: AZD219 and IC: 498J-219, ready in my hand, I could successfully capture the greatest view of all while taking a road trip to the suburb of Phnom Penh. If not fast enough, I would not have been able to take shots of these arresting photos owing to the sad fact that the sun was sinking so fast to lurk behind the horizon, as if it hurried to meet his long-lost mom. The brightly clear, blue sky turned golden tinged with grey, before letting the stygian darkness take over the place. The view at sunset, albeit only in the blink of an eye, was spectacularly breathtaking, electrifying us, my friends and me, with its glory. 

However I describe its heavenly, totally unbelievable beauty, I still could not help you figure the images in your brain as vividly as when you see them through your own eyes, and hence allow me to take this opportunity to post a few photos below for you to see. I hope these images will sit in your eyeballs as they did to mine. HERE YOU GO!!!

I'd like to name this photo "The Glory of Cambodian Sunset".

I name it "The Reflection"

"Roadmap to University Success", the Life-changing Conference

Guest Speakers and Panelists (Front row)

Spellbinding, praiseworthy,  inspiring, and educational conference, Roadmap to University Success, is a howling success.

"Discovering Your Own Passion and Experience Sharing (by awe-inspiring guest-speakers and panelists)" are the main themes of the whole conference, accompanied by barnstorming performances ( A song performance, beat-boxing, and mini-debate) by a group of volunteers of the event planners, Our Own Project (OOP) and Soiree Entertainment.

It is impossible to imagine how   meritorious the conference was by just listening to the description of it from mouths of other people who have attended the event. Indeed, the event was intangible, enriched by exhilaration, great spirit, and inspiration.

Mr. Choup Mithona, the project leader, was doing a presentation about Discovering Passion

The conference was held for the whole afternoon of July 3, 2014 at Cambodia-Korea Cooperation Center (CKCC). The estimated number of people was well over 600, about two-thirds of which were high school students. The intent of this event was to help clear the road for students to walk on to reach their destination rather than to take risk walking on a path without knowing where it would lead them to. It helped prepare students for their upcoming university life and challenges they would face.

As had been anticipated, the conference produced the most fruitful result, on all participants' faces and in their eyes saw a strong determination and a zeal to achieve success. A dozen of questions were asked to the panelists hoping to get them answered.

 Mr. Casey Barnett, President of CamEd Business School, talking about Discover Your Own Passion

 One of the participants were asking questions to the panelists

A Song Performance

Controls of Groundwater Floodwave Propagation in Gravelly Floodplain

Journal Article Summary 

 

In their journal article titled “Controls of Groundwater Floodwave Propagation in Gravelly Floodplain, Cloutier et al. (2014) are interested in the relationship between the surface water and groundwater in the floodplain of the Matane River, which is located in eastern Canada and which drains a 1678 square kilometer basin. As described in the article, the mean annual discharge of the stream, collected from the Matane gauging station, is 39 m³ per second, with the highest discharge in May. In the research study, the author proposed two feasible scenarios of driving mechanisms of the rise of groundwater which ultimately causes flood to occur, and these two scenarios are: (1) complete saturation of subsurface strata due to precipitation over a long period of time and (2) river stage fluctuation. Each scenario was analyzed, and the result showed that river stage fluctuation had stronger effect on the rising of groundwater level. 

For data collection, eleven piezometers were installed at the study site for 173 days in the summer and fall of 2011 (from 21 June to 12 December 2011) in order to examine the hydraulic heads of the floodplain, the ground water flows, and stream outflows where there is an occurrence of groundwater exfiltration. The authors also mention that there are evidences of the success of using the arrays of piezometers for documenting the interactions between surface water and groundwater.  For the first 79 days, from 21 June to 7 September, eight of the eleven piezometers were used accompanied by transducers (Hobo U20-001) to automatically record the water level at every 15 minutes. Then, starting from September 7 onwards, three more pressure transducers were added to the rest of piezometers, D139, D21, and D 196 (Cloutier et al., 2014). At upstream and downstream of the experimental site, two river stage gauges were installed on the river bed with an intent to monitor water levels in the river at every 15 minutes for the whole of the study period.  Magellan ProMak III differential GPS was used to measure the locations of piezometers, a LIDAR survey to obtain a topographic map, and a tipping bucket pluviometer to measure the rainfall data (Cloutier et al., 2014).

At the piezometer stations and river station gauge upstream (RSGup), the water levels and river stages were higher than those of stations, and hence there is no problem with time series dat. However, at the river station gauge downstream (RCGdn), the rivers stages occasionally dropped below the data logger, resulting in discontinuous time series. To deal with this, the authors decided to use the RSGdn time series only from 5 to 12 September. Alternatively, cross-correlation analyses, performed with the PAST software, were adopted to determine the time lags between time series of the river stages and the water level at the piezometers (Cloutier et al., 2014). In addition, this method was also used to obtain the information concerning the strength of the input-output relationships as well as the time lags between the processes. Owing to the small distance between the two river gauges, no significant lag between RSGup and RSGdn was account for.

The results from the study show that the relationships between the water level in the river and ground water is much stronger than that between precipitation and groundwater due to the fact that the input from precipitation has been hugely reduced by the unsaturated zone which are able to store a large amount of water. It is also interpreted that the amplitude of groundwater fluctuation is disproportional to the distance from the river (Cloutier et al. 2014), meaning that the further the distance from the river, the lower the amplitude of the groundwater fluctuations. In addition, the result also suggests that “fluctuations of hydraulic head correspond to the propagation of groundwater floodwave throughout the floodplain” (Cloutier et al., 2014).

The aforementioned research study, I believe, is essential for later study about surface water-groundwater interaction, especially in the state of Florida where ground water is known to be the indispensable source of drinking water and other usage, and in which there is a strong connection between surface water and groundwater. According to Florida Department of Environmental Protection (2013), in the state of Florida, 90 percent of its population depends on groundwater for drinking water. In their article, Winter et al. (1998) wrote that almost all, if not all, of surface-water features such as streams, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, estuaries, and the like has interactions with underground water, and often times surface-water bodies gain water from the groundwater and vice versa, which implies that they are closely related to each other and if one is polluted or affected, the other will also be affected. Therefore, I think that the study by Clotier et al. (2014) is useful and can be used as a case study in Florida where a strong connection between surface and groundwater is present. More importantly, understanding the surface water-groundwater interaction helps water engineers, hydraulic engineers, water resource managers, as well as other stakeholders in water-related policy forming effectively manage the local water resource and protect the water resource. 

References

Cloutier, A. C., Bélanger, B. T, and Larocque, M. (2014). “Controls of groundwater floodwave propagation in a gravelly floodplain.” Journal of hydrology. 511(2014) 423-431. Retrieved on 03/16/2014 from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169414001115

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (2014). Retrieved on 03/16/2014 from http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/groundwater/whatis.htm

Winter, C. T., Harvey. W. J., Franke, L. O., and Alley, William, M. W. (1998). Groundwater and surface Water A Single Resource. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1139. Denver, Colorado. Retrieved on 03/16/2014 from http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1139/pdf/circ1139.pdf

 

My Message to Global UGRADers from all around the Globe "One Thing I Wish to Have Brought with me to the U.S"

First of all, I would like to welcome and congratulate, from Cambodia, all new members of the Global UGRAD family—You’re all amazing. Having a chance to pursue your study abroad is an exciting experience. However, for most of you, if not all, it is also a mixed feeling between excitement and chaos. You may feel a bit nervous about what you should do to overcome challenges you will face during your stay in a new environment. Some of you may have a very short time to be well prepared prior to your departure. BUT don’t worry, everything will be okay. What you have to do before leaving is to think what you should bring with you. It can be what you really need to use and which cannot be found elsewhere besides in your home country or what is used as a symbol of your country to show your international friends—you will make a lot of friends there.

To me, there is one thing I wish to have brought with me to the U.S so that my American as well as international friends could try it. Can you guess what it is? Well, it is Prohok, a Cambodian prominently common food for Cambodian people. Prohok is a kind of food made from fish, mostly small fish, mixed with salt and kept untouched for a few months in the jar before it becomes Prohok. It is used to cook multiple different foods. Should you have a chance to visit Cambodia, it is a good idea to try it to know how it tastes. If I had brought it, I would be able to cook some real Cambodian foods for my friends so that they know how Cambodian foods look like, how they smells, and how tasty they are. I wish I could rewind the time backward to the time I was in the U.S.

Therefore, if you have something to share with other people, make sure that you have it in your suitcase. It is your chance to represent your country on the global stage, you are an AMBASSADOR of your country.  

"Rean Tver~Ey", Radio Talk Show

A Thank You Post by FUSAAC (Obtained from https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=670496913032859&set=pb.185526634863225.-2207520000.1405772974.&type=1&theater)

       "Rean Tver~Ey", in English "Why do We Learn? or "What We Do after Learning?", is a radio talk show organized by the Fulbright and Undergraduate State Alumni Association of Cambodia (FUSACC), with a strong support from the U.S Embassy in Phnom Penh. The main objective of this radio talk show is to help youths choose a career at their best. By the phrase "choose a career at their best", FUSACC intends to help youths to make a right decision in choosing majors in college so that they are able to find jobs they are passionate about and aspire to do.

       There are eight main contributors of this program, all of which are Ms. Neang Sophina (Project Coordinator), Ms. Hy Dalin (Project Leader), Ms. Nget Rachana (Online Marketing Team Leader),  Mr. Sok Eng (Production Team Leader), Ms. Leng Chorlida (Radio Presenter/MC), Mr. Uk Sovannara (Radio Presenter/MC), Ms. Veng Molika (Speaker/Mentor Team Leader), and Mr. Lang Mesa (Advisor). Besides, there are also many volunteers who play an active role in making this project possible.

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