“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn
The simple fact is if you don’t develop yourself over time you’ll fall behind.
And, if all you do is develop yourself for your current position, you’ll soon find yourself well equipped for a job that no longer exists (to inelegantly paraphrase Eric Hoffer… ).
Create a development plan for your career/business – and yourself – that allows you to be excellent now, and prosper in the future.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excellence is doing the right things. Wisdom is doing them them at the right time. Practice is how both happen. * * * The little…
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. – Rabindranath Tagore Change is constant and inevitable. Difficulties only end when we do (i.e. we die). There will be joy, and pain….
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino Everybody notices the big successes and the epic failures, but few recognize that both are made of myriad choices and non-choices, things you do and don’t do. Though it might seem it, life is not a smattering of resolutions, it…
Where does the energy, and perseverance, to do important, meaningful things come from? The origin of that well is the soul. The details are the thoughts, habits and actions of one’s life. * * * The only way to do great things is to know what great things are to you – to your soul. When you know…
Stephen Covey (a wonderful author and teacher) says the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Wise counsel indeed. I want you consider that the Main Thing (in life) is: to know and do what you must, to get from where you are, to who you need to be. Did you…
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. – Hugh Downs It’s not what’s around you, but what’s within you.