Henry Miller
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
These six principles and sets of questions could have a high impact on your life and business performance. Dare you ask these questions of yourself?
1. Do you have the capacity to be completely honest with yourself? If you don’t, you’re doomed. Can you think about your own thinking and recognize when you are rationalizing your behavior rather than being an unbiased referee of your motives? The whole truth will set you free to accomplish your noblest goals!
2. Acceptance of people, places and things as they are, not as you would have them, opens deeper understanding of how the world works. Acceptance is not advocacy or approval. Do other people and situations disturb you often? Do you fret about injustice, politics, culture shift or coworkers? Focus on only those things over which you have control and leave the rest to divine providence. Try to accept this axiom: “Whenever I am disturbed, there is something wrong with me!” A very tall order, I know, but think about it. You are not the CEO of the universe! Temporary, justifiable anger is understandable and acceptable but holding grudges or harboring resentments is not. Revenge is never an acceptable motive because it is subjective and totally self-serving. Remaining angry at a competitor, customer, supplier or anyone else is bad business. You can’t change them but they sure are affecting your thoughts and attitudes, aren’t they? Don’t let them. Forgive them and let go or be dragged!
3. Script and build better character traits based on service to others instead of self enrichment. Is your character based on how good you look or how good you are? Can you believe that serving others is the only way to serve your own best interests?
4. Know what you’re great at! Do you recognize what your unique, best-in-class talent is? What do you love to do? What tickles your creative imagination? About what do people compliment you the most? That is probably your key to a rich and happy life!
5. Get excited about what you know you can accomplish and apply the necessary discipline to keep yourself accountable for victories and defeats. Can you pull away from distractions and apply yourself to important work? Can you tell yourself the truth about whether you’re procrastinating or moving ahead? Fact: procrastination is nothing but sloth in five syllables! You’ve got to get excited enough to look forward to working. It’s called work for a reason but it will be fun if it’s what you’re best at!
6. Allow self-fulfilling momentum to kick in and turn a labor of love into labor you love. The brass ring of career success is looking forward to Mondays. Do you love your job? Is your work exciting, fulfilling and fun? Are you serving and making your customers better off?
They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway
Fr. Benedict Groeschel after a near fatal accident.
“I used to be a liberal, if liberal means concern for the other guy,” Father Groeschel said. “Now I consider myself a conservative-liberal-traditional-radical-confused person.”
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