Business Life Post

“The price of greatness is responsibility,” wrote Winston Churchill.
Are you willing to take the responsibility once you attain the
success you desire?
“The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted

by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what
one has in fact become,” wrote Ashley Montague. And the greatest
tragedy is to become less than your full potential, using less than
the abilities you have to work with.
Are you waiting for something to happen? Maybe you’re waiting for a
job offer, or a promotion. Perhaps you’re waiting until you get good
enough at a craft or skill. Or are you waiting for the inspiration of
creativity to strike your life?
It is up to you to take the actions and be responsible for their
consequences. “Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation;
every possession, a duty,” wrote John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Inspire yourself. Read books that will spurn you to action; talk to
people who have the vitality you admire. How would you like to lead
your life? And make the changes necessary to be like that. “There is
nothing permanent except change,” wrote Heraclitus.
What changes do you want to make? What are you waiting for?
Accomplishment-
What actions will take you closer to your goals? Decide upon the
steps and write them down. Review them until you feel comfortable
with those steps. Then repeat them at least once a day, crossing them
off as you accomplish them.
“I believe there is no escape from the rule that We must do many,
many little things to accomplish even just one big thing,” said James
Dupont. “This gives me patience when I need it most.”
The most rewarding accomplishments are those that take long to
achieve and present difficulties.
It is only through these difficulties that a person can rise above
the rest to be the unusual, the outspoken and the well-deserved. As
if building a kit, follow your own instructions. Decide your best
courses of action and achieve their benefits.
Whether the steps are small or large, make them achievable and then
do them. Don’t commit yourself to things that you never intend to do.
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just
sit there,” said Will Rogers. Don’t be paralyzed by inaction; rather
act upon your own convictions.
Set yourself up for rewards. Don’t give yourself goals that have no
feeling of satisfaction or no monetary rewards. If you want to be an

artist, be the best and learn from the best.
Don’t dwell on imperfections or the awkwardness of unpolished skills.
If you go into business, do it for profit or reinvestment. “In
business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident
of success. It is an essential condition of success. Because the
continued absence of profit itself spells failure,” said Justice
Brandeis.
Marchant wrote, “To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be
different.” Think of ways to achieve the best; formulas to increase
productivity or decrease overhead. Profit is your drive.
“Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise,” wrote
Peter Drucker. And, profitability is the core of any achievement
whether
financial or artistic.
Once you achieve your goals, think of ways to benefit others. “Money
getters
are the benefactors of our race,” said P.T. Barnum. “To them
we are indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our
academies, colleges and churches.”
How can you benefit humankind and still keep enough to fulfill your
own desires?

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