The Price Of Success Is Everything
People look to be successful in life. The typical expectation.is that we can and will be successful because we are willing to try hard. We work from sun up to sundown and we will be successful in all that we do. Although many wish that would be true, the fact is that it is not. The price one must be willing to pay is everything. But it’s not always everything people think it is.
I have had the pleasure of being both an employee and an employer. In this capacity, you get to sit on one side of the interview desk trying to convince someone else that you are a good fit for their company. On the other hand as an employer, you get to try to assess whether someone will be a good fit for your company. Most times people focus on the resume and past performance to determine potential success. I know I have and sadly, it seldom works.
Four Common fallacies
Let me begin by sharing with you four common fallacies that result from thinking success can come through only hard work;
- Don’t believe that future success is measured by what you have done before. Although the past is an indication of what you have been able to do, it is not the best indication of what you will do in the future. We must gauge our future success by our present performance. What you do today with the opportunity you have before you will determine how far you go.
- Any time you have fallen into a slump take the time to learn more about the business you are in so that you can reinvent the way you approach it and make adjustments. Change is inevitable for future success.
- Impatience due to working somewhere and not experiencing immediate success does not mean you are in the profession or career. It can mean you will need time to improve yourself to function at the level you believe you are capable of.
- If you focus too much on your problems, you won’t see your solutions. Every problem has a way to be fixed. The key is staying focused on your result so that you can see what that solution is. Most of the inventions we use today came about because a problem existed and people worked diligently to find a solution that worked. In time they did just that.