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Expecting
Better Results…
by
Enrique Mora
Most
people are always expecting to achieve higher and better results in every
aspect of our lives all the time. It is Human Nature!
I
have always been very optimistic to this respect and can’t really
complain about my results so
far.
There
are some conditions to comply with in order to turn these results into
reality. I will try to describe them here:
- Expect
always the best. Many times we don’t get good results simply because
we don’t believe we can. Accept only the best, and the best will
come to you.
- Ask
for people’s help. Most people are generous and we all are eager to
help others, but many opportunities are lost simply because we don’t
ask for help.
- Be
ready to pay the price. The price of success comes in several
shapes… effort, dedication, study, but the Most Important is
Attitude! Having a good attitude helps enormously. You deserve success
only if you really think you deserve it.
- Be
open to change. Most people expect for others to change first. The
odds of that happening though are only 4%. Earl Nightingale and
William Penn Patrick used to say that Pareto was only partially right
when he established that we should be in the 20% of the people who get
80% of all the success. In reality, the 20% of that 20% (that is only
4 of every hundred people), get 64% of all the success.
In
two words: Hit first, be the one who takes the initiative and get more
than anyone else…
One
concept that has been sometimes proven at small scale, is that if all the
money in the world was put together on a pile and then evenly distributed
among the whole population, just a few years later would end up
concentrated in the very same hands that held it before. Meaning that
those who succeed, know how to succeed and those who do not will lose any richness
to the skilled.
Of
course the way to start the change is simply doing things differently. We
want different results, right? Even if you have already been
satisfied with your current status, if you really want to do better, you
need to make a few changes in your actions. It is all about the choices
you make from now on. Think about it! Today you are the result of what you
have done with yourself for the last few years. Ten years from now you
will be the sum of what you are now plus (or minus) what you do from now
on…
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