I read this quote a while ago and its been stuck in my head ever since. When I came across it for first time, I was skeptical about it but as time passed by and I thought about it and now I believe it makes perfect sense.
What is Success and Failure? Its all about perspective. Lets say, you run a marketing campaign and you don't get the results you expected and to someone looking at it from outside it might appear as a "failure." But to you, its learning experience because now you know what didn't work, now you know what NOT to do and how NOT to do it. So even though the campaign did not gave results you expected, it gave you more experience and made you better.
So, as long as we learn from our failures and disappointments and next time we do a better job resulting in better results, how can that experience be a failure, its can only be Feedback.
Michael Jordon once said, "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why i succeed."
Life doesn't teach us as we are taught in school. In school, if you are wrong or fail its catastrophic and you are looked down upon. We have to be correct and right most of the time if we are to survive the school.
But life pushes us, teases us, when we fail at something, its life telling us that "hey, this is an opportunity to learn, I want you to learn from this failure, so you can become better for the great opportunity I am going to bring for you in the future, so learn now."
So, don't be discouraged with failure, its only feedback, its there to teach you, so you get better and better. As long as you learn from the failure and improve yourself, that failure is not a failure, its a success because it has improved you as a person. Now you are better than where you were before, in terms of experience and knowledge.
"Success is the result of good decisions, good decisions are results of experience, and experience is the result of bad decisions." Tony Robbins
Be True to yourself?
You are thinking, I am true to myself, what do you mean, Be True to yourself?
Mother Teresa did not help people because she thought that is what she SHOULD do; She did what she did because she WANTED to do it. She did not do it to please others or did it so people would praise her and regard her highly. Helping others made her happy, it filled her heart with joy and thats why she did it. Every great humanitarian, artist, scientist, philosopher etc does what he/she does because it makes them happy, as simple as that.
So, what do I mean when I say, "Be True to yourself"? What I mean is that , do not pretend or change who you are in order to please others. Do not act a certain way only because you think acting that way would make others like you and would please them.
"What other people think is only what other people think. They are just as confused as your are, just as insecure, just as frightened, just as likely to make mistakes, be envious, jealous, or self deceiving and therefore, just as likely to distort what they hear and see." David Viscott
Always, remember you can not fake it long enough, sooner or later you will be caught and then your reputation will be shot down much more than what it would be if you were being yourself. So, why pretend or change ourselves merely so that others would like us.
God has made each and every one of us different, we all have special qualities that make us unique, different, vibrant, interesting. We have our own paths and that path can only be traveled if you are true to yourself, acknowledge your likes and dislikes, your strengths and weaknesses. Our differences is what makes the world interesting, attractive and colorful like a jar of Jelly Beans. Imagine if everyone was exactly the same, liked same things, the world would be such a boring place.
So, go out there, be yourself, express yourself, live your life. Remember, its your life and when you are 80 you do not want to look back and see that all those years you had lived someone else's life, wasted those precious years trying to make others happy when that time could have been spent making yourself HAPPY.
You are born to be UNIQUE and go out there and be UNIQUE.
Mother Teresa did not help people because she thought that is what she SHOULD do; She did what she did because she WANTED to do it. She did not do it to please others or did it so people would praise her and regard her highly. Helping others made her happy, it filled her heart with joy and thats why she did it. Every great humanitarian, artist, scientist, philosopher etc does what he/she does because it makes them happy, as simple as that.
So, what do I mean when I say, "Be True to yourself"? What I mean is that , do not pretend or change who you are in order to please others. Do not act a certain way only because you think acting that way would make others like you and would please them.
"What other people think is only what other people think. They are just as confused as your are, just as insecure, just as frightened, just as likely to make mistakes, be envious, jealous, or self deceiving and therefore, just as likely to distort what they hear and see." David Viscott
Always, remember you can not fake it long enough, sooner or later you will be caught and then your reputation will be shot down much more than what it would be if you were being yourself. So, why pretend or change ourselves merely so that others would like us.
God has made each and every one of us different, we all have special qualities that make us unique, different, vibrant, interesting. We have our own paths and that path can only be traveled if you are true to yourself, acknowledge your likes and dislikes, your strengths and weaknesses. Our differences is what makes the world interesting, attractive and colorful like a jar of Jelly Beans. Imagine if everyone was exactly the same, liked same things, the world would be such a boring place.
So, go out there, be yourself, express yourself, live your life. Remember, its your life and when you are 80 you do not want to look back and see that all those years you had lived someone else's life, wasted those precious years trying to make others happy when that time could have been spent making yourself HAPPY.
You are born to be UNIQUE and go out there and be UNIQUE.
CEO Thinks: Which is better: Two Average Employees or One Driven Employee?
You are thinking of course One Driven and Motivated employee is better than two average employees, its a no brainer.
But what you are not realizing is that when you say this,you are disregarding the fact that those two employees work for you and letting them go is not an easy proposition because even though they are average, they still fulfill their job functions and do the job they are hired for. So, how can you let them go?
Consider the following example:
You have two employees performing two different job functions:
Employee A: He performs an average job, non motivated but keeps the status-quo. He is not passionate about what he is doing but fulfills his assigned duties, nothing less, nothing more. He doesn't show any interest if there is other areas he wants to move or is passionate about. He is your 9 thru 5 ideal employee.
Employee B: He also performs an average job at his current position, not motivated about what he is doing and fulfills his job duties to a satisfactory level. BUT he is very passionate about another business area, the job functions currently performed by Employee A.
During his free time, outside the company, Employee B does reads a lot about the topics related to Employee A's job functionality, he performs those activities outside work and is clearly very good at it. He is passionate about the work, loves it and would be very good at it.
Now, the question is, should CEO keep both Employee's at their current positions and let them perform Average work OR should the CEO get rid of Employee A, who clearly is unmotivated and will not go the extra mile for the company and move Employee B to his position, who will perform exceptionally because he loves it.
What do you think?
But what you are not realizing is that when you say this,you are disregarding the fact that those two employees work for you and letting them go is not an easy proposition because even though they are average, they still fulfill their job functions and do the job they are hired for. So, how can you let them go?
Consider the following example:
You have two employees performing two different job functions:
Employee A: He performs an average job, non motivated but keeps the status-quo. He is not passionate about what he is doing but fulfills his assigned duties, nothing less, nothing more. He doesn't show any interest if there is other areas he wants to move or is passionate about. He is your 9 thru 5 ideal employee.
Employee B: He also performs an average job at his current position, not motivated about what he is doing and fulfills his job duties to a satisfactory level. BUT he is very passionate about another business area, the job functions currently performed by Employee A.
During his free time, outside the company, Employee B does reads a lot about the topics related to Employee A's job functionality, he performs those activities outside work and is clearly very good at it. He is passionate about the work, loves it and would be very good at it.
Now, the question is, should CEO keep both Employee's at their current positions and let them perform Average work OR should the CEO get rid of Employee A, who clearly is unmotivated and will not go the extra mile for the company and move Employee B to his position, who will perform exceptionally because he loves it.
What do you think?