I welcome you to take note of the thoughts that I intend to share with my grandchildren.
About life, and how to grow to their maximum potential.
This can help you in your life or for you to help your kids or grand kids.
Remember that children are a blank page.
Both they and you always need to be working to grow to your Maximum Potential!
Growth is change.
If we don’t grow we are not really living. We become stunted in every area of our lives.
Growth is also a choice.
You may choose to grow or not.
But those who do not grow will not reach their full potential so choose a life of growth. The only way to improve the quality of your life is to improve yourself.
The only thing you can improve upon is yourself and when you do, everything else around you suddenly gets better.
Start growing today. You need to choose to start growing today because:
- Growth is not automatic
- Growth today will provide a better tomorrow
- Growth is your responsibility
Be Teachable:
The more you learn the more you know what you don’t know.
You are no longer growing if you are unteachable.
Focus on self-development, not self-fulfillment.
Fulfillment is a by-product of self-development, not the goal.
Never stay satisfied with current accomplishments.
Successful people do not rest on their laurels.
They know they have to keep on growing if they want to continue being successful.
You should never be complacent. Instead, move on to greater growth.
Be a continual learner. You should carve out the time to continually learn new things. You must keep improving yourself to build on what you learned yesterday.
Concentrate on a Few Major Themes. Keep your focus narrow. Give your time and energy only to the themes at the heart of your life.
Develop a Plan for Growth. You should develop a specific plan for growth.
Set an hour a day, five days a week.
Look for useful materials that fit in with your plan. Above all…. learn everyday.
Pay the Price.
Self-development requires self discipline. It can cost you time and effort. You cannot buy success with laziness.
Find a way to apply what you learn.
Knowledge is only useful when it leads to action.
Ask yourself where you can use the information you learned, what can you use it for and who else needs to know it.
Self Discipline: The Critical Denominator
This year can be your most successful ever if you are willing to practice more discipline than you have ever practiced before.
Discipline is about doing what is necessary, when it is necessary, whether we feel like it or not. Be self disciplined.
Where there’s a will, there’s a win!
Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do, so that you can do what you really want to do later.
It means paying the price now.
People must develop discipline in three areas:
- Disciplined thinking. Keep your mind active, and always think about the right things.
- Disciplined emotions. Either you master your emotions, or they will master you.
- Disciplined actions. Action separates the winners from the losers. When people act on what they must do on a regular basis great things happen.
How do we become more disciplined?
By strengthening our work habits.
School teaches us to do our homework when it ought to be done, whether we like it or not. Do something necessary but unpleasant every day to keep training yourself and learning to be more self disciplined.
On Ways to Improve Your Business
- What is working? Do more of it!
- What is not working to expectations? Do less of it.
- What could work? Start it.
- What is not working at all? Stop it!
Be Adaptable
Characteristics of people who are have adaptability:
They are highly teachable.
This means they are willing to learn and adapt to new things.
They are emotionally secure. They do not feel threatened by a new addition to the team, or a change in the way things are done.
They are creative. Really creative people don’t fear doing something different.
They are service-minded individuals. They focus less on themselves and think of the good of their clients.
Be Committed
There are no halfhearted champions!
Commitment usually is discovered in the midst of adversity.
Committed people don’t surrender easily.
Commitment does not depend on gifts or abilities.
Commitment is the result of choice, not circumstance.
Under promise and over deliver!
Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, and well as it has to be done.
Remember when you’re not working to improve, your competition is. They are improving themselves while you do nothing.
- Always give your best
- Practice like a champion
- Play like a champion
- Live like a champion!
