December 26, 2017

"New Year Preparing" Part IV: What Successful People Know - Or Success is the Journey not the Destination.

“New Year Preparing”

cji
12/27/17

Gathering up all the nuts
some making a new den
wanting to be prepared
while men/women kids
to the mall watch movies
playing video games
new gadgets finding
spending money on cards
wasting time on temporal
forgetting the intangible
 new year preparing /?/
unlike the beasts of field
preparing not for a new year!

Copyright © 2017 – cji


These articles are from a series published in the Daily Record, Rochester NY back in the 70’s – c/ork


Part IV:  What Successful People Know - Or Success is the Journey not the Destination.

1.  The progressive realization of personal worthwhile predetermined goals.  (This is taken from Paul J. Meyer on the definition of success.)

2.  Acceptance of self and others.  Have to feel comfortable about self.  Awareness of self and other - have courage to do what needs to be done, not always what you want to do when self and others are involved.  Winston Churchill during WWII said, "Sometimes our best is not good enough, sometimes we just have to do what needs to be done."

3.  Have the ability to postpone pleasure, indefinitely if necessary for the good of all.  Most of our society wants to know the rewards and live with incentive motivation, successful people know this is a false illusion of what life is really all about, any thing worth while requires effort to have or achieve. 

4.  Need to change self to alter things.  To grow to become more than they currently are in all the areas of their lives.  This is also known as attitude motivation.

5.  Need to have challenges to make them help them grow, which means that they need to know who they are and where they are; requires self evaluation.

6.  They desire and seek after a variety of growth experiences, in all the areas of their life's, thus they have tangible and intangible goals in all six areas for personal growth.

7.  Behavior changes first from within and then from without - you change from within first, then figure out what you have to improve on or work harder at to change from without.  We change the way we think about things first, then we can control the way we act about things.

8.  Each has an above average interest in time utilization and make time work for them.  Because they have clearly defined, written, specific goals, they do not have to re-act to the needs of others, but act in accordance with actual priorities, not others peoples emergencies.

9.  They remain flexible, but also know where to remain inflexible.  Flexible to adjust to changes in conditions, inflexible in moral and ethical standards.

10.  They always control a backlog of word, manage their work according to importance.  When a successful person gets behind they reorganize to work harder and smarter to condense their effort.  They also know when and how to delegate and when to withdraw delegation.  They do not let the work control them, rather they control the work.  They break the paradigms of normal behavior to achieve and grow beyond time and space. 


Hope this helps you in the coming week.  old rusty knight  

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