Andrew Carnegie once said this: "Anything in this world worth having is worth
working for." That includes career opportunities.
If you want to succeed in business, think and act on these things:
Stop looking to the stock market and start making business generate income in
excess of expenses.
Stop looking to get-rich-quick marketing schemes and start learning about how
businesses of the past became profitable.
Stop pulling yourself in so many directions and focus on what is before you, but,
don't lose sight of what will be standing there tomorrow, a month from now, a
year from now, or even a decade.
If you make something, make it profitable. If you can't, make something else.
If you want to go into business, arm yourself with information and make sure you know what to expect.
Try to control the level of stress in your life.
Learn to turn off your cell phone.
Learn to say no when people ask for your time... know your limitations.
If you are in a bad job situation, look for something healthier today.
Make a list of your strengths and weaknesses. Be honest. Choose the career that is best suited to your strengths and try to strengthen your weaknesses.
Spend less time with passive entertainment and read a lot more. If you already
read a lot, look at what you read. Can you find things that will help you build a
better future?
Never, never, never give up! (borrowed from Winston Churchill)
Always look for the bright side of every situation.
See every challenge as an opportunity to succeed and grow.
If you want to succeed in life, and you prepare to meet whatever challenges that come along, you will overcome every adversity. If you doubt, then find a way to convince yourself that you can do it, or you will not succeed. You have to believe and visualize your eventual success or you will fail. Your only limitations are self-imposed.
Everyone has native abilities― you are born with them. When you discover them you have found the path you were meant to follow. People used to refer to these as “God given talents.”
I have referred to such talents, in the past, as raw talents; meaning, they need to be refined. For example, I became a “world-class fly tyer” when I was still in my mid-twenties. By the time I was thirty-one years old my work was on exhibit in Livingston Manor at the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum. I started tying flies when I was about ten or twelve years old. I took a raw talent and, through hard work and determination, I cultivated the skills I needed to become one of the best fly tyers in the business. It worked for me and it can work for you, too.
How you determine what it is that you were destined to do varies with people. I
can tell you from personal experience that passion has a lot to do with whether or not you will succeed. You have to WANT success. You have to work for it.
The KEY to success is this: You must first BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.
ALL of YOUR LIMITATIONS are SELF-IMPOSED. Remove those and SUCCEED.
