Quote Of The Week

Successful people maintain good habits that go hand in hand with success in every area of endeavour. There is nothing that will bring you to the attention of your superiors faster than developing a reputation for being a hard-working and dependable worker. How you work determines the quality and quantity of your rewards.

Your ability to develop good habits for work determines how much you earn, how effective you are, how much you are respected in your organization, and how much real satisfaction you get out of your job.

Unfortunately, most people are poor workers. They are unorganized, unfocused, and easily distracted. They work at about 50 percent of capacity. Sadly enough, they don’t even seem to know how to work any differently. Even if they wanted to, it is like speaking a foreign language; they wouldn’t know how to do it without first being taught.

To achieve success in every area of your life, develop the habits of highly successful and hard-working people. To begin with, the foundations of good work habits can be summarized in two words: focus and concentration.

Focus requires clarity concerning the desired results and the relative priority of each step that you need to take to achieve those results. When you think of focus, think of a photographer adjusting his lens to keep the key subject sharp in the center of the picture.

To become a truly, hardworking individual at work, you must be continually adjusting your lens to be sure that what you are working on is the most important thing you could be doing at the moment to achieve your most important goal. Successful people understand that the worst waste of time is doing something very well that need not be done at all.

Concentration requires the ability to stay with a task until it is 100 percent complete. Successful people understand that they must work in a straight line to get from where they are to where they want to go without diversion or distraction.

If you want to accomplish your goals, you must be sure that everything you do is taking you in that direction and develop good habits to get you there. This decision alone will dramatically increase the quality and quantity of what you get done each day and soon enough, you will become one of the most successful people you know.