Here are five super simple steps for getting the most out of life:
Believe: First you have to really know what you want to accomplish. Add to that the true belief that what you want is really possible, and you have the basis of a full start.
Endeavor: Work hard and fail. Work harder and fail some more. Just keep learning and growing from all the hard work and failure. Trial and error will get you their, step by step.
Persevere: Even though all that failing might not seem like the best way to spend your days, you won’t learn what is truly the right way until you figure out what is absolutely the wrong way. Have a little patience and focus on your belief that you’re doing the right thing.
Achieve: Eventually, you will get “there.” You may have found that you have arrived at a different “there” that you had pictured in the beginning, but you have still arrived. Life is filled with constant movement and changes, and your goals are at best a moving target from the start.
Time To Believe Again: You think you’re done? Far from it! Time to find a new goal to reach, a new dream to achieve, and start all over again from your new position.
The steps are simple, even if the reality of life makes there execution a little hard. Follow them anyway.
These are four questions you should be asking yourself when comparing your products and services to that of your competitors:
1: What is it that we do that our competitors also do?
2: What is it that we do that makes us come out better than our competitors?
3: What are we doing to make sure we stay better than our competitors?
No, you don’t ask yourself what the competitor is doing better than you. In most cases, when you look at a category where you are trailing behind the completion, you look to see what they are doing and then scramble your forces in an effort to attempt to out do them. It is extremely difficult to beat the established leader at their own game.
I call this living by an “Advantage: Us” standard. When you know your strengths, you have the advantage of working to ensure they continue to be your strengths. This viewpoint may seem a little short sided, but an “Advantage: Us” playbook will easily push back any pretenders to your throne in the eye of the customer. Just make sure you really are better than your competition for the reasons you are stating.
That doesn’t get you off the hook for the areas where you are at a disadvantage. You must acknowledge your company’s shortcoming and make note of areas where you are trailing the competition. But don’t get overly stressed. Unless your company is at the brink of going under, you will continue to get much better results by knowing why you are the leader in your field, and by doing what you can to ensure you stay that way. Just deal with the areas where you are lagging behind the competition by working hard to grow and improve, until you find yourself on par, or even better, than your competition. Then you ask yourself questions number 2 or 3 for that area.
goal: (noun) The purpose toward which an endeavor is directed; an objective
expectation: (noun) a prospect of future good or profit
resolution: (noun) a resolving to do something; a course of action determined or decided on.
What you call it isn’t important. The fact that you isolate yourself, take out a pen and paper, and write them down is.
Today is New Year’s Day. Make your fresh start with some sort of plan of action. That will help you create your path to the better life you deserve. And you deserve to make it to your destination in this year 2009.
Welcome to my new blog. This is where I will chronicle the next phase of mis-adventures of my life. Thank you for staying on the ride, and for you newcomers to the inside of my mental mania, I will do my best to make sure the trip is both entertaining and educational.
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This blog supports some of the thoughts and interjections from the folks at Fast Forward Business Properties. Our ideas, things we test, and a few random thoughts will show up here.
Name: J. Cleveland Payne
Home: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
About Me: News is my profession, so it only fits that I am a news junkie. I'm a radio show/segment producer for a news/talk radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas.
