Monday, July 21, 2008

The best thing you could do for yourself

All individual you cross path with will fell into one of these 2 categories:
1) Doers
2) Observers

Wondering in which category you are? Here are a few characteristics:

Doers
- Knows what they want in life;
- Believe they are in charge of their life therefore have a plan;
- Knows that there is no such thing as luck;
- Knows that if they want something, they have to make it happen;
- Take risks;
- Always in action;
- Most important: held themselves 100% accountable for the results they get, for their success or lack of it.

Observers
- Will take whatever they can get out of life;
- Believe that they have no power over the course of their life so why bother;
- Waiting on the day luck will smile at them;
- Take no risk and no or very little action;
- Most regrettable: always blame others for their misfortunes. It is always someone else (parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, government, system, cat, dog) fault.

If you are reading this blog, I hope you are a Doer. If it is not the case, do yourself a favor and make that your number one goal.

Even for the doers, we sometimes fell in the trap of blaming others for our results or lack of it. Learn to hold yourself 100% accountable for your results… even in the extreme cases (when it seems obvious that it is not your fault).

For example, you start a business with an associate. He turns out to be (well fill out the blank). You loose thousands or million of dollars. Instead of blaming that person for your failure and complain about it to the whole world, look at yourself in the mirror and seriously ask yourself “how did I end up with this person as partner? How did I attract such individual in my life?” Yes it is your fault that you made a bad call and end up with the wrong partner. Acknowledge it and LEARN from it.

I could go all day on that subject, but let me wrap up by saying this: until you are willing to be 100% accountable for your results AT ALL TIME, you are not ready for success and you will not experience the amount of success you crave for.

Keep well,
Jephtée E.