Hard work is a given, a prereq for success. But that necessary spark, the 10% inspiration, must be there.
Two candidates, with equal experience, the one with a great attitude wins. You must have the mojo.
It shows up in conversation, in off-hand moments (kicking the dog on the way out or giving the finger in the driveway to the one who ends up interviewing you).
In the Orient, job interviews often take on a new dimension. 3 finalists. Two walked by the broom that fell on the floor. The third picked it up and thereby, secured the job.
Attitude.
I just learned that Oprah ran the 1994 Marathon. On your way to success, you will have to walk across many “brooms”.
Just pick them up. Get used to removing obstacles. Habits of Effective (and not Deffective) People.
Tell me a success story, I will tell you how many obstacles he/she had to overcome:
– Colonel Sanders almost gave up until his last-ditch effort: a bar owner asked him to toss in more salt which is now the KFC recipe.
– Khan‘s wife offered herself to Silk Road traders to bail her husband out
– Al Gore, accepting defeat, but not becoming a failure, went on to win the Nobel Prize
– yesterday, at the London Olympic, Michael went on to break world swimming record.
Life gives us those stories to instruct and illustrate the point, unveiling new heights and setting new benchmarks.
Stay away from the Nay sayers. Prove them wrong. Or even better, think of them as never existed, for the longer we do, the more likely that this will come to pass.
Yesterday, I blogged about The Limits. But that was just one side of the coin. Today, there is another.
We have physical limits. But we reach out still to the stars. Feet on the ground, but eyes on the prize.
One more try. Then one more.
Another heart beat, then another. Breathe in and breathe out. Wax on and wax off. Karate Kid all grown up. Use all the pain and suffering and waste them not. They were there to make us and not to break us. Each of us is different, not because of our limits, but because of how we dealt with those limits. 90 per cent inspiration, 10 per cent perspiration. Multiply that to the nth time. While perspiration is limited, inspiration is limitless.
Thang Nguyen 555 