Never Stop Growing!
09/07/04
Rob Walker knows the work involved in earning success: "Don't grow up. The possibility of restarting sounded almost optimistic, which brings us to the last stop-your final choice of fixes. By now, you've cleared all of the pixie dust out of your eyes, but that doesn't mean you should curl up in the corner of your cubicle and start reading Dilbert books until someone tracks you down and cans you. Yes, the odds are against your becoming a wild, breakout success, celebrated in story and song. But guess what? That's the way it's always been. The business world's most revered figures, from Bill Gates on down, almost invariably overcame overwhelming odds to get where they are. They didn't surf easily to the top on a big societal wave of applause. In fact, they spent most of their pre-success years being shouted down by naysayers. Yet they persisted. It was incredibly hard, and that's the whole point: The elephant isn't just telling you that it's not as easy to succeed as it use to be. He's telling you that it never was."
I'd say it differently Do grow up...but never stop growing! True maturity comes when you realize that success always comes from hard work, flexible persistence, and a strange appreciation for the frustrations, naysayers and obstacles you get to overcome along the way to inventing the future. It also helps to pursue dreams that meet the real needs of customers willing to applaud your progress and pay for your promised results. In today's competitive environment, past success not only does not ensure or entitle you to continued success; it may trap you into processes and habits that blind you from finding new profitable opportunities. Sustained excellence has never been easy; you become an old dog when you stop doing new tricks. Here's to new tricks, new challenges and satisfying victories.
A PAULSON QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Sustained excellence has never been easy; you become an old dog when you stop doing new tricks." --Terry Paulson, Ph.D.
MONDAY'S MIRTHFUL MOMENT
Cece shares via Dr. Ann Weeks and her WEEKS OF FUN # 385 provides this week’s mirthful moment. Every year the Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. The following were some of this year's winning entries:
Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.
Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your Soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.
Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.
When you keep your eyes open for mirth, you just may find it! Hope this kicks off your morning and helps get your mood adjusted for the week. Now, get busy MAKING CHANGE WORK and have some fun along the way!...