Are you climbing the ladder of success?
Can you relate to the meaning behind this well known phrase?
Climbing a ladder takes effort and you must take one step at a time, you don’t take one or two steps and then you’re there, it’s a progression to the top. Each step gives you a foundation to take the next step, miss one and you could be in trouble. If you’re going to get to your goal you have to take every step, climb all the way to the top, going halfway, in all liklihood, will take you no where. But if you have taken any step at all, if you have taken your feet off the ground then you are definately getting closer, don’t give up all you need to do is follow the steps laid out before you and you will make it.
Og Mandino’s book, University of Success (1982), Lesson 29 by Cavett Robert teaches three rules that will help you on your climb up the ladder.
- Know what you are doing.
- Love what you are doing.
- Believe in what you are doing.
Today we are going to cover step 1:-
Know what you are doing.
We have to realise to be successful we need to be constantly increasing our knowledge base. You can never stop and say ‘That’s it I know enough’ or ‘I know it all’, and you should certainly never think it. The economy is constantly changing, workers in almost every field are continually needing to be retrained.
Have we not experienced, so many times, some bit of information that was right yesterday has turned out to be wrong today. It can be tiring to realise that what you have already learned no longer applies. Knowledge keeps evolving and we must keep up or be left behind we must run just to stand still (University of Success, p293). Success is an ever changing, ever evolving journey that we must be involved in by moving forward, by readjusting our destination. By being prepared to keep on learning we continue to grow, we continue to live, otherwise we have begun to die.
Learn all you can about the industry you are in and the areas where you want to succeed the most, whether it’s your job, business or your relationships be willing to learn, to grow and to change to keep moving one steady step at a time up the ladder.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The older I get the more I realise that there is but one wealth, one security, on this earth and that is found in the ability of a person to perform a task well and first and foremost this ability must start with knowledge.”
So whatever tool you are using to create wealth learn your craft well and be prepared to keep learning.
Todays Power Thought
I am climbing the ladder of success and my income continues to exceed my expectations.
Repeat this to yourself several times today.
Cheers
Teresa and the Team at
AustraliaWealth.com.au
Reference
University of Success (1982), Og Mandino
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