Are You Planning the Steps to Your Accomplishments?

What actions will take you closer to your goals? Decide upon the steps and write them down. Review them until you feel comfortable with those steps.

Then repeat them at least once a day, crossing them off as you accomplish them.

"I believe there is no escape from the rule that we must do many, many little things to accomplish even just one big thing. This gives me patience when I need it most." - James Dupont.

The most rewarding accomplishments are those that take long to achieve and present difficulties.

It is only through these difficulties that a person can rise above the rest to be the unusual, the outspoken and the well-deserved. As if building a kit, follow your own instructions.

Decide your best courses of action and achieve their benefits.

Whether the steps are small or large, make them achievable and then do them.

Do not commit yourself to things that you never whole-heartedly intend to do.

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there," said Will Rogers. Don't be paralyzed by inaction; rather act upon your own convictions.

Set yourself up for rewards.

Don't give yourself goals that have no feeling of satisfaction or no monetary rewards.

If you want to be an artist, be the best and learn from the best.

Don't dwell on imperfections or the awkwardness of unpolished skills.

If you go into business- reinvest.

"In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. Because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure" - Justice Brandeis.

Marchant wrote, "To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different."
Think of ways to achieve the best; formulas to increase productivity or decrease overhead. Profit is your drive.

"Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise," wrote Peter Drucker. And, profitability is the core of any achievement - whether financial or artistic.

Once you achieve your goals, think of ways to benefit others.

"Money-getters are the benefactors of our race," said P.T. Barnum. "To them we are indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches."

How can you benefit humankind and still keep enough to fulfill your own desires?


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