Success Secret: Forget Your Past Accomplishments!
While I think this is very useful if you are DEPRESSED, it can backfire, utterly if you're not.
Why?
If you have a lot of victories to look back on, it's just too tempting to sit on your laurels, figuring "I'm already in a class by myself," and then choosing to curl up to contemplate your navel.
The most successful folks, in fact, from my viewpoint, must make themselves mercilessly forward-looking.
Let me give you a few examples.
This is the 1,100th article that I am posting to a certain Ezine site. It marks an accomplishment, and I'm quite proud of it.
But it took me DISPROPORTIONATELY more time to pen the last 100 articles than it did the previous 1,000. How come?
I thought 1,000 articles was a very big deal, and on some levels it is, but the best thing I can do for myself, and for others if they like reading me, is to forget about benchmarks.
Press on!
If I think having earned five college degrees is so unique, so outstanding, and so very rare, how likely am I to undertake even more continuing education, which it was either Plato or Aristotle who remarked, is one good thing a person cannot get too much of?
I need to learn, perhaps more than the next bloke because learning and teaching are my business. Where will my new ideas and new products and services come from if I don't forget about what I've already done and commit to doing still much, much more?
I think you get the point.
Stopping every now and then to smell the roses is perfectly fine.
Just don't get stuck there, or too stuck on yourself, for that matter!
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Dr. Gary S. Goodman is the best-selling author of 12 books and more than a thousand articles. His seminars and training programs are sponsored internationally and he is a top-rated faculty member at more than 40 universities, including UCLA Extension, where he has taught since 1999. Dynamic, experienced, and lots of fun, Gary brings more than two decades of solid management and consulting experience to the table, along with the best academic preparation and credentials in the speaking and training industry. Holder of five degrees, including a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School For Communication at USC, an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management, and a law degree from Loyola, his clients include several Fortune 1000 companies along with successful family owned and operated firms across America. Much more than a "talking head," Gary is a top mind that you?ll enjoy working with and putting to use. He can be reached at: gary@customersatisfaction.com
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