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‘I am perfectly capable of deciding what is best for me, my family and my career.
I do not need outside guidance.’ Sounds like a rebellious early teenager. It is actually our complacency talking in the head.
We like living in our safe and secure place; a place with no personal and professional growth or no force pushing us to make positive changes in our life.
A place we believe is the ultimate so we remain in a jungle of complacence this happens to all of us. We have been enjoying a stable life at that level for a very long time. Our superiority complex makes us compare ourselves to an inferior person and become complacent. This can easily happen at any level, the trap is still the same and the script is almost always going to be similar. We have subconsciously decided that there is no need to make further changes, no need to push ourselves to make further growth, and now we can just sit back, prop our feet up, and enjoy our current level and ignore our weak link and live with complacency.
Michael Jordan, one of the world’s best basketball player, has a winning attitude. In high school, he was out from his school team obviously that did not comfort him. He missed more than 9000 shots in his career. He lost almost 300 games, at least 26 times he missed the winning shot in the final games, however he never stopped shooting the baskets and winning the games for the team and for himself. We have to watch what we are doing closely while we are grinding anything on a grindstone. And the only way you can do that is by keeping your nose to the grindstone. Simply we cannot be successful without real hard work.
Taking Usain Bolt as an example, Usain Bolt did not happen in a day. It has taken tons of hard work, dedication and pain at every moment of journey to reach that level of excellence. He broke his own personal records again and again.
‘You have got to understand with great clarity what you can do better than any other company in the world,’ as per author Jim Collins.
Star Bucks CEO Howard Schultz realized this just before he directed company resources in what may have been a disastrous direction. Schultz envisioned Starbucks as the internet coffeehouse of the world. You would be able to order specialty coffees, cappuccino machines, even pots and pans. But before he tried to move the aroma of freshly brewed latte to the internet, he considered his next important action. According to one writer, ‘It is as if he woke up one morning, rubbed his eyes, sipped a strong Sumatran brew, and said to himself, ‘Wait a minute, I sell coffee!’
The internal true ‘sense of urgency’ took him to revenue about $2.4 billion within two years of business started in the year 2001, [J. Creswell, ‘Remedies for an Economic Hangover,’ Fortune, June’2001] and he showed us the path for ‘Hollow to Halo’.
In Hardwood Groves
The same leaves over and over again!
They fall from giving shade above
To make one texture of faded brown
And fit the earth like a leather glove
Before the leaves can mount again
To fill the trees with another shade
They must go down into the dark decayed
They must be pierced by flowers and put
Beneath the feet of dancing flowers…
We always feel better looking at inferior people and deviate from our winning path.
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