Right Things to Focus on…

So what should you actually focus on to be successful?

1)      Your idea of success. As I always say… define what success is to you and then focus on that.

2)      Contributing something. Either to the society at large or to a specific group of people.

3)      Ethics. Make sure whatever you do is ethically right.

4)      Quality. Give your customers what they expect, and then some more.

5)      Punctuality. Stick to the promised timeframe.

6)      Integrity. People should be able to trust you. Why would they do business with you if they didn’t?

7)      Enjoyment. If you enjoy working, it shows! You end up infecting others with it too

Make sure you focus on these 7 simple ‘right things’ and watch yourself become more and more successful by the day.

And yes, success does bring in more money… that’s inevitable! Just as long as you don’t make it the focus J



If You Focus on Making Money…

Cha-Ching!

When you do something with your focus on making money, you’ll never actually make it. Let me tell you why.

1)      Money making becomes your main goal

2)      When you need to make an important decision, it’ll be based on whether your profit will increase and not on whether it is beneficial to the task at hand

3)      You will automatically try to take shortcuts to make more money – faster

4)      The ethical boundaries you set for yourself will start to fade

5)      All the time, you will be thinking of how much money you made instead of trying to better the quality of your offering

6)      You will miss out on wonderful opportunities for growth that don’t promise too much profit but can actually take you places

7)      The worst of all – Your orientation shifts from what can I give… to what will I get… and the customer can sense this

The result of all this is that whatever your offering – It’ll become less appealing to your customers and thus you end up not making much money after all!!!

Keep your focus on the right things, and the money will follow. What are the ‘right things’? You’ll see in the next post…

Till then, take your focus off making money!