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Friends following the outstanding response from the extract from Peter Irvine’s (co founder of Gloria Jean worldwide) first book “Win in Business” we have taken another powerful extract about how the build lasting significant success in your business and life
Enjoy from a man with heaps and heaps of wisdom.
Until next time live with passion, enthusiasm and expectation! It will change your life.
Be the Best
Tony Gattari
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Build a platform for long-term success
If you want more money, a bigger business, greater success in your current profession—if you want to see your dream realized—then start by building your groundwork now. How do you do that? Well here are some principles that will help you to build a platform for long-term success.
- Relationships are fundamental. What is life without your family and friends? Build great relationships into your life that will encourage and challenge you. Make sure you learn from others who have been successful in this area. Learn what they did right and what they did wrong. That way you will eliminate a whole series of potential errors in your own life. Listen to those you respect when they challenge you about aspects of your relationships. There is nothing more valuable than the advice of a faithful friend when times are difficult.
- Learn to manage well what you have now, even if you don’t have much yet. The habits and attitudes you develop when you don’t have much are critical to your future success. Those habits will determine how you respond when you gain more. Some people over-spend to achieve a desired lifestyle. Others adopt a miser-like attitude and keep their budget so tight that there is no room to enjoy life. Learn to balance your life and your finances so that you wisely tread the line between over-spending to enjoy life and being extremely tight so that you rarely enjoy life. Work hard to get your finances in order and keep regular track of your progress. It’s amazing how many people fail in this basic step.
- Learn to be generous. Do what you can to benefit others. It not only helps those you have helped, it has even more impact on your own life and outlook. Generosity, even in small ways, takes you outside your own problems. Generosity enlarges your thinking and your heart. It gives you tremendous motivation to succeed and it inspires others.
- Be faithful with what is in your hand now. Ancient writings tell a story about three men who were each given money to invest. The first two men doubled their money by investing wisely, but the third buried his coin in the ground because he was afraid to take a risk; he wanted to take the easy way out. This man was called a wicked, lazy servant. The lesson here is that we need to use what we have been given… or waste it. There is a risk both ways: You can risk the time and resources to use it, or risk the chance to lose it. The reward is in the investing.
- Lastly, develop a large vision for every aspect of your life. That may be for your business, your relationships, your family, your finances or for you personally. A large vision is much more rewarding than a small vision. Then develop a plan to achieve the vision in stages. Start doing it now. Stop putting it off! If you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired, then get started now.
The above article was taken from “Win in Business” book by Peter Irvine, co founder of Gloria Jeans worldwide. Peter is now a key note speaker, franchise, business and corporate advisor for Achievers group and can be contacted directly on peter@achieversgroup.com.au.
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