3 posts tagged “success”

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Reading Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe and found a great quote:

When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. "A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils," he replied. "Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes." -- p. 426

It seems that Einstein, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, knew that it was necessary to fail your way to success. If all of the greatest achievers accomplished what they accomplished by constantly failing until they finally succeeded, why do we teach our children that failure is bad? Why do most bosses only accept one failure on the job?

Failure is only bad if it's final. In the immortal words of Clebe McCleary,

FIDO -- Forget It and Drive On

My mentor puts it this way:

If you knew you couldn't fail...what goals would you set?

Then why not set them?

Your Biggest Obstacle: You

http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/n...

Regardless of your role within your business, you have goals. You may own the place and set them yourself or you may have a boss that walked in and laid them out for you. Either way, there are things that need to be accomplished before year’s end or within a few years.

Become The Coach You Were Meant To Be: The 5 Goals of Leadership

http://toolscart.com/comersus6f/store...

Fantastic book on coaching, but more generally on success.

This is a wonderful book on success. Just like, in reality, we're all in sales, we're also all coaches.

There are five steps to becoming the "coach" you were meant to be:

1) Crystallize Your Thinking

What do you want?
Why do you want it?
Why do you not already have it? <-- this is a critical question to answer!
What are the benefits?
How will you know when you get it? Another critical question to nail down.
Where will it lead you? In other words, after you accomplish this goal, what's next?

2) Put your Plan of Action in Writing
3) Create Passion and Desire
4) Develop Confidence and Trust
5) Foster Commitment and Responsibility