Keep your eyes on little things

Each person’s income is determined by their philosophy not the economy. What is your personal philosophy? It’s like a guiding system that helps you make decisions: what to do and what not to do. For instance, do you value attending seminars, reading books? Do you believe in the challenge of consistent improvement? The Japanese call it Kaizen. Can we discover a few great new ideas that can make a difference to our income? These ideas are not likely to just fall into our lap. This philosophical guiding system helps us to see the dangers on one side and the opportunities on the other side. The process of life is to seek to minimize the dangers and maximize the opportunities. The more we know about what we should do, the more it will help us adjust our thinking.
Life is a learning curve. We learn from experience. If we do it wrong first, that will help us do it right next time. Sometimes a negative experience will help you live right. A heart attack teaches the patient how he can live a healthier life style. A person who has heart trouble can engage in a total change of life style which will make him live a longer, healthier life. If you change, everything will change for you.
We can also learn from other peoples’ expriences. May be people who failed at certain activities should give seminars. Their information will be valuable. Does anyone know a man or woman who’s messed up his life or work? Learn from them. If someone says the eggs are rotten and the bacon is spoilt do we make an omlette and fry the bacon for breakfast? No. You avoid them like a plague. Be a good student, if you want to be great at things. Don’t just follow other peoples’ leads blindly. Your philosophy comes from what you know and also from other people’s experience. So you need to be a better observer of the winners and losers. Take note and adjust from what you see.
Be a selective listener. Listen to voices of people that have great ideas. Read all the books you need to read. Health and wealth books are particularly good. When you read, sort through and decide which is valuable to try. Our lives are greatly affected by what we do and what we know.
Your attitude is also very important. We are affected by what we know and how we use it. Get the information. But use the information properly. Don’t leave it lying fallow. If you buy a computer and never switch it on, how can you use it? The right attitude will help us redefine and keep strengthening psychological and philosophical power.
How you feel about the past can have a major effect on your future. Use a horrible past as a mentor. Don’t let it beat you up. Rather, use it as a reference of how not to do or accept things.. How you feel about the future is very significant. Your future must be full of purpose. It must be strong enough to make life exciting so that it draws you forward. Learn to set goals and objectives. Decide what you want and write it down. May be people will ask why you write your desires down. Writing them down helps you process and plan than. You should not start building a house until you have finished! You have to layout the plan so the builders can erect it to specification. Building a life is much more complex. Start designing the future. From the past we get experience, from the future we get inspiration.In your writing, Imagine possibilities. Testimonials of other people help. When you hear that someone else did it and if they tell you, “If I can do it, so can you,” It gives you strength of purpose. You have faith to believe that some of those seemingly distant, daunting and difficult achievements are possible for you. Imagination and faith must take root in your mind. No other life form can imagine things and build them from nothing, its only humans. A tree can only be a tree. A dog can only be a dog. But a human being has the massive potential of being able to create something out of nothing. So let your activity be based on a positive attitude. Never take major decisions in life without having a proper plan and a convincing reason. Your activity must be specified for a purpose. When you are working, focus on work, when you are playing focus on play. Don’t bring half of your work load home and yell at the chiildren to be quiet so that you can work. Nobody takes a leather bound portfolio full of office documents to the beach to lounge in the sun and review the latest figures of the company. Every activity you are involved in affects the journey and process of your life. Whatever you want to happen, make sure you focus on it. Apart from there being a book for eveything you can think of under the sun, there is a need to transmit what you learn into practice. We are affected by what we do, not just by what we hear and read. So make sure your daily activity is contributing some way to your developmental processes.
So how do you know if you are making progress? Now that is the million dollar question. We need to know how to measure capability and achievement. Sometimes it can be easily measured in numbers. How many? A salesman makes 10 calls and is only able to make one sale. How many calls does he have to make to reach 10 sales? You find you could only lift 100pounds in the gym. But through constant activity and practice you begin to lift 150 pounds. Sometimes it cannot be measured by numbers. You have to look to how easy it is to do. Of course when it’s difficult that means you have to work hard at it to make it easier. When the task becomes second nature for you, it could mean you are getting better. For your finances, if you follow the process of saving, investment and earning more. Continuous saving, investment and earning more ;as long as you are doing it right, your fortune will increase.
The part of overhauling your life is in the standards and habits that give you a good life. You ought to be able to enjoy life no matter how modest or bountiful your earnings are. Enjoy the process. Don’t make success an event. It’s a process. It does not happen over night, it happens gradually; Just the same as failure. Success comes when you do the small things right. Having a vision, understanding your strategy, making your product or service valuable and distinct; the culmination of all these moves you closer to your dream. Each activity you get right piles up into the major processes of your life. So work on the small things of life and get them right. Failure comes when we neglect the small things. You do not check the accounts, invest enough money, make sure your business is still productive, and ensure that you are making profit by keeping your expenses as low as possible. The little things account for both success and failure. We should keep our eyes on them all.ü