SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Great employees spend the majority of their time helping other people succeed: Their company, their employees, their customers and vendors and suppliers... the list goes on and on. Great employees also spend some time helping themselves succeed, both for "selfish" reasons and because their success creates success for others. Rightly or wrongly, to succeed you can't just do a great job -- you also have to find ways to get noticed for doing a great job. Here are six ways: Be known for something specific. Meeting standards, however lofty those standards may be, won't help you stand out. So go above the norm. Be the leader known for turning around struggling employees. Be the owner who makes a few deliveries a week to personally check in with customers. Be the manager who consistently promotes from within. Be known as the employee who responds quicker, acts faster, or always follows up. In short, be so great at something that you're the first person peopl...

Without the difficult times, you could not fully appreciate the good times. Without the good times, the difficult times would be infinitely more difficult. Life changes, and that’s what makes it life. Life changes, and in the changes live every possibility. Do not boast too loudly about your good fortune or despair too long about the disappointments. Things will change, and with that change will come new opportunities and new challenges. Instead of fighting and judging, worrying and fretting, make the choice to marvel at the richness of it all. Enjoy, learn from, and be inspired by what’s here while it’s here, then be ready to move quickly forward as life continues its ceaseless transformation. Care deeply and profoundly, but don’t let yourself take things too seriously. Walk that fine, marvelous line between unshakable responsibility and joyous serendipity. In the ups, in the downs, in the detours and straightaways, there is much to treasure. So breathe in the richness, and treasure i...