Tag: professional development

Final Defeat

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivation
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We all have experienced terrible loses in life. It is a part of our lives. If you haven’t experienced one, it is either you are not trying hard enough, or you are just playing it too safe.

When you are planning or cultivating your path to success, don’t just focus on the good side of it, you should also plan on how you are going to deal with adversity, obstacles, and frustrations. You are going to experience lots of them. They are there waiting for you to come. If you want success badly, you will go. It is not what happened to you that matters now. It is what you do with it after you have experienced it that matters. Are you going to quit, or are you going to stick with it until you succeed?

“When you are planning or cultivating your path to success, don’t just focus on the good side of it, you should also plan on how you are going to deal with adversity, obstacles, and frustrations.”

Success and failure are on the same street. You cannot separate them. If you want to succeed, you must be ready to fail. It is after you have failed, then you learn how to succeed. First failure is not failure, it is experimenting time. If you fail the first time, don’t quit. Stick with it, learn it, and start again. People fail because they take the first misstep as the final failure. Don’t do that. It is not your last chance. It is your first chance. It is not your last shot at success. Try again. People fail because they can’t move past the first misstep.

If you want to succeed, you must be ready and willing to move past the first misstep. If you do, you will succeed.

Average Work

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Recruit The Best
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An average work is average work, half work, incomplete work, boring work, or a dead work. You can call it whatever you like. But one thing is clear: it is an average work.

An average work is fruitless. Your work is average when you complain always about your job. Your work is an average job when you can’t wait to go home. Your work is an average work when you hate what you do. You are doing an average work when you refuse to even show up at work. Lots of people are just getting by. That is another name for an average work. Average work lacks meaning and purpose. They are meaningless. People are doing it for survival- just to pay their bills. If you are in such a job right now, it is time to start planning what to do next. If you remain there, you will not be more than an average worker. Your goal in life is to be a great worker, not an average worker. It is up to you.

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”- Steve Jobs

If you hate what you do, you will get average results. If you love what you do, you will get satisfying results, because you love it and you have invested the right resources into it. There is no free ride to success. If you want to be successful, you must do the work. You must pay your OWN price to be successful. The price to pay for success is excellent work, not average work.

“If you don’t love it, you are going to fail.”- Steve Jobs

To get the best out of life, you must prepare your mind to do the complete work. You cannot be successful without doing the full work. If you have been doing an average work, just getting by, it is time for you to change your mindset. It is time to start doing the right thing, so that you can get the right and the best results.