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Three Ideas To Remember

By Billy Arcement, M.Ed.

            Continually improving our business or careers demands that we periodically stop and reassess where we are and where we are going.  The business world can be ruthless and brutal.  To survive in today’s business climate, we must be smarter today than we were yesterday.  No one can afford to take root.  Here are three ideas that can help you make a transition into tomorrow an enjoyable journey and a stabilizing force in your chosen career. 

I.  Discover Your Purpose

      We have a charge to discover our purpose.  But, identification and implementation of our purpose can be an awesome task.  Most never identify their purpose.  Too many settle for a lot less than life offers.  They go to their graves with much of their music still to be played; they spend their time in a state of perpetual inertia.

      How can we achieve the maximum life offers?  The answer begins with goals.  By setting goals, we begin to build focus.  By building focus, we zero in on our purpose.

      Using your God-given talents to the fullest is one of the most satisfying moments' life can offer.  Therefore, it makes sense to build your goals around the talents you possess.  By combining our ambitions and our talents, we develop a win-win formula.  What skills do you possess that can help move your business to a higher level of respectability and profit?  An important question we must answer if we are to make progress.  Dream big!  Don’t consider constraints.  Don’t consider obstacles.  Just dream!  Close your eyes and visualize what it would feel like to reach your goals.  Feel the emotion.  Feel the joy accomplishment brings. 

      If you can go through the process just described, you can achieve whatever you just conceptualized.  We are not tested with a strong emotional vision without the ability to bring that vision into reality.  Develop goals and you can have the opportunity to live your plan.  The alternative is to live the plan of others.  What choice will you make? 

II.  You Reap What You Sow

      My second point deals with the most misunderstood law of the universe.  It is a law that people constantly try to violate but always pay the price for such foolishness.  Reduced to its simplest terms—“Everything counts.”  The Bible says, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”  Remembering this law gives value to every moment of our life.  Fully understanding this law heightens our thinking so that we evaluate every action we take.  Reaching our purpose demands that we set goals.  But, reaching our purpose also demands that we create the proper actions needed to reach those goals.  By making every action count, we can more quickly achieve our dreams and avoid wasting our time and our life.  Examine the actions you’ve used in the past to develop your business or your career.  Have these actions improved your positioning?  How have your actions held you back from greatness? 

III.  Never Stop Learning

            For the professional, school never closes.  Pros make life a continuous learning experience.  By doing so, they gain insights into how to better reach their purpose.  Learning creates the ability to make every day better than the pervious one.  Spend one hour each day studying some phase of your business or career.  In a few years, you will be the recognized expert on that subject.  Study prepares you for opportunities.  Opportunities prepare you to better reach your goals.  Reaching your goals is a sure way to fully define and reach your purpose.  Not a bad way to live a life!

 


This article is copyright 2000 Billy Arcement and The Results Group and cannot be published without permission from the author.

Billy Arcement is a highly respected and recognized expert on personal and organizational success techniques.  His messages are timely, inspirational, humorous, and filled with refreshing warmth and sincerity audiences have come to appreciate.    Always the teacher, Billy has dedicated his life to helping others reach their potential.  He knows how to instill a sense of action and purpose.  

He is the author of Searching for Success as well as numerous nationally published articles.  To get his free electronic newsletter, News from the Swamp, call 888-376-7374, email your request to barcement@eatel.net or visit our web site at www.searchingforsuccess.com.

 


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