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<strong>Prepare</strong> <strong>For</strong> <strong>Success</strong><br />
Education<br />
Habit Four – Hard Work Never Killed Anyone<br />
It is easy to think that people like Bill Gates,<br />
Einstein, Tiger Woods and Mozart all got to<br />
where they are today due to some divine<br />
spark. Although that may be the case, the latest<br />
thinking suggests that all these geniuses have<br />
one big thing in common - it’s not necessarily<br />
that they were all super intelligent or super<br />
gifted at birth…<br />
…but that they all put in the necessary 10,000<br />
hours of practice.<br />
in more hours than your competition.<br />
While you know that you cannot be expected to<br />
apply 10,000 hours of preparation and practice<br />
to your job-hunting campaign, you can do the<br />
next best thing – work very hard and try to put<br />
Consider the findings of a survey from monster.com which found that of 68% job seekers<br />
surveyed were making between 6-7 high quality job applications<br />
per week. If you want to get ahead of the competition you should<br />
be making 6-10 applications a week. It’s as simple as that!<br />
It is this hard work and diligence in your job-hunting process that<br />
can give you the edge over the competition. Remember, it was the<br />
great inventor Thomas Edison who said, ‘<strong>Success</strong> is 1% inspiration<br />
and 99% perspiration’. There are no shortcuts to finding a job. The more<br />
opportunities that you create and manage, the quicker the right opportunity arrives.<br />
‘It’s funny, but the harder I work the luckier I get’ – it may be a bit of an old cliché but it is never<br />
truer than in a job-hunt. We all need a little bit of luck to fall our way but the more chances you<br />
give Lady Luck to land on your side, the more likely you are to get the breaks you want – in fact,<br />
as with all things in life, you will only get the breaks your hard work deserves.<br />
Hard Work And The Case Of Stephen Stubbs<br />
Even if you don’t find a job as quickly as expected, don’t be disheartened, and most important<br />
of all, don’t cut back on the effort. The tougher it gets, the harder you have to work – it’s not<br />
easy and it takes real guts to keep going. In fact you have to keep going faster and faster the<br />
tougher it gets, but it’s the only way. Just keep making the job applications (ensuring you<br />
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