The Accountant Nov-Dec 2016

WORK PLACE
Diamonds do not look like diamond in the raw state
nor does iron ore look like steel in the raw state. In
order to begin prospecting your acres of diamond,
start developing a faculty that we call ‘intelligent
objectivity’. For example start to understand the
opportunities in the industry where your job falls.
Become a student of your industry and you will be
amazed at the opportunities you will see.
able to be achieved in excellent manner if
we put in required time.
We have seen here that time spent in
certain task is critical for the excellent
nature of that work. Let us consider Bill
Gates for example. Brilliant, young math
whiz discovers computer programming,
drops out of Harvard School and starts a
little computer company called Microsoft
with his friends. Through brilliance
and ambition builds it into the giant of
the software world. That is simply the
broad outline. But if you dig deeper you
will discover that Gates dropped out of
Harvard to have more time to try his hand
at his own software company that he had
been programming practically non-stop
for seven consecutive years. How many
teenagers in the world have the kind of
experience Gates had at his age? If there
are fifty, it would stun the world. Bill Gates
put a lot of hours in his programming
work.
It should be noted that before we
rush out for what we perceive as greener
pastures, let us know that ours are green
as well or more greener than what we seek.
In other words, there is nothing tragic
for a person who runs from one thing to
another like the farmer who owned the
acres of diamond who never stayed with
one thing long enough to find it. No
matter what your goal may be the road to it
can be found in the work you find yourself
in or with.
Unfortunately, the average man believes
that some businesses are better than others.
Instead of realizing the truth that there are
no bad businesses, but there are just those
people who do not know the opportunity
and seek them long enough. In essence I am
saying people who become outstanding in
their work are those who seek opportunity
for growth and development and who have
prepared themselves for the opportunity
that surround them every day.
Diamonds do not look like diamond
in the raw state nor does iron ore look
like steel in the raw state. In order to
begin prospecting your acres of diamond,
start developing a faculty that we call
‘intelligent objectivity’. For example start
to understand the opportunities in the
industry where your job falls. Become a
student of your industry and you will be
amazed at the opportunities you will see. If
you cannot see a limit in the growth of the
industry where you are, does it not make
sense that there is no limit for your growth.
Majority of the people look at their jobs
as far as they can go. The question every
worker needs to ask is whether they know
their jobs as much as they know the
industries where the jobs fall. They should
do as a doctor or lawyer knows his job
within the framework of his profession.
You need to know that the major key
to your better future is you. Value makes
the difference in results and it takes time
to bring value to the market place (reality).
In other words, we get primarily paid for
value not for the time. Is it possible then to
become twice as valuable at market place
and make as much twice at the same time?
Absolutely yes! How will it happen? Learn
to work harder on yourself than you do
on your job. Jim Rohm said,” If you work
harder on your job you will make a living
but if you work harder on yourself you will
make a fortune.”
It is frustrating to look for above average
job without taking time to develop yourself
to become an above average person. So,
for things to change for you, you have
to change. Never wish it was easier, wish
you were better and wish for more skills.
Therefore, to attain a level of excellence
and receive or get paid more, you must put
more hours in yourself because excellent
and valuable work attracts more.
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