Well, someone will end up doing it
Yup, someone always ends up doing it. Be that person!
Be there when work needs to be done.
Be there when success needs to be achieved.
Do your job, work hard and work whenever you have the possibility to contribute.
Start early, work hard, end late in the night!
Believe me it will bring great results and make you happy!
But be careful not to be everyones bitch, this is not about doing the work that lies in other peoples duty!
/phil
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Every achievement, no matter how great, can be broken down into small actions. Never think bad of the small tasks, instead fulfill them with great passion!
/phil
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
The concept of luck is hard to discuss, but no matter what you think about it: The more you do, the more you work, the more possibilities and opportunities you will get. Opportunities don’t come to those who sit around all day doing nothing.
Get your opportunities, get going!
/phil
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
Success without hard work is extremely rare. Actually I don’t believe in it at all. Succeeding itself can only happen through hard labour and getting results for this hard work.
So don’t expect any achievement untill you are willing to put effort in tasks ahead of you.
/phil
Money invested in fun is money well spent
Some people say money is important some say it is not.
I say: Spending money is important. While it is a good feeling to have some cash on the bank money is made for spending after all. If you are not willing to use your money why would it comfort you in any way?
Go out, have fun, make trips, and if you realise you don’t need that much money to be happy: Work less. It will pay off 🙂
/phil
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
When someone gives you an important task and you want to impress this certain somebody then remember to GET IT DONE!
If course it seems reasonable to come back with a good excuse and he will most likely not judge you if you have good reasons, but what is more important is that the person remembers giving you a task and you being unable to complete it.
No matter how good the reason, the next time he will think of someone to complete an important task he will not think like
“Who could get it done if there were no obstacles”
but rather
“Who gets my shit done without coming back to me before he is finished with a task”.
You may be lucky enough that there is not such a person and you as the second choice will still be the man to do the job but would it not be better to be the first choice to begin with?
Of course it would be. And that is why you get your shit done! If someone gives you a task and you want to help him out, you get it done.
By the way, this is one of the very idealistic posts, don’t take it literally. There are perfect reasons for coming back to a person without having fullfilled their tasks but this is a general idea of how work should function and how delegation of work should apply.
/phil
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
Is is not enough to have good ideals or a good idea on what to do. You need to push through numerous times of repetition in order to adapt new habits and skills. DO IT!
/phil
Today I talked to a buddy at the university about nothing in particular when this happened:
Buddy: I’d be happy if I made more money than my professor some day.
Since we study economics I assured him that he probably will if he goes in the open economy
Him: Only if I am good at what I do.
Me: Well, are you?
Him: I don’t know if I will be
Me: Well, why wouldn’t you?
Him: How would I know, I have not written any tests so far
I could not believe that he actually said and believed that. He honestly thinks his success in tests and in university in general defines his later work life!
How can our school system fuck that hard with the mind of a young person? I can’t believe that people really think that way, this is so damn limiting!
What about following your dreams, believing in your ideas? What about the passion that young people always have? If you ask a child what he wants to be when he grows up he sure as hell won’t say: I wanna be a firefighter, but therefore I have to study hard and be an honorable person.
He will reply: I want to be James Bond, I want to be a firefighter, heck I want to be a billionaire!
I don’t say that education is not important or should be taken lightly but everything has to have boundaries and if you really think your success in several years from now on depends on how well you do in some tests right now, there must be something wrong.
How great must this pressure be? If I fail now, I won’t have a good job in ten years?
Wow, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT apply this attitude to your life!
Go where you want to go and take important tasks serious but damn have fun on the way and don’t worry too much. It will all work out! It always has and it always will work out, trust me on this one.
And now go out and enjoy yourself!
/phil
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
Boone Pickens
Well I certainly disagree with the 8 hours especially as a gerneal rule but it is important to keep your sleep free from distractions. Try to meditate before your sleep or keep a notepad at your bed so you don’t have to remember ideas but instead just write them down.
You have to protect your sleep. Good sleep is not a matter of time. You won’t feel more rested after 11 hours of lousy sleep than after a refreshing 5 hour badass sleep!
Trust me, sleep is a state where you don’t want any distractions, you want to have your mind cleared before you go to bed. Learn to do that and it will increase your life quality immensely!
/phil
When you think about work you should not think about something negative.
Your work should complete you as a person, it should embody your ideas and ideals.
Phil
I hate it when people start like “Meeeh, have to go to work again tommorow.”
I can understand when people have a little day-job just to get some bucks in order to support their real ideas of work. When they work in order to gain support for other plans, because, well, money is important after all.
But the attitude that you work in order to earn money to have a nice free time is just bullshit!
You want to tell me that you have to be bored or stressed out 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, just to have the so called freedom to do what you want? If that is your idea of freedom than you are a sad excuse for a human being.
Freedom is doing whatever you love for your living. It is this because only when you love what you are doing you can truly be excellent. You have to embrace your work, you have to fullfill your dreams with your work.
Work is not at all a negative term. I love that I have work to to, I easily get bored when I can’t work towards my dreams. I know that it is not like this with everyone but noone should hate their work. If you don’t like your job, quit!
Again, I do not talk about side-jobs to earn some extra pocket money, I talk about jobs that finance your life.
Everybody can do what he dreams of, you just have to have the courage to dig through a lot of tough shit in order to get there. But believe me: It is worth it! Keep digging, we’ll meet at the other side 😉
/phil
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