Maranathatalks

Purpose:   Seeking and recognizing opportunities to serve  others is your starting point. Start by figuring out whom you work for. Is it your company? Your manager? Your boss? It’s none of these. Your job, whatever it is, is about providing a product or service to other people for their benefit. You work for your customer. Joy and success will come when you know that you have helped someone else out. Sit down and write out your goals. Are they about you? Or are they focused of serving others. Preparation:  Be the best you can be! Read everything you can. Learn from others. Learn something new every day. Keep an open mind. The time to prepare is before your opportunity comes. Once that opportunity has presented itself, it’s too late to prepare. People:  Surround yourself with good people. Your performance and your reputation are most often determined by the people with whom you have aligned your life. Your bosses, co-workers, subordinates, mentors, coaches, teammat...

All successful people work from written plans, the great human achievement of mankind from the building of the pyramids to the great industrial operations of the modern age were proceeded by and accompanied by detailed plans  carefully designed and that's through from the beginning to the end. Every minute spent in planning saves ten minutes in execution. Every minutes that you spend planning and thinking before you begin will save you time, money and energy in getting the result you desire. Failing to plan is planning to fail. It is always easier to get into something than it is to get out of it. The time to do the careful thinking is before you commit resources and people not afterwards. Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul ; the blueprint of your ultimate achievement. Your ability to visualise is perhaps the most powerful faculty that you posses. All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in mental pictures that you hold in y...