Rate yourself. Questions that would help you determine how well you are doing in your career......

28 Questions that will help you assess how well you are doing with your career….

1.   Have I attained the goal that I established as my objective for this year?(You should work with a definitive yearly objective to be attained as a part of your major life objective)

2.   Have I delivered service of the best possible quality of which I was capable or should I have improved any part of this service?

3.   Have I delivered service in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?

4.   Has the spirit of my conduct been harmonious and cooperative at all times?

5.   Have I permitted the habit of procrastination to decrease my efficiency and if so to what exent?

6.   Have I improved my personality and if so, in what ways?

7.   Have I been persistent in following my plans through to completion?

8.   Have I reached decisions promptly and definitely on all occasions?

9.   Have I permitted any one or more of the six basic fears to decrease my efficiency?

10.                     Have I been either “over cautious” or “under-cautious”?

11.                     Has my relationship with my colleagues in work been pleasant or unpleasant? If it has been unpleasant, has the fault been partly or wholly mine?

12.                     Have I dissipated any of my energy through lack of concentration of effort?

13.                     Have I been open minded and tolerant in connection with all subjects and issues?

14.                     In what way have I improved my ability to provide service?

15.                     Have I been intemperate in any of my habits

16.                     Have expressed openly or secretly any form of egotism?

17.                     Has my conduct towards my colleagues be such that it has induced them to respect me?

18.                     Have my opinions and decisions been based on guess work, or accuracy of analysis and thought?

19.                     Have I followed the habit of budgeting my time, my expenses and my income, and have I been conservative in these budgets?

20.                     How much time have I devoted to unprofitable effort which I might have used to better advantage?

21.                     How will I re-budget my time and change my habits so I can be more efficient from now on?

22.                     Have I been guilty of any conduct that was not approved by my conscience?

23.                     In what ways have I provided more service and better service than I was paid for?

24.                     Have I been unfair to anyone, and if so, in what way?

25.                     IF I had been the purchaser of my services for the past year would I have been satisfied with my purchase?

26.                     Have the purchasers of my service been satisfied and if not, why not?

27.                     Am I in the right vocation? If not, why not?

28.                     What is my current rating on the fundamental principles of success?

You must get better at work, here's why....

You can have more than you have, if you become more than you are! its an unending challenge to become better than you are. Unless you are stealing, you can not earn more than your skills worth. So the challenge for you and I would be to become much better than we are. What is your chosen profession or occupation? Are you on top of your game? If people seek a person to do the job you do would your name come up anywhere on the list?
Success should not be your pursuit. Success should pursue you. If you have enough skill at your chosen profession and you acquire the highest level of competence, success will pursue you. You will always have work to do. In fact in many cases you would be so overwhelmed that you would need help and that is when you expand.
So become more than you are so you can have more than you have at present. The major key to your better future is you! What are you doing with you? Are you making excuses about your current situation and circumstances? Are you blaming the economy or the government? Are you blaming the traffic or the car or the transport system or the security system. I once did a seminar for a Micro Finance Bank. I discovered that some people do better than others even in the same environment. I teach that you cannot control your environment. Even though we cannot control our environment, the number of hours a day, the tools that the company provides for us. These are things we cannot control. But we can control our skill. We primarily get paid for value. Not necessarily the time we put in to a job. Is it possible to become twice or three times as valuable? Can we make twice as much money in the market in which we operate?Two people can work on the same job in the same environment while one makes twice as much money than the other. If you work on yourself, you can make twice as much money. To become above average in our earnings we must become an above average operative at our work place. Before you look for that high paying job, make sure you have high earning skills. We must all learn to work harder on ourselves than we do on our jobs. We must become so good that we are almost irreplaceable at the job we do. That is the challenge for us all today. So if you are reading this, its time for real change. If the government does not change the country for things to change for you, you have to change. Or else nothing will change. Decide to become much better than you are. I wish you well.

Overheard! Wisdom about friendship and association

Truer words were never spoken, the less you associate with some people the more your life will improve. Anytime you tolerate mediocrity in others it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is there intolerance of negative thinking and negative people. As you grow your associates will change, some of your friends will not want you to move on they would want you to stay where you are. Friends that don’t help you to climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don’t increase you will eventually decrease you. Consider this, never receive counsel from unproductive people, never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution. Because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life, you are certain to get the wrong end of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don’t follow anyone who is not going anywhere. With some people you spend an evening, with others you invest it. Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life, wise is the person who fortifies his life from the wrong friendships. If you run with wolves you will howl , if you associate with eagles you will learn how to soar to great heights. A mirror reflects a man’s face. But his real person is shown by the friends he chooses. A true factor of life is you will be like those who you closely associate with. Always appreciate members of your family. They will always be members of your family although they may be friends with someone else. In prosperity, our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends. Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things you develop the habit with little ones. Excellence is not an exception, it’s a prevailing attitude.-John Begin