Sometimes when things do not go our way in business some people tend to look for other ways to succeed. For example, employees who sell products for a living may sell off the price sheet or promise things that their product is not able to perform. They are not making their sales quotas or goals and so they bend the rules.
A little lie now and then creates a lot of lies as time goes on, and without much practice, lying becomes a way of life. Workplace ethics disappear with the hope that revenues will take their place. Tough times require special focus on doing the right thing, not the wrong one. Bad practices are easy to come by and hard to get rid of.
Try this little mind-expanding exercise. Read it from top to bottom without cheating by jumping to the end for the answer. I think you will see my point.
A riddle:
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do might just as well be turned over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great people and, alas, of all failures, as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failure, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin; it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am habit.
That was an interesting riddle and really emphasizes the point that good habits are worth keeping and bad ones should never be undertaken in good or bad times.
The winners in business always have the courage to remain winners in any climate. Here are five steps to take to keep your winning attitude in these tough times.
How to have more courage
Would you like to have more courage?
Here are five short rules which, if you follow them, I guarantee will increase your store of fortitude.
1) Act as if you were courageous. This makes you a bit braver, as if one side of yourself had been challenged and wished to show it was not wholly afraid.
2) Pause to reflect that others have faced great discouragements and great obstacles and have overcome them. And what others have done, surely you can do.
3) Remember that your life forces move in a sort of rhythm and that if you feel depressed and without the power to face life, you may be at the bottom of the trough; but if you will keep up your courage, you will probably swing out of it by the very forces which at the moment are sucking you down.
4) Courage is the measure of a big soul.
5) Try to measure up.
A little lie now and then creates a lot of lies as time goes on, and without much practice, lying becomes a way of life. Workplace ethics disappear with the hope that revenues will take their place. Tough times require special focus on doing the right thing, not the wrong one. Bad practices are easy to come by and hard to get rid of.
Try this little mind-expanding exercise. Read it from top to bottom without cheating by jumping to the end for the answer. I think you will see my point.
A riddle:
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do might just as well be turned over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great people and, alas, of all failures, as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failure, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin; it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am habit.
That was an interesting riddle and really emphasizes the point that good habits are worth keeping and bad ones should never be undertaken in good or bad times.
The winners in business always have the courage to remain winners in any climate. Here are five steps to take to keep your winning attitude in these tough times.
How to have more courage
Would you like to have more courage?
Here are five short rules which, if you follow them, I guarantee will increase your store of fortitude.
1) Act as if you were courageous. This makes you a bit braver, as if one side of yourself had been challenged and wished to show it was not wholly afraid.
2) Pause to reflect that others have faced great discouragements and great obstacles and have overcome them. And what others have done, surely you can do.
3) Remember that your life forces move in a sort of rhythm and that if you feel depressed and without the power to face life, you may be at the bottom of the trough; but if you will keep up your courage, you will probably swing out of it by the very forces which at the moment are sucking you down.
4) Courage is the measure of a big soul.
5) Try to measure up.