Being an employer or supervisor comes with many responsibilities. Two of the most important responsibilities are to be a mentor and protector to those under your supervision or employment. You have an obligation to help subordinates grow. When you hire any employee, it is the employer or supervisor’s responsibility to do everything they can to ensure that that employee succeeds at their job. On occasion, despite all of your mentoring efforts, an employee may not work out. The job may not be right for them for whatever reason. In such cases, it is the responsibility of the employer or supervisor to help that employee find a new job where his or her skills and talents will be better applied. The fact that you hired an employee who did not work out, is your fault. You hired them. They did not hire themselves. Always remember: whoever is under your supervision is under your protection too.
Drip Happiness
Make a habit of dripping happiness wherever you go. Complement others every chance you get. Look for reasons to praise your employees and subordinates. Appreciate your spouse for doing their “job” around the house. Everywhere you go, everyone you see, make it a daily habit to drip a little happiness on them. The better you treat people, the better people will treat you.
Are You Raising Your Kids to Love America?
When I was growing up, despite the fact that we were poor, my Dad instilled in all eight of his kids the notion that we could be successful in life. He was a hard core beliver in the American Dream and American exceptionalism. He earned it by helping to save western civilization in WW II. My Dad believed in America, so we believed in America. America was the land of opportunity. We looked at wealthy, successful people as the embodiment of the American Dream come true. They were American heroes. To get there, my Dad believed we would all need a college education. That was drummed into all of us from an early age. But college costs money, so we all began working at an early age and this continued throughout our college years. That income helped pay for our college education. We were taught that society does not hand you anything for free. You have to work for the things you need and want. Like college. We were taught not to rely on anyone but ourselves. We were indoctrinated into believing that individual success was within our control. You just had to want it bad enough and work for it hard enough. We are adults now. Most of us are doing well in life. That American Dream parenting helped lift us up from poverty to the middle-class or higher.
Things have certainly changed in the last fifty years, as I found out in my five-year study of the rich and poor ( Rich Habits Study – Background on Methodology http://richhabits.net/rich-habits-study-background-on-methodology/). [Read more…]
Circumstances Are Temporary
Circumstances are temporary, made permanent by our daily habits. Just because you were born into impoverished circumstances, does not mean you are stuck in poverty permanently. As John Maxwell said, “success in life comes not from playing a good hand but in playing a poor hand well”.
5 Poverty Lessons From Christmas Vacation’s Cousin Eddie
Christmas Vacation is one of my favorite movies of all time. I watch it several times in December as Christmas approaches. In my latest viewing I uncovered 5 poverty lessons from one of my favorite characters, Cousin Eddie. I thought I’d share them with you: [Read more…]
Persistence – The #1 Trait of All Successful People
Those who succeed in life in accumulating wealth ALL share one common trait ………. PERSISTENCE. They process success by adopting systems, or daily habits, that enable them to persist.
One Habit ALL Millionaires Learned From Their Non-Millionaire Parents
In my five-year study of the daily habits of the rich and poor, I learned about one common success habit the millionaires in my study ALL learned from their non-millionaire parents – Pursue Big Goals, a Main Purpose or a Dream. When parents teach their children about the importance of pursuing big goals, a main purpose or a dream, they are laying a foundation that will enable their children to become enormously successful in life.
When anyone pursues a big goal, purpose or dream, they activate all sorts of innate cognitive abilities. One of these is called [Read more…]
Success is the Light at the End of the Tunnel
Those seeking success in life, those pursuing some big goal or life dream, are on a lonely journey. Early mornings, late nights, obstacles, rejection, doubters, mistakes, failures & frustration are your constant companions. The dark cave of isolation is your environment.
— Until you succeed —
Success makes it all worthwhile. But it takes passion, persistence and belief to make it out of the cave. Never quit, never surrender. Life rewards the persistent. Its rewards are always disproportionate to the effort. The struggle makes you grow. It changes you. You evolve into the person you need to be in order for success to reign down on you. Pursue your passion with a relentlessness that allows you to overcome every individual deficiency you may have. Success is the great equalizer. It is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Reach
You cannot achieve big goals or your life dream without changing. To get to where you want to go, you have to change into the person you want to be. You need to reach and keep reaching every day. You need to get out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. It’s the effort and action you take that makes success possible. Every day take action and move forward.
Baby Step Your Way to Success
Successful people don’t wait for the elevator, they take the stairs. If you had to climb the stairs of the Empire State Building it would seem overwhelming. But each step, in an of itself, is actually very easy to climb. If you are pursuing some big goal or life dream, don’t focus on how much work it will require and how long it will take. That will do nothing but overwhelm you. Break it down into small, easy to accomplish daily activities. And then each day, day after day, perform those specific activities that will move your toward accomplishing your goal or life dream. Success is not about hitting the home runs, or one momentous achievement; it’s about the unglamorous bunts, walks and singles. Baby stepping your way to success is the only way to achieve great things in life. Show up every day and do the little things and eventually you will realize your big goal or life dream.
