Wisdom for the Experienced Professional
Don’t be afraid of change. You may gain something better. Get started immediately, and build your capabilities, resources, and systems as you progress. It is better if you improvise. When you feel fear, uncertainty, and discomfort, it means that you are growing. For most worthwhile goals, you will need discipline. Let’s hope that the person who leaped for the sky flew, instead of falling. Life is movement, so don’t stop moving forward. Only change is constant. For effective change, focus more energy on building the new.
What do they want when they flatter you or insult you? Don’t worry about the negative opinions of everybody. Ignore most of them. Some people sometimes hinder you from achieving your desired results. After a long day, you need hugs and sex. Give someone $1,000 and they will smile. Neither too much money nor too much sex, are evil. Feel flattered when they admire, imitate, or respect you. Your best friend brings out the best in you. People are meant to cross our paths for a reason. Some people help you smile a little more, strive a little more, solve a little more, and style a little more. Meet people. Either they will change your life, or you will change their life. People have other priorities, and so they are too busy for you. Fit in with some people sometimes. Your strategy should be to stand out. You are wise when you prefer to receive constructive criticism. Learn new things to get knowledge. Let go of some things to get wisdom.
We want to become happy by some means or the other. Remember, happiness is a way of travel and not a destination. Wisdom can be learned by reflection, imitation, and experience. It does not have to be bitter. Find new ways to think and feel, and you will be a new person. The eagle is the only bird that flies above the clouds when it rains. If you want your dreams to come true, focus your conscious mind on things you desire. Passion for new ideas and unusual experiences will keep your mind active. A creative mind is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The journey matters because you spend time in it. Winners adjust, especially when there is pressure. Sometimes illusions collide with reality and are dashed to pieces. Your leadership is not about your attributes, but about the results you obtain. If you want extraordinary results, take extraordinary risks. You will be grateful that you initiated. Find your strength in your weakness. Finding opportunity amidst difficulty is like finding harmony amidst discord.
Make sure that your sophisticated opinions are accompanied by genuineness and courage. You want to be sophisticated because you want to conform to high-class. Make sure that you read good-quality books in the next few years. A good lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.
Design is the path that begins with strategy and ends with innovation. Creativity is thinking new things. Innovation is doing new things. True innovation is coming up with a product that the customer didn’t even know they needed. Good design is when creativity is deployed to a specific end when it leads to innovation.
To get money, you have to spend money. Passive income is the equivalent of making money while you are asleep. If you want greater prosperity, start forming a vacuum to receive it. Getting money depends on self-image; believing you can do it, you deserve it, and you will get it. You will be successful if you want success as much as you want oxygen. It is harder to initiate than to react or respond. Focus means saying no to the many other good ideas. Hope is not a strategy. A good manager guides their team to success, ensuring that everyone is performing great on what they have pledged to do. It is not enough to be rational. Organizational effectiveness lies in clearheaded logic and powerful intuition.