How The Most Successful People Treat Everything

By: Paul B Brown.

From Dilbert to Office Space to the revival of How to Succeed in Business (without really trying)management clichés are always good for a knowing chuckle. In a world of limited resources, the idea of “win-wins” doesn’t happen often. “Giving 110%” is just, well, “fuzzy math,” and as for “we have to push the envelope,” have you ever actually tried to push an envelope? It’s a lot like “pushing string” or “herding cats.”

However, there is one much overused phrase we do think has merit: “There are no such things as problems; just opportunities.” Indeed that is the starting point for the business environment we now find ourselves.

The world, which has always been unpredictable, is becoming increasingly more so. That means your odds of moving smoothly from A to B are going to steadily decrease over time, creating more and more situations that you simply could not anticipate. That means more problems—but more opportunities, if you view those challenges in a different way.

The key is to focus on your goal and not on the plan that you initially drew up to get there.

With this approach, your objective doesn’t change, but you accept the fact that how you may get there might.

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How The Most Successful People Treat Everything--Including Problems--As An Asset (A Case Study)

 

There is defiantly a difference in thinking between success and non success

 

I heard another saying

" build your goal on rocks, build your strategy on sand"

( I think it was from J.R), something in common there.

 

JR Ewing or JRR Tolkien?