Wine And Dine With Achievers!

Dear loving people,

As achievers, I know most of us must have reviewed the year 2012 that just ended. If you have done that, then you must have realized that you registered successes as well as failures in some areas. Some of the times, we are so anxious to get 100% success that we forget to appreciate ourselves for the success we have registered and rather concentrate on the failures we had. This tendency can be a positive step only on one condition being that you are reviewing the underlying factors that contributed to such failures in order to learn from them and do better this 2013. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) was very right when he said “Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Don’t kill yourself because you didn’t succeed as much as you wanted during 2012 rather focus on putting the shattered pieces together such that you can do better this year. That is the direction of meaningful growth.

One of the things I have learned to do and which I recommend you do if you are not already doing it is to wine and dine with those who are succeeding in the things they do. I learn a lot from them; I learn from their wise decision making processes and even from the mistakes they equally make along the way. You can do that too. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) said “It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” Interact with pacesetters, rub and polish your brain against that of successful people so that you can succeed like them and why no more.

As you face the New Year, keep the areas you want to grow in at the center of your actions. This of course should include addressing those factors that slowed you down during the past year. Amidst all, remember the words of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

Success only happens because there was failure, learn from the experience.