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Saturday, May 26, 2018

Why Taking Chances is Good for Business

“Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.” ~ Eliot Wiggington

When opportunity knocks, always remember that it is knocking for mankind no for you alone. If you ignore it, somebody else won’t. Sometimes, the only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. It may present as an opportunity waiting to be taken. If you don’t take it, you don’t make it. If you do, you get to make it. That is how some people succeed and some onlookers will say it is their luck that made it possible. Unknown to these onlookers, the people who strive, work harder and better somehow get luckier at the end of the day. Have you ever heard someone say “strike the hammer while the iron is hot?” Good if you have. Taking a chance and striking at an appropriate time with everything you’ve got most times guarantees some appreciable level of success no matter the venture.

If you want something bad enough and you are willing to go for broke to have it, somehow you’ll get it. Life may present itself a bore and drudgery unless you’re willing to take some big chances as they come along. That is one great way to discard mediocrity for purposeful achievements. Every successful business person is always looking for opportunities to get things done. Once any opportunity presents itself, they tend to go for it with everything they’ve got. That to me appears to be why they are succeeding. Anybody else can do same and succeed to too if they learn to seize opportunities as well. These opportunities are out there waiting for those with sufficient vision and zeal to grab them. These are the people who really succeed.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”



How Results Define Business Success

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
Success in business is not about pace. It is about results. Favorable results that is, no matter how long it takes to get them provided you get them. Every perfect job, every perfect business requires time to accomplish. If you are determined to achieve maximum success in what you are doing right now, you must respect the natural principle that progress is made one step at a time. Even if you are building a skyscraper, you need to add a brick at a time until the magnificent super structure is ready.  Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments added one at a time until the job gets done. Even in some sports like football, games are won a play at a time over some time. Time is also of essence if you want to build a department store. You will discover that you can only grow it and make it bigger one customer at a time. This is the natural order. Recognizing this natural order and deploying the knowledge to your business helps your way to success.

If you run a business, first you have yourself to compete with before anybody else if ever. You are you and nobody else. You are not competing in a sprint event with anyone. Take your time and pace to get things done your own way provided you get good results at the end. So, it does not really matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop, you will get there. Slow and steady progress somehow manages to guarantee more and better success than rushing through things and crashing out soon enough.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”