How Enthusiasm Helps Your Business

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever flown on an airplane? Even if you haven’t, you must have seen airplanes flying all over the skies. If you have, have you ever wondered how such a big machine manages to fly in the air so easily? Stop wondering and think about those men with great and unlimited enthusiasm who invented airplanes. Just take a look around you. All those tall buildings, superstructures and wonderful monuments you are seeing were all invented and built with great enthusiasm. In all human endeavors, nothing great ever comes to be without enthusiasm. It takes enthusiasm for the human intellect and resourceful energy to be deployed to productive use.

Even in business, you can’t sell, negotiate nor manage any enterprise successfully without enthusiasm. No matter how great the dream is, no matter how sharp your vision is, without enthusiasm, you can never get off the starting blocks to get things rolling. Anywhere you see great things happening in our universe, you discover there are monomaniacs fired up with enthusiasm who are in the driver’s seat. Yes, there may be problems along the way, yes there may be obstacles and yes there may be outright failures and disappointments but with enthusiasm, successful people manage to stay on course till results are achieved. Fact is, without enthusiasm, the zeal to get things done is not there for you. Therefore, if you want to succeed in that business of yours, just get enthusiastic about it and go for results. With enthusiasm, you can never miss the mark.
 
Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price."

How Liking What You Do Helps Your Business

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~ Maya Angelou

My mentor once told me, “if your heart is not in it, just forget it, you are wasting your time, energy and resources for a lost course.” The import of this statement was lost to me at the time it was made. Years later, I came face to face with the reality of the statement when I had to be practically “forced” to do something I didn’t believe in because it was an instruction from my superior officer. Till date, I regret not declining that instruction outright and face the consequences later instead of going ahead half-heartedly and ending up in avoidable failure. In any business deal you want to negotiate, forget it if your mind and heart are not in the deal. A practical business lesson!

To succeed in any venture, you must have your mind on it, be focused on it and be determined to get it done. That is only possible when you like what you are doing. Liking what you are doing enables you to focus properly. Being focused on the task at hand is the key here. This is because at all times, success demands singleness of purpose. Without it, hoping to succeed becomes a mirage. What you choose to focus your mind on is critical because you will become what you think about most of the time. If you like what you do, and liking how you do it, it becomes easier to focus your mind on all tasks at hand relating to what you have to do. That way, getting it done to your satisfaction comes about more smoothly. That is success. Liking yourself, what you do and how you do it, helps the mind to focus better. It enables you to harness and concentrate your thoughts positively. The more you concentrate on the work at hand, the better the results you get. No doubt you know that the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. That is exactly how concentration helps everyone who wants to succeed.

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