318.

Be Aware That Your Greatest Asset is You

Your greatest asset is tangible, changeable, precious and magnificent. Your greatest asset is YOU. You
can be your greatest tool to success or you can be your greatest hindrance to it. Identify your strength and
weaknesses. Know what you can do best and know what to improve. Capitalize on your strength and do
not let your natural defects hinder you from accepting opportunities. When you maximize your abilities,
you invite more opportunities to come into your life. Your life will depend on what you focus on. Focus
on your strengths all the time. They will make you confident and courageous. Failure can come when we
lack confidence and courage. We will be afraid to take the risk. While we may not have the talents of the
world, the talents that we have right now are enough to change the world.

 You are your own product. Be the best product that you can be.
319. Think in Terms of Possibilities
Put your ideas into practice. Translate them into real, tangible experiences. Do not wait for them to grow
on their own. Make them real. Often, thins do not just happen. You can make them happen. If you want to
change, you are the principal person who can do it. Take the necessary disciplines and the needed
corrective measures. Think on how you can be creative in making more money with less amount of time.
Think on how you can manage to create more with less amount of resources. Think on how you can
improve performance with less amount of effort. Focus on possibilities and not on difficulties. Focus on
what you can do and not on what you cannot do. Focusing on what you think cannot be done is
sabotaging a creative mind.

 When you think that a job can be done, then it can be done. Look at the word ‘Impossible’ as I’m
possible.
320. Let Challenges Make You Stronger
One of the distinguishing attributes of those who succeed in their line of work from those who remain at
the bottom is the persons’ ability to handle challenges at the work place. Life is a series of one challenge
after the other. Conquer the easy ones and you will be presented with challenges that are more difficult to
handle. If you never give up, you will never be sorry. As you struggle to face more challenges, you
become stronger to meet more difficult challenges. Struggles help you to overcome difficulties that would
normally make people surrender and give up. Consider struggles and various forms of challenges as
nature’s way of pushing you to grow and prosper. See your problem as givers of gifts. Once you become
expert in solving them or resilient in handling difficult situations, you get most of the eventual benefits
that they provide. After all, many opportunities in life are disguised as problems.

 Most of us love challenges in our work. Problems are nothing but forms of difficult challenges.
321. Love Your Job
Learn to love your job. Deal with the enthusiasm. To work with passion is to invite more opportunities.
To work with a heavy heart is to miss all the possible chance of growth. The way you love your job
affects your performance. When your service is something that satisfies people because of its quality and
quantity you get something in return in the form of peace, joy, harmony, wonder, money, friends, trust,
etc. When you give an extra service that others would not, you will get more opportunities that others will
not. Sometimes, changing job will not help you that much. Changing your attitude towards your present
work, will.

 The best attitude in every given working experience is the positive mental attitude.
322. Persistently Give Results
There are no useful excuses to a job well-done. A hundred and one alibis will not do the job and are
useless in comparison to the right action that produces the best of results. People will eventually measure
you not with the words you say but with the work you do and the results you produce. Perform your work
as a giver not as a getter. Be willing to give more and do not be allergic to hard work and selfless service.
Never run away when troubles come. To walk away from life’s challenges is to walk away from the life
itself. Choose to do your job as if you are creating a masterpiece and never accept any forms of defeat
when it comes to your work. Be persistent. You may not be genius but if you persist, you come to realize
that being a genius is not necessary to success. Learn to lead yourself. Only when you can lead yourself
can you become a good leader to others.

 A job well-done is your best defense and fruits in abundance are your best publicity.
325. Associate with the Right People
Learn to use your limitations as stepping stones to experience the unlimited. Learn from your own
experiences. Your mistakes should teach you valuable lessons. It is good to learn from the mistakes of
others too. Doing the same things that didn’t work could be the height of foolishness. Learn quickly by
learning from the learned.
Be selective with people you associate with. People who mess up with their work because of
complaining, cheating or doing irrelevant things are not a good influence to your career. If you want to
get a refutation, you might as well emulate those who are doing well in their job. People with negative
mental attitude may drag you down. It is better to travel alone than to be with a person who has a negative
way of looking at reality. Learn from people who have something positive to contribute to your career.

 While it is wise to learn from your experience, it is wiser to learn from the experience of the wise.
326. Grow in Yourself to Grow in Your Service
Quality should not be something we have to achieve but something we need to practice on a daily basis.
The kind of attitude we have reflects the kind of action we will show. Believe that there is always a big
room for improvement in the way you handle yourself and your experiences. Ideas can grow, skills are
enhanced, abilities are improved. We have to assume an attitude that believes in adaptation, improvement
and growth. It takes a discerning attitude to realize that there is so much potential inside us, that we can
increase our abilities and that it is always possible to grow in so many areas of our life. To be able to offer
an up-to-date quality service, growth is a must.

 When you refuse to grow, people will outgrow you. Your personal growth is also for people’s
benefit.