The Art Of Aligning The 'Self' With A Future Challenge || Why 'Being Authentic' Is One Of The Biggest Myths In Business
To double your income, triple your investment in self-development. - Robin Sharma
It's a common belief that 'being yourself' is a key to success. To be honest, it's been my own strategy for a long time until I changed it.
Growth in business especially requires a corresponding self-development. If you want to achieve something you've never done, you need to be up to go all in - and undergo a complete makeover.
Those who pursue enduring growth, need to align their whole selfs with their future vision.
Here's to the importance of self-development in the process of change.
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Rise to the challenge!
One of the essential drivers to success is a perfectly developed consciousness for the own 'self'.
As long as you don't know who you are, it's going to be complicated to defined who you wanna become. Also growing the personality that will be able to implement your future plans requires time and discipline.
If you did a survey among top managers, I bet there'd be not only one who didn't need to change his own 'self' in order to come further in business.
Nobody is born as a leader
Habits, customs and established processes need to be challenged and re-aligned with the new focus.
Strong character traits need to be strengthened in such way that weak points tend to disappear. Everybody is good at something, and with hunger for success comes willingness to improve yourself.
Once you've begun to notice the impact, it'll start to get itchy.
Big footsteps need big feet to be filled. So go grow them!
We rise to new challenges and dreams that are bigger than ourselves.
Best (of luck),
Marly -
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Comment on your nice wisdom
"Being Authentic"
Really the greatest fairy tale
What matters is the quality and utilitarian
Self development
Criticism of the dominant behavior .. With the will of the solution
Is the best solution
So true!! I started my own business 3.5 years go and it has been one the hardest things I've ever done...I'm definitely not naturally a leader but I have had to step up in this role and it still challenges me daily. Thanks for another awesome post!
Great insight and congratulations to your achievements! Thanks for stopping by and adding a real story to these rather theoretical essay :-)
Absolutely true. I think people who are really successful end up giving pretty bad advice about success sometimes. They say "be yourself" and "just do what you love."
The thing is, if you push yourself to become great, you have to become a person who is great. Once you achieve those dreams, that successful person is who you are, so those people who say that aren't lying. It is who they are, but that doesn't mean they started out that way. It doesn't mean everyone is bound for greatness no matter who they are. You have to become that great person, then you can be yourself and find success.
As far as doing what you love, people who become great at something will undoubtedly love it. Does everyone love doing math? Unlikely. Would people enjoy being a CEO of a revolutionary tech company with fame and brand value? Absolutely. That's a total dream job. I'm sure the person who has that job is really passionate about it and loves what they do. That doesn't mean they loved what they did when they had to study math to get into the career path that led to being a CEO. It doesn't mean they didn't have to work at jobs they didn't love along the way. Planning to pursue a job that you love is important, but you'll never get where you want to go if you aren't willing to do some unpleasant things along the way.
Anyways, great post! It's a point of view that is unfortunately hard to find these days.
Great read! Thank you @reidlist.
Even if you're in the lucky position of turning a passion into your business, there will be always parts of it you don't like. Even the best chef in the world started cutting onions one day. Only those who are willing to pass these different levels, will really come to the top in the end.
Again, thanks for stopping by and sharing your valuable thoughts :-)
I am not sure about this sentence "Would people enjoy being a CEO of a revolutionary tech company with fame and brand value? Absolutely. That's a total dream job."
Sure, you can substitute being a cover photographer for Time magazine, a star runningback for a super-bowl winning team, a board member of a non profit that changes the world. I think it's safe to say being the CEO of Google or Apple is a dream job though.
You are right!! we have no right to say what people's dream should be, since that dream can be the right to have a Dream.
We all need to keep growing, and to grow we need to do some introspection. Funny, I was thinking about this same subject and about recognizing our mistakes and try to change them to keep growing, I made a similar post a few days ago. I feel this post is very much in the same line.
Heads up, Steem voter and the such are down for this week :/
Thanks for your support (that monster upvote)!
Good to see that we were blog posting in a similar direction. I think the difference between our articles is that you were talking about decision making and recognizing mistakes, while I was pretending to say that we need to change our personalities to be able to achieve our goals - not necessarily avoiding mistakes since this is human, but working hard on our character traits. People tend to strive for the exact opposite of what/who they are, and that's a great benefit when it comes to living your dreams. An introvert wants and needs to become an extrovert in ordert o achieve his mission, a quiet person starts to discover her talkative self in order to verbalize her target... etc.
Seems that Steemvoter is controlling the whole platform already. That's scary!
Well, not avoiding, recognizing them to correct them to change and improve, i think the key wordson both are "change and achieve" ^^
Great insight and once one has the education and/or experience for their particular project or endeavor there needs to be a dedication to seeing the growth and the finished project. Any project has problems but to be successful we need to commit to "holding on" until success is realized.
Haha, thanks for the visualization of your words! No I'm full of compassion, that definitely hurt.
And regarding your statement: yes, persistence is key. Every new challenge is a journey full of ups and downs. Only those who are prepared for both will succeed in the end.
Autsch! (german for Ouch)
The world belongs to the courageous.
Born to be Alive fällt mir da immer - go go Marlene :-)
Always!! :-)
It seems to achive a goal, you didn't achive yet - you maybe need to grow to a version of you which you not achived yet.
This post is just great - thank you a lot!
Thanks for your compliment, I'm happy you enjoyed the read in such way!
You are very welcome! :-)
Do the math. Equation will tell the outcome.
Most people do not believe this long term equation and gives up .
Impressive,Thanks for sharing your concept.