Business is impossible if done alone.
If you cannot get along with people, you will fail. Your effort will go futile. You will say - I failed. You will say - I learned a lesson. But why fail when you have a choice to win?
Failure should be a mistake and not a choice.
So, you should do everything to succeed in the first attempt. And that road to success begins with personal mastery.
"Personal Mastery precedes professional mastery"
"You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself."
"Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships."
—Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
How to build Personal Mastery?
Read these two books:
1—The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
2—Attitude is Everything - Jeff Keller
Summarize. Then, apply what you read.
Albert Gray writes: The secret of success of every person who has ever been successful — lies in the fact that s/he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.
Most people simply read. They get a shot of a feel-good hormone called dopamine and they are satisfied with it.
If mere reading would make people successful, every reader would have a sexy mansion, a supercar, a chiseled body, a monk persona, and a happy family life. That's not happening. So, don’t be like everyone. Be unique. Take instead the RWAFI approach.
Read — Give daily food to your brain
Write — Digest the food
Apply — Utilize the energy
Feedback — Minimize effort
Improve — Strive to reach a superhuman level
Now, you should not delimit yourself to personal mastery. Focus full-time every day on personal mastery, and you will go bankrupt. You don’t want such a thing to happen to you. You want to flourish. That's why you also need professional mastery.
How to build professional mastery?
Step1: Learn How To Learn - Take this course
Step 2: Take the RWAFI approach to professional learning.
Step 3: Build a personal knowledge library — Document your journey by building a slip box.
Step 4: Write professional lessons in your daily journal
Step 5: Start writing online to build your personal brand.
To sum up:
Successful people do what needs to be done even if they don’t like doing it.
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