Prepare for Your Journey to Success
Colin Thompson
Managing Partner Cavendish/Author/International Speaker/Mentor/Partner
Preparation is the mark of a professional. Preparation is also the mark of a successful person in any field. As you move upward in any occupation, you will find that the top people spend far more time in preparation than the average person does. The top 10 percent in any field are always more thoroughly prepared in every detail than those who struggle for a living in the same occupation.
Guard Against the Worst
For me, as a professional business person, speaker and seminar leader, the worst thing that could happen would be for my luggage to be lost and for me to arrive without the clothes and seminar materials that I need for my speaking engagement. To guard against this situation, I carry all my essentials on board with me, never out of my sight. Because of this habit of advance planning, I have never had an insurmountable issue because of baggage delays or losses. On the way to your destination, in the achievement of your most important goal, continually ask yourself, "What are the worst possible things that can happen?" And then guard against them.
Plan for Any Eventuality
The mark of a superior thinker is that he or she assumes that the worst will happen and makes provisions against it. Napoleon Bonaparte was once asked if he believed in luck. He replied, “Yes, I do. I believe in bad luck. I believe I will always have it, and I plan accordingly.”
"A Goal Without a Plan is Only a Dream…"
If you dream of achieving great things in life, planning for making them a reality on paper is vital to your success. The Life Planning Process is a step-by-step manual to help you set and achieve your goals. Using this Action Workbook will guarantee that you stay on course, on time and on target. Take on board `Accelerate with Impact` - ISBN: 978-1-84549-289-2
Refuse to be Passive
My travelling experiences have taught me two things. First, prepare for the worst. No matter what anyone tells you, be prepared for the possibility that he or she will not follow through. Second, be proactive, not passive. Instead of becoming angry or depressed, get busy and get going. Find an alternative. Refuse to accept the current situation if it is not satisfactory. Instead of waiting for things to happen, make things happen.
Prepare a Checklist
Pilots carefully review a checklist prior to every flight. Even if they have flown thousands of hours and have been active pilots for twenty years, they still go through the checklist every single time. You should prepare a checklist as well. No matter how many times you have made the same trip, you should review your checklist once more. Never trust to memory. The failure to check just one critical detail can leave you stranded and maybe even put your destination out of reach. As you proceed toward your personal destinations and struggle toward your goals, the consequences of not following your checklist will not be as severe. But it is not unusual for a business to go broke or a person to lose all his or her money because someone failed to pay attention to a critical detail.
Action Exercise
Get in the habit of making checklists for big and small tasks. Make checklists for travelling and for work related tasks.
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What are your plans?
Also, to help you become more successful please take on board these powerful publications that show you the way to be successful in business and in life as follows:
To help you succeed in your journey for success please take on board the comprehensive publications:
`Accelerate with Impact` - ISBN: 978-1-84549-289-2
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accelerate-Impact-business-personal-growth/dp/1845492897
and
`Create Your Own Success Story` ISBN 978-1-84549-260-1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Create-Your-Own-Success-Story/dp/1845492609
To building strong relationships, this is your future for success...
Makes all the difference......Enjoy Your Journey...
Have fun, learn heaps, and remember life is all about commitment, have the right attitude to make `your` own success in life with others!
May all your success be fun and may all your fun be successful!
Make 2017 AND BEYOND to `Manage your Goals for Success`...
Now go and be successful and appreciated.
Are you programmed for success?
How are you developing your character for Success and Happiness?
Now go and be more successful.
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About the Author Colin Thompson
Colin is a former successful Managing Director of Transactional/Document Manufacturing Plants, Document Management/Workflow Solutions companies and other organisations, former Group Chairman of the Academy for Chief Executives, Non-Executive Director, Mentor - RFU Leadership Academy, Mentor - Coventry University, Mentor - The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Business Advisor NHS Deanery, author/writer Business Advice Section for IPEX, Graphic Display World, News USA, Graphic Start, plus many others globally, helping companies raise their `bottom-line` and `increase cash flow`. Plus, helping individuals to be successful in business and life in general. Author of several publications, research reports, guides, presentations, business and educational models on CD-ROM/Software/PDF and over 4000 articles/reports and 35 books published on business and educational subjects worldwide. Plus, International Speaker/Visiting University Professor.
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