Most of us have some sort of goals, aspirations, missions, values, etc. Yet, we want things to be just right, if not perfect, before we concentrate on achieving them.
When things get tough, we start wishing they'd be better and that wishing comes across as whining.
In the books QBQ and Flipping the Switch, Miller teaches the reader to learn to ask What and How questions; What can I do to make money with what I have? How can I succeed without spending money marketing myself? What does this company have that can help me succeed? What makes me think the grass is greener elsewhere?
Thinking outside the box has been a big thing over the past few years. It was probably 10 or 11 years ago that a former colleague gave me one of those little contraptions that sets on your desk; it was a stick figure of a guy setting outside a box with the caption - Think Outside the Box.
I realize that he gave that to me because I seemed to be a "think outside the box kind of guy." But, I'm not. I can dream with the best, but I like to work with what I have and improve on it. There's not much I've ever done that wasn't a continuation of something else.
And when I've stumbled? I pick myself up, brush myself off, and get going again. And I pray I learn from that previous stumble.
Learn? That means to change. Learning without changing is some kind of useless head knowledge.
Work well, Pray well, and succeeding where we are - in the box, improving on what we have, but not looking for something greener.
To that end.....
Danny
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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