Insights
Helping others win and seeking to win yourself. You win the biggest victories yourself by helping others win. Being their trusted ally is a more powerful position than being the last man standing after a battle.Always focus on the war and never on the battle – always on the long term goal and never on the short term victory. The easiest victories are the petty ones. The truly important victories are few and far between. The critical insight is that short term never really matters. Wining battles does not win wars.In the long run, business success built on serving others helps you accumulate capital you need to have a lasting positive impact on people. With the value of service propelling you when you compete, who’s going to win? Who’s going to make a difference? Definitely not the competitor who wants to win for the sake of personal rewards.Fighting against what you don’t like is less important and less productive than fighting for what you do like. Making more of what’s good is more virtuous and more productive than trying to eliminate what’s bad. By winning the far more important war to be better people ourselves, to create more of what’s good rather than try to eliminate the things we think are bad. The good we create will drive the bad out without our having to play the negatives roles of warriors against the bad. We have the greater privilege of being for something better, instead.If you look at yourself and see some failings, focus on what you actually like about yourself, about what you do right and make that part of you stronger, instead of trying to beat down the dark side. You can fight what’s wrong by falling more in love with what’s right.kAkA.hUnTeR
Two men looked out from the prison bars. One saw mud, the other saw stars.
spoke at : 4/29/2008 09:13:00 PM