Learning: Secret to Lifelong, Success
Everything we are, will be, have, or are yet to have is a direct consequence of what we learn and apply. Learning and acting upon our knowledge enable us to make meaningful contributions.
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know. You must continue to seek out new perspectives and truths to enhance your ability to achieve your Core Desires. Continual learning is critical and affects every area of your life. Learning is a lifelong process and should be fun and exciting, bringing you increased levels of success and enjoyment.
AN INVESTMENT IN YOURSELF
Learning is an investment in yourself. If you make wise investments in things that go to your heart, you'll receive fabulous dividends. If you invest in the wrong information, the data begins to collect dust in the memory banks of your mind.
If you have any problems in your life-be they financial, marital, or parental-you will have to learn new ways to solve them. Most problems are created by the choices you made with the knowledge-or lack of knowledge-you had at the time. If things are to be different, you will have to seek new learning opportunities and fresh wisdom. If you don't learn more, you will stay stuck at the same level of happiness, income, and wisdom.
I know men who refuse to seek marriage counseling when their marriages are falling apart and they're very unhappy. They think that they are in the right, even when the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that they need to make adjustments. This kind of thinking is extremely limiting. This hardheadedness-and hard-heartedness-results when people would rather have unhappy marriages than face the errors of their ways. Their Core Desire is to protect fragile egos and low self-images.
Many people choose to be foolish and learn instead from hard experience. It is said that knowledge is power. Knowledge is not power. The proper use of knowledge is power, and wisdom. If wisdom is a Core Desire, you'll be more than willing to learn and apply what you learn. A little wisdom begets more wisdom.
By Jack M. Zufelt
"Mentor To Millions
Learning Secret to Lifelong Success - To learn more about this author, visit Jack Zufelt's Website.
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Dianne Crampton
Dianne Crampton is an executive leadership coach, team culture consultant, author and president of TIGERS Success Series, Inc. Dianne has been helping CEO's and Executives connect their employees to their core values and goals for over 20 years using the trademarked TIGERS team culture process, which stands for trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. To download a free white paper on behaviors that build strong teams and behaviors that will predictably tear them down go here.
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Leanne Hoagland-Smith
Are your sales where you want them to be? Will you be one of the few who achieves sales or business success or one of the many who have failed to change? Are you tired of being told you are like everyone else?
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Linda Richardson
Linda Richardson is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training and performance improvement company. As a recognized leader in the industry, she has won the coveted Stevie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sales Excellence and she was identified by Training Industry, Inc. as one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.”
Ms. Richardson is credited with the movement to Consultative Selling and is the author of ten books on selling and sales management, including Sales Coaching — Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach, and Stop Telling, Start Selling. She teaches sales and management at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton Executive Development Center. Linda is a frequent speaker at industry and client conferences, has been published extensively in industry and training journals, and has been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Nation’s Business, Selling Power, Success, and The Conference Board Magazine.
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