TipsForSuccess: Joy for Your Job

Joy for Your Job "Work is only as good as it's enjoyed, not as it's paid." -- L. Ron Hubbard (from The Problems of Work) When you do what you love, your odds of success are much greater. You have more passion, more energy and more fun. When you enjoy your job, you look forward to Monday mornings. Your days fly by. You make steady progress. Work enjoyment is contagious. The people around you get along better. They follow your example and get more done. So what if you do not enjoy your work? The Parts You Hate Every job, every profession and every business includes distasteful aspects--the complicated, boring, dirty or difficult parts of the job. Yet conquering these difficulties, and enjoying your job anyway, is how you succeed. To get rich, simply find and perform an important job most people can't do or won't do. For example, drilling tiny holes in people's teeth or performing surgery on people's stomachs is very tough work, but it makes dentists and physicians wealthy. If you have no love for your job, the difficult parts become unbearable. You hate going to work. You hate the people. You want to quit. When you love the purpose and results of your work, the difficulties are easier to deal with. You take pride in conquering them. The benefits of the job outweigh the liabilities. Five Steps to Getting More Enjoyment from Your Work 1. List what you like about your work. What makes it worth doing? For example, working with good people, improving your customers' lives, doing a technically perfect job and so on. 2. List what you dislike about your work. What makes you want to quit? For example, working long hours, customer complaints, health risks, mean bosses and so on. 3. List your purposes for this job. Why did you start? What is the big picture? Why do you do this work? 4. Review and add items to the above three lists. Continue until you feel more joy for your work. When the lists are balanced, your passion takes over and you love your job. 5. If the four steps above do not help you find joy for your job, you need to make some changes. Change your routine. Work with different people. Do a better job. Transfer to a different department. Change directions, get a new job or learn a new profession. Change a negative attitude. Learn to accept help. Stop cutting corners. Keep making changes until the joy of your job is greater than its difficulties. If you own a business that gives you no joy, change it as well. Make it into an operation that makes you happy. Replace difficult employees. Delegate more responsibilities. Improve the quality of the service or product. Make the operation bigger or smaller. Sell out and start another business. Go! When you love your work, you recognize opportunities and make better decisions. You know where you are going. You are on the road to your major, significant success. Take your foot off the brakes and floor it! Copyright © 2006 TipsForSuccess.org. All rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. Take better control of your life with the TipsForSuccess coaching website at www.TipsForSuccessCoaching.org. For permission to copy, print or post this article, go to www.tipsforsuccess.org/reprint_info.htm or click here. To subscribe, buy books, contact us or learn more about TipsForSuccess.org, click here.

TipsForSuccess: Your Unlimited Power

Your Unlimited Potential A "potentiality" is defined as the capacity for growth or improvement; a possibility; a power. For example, if you were sitting on a box of dynamite, you would be sitting on a potentiality. The dynamite isn't exploding . . . but it could. The fact is: You ARE sitting on a box of dynamite; and it's big! "Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe." -- L. Ron Hubbard Right now, you are capable of making improvements in your career, your finances and your life that are more significant and satisfying than anything you have ever done. You can potentially shatter your past achievement records, eliminate your worst problems and feel absolutely great. Everything you have done in the past becomes minor compared to what you can do in the future. Most people have the wrong idea about success. They believe "you can only do so much," or "you just need to keep on trying" or "success takes time." Such thinking slows you down and limits your lifetime achievements. Instead, simply take a new view of yourself, your habits and your thinking. And then ACT! To make a significant, instant improvement in your career and life, you must jump out of your rut. Overcome your addiction to safe, conservative plans. Break out of old patterns and find new attitudes. Don't settle for small improvements. Do something bold and exciting. Find a destination you passionately want and make it happen! Your Destination When you plan a vacation, you don't start by examining the route. You start by choosing a destination. The route becomes obvious when you focus on the goal. And the bigger the destination, the more exciting the trip. What is the most exciting destination you can imagine for yourself? What objective makes your heart pound? What goal lifts your mood? These are your potentialities. These are your dreams. These are what you can believe in! To get there, start by concentrating on the end result. Put yourself in the picture your dreams. Create a vision of you reaching your goals. Then act. Take a small step, a large step or a leap. Any progress will lead to more progress, as long as you remember to think of your ultimate success. The time to start is now. Focus on a goal and light the fuse!   Copyright © 2006 TipsForSuccess.org. All rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. Take better control of your life with the TipsForSuccess coaching website at www.TipsForSuccessCoaching.org. For permission to copy, print or post this article, go to www.tipsforsuccess.org/reprint_info.htm or click here. To subscribe, buy books, contact us or learn more about TipsForSuccess.org, click here.

TipsForSuccess: You Have the Power to Control How People Treat You

TipsForSuccess: Brilliant Ideas Are Old Ideas

You Have the Power to Control How People Treat You You can make people like you or hate you; respect you or criticize you; support you or chop you down. You can also get people to trust you, support you and help you succeed. The way you do this is outlined by L. Ron Hubbard in The Way to Happiness. "Try to Treat Others as You Would Want Them to Treat You" "Just figure out how you would want people to treat you. "You would possibly, first of all, want to be treated justly: you wouldn't want people lying about you or falsely or harshly condemning you. Right? "You would probably want your friends and companions to be loyal: you would not want them to betray you." "You would want people to be fair in their dealings with you. "You would want them to be honest with you and not cheat you. Correct? "You might want to be treated kindly and without cruelty." "You would probably prefer to be given respect, not insulted. "Possibly you would want others to be polite to you and also treat you with dignity. Right? "You might like people to admire you. "When you did something for them you would possibly like people to appreciate you. Correct? "You would probably like others to be friendly toward you. "From some you might want love. "And above all, you wouldn't want these people just pretending these things, you would want them to be quite real in their attitudes and to be acting with integrity*." "It requires no great stretch of imagination for one to recognize that if he were to be treated that way regularly by others around him, his life would exist on a pleasant level." -- L. Ron Hubbard (*integrity: honesty, truthfulness) Three Steps to Get People to Treat You the Way You Want to Be Treated 1. Make a list of each person you wish to influence: spouse, children, parents, employees, bosses, co-workers, colleagues and so on. 2. Next to each name, write how you want them to treat you. 3. Then write how you will treat that person, in that same way. In some cases, you might be amazed at how quickly this works. In other cases, you may need to persist for a long time, so don't give up! You can learn more about The Way to Happiness, or download a free copy of the complete booklet, at www.twth.org. You can also buy a copy of the booklet from TipsForSuccess at www.tipsforsuccess.org/way-to-happiness.htm Copyright © 2006 TipsForSuccess.org. All rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. Take better control of your life with the TipsForSuccess coaching website at www.TipsForSuccessCoaching.org. For permission to copy, print or post this article, go to www.tipsforsuccess.org/reprint_info.htm or click here. To subscribe, buy books, contact us or learn more about TipsForSuccess.org, click here.

Brilliant Ideas Are Old Ideas George was tired of being broke. Every day was a struggle. "How will I pay my bills? I'm going deeper into debt. I can't afford to buy anything." So George constantly worked on new ways to make money. "If I could invent a new can opener, all my money problems would be over." "Maybe I could sell funny hats on the Internet." "If I found some investors, I could open a new underwater restaurant." George had tried a few ideas, such as manufacturing a razor blade that never got dull, building the world's largest tree swing and a selling lamps made of salt. All his new ventures had failed. To survive, he had to work at McDonald's as an assistant manager. George felt he should solve his money problems with new ideas. Unfortunately, unproven ideas are often wrong. Affluence "Affluence* Attainment, consists of: ... Doing the things that won, not new things untried as yet." -- L. Ron Hubbard (Affluence: abundance; wealth) You enjoy affluence, not from new ideas, but from things that have already worked. George decides to try out this approach. He asks himself, "What has made me money in the past?" He lists the following: * Selling shoes at a store paid $350 per week. * Selling sunglasses at weekend festivals paid $1000 per weekend. * Buying old cars, fixing them up and selling them. The last car he restored, a 1961 Ford Mustang, earned $1500 profit with two weeks of work. * Working at McDonald's pays $560 per week. George realizes he can go back to his two best-paying jobs immediately: sunglasses and car restoration. He convinces the sunglass company to give him 200 pairs on credit so he can sell them at an outdoor market that weekend. He then finds a wrecked 1988 Mercedes and makes a deal to buy it for $500, on credit. George quits his McDonald's job. He makes $800 selling sunglasses that weekend. He spends three weeks on the Mercedes and sells it for $4500. George uses old, proven ideas to boost his income. How Businesses Achieve Affluence When a business sticks to proven ideas, and avoids untried methods, it usually succeeds. For example, the owner of an auto dealership notices his car sales are dropping. His marketing director says, "We need a new TV commercial. Let's use elephants! We've never tried it before. It'll be great!" The smart owner says, "Let's wait on the elephants. Instead, find which of our old commercials worked best. What made our sales jump up?" The marketing director comes back the next day and says, "I hate to tell you this, but our best TV commercial is that one of you wearing diapers and crying. You swore to never show that commercial again." The owner says, "I hate that commercial. Oh well, show it again. In fact, buy twice as many time slots! And schedule the film crew to shoot a new commercial with me in the diaper. I'm really going to cry this time!" Car sales and income jump to new levels. Doing things that won is essential to good business. Copying Ideas If you do not have anything that has made you succeed in the past, you must still avoid new ideas. Instead, do things that worked for others. For example, you want a career helping people and making a decent income. You write down the careers of everyone you know. You realize your uncle Jay, who is a dentist, helps a lot of people and makes an excellent income. You take your uncle to lunch and ask how he became a successful dentist. As another example, you want a successful marriage and family. You find who has been happily married for a long time and has a successful family. You learn all you can about what helped them succeed and then copy their ideas. If you want to succeed in any kind of job or business, interview the people who are succeeding. Find out what worked for them. Use these ideas as they are proven, not untried as yet. Luckily, most successful people enjoy talking about their success secrets and do not worry about competition. Doing things that won for you or others is reliable route to success. Four Steps to Boost Your Income 1. Make a list of income ideas you are using that are new and unproven. 2. Work out a plan to drop these idea. 3. Make a list of income ideas that have worked for you or others. 4. Next to each item on both lists, write down how you can use these ideas to boost your income. Copyright © 2006 TipsForSuccess.org. All rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. Take better control of your life with the TipsForSuccess coaching website at www.TipsForSuccessCoaching.org. For permission to copy, print or post this article, go to www.tipsforsuccess.org/reprint_info.htm or click here. To subscribe, buy books, contact us or learn more about TipsForSuccess.org, click here.

Fw: TipsForSuccess: What Makes You Happy?

 

What Makes You Happy? What makes you satisfied and content? Why do you get bored? Where is the joy in life? "Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals. There is an instant of contemplation* of the last goal in which one is content. But contentment becomes boredom immediately that new goals do not come to view. There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life." -- L. Ron Hubbard (*contemplation = thoughtful observation; meditation) Let's examine three parts of this definition. 1. "There is an instant of contemplation of the last goal in which one is content." Think of goals you have reached in the past. How did you feel right after your wedding? When you got your first job? When you graduated from school? Take a fast second to contemplate the last goal you reached. Perhaps you now feel content? 2. "But contentment becomes boredom immediately that new goals do not come to view." For example, planning a vacation is exciting. But toward the end of a vacation many people are bored as they no longer have a goal. Arguments during honeymoons are common, if the newlyweds do not set goals for their marriage. Planning your retirement and the first day of retirement is a thrill. But the joy of freedom quickly turns to boredom and early death if you do not work on new goals. "There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life." Think of a time you were very bored. Had you completed a major goal without starting a new one? 3. "Happiness could be defined as the emotion of progress toward desirable goals." We can use this definition to understand unhappiness as well. When were you last unhappy? In each case, you probably 1) had no goal, 2) were trying to reach an undesirable goal, or 3) you were making no progress toward a goal. Making yourself happy is not difficult. Simply chose desirable goals and make progress toward them! Give it a Try! First, select a desirable goal. If you don't have a desirable goal, make one up. What do you really desire? Second, write down ONE SINGLE THING you can do right now toward this goal. It has to be an action step. Not thinking about it or talking about it. Actual physical motion. Next, do it! Take that one step right now. Make some small, but real progress. You might be surprised at how easy it is. Finally, notice if making this little bit of progress makes you happier. Copyright © 2006 TipsForSuccess.org. All rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. Take better control of your life with the TipsForSuccess coaching website at www.TipsForSuccessCoaching.org. For permission to copy, print or post this article, go to www.tipsforsuccess.org/reprint_info.htm or click here. To subscribe, buy books, contact us or learn more about TipsForSuccess.org, click here.