| Efforts without dividends are as good as efforts not | | | | to work and his official problems back home. |
| put in at all. There is a popular quote "intelligent work | | | | This makes his/her productivity comes down thus |
| is better than hard work". All of us would have at | | | | hampering their chances to go on top. In a similar |
| some point or other come across individuals who | | | | manner official problems obstruct the harmony of a |
| wander aimlessly without any specific goal in life. | | | | happy family destabilizing it beyond repair if left |
| They are ready to accept whatever fate throws up | | | | unnoticed. |
| at them. There will be stray cases when this type of | | | | Best example that can be stated is the case of the |
| individuals taste success but again it depends on | | | | famous billionaire warren buffet "he says home and |
| chance and seldom strategy. | | | | business are separate entities and should not be |
| A stoic approach will not get a person to ascend to | | | | intertwined". |
| the top.these individuals neither the will to go to the | | | | Never go off balance because success can be |
| top nor cultivate their faculties to go to the top. | | | | intoxicating. The only barrier to achieve more success |
| Being on top is contextual and subjective. Being on | | | | is success itself. Keep your feet firmly planted and go |
| top for a person may mean procuring his own | | | | to the top in life |
| apartment and drawing a comfortable pension | | | | Real time examples! |
| whereas for another it may mean becoming the CEO | | | | There was an American millionaire Mr. Andrew |
| of his own business venture.it is up to the individual's | | | | Carnegie. He started his life at a very young age by |
| foresight and stern goals in deciding how his life | | | | doing odd jobs and venturing to business and |
| should be panning out in tune with his strong willed | | | | gradually became one of the biggest millionaires in the |
| goals. | | | | world in the 1920s. He was the largest steel |
| The importance of attitude is often understated. A | | | | manufacturer in the US. He had around 43 millionaires |
| positive attitude can prove to be the difference | | | | working under him at his peak, no mean feat in the |
| between astounding success and drastic failure. It is | | | | 1920s. When he was asked his success mantra with |
| the way of successful people to see the opportunity | | | | his employees he said "I look for gold when I dig |
| to start a construction company in the wake of an | | | | deep; I never look for dirt however plenty it might |
| earthquake. Attitude is not what the individual tries to | | | | be". This inherently meant that he had to dig deep |
| project to the outer world but what remains inside | | | | beyond people's faulty traits and search for positives |
| him is similar to a helium balloons flight in the air | | | | to reach the pinnacle by making them work for their |
| irrespective of the color of the balloon. It is the | | | | own and his development. There are obviously no |
| helium "inside" which makes it sour high. This is similar | | | | shortcuts to move to the top rung in life. |
| to the attitude inside a person. | | | | Tips: |
| So lets us hammer the nail on the prized question! | | | | - The next important aspect to achieve the top |
| How to get successful? | | | | position is realizing one's own potential and believing in |
| In a study conducted at Harvard University it was | | | | individual abilities. |
| found that more than 85% of samples that | | | | - So to achieve success and go to the top position |
| comprised of executives of all levels of management, | | | | we should realize and hone our inherent latent |
| were promoted only because of their positive and | | | | potential. |
| exuberant attitude. It was only 15% of the time | | | | - Try to adopt a Win- win strategy and fair play. It is |
| when they got promoted for extraordinary skill or | | | | better way to Go to the top than under cutting an |
| loyalty with the company. The foundation corner | | | | opponent. |
| stone to achieve success and go to the top is | | | | - Reinforce mentally that competition can only fuel |
| attitude. Success is neither a mystery nor a secret. If | | | | better performance and helps us to go to the top. |
| some individuals manage to go on top compared to | | | | Because when the going gets tough it's the tough |
| the rest with the same top and aid they do so by | | | | who get going. |
| investing the most valuable asset of all "people" | | | | - Believe in your abilities to reach the top with élan. |
| successful corporate leaders were posed the | | | | A story to drive home the fact....Once a stranded |
| question" if you had a magic wand and are allowed to | | | | eagle's egg hatched along with the egg of a prairie |
| change one thing in their employees, what would it | | | | chicken. The eagle was brought up along with the |
| be?" | | | | other chickens and made to believe it can only make |
| The answer was unanimous, "employee attitudes" | | | | short flights. One fine day it gazed up at the sky and |
| The next important thing to be on top of one's life is | | | | spotted an eagle.On querying to the mother hen it |
| to believe that the human being is after all a holistic | | | | came to know that was an eagle and poultry can |
| combination. If a man has a data entry work in his | | | | never aspire to achieve those dizzy heights. The |
| workplace he does not carry only his head and | | | | eagle spent its life as a farm chicken clucking at grain |
| hands, which will do the specified job for him to | | | | and worms and dying in the farm itself. If it had |
| work. He goes as a single entity and comes back as | | | | realized its true latent potential and its identity it could |
| one. | | | | also been on top doing justice to its potential. |
| An individual should never take all his family problems | | | | |