Get the Best of All Worlds!
Author: admin | Filed under: Success | Tags: Career Advice, Confidence, Personal Productivity, Success, Technqiues | No Comments »Lately, I discovered the meaning of having ideal situations. It is a POWERFUL concept and I would like to share with you today! The idea behind this powerful concept is the word, ideal. Whenever your boss tells you he wants this situation to happen ideally, it means that he want all possible positive outcomes of the situation to happen! However, as we know that it is impossible to achieve that in the fast moving real world.
You must have heard from motivation speakers about living your dreams. Thinking is believing (following the doing). But is that possible in the real world now? We have tons of baggage to carry along with us in the journey of life. We have to make money in order so survive. How can we think ideally and achieve the ideal outcome?
It is possible in some sense if we believed and hold on to this belief! It goes the same at work as well! Ideal situation wants the best of both worlds. NO! Ideal situation wants the BEST OF ALL WORLDS! That is what it means. This will make us plan and execute to have the ideal outcome. But what we are doing at work is compromise. We adopt a give-and-take mentality with whatever situations that are given to us. We work with our limited resources and optimize the maximum outcome. We work with our colleagues to achieve results that are partially beneficial between both of us. It’s not ideal at all!
Now, let’s compare between ideal situations and compromise. Ideal situations plans for getting an ideal outcome while compromise plans and executes for a compromise outcome between both sides. We should achieve more than what our normal (compromise) baseline!
From young we were taught to live our dreams. But when we step into the real world, it is almost impossible to vision what we dreamt of in the young. We were taught to compromise on resources. What must go up somewhere will result in something going down somewhere. When you want to earn more cash by meeting more clients after work, you get less time to spend with your family for dinner. It is a zero-sum equation. But now, think Ideal situation! You want to meet more clients after work yet you want to have time to spend with your family for dinner every night! You work towards that by planning effective schedule, by meeting targeted high ROI clients! You get your sales and you get more time with your family!
That’s why; thinking (and planning and executing) of achieving ideal situation is such a powerful concept in personal productivity and success! Now do you compromise your position or negotiation power in order to keep things moving? At the end of the day, do you get what you desired? Is it what you want in the end? Can you feel the potential of this concept if you were to apply it to your daily life and work?
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