Why are some people succesful in every little detail of their lives?
They are:
·
healthy
·
somewhat
wealthy
·
have
responsible kids
·
in charge of
their career
·
succesful in
their jobs
·
etc. etc.
What is that these people do?
There is a pattern in the
behaviour and the way these people handle challenges and obstacles in life.
Life in the fast lane
Today we live a life with
little room left for contemplation...
We live in a time where informations are
overwhelming and if we should cope with and deal with all this information we
would be buried alive in an information overflow – resulting in stress,
frustrated parents, annoying co-workers etc. etc. many of the symptoms we
already see today in the modern society.
Information overflow
Today in 2012 we have 24-7 access to
e-mail, social media, and company specific applications. Not only do we have
access we also seem to be growing an addiction to this access. What is the
first thing you do in the morning when you get up? It’s not unlikely that you
check your e-mail, or facebook, or read a breaking news newsletter from your
preferred newsprovider.
So what happens when you
rush down lifes highway worried about being overtaken by the other trafficants?
How often do you stop and check whether you are going in the right direction?
Are you driving the right car? Are your passengers the ones you really like to
be driving with?
What does ressourceful people do?
Ressourceful people are
good at taking the next exit on the highway and make a break. In this break
they ASSESS.
Assess
Where are you? Where are
you with your familiy, your job, your clients, your deals, your career?
Once in a while we need to
stop up and think about where we are. Make an assessment on the status of our
life. Are we going in the right direction? Travelling in the righ car? What
about the passengers?
Instead of just rushing
along ressourceful people stop and think. They assess their current situation.
Reflect
However it is not enough
just to stop up and assess your situation. You NEED to make som reflections.
Why are you where you are?
Why are you driving this particular highway? Why are you driving south instead
of north? Why are you driving a Ford instead of a Lexus? Why are you alone in
the car?
Plan
When you in detail have
made your reflections and found explanations to your current situation it’s
much easier to plan what to do in order to improve on the different parameters.
Some elements of your
planning could be:
- I need to turn the car
around (I’m going the wrong direction)
- I need a bigger car
- I need passengers in my
car
You might find that some
of your plans include other people. So make a team and focus on the same goals.
Execute
When the planning is
carefully completed – you need to start executing on the different actions.
Perhaps you need co-workers to help you with the execution, perhaps you need
your family. However once the planning is complete, proper execution of your
plan is much easier.
This is basically the
secret behind many ressourceful people. They Assess, Reflect, Plan and Execute.
That is exactly the
mindset that ARPEDIO is trying to implement. And now you know why the first
four letters of the company name are A-R-P-E. Dio is italian for God and that
is the level (according to Maslow) we all strive for.
I feel very priviliged
being on board this exiting project which you can read much more about on the
ARPEDIO website.
ARPEDIO is a softwareapplication company which strives to deliver unprecedented software
applications to business professionals. The first app is targeting salesprofessionals in competetive markets with complex sales cycles.
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