It's Up To Me
How To Win At Work and In Your Private Life
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To be a winner at work and in your private lives, you must close the GAP between where you are and where you can be. Who you are and who you can be.
Change what you THINK about yourself. Release the POWER within you. Let it flow out and lead you to success.
Athletes and other sports stars often talk about super performances beyond their natural ability: being in the ZONE, in FLOW.
Henry David Thoreau said "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
He also said "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drum. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
So I say to you, do not conform to the crowd. Conform to Y O U!
YOU ARE UNIQUE, GIFTED, BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED!
If and when you fail, your failures are no one else's fault. You are responsible for your successes or failures.
IF IT IS TO BE IT IS UP TO ME! This is the philosophy by which you should live.
A car has over 15,000 individual parts. So too does an Airplane. You cannot make a car out of 15,000 dipsticks or steering wheels, you cannot make an airplane with only radar systems, landing gear and thrust reversers. But working together in one cohesive SYSTEM, allows cars and airplanes to move at great speed and for thousands of miles.
For your organization to work correctly, they must recognize and enhance the uniqueness of each individual employee. All the systems must first function independently and efficiently and then they must work in harmony with each other, to make the overall company a success and allow everyone to win.
As you begin to exude self confidence and start to perform in the team at work, at play or even at Church, the “Other people” will not like you if you hear the beat of another drum. They will try to control you or discourage you. But there is magic when you follow your own Vision and Dreams.
Do not be motivated by FEAR or DUTY, but rather be motivated only by LOVE. Be bold. Be positive. Be hungry. Be prepared. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have one and not be prepared.
Love yourself. Love your family. Love the organization for which you work and go as far as you can using what you have. Always PLAY to WIN. Make your company or group the BEST through doing your BEST. Believe in yourself. Believe in the power that is inside you and you will be sure to achieve greatness.
Commitment at work during organizational change
During these turbulent times that we are experiencing, Organizations have to undergo significant change just to remain healthy. If you are working for such a company, understand that CHANGE opens up doors to people's hearts and minds that otherwise stay locked-up forever.
Your company is going to need you to be the kind of employee who will invest yourselves fully in their work: To deliver DRAMATIC results: To be fully committed.
You cannot be lukewarm. You have to be hot!
Your company cannot afford to tolerate a commitment level that remains at room temperature. They do not wish LOYAL employees: These resist CHANGE and try to perpetuate an outdated CULTURE which kills the Company.
PERFORMANCE pays the bills, not loyalty. High MORALE is great. COMMITMENT works harder than loyalty and gets more done than morale does.
COMMITMENT is a WIN-WIN proposition! Everyone benefits, employees most of all.
Do you want to be a winner at work?
Take another look in your mirror. If you are not happy with what you see, then stop believing in your own weakness: Stop feeling whipped about by forces beyond your control.
Use your POWER to change your circumstances: Shape your own future within your own sphere of influence. Your contribution carries WEIGHT: The Company needs YOU!
Don't feel “Hired and forgotten” Don't be outside the “nerve center” of the Company.
GET PLUGGED IN! Demand to be included: Get the Oxygen needed to keep your commitment level up.
Know your co-workers and care for them. Mobilize them. Act with a sense of URGENCY. But stay far from the cereal people (those who are nutty, fruity and flakey) Remove any mental strongholds that could mess up your mind.
Be CONSUMED with your work. Invest fully in the organization. Use your ENERGY and CREATIVITY inside rather than in outside interests. Be totally committed to the success of the company.
Do you want to be a winner in your personal life?
Look into the mirror again and this time look yourself in the eye and decide that you want to do better. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail. Difficult situations are put in our way not to stop us, but to call out our courage and our strengths.
"The only reason we don't find solutions to our problems is because the answers interfere with our concepts”-Samuel Lewis
Change your concepts. Change the way you see and do things. Change your view of yourself and the world around you. Promise the person in the mirror that you will try the concepts outlined in this book. That you will set attainable goals and you will review your progress on a regular basis.
Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up knowing that it must run faster than the fastest Lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.
It does not matter whether you consider yourself a Lion or a Gazelle. When the sun comes up tomorrow morning, you had better be running.
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IT'S UP TO ME
It helps you the reader to understand, that your potential to become a winner is unlimited. To potentiate is to actualize your capabilities, no matter what the conditions.
As the “manager” of your life, you must take ownership of the challenges, opportunities, threats, risks, failures and successes you will encounter, if you want to be a winner. The Author takes you through the horrors of personal loss and tragedy, demonstrates how to take the hit without getting knocked out, and how to dig deep into the inner recesses of your being to overcome them and win.
Losers, when their troubles come along, tend to wallow in self pity and fall deeper into the depths of misery and despair. You will be shown how to avoid following that path. Pointers are shared to enable you to use the so-called stumbling blocks of your trials and tragedies as stepping stones, allowing you to arise out of the ashes, like the legendary phoenix.
Follow the true stories shared by the Author who has had to overcome numerous challenges to become a winner. Try the concepts he suggests, covering areas including personal motivation, effective speaking, time management, leadership, teamwork, conflict resolution, decision making, playing to win and more, which have helped him to achieve success.
It is our hope that after you have read and digested this book, that you will be motivated to go as far as you can, utilizing your unique gifts and talents to the full. If you can do that, you will become a winner at work and in your personal life.
About the Author
David A. Stuart hails from the Caribbean Island of Barbados. He received his early education there at The Combermere School, where he developed his oratorical and leadership skills, whilst an active member of the ISCF (Inter-School Christian fellowship), The Literary and Debating Society and the Army Cadet Corps. He won a three year Aviation Scholarship to England in 1967 which was sponsored by BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation, the forerunner of British Airways) and studied at Ealing Technical College, specializing in marketing. Later, he read for an EMBA at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. Mr. Stuart accumulated more than 30 years experience in commercial aviation whilst holding senior sales and management positions with British Airways and International Caribbean Airways. During that time, he became known as a dynamic speaker, organizer, motivator, salesman and winner of several sales achievement awards in England, the Caribbean and Latin America. He co-hosted a weekly TV show “The World of BA” in his native Barbados. He was for a short period the Marketing manager for Barbados Tourism and served also as a Board member. Whilst serving as Director of Marketing and Corporate Development for LIAT the Caribbean Airline from 2002-2003, he created a new brand and livery for the airline and conducted Motivational Courses for their staff. Upon completion of the assignment, he formed Stuart Marketing and Associates to pursue Employee Motivation, Corporate renewal, and Business skills training. LIAT became his first Client. Based in Florida, Mr. Stuart conducts workshops and seminars, makes public presentations and is available for Consultation on Air transportation and Tourism matters. He occasionally plays keyboard, the Guitar and the Musical Saw, and enjoys Golf and writing. He is the Author of”Limited Skies” A Black man's journey through the corporate world. (Author House 9/9/2008)