For instance, if you are usually successful doing two things, one after the other, have you accepted
work to do more than two things? Can you handle three things? Four things? Five things? Six
things? Seven things? Eight things? How many things can you do successfully if you promise to do
things? Don't lie to yourself because if you don't do a lot of things as well as you do one or two
things, then no things will be done well enough for you to continue to be successful.
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You need to look around you for changes that could affect your performance. Have you kept up to
date with altering conditions? Are you doing things the way they were done in the past while others
are doing things in new ways, ways that you never thought about or that you don't like because the
way you have been doing things has been working for you? Change is important to recognize and you
have to stop resisting change. You do this by changing instead of resisting it.
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How about problems? Have you been putting them aside, thinking that none of them were big or bad
enough to hamper your success? Are you underestimating problems? Do you judge them incorrectly? Do
you see a problem and say, "Hell, that isn't a big problem" when it is a big problem? Why deny any
problem, big or small, when any sized problem can bite your career in half and plummet you into an
abyss of failure and destitute. If you aren't facing problems, you have a bigger problem than any
of the problems you aren't facing.
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Are you becoming complacent? Do you think you are happy enough with what you have and what you earn
and what you live to do each day and assume that is enough for you, that the success you have now
is quite nice and very comfortable and it is all you ever wanted? Because if you feel that way then
maybe you should just retire early and rock in a hammock somewhere and say to yourself, "I was
successful enough and I don't want to be successful anymore."
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It's your life, after all.
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Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You
can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.
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