Succeeding with a Difference
Success lies in creating a difference in you, on time or in someone and somewhere. If you don’t create a difference, then what exactly do you want in life? How do you create success? If you want things to become different, or you want to achieve a different result or succeed better, then, engage yourself in the following disruptive differences:
1. Identify or Believe in your difference: think differently or start believing you can make a difference wherever you may be. Go in search of making a difference. Make it a habit of looking to create a ‘positive’ difference in every situation. Write it on the tablets of your mind “My difference will create my success”. If you leave where you are now, what difference will be missed from you? What difference can be traced to you?
2. Take Advantage of different forums; places, people or situations: look to apply what you have discovered or envisioned in a different situation, person or place. There are millions or billions of people who should but not have experienced your difference in thought, service, action or product. There is still a chance for you. You can bring what is working in one city into another and make a difference. If you have done for Mr. A, you can do it for Mr. B or Mr. Y etc.
3. Do something different: Learn to do things with a little difference or creatively different. Tired of reading a book, go play a game or do some chores at the moment, you may return to reading a book later. Make sure your mind is busy this way or that way creating some difference.
4. Don’t be afraid of being wrong: this is huge because for most people, it is “what if I am wrong etc,” that keeps them down from making or creating a difference or maximizing their differences in life. If you are proven to be wrong, apologize to yourself and others, and then move on. Let your intention be to make a difference for your own success and for the success of other people.
5. Don’t be afraid of change: Change is the oil of success. What water is to the body is what ‘change’ is to success. What blood is to the body is what ‘a difference’ is to success. Just as blood and water go hand in hand in the body, so do change and difference go hand in hand and without each other, success or progress remains stalled. A change can create a difference in thought, perception, action etc for success.
6. Appreciate and reward the difference in others or in each other: For some people, they want everyone to be the same as them in every possible way. That’s a low mentality of succeeding in a dynamic world. We must dare to honor our differences. Salt and sugar are so alike but they have differences in taste and usage. Success is rooted in the recognition of difference; the difference in people, time etc. Appreciate and honor your differences with rewards. Leverage your differences in the family, team, organization, country etc. You may be there not because you are fast but because you are competent or reliable.
Your time is your most valuable resource to create everything you need: including knowledge, relationships, etc. Invest your time creatively, don’t just spend it. Nothing great is ever made by mistake but by knowledge and commitment.
Do not be afraid to be different or to apply a difference. It is not about perfection but about success. Success is about making a difference apply yourself to a difference in time or in a circumstances
