21 GREAT WAYS TO BE TOUGH

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21 Great Ways To Be Tough
By Leonardo Delizo, PhD, MSBA

I. Decide Exactly What You Want

“The world has a habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows he is going”. (Napoleon Hill).

You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Define your ideal job and never stop striving until you get it.

II. Select the Right Company

“The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be-today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come”. (W. Clement Stone).

Do your homework and be sure you are committing yourself to a company where you can make the greatest progress.

III. Choose the Right Boss

“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose”. (J. Martin Kohe).

Be sure that you like, respect, and feel that you can perform at your best for this boss.

IV. Develop a Positive Attitude

“Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts he has built into his character have brought him there”. (James Allen).

Look for the good in every situation and dedicate yourself to being the kind of person that others want to work with and help succeed.

V. Create a Successful Image

“Most people are highly visual; they therefore judge you by the way you look on the outside, the same way you judge them”. (Brian Tracy).

Take the time to dress, groom, and look like a winner in all your work activities.

VI. Start Earlier, Work Harder, and Stay Later

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one’s powers, and to use them to their height is our joy and duty”. (Anonymous).

Always look for ways to go the extra mile, to do more than you’re paid for.

VII. Push to the Front

“Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one”. (Ralph Ransom).

Dedicate yourself to making the most valuable contribution you possibly can.

VIII. Ask for What You Want

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them”. (George Bernard Shaw).

Speak out clearly and ask for more responsibility, more opportunities, and more money.

IX. Guard Your Integrity as a Sacred Thing

“Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage; true success follows every right step”. (Orison Swett Marden).

Be honest, straightforward, and truthful in all your interactions with others.

X. Think about the Future

“Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, and believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and then begin to build”. (Maxwell Maltz).

Continually look for ways to improve your company and your work in the weeks and months ahead.

XI. Focus on Your Goals

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going”. (Earl Nightingale).

Determine exactly what you want to achieve, and work on your major goals every single day.

XII. Concentrate on Results

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem or goal incessantly without growing weary”. (Thomas Edison).

Focus your mental and physical energies on getting the most important results in your job.

XIII. Be a Problem Solver

“The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Continually look for better, faster, cheaper ways to solve the problems facing your company and your boss.

XIV. Unlock Your Inborn Creativity

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster, or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips”. (J. Paul Getty).

Practice tapping into your mind to come up with ideas to help your company get results faster, cheaper, and easier than ever before.

XV. Put People First in Everything

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed”. (Albert Schwitzer).

Look for ways to help your boss and others make their greatest contributions to the company.

XVI. Invest in Yourself Continually

“Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well”. (Wilfred A. Peterson).

Read, study, attend seminars, and listen to audio programs every single day to increase your knowledge and skills.

XVII. Commit to Excellence

“Your success in life will be determined more by the depth of your commitment to excellence than by any other factor, no matter what your chosen field”. (Vince Lombardi).

Resolve to become very good at doing those things that are really important to your company and to your customers.

XVIII. Concentrate on the Customer

“No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself”. (Woodrow Wilson).

Place the needs and well-being of your customers at the center of all decision making.

XIX. Focus on the Bottom Line

“Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are those who have faith in the money producing power of their ideas”. (Charles Fillmore).

Treat every source of revenue and expense as if it were your own money and always look for ways to improve the financial results of your company.

XX. Develop Positive Personal Power

“Today, knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement”. (Peter Drucker).

Resolve to become the kind of person with the expertise and the personality to get ever greater results for your organization.

XXI. Get the Job Done Fast

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing”. (Abraham Lincoln).

Develop a reputation for being the person who gets results faster and more dependably than anyone else.

Source: Brian Tracy