Love, Hate, Good and Not Good [Start Your Week]

Richard Branson, Entrepreneur and British billionaire said, “To be highly successful in your career, you need to make four important decisions. First, decide what it is about your job that you LOVE to do? Second, list the things you are really good at in your job. Third, write down things you HATE about your job and don’t like to do. And lastly, list the parts of your job you’re not good at? 

By answering those four questions, it’s easy to recognize what you need to do to improve your job performance. Whatever you love to do, you will most likely be very good at and vice versa. That translates into success or lack thereof.

A great example of this is staying on an exercise program. Millions of people begin exercise programs every year. When they first start a new exercise regimen they love it and love the thought of improving themselves. That new level of enthusiasm is exciting and keeps them working out. Many times, they’re so motivated in the early days of the program that they overdo it. But in 95% of the cases, as time goes on, exercise becomes work, and they begin to dislike working out. In fact, they start to hate it. The more that feeling of hate is allowed to grow, the less likely they are to stay on the program. Eventually, those 95% quit working out altogether...