Being appreciative is a great value to build your framework upon. By rooting yourself deeply in appreciation we can live a much higher quality of life and avoid so many negative emotions and feelings that fill up inside of us if appreciation is not present.
If you want to separate yourself and become the best at something, your actions must be different. You can’t just do what everyone else is doing and expect talent to carry you all the way through. If you want something that most people don’t have, you must be willing to do what most people won’t do. It goes back to courage. You need to become comfortable with being criticized and ridiculed.
When people are thirsty, they go to the well where they have always gotten their water, they don’t try to search for a new water source. If they came through for you and liked what they bought, the chances of them coming back for more are highly favorable for you. Don’t ignore this, focus on increasing loyalty and satisfaction from your existing customer base. Your customers will not only refrain from going to a competitor but will be an advocate for your products and your company. A loyal customer is the best type of marketing tool you can utilize. Do great work for a few people and watch how the opportunities to do great for many will appear.
A big part of being closed minded is not valuing differences. As I mentioned earlier, we often avoid people who think differently than we do because we feel we cannot relate to them. By doing this you are limiting your perspective and closing yourself off to further discovery.
Being too focused on one particular thing, even if it is beneficial, will actually slow you down in your personal development. Too much of one thing will prevent us from living the most effective life possible. You must find the right balance for yourself, and view your life as a democracy rather than a dictatorship. One thing cannot rule your life, you must be for the people or “the person”.
