• Let Me Never Be Content

    by Alexander Becker on August 20, 2006 | Link

    Always have a back-up plan. Not just in case that plan A fails, but especially for the moment you succeed with the current plan. Never fail to have follow-up plans for any direction your current endeavor could eventually take you.

    Always be prepared to work on the respective next project. Alternate between projects, change back and forth between them and effortlessly double your productivity.

    Do not become complacent. One of the worst experiences -- speaking in terms of progress and continuous challenge -- is the non-action focused, the ever-so-short, fulfilled, the content moment of success. The very second after success.

    Imagine you set a goal of making a specific amount of money in a specific time. You work hard, you approach the deadline and you work even harder, you have a clear goal in mind and the desire and the will to do whatever necessary to succeed and make your plan a reality. You finally meet the deadline, you knock down your goal exactly the way you planned and intended it.

    What's next? Make sure to have your next goal waiting for you, with the actionable tasks prepared and laid out in clear detail. Are you self-satisfied? Complacent? Or do you feel the big black hole each time you successfully leave another goal behind you? The good news is that as long as you can feel that black hole, you know -- you can be absolutely sure -- that you actually live.

    You are not content with what you have achieved so far. You do not allow yourself to become satisfied. Some people will contend that you deserve that feeling of success and the time to enjoy what you have worked so hard for. Some people give in to complacency.

    You are not satisfied and it is not greed that fuels your desire for more and more. Only you know deep inside yourself that real fulfillment comes with the next goal, the next success. Real fulfillment is the second before success. It is this exact part of the journey that is the reward you are after.

    Elizabeth Taylor is quoted with: It's not the having, it's the getting, where success is having and striving for success is the only important thing. The climax itself is nothing more than an ideal.

    It does not only have to get worse in order to get better, it is also getting worse after it has gotten better. You can do only one thing: Never, ever stop.

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