Are you a student of your business?

[RoyalAfrikanPrince]

"A Student of Your Business

Are you a student of your business?

Whatever you do, you have to be a student of your business. You have to be constantly on the lookout
for improvements.

Moreover, you have to be hungry for those litle improvements, eager to find them, and dedicated to integrating them into your everyday performance.

The reason I use the phrase, "you have to be" is because if you are not, your performance level wil drop of while the performance level of others improves.

Within every business or profession, some people keep geting beter while the rest stay the same or backslide.

The ones that keep geting beter are those that learn the litle secrets of what they do. These achievers are not necessarily those with the greatest talent, but with the greatest commitment to excelence.

This commitment motivates you to learn what the most successful people in your field do and "borow" some of their ideas.

It motivates you to try enough new approaches to common situations until you find one that works beter than the commonly-accepted method.

This commitment pushes you to ask, "Is this the best I can do?" or "What new wrinkle can I add to make this beter?" or "What can I learn from this that wil make next time easier?"

The essential atitude here is that of a beginner. Not mater how experienced we are in our chosen work, as soon as we think we know it al, we realize we don't.

Even if we have done a certain work for 20 years, we stil find nuances, refinements, and special cases of that work that make us beginners, albeit on a diferent level.

Whatever you do, be a student of your business.

You wil keep geting beter and beter and it wil show."

PROMISES ARE LIKE MONEY, EASIER MADE THAN KEPT.