“Try your hardest in everything you do!”

Watching the Olympics has been exciting and surely most the athletes try their hardest.  When the host of the NBC nightly recap showed a story from a past Olympic running event, I couldn't help but share it.  The athlete shown was in the semi finals and on pace to be in the top 2 spots and would surely move on to the finals.  At the end of the race, the last few steps the runner let up a little and 2 people leaned forward and earned the right to move on.  The story showed that the runner that let up at the end, never got into the finals that year - and what a hard lesson that was to learn.

Try your hardest in everything you do…Good point, eh?  Today, sit back and do that needed "self-check" asking yourself if you do.  “Do I try my hardest in everything I do?”  Do you?  Pay particularly close attention to your actions over the next hour and try it!  Actually FOCUS on how hard you try, and how much you really want it! 

Try harder today and get that reward tomorrow!

Demand Success
josh

 

Returning from time off

I took a week off of work sometime ago and when I came back I remember going into work early to spend some time catching up on things.  I turned on my computer, and pulled out the notepad I keep with my daily to do list and was ready to go.  I started replying to emails, and working on projects but I noticed there was a problem, I couldn’t type!  After not typing regularly for the week I was off, I could tell I lost a good chunk of the “typing memory gland” (or whatever you call it) because I was misspelling words or forgetting where the keys were nor could I put together a sentence without some sort of error.  Have you ever noticed when you take time off from something, it takes a little bit to get familiar with it when you return?  I sure noticed that…

Today's Food for Thought is to realize that unless you are regularly practicing your craft, you shouldn't expect to get better.  Closely pay attention to the difference you can make when you are actively studying your craft and looking for ways to get better.  Whether it’s typing on a keyboard, being in a professional setting or selling something…work on that ability to make it stronger. 

Today, work hard at perfecting your craft!

Demand Success!

josh