9th November 2010
"Success is doing your own thing, for the benefit of others."
Denis Waitley
Just imagine what your life will be without the `others' of your life! Think how much effort others take to make your life meaningful. You may not realise the value others add on to your life. If you are happy in your life, there are hundreds of people who have contributed to your happiness.
Can you think of a sports star without a fan or a doctor without a patient? You may know the best technology to make a wonderful product. But what if there are no buyers for your product?
Do you think that you are fixing a commercial value for your time? If you think so, you are wrong. Your value is decided by others around you. They will assign a value depending on what value you added to their life! Your value is a function of what value you are adding to others' life.
Strange, isn't? But it is true.
Your success depends on how much others benefited by your time. Think about Walt Disney. If his time and thinking had not benefited others by adding fun and frolic to their life, do you think he would have succeeded? For that matter, any business is built on the goodwill of the customers. The only one factor which makes or breaks a business is the quality of customer delight and satisfaction. It may satisfy you temporarily to live a life's philosophy of `I, me myself'. You may gain an immediate advantage and perhaps get a material advantage over others. But such a happiness will be a like a soap bubble which will burst at any time.
Over this weekend ask yourself the following questions:
· Do I think about others' needs and wants in my life?
· Do I care for others' feelings and emotions?
· Have I done something of emotional value to others' last week?
· What will be the quality of my life now if others had not contributed anything?
Answer these questions honestly and notice what happens to the quality of your thinking!
N C Sridharan
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