My brother was an all-state basketball player as a young sophomore, and pretty cocky. One day at the start of practice the coach yells out "Ok...Whoever scores the most points in practice today will start in tomorrow's game!" Seems like a pretty good incentive metric to get the boys to practice hard right? ... So my Brother stayed only on the offensive side of the court, never bothering to go and play any defense. After a few minutes of this the coach got ticked, blew his whistle and screamed at my brother "What the h*ll are you doing!" My brother simply replied back "I want to start tomorrow night coach. Scoring points will get me that right?" (The implication being that according to the metrics set up by the coach himself, defense was worthless) As in all things, there is a danger of overshooting though and throwing out all measures altogether. Finding the "correct" measure is the secret sauce of success.
Your success as a family, Our success as a society, Depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens in your house.
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Watch for the right time and season, show gratitude for your gifts by magnifying and using them with pure intentions with an eye single to the glory of God and He will bless your efforts.
The biggest impediment to success is rarely a lack of ideas or strategies—it’s an inability to influence people to carry out those ideas or strategies. In others words, it’s a failure of leadership.
It poisons employees’ desire to do their job by substituting external and often arbitrary-seeming requirements for internal motivation.
Imposing a strict system of quantified metrics to evaluate and reward performance has serious deleterious unintended consequences. It induces gaming of the system, a kind of rent-seeking behavior that adds nothing to productivity and often detracts. It siphons attention toward goals whose achievement can be measured and away from goals whose achievement is difficult or impossible to measure but may be of greater importance.
In K-12 education, government programs such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) led to extensive gaming and even cheating. Teachers’ schools’ funding, and their own employment, was dependent on their students’ performance on standardized, government-mandated math and English exams. Hence, many teachers spent much of their class time “teaching to the test.” This moved the emphasis toward test-taking and away from arguably more important activities with unmeasurable results, such as cultivating students’ capacity for intellectual curiosity, good behaviour, and creative thought and innovation.
As Muller explains, part of the reason for the increase in metricization is that employees and executives are not trusted. Therefore, quantitative requirements are imposed on their behavior to keep them in line. In response, they behave in precisely those ways that the quantification model expects them to behave. And by gaming the quantification system and cheating, they make it appear that the measurement system is working. And yet, the ultimately desired results are not improved and are often even made worse.
But it feeds the expectations of funders that low overhead is the measure they should be looking at to hold charities accountable. Thus the snake of accountability eats its own tail.
Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
I realized at some point that you can do anything if you love it enough. I don't think I do anything special. It's just that I stick around things that I love. When I do that, everything tends to fall into place very quickly.
The very first word in the Doctrine and Covenants is hearken.12 It means “to listen with the intent to obey.”13 To hearken means to “hear Him”—to hear what the Savior says and then to heed His counsel. In those two words—“Hear Him”—God gives us the pattern for success, happiness, and joy in this life. We are to hear the words of the Lord, hearken to them, and heed what He has told us!
The more success or money you get, the more you should simplify your life. The more you should spend time with the people who will be by your side no matter what.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
The first thing you might try to do is challenge yourself to define success. What does it mean to you to be successful? It is vital that you don't get your success from your peers or the general public that you can never please. You should first of all feel success for your own self.