Five Things that Successful Commit themselves to Doing!!

Five Things that Successful Commit themselves to Doing

https://www.success.com/5-things-successful-people-commit-themselves-to-doing/

I wanted a filler before the Saturday Story for this week and the Sunday Funday blog

This looked like a nice filler - let’s see

From the article’s introduction:

“Not surprisingly, there were many interesting answers. But there were a few principles I heard repeatedly that were critical to getting these business owners where they wanted to go. Their advice is so universal, it transcends beyond entrepreneurship to anyone working to achieve a goal.

“So, without further ado, here are the top five things I learned that successful people commit themselves to doing, no ifs, ands or buts about it.

-1. Be persistent

If you want to be successful you must be persistent.  You can’t give up half-way through a project.  If you make a commitment - see it through to the end.

-2 Hang out with the right people

I have been fortunate in my career.  At Dakota State, I had fantastic people to work with and to team up with.  It was an entire campus effort - but generally, my colleagues in the College of Business and Information Systems were top-notch!!!

At Quinnipiac mostly the same.  I had a mistake when I hired an adjunct once - who lost his class by the second week (speaking to the board, letting the students play games, text, and not pay attention to the concepts.  It was my mistake and I take the blame for it. But Bruce #1, Rich, Ramesh, Wendy, were great colleagues and we moved forward.  (The weakest link was me!!)

At UT, it was a big world - and I was still somewhat a “big frog in a small pond” - but I made it work - and I learned and grew with my experiences of being at a major university!!!

-3 Do the work

Hey, if you want to be successful, you have to do the work.  I worked long hours (especially at DSU and QU) - I worked on rapport with students (pizza parties at the “White House”) and being involved (hey - I didn’t have to be the pep band faculty advisor - but it showed students I was committed!!! 

-4 Be self-aware

 The article says “Take an honest inventory of your skills. Then make a plan for how to improve, or get help where needed.”  There are things I did well and things I didn’t do well.  I had trouble saying “no” and delegating activities (such as our ABET re-accreditation at QU).

But, a leader has to do things he or she doesn’t like doing.  I agonized over decisions and tied my stomach in knots.  And, with some reluctance did what had to be done.

-5 Learn Constantly

If you want to be successful, you need to keep learning. We talk of “Life-Long-Learning” and that is more true today than ever.  And, if you are teaching computing, most of what I learned in my formal education has changed.  Who needs to know JCL anymore?  COBOL is good, but not in as much demand.  I found in my last year at the University of Texas that keeping up was becoming harder for me and it was time to retire!!

So - how about you?

Can you:

-1 Be consistent

- 2 Hang with the right people

-3 do the work

-4 Be self-award

-5 and keep learning?

It is a commitment - and if you want to be the success that is really there inside of you, you have to draw the line and make that commitment!!

Hugs!!

New Topic on Monday

LOVE WINS!!!

Karen