It is hard to believe that four months are already done for 2024. One-third of the year is complete. It is a good time to step back and evaluate your progress toward what you set out to accomplish this year. Maybe you are on track or ahead of schedule. Maybe you have become distracted and slipped off your course. Now is the time to either make course corrections or build on an already great effort.
Category: Core Values
Spring is traditionally a time when the earth renews itself. Trees bud, flowers blossom, birds lay eggs, and the world turns again to a new start. Maybe this year, we can all learn from nature and start anew with our culture. Maybe this season, we can refresh our relationship by respecting each other in all matters.
The annual contribution to reconcile our taxes for another year has come and gone. Our culture has many challenges in front of us. The tax season, which allows for many of the services we all enjoy, is important to keep in proper perspective. Individually, we could not afford what collectively we can all achieve with participation in our tax system.
As the baseball and softball seasons roll out at all levels of play, from the Major Leagues to the school playground, our culture has a new opportunity to focus on building up the value of being part of a team and diminishing the negative energy created by making it all about a single person.
Although we joke about April 1st being April Fool’s Day and use the time to poke fun at and with our friends and colleagues, it is really important that we stay true to appreciating and understanding the impact our pranks can have on those around us. We don’t always know what else is going on in someone else’s life, and our unintentional actions can cause pain under the surface.
Profit is the result of focusing your attention on your people, having a solid pace of progress, and being open to new perceptions that allow you to be the best you can be.
Perceptions can happen both by other people of you and you of other people. Keep an open mindset to all the variety that comes your way. You never know what the next thing might just be that is beneficial to you and others.
Success is not a sprint but more of a marathon. Each step along the path to a better outcome is based on the previous steps. Sometimes, those steps come quickly, but long-term sustainable progress is the culmination of many steps over long cycles of time. Have patience while traveling forward on your journey.
People are not only a business’s most valuable asset, but they are also the backbone of both business and personal growth. Our business colleagues and personal friends deserve the acknowledgment of the value they bring to our lives.
In these days of instant gratification, we have drifted away from valuing self-worth at an intrinsic level. A level where we love ourselves not for promotion or getting ahead of others, but because we have value to contribute to society. Our self-worth is grown by serving, not by being served.