The Ladder of Success
Take Others Up With You
Regardless of where you are today, always look up to the next rung of the ladder and reach for it. At the same time look down to see who is just beneath you and extend a helping hand to pull them up with you. If the person above you starts to slip down, give him or her a boost back up. The more people you have on the ladder with you, the easier it is for everyone to keep climbing.
It’s a Win-Win Deal
If you are a business owner, help prepare your employees to take over your job someday. If you are a manager, help your staff members get to the same level you are at now. When they do, you will be a noch upward.
And… if you are a salesperson help your customers succeed by buying what you are selling.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Greetings everyone,
Such good advice but we have to define success individually and in context as for me I have made many a mistake thinking that it meant only moving upwards.
Am older now and have time to stop and think and consider and ponder and all those other words and it hit me like a ton of bricks one day that success has a general meaning and an individual one. Get the individual one wrong and you will not make the general one make sense. Then it will take a lot just to hang on to the ladder.
Work at what you think success means in each sphere of your life and the rest will fall into place. Ah well, off I go back to my drawing board with a smile.
Cheers
Lestie
Jo’burg
South Africa
March 18th, 2010 at 1:58 am
Hi Guys,
On re-reading this post of mine I smile at my use of the phrase “it hit me like a ton of bricks.” Duh? Amazing that I thought something so simple needed such a heavy phrase … I mean surely it’s easy to see and agree that of course the definition of success needs to be an individual one.
But in my case (and in several others I have spoken to) we absorbed along the way at the the right time (or wrong time if you will) that success meant moving upwards only and that if you were not moving up, well then you were not being successful. I do not know how many appraisals I went through when I worked in the corporate environment that did not exhort me ever onwards and upwards without a real thought of whether or not it was the right direction for me all the time. And I can say I failed more often thatn I would have liked. Turned out up wasn’t always right for me, and a few sideways steps would have helped for sure … but that bit of wisdom took me years to learn and act upon.
Anyway, just thought I would add to my comments above by way of some more explanation of what I was trying to say perhaps less eloquently or meaningfully the first time around.
Cheers
Lestie
Johannesbutg
South Africa