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RokZRooM Special ! You Can Win by Shiv Khera

The retiring president of a company after a standard farewell, gave two envelopes
marked No. 1 and No. 2 to the incoming president, and said, "Whenever you run into a
management crisis you cannot handle by yourself , open envelope No. 1. At the next
crisis, open the second one."
A few years later, a major crisis came. The president went into the safe and pulled out
the first envelope. It said, "Blame it on your predecessor." A few years later a second
crisis came. The president went for the second envelope, and it said, "Prepare two
envelopes for your successor."

Responsible people accept and learn from their mistakes. Some people never learn.
We can do three things about mistakes:
♦ Ignore them
♦ Deny them
♦ Accept and learn from them

The third alternative takes courage; it is risky but rewarding. If, instead, we defend our
weaknesses, we actually start building our lives around them, making them a center
point, rather than overcoming them.

4. Hard Work

Success is not something that you run into by accident. It takes a lot of preparation and
character. Everyone likes to win but how many are willing to put in the effort and time to
prepare to win? It takes sacrifice and self-discipline. There is no substitute for hard work.
Henry Ford said, "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
The world is full of willing workers, some willing to work and the others willing to let them.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

--Kammons Wilson, CEO of Holiday Inn

One cannot develop a capacity to do anything without hard work, just as a person cannot
learn how to spell by sitting on a dictionary. Professionals make things look easy
because they have mastered the fundamentals of whatever they do.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at
all.

--Michaelangelo

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