9 tips for getting the most from your work

If you’re wondering about getting the most from your work, this post is for you.

So, do you feel valued by your employer, dear reader? Now think about that question for a second or two.

I’m sure you’re aware that companies are very good at circulating messages which include platitudes such as, “Our employees are our most important asset,” or  “We value our employees.”  I’m sure you’ll be familiar with such pronouncements.

However, you must ask yourself whether they mean it, surely?

Well, few do, if any, in my experience.

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Now let’s be fair:

To be fair, many employers think they mean it when such messages are circulated to the workforce.

Staff in the Human Resources department are probably well-intentioned when they issue such statements.

Nevertheless, the reality for the employee is almost always quite different, however right on and trendy an employer tries to be.

Rarely are employees valued by their employer. Usually they’re seen as replaceable or can be dispensed with as needs dictate.

What does it mean for you?

Most companies regard people as a commodity to be used when they’re useful and then discarded when they’re perceived to be no longer of use.

Not a comfortable thought, possibly, but true nevertheless.

So, what does this all mean for you?

Well, for a start, it means that you have to look after your own interests.

If you don’t look after your own interests, then I can assure you that no one else will.

If you think someone, somewhere, is thinking about your best interests, then, with the exception of your parents, that’s very unlikely at best.

It’s all down to you to get the most from your job, your career, and your life.

It’s your responsibility:

You must decide what you want; you must decide where and how you can add the greatest value; you must decide what’s the next logical move for you, in pursuit of your goals; and you must decide on the timing of when it’s appropriate to move on to the next challenge.

Occasionally, you might get lucky and a great opportunity will fall straight into your lap. However, that doesn’t happen often, if at all.

Remember that you are the captain of your own ship.

So you decide where it goes and you must steer it accordingly.

It would be a mistake to rely on others to plan your career, quite simply because they won’t, and it would be naïve to think otherwise.

So, here are 9 tips for getting the most from work:

Getting the most from your work:

1. Take a pragmatic view:

Now, reading this, you might think that I have a jaundiced view of companies and corporate life.

I don’t. This is simply a realistic and pragmatic view based on many years of experience.

I understand why companies do what they do from a commercial standpoint

Work is just doing stuff for other people in return for money.

If a company has stuff that needs doing, they are willing to pay good money to get it done.

However once that work’s been done, or is no longer required, employers see no reason to retain people. Why would they? After all, they’re in business to make money.

So be realistic and take a pragmatic view. That way you won’t be disappointed.

2. Recognise the psychological contract:

Once again, we must be fair. The company’s approach is no different from the one we would take as individuals.

If we need our house painting, we hire a painter and decorator. Our house gets painted, and when the job’s been done, we pay the painter for the work completed.

We don’t start worrying about the painter’s job satisfaction or career development. The psychological contract between us and the painter ends when the bill has been settled for the work completed. That’s the way it is. It’s that simple.

So why should we expect our employers to be any different?

Companies are not charities or job creation schemes. Commercial companies have to make a profit if they’re to grow and survive, and costs have an impact on profit, obviously.

The psychological contract we have with our employer is one where we do stuff for them and then we’re paid for our efforts at the end of each month.

We’re the hired help, and once we’ve been paid that’s where the psychological contract ends as far as our employer is concerned.

Your employer will not spend time worrying about your aspirations or your dreams. Once again, it would be naïve to think otherwise.

3. Accept commercial reality:

Commercial reality, whether we like it or not, is that all companies exist to make money for their owners. It’s that simple. Why would anyone start a company for any other reason?

So if you think that your loyalty will be appreciated by the average employer, I think you’re either mistaken or deluded.

Individual managers might value your presence in the team, of course, but the people at the top of the organisation have to be much tougher and businesslike in their approach, as they’re ultimately accountable for the performance of the business.

Employers will take everything you give and a bit more besides, but once you’re no longer required, they will be as ruthless as they have to be. If it’s their survival versus your career aspirations, there’s only one outcome, and it will have nothing to do with your aspirations.

If they weren’t able to be ruthless when necessary, then that could put the whole company and the jobs of everyone involved at risk. So there’s a good business reason for the way companies tend to operate.

Furthermore, ordinary people don’t spend their money unnecessarily, so why should we expect a company to be any different?

Occasionally, you’ll meet leaders of real stature and class who will treat you very well. However, they’re the exception rather than the rule.

Most senior executives are driven only by self-interest, in my experience. Once you’re no longer of use, they will be as ruthless as they have to be. That’s how the world works, so don’t expect it to be any different for you.

4. Don’t expect loyalty to be reciprocated:

The point I’m making here is that you must be ruthless too. You must look after your own interests, constantly.

It’s perfectly reasonable for you to be working with your own agenda in mind. Deliver the results for which you’re being paid, of course, but always with one eye on your own best interests.

In any job you should make sure that you know what you’re meant to be doing and what you’re meant to be delivering too.

What you’re delivering must add value. You should know what that value is, and you should be confident that it’s not something that can be done by a machine. If it is, then the chances are that one day it will be and you will be out of a job.

Never do anything out of a misplaced sense of loyalty because that loyalty is unlikely to be reciprocated. At work, you have to be very businesslike in everything you do.

For you, the name of the game is earning a living. If it’s not obvious to you what your contribution is meant to be, you should start to worry. And if you cannot explain what you’re meant to be doing in a couple of lines, then it’s time to move on.

If you don’t know what you’re meant to be doing, chances are that your boss is wondering too. And once your boss starts to question your role, there is a risk that it won’t be too long before your job is eliminated in a future cost-saving exercise.

5. Look after your own interests:

Remember this:

Life is what you make it.

As I said earlier, you’re the captain of your own ship.

You should be steering that ship in a direction that suits you and your ambitions. Steer the good ship ‘Me’ in the direction you wish to go and not in the direction someone else wants you to go.

You should be following your agenda, and within the framework of your plans.

If you think your employer has plans for you, you’re fooling yourself.

You will only figure in your employer’s plans for as long as it makes good business sense for them to include you in those plans.

If they can’t see how you’ll add value to their plans, then a parting of the ways might not be far away.

6. Take every opportunity to gain experience:

You may make mistakes occasionally, and you may do things for employers that, for whatever reason, come back to bite you. If you do, don’t worry. Just learn any lessons from the experience and move on.

Lessons learned are far more valuable to you than anything someone else can tell you. The commodity, based on life’s lessons, is known as experience, and experience gained is a valuable commodity.

Take every opportunity to broaden your experience and grow.

Take on every challenge that comes your way. However daunting a challenge might seem, it will be a learning opportunity through which you’ll grow. View such opportunities positively and don’t be afraid to put yourself forward. You can do it and you’ll be a better person for it.

The message here:

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job

The more experience and know-how you have to offer, the more employable you’ll be and the greater will be your financial rewards.

7. Have realistic expectations:

Never expect loyalty from your employer, and you won’t be disappointed.

You’re not indispensable, and neither is anyone else. If you were to die tomorrow, you’d be replaced in a heartbeat, and the company would get along fine without you.

If you weren’t around, someone else would be hired quickly, and the business would move on. And in all probability, you’ll soon be forgotten.

The chances are that someone else will take the credit for any significant contribution you’ve made, but you’ll probably take the blame for everything wrong, including things in which you had no involvement at all.

That’s life, unfortunately.

8. Work to your own agenda:

If you make sure you look after your own interests, then your achievements will be all yours and you’ll be on the road to success.

You have to carve out the success you want; no one else will do it for you.

Add real value to your employer for as long as you can or for as long as it makes sense within your own plans for you to do so, and then it’s time to move on to the next challenge.

Don’t get overly sentimental; you’ve got to be as ruthless with your employer as they would be with you. It’s perfectly reasonable to work to your own agenda, and that’s exactly what successful people do.

9. Keep reading; keep learning:

Never underestimate the value of reading and continual learning.

The more you read, the more you’ll learn, and the more you learn the greater will be your value.

Read one good book related to your work or personal development each week, and over a yea,r that’s the equivalent of a PhD‘s worth of knowledge gained.

Increase your knowledge by that amount every year, and you’ll be light years ahead of your colleagues.

Increase your knowledge and skills, and you’ll increase your ability to add value. Add more value and you’ll earn more. And what’s not to like about that?

So, make sure you allocate at least 30 minutes per day for your reading, and more time if possible.

Conclusion:

Appreciate the opportunity an employer gives you. Be grateful you have a job and an income.

However, never be overly sentimental, nor show misplaced loyalty to an employer. An employer must be businesslike and so must you.

Add value where you can, but look after your own interests, and when it makes sense to do so, move on.

Sensible people will always look after their own interests. It’s perfectly reasonable to have an agenda of your own.

Getting the most from your work is all about adding value, gaining experience, broadening your skills, and moving on to the next challenge when it’s appropriate to do so. Above all, enjoy what you do. Life’s too short to be spending a third of it doing something that doesn’t leave you fulfilled.

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36 best quotes by famous authors to inspire you

If you’re looking for some of the best quotes by famous authors, then I have 36 great quotes to inspire you today. I’m confident that they will all get you thinking.

So, take a few minutes to read them all and then see how many of them you can work into your day.

Perhaps you have a presentation to do in the office? Well, a good quote to stress your underlying message is always a good idea. Maybe one of these would fit perfectly?

Enjoy them all and please feel free to pass them on.

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21 thought-provoking quotes about fake friends

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore some quotes about fake friends.

How often do you hear people say, “Oh, I have many friends?

For a very lucky few, that may be true. However, most of the time, it’s not true at all.

Almost always, real friends can be counted on the fingers of one hand with some fingers to spare.

For me, a real friend is someone I could phone at 2 am if I was in serious trouble and be confident that they’d be straight out to help me in a heartbeat.

Everyone else is just people I know with varying degrees of familiarity.

Yes, there is a broader circle of people with whom I socialise occasionally but my close friends are those I know I can count on when the chips are down.

Many people we know tend to be ‘fair-weather friends‘ and some of them will be genuinely fake. There when it suits them but otherwise they care little for us.

So, when it comes to friends, we have to learn to differentiate the real from the not-so-real. A real friend will enter your life just as the rest of the world is leaving.

Here are 21 thought-provoking quotes about fake friends to help you with that process.

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Building personal branding for success

Personal branding says something about you. And personal branding for success is something that you should take seriously if your aim is to be successful.

How you present yourself to the world is being judged all the time, and people will draw conclusions about you based simply on their perception of you and how you look.

That may not seem fair, but in my experience, it’s almost always true. And reputations can often be built largely based on other people’s perception of you.

So, is personal branding something that matters to you, dear reader?

In your opinion, does it matter what you look like, how you dress, how you speak, or what people see in your digital footprint on social media and elsewhere? Certainly, it should do.

What do you think? Does your reputation matter to you?

Perhaps you believe that the only thing that matters is the quality of the work that you do?

If that’s true, then you may not see the need to worry about your personal branding.

However, I can assure you, you really are being judged all of the time, whether you like it or not.

The importance of personal branding:

Think about it for one moment. Now, how often have you walked into an open-plan office area looking for a manager you’ve not met, and yet you have no trouble spotting who he or she is immediately?

You just can’t miss them, can you? There’s just something about them that says, ‘I am the manager!‘ Well, that’s personal branding.

It’s the same thing with social media.

How you conduct yourself within your digital footprint will speak volumes about you, and it will have an impact on how you’re perceived by others.

A silly remark on social media about other people or the latest news can prove very costly and may have implications in future years because it could suggest something about your judgement, or lack of it.

Jobs have been lost and people have been forced to resign over ill-judged comments made on social media, often many years before.

So you have to ask yourself, do I want to be successful in my chosen field?

If you do, then you must ensure that your personal branding is consistent with your ambition. To be the one, you must look like the one in every respect.

You must also promote yourself in the right way at every opportunity.

Self-promotion is important because it’s all about selling yourself and making sure you’re perceived by the world in the way you’d prefer to be perceived.

If you don’t sell yourself and create the right image for yourself, then no one else is going to do it for you, that’s for sure. Constantly working on your personal branding must be part of your strategy for achieving success.

The good news is that with WordPress, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media channels, it’s never been easier to promote yourself, create the right image, build relationships, and tell the world what it is you have to offer.

So the obvious question now is, where do you start on building a personal brand?

Building a personal brand:

In the video below, recorded at TEDxCMU 2011, Jacob Cass presents some interesting and useful ideas as to how you can go about building your personal brand.

This video will provide you with some useful tips and it’s well worth watching.

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30 witty quotes that’ll make anyone smile

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So here are 30 razor-sharp witty quotes. I am sure at least a few of them will brighten your day.

This is a collection of witty quotes in response to readers’ requests for a little levity to break up the otherwise gloomy news that seems to have dominated our lives this year.

So go on have a laugh right now and enjoy them all.

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15 classic quotes by Yogi Berra that’ll make you think

Yogi Berra was a man with a memorable turn of phrase and a unique way of making a point. Today, I offer you 15 quotes by Yogi Berra to illustrate my point.

Born Lorenzo Pietro Berra to Italian immigrants, Yogi Berra was an American professional baseball player.

He was a catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach.

He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, all but the last for the New York Yankees.

If you’re looking for memorable quotes to use in a presentation, Yogi Berra’s quotes would be an excellent choice, I think.

They always nail an underlying point while being concise and memorable.

Read on and see if you agree with me.

Quotes by Yogi Berra:

  1. It ain’t over till it’s over. ~Yogi Berra
  2. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
  3. You can observe a lot by watching. ~Yogi Berra
  4. The future ain’t what it used to be. ~Yogi Berra
  5. It’s like deja-vu, all over again. ~Yogi Berra
  6. When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra
  7. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. ~Yogi Berra
  8. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. ~Yogi Berra
  9. Even Napoleon had his Watergate. ~Yogi Berra
  10. There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em. ~Yogi Berra
  11. If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. ~Yogi Berra
  12. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ~Yogi Berra
  13. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. ~Yogi Berra
  14. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. ~Yogi Berra
  15. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better. ~Yogi Berra

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50 insurance quotes you just can’t ignore

If you’re looking for insurance quotes today, you may or may not have come to the right place.

If your aim is to purchase insurance, then I must apologise. I’m not in the business of selling insurance.

However, I am in the business of exploring different subjects and then curating interesting quotes by fascinating people who have something to say on that subject.

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore the subject of insurance and see what people had to say about it.

Essentially, insurance is the transfer of risk. The bigger the risk, the more we need to ensure we’re covered against it if we’re not to end up penniless or worse.

So here are 50 insurance quotes by people who have something interesting, and occasionally amusing, to say about the subject.

I hope you find them as interesting as I did.

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Insurance Quotes (1-10):

  1. Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. ~Jesse Ventura
  2. Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ~Ronald Reagan
  3. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ~Woody Allen
  4. Everyone should have health insurance. I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance. ~Dennis Kucinich
  5. Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when. ~Neal Katyal
  6. Your FICO score is an “I love debt” score. You’re going to pay a bazillion dollars in interest to keep your FICO score up in order to have lower homeowners and car insurance rates. ~Dave Ramsey
  7. Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly. ~Jan Schakowsky
  8. For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ~Ralph Nader
  9. As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time. ~Magic Johnson
  10. My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn’t trust life insurance salesmen. ~Sylvia Plath 

Insurance Quotes (11-20):

  1. Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. ~P. J. O’Rourke
  2. It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. ~Elizabeth Warren
  3. If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. ~Suze Orman
  4. I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. ~Jack Benny
  5. Lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. ~Thomas Sowell
  6. Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ~Ambrose Bierce
  7. Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. ~Jesse Jackson
  8. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. ~Daniel Kahneman
  9. The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ~Alan Coren
  10. Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Insurance Quotes (21-30):

  1. Health care’s not about insurance! Health care’s about getting treatment. ~P. J. O’Rourke
  2. You never fully appreciate the value of an insurance policy until the day you need it. ~Roy Sutton
  3. Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. ~Charles Duhigg
  4. Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance. ~Ernst Zundel
  5. It’s very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted. ~Daniel Kahneman
  6. Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ~William Penn
  7. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance. ~Suze Orman
  8. Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families. ~James Surowiecki
  9. I am fighting kidney cancer. And I’m just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life. ~Mazie Hirono
  10. When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them. ~Angus Deaton

Insurance Quotes (31-40):

  1. Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance. ~Corrine Brown
  2. I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance. ~Derek Kilmer
  3. The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals. ~Lawrence Summers
  4. Even when I was a teen model, I didn’t think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance. ~Tyra Banks
  5. Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. ~Elizabeth Warren
  6. I’ve never been able to sky-dive, and I’ve always wanted to. I’ve probably done everything else, but for some reason, the insurance company won’t let me do it. ~Nick Cannon
  7. What the insurance companies have done is reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. ~Gerry Spence
  8. The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates. ~Mary Landrieu
  9. For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance. ~Ben Nelson
  10. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a ‘hidden premium.’ It simply adds to the healthcare cost burden. ~Dave Obey

Insurance Quotes (41-50):

  1. Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. ~Don Rickles
  2. One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that’s a truly staggering figure. ~John M. McHugh
  3. Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. ~Patrick J. Kennedy
  4. If it’s really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick. ~Eric Braeden
  5. The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They’ve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ~Ron Chernow
  6. The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there’s no check-off box for you, you don’t exist. ~Jack Anderson
  7. Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. ~Spencer Bachus
  8. Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation’s healthcare delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. ~Jim Ryun
  9. Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit healthcare inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. ~John Conyers
  10. The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market. ~Gary Miller

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35 of the best one-liners ever. You’ll love them all

Today I offer you some of the best one-liners ever. Well, they are, in my opinion, at least.

I love a great one-liner, and these are all brilliant. They’re amusing, sharp, and very witty. I hope at least one or two of them will brighten your day.

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27 Quotes by Jane Austen that are thought-provoking

Today I thought exploring some quotes by Jane Austen would be interesting.

As I’m sure many readers will know, Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Austen’s work explored women’s dependence on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.

Austen’s use of biting irony, realism, and social commentary has earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

For her time, she was a successful woman, and it’s always worth listening to successful people.

So, dear reader, be inspired by these excellent quotes by Jane Austen and see how many of them still resonate with us all today.

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25 inspirational stories of people going from rags to riches

Inspirational stories can be so uplifting. Their message always says, “If other people can be successful, then you can too.

Did you have a tough start in life?

Then perhaps you feel that your difficult past will prevent you from enjoying a successful future.

Well, let me tell you, a tough past doesn’t mean you’re doomed to a tough future.

A friend of mine had a very difficult start in life, and yet he’s now a millionaire. People do succeed, and so can you.

The past is the past, of course, and it can’t be changed. It serves only as a series of lessons to be learned. Remember, the past was simply part of your education. It was not a life sentence.

The future is different. The future has yet to be written, and the good news is, you’ve got the pen.

You can create any future you want, as long as you’re determined, focused, and prepared to put in plenty of hard work. You won’t get anywhere without those ingredients, I’m afraid.

Nevertheless, in the future there will be a constant stream of opportunities to be seized, just waiting for the fleet-footed and enterprising to grab and exploit them. One person’s problem is another person’s opportunity to provide a solution for a profit.

Success can be yours if you’re prepared to make the effort and take a few calculated risks.

Don’t just accept my word for it; look around for people who’ve done it.

There are plenty of inspirational stories if you’ll just look for them. Today I offer you a video with 25 inspirational stories. It’s well worth a few minutes of your time.

25 Inspirational Stories:

In the video included here, there are 25 excellent examples of people who had a tough start in life but went on to enjoy considerable financial success.

These are all inspirational stories of people going from rags to riches. And if they can do it, why not you?

And remember this: you’re never too old.

Colonel Sanders started KFC at the grand old age of 65.

And Ray Kroc began building the business empire we now know as McDonald’s at 52.

Believe you can and you will.

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