February 12, 2007 22:38
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The other day when I chanced upon my next-road neighbor in the super market, I found him in good spirits. His daughter 2 days back collected the first prize in a tough drawing competition and has just landed a well-paid graphic artist job in a MNC. But wasn't she a big failure in the drawing school awhile back - I was intrigued.
Oh yes, but that was 2 years ago, was his reply. He went on explaining she worked very hard after changing drawing school. She made it a point that she did at least 4 drawings every week, working close to 6 hours each day at home. And of course her college time took 5 hours plus journeying to and fro.
Wasn't that tiresome, I persisted. On the contrary, my neighbor said. Yes, the hours were longer, but she was content that her each day was accumulating her efforts. She believed the sum total of her efforts would one day reward her handsomely. And reward they did, and handsomely too.
It set me thinking what could be the turning point in her nascent career. I concluded there wasn't any except that she recognized she needed to work on her abilities every day. It's akin to saving small each day, every day. Before long the small efforts add up to more than simple addition of each of them.
What's funny about this whole thing is that when the big picture emerges, it takes you by surprise. Well, my neighbor's daughter wasn't surprised. She expected the returns. But I, the entity away from her daily little efforts, was pleasantly surprised at her success.
But then that is how it happens with all of us. I've with me an excellent article by Stoney deGeyter that teaches how small things in life have bigger potential than what we know when we do them. Click here below to read the article.
Summarizing his thoughts, here are the main pointers (I mention them here so that they stare at me every time I check my blog articles).
- Grow Daily
- Value the Process
- Don't Wait for Inspiration
- Be Willing to Pay Now
- Don't Focus on Your Limitations
- Master Your Time
- Trade Up, Not Down
Worthy advice they are. Off you now go to the article. Here's the link again.
