2 posts tagged “qotd”

My method for staying organized depends largely upon the area where organization is needed.

If it is something that I am very passionate about and I know intuitively how things should flow, organization occurs naturally and easily based upon the most critical factors involved.

I strongly believe in the Pareto Principle where 80% of the success is determined by 20% of the inputs.  Other variables typically contribute only 20% of the success.

Too many people major in the minor things and minor in the major areas of any subject or endeavor and wonder why they are getting the results that they are.  At this point, the individual, team, or organization literally has to force themselves to do the "wrong" things or things that they really do not believe will contribute to their success.

I have seen this within investing up close and personal after observing it within the accounts of investors who clearly sounded as if they knew what they were doing but whose balances and trades indicated that they did not.

After applying the same logic to my own trading and other areas, the victories produced were so mind-blowing that it would almost make you want to quit the endeavor itself since the new paradigm proved how wrong you once were:)

By default and as time progresses, these observations are making me become a turnaround specialist although I am not too fond of the idea yet.

But where I have seen the opportunity for a turnaround, I am able to usually see which tools, levers, and traits need to be pulled and which ones need to be let go.

Winners be, see, do, and have things that losers refuse to and losers justify themselves by turning their noses down on the actions, behaviors, and mindset that the winners repeatedly use time and time again by declaring that "It is too hard", "I've got other things to do", and "I tried it and it did not work for me".

You have to keep doing the simple things over and over again without any short-terms signs of success if you want to experience the long-term success and victories that winners produce.

Small seeds bear big fruit versus large seeds bearing small fruit.

Keep planting the small seeds of organization second by second and make the necessary adjustments as courageously as you can with the hopes that your new level of organization will provide the breakthroughs that you are looking for.

I have even found such a seed within the Holy Bible within Romans 12:11 where it states:

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord (KJV);

Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants (Bible in Basic English); and

my new favorite translation on this specific verse from the Weymouth New Testament where it reads:

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants.

The answer was there all the time!

Peace!

What was your major or field of study in college? Did you wind up working in that field or using that degree? If not, what field have you wound up in? 
Submitted by sneuf. 

My major in college was mathematics and after multiple years of working around its edges, I am glad to finally glad to exclusively work with my degree since 2004.

My minor then was going to be computer science, but after running into an advanced Fortran class, I changed to minor in sociology since the computer science minor was conflicting with my social life:)

I had a great sociology class that tipped me to minor in it, but I never really understood why I minored in sociology until I accepting God's calling into ministry.  Then and only then did it completely make sense.

My graduate degree is a MBA in finance, so I've further leveraged my mathematical education to have an applied degree versus theory only IMO:)

So my education has paid off in teaching me how to survive in any labor market and I especially learned from Clark Atlanta University where its motto is "Find A Way or Make One".  The school drove the point harder than it had to:)

Overall, I will say that I learned just as much within the extracurricular activities as I did within the classroom.  My fraternity experience shaped me in ways most cannot imagine and has contributed to my approach to many organizations and anything that involves leadership.

Going to school in the southeastern US has offered irrevocable insights into the history of our country as well as what the future holds in terms of race relations.

Unfortunately, it is going to take another 50 to 100 years minimum for Dr. King's dream to be fulfilled on a group level although there have been significant breakthroughs on the individual level.

Peace!