success Archives | Jedidiah https://jedidiah.org.za/tag/success/ Raising a Standard of Excellence & Significance Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:13:59 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 Successful people do not float to success https://jedidiah.org.za/excellence/successful-people-do-not-float-to-success/ https://jedidiah.org.za/excellence/successful-people-do-not-float-to-success/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:35:37 +0000 http://jedidiah.org.za/?p=1284 I believe that most of our parents taught us to follow certain routines in life. Even as an adult you have a certain routine you follow from getting out of bed in the morning until you arrive at work. We also see sports people often following certain routines before kicking at the posts, before going down in the blocks for a 100m race, doing a pole vault or before a scuba dive.

Routines and habits

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]]> https://jedidiah.org.za/excellence/successful-people-do-not-float-to-success/feed/ 0 A penny for your thoughts https://jedidiah.org.za/character/a-penny-for-your-thoughts/ https://jedidiah.org.za/character/a-penny-for-your-thoughts/#respond Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:38:56 +0000 http://jedidiah.org.za/?p=883 In his book Thinking for a change John Maxwell asks the question why some people are more successful than others?

Two Perspectives

He then tells a story of a man with two daughters, the one 21 years old and the other 25. The 21 year old daughter applied to a university to study Pharmacy. On hearing that she was accepted she was elated, but her 25 year old sister bemoaned the fact that her sister needs to go to school for four more years.

Maxwell then concludes that

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