"The Leadership Solutions Network is an online magazine focusing on interesting and relevant topics for the student, career-seeker, and leader."
Living On Purpose - Always Deliver!
By
Byron Garrett, excerpted from the book GO M.A.D., on sale now!
In society today, much time is spent on customer service training and teaching people how to work effectively with
each other. Companies have adopted the slogan "customer = #1." With that in mind, it becomes our responsibility to exceed
the expectations of those around us. When you look in the mirror each morning, you should be a person of strong character,
high integrity, and great self-worth. You need to be a "go to" person. A person people look to for direction, one that others
can depend on when needed. In short, you have to be a person who always delivers.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., offered great words beyond his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. He stated, "If it falls your
lot to be a street sweeper, then sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like
Beethoven composed music... sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would pause and say here likes a
great street sweeper who swept his job well."
The words of Dr. King will echo throughout history. The fact is no matter your station, position, rank, or class you have to be a person who is doing his or her job so well that people pause and wonder, how do you do what you do. As a little boy, I learned that the mailman delivers mail under three conditions - rain, sleet, or snow. I was always amazed that if a stamp was not on the envelope it would be returned to sender. The delivery of the mail had little to do with the weather conditions, but more to do with the stamp's ability to stick to it. I don't know what has happened to you thus far in life, but you must stick to it until you deliver. If you've been abused, neglected, mistreated, whatever your situation - I'm truly sorry. Beyond the apology awaits the fact that you have to make a conscious decision to do something different or your life will never change.
The rain in your life may have been losing your boyfriend or girlfriend to your best friend, I don't know. Perhaps the sleet in your life has been a teacher or someone else from school continually telling you that you're not good enough and don't have what it takes to make it. I don't know. Maybe the snow in your life has been your father or mother walking out and giving up on you, I honestly don't know. But I do know this - in spite of the rain, in spite of sleet, and certainly in spite of the snow you have to be like a stamp and stick to it until you deliver. When you are living your life on purpose, you deliver. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. You always deliver.
Byron Garrett, the CEO of Lifeworks International, is a member of Team TRI's Strategic Leadership Alliance. This article is reprinted from Byron's latest book: GO M.A.D., available now: click here to learn how to order your copy!
Current Average Article Rating: 3.6/5
Rating articles lets the LSN Staff know which articles you like best, which helps us to produce more articles like the ones you found most helpful.
|
|
© Copyright TRI Leadership Resources, LLC 1991-2003. Copying and stealing information from this website without express written permission from TeamTRI is strictly forbidden and an indicator that you are not a leader. If you aren't a leader, then keep surfing this site: you're in the right place and we can help. Contact us at PO Box 912, Jacksonville, OR, 97530 or call 888-786-7526 for assistance.
|
|
|
Not currently receiving the LSN? Get the premier source of leadership and career knowledge sent straight to your e-mail box! Click here to subscribe! |
 Click here to see Team TRI in action in the Institute For Leaders video! |
Find out how TRI can help your organization, and learn more about the folks who write for the LSN!
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
--H. H. Williams |
|
