Better your Best

What does it take to better your best?
What does it take to put in that little extra to make someone smile?
What do you need to want to make that special attempt to give your best shot?
All it needs is a little EXTRA than what you do now.

I see resumes everyday from hopeful aspirants looking to start their career. I see the same black and white pages, with meaningless objectives and wasted words like "Whatever I have written here is true to the best of my knowledge". Amazing. And to think that colleges are training these kids to create resumes like this.

I see people who pass on work that is mediocre. Just passable. Hotels cook food thats passable and hope to be in the business forever. Teachers forget to inspire and feel frustrated. Parents spend a half hearted holiday with kids and get irritated when kids do not enjoy.

When mediocrity extends to life saving work we are asking for trouble. Imaging doctors operating half heartedly. Imaging engineers building bridges without proper methods. (Thats what happens to roads in India...Always mediocre).

Take a pledge that you will do whatever it takes to do the best. And then some more.
Go Inspire yourself.

Deadlines and you...

Someone tells you, "Here's your schedule for the project. Follow it".

Are you the type thats programmed to speed only when something is really due from you or expected of you?

You could take rest, analyse, enjoy, explore and relax when you get off your deadline banner thats waiting?

Think again.

Your aim at the office should NOT be to do work and submit it just before it's due. 

The successful person aims to do the project as beautifully as they can, faster than anyone else, so that they can do more tougher and challenging work.

If you have become like some people who need to have a deadline on your neck to get you out of your relaxed state and to fight the resistance of laziness, then... you should start to move your deadlines forward yourself. make each deadline a little earlier so that it challenges your skills and keeps you sharp.

Remember...You are not working in a factory on a robotic assembling line. 

You are employed in the world of projects and creative spirit.

The mentoring trainees around you are watching you to be inspired from you.

Someone, somewhere should say, "Hey, I wish I was like those guys at QTL working with passion and razor sharp in their focus to deliver results".

The more projects you get to work on, the more chances you are given to make mistakes...and learn!

The more you learn and work gives more opportunity to make your reputation and to have more impact.

To grow, to learn, to succeed, to earn and to be satisfied that you have lived this day fully.

If you are working in an ambience against your team and CEO, your goal should be to do less work.

When you generate yourself as a force against each project, the goal is to do more work and to do that as a team.

Anytime you get to be like that you will discover that the deadlines vanish...that no lines exist.

Its just amazing projects...and miracles that happen from your desk everyday.

Sameer Ansar

www.theqtl.com

www.theqtl.blogspot.com

The excuse for everything in life

WARNING : If you are looking for excuses... it is the first sign that your project is in trouble. 

Some of us even start looking for excuses even before a project even starts.

Unconsciously, we start looking for an excuse or for someone to put the blame on. 
This helps the person to regain confidence and peace. [It's surprisingly easy to be relaxed if you have excuses ready and feel that the others will accept it.]

I used to be like this. When I get a responsibility, I would think "Hmmm, I can start doing it, and if it doesn't work out perfectly, I can point out it was the problem of  ..." 

Then, as the work speeds up...as leaders come along and things happen, we keep adding and making a better excuse list, ensuring to remember all the factors that were out of our control. When I started my career as a salesman at Culture Club, Mumbai I often found myself imagining and finding reasons for myself about why I was unable to close a particular sale. Sometimes I would start making an excuse for a failure even before I started the sales call.

I have come across tons of people who have perfected the style of excuses with creativity. (Wrong astrology sign, helpless to change the system, childhood issues, etc). They always fail in whatever they do and live in the failure. They are okay, though because they always have an excuse ready to use. It soon becomes very easy for them to turn around and run when the going is rough.

Let me make a scenario for you thats the opposite of the excuse using life: 

Imaging how it would be if you just stop looking for excuses at all?

Instead of trying to find excuses, what if our team was made up with people who are focused on NEVER taking up excuses. If we start now to purposely STOP taking up the opportunity to use an excuse or the luxury to blame someone, you may Transform the work you are doing and the person that you are.

If you are inspired enough to be focused to drive well and never ever stopped by a policeman, you will not need to blame the brake and the accelerator. THINK.

Sameer Ansar

www.theqtl.com

www.theqtl.blogspot.com