One more TREE is on the way to change your life…
This message is about a Christmas TREE for you this Christmas and New year which when embraced could give you that quantum leap in your life and make you to look ahead briskly to life’s possibilities.
The TREE here is the acronym for:
Target
Responsibility
Empathy
Excellence
Like lights flashing brightly all over a Christmas tree, let this philosophy gets it’s bright glowing power as you practice them and putting them to effective use. Things will fall in place for you and you’ll be guided through the labyrinth of life.
These four quality traits—Target, Responsibility, Empathy and Excellence are integral part highly, truly, victorious people who have been enjoying complete and all-round success.
You’ll be treading along the same path, enjoying the same fruits as they do and the same kind of great man or woman when you take the time and effort to internalize these 4 factors of true success.
Like a Christmas TREE, this TREE too has a lot of gifts for you—happy life, effective personal communication, excellent leadership, attaining any goals that you set for yourself, etc.
Strengthened multifold by these gifts, you can take on anything (any obstacles and hurdles) and be a totally different, better person before next Christmas!!
Now let’s roll!
TARGET:
Target is the “point” that you want to aim at. A target is something that you really, desperately and in a longing way wanted!
I-can attitude flows out of a deep sense of personal worth. You get it when you have targets or purposes or goals. That’s why most of the successful people are so confident about themselves as they draw their power from executing the target plans consistently.
Also, you’ll be intuitively drawn to your “real” things— things that that are important. When you do the things that do matter and important to you, your best in you is brought out!!
On the eve of Christmas, just sit down and reflect on your current life and start to know what you want and need, right now!! This awareness will fuel your endeavor and sky-rockets you!!
Successful people always keep their goals in and with them. This means they always think in terms of their goals. Once when you have conceived your targets, you are putting your mind on the right track and eliminate the unnecessary things from your life.
Having the burning desire is like having your “water” but that must be converted in to a steam to move your vehicle. Your purposes or goals or targets do this.
Also, great people know “Why” they want to achieve a certain goal. They not only set goals but also write why they want to reach that goal. This “why” part is the motivating factor and changes you to be persistent with your goals.
Once you form your goals, your motivation would be from inside and not based on the external factors such as weather or how people treat you or whether the day is bad or good—you are focused.
One key character is being patient with goals. People, when they don’t see results, just quit even without analyzing where they are at the moment. But successful crowd just stick to their plans and be patient if they are sure that they are moving in the right direction.
So, this is the first element of tree—targets.
RESPONSIBILITY:
By far the greatest single obstacle to victory is not taking responsibility.
Great people know the secret that most of things would come to them if they don’t wait for things to happen or the other person to take the first step but taking the action themselves as soon as possible.
That’s why they engineer magnificent achievements!!
Epictetus, the Greek philosopher, rightly said,
“God has entrusted me with myself. “
High-achievers don’t get trapped in the run-away syndrome but face the things by taking responsibility followed by appropriate, courageous actions.
They use and think only in terms of phrases like:
“I take responsibility for the way my life is or would be!”
“I am responsible for that outcome and I’ll plan and take necessary steps to attain it!”
They aren’t really obsessed about the outcome—whether they fail or succeed, they always take the responsibility. But most of the time they pull it off!!
This is the mark of the undisputed champions and you too can become one. More precisely, you are one already but your sense of responsibility maybe dormant. Awaken it and take life in your hands.
Once you become proactive, your thinking starts to change, your ability starts to change, you view about life and others start to change!
It could start from this Christmas day!
You’ll have perennial power, like the outstanding people when you realize the importance of this second element of the TREE!
Your comfort zone expands and you’ll be able to do many things which may have frightened you but are necessary for bigger success!!
Taking responsibility is a process of discovering you higher, powerful version. Start it today!
EMPATHY:
Life management is self-management ad people management. Managing each other well in any kind of organization, be it a family or a company or a Church or a school is one of the vital indications that that organization is on the right track and the natural sharing and caring are taking place well!
There’s a world of difference between just interacting with people and, understanding and interacting with people. Top-class men and women understand their people and always strive to know each and everyone well in their team or family or in the class!
You are sure assuming many roles in your life now—son, wife, husband, team leader, etc. This third element empathy is worth much more than most of the things in life because it is the glue that holds everything together in your life and makes you to lead a happy, successful life.
BIG successes have been achieved by teams. You must be a team player at one point of time in your life. This calls for EMPATHY. This must not be used as a way but this must become your character trait—you really got to care about people.
Deep understanding—about people—is the hall-mark of victorious men and women. They know that people are different from one another and to have a synergistic output and a really serene life, understanding others is so crucial.
Marvelous people seek to understand others whereas mediocres expect others to understand them.
But when you truly care for others, you’ll be really so much empathic in nature and that’ll put the seed for great life for all around you.
EXCELLENCE:
The last element in the TREE is EXCELLENCE. Whatever venture they undertake, small or big, the go-getters always seek excellence.
The Bible aptly says in Ecclesiastes 9:10,
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.”
Doing with all your might regardless of the output will lead to gateways you haven’t known before!
When you take RESPONSIBILITY to be your best in everything you do, you can even outshine your weaknesses.
Makers don’t compromise on quality. That’s why they are makers. They always make an effort to deliver high quality stuff—always!
They might compromise on other things but never on quality.
This leads them to be the most satisfied and fulfilled people on the planet in the context of happiness.
Always see ad try to reach the peak and nothing else!!
As a parting remark, have the following quote from Brian Tracy, the motivational and management guru:
“Never settle for anything less than your best.”
Tears may have welled up in your eyes as you couldn’t face your obstacles or hurdles and hardships of life.
But now, you have the TREE in your hands and if you follow these four timeless principles, your cap will be full of feathers by next Christmas!!
Stamp the TREE strongly, deeply and indelibly today upon your soul and mind, and sure these 4 principles
TARGET, RESPONSIBILITY, EMPATHY AND EXCELLENCE will lay the stone for your success!!
They’ll inject a new blood in you. You’ll acquire a whole new breed of attitudes and behaviors.
The Santa has put the gift of TREE by your side and he is sure you’ll grab it!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings
Success Park Publishers
