Smart Planning, Efforts, And Teamwork: Vital Necessities For Success
The grand success you seek for in your career, academics, business, or even in your personal life may not come by mere chance or luck, but by the resultant combined power of three forces - the force of smart planning, the force of continuous efforts, and the force of teamwork. When you pull these three forces together, you will be able to create unimaginable breakthroughs. If you want something to work for you or to happen in certain ways, then you have to make it happen. As a matter of fact, success is majorly dependent on how you have planned for it, the efforts you have put into it, and the collaborations you have.
Taking the first factor: Smart planning. This is not just about writing down what your goals are, but it is about thinking strategically, prioritizing the goals, and then mapping out the specific steps to take in order to arrive at the goal. This also involves foreseeing challenges and then making plans for them with ready solutions even before they come. For example, when you see a student reading for a particular important exam, they will not just be reading randomly. Rather, they will have a planned schedule, allocate time to each topic, create timetable, and even make plans for past questions. This is what helps to reduce stress and amplify results.
Even in the business world, smart planning is also very necessary. If you see a start-up that has made the necessary analysis and planning, including market research before it is launched, it will stand a greater chance of succeeding than the one which just jumps into the market blindly. As a business person, you will need to study and analyse your customers' needs and preferences, observe your competitors, create a budget, and make adequate preparation for eventualities. All these are part of what make you succeed in business and not just about buying and selling.
The next factor is effort. Your plan may be brilliant, your analysis may be superb, but it will require consistent and continuous efforts for it to work out good. As a civil engineer for example, even though you have a very mind-blowing architectural drawing at hand, you will understand that the building will not just grow on its own until you start to work on it and be consistent at it. Consistent effort is what drives a vision to its realisation. By consistency, it can also mean showing up every morning, putting in works, resolving not to quit even when things seem tough.
More often than not, it is not the first action that will produce the result that you need, even though the first action is very important. You need consistent action. If you want to cut down a big tree with an axe for example, you will understand the power of consistency. If you hit the axe for the first time, you may not notice any effect because the tree will still be standing. However, by continuously and consistently striking on the tree with the axe, a time will come when the tree with fall. If you hit it first and quit, you will not bring the tree down. A lot of people have not achieved their goal, not because they do not have plans but because they give up too quickly.
The last factor to take a look at is teamwork. Your may have a solid plan, you may also have a strong individual effort, but you will still be limited when acting alone. For everything that you want to achieve, there is a need for the input of others. There are some shortfalls that can be significantly beefed up by the power of teamwork. It is worthy to note that you tend to achieve more and better with collective efforts than solo effort.
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Teamwork has a way of bringing in diverse idea, collective strength, and more perspectives. That is, it multiplies efforts, increases strength, and reduces weakness.
Take a look at a football team. If just one player who is exceptionally good plays alone without the efforts of other teammates, he will lose. This is why it has been said that "a team of average players acting together can win a team of disjointed individual talents." It is when you form a team with other people of like minds that you will achieve your goals easily and better.
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