Whether we like it or not, life is full of rules!
We can whine, complain, or rebel against them, but sooner or later the rules are going to fight back and win!
For example, you may not like the rules or laws that control driving on the road, control the flight of airplanes over your house, bring justice to a lawless nation, or even the laws and rules of physics. But we have to live with them and accept them for a variety of reasons.
First of all, many of these rules are for our personal protection. If there were no rules of the road, many more people would die from the chaos that would ensue. If there were no rules that controlled the movement of airplanes thru the air, catastrophes would happen all over the world from them flying into each other.
How safe would your families feel in your homes and businesses if there were no laws governing the criminals of the world? Try stepping off the ledge of a tall building or even the roof of your house and see how long you rebel against the laws of gravity!!
Second, these rules provide organization and oversight for us. Consider one of your local rivers; its banks provide boundaries and a means of controlling potential flooding. Like a river or stream, having rules in our lives creates focus, order and controlled direction.
There are rules of the internet that control the movement of data and information over the internet highway. Imagine trying to send an email to your friends or family without proper routing and protocols that are needed to get your email to the right place.
Consider just trying to buy something on-line and hoping the payment gets to the right company and they get the right address to send the products. Yikes!!
Thirdly and finally, these laws or rules provide consistency and stability for us to grow, to prosper, and to become successful. By working within the rules, by following the guidelines, and by allowing them to help us, we then have the freedom to expand and build our businesses, provide for our families, and maintain our lives in peace and order.
Needless to say, rules are a major influence in our lives.
The same applies to having any business. There are certain laws and rules that when dismissed, ignored, changed, or fought against, will come back to haunt you.
Therefore, if you are to be successful in business, you need, no…you MUST read and study the “Rules of Success.” To ignore them is to undermine the process of growth and expansion that you want to have to be successful with your business.
Don’t try to re-invent the wheel, these rules and guidelines have been tried and proven for many years as central tenets for any enterprise.
Gery Carson, founder and owner of Strong Future International, (SFI),an online business, has assembled, from experience, the following “Rules of Success.”
Review these principles to help you to stay focused, stay on target, and moving forward toward success.
1. Treat your business…like a business!
2. DO something to grow your business every day.
3. Lead by example.
4. Work with the workers.
5. Parlay is the way
6. YOU succeed only if THEY succeed.
7. YOU make it happen, no one else.
8. Leaders are readers.
9. Open your eyes to your potential.
10. Set goals…and publish them!
11. Have a plan (a realistic plan).
12. Winning starts with beginning.
13. Focus.
14. Send praise down (and criticism up).
15. Don’t quit.
16. Think BIG.
17. Don’t major in minors.
18. Don’t be a negative thinker.
19. Some will, some won’t. So what?! Someone’s waiting! Next!
20. Persist until you win.
For additional explanation about each of the 20 “Rules of Success,” CLICK HERE.
Then click on each “Rule” for added information.
