Here is how you can develop your
power to see what can be, not just what is. I call these the “practice adding
value” exercises.
- Practice adding value to things: you need to ask yourself, “What can I do to ‘Add value’ to this room, car, business, mountain, class,?” always look for ideas to make things around you worth more. A thing-whether it be a vacant lot, a house, car, or a business-has value in proportion to the ideas for using it.
- Practice adding value to people: as you move higher and higher in the world of success, more and more of your job becomes “people development.” Ask, “what can I do to ‘add value’ to my subordinates? Remember to bring out the best in a person, you must first visualize his best.
- Practice adding value to yourself: conduct a daily interview with yourself. Ask, “What can I do to make myself more valuable today?” visualize yourself not as you are but as you can be. Then specific ways for attaining your potential value will suggest themselves. Just try and see.
Big thinkers see themselves as
members of a team effort, as winning or losing with the team, not by
themselves. They help in every way they can, even when there is no direct and
immediate compensation or other reward
