Hiring People

This is the eighth installment of The 10 Steps to be Successful. In order to be successful you should hire people who are better at their job than you. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have a clue on what they are doing, but they just need to be better at it. For example: the bookkeeper, everything she does I can do, but she does it better. Same for my construction guy. When I first started I used to come up with the designs, then I found someone who does it better than me and I hired him.

Learning Heart

Fifth step in being successful is to have a learning heart. A saying on a shirt goes, "Learn like you're going to live forever. Live like you're going to die tomorrow." You want to always have a learning attitude because there is a ton to learn while you are on this earth. As the saying goes... you learn something new every day. Another way to have a learning heart is to read; read as much as possible. As you get older it gets harder to read because reading is very time consuming, but you should try to read at least one book a month. The proverbs part of the bible has a lot of information in it and that is why I read a little part of it every day. You should also try to join a few networks because the amount of people you know will grow and there is a ton of stuff to learn from the different networks you join. Finally, just be a student of the game. Play it one move at a time and have fun with your learning heart.  

Here is the second installment to our keys to success. Step number 2 is the 10000 hour rule and that means in order to be good at something you must do it for 10000 hours. You should get to 10000 hours as fast as possible and one way you can do that is to spend 100 hours of work a week if you can. If you do 100 hours a week it will take you two years to get to that goal. When you are really passionate about something you should work your hardest to become great at it.