The Key To Success - Be The Best You Can Be!

by Phil Enright

You can have great pride in yourself, if you have always tried to do your best. The great Michael Jordan famously said, ‘I can accept failure, everyone fails some time; but I cannot accept not trying.’

Australia’s most successful sporting coach, Wayne Bennett, whose teams won the Australian equivalent of 6 Superbowls said, ‘There are many things that we know, and many things that we learn, but our greatest challenges are ourselves.’

Bennett observed, the one thing that can sustain each of us through life more than anything else, is to know who you are, and know what you stand for, and from that, to know what makes you happy and what makes you sad …… to know what type of person you want to be, and to know what type of friends you want to have.

And the quicker you work that out, the more successful you'll be; more importantly, the happier you’ll be.

Success does not define happiness. Lots of people are successful and very unhappy.

We all know of outstanding people who appear ‘to have it all’, yet we then see they’ve taken their own lives; all because they were not happy with themselves.

If you are not happy with you, your life will be filled with disappointments and great struggles.

You can have all the education, you can have all the love from your family and all the care from your friends and teachers, but if you don't learn about you, and about the person you want to be, it's going to become much more difficult.

So therein lies the greatest challenge. The rest of it you can handle. You can get support for the rest of it, someone will teach you. But the greatest teacher is yourself. When you’re at school, there are lots of people around to support you and give you direction. But if you are to be the best you can be, you have to become your greatest teacher. You can teach you more lessons, more about yourself than anybody else can.

And that is what you've got to accept if you want to be the best person you can be, you don't want to accept second best for yourself. Be the best you can be. You can't be somebody else's person -,you've got to be yourself.

Sometimes you’ll get into trouble and make others unhappy. But you’ll never get into trouble with yourself if when making every decision, you ask, ‘Are you being true to you.’ If you are always true to yourself, you will not fail yourself in any situation that requires right from wrong.
You, and the bond with you, will be preserved.

Going off to college, travelling overseas, these are the kinds of (often expensive) growing experiences we seek. In such travels, one sees many things and has many experiences, but the true test of their value as a ‘growing experience’ is, ‘Do they change you?’

If they don't change you, then they have largely been a waste of your time and money. There are many things you can't change, but what you can change is the person you want to be, how you want to treat yourself and those who come into contact with you.

As much as others may want to help, no one can do it for you.

No one learnt anything in life from anybody or thing which didn't challenge them or, didn't force them outside their comfort zone. You learn nothing substantial when you walk with people who don't challenge you.

Bennett has a quote in his office, 'God give me a coach that will demand from me what I am capable of giving.’ You have to demand that from yourself and you have to ensure that you never accept your second best. It's not going to get you to where you want to go and where you want to go is to wake up every morning and be happy. You want to wake up every morning and feel good about you because of the person you were the day before. Because of the things you did the day before and because of the things you said the day before; the way you conducted yourself.

Real champions don't compete against anybody else. The real champions compete against themselves because they know that is the toughest competition they will ever face; because they are the one person that knows them better than anybody else. They are the only person that knows when they don't give1OO%; they are the only person who knows when they are untrustworthy; they are the one person who knows when they lack responsibility; they are the one person who knows when they don't care enough about somebody else when they should.

No one knows us like ourselves. So therein lies the challenge.

To be the best we can be.

So the challenge will be there every day, you've just got to be ready for it. You want to be the best you can. If you would like to be coached and/or mentored through the process of identifying and securing the career to fulfill you, to be the best you can be, and assisted to be ‘workplace ready’ and a whole lot more appealing to potential employers, the MYCBD Group will provide the support, understanding and skills you need. Contact Phil Enright on email, mycbdgroup@gmail.com