Achieving Personal Excellence

By Brian Tracy
December 29, 2009

Build Your Intellectual Assets
Each person has or can acquire three forms of intellectual capital. These require an investment of study and hard work, but they pay off in higher income for the rest of your life. The first type of intellectual capital you can acquire consists of your core knowledge, skills, and abilities. These are the result of education, experience, and training. They determine how well you do your job and the value of your contribution to your business.

Build Your Internal Knowledge
The second form of intellectual capital that you posses is your knowledge of how your business operates internally, in comparison to that of your competitors or any other business. Each business develops a series or systems, procedures, methods, techniques, and strategies to market, sell, produce, deliver products and services, and satisfy customers. Each business has internal systems for accounting, administration, and financial controls. These systems take many years to develop and considerable time for a new person to learn. A person who knows and understands these systems intimately has a form of intellectual capital that is difficult for the company to replace.

Build Your Ability to Get Results
The third form of intellectual capital that you possess, and that is perhaps the key determinant of your earning ability, is your knowledge and understanding of how you can get financial results in a competitive market. This includes your knowledge of your products and services and how to sell them. It includes your knowledge of customers and suppliers and how to deal with them. It embraces your familiarity with bankers, lawyers, accountants, and government officials and how to interact with them effectively. This form of intellectual capital may take years to build, and it is extremely valuable to your organization. You first responsibility to yourself is to develop your earning ability to a high level. You do this by continually increasing your intellectual capital, by upgrading your ability to do your job, by becoming a valuable part of your organization, and by getting more and better financial results for your organization.

Action Exercise
Take time to get to know every component of your business. Get to know your customers and learn everything there is to know about your products and services.

I am back to school

Finally, I am officially enrolled in a TESOL class.  Last week we had our orientation and I felt weird but at the same time excited.  Weird because after working for years now, I am attending classes and will soon start making homework.  The feeling of excitement is caused by the fact that I will be meeting new friends and learn new things.

With this new endeavor, as an adult learner, I don't want also to burden myself with the pressure.  Although, the learning process itself is really tedious but I will find a way to make it interesting.

Yesterday, I met my classmates and trainer for the first time.  I tried to be confident in front of them (I was actually a bit embarrassed with my sandals while others are wearing formal attire) .  The room was quiet and everyone was behaving properly.  The teacher spoke in French.  I don't know what he was talking about but I can feel that he is introducing himself because I can recognize the word Mandaue, Cebu and his name.

I was speechless when he pointed at me and said something, I thought he was asking me to introduce myself to the class but I was wrong.  After 10 minutes of speaking the same lines in front of the class we then found out that he wants us to follow what he was doing/saying.  We just have to repeat every word he said.  I felt stupid because I didn't get what he was trying to do at first because I was not observant, he gave us clues through hand gestures.  But I told myself I am a Filipino not French (lol).

It was an interesting thing to start the class and I can feel that it was a taste test of what to come.  I don't mind if it is difficult as long as I learn something new in a fun way.

Now, after writing this I will start doing my homework... :)

Good luck to me and to my new TESOL class.

Regards,

a.k.a. Ace

Uncertainty

Today, when I opened my email I received this spam mail with the message: "Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?" -- Brian Tracy.  I paused a bit and pondered.

Then I started asking myself series of questions: What is really my plan for myself? my career? my family? What am I going to do in the future? a year from now or five years from now? Am I living the way I planned it to be?  What plans did not materialize?

I was confused for a moment and felt a slight panic.  I am not getting any younger.  I should start making bold moves and bigger steps.  I should get out from my comfort zone and explore other things to achieve greater heights else I will be imprisoned in this world where I am comfortably existing.

I stopped for a few minutes, What if things will go wrong as planned?

At this very moment, I am confronted with the realities of life.  The things I planned and the things I am enjoying now are about to fall apart. As the year ends and a new beginning comes I might start all over again...

Regards,

a.k.a. Ace

 

Starting All Over Again

Here I am again trying to compose my thoughts about a topic I want to post for this blog.  This is my nth attempt to create a decent blog.

This time I want to make something that truly depicts the real me; my interests in life, my opinion about local and national issues.  Something that will showcase my concern for the environment and the people in general. Perhaps, the very least, just an avenue for me to share some thoughtless ideas that would pop up in this not so brilliant head of mine :)

Seriously, I am trying to help myself overcome this weakness and I am not afraid to admit that I am not good when it comes to writing.  It is so easy to speak about something and then say... ops! I changed my mind, I want to say this and that.  But in writing it is tiring (hahaha) to type in all the letters and words that you want to say.  OK, I know what you are thinking I am lazy... maybe yes, or maybe I am not really gifted when it comes to writing.  But this does not mean I will stop from trying.  I will do my best to develop it in the hope that someday I will be able to satisfy myself with the kind of phrases, sentences and paragraphs and group of paragraphs I produce.

So, my apologies if you don't agree or like my works, you are free to leave comments but please keep it decent and say those bad things nicely if you can.

Regards,

aka Ace