Many years back, I attended a seminar by Brian Tracy and I learnt an important concept about success.
The concept is "Your achievement depends on what you do after the office hours".Let me show you how this concept changed my life.
When I first started working, I was one of the most hard-working employees in my office. While most people work until 6-7pm, I usually worked until 8-9pm. I did well in my job, but I saw no future. At that time, I was spending most of my after-office hours "working".
Then I discovered a field of study called success philosophy and I became addicted to it. During that stage of my life, I spent most of my after-office hours reading self help books, until the day when I finally realized that success is inevitable.
When I started my offline business, I spent the office hours running the business. I spent my after-office hours reading about other businesses, including internet marketing. I also spent many nights learning how to build and promote websites.
Now that I'm full time in internet marketing, I spend the office hours running my online businesses and my after-office hours developing new online businesses.
The point is...We spend most of our office hours on day-to-day operation. The only time when we can do things that will have major impact in our future is after-office hours.
However, most people spend their after-office hours watching TV programmes, playing games etc. I have many friends who have the thinking that "office-hour is for work, after-office-hour is for relaxation". I can't say they are wrong. But what I know is, if I were to adopt such a mentality, I will not be where I'm today.
How about you? What do you do after your office-hour?
To your success,
Kenneth Koh
i'm actually looking for an answer on that "WHAT TO DO AFTER OFFICE HOURS".
ReplyDeletei'm a programmer and well.. after office i come back to my place and the first thing i do is switch ON my laptop... and program. or learn something new to do with my job. or something about IT. etc.etc.
yesterday it suddenly struck me if i'm doing this right. i love programming so i guess its OK? most of my friends, like u said either relax or play games, watch tv or simply spend time with their family.
hmm... i was thinking of consciously avoiding "LAPTOP - SWITCH ON" and turning to reading. can start on with my new purchase PRAGMATIC THINKING & LEARNING by Andy Hunt.