Increase Your Success by Increasing Quality

The Principles of Quality

	More Success is Better Than Some Success IT'S READY WHEN YOU ARE
Home Contact Don Order the Book ESSAYS ON QUALITY What Is Quality? Quality as a Tool for Success The Necessary Steps Before Personal Improvement Can Occur The Difference Between Personal Development and Personal Improvement Quality is so Easy, Why Settle for Less? Quality is an Attitude Increase Your Success by Increasing Quality Responses from readers: "I am truly blown away." D.D. "If you're looking for immediate results, try applying the principles presented in this book." L.M. "This book has inspired me to raise the bar in all areas of my life, and with your simple and realistic approach, I know that I can!" M.Y.	Achieving Success Who wouldn't like to be more successful? However you measure success, whether in money or friends or the size of the flowers in your garden, more is usually better. More money is especially nice. But there is the clue. Rather than spending your efforts on the more, spend them on the better. The common way to achieve more is to work harder: longer hours, faster weeding, doing extra favors. The problem with this approach is that it has limits: you can only do so much. Then when you hit the limits, it is easy to get discouraged, to think "I've gone as far as I can go." You're already working harder than you can keep up, so the only way to go is down. Clearly, this is not a workable approach to greater success. Granted, if you have a passion to totally excel at something, working harder at it will lead to improvement. Ask any Olympic skater. For most people who live balanced lives, however, another approach is far more effective. The workable way to increase success in your life is to do things better. Increasing Success Whatever you are doing, do it a little bit better. If you write an e-mail, look it over before sending it to catch any stupid mistakes. It takes a few seconds, but the result is higher quality. If you are washing dishes, wash them well. Actually look at them to make sure they are clean. No matter what you are doing, you can achieve a higher quality level. Perfection is not impossible, but it is not the goal. The goal is improvement. Funny thing about improvement: it adds up. Do a lot of things a little better, and suddenly you have a lot of better in your life. Keep it up, and future small improvements build on the higher quality you have already achieved. You will start to see changes. People will notice. Opportunities will begin to open up that require the higher levels of quality you are demonstrating. At the very least, you will feel better and better about yourself with every passing day. This principle applies to any area of life, from home to office to relationships. Are you a parent? Do it a little bit better, giving your kids a little more time and attention. Are you dating? Treat him or her a little better. Do you mow lawns for a living? Practice law? Teach? Whatever you do, take the few seconds or minutes to be a bit more thorough, or accurate, or neat. Some people may try to talk you out of your campaign to do things better, or make fun of you. One phrase you will hear is "Why bother?" The reason to bother is to achieve success. It won't happen overnight, but if you keep increasing quality in all aspects of your life, one little change at a time, it will happen, for certain. Oh, and that little extra time it often takes? You will find that you spend far less time correcting errors, and will get more done overall. Win-win. Anyone Can Improve His or Her Life: The Principles of Quality goes into much greater depth than this little essay can, and makes everything very easy. Have fun with it. Let me know how it goes for you.
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More Success is Better Than Some Success

IT'S READY WHEN YOU ARE

Home
Contact Don
Order the Book

ESSAYS ON QUALITY

What Is Quality?

Quality as a Tool for Success

The Necessary Steps Before Personal Improvement Can Occur

The Difference Between Personal Development and Personal Improvement

Quality is so Easy, Why Settle for Less?

Quality is an Attitude

Increase Your Success by Increasing Quality

Responses from
readers:

"I am truly blown away."
      D.D.

"If you're looking for immediate results, try applying the principles presented in this book."
      L.M.

"This book has inspired me to raise the bar in all areas of my life, and with your simple and realistic approach, I know that I can!"
      M.Y.

Achieving Success

Who wouldn't like to be more successful? However you measure success, whether in money or friends or the size of the flowers in your garden, more is usually better. More money is especially nice. But there is the clue. Rather than spending your efforts on the more, spend them on the better.

The common way to achieve more is to work harder: longer hours, faster weeding, doing extra favors. The problem with this approach is that it has limits: you can only do so much. Then when you hit the limits, it is easy to get discouraged, to think "I've gone as far as I can go." You're already working harder than you can keep up, so the only way to go is down. Clearly, this is not a workable approach to greater success.

Granted, if you have a passion to totally excel at something, working harder at it will lead to improvement. Ask any Olympic skater. For most people who live balanced lives, however, another approach is far more effective. The workable way to increase success in your life is to do things better.

Increasing Success

Whatever you are doing, do it a little bit better. If you write an e-mail, look it over before sending it to catch any stupid mistakes. It takes a few seconds, but the result is higher quality. If you are washing dishes, wash them well. Actually look at them to make sure they are clean. No matter what you are doing, you can achieve a higher quality level. Perfection is not impossible, but it is not the goal. The goal is improvement.

Funny thing about improvement: it adds up. Do a lot of things a little better, and suddenly you have a lot of better in your life. Keep it up, and future small improvements build on the higher quality you have already achieved. You will start to see changes. People will notice. Opportunities will begin to open up that require the higher levels of quality you are demonstrating.

At the very least, you will feel better and better about yourself with every passing day.

This principle applies to any area of life, from home to office to relationships. Are you a parent? Do it a little bit better, giving your kids a little more time and attention. Are you dating? Treat him or her a little better. Do you mow lawns for a living? Practice law? Teach? Whatever you do, take the few seconds or minutes to be a bit more thorough, or accurate, or neat.

Some people may try to talk you out of your campaign to do things better, or make fun of you. One phrase you will hear is "Why bother?" The reason to bother is to achieve success. It won't happen overnight, but if you keep increasing quality in all aspects of your life, one little change at a time, it will happen, for certain.

Oh, and that little extra time it often takes? You will find that you spend far less time correcting errors, and will get more done overall. Win-win.

Anyone Can Improve His or Her Life: The Principles of Quality goes into much greater depth than this little essay can, and makes everything very easy.

Have fun with it. Let me know how it goes for you.