I have a friend, he just broke up with his girlfriend, feeling sad and pull me to drink. He said you are not a good friend if you don't drink with me. I yelled at him, "If I get drunk, who will carry you back? If something bad happened to you, what can you do?"
He drank until his eyes turned red and swollen, sadly saying his girlfriend does not care about him. I said, if I were your girlfriend, I would also break up with you. You keep hiding in the dorm and play games all day, and you didn't do anything seriously. I don't even expect you to be able to succeed in the future, but you can't even buy yourself a meal.
He wailed with a bottle of wine in his arms.
Unexpectedly, the next day, he began to exert himself. Enroll himself to school competition, resolutely quit internet addiction, no longer absent to classes, and vowed that will no longer waste time in the dorm.
On our university graduation, he was able to reduce from 160 pounds to 120 pounds. Because of his professional skills, after graduated, he entered a large company, after years of hard work, he is now a district manager.
Last June reunion, he said the first person to thank is me, thank me for waking him up. And I said: "People's changes start with themselves. A person who wants to pretend to be asleep will never be woken up. The reason you become successful now is because of your own efforts."
I have a senior that I admired a lot. When he first entered the university, he went to our dormitory to sell newspapers. I looked at him carefully. He looks plain and wearing a plain white shirt, and looks like his family is not doing well.
However, he worked very hard, run from dormitory to another dormitory. He will go to each classmate and carefully explain the advantages of the newspaper. His eloquence was very general, and the words he uses to sell were not so appealing, but in the end, I subscribed a year's of paper from him. I appreciate his perseverance, seriousness and won’t give up easily. In fact, among the senior I know, he is not the most outstanding. He has no noticeable experience as a student cadre, no outstanding talent, and even some clumsiness. At that time, his English level is not good, but he set a goal early, spend a lot of time every day to learn English.
He bought a lot of learning materials by using the money he earned from selling newspapers, and he was slowly caught up with those who good at English. Then, after graduating, he desperately recommends himself to international companies. Even in the society, he will still work hard, and his progress is irresistible. Because of his outstanding performance, he is now sent to work abroad.
My colleague's cousin works in a cultural company. She is very talented, things that she wrote were very creative. But also because of the talent, she gives very little effort to prepare for the work.
During her company's internal management position competition, she felt that she has an outstanding performance, certainly is the best candidate. But the result, an ordinary and inconspicuous person won.
She feels very strange, why such a person would be able to sit in this position without many amazing creative ideas. She was unconvinced and argue with her superior. Her superior does not say anything; he just hand over the winner’s manuscript and the work diary for her to see.
After reading, she was convinced. How serious is that man? In two years, he prepared two or three copy for each project, each copy from a different point of view, even if one does not pass, the next can immediately fill up. More surprisingly, this person's work log is detailed to the daily material classification, and every five minutes of the task!
She was convinced. She has the talent, but not serious and procrastination, always postpone the task to the last minute. If she was the boss, she would also choose that person to go to the management level.
So, you see, those who may not be as good as you can run in front of you. Why do you have no reason to step up? And those who are better than you, more hardworking than you desperately want to be successful. They might look relaxed, in fact, they were exchanging it with hard work. If you want to live comfortably in this fast-paced, competitive society, you can't be lazy.
