If you’re not getting what you want, perhaps you need a little help from someone else.
Most successful people seem to give off the impression that they are somehow self-made. It appears that from the outside looking in that these people are just super-human achievers who let no obstacle hold them back. They seem to know which way to turn and have all the right answers at the right times.
Yet the reality is very, very different, and any truly successful person will tell you this if you ask them. We can only rise as high as the people around us can help us to rise. We are, whether we like it or not, obliged to collaborate with others if we want to reach the higher levels of success in life.
For some of us, learning to work with others, and being part of a team is a challenge. For me personally, I have struggled at times with the desire to simply try to do it all myself. Yet after a periods of frustration you realise that life is too short, and the challenges too great to try to make it all on your own.
Napoleon Hill in his landmark tome The Law of Success said it best: “To achieve success, we must first develop power, and power is developed only through organized effort”.
Organised effort is the very stuff life is made of. Think of it this way: a child can’t be born without the collaboration of a man and woman. And this truth extends into every area of life. Every nation, every monument, every business is the result of people with a shared vision working together.
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey also shares this idea. He labels it as ‘synergizing’, and discusses at great length how the only path to true and lasting success and fulfilment is through collaboration with other people.
Here are some great points to consider about collaborating with others:
- When you collaborate with others, you gain huge leverage from their knowledge, their contacts and their efforts. You may save a huge amount of time simply by asking other people what they could do, or know about that could help.
- Your enthusiasm for any job or task grows, as you are no longer simply working for selfish reasons. Rather you are working towards a shared vision, and that is very motivating.
- By collaborating you move above and beyond your own potential level, to a greater one. Whether you’ll admit it or not, you do have limitations within yourself that will keep you at a certain level in life. Yet by joining forces with others, you gain strengths that you could never gain on your own. And because of this, your potential for success grows exponentially.
- The most challenging part of collaborating with others is learning to communicate and manage your own personality. Once you start to get a handle on being a skilled communicator, you will find your life becomes much easier.
- Remember that you must look for opportunities to collaborate with others, and to ask other people for help on things you want to achieve. Most people in life are just begging for a great opportunity to achieve something in their lives, and if you have a goal or an idea you think they could help with, then share it with them.
So for all those people who are defiantly independent and determined to make it on your own, perhaps it’s time to admit that when you choose to share your work with other people, amazing things can happen.
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