Are you in it to win it? Or are you just playing out the string, biding your time and going through the motions? Shake off those cobwebs, stop your sleepwalking and make 2008 your best year yet. YOU hold the key.
In speaking to companies and associations around the world I see the motivated and the moribund, the focused and the flotsam, the winners and the whiners. Don’t kid yourself. Not only is the choice yours — but not choosing consigns you to the loser’s lounge. Life is too short to not go for the gold. Express your excellence! And demand it of yourself and others.
Declaration of Excellence
Make 2008 your coming out party for excellence. Don’t just define goals, but broadcast them for all to hear. Go public with your goals for the year. Putting them in writing is good. Publicizing them is even better. Accountability keeps you focused. And it binds your daily action to your course.
Play Big!
How big will you play this year? Put another way, how big will the successes you celebrate be? Worthy of a bottle of champagne? (Hint:
that’s not big enough!)
Life has so much more to offer if you’re willing to play bigger. Is your success worthy of a Magnum — twice the volume, twice the fun?
Perhaps it’s worthy of a Jeroboam – 3 liters of bubbly, equivalent to
4 bottles. Or the slightly larger Rehoboam – 4.5 liters of liquid.
For still grander successes, there’s the Methuselah. It’s 6 liters of bubbly. The empty bottle is big enough to make a lamp!
Then, for a still bigger celebration, one can buy a Salmanazar, 9 liters of good times. Empty Salmanazars make for plump piggy banks!
For a still bigger bash, there’s the Balthazar, 12 liters of liquid fun, sure to put a tingle in your toes.
And finally, the Nebuchadnezzar— 15 liters of libation, 20 bottles worth of celebration.
So my question to you is “how big a celebration will you have?” What will you accomplish this year worthy of opening a Nebuchadnezzar?
Will you write a book? Change careers? Get a new job or promotion?
Finally find that special partner to marry? Clean your office? Land
that prized client or make that big sale you’ve been chasing?
Whatever it is, if you’re in it to win it, you can! And now you know how to celebrate in style with those that supported you in your success. Let’s drink to that!
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