Value Creation

Success:

Earl Nightingale defines success as, “the progressive realization of a worthy ideal”.  

[Source: ‘The Strangest Secret in the world’, 1950.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yOsQHlH9k8].  

Any person that works continually towards a predetermined goal, and achieves it, is considered a successful person.  Simply put, Success can be judged, based upon achievement of your goals.

Examples:

• A person, who is obese, sets a specific goal to lose weight and become healthy.  He starts eating healthier foods, exercises regularly, and in a few weeks time, looks fit and healthy.  He has achieved his goal, and hence he is considered successful. 
• A stock broker buys his dream home that he aimed for, from the money he made using trading, he is considered successful.

Undoubtedly, success is important and in more ways necessary to survive and stay motivated.  In the above examples however, have these ‘successful people’ contributed anything valuable to the world?

Value Creation:

Value creation on the other hand, is all about one’s contribution to the world.  It is about making the positive difference for the others.  The people who have the most influence on our lives, the people who have changed the way we think, our outlook towards the world, and changed the way we live, for the better, are the people of value rather than people of success. 

Let us consider one of the above examples here:

• The person, who suffered from obesity, chose to take actions to lose weight, and live a healthier lifestyle; he achieved his goal, and became a success story. 
• Soon, he realizes that there are lots of people out there who are suffering from the same problem, and he knows he can help resolve this problem, because he has had the first-hand experience of it. 
• He designs and conducts a workshop, writes extensively about his journey to a healthier lifestyle, and shares all his experiences.  People take-in his advice, work the plan and they become successful too.  With this, he has contributed something positive.  He has helped people think and lead a better and healthier life.  He has created value.

  

Value Creation and Success is not an either or proposition.  Both are absolutely essential, the urge is that the Creation of Value should take precedence. 

Some of the greatest discoveries like the electricity, inventions like the light bulb and the telephone have had tremendous positive impact on our lives.  The men responsible are some of the most valuable men in the world.    

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How can you create value?

Creating Value is a simple process! But simple isn't necessarily easy, as the wise-men say.

In order to create/add value, all you have to do is express your real self. 

There are problems, all around us, hundreds of them.  Most people choose to complain and then learn to live with them; they never ask the necessary questions to resolve the problems.  They even become oblivious to the fact over time.  Your opportunities lie here, just by looking around you, intently, always asking the question, “What is missing in this picture?”, and then you start thinking of ways to resolve those problems – one at a time.

You know that Imagination is everything (scroll down to refer the title), so start imagining and expressing your real self.  Let the world see and experience your creation, let them come back for more.  And with that you would have created value.  

Start Creating now, Good luck!!

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