Business and Money Tips

What I learnt from Stephen Covey's 1991 best-selling book 'First Thing First':  Successful people practise inside first outside second, whereas unsuccessful people always look outside first inside second. When things go wrong, successful people will first examine themselves: they look inside to see what gone wrong.  Next they look outside for leverage: how to get help, and how to learn from others that have done similar things before. In no time they will emerge victorious as their approach will win support from people who too want to help people that help themselves first. Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, look outside first whenever things go wrong.  Instead of examining themselves, they blame others for their plight.  After many rounds of fruitless blames, they then look inside and realize that there is nothing they can do, and they end up looking outside again. This time round there is no more people to blame and they just have to resign to fate! We...