What would you do if today was your last day?

Create a Lifelong Job Security

Wherever you go and whatever industry you work in, there’s a great deal of talk today about insecurity in the labor force. Employees are being laid off by the thousands every month in good and bad economic times. This trend will continue, with massive lay-offs every year for the indefinite future. Rapid changes taking place in knowledge and information are creating new products and services, and rendering many current products and services obsolete. When demand shifts, people have to move quickly to jobs producing what customers want today, rather than what they wanted yesterday.

The sum of total human knowledge is doubling up every two to three years. This means that you could take all the knowledge accumulated in human history, from every country and in every form, and put it into a huge pile. Three years from now, at most, there would be a pile of new knowledge next to it. This pile will be equal or greater than the first pile.

Knowledge multiplies exponentially. A new piece of knowledge can be combined and recombined with other pieces of knowledge to create, still, more knowledge. By early in the 21st century, the total accumulated knowledge of mankind in certain areas will be doubling every year.

In personal terms, this means that today your knowledge must double every two to three years just for your to stay afloat at your current level of ability, at your current income, in your current field of work. If your personal knowledge is not increasing at the same speed that general knowledge is increasing in your field, you will be in great danger of becoming obsolete.

The main reason that people are laid off is that companies need new forms of knowledge and skill, and they need more knowledgeable people in newer, more specialized areas. Just as some companies are announcing lay-offs of thousands of people, other companies are hiring thousands of people.

Can you make a difference? Take a stand?

Define your purpose

All really successful people are extremely focused and purposeful. They truly understand what their duties are in all aspects of their life, it is their ONLY reason to get up every morning to put in the necessary work to put them one step closer towards their purpose. If you find two people with roughly the same abilities, the one who wants it the most – the more intense of the two – will almost always be more successful. Right here, right now, decide exactly what you really want in each area of your life, and then focus intensely, like an infrared laser beam, on attaining your goals. Resolve to stay at each and every last one of them, no matter how long it will take. Right here, right now, decide in advance that you will never give up, no matter how many times you fail, get back up, calmly redeem yourself, and shoot at it again.

Create a fire of desire

When you set your goals, you will need to create within yourself a “fire of desire”. Without it, there’s a great chance your goals will not be completed on time, let alone, completed. By creating this ability within yourself, you can improve your probabilities of achieving great success. The only real limitation on what you can achieve is how badly you really want it. Your desire will determine your destiny and your intensity of purpose. When you develop this burning desire to achieve a goal of any kind, you will be both pulled by it and driven towards it. Desire is the power in your personality and it’s something that comes from deep within you. It is rooted in the depths of your personality and true values. The only way that you can have an intense, burning desire for a specific goal, personal or otherwise, is for that goal to be an expression of your true values, your true passion, and consistent with your vision of the person you really want to become in your life.