293. Multiple Streams of Income

Always keep multiple streams of income. If you have a job, start a part-time business. If you have a business, take a part-time job. Invest in the stock exchange. Keep rental properties both residential and commercial. Keep building your asset base and generating new streams of income. Develop passive income streams.

292. Look After Your Own Customers

Don't worry about the competition, look after your customers instead.

291. There are no Days Off !

When you have a career, even if you are an employee, you are working for yourself. When you work for yourself there are no days off. If business is slow, clean out your files, make phone calls, do things that will drive your business forwards. If you are out and about, and headed for an appointment, call on an old friend for directions, it often generates extra business. Produce new business every day. Talk to everyone who rings up, you never know where each contact may lead.

290. On Being Professional

1. Always call people back. (It shows you care)
2. Always keep your promises.

289. Why We Set Goals

The reason you set a goal is for what it will make of you once you have achieved it.

288. Keep the Aim Clearly in View

Always have a clear vision of where you are going. Start with the end in mind. This is one of Stephen Covey's Habits of Highly Effective People. Know in advance where you are going and what you are building will look like once it is complete.

287. Choose a Job You Love

"When you choose a job you love, you will never have to work a day in your life." -Confucius

It is very important to be passionate about your work. If you are not in a business you can be passionate about, then it will soon become just a bad job with a high economic risk. If you choose a job you love you will be content in your work. Remember, though that what you love to do can and does change over time.