[Ailist] The Value of Cooperation in Achieving Success

[Stephanie West Allen]

The Urban Monk has written a post you will not want to miss here:

http://www.urbanmonk.net/242/the-value-of-cooperation-in-achieving- 
success/

Some excerpts:

[L]ife is a choir, a symphony. Imagine an ensemble that was competing  
against itself; each individual was trying to outdo the other, trying  
to make their voices heard over the rest. It would no longer be  
singing, it would be screaming!

And yet this is the way many people go about their lives. They climb  
to the top by stepping on the bodies of others; they withhold help  
and information from others; they undermine the efforts of those they  
see as competition.

. . .

Life is a choir

We come across someone who is in the same field as we are; how do we  
see them? There is often a knee-jerk reaction – a competitor! Right  
away we begin analysing them. How much have they made? What are they  
doing? How old are they?

Comparison is just a waste of mental energies; it simply throws our  
attention and resources on something that is of no use.

. . .

Try a little change in your mindset: the next time you look at  
someone who has made it, simply celebrate their success. Why get  
jealous? Their accomplishments simply mean you can get there too.  
What good does jealousy do, besides clutter up your mind and lower  
the quality of your work?

. . .

Truth in service

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it  
affects. Just one lesson, and yet it contains so much truth. Already,  
the statement is warning against fraud and dishonesty.

But it goes deeper than that. In every transaction, you must give  
them a greater use value than they’ve given you in cash value.

. . .

Much more here:

http://www.urbanmonk.net/242/the-value-of-cooperation-in-achieving- 
success/

Best,

Stephanie



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Stephanie West Allen, JD
http://www.brainsonpurpose.com
http://www.idealawg.net