"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
It is extremely tempting when building the company or division you work in, to look ahead in such a way as to hurt your chances at meeting your goals.
What inevitably happens, is you take your eye off of the present and what's important there, and the resultant focus on the future not only hurts what you're doing now, but ends up undermining what the goal or purpose you're focusing on ahead of you as well.
It's a strange cycle that's hard to identify, because the idea of having a goal - which is so much part of success - isn't understood to be a problem, because it's really part of the success process.
While we must always keep our purpose as the core to what we do, we must then focus on the day and task at hand, to do the very best we can to accomplish it. The temptation is to feel what we're doing on this day isn't connected to the end purpose because their isn't a perceived direct link.
How we can help ourselves in these cases, is to make sure all decisions we make are connected to our core reason for being a business and managing within it. That's the part we can never drop or forget. If we do that correctly, from there what we're working on should be understood to be a key part of reaching our goal.
Once that happens, it's not too difficult to do the very best on the task at hand, rather than always live in a future we'll never reach because we're not doing today what will get us there tomorrow.
Oprah's example is a proven fact, as we've watched her rise and excel through the years, making the type of impact she always envisioned. She has said in the beginning she couldn't always do exactly what she wanted. Only after proving herself over the years could she than pick and choose that which was part of her vision from the beginning.
The key was Oprah understood that what she was working on that day, was a direct connection to where she was going tomorrow. Understand that, and we won't struggle always asking the disempowering question of why I'm doing this today. Just do today your very best, and eventually what you always wanted will come to you, as your actions can't be denied because of your commitment to excellence in the present.
Other Oprah Resources:
Oprah Winfrey - About.com Readers' Most Admired Entrepreneur
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