Network Your Way to the Next Level

To go to the next level, one needs to hear through different ears and see through different sets of eyes. It is important to be willing to listen to others. We are all endowed with different skills and abilities. God created us so we may be complete through our interdependence. There is no single complete human being who has all the answers of the world. We rely on each other and we need to learn skills of effective delegation.

Networking with people of all backgrounds propels us forward to our next level of achievement. For indeed, there is always a higher place of achievement that where you are. Constantly prepare for opportunities that do not presently exist, dream in broad-day light with your eyes wide open. Ask others around you to do the same and combine the dreams for greater critical mass.

When we do not expand our paradigm from a laurel we lose out. The Swiss well known for their mastery in mechanical watch became so obsessed with that invention to the extent that they failed to embrace the new discovery of battery-operated quartz watch. Because of their stance on battery operated watch at the time of invention, their market-share plummeted from eight out of ten watch buyers in 1968 to one out of ten watch buyers today. The market share was taken up by others who saw potential in the new battery watch and the Swiss have since regretted their missed opportunity.

There is always a higher place than where you are presently. Paul, an apostle of the bible says “forgetting those things that are behind, I press towards the mark towards the high call of God”. Paul could have been content to settle on a few books of the bible he had written so far, but he decided to keep on pushing. His desire barring getting him into trouble with local authorities, he also got audience with the highest authority of the time-Caesar-to him he appealed his case.