The Power Of Loyalty

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THE POWER OF LOYALTY

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Your loyalty gets rewarded in every area of your life, however, most people misuse it and end up sabotaging themselves in the process.

Let’s say you were at a restaurant, and you gave your order to the waitress.

Five minutes later, you ask to change the order, and lucky for you, they haven’t started cooking yet.

5 minutes later, yet again, you ask the waitress to change your order; she tells the chef, and they start making your new order.

10 minutes later, you ask to change it again as you’re becoming impatient and overthinking what you ordered.

Now, let’s say you did this over again three more times; you’re never going to actually receive your food as you keep getting impatient and changing what you want.

For a lot of people, this is what they do in pursuit of their goals.

They will tell themselves they are working towards something, and due to being impatient, they aren’t reaping the rewards, so they change what they want in hopes that they will receive it quicker.

Although all they’re doing here is delaying the end result because you, as the chef, have to continuously change what you’re cooking up, whereas if you just stuck with what you originally wanted, you would achieve it much quicker than otherwise.

The world has a way of rewarding loyalty.

The world does have a very strange way of rewarding loyalty.

Loyalty to friends, to your goals, and to your beliefs Loyalty over a long enough period of time results in what you were loyal for in the first place—the reason you were loyal.

“Be loyal to your goals, and they will be loyal to you”.

Don’t listen to what others say, or better yet, listen to what they say, but stick with your gut and with what you know and believe, and prioritise loyalty.

Pivoting is okay.

Although loyalty is well rewarded, this doesn't mean that strategically pivoting is out of the question.

Albert Einstein says that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome".

So at what point do you pivot?

Where is the line between being loyal and being stupid?

That's for you to make a judgement call on when the time comes, but remember that you can always change the vehicle that you take to reach your end destination.

As long as the end destination is the same.

TAKEAWAYS:

Staying loyal to your goals is one of those things that doesn’t give instant feedback. You’re not going to be loyal and then suddenly achieve your wildest dreams.

What it does, however, is compound; stick with the same thing for long enough, and you’re practically guaranteed to get good at that thing.

That's the benefit of loyalty.

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