Help eachother succeed!
There’s a big secret in the world of equine careers that only the most successful people have discovered. Success is not primarily a matter of personal achievement or performance. Success comes from helping other people to be successful. Our society sends us the message that success comes through hard work and achievement. If only we are given the right job opportunity, we will be able to use our wonderful talents to get ahead. We see success as something that comes about by having a little bit of luck and choosing the right equine employer. We tend to view equine employers as little more than “enablers” who are supposed to be interested in our long term goals and help us become successful. Like many of the messages we get from our society, this one is a lie.
The big secret is that the ONLY pathway to real success in life comes through helping other people achieve their success. As we help the people around us with their success, our success becomes assured. To understand this dynamic, we need to realize that most of the people we associate with, including horse industry employers, are getting the same message from our society about success as we are. They think success is a matter of personal achievement. So, as we help them achieve their goals, they help build our reputation. Pretty soon our abilities will be in demand and we will have more opportunity than we can handle.
Performance is important. If we are not doing our job, our career will suffer. It is also true that some people refuse help, or don’t give us credit for our work. However, when you ask the most successful people in the world what really made the difference in their success, many of them will tell you that their career turned around the minute they stopped worrying about being successful and started helping other people with their success.
