There are bad shortcuts. The parents and teachers frown upon them.
The moralists abhor bad shortcuts. Reformers condemn bad shortcuts.
These shortcuts are really negative.
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We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle ObamaOur children are taught values. They must learn to be honest and fair. They cannot cheat and be lazy. The Nation’s First Lady speaks out. She is a great example of studying hard, integrity and fairness. -
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.
Vivek WadhwaAs a computer software engineer, he developed and marketed successful client server models. Later he focused on teaching at Harvard Law School, U.C. Berkeley and published about immigrant and other implications in entrepreneurial area. -
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly SillsShe was a versatile opera singer. Time Magazine called her “America’s Queen of Opera.” Throughout her music career, she toured and performed many different roles. Her life represents this quote; her humble origin as an immigrant, years of struggles, her children’s disabilities. She turned around the financial crisis of opera, managed, New York City Opera, Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera.
Shortcuts are seen as acts of cheating, deceiving, skipping necessary steps to learn, to abuse others’ happiness and peace and dignity.
When we frown on shortcuts, we see shortcuts as ignoring and skipping the natural process; and violating the rights of others.
- If you copy someone else’s work and claim it as your own.
- You lie on your resume to get a job.
- You copy someone else’s homework.
Shortcuts are not just about your personal life:
Many shortcuts taken daily in many industries are atrocious.
- A general contractor omitted some materials in constructing a building.
- A sweatshop owner pays workers less than minimum wages and force them to work long hours because they are illegal immigrants.
- Meat companies feed industrial waste and growth hormones to cows and pigs to cut their operating cost.
Endless shortcuts… In some cases calling these acts as shortcuts is just a mere euphemism.
We, the people, have responsibility in life:
- Don’t violate other’s rights,
- don’t disregard the natural process,
- honor the process of learning and thoughts,
- work with others and share, be willing and be open-minded,
- become the person you really want to be,
- don’t compromise your highest core value for money, profit or fame.
Many shortcuts are bad when a person or an organization act based on its selfish ambition, ignorance, greed, disrespect a natural, honest process and others’ basic rights to live.
Based on these perspectives, there are no shortcuts to success in life.
If you are wanting to improve your awareness, attitudes and mindset to achieve success;
there are no shortcuts when you are working on your mindset and attitudes.
Many thousands of people in our community have been listening to and learning from Our Team Hangouts.
They were able to apply what they learned to their profession and home business.
To Your Success and Abundant Life,
Yukiko Iino