Small Business Today Magazine MAY 2014 CUSTOMIZED REAL STATE SERVICES | Page 14

EDITORIALFEATURE

Plus One
By Rita Santamaria

I

f you work just for money,
you’ll never get rich but if
you love what you are doing and you are consistently
looking for new business, while
remembering the customer is
always first, success and personal satisfaction will be yours.

This phrase said in so many
different ways is factual. The
problem is we all need the
money in order to pay our
obligations and that brings on

the pressure which brings on
stress.  How you and I handle
stress is the key to success and
personal satisfaction.

Culture tells us about our
success. The more you do the
more you are worth. People
who are more productive are
worth more. Perhaps this is
why teachers and maintenance
persons are not paid more as
they are perceived to be not
as productive. How very incor-

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rect this thinking is. We need
our maintenance engineers to
keep us healthy and safe and
we are uneducated if we do
not have our teachers or what
I like to call “subject matter
experts”. So culture must be
wrong when identifying success.

Success to most individuals is
having a good business or job
and enjoying good family relations. Being good in all areas

of our lives is learning to work
with the stress that is converted to energy and productivity.
Stress can be good if it allows
us to set appropriate priorities. Priorities, aka goals, must
be based on trustworthiness,
honesty, and building a respectful reputation while laying the
foundation for business and
family success.

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