How To Be Better Than Everyone Else
For a long time I felt there was something wrong with me. I could not figure out why I was not achieving my goals. It was not for lack of determination or knowledge, I had a lot of both, but so does everyone else. I started to feel as if success just wasn’t meant for me.
But then I noticed something.
I noticed that the people who had achieved a good deal of success had a certain quality about them, something I call “Personal Competitive Advantage™.”
They had figured out something obvious that most people overlook. Most people overlook this because:
- They are looking in the wrong place
- They don’t have a method for utilizing the resources at their disposal
That is why I wrote my book “Competitive Advantage 2.0.” (due out at the end of January 2008)
But please don’t be misled by the title of this post. Creating a Personal Competitive Advantage is about leveraging who you are as an individual to create value for yourself and the world and in the process becoming happier and making the world a better place.
It’s about understanding your “Individual Culture” (see previous post) and creating a new Mental Framework that guides your decision-making and actions in an optimal way.
As I have stated before, the bar is being raised everywhere, in every way. The effects of information technology, the internet and globalization have left no field untouched. Understanding how to develop and sustain competitive advantage is as important as ever, and will only increase in importance in the future.
Knowledge, determination, and positive thinking are no longer the main determinants of success. They have become entry level requirements - still very necessary but now just an entry fee to play the game of life, a mere common denominator among the majority of the world’s population.
On an individual level, creating a Personal Competitive Advantage can mean the difference between success and failure, frustration and happiness, and adding value or being worthless.
Start thinking about how you can apply your uniqueness to whatever field, career, skill or whatever else it is that you are passionate about. When you do this and then apply the proper methodology to create a new Mental Framework™, you will be creating your own Personal Competitive Advantage. –Darryl Dosti