We continue our exploration of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan by reviewing Step 7: Investing Yourself in Your Work. As the summer vacation season winds down and we all begin to refocus on putting in a good day’s work, Templeton’s advice about work and how to be successful may come in handy.
In college exams, you have to answer as many questions as possible as accurately as possible. One success secret that Templeton learned is not to dwell on those questions that pose difficulties. If you have an examination of ten questions, glance through it quickly and first complete the answers you are sure of. Do those accurately and thoroughly. Then try the others. If, by the time the examination is over, you have neglected anything, it is likely to be a question you couldn’t have answered in any case.
Don’t waste time on the impossible when you can make valuable headway in the area of the possible. That is a valuable success habit to carry through life.
