20 keys for success in Job and Career

KEY # 15

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michel Angelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

-          Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do more then is expected of you

Whatever your line of work, you will find that it pays to do more than you have to do, more than is required or expected of you. “Don’t try to meet your expected quotas. Exceed them”. Exceeding quotas and expectations accomplishes three very important things.

1. It gives your creativity a chance to soar.
2. It causes those around you to raise their own level of performance.
3. It gives tangible evidence of your commitment.

Others take note of the man or woman who, without need of recognition but for the joy of service and excellence, steps beyond what is expected.