Helping Others – Fueling The Fire Of Success

Helping others is usually one task we tend to learn last. It should be the task we learn first.

 

When I first started my pilot training I was totally dependent upon my flight instructor. I didn’t even know how to start the engine on the airplane.

 

Instead of showing and telling me what to do he referred me to the pilots operating manual. Inside I found detailed instructions for starting the airplane engine when it was cold, hot, or had been sitting in the hangar for a long time.

 

I could have made him show me and since I was flying only one plane at the time, I would have been okay until I got into a different airplane.

 

It was then I discovered that every airplane had its own starting procedure. Jumping in and starting the engine had to be done in a certain order or the engine likely won’t start.

 

On turbo props, larger airplanes, the pilot is not allowed to start the engine until he has passed an engine class. The reason being is that damage to the engine could occur in about thirty seconds.(Like $30,000 to $50,000 damages)

 

So we decide we are going to be net workers and we just jump right in, feet first, and over ninety percent of us fail.

 

We then try and find someone to help us out, take a course, or try and figure out someway to by pass necessary steps so we can build our net working business in record time.

 

Most of us quit and claim net working is a scam or a get rich scheme in which only the wheeler-dealers succeed.

 

The problem is not so much the system as it is the person trying to work the system.

 

Let’s say that I take my first flying lesson and then decide to quit and teach someone else how to fly. After all, I just flew the airplane.

 

The consequence would be devastating and maybe even fatal to the pilots. Why would this not be a good solution?

 

One reason would be is I haven’t spent the time necessary to earn experience and a reputation that others would follow.

 

Your net working enterprise is no different. You can’t just take off and start being a net worker. There is a learning process that everyone has to go through.

 

Some may go through the learning curve faster than others, however, everyone goes through this process.

 

One of the faster ways to get through your learning curve is to help your instructor or mentor by being coachable, attentive, and cooperative.

 

In other words, be someone who helps the process and not someone who tries to re-write the program or take short cuts.

 

Perform your duties with honesty, integrity, and diligence.

 

Helping others will fuel the fire within you that is necessary for success.