"80 Percent Of Success Is Showing Up" Woody Allen
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"80 Percent Of Success Is Showing Up" Woody Allen
Oyedoyin Oyelami
Jenny Cheatham
Study Skills
10/06/05
"80 PERCENT OF SUCCESS IS SHOWING UP" Woody Allen
If people showed up at every appointment they had made without cancelling the appointment or calling to be late, the world would most definitely be a better place. Woody Allen once said, "Eighty percent of success is showing up". Absences are very rampant nowadays at various work places. Excuses people use vary from being sick to being out of town, to being delayed for one reason or another. Some realize and others don't, that showing up late or not showing up at all may ruin their success at their place of work.
A lot of people do not take their time seriously; they tend to forget the saying that "time waits for no one," and also that time lost can never be regained. Opportunity wasted can never be reacquired and even if it could be reacquired, it would take quite a while. If one is in search of a job, and the interview is supposed to be 9.00am, it is surprising how very early the person wants to get to the door. Why is that? This is to make one look reliable, dependable and responsible. But what happens as soon as we get the job, we start calling in the very next week, and then when we get fired, we wonder what has gone wrong. Remember "80 percent of success is showing up". You don't expect to be promoted at the end of a year if you've missed about 30 days of work, or expect to get a raise if you've called in sick about 50 times.
Success is not something that comes easily, it is not a free gift, success has to be earned, and one must deserve success to get success. When I took classes last semester, out of all the courses I took, biology was one I dreaded most, which was because from the very first lecture day, I disliked the teacher. I would go to class like once in two weeks, I would not bother to get notes from my friends or ask after what I missed. As a result of this I missed so many tests, quizzes, even...
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