Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

Mark Cuban at Blog Maverick writes a great advice based on his experience -

In sports, the only thing a player or coach can truly control is
effort. The same applies to business. The only thing any entrepreneur,
salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

I had to kick myself in the ass and recommit to getting up early,
staying up late and consuming everything I possibly could to get an
edge. I had to commit to making the effort to be as productive as I
possibly could. It meant making sure that every hour of the day that I
could contact a customer was selling time and when customers were
sleeping, I was doing things that prepared me to make more sales and to
make my company better.

And finally, I had to make sure I wasn’t lying to myself about how
hard I was working. It would have been easy to judge effort by how many
hours a day passed by while I was at work. That’s the worst way to
measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting
results. What did i need to do to close this account. What did I need
to do to win this segment of business. What did i need to do to
understand this technology or that business better than anyone. What
did I need to do to find an edge. Where does that edge come from and
how was I going to get there.

The one thing in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or your don’t.

This is a great advice with a great timing. With this bad economy and downturn ahead, way too many of my friends are talking a lot about layoffs, fear, politics, survival, etc. I'm not saying they are wrong. It's a natural reaction. But I personally don't like to talk about it. As a individual programmer/engineer/entrepreneur, I cannot control this. I had also tweeted back then on my Twitter account-

So let's forget the downturn talk, and focus our energies on our effort to make our goals successful. Because that's the only thing we can control. Wish you all the best!