Have you done your homework yet?

How many of you are blessed with children, and how many have homework to contend with nightly?  

Growing up you went through school, just like your kids, and came home with homework.  Homework is designed to test, reinforce and condition what you've learned.  It's also designed to expand your knowledge and your belief systems.

Children have homework right through high school for some, college and post graduate work for others.  The fact is, homework is effective at improving your skill sets.  Why then, do you stop doing homework, stop expanding and stop growing, learning and reinforcing the moment you graduate?

It's not because you've decided to stop growing and learning.  It's because you've gotten so wrapped up in the day-to-day minutia of your professional and personal life, that knowledge takes a back seat.  It's also because you've never been given a blueprint to succeed beyond the school systems. 

What we know is from traditional education, and the focus has always been on structured academia.  That works in the school systems, but in the real world, the professional world where you get downsized, laid-off and fired for not performing, this model simply doesn't work.

It's not enough to rest on your laurels any longer.  Great performers get fired everyday, because there's a class of elite professional who constantly focuses on improving their industry and personal knowledge, professional skills, and mastering their relationships.  

These elite members of all professions are safe, because they do their homework.  Daily, weekly, monthly and annually they look for ways to improve.  They're not satisfied with the status quo.  They actively seek out the latest success books, industry journals, and related seminars.  They network effectively, and their constant focus is on moving upward in all ways.  They do their homework.

So, what homework will you do to dominate your company, market and competition?