25 Lessons I Learnt from LEGO

I have grown up playing LEGO, but only today I got to learn about the remarkable history which is both insightful and inspiring.

Here are 25 lessons which I have learned from the LEGO Story:

1. Opportunity presents itself during adversity, only if you have not given up.
2. When you hold yourself accountable to others, knowing that their good fate lies in your hands, you're more likely to persevere through the toughest of adversities.
3. Imagination without action is still just an idea.
4. Some of the things that you have brought from your past could serve as valuable assets for your future.
5. The core of success in any business is to have a die hard determination to deliver the highest quality products and services even during testing times.
6. Sometimes just when you think you have finally come to the end of your hard times and start to taste the fruits of your effort, life will throw you another huge blow or challenge to test your resolve.
7. There is no point comtemplating on your bad luck or blaming others for your circumstances during adversity because it will only drag you down into the pool of self pity. Instead, step forward and take ownership of your own fate, because you are the captain of your own life.
8. When you are taking charge of your life, you will always find ways to get over your weaknesses and move ahead.
9. Sometimes life showers you with little drops of favour, only for you to make those favour count.
10. Keep going, don't settle. Successful people always look for ways to improve and upgrade themselves.
11. You can lose money in business, but never trust and integrity.
12. Every detail matters. Only the best is good enough.
13. Inspiration can come your own hope, or the hope others put on you.
14. Successful people see opportunities when others don't.
15. Successful people always challenge the norms, make no excuse and swim against the tide.
16. Your spouse and children should be the reason for you succeed, not the excuse for you to remain in your comfort zone.
17. Every business needs an idea to begin with and a sytem built around it to become sustainable.
18. The people you serve don't just look for a ready made solution which make them feel dumb. They like to feel empowered by the products or services that you deliver to them.
19. A building made of bricks stacking up without cement would easily fall apart. The same goes for an organization. An organization (building) needs common/compatible values (cement) to hold its people (bricks) together.
20. With its simple modules and system, one can build virtually anything out of his imagination with endless possibilities using LEGO. The same applies to success. With success principles (modules) and learning programme (system), one can build virtually any size and form of success with endless possibilities, over and over again.
21. Only organizations which are built on right principles and values will survive the test of time.
22. You need to get the best out of any situation and never give up.
23. Successful entrepreneurs always think ahead and focus on their core competencies.
24. Your achievements can only be as big as your imagination.
25. Successful people leave behind their legacies in the form of principles and spirit which will continue to inspire and build their next generations.

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