Dollar signs

Keep your eyes on the prize, what does this mean to you?  My first thought is money, winning, getting to the end with a wad of paper when the game is won and done.  I don't know about you but that is NOT how I want to conduct my business. The prize for me is the client getting exactly or better than what they expected or dreamed of having.  The prize is repeat business and referrals~these are my measures of success.  The prize is me doing such a good job that my reputation precedes me and lives are richer from having been served well.  This is about the client, not the money they hand over.  Clients are not a means to an end, they are the life blood of work.  As Zig Ziggler used to say, wealth is a measure of how hard you have worked.  I will add, wealth is a measure of how hard you have worked to deliver the unexpected, the extra, the more.  The monster dollar signs would have us look in the wrong direction, at things instead of people, it is with delight that I slay this self serving monster.