Just musing about living for a working

I just read something and it made me think.......

Apparently the actor Bill Cosby said “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone”.

How simple and true that is. It seems right to try and be as helpful as you can, do all you're able, but at what price? If you succeed then that's great, but if you miss the target and fail, you've let yourself down as well as the person you were trying to help.

We've had this discussion recently with some friends, most of them are self employed people who at the moment, because of the current economic climate are taking on work that they would think twice about taking on in better times. Is that a good thing? When times are hard it is definitely more difficult to say, "No, I'm sorry but this is not my area of expertise" - Work is work and you can't, shouldn't, mustn't turn it away is what we are taught. But are there times when you should say no, or should you take the work on and look at it as good fortune and a chance to excel at something a bit out of the ordinary?

What do you think, I'd love to hear? Leave me a comment or pop over to our Facebook page and enter the poll!

Thanks.