The Biggest Lesson I Learned While Delivering Pizza

VALUE (noun): relative worth, utility, or importance; usefulness
VALUE (verb): to think that (someone or something) is important or useful; to rate or scale in usefulness, importance, or general worth: EVALUATE; to consider or rate highly: PRIZE, ESTEEM

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune that may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." - Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

"We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things." - Jim Rohn

"You always succeed at what you value." - James Arthur Ray, Author "Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attractive the Life You Want"

I worked as a delivery driver for a pizza shop for six years, and if I didn't learn anything else from that experience I learned this: If you ask a hundred pizza lovers what kind of pizza they like best, you will get a hundred different answers. No two pizza lovers are alike; they enjoy their pizza differently: toppings, sauce, cheeses, crust, you name it. Like the saying goes, "different strokes for different folks." What's important to one is not so much to another.

You may have heard the saying, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder..." Well, value is the same way; it is subjective; its importance varies from one person to the next. As a delivery driver it was not my job to figure out which pizza was best for my customers. It was my job to find out what they considered most important to have on their pizza and make sure I delivered it to them in a timely manner, with a servant's heart. If we had what they wanted I made sure they got it, and that they were happy with what they had been given. If they weren't happy I had to do all I could to make the situation right for them. Because their satisfaction is what mattered, not mine.

Delivering value is no different than delivering pizza: find out what is important to your customer, your prospect, your partner, then find ways to provide what they want. Find out what matters most to them, what's most useful and beneficial to them, then serve them with enthusiasm, doing your very best to work things out to their advantage.

"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

Long story short, if you can deliver the value like you can deliver pizza, you'll never have to worry about making enough dough. (pun intended)

That's all for now, gotta run.  Until we meet again, remember:

Keep it simple...See ya!