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We are creatures of habit and as you go through each day, old habits will be challenging you and trying to get you to revert back to your old ways. When this happens, you will have to recognize and learn to manage them. Habits can come in the form of behavior, thinking, feelings, or perceptions. They lie below the surface; under our level of awareness, and they certainly impact our daily lives.
Each of us has our own unique genius. That special skill or ability that we perform with such ease and quality that it hardly seems to qualify as work. Some, the lucky few, discover their genius early on in, the gifted athlete, the talented artist, the skillful storyteller, or the musical genius. Others don’t discover their genius until much later. It takes some self-discovery, some poking around in your mind, observing your work, your results, listening to what others say about you, taking note, paying attention.
Mike was a world-class downhill skier. He lived and breathed downhill skiing and he has been very successful in his sport. He was a recognized and respected athlete.
One day, everything changed.
He was practicing for his next big race, but all of a sudden he fell down during his exercise. Immediately after he had fallen, Mike knew that something wasn’t right: his left leg felt numb.
Two weeks later, Mike was lying in a hospital bed and his left foot had just been operated on.
There are two basic kinds of actions. One is pro-action, which puts you on the offensive and gives you a great deal of control over events. The other is reaction, which puts you on the defensive and relegates you to an inherent position of weakness.
An interesting way of looking at inaction is that it’s really just a negative form of action, a sort of black hole that sucks energy away from you much the same as the black holes of the universe pull matter into the deep recesses of their cosmic bowels. This is why inaction often yields consequences by default. If you wait for something, or someone, to act on you, you likely will be unable to control the consequences.
For the most part of my career I have been either working for a corporation or owning my own business. In both worlds, I noticed the most important prerequisite for success is a positive attitude.
A positive attitude in the workplace is the key ingredient. Whether you are an employee, manager or entrepreneur, you must have a positive attitude to deal with adversity, circumstances, co-workers or employees.
A positive attitude is the basis for achieving the goals set by the company, owner or employee. It not only helps to achieve those goals faster, but also creates better relationships, helping everyone enjoy the work that they do.
If you were to pick seven habits all highly confident people have, which habits would you choose?
Confidence is an outcome of developing many different habits. Here are seven essential habits you need to develop in yourself in order to become a highly confident and successful person.
Brian Tracy once said that “confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have”. Even though acting as a confident person when you’re shy won’t make you a confident person overnight, it will help you develop an appearance of a confident person which will attract confident people to you.
Like the achievement of any worthwhile goal or objective your ability to tap into your potential as a leader will likely be met with a few hurdles and obstacles. Successfully navigating those obstacles will ultimately mean the difference between success and failure, frustration and celebration.
A man who knows a thing or two about getting over difficult hurdles is legendary Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses who when asked about tapping into potential was quoted as saying “Lots of people just let it go by… and never accomplish what they want.”
Do you know that you have the power to change your habits, your life, and your destiny? It starts with the positive choice to get off your attitude and learn how to adopt a winning attitude.
If you are unfamiliar with what Get off Your Attitude means, then here is the definition. It means:
• To think positive and take action;
• To talk, believe, act, and think in a positive manner;
• To create a positive mindset during a negative situation or environment;
• To help someone to create a positive mindset to overcome fear, adversity, oppression, or challenges that person may face in life.
Today, he is a multi-millionaire!
But where did he start?
I’m talking about Todd Tresidder, founder of Financial Mentor. He went from less than zero at age 23 to self-made multi-millionaire in 12 years.
I was honored to interview Todd, back in 2007, about his story of success and transformation. In this article, I would like to share with you a few insights from my interview with Todd.
When he was in college, he was surprised to see that most people spend their ENTIRE lives trying to earn money to make a living.
[Editors note: I love this article from my friend and colleague Chris Widener. Chris shares some rock solid ideas you can use to not only face life’s “giants” (i.e. challenges and adversities) but overcome them. Look for ways to apply what you learn the advice below and you’ll benefit greatly for doing so. Friend, there’s always a way to work through, around, or over whatever challenge life throws our way. The solution may be anything but obvious, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there to be found! — Josh Hinds ]
Slaying Your Own Giants!