Are you a hammer or a nail?
If you do not drive, you will be drive..even nailed.
Clear people with negative energy from your environment and avoid distraction.
More tips that keep me steered and mobile:
1. Remind yourself every morning that you’re driving your bus. Therefore, are you doing everything you can to make things happen? Are you hustling to get that new job, or sale, or promotion? Or are you sitting back and waiting it to come to you?
2. Be indefatigably optimistic. We all get the blues when things don’t work out the way we want. I usually try to go to bed early and wake up with a fresh perspective to get me out of a dark mood. It may sound corny, but you’ve got to stay unfailingly optimistic even when the deck looks stacked against you. Your mood will rub off on others.
3. Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude. An old boss of mine had that in the footer of his emails. He didn’t always live by those words but the words were right on. Smarts, degress from fancy colleges, and a to-die-for resume working at brand name companies mean nothing with the wrong attitude. Bad attitude is worse than bad B.O.
4. Set goals that are bigger than your most hopeful expectations of the future. We set the key limits for ourselves.
5. Stay humble and listen to others. People who pump themselves up with positive thinking, and/or achieve a lot of success early in life, sometimes develop a big head. In my experience, the most successful people are great listeners and see themselves and all their strengths and weaknesses pretty accurately.
6. You can do whatever you want in life — as long as it gives meaning to you. Be the shapewear queen, the king of used cars in Grand Forks, the best restaurant reviewer in Grand Forks, or the heiress of a great fortune with a desire to make a difference with homeless pets. The family we’re born into, the education we have or don’t have, or the humble background we come from are not determinants of where we’ll end up in life. As long as you love what you’re doing, you’re half-way to your long-term goals.
7. God’s setbacks are not God’s denials. You don’t have to be a religious person for this one to resonate. Ultimately, this one means we often get very attached to things working out just the way we expect them to in the moment. When they don’t, we get depressed. However, a few years later, we look back on some set back we thought was a “career killer” at the time and realize it opened the door to something else that was even better in the long-term.
8. You don’t have to be your own boss to be a hammer. You can get to your ultimate goal by working at Goldman Sachs or some other big company. The key is remembering where you want to get to and making the most out of your present situation. Sometimes we learn a lot about becoming a great boss ourselves by having a great boss we work under for a while. Sometimes we learn how to be a great boss by having a terrible boss. We learn all the things not to do.
9. Failure isn’t to be feared – but be smart about the risks you take. To succeed, we have to try. Sometimes, we’ll totally fail when we do. The most successful people have failed. But they stuck with it. Most of them don’t recklessly take risks. In fact, they do everything they can to minimize their risks going forward. They always learn a lot from their failures, which usually set them up for later success.
10. Stick with it. Don’t pack it in when you have dark days. If you see it through those bad moments, which will inevitably come, success will be all the sweeter later.
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