How to Assure Your Success with Simple (but Not Necessarily Easy) Steps
Here are the secrets to beginning.
Know Yourself
Knowing yourself is tough. Here’s some self help.
First think about how others see you. As a jerk? Generous? Attractive? Honest? Belligerent, aggressive, go-getter? Lazy slob? Insecure? Self-centered? Loyal? Brilliant?
People describe each other in many ways but the trick is to determine their accuracy.
The way others see you is fogged by stereotypes, prejudices, and their level of self-awareness. They’re reacting to their expectations.
To complicate things you’re reacting to them in the same way.
Any wonder that we’ve got communication, relationship, and emotional problems?
So second, and way more important, get a handle on who you are – and who you want to be. Not the fantasy you but the new improved you that accepts your foibles the foibles of others, then learns how to overcome them so that everybody benefits.
Okay. Hang with me. This is a prime trait of successful people – they recognize the strengths and weaknesses of themselves and those around them and they don’t get jealous, angry, confused, hateful, condescending, or hysterical about them.
They focus on the strengths of them selves and others and move forward.
First thing ask yourself “who am I” (I’m not talking about psycho babbling nonsense or navel gazing). It’s discovering your core, getting what you really want out of life, helping others achieve what they want, and always, always moving forward to success.
Stress
- Is it good or bad? How stress is your best enemy or worst friend.
Okay. So just how stressed out are you?
___ Never ___Rarely ___Sometimes ___A lot ___I’m losing it!
Those of you who answered never – sorry, not buying it. The only people who never have any at all are, well…dead.
What is stress? Engineers and architects know that to keep a structure together some foundational parts are going to be stressed but the design trick is to make them robust and balanced to prevent the structure from tumbling down. It’s not good or bad – it just “is”.
Same thing with you and me except we can take it further. Stress is good!
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