Self-Honesty: There are two types of honesty. Cash register honesty is one. Certainly, the cash register is important for building trust and staying out of jail. However, self-honesty enables people to see their shortcomings. More importantly, self-honesty enables people to correct their mistakes and strengthen their weaknesses. To have self-honesty, we must be open-minded and have a willingness to change.
Month: August 2021
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
On Achieving Your Goals – George Eliot
Hanging on to Anger
Luck and Action
Worrying is a Waste of Time
Continuing Professional Development: 5 Elements for Continued Growth
Continuing Professional Development and the 5 Elements of Learning.
If you want to become a power performer, you probably have more potential than you realize, and you may underestimate the value of talent. If you are struggling, what may be missing is the opportunity to learn and grow. You are lacking professional development.
Advisors
Nearly everyone has an opinion, but not everyone is an expert advisor.
Expert advisors are not necessarily someone you pay to guide or teach you. They can be friends, relatives, or even people you know through your friends and relatives.
A veteran professional in most fields can help you reach gain understanding and reach decisions. If the person is a professional in the information you need, they can help you make better decisions.
Teachers and professional trainers have credentials or certifications to help you with information. Great teachers and trainers are expert advisors.
In closing, advisors help you with professional development as they help you to grow and to make better decisions.
Repetition Training
Training is critical to performance growth. Physical training builds strength, increases agility, and expands the initial response. Mental training increases memory, decision accuracy, and mental quickness. Skills training makes us more effective performers in your career. Growth comes from the repetition of training.
New Interests
Develop new interests. We can continue to grow as we develop and learn from new interests. We don’t have to be an expert in every field, but we can grow as professionals as we learn more about changes happening in our professional life.
Location
Choosing the right location is critical to our continued growth. If a person wants to become a downhill skier but can never get to a place to ski, the person needs to change the setting to carry out the goal. Likewise, writers, engineers, doctors (that is, people of all professionals) grow when they put themselves in locations that provide for success.
Setting
Additionally, setting is critical to success. In the best setting, we can have better focus. If a person does not pay attention and must go over material several times to get the point, the person may never understand the material at all. If a person does not have focus when performing a task, just doing the task correctly is impossible. Setting aside distractions help us create greater focus and increase learning. Therefore, the best setting is the one that makes easier to focus.
Continuing Professional Development
We must grow to stay current with changes in our industry. Additionally, it is not enough that we can do our job. We must be able to do a better job than current and new workers entering the workplace. Professional development will may our jobs easier and less stressful. It will increase our competence and our confidence.
Remember, if you want to become a power performer, you probably have more potential than you realize, and you may underestimate the value of talent. If you are struggling, what may be missing is the opportunity to learn and grow. You may lack professional development. #ProfessionalDevelopment
Freedom from Fear of Failure
Finding Joy in Life
If you don’t like what you are getting, stop doing what you are doing. Maybe you are following the wrong crowd. Maybe, you don’t need to follow any crowd. Meet new people. Try new things. Worry less about mistakes and focus more on doing things that inspire you and bring you joy. ~ www.jaywren.com
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Stick with Winners For Personal and Professional Success
Stick with winners. Surround yourself with people who will make you smarter, healthier, happier, and more successful.
Personal and Professional Life
In your personal and professional life, surround yourself with winners. Learning how these people have become successful and remain successful can help you learn how to build success in your own personal and professional life.
Networking
Additionally, these successful people can help you network with other successful people. On a broader basis join groups full of successful people.
On many levels throughout your career, your network of successful people can open doors to new opportunities for greater success.
Winners and Setbacks
Everyone has setbacks. Successful people have experience in overcoming setbacks. Through their experience, they can provide you with mental and emotional guidance. They can inspire us to be successful again. Often, these people have experience and knowledge in dealing with situations that challenge us. They can become practical guides or advisors in tackling challenging situations and overcoming setbacks.
Winning Teams
If we are the team leader, pick winners for your team. Add people who have experience and skills that add to your own experience and skills. Even, hire people who are smarter than you. These people will only help you make better decisions. As they grow, reward them with positive reviews and opportunities for promotion. Remember that someday these people may be able to help you move up in your career.
Winners in Your Personal Life
Outside of work, stick with winners who are your friends.
I have friends and mentors who are doctors, attorneys, members of the clergy, engineers, bankers, contractors, state administrators, chemists, judges, athletes, and others. I became friends with these people, because I enjoy their company. These people are interesting and intelligent people and teach me many things within the scope of their profession.
However, I do not pick my friends for their professional advice. My friends are people with whom I bond over common interests.
I have had occasions when my friends have provided me with professional services. I met them in their office for professional purposes. One friend wrote my will. Another wrote an employment contract. Another friend became my primary care physician. For these purposes, I paid these people and met them in their office.
On the other hand, I have friends who have the knowledge to point me in the right direction. For example, one friend who is a doctor, during lunch, recommended that I see a dermatologist.
A second friend who is a chemist calmed my fears about my liability over a fire that broke out in one of my offices. I was anxious about the damage to a building from the sprinkler system. He said that the fire department would likely find the cause of the fire and that my business could not have caused that fire.
As it turned out, the fire investigators found that a smoker had thrown a cigarette into a waste paper basket and started the fire. The fire activated the ceiling sprinkler system, which had immediately extinguished the fire before the evidence (the cigarette butt and the trash) had completely burned in the basket.
Another example is that my friend who is a senior state administrator is terrific in negotiations and has helped me work through more than one difficult discussion with clients and other friends.
Stick with Winners
As you pick your friends around the office and after work, pick people who can help you grow as a professional and as a person. I have found that picking friends in this way has made my life more fun, more interesting, and has helped me through countless challenging situations.