If you want to become a powerful performer, you have more potential than you realize, and you may underestimate the value of talent. Here are nine factors that affect success. All are important.

Here are the things that I accomplished with this process.

I experienced feelings of excitement and joy in caring for people and causes. I know that I did. I had time to do all these things and still work to operate my recruiting practice.

I got involved in a high school group. Later, I became president of the group.

I organized a safety summit in the school cafeteria, teachers, school board members, community leaders, parents, district administrators, local news, and services.

I created an event at this high school that honored alumni of students. The people that I chose to honor included a prominent attorney, a Harvard professor and famous author, a popular NBA professional who set the basketball team record for blocked shots at the University of California, Berkeley.

I was invited to coach one of my daughter’s soccer teams. I accepted the offer. Before the first season, I took a soccer coaching class. That was an experience that brought back great memories to my daughter and me. The governor of California invited me to a meeting in his office to discuss student safety in the schools in California.

No one thing determines success.

1. Teachers create quality education and increase success. Teacher-of-the-year awards are important to remind us of the value great teachers give to the success of students. Great teachers create interest and focus. Great teachers improve student performance. They use effective methods to track student progress and revise the teaching plan to the progress of the students.
2. Training is critical to performance growth. Physical training builds strength increases agility and expands intuitive response. Mental training increases memory, decision accuracy, and mental quickness.
3. Teams are far more than a cohesive unit. Teams with talented team attitudes and team commitment teach each other to work at higher levels.
4. Time is important for repetition. As people get more experience, they increase their skills. They increase their understanding. They increase their physical and mental agility.
5. Talent is important but not an absolute reason in determining success. A savant has extraordinary mental power for solving problems but cannot function in normal human daily routines. Setting our goal is important. If a person wants to become a downhill skier but can never get to a place to ski, the person needs to change the be in a location to achieve that to conduct the goal.
6. Interest is important. For people who just have no interest in a subject, learning that subject is incredibly challenging.
7. Focus is critical. If a person does not pay attention and must go over the material 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.
8. Passion makes doing a job so much easier. If you want to become a powerful performer, pick the things that you love to do.
   Trust yourself to become a powerful performer. Put together all the pieces to create success. Why shouldn’t you be the powerful performer that you want to become? Just turn start doing the things that enable you to become that powerful performer.

Smart Choices That Will Pave the Way to Your Success

What specific methods can I use to identify and cultivate my passions? How can I effectively measure my progress in the factors that affect success? What are strategies to surround myself with positive people in my environment?

If life threw you a fastball when you were expecting a curve and you struck out on a major decision, stop getting up every morning (or going to bed every night) thinking, obsessing, questioning, second-guessing, and psychoanalyzing every “what if” scenario.

1.Be like the most successful people and entrepreneurs.
Bounce back, learn from your mistake, chalk it up to experience, remember the lesson in the future, and forget the rest.
As you recover and heal from whatever pain was inflicted on you, having a mindset of putting “the past in the past” releases you from the chains of guilt and analysis paralysis. Face it–your mistake cannot be undone. But you can choose to learn from it and move on.
2. Choose to surround yourself with positive people.
Want to know the instant solution to being a positive person who attracts others? Simple: Stop hanging around negative people. Like an unwanted disease, they will contaminate the work environment by spreading their negativity virus.
Do yourself a favor: Next time you’re around your colleagues, listen to their natural dialogue. Are they seeing the glass as half empty and dwelling heavily on the worst possible outcome? Do they sound like this? If so, it’s inherent in who they are at their core.
Switch tribes by being around people who are enthusiastic, motivated, optimistic, dependable, supportive, resilient, and lift you instead of dragging you down.
3. Choose to take the initiative.
Ultra-successful people won’t sit on decisions waiting for urgency to come knocking. They take risks and create urgency with intent and purpose, driving themselves closer toward their goals or personal mission.
However, if you’re in a leadership role, a fair warning: Don’t confuse “drive” and “initiative” with a top-down approach of wielding your powerful and control full speed ahead. A controlling and impulsive leader who steamrolls ahead with his or her own agenda without soliciting feedback before deciding will only hurt the team or company.
Level “5 Leader” are driven to act, but not at the expense of people. The right approach is to take initiative with fierce resolve but coupled with humility — the “Level 5 Leader” way.
4. Choose to communicate with your mouth and ears.
The best way to strengthen relationships at work is through more communication, especially with your ears. Intentionally spend time with your colleagues and boss to learn more about them — their personal lives, what they’re working on, what their interests and strengths are. This takes the skillful art and science of active listening.
You do so by listening intently, with the other person’s needs in mind. You listen to the other person’s story, searching conversations for depth, meaning, and understanding. The upside for you? You may identify opportunities for deeper connections, business or personal pursuits aligned with mutual interests, and, if you’re a manager, opportunities for your employees to contribute more to other projects.
5. Choose every opportunity to experience joy.
Ever been around people who are positive and happy all the time? For your average mood swinger, they can be annoying as heck! But here’s what you can learn from the ones who are genuinely expressing joy: They choose every opportunity to share their happiness — quotes, funny pictures, uplifting or hilarious stories, jokes, positive books, blogs, and good news to pick us up and add color to our lives.

The Benefits of These Changes.
You will become a more powerful person. What was once annoying you now understand as authentic; they choose to enjoy life to the fullest. You now find yourself wanting to be part of their tribe–to soak up their positive energy, passion, and enthusiasm for life.

A joyful person’s goals come first, and such people are naturally motivated and purposeful to achieve their best. But they are also natural at guiding others along the path they need to take and inspiring others to scale the mountain and meet their goals. They let people grapple with their issues but will come alongside someone to cheer them on to success. You can’t help but be empowered and feel happy yourself when in their company.

Finally, they are lifelong learners. Joyful people never stop learning and never assume they know everything. That’s why they show interest in basking in the wisdom of others. This is what initiates the best conversations — learning about what other people do, how they do it, and why they do it. People love to talk about themselves, and joyful people are smart enough to let them! They are the type of people who show up with the humble gesture of “I want to learn from you.”

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When You Don’t Have the Job You Want Bring Joy to the Job You Have ~ Jay Wren

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Most people just need a job. To enjoy the job, they pack passion in their lunch pails as part of finding joy in their job.  These people find pursuing their passion in just doing the job.

People who have tremendous success doing what they love to do are very fortunate.

THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS

Sisyphus was a brilliant king and founder of ancient Corinth.  According to Greek mythology, the god Hades condemned Sisyphus for eternity to push an immense boulder up a hill, only to let it roll down the hill and then push it back up again.

It is very easy for anyone to feel that same way about his or her own life:  Same hill, same rock, different day.

However, the French writer/philosopher Albert Camus saw how people pursuing their passion could find their passion in the daily activity of doing their job.

Camus wrote a great essay called “The Myth of Sisyphus.”

With a beginner’s understanding of French, I read the essay in French.

The subject of the book deals with existentialism. The existentialists viewed life as a pointless grind.

No task brought fulfillment.

In the essay, Camus evaluates existential philosophers in the first three of four chapters.

In chapter 4, Camus says that the only logical way to view life as having meaning was to see Sisyphus’s punishment a unique way.

Sisyphus could change his punishment to pursuing his passion in how he viewed pushing the rock.  From Camus’s point of view, the beauty of life is not reaching the top of the hill but pushing the rock.

The joy of the workday comes from focusing on the work, not the start and ending of another day.  People who view life this way are always pursuing their passion through their brighter way of looking at life.

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