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 daughters soccer team. I accepted the offer. Before the first season, I took a soccer coaching class. That was an experience that means a lot 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 greatly 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 great 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 some problems but can not function in normal human daily routines.
6. Setting or site 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 setting to carry out the goal.

7. Interest  is important. For people who just have no interest in a subject, learning that subject is very challenging.

8. Focus is critical. If a person does not pay attention and has to go over the 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.

9. 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 some strategies to surround myself with positive people in my environment?

Corcoran Group founder and Shark Tank mogul Barbara Corcoran has some truth to impart here:

“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.”

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 passionate, motivated, optimistic, reliable, 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 take action, 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 goal-oriented 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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