Today is a new day.
Will you go through the motions?
Will you try to change the world?
Do you even have a consciousness of what today brings you?
Change The World?
Tag: Opportunity
Cautious Loyalty?
Has it ever crossed your mind?
Loyalty. Organizational loyalty. The loyalty you show. The loyalty you receive.
And even if, for what ever reason, you question your current loyalty, where else would you go to find it?
Catch 22, isn’t it?
Here’s a provocative perspective from a business contact from LinkedIn.
Click here to read David Noer’s blog post: The Necessary Paradox of Cautious Loyalty.
Do You Follow Your Instincts?
This excerpt is from a Speakers and Panelist LinkedIn Group Member, Stephen J Stulic. Relevant and powerful:
“Seek and Welcome Opportunities That Move You Closer To Realizing Your Full Potential.
Be ready when opportunity knocks. And sometimes, by taking strategic advantage of several small opportunities, you may move closer to realizing your full potential more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.
Therefore, do not be content to wait for a single opportunity to be all that you want it to be; they come in all shapes and sizes and quite often come disguised as something you would not normally expect.
A person truly centered in understanding what he wants will make more opportunities than he finds.
So, when any opportunity to become more is presented to you, be prepared to make the most of it and take action.
Follow your instincts; there is nothing more discouraging than waiting back on your heels as an opportunity ceases to be one.”
Speaking Of Leadership
Speaking of leadership with it’s titles, status, perks, benefits, bonuses, responsibility, accountability, opportunities…
This “bonus” (today’s second post) jungle jeff blog post shares my response to a faithful jungle jeff reader.
We are all leaders. Every last one of us. Even if it doesn’t seem so.
We all travel through life with the exact same “currency” – time.
Mistakes are gifts.
Past mistakes become worse when we don’t open them up as the gifts they are, and reflect on the reason they happened, and the opportunity they represent.
To me, failure is never opening the gift.
The gift-giver is actually ourselves. If we cannot thank ourselves for our mistakes – our opportunities – we lose.
Stay strong, dig deep, find quiet space, and open your gift.
Then send yourself a thank you note
Competent Incompetent
Has anyone ever called you a competent incompetent?
If so, consider yourself a rookie. But, a rookie with incredible opportunity.
In today’s rapidly changing work environment, even seasoned professionals may sometimes feel like a competent incompetent.
And there’s just one thing I’d like to say about that. Remember who you are and why they hired you in the first place.
When I first became a professional speaker, I knew nothing, zip, zilch, notta, zero, about public speaking.
This was a good thing, my new boss told me.
What the?
And what’s weird about his comment, I agreed with him.
I was fully aware I didn’t know a thing about my new career path.
Public Speaking for a large Central Florida company was frightening. The people that made up the team I just joined were seasoned professionals.
Me?
The new guy, that didn’t have a clue. But they eluded to the reason why they hired me, over all their other choices.
“You have the most heart! The most passion.”
Here we are, 11 years later.