Improving Your Performance
We all have a performance superpower at our disposal. It’s not a performance-enhancing drug or a recent self-help book. It’s your attitude.
There are many things required to excel in your vocation and life…..smarts, hard work, self-analysis and deprecation, teamwork, a positive attitude.
Having a positive attitude may be the most important.
Invariably, we will face obstacles and failures in life. A positive attitude helps us pick ourselves up off the floor and keep going. Our teams will face hardships. They need teammates and leaders who care enough about them to encourage them, who will rally everyone around a common mission and keep going.
If I’m having a challenging day, I want to be around people who have a positive attitude, who will pick me up. Clients like to be around positive people. It may be the most important attribute a person has as part of a team.
A saying that goes down in my family’s lore was shared repeatedly by my father. It would be a grey West-Michigan day, and he would say “there’s blue sky behind those clouds”. This was a man who could look ahead to a better future!
How can you improve your attitude?
- Pray.
- Spend time with positive people.
- Read encouraging books (the Bible is my go-to). There are great business and self-help books.
- Greet people with a smile (treating them the way we’d like to be treated).
- Limit negative inputs, if possible.
- Count your blessings, daily.
- Reflect on past accomplishments and achievements in the face of adversity. What lessons can you take away from these?
