Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Who you study can be one of the most important drivers in your development. The successful people know that to be great, they need to study the great. That’s why when they seek to learn something new, they always go right to the best possible source for their learning. To be great, you need to study the great.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

People constantly put off taking action because they feel that it is too risky. However, the biggest risk in life is not from taking action, but in not taking any action at all. Many people go through life never taking any action on their dreams, and that represents the biggest risk…as they are giving up using the potential that is inside them.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

For many to make a step change in performance, it is not about working on the improvements they see they need to make, but on the improvements they don’t see. This is why it is important to get the feedback from others all the time, as this helps us to hear about those improvements needed that we can’t see, and then we have the opportunity to address them.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

When we do the talking, we are only reinforcing what we already know. However, when we are listening, we have the opportunity to learn something new. With that being true, one of the keys to our own personal development is to set a goal to listen more. This way we will be learning more and faster, and from each person we meet.

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The Obvious?

There tend to be three responses to the possibilities of using social tools inside organisations – enthusiasm, lack of interest, or resistance. Resistance is in part because those who exhibit it understand all too well what these tools are about. Even though they often don’t use them, or in a conventional sense “understand them”, they are uneasy about what they correctly intuit about their potential.

But this is not some sort of workers revolution. It is wrong to describe the appeal of social tools in business as bottom up. They can appeal as much to the middle and the top as they do to the bottom. In fact bottoms and tops don’t matter – they are anachronistic concepts. The way to understand what is happening is to watch Occupy Wall Street and the other protests around the world. There is no one single clear demand, there is no overt leadership, there is not even a specific target. There is just a general and consensual feeling that things are not right and a willingness to do something about it. Even if that something isn’t initially clear.

Those in conventional positions of power struggle with this. Watching the media trying to cover the Arab Spring when there were no leaders to interview was fascinating. Paul Mason has a great post about the underlying nature of what is happening. It is decentralised rather than anarchic, purposeful rather than pointless, not organised but not chaotic. He talks about OWS being a reaction to “economic permafrost”. Maybe what those in business who ban the social web are resisting is the thawing of corporate permafrost?

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Enthusiasm is the outward display of a person’s passion, so keeping our enthusiasm high is all about keeping the passion inside us as strong as it can be. Every successful person knows that the source of their achievement is their passion for what they do, and by keeping it high, they are always positioning themselves each day to create and build upon their success.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

They say that success is a team sport, and no one achieves great success without the help of others. This help is not just an extra pair of hands, but the most important help is an extra pair of determination. Successful people surround themselves with others who have a great resolve to make it happen, and by association, they keep their own resolve strong too.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Every successful person has the ability to define and keep a focus on what’s important. Also, the key is how they determine that important too. There’s a great number of people who don’t take control of their lives, and end up just living someone else’s important. Successful people define and live their own important.

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From the HBO documentary Public Speaking, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Pressure is something that is both good and bad, and we get to determine this on our own. Pressure drives us to perform and achieve more, but only if we view pressure as something that will drive us to use our potential. Some people can never see pressure this way, and view it as something negative and to be avoided. The successful view it as something to be embraced.

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