Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People skills are often talked about as a key for success (the ability to gain rapport and get along well with others). There’s one core skill that’s the foundation for everything else: People skills are driven by giving others your full attention.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People go through life either by being themselves or not. Some are afraid to be themselves, and play safe. Others don’t know themselves, and just choose to be what’s popular. The people with the courage to be themselves focus on being and doing the right thing (for themselves).
The Obvious?
The Obvious?
It is so important not to forget how unfamiliar the web and social tools are to most people.
Working, as I do, mostly with managers in their forties and fifties I would say that 90% are unsure of themselves online. Yes they are on Facebook and Linkedin, and some of them have Twitter accounts, but their use of these tools is predominantly passive. They are consuming rather than creating stories.
This is why when you suggest seriously that not only do they begin writing down what they think in these tools, but do so in the context of work, there is that familiar look of unease bordering or outright fear.
“Why would anyone be interested in what I have to say?”, “What on earth would I write about?” “Won’t people find me boring” – all this from people who, face to face, are fascinating and have really interesting stories to tell about challenging jobs in exciting businesses.
Forget paying eye watering sums of money for enterprise platforms – this is where the real work is.
The Obvious?
Back in the early days of blogging, twelve years ago for me, it was a much smaller, much more connected world. It felt like we were living next together rather than separated as we were by, in some cases, thousands of miles. We built up some pretty close friendships that in most cases have lasted to this day.
I was therefore really sad to hear through that network of the illness of one of our number, Michael O’Connor Clarke, with esophageal cancer cancer. The challenges he and his family now face just serve to remind me of how fragile life is and how important our friends are.
If you want to help, his friends have set up a support page here.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People often say to themselves “I just need this…, and then I’ll get started”. However, successful people know that using what they already have is always enough to get started. You can’t achieve anything in life if you don’t start it!
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
People often read motivational books and dream of a better life…often stopping at the dream and not taking any action on it. Success starts with the thought (the dream), but is only gained by action…and it’s our actions in the present (today) that drives our future.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Successful leaders understand that the messages they provide their people help drive both the direction and culture of their organisation. These messages are delivered in two ways: by giving the message (what is said), by being the message (the leader’s behaviour).
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Failure is viewed in different ways between successful and unsuccessful people. Unsuccessful people view failure as a dead end, and give up. The successful view failure as a stepping stone…taking the learning from the failure to do better the next time.
Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful
Very often, the level of pride in our accomplishments are in proportion to the level of investment of ourselves we put into achieving them. If they were too easy, we would feel good about the achievements, but wouldn’t have great pride in them.
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