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

Leaders focus on creating the right structure for their organisations, and often think too much on control, and not enough on communications. Successful leaders structure their organisations to facilitate the right discussions on how to deliver the customer experience.

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

There are far too many people who try to control what others do…which is quite difficult. Successful people have realised that they can’t control others, but can influence others by what they do themselves.

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

You hear a great deal about the importance of self awareness, and rightly so. When we are aware of our behaviours and what drives them, we are then able to better control them…especially in difficult circumstances. Successful people invest in their self awareness…do you?

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The Obvious?

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then
they will be in control in its wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it
is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good; that is
the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without
trying to control them.
- Shunryu Suzuki in Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind

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

Leaders like to feel in control of their organisations, with the successful leaders knowing that they get more control by giving it away. The more ownership and control they give their people, the more successful leaders extend their control throughout the organisation. They know that keeping control is really limiting their control.

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

There’s one thing that people who are always avoiding responsibility don’t understand. When you take accountability for what you need to achieve, it enables you have control over what you are doing far more than if you don’t take the accountability. That control reduces stress, while the people who are avoiding accountability are having the stress of always doing what others are telling them to do.

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

People are feeling that they have less control over their time these days…feeling overwhelmed with everything they have to do. However, our time and what we do with it is really our CHOICE, which means it is within our control. You can either accept being driven around by others, or you can determine and decide how you will respond.

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

The feeling of being in control makes us feel safe. However, feeling safe is not helping us to grow fast. Successful people like being in control as everyone else, but don’t equate it with feeling safe. They know that control is a matter of feeling responsibility and that their action provides the feeling of being in control.

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

Some people are always complaining about the circumstances they find themselves in, and that they don’t have any control over them. They are focused on the outside, but control is on the inside. Our attitude and approach to deal with the circumstances is 100% within our control.

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