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

We always achieve more (versus do more) when we focus all our efforts on the important, so that really means our goal should be to give our best to less. The key factor in achievement for successful people is not their ability to do more, but their ability in making the tough choices to only focus their time and energy on the truly important.

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

People who achieve success are far more specific in their goals than others, and they realise that their creativity kicks in much stronger when they have a specific target to focus on. Some think there is a danger in getting too specific, as they may miss opportunities…but that’s usually the opposite. Taking action on a clear goal moves you forward faster to see even more opportunities.

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

There are some topics and issues that are almost impossible to discuss without having trust with the other person. In many ways, building the trust is like making space in people’s minds…having them willing to listen and discuss. Successful communicators focus on making the space first, before addressing difficult topics and issues with others.

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

Leaders who are successful in driving change focus on involving their people as early as they can in the change. They look to get input from everyone involved, and in different ways. These leaders understand that if their people see at least part of their input being used in the change (however small the input), they will provide more support to the change.

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

A person’s mindset towards an outcome or activity can make all the difference to what they achieve, and the quality of the achievement. Whenever we receive a challenging initiative, the energy will bring to it will be different if we consider it an opportunity or an obligation. We always achieve more with an opportunity mindset.

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

For leaders, and for all of us, our biggest problems come from when our actions don’t match our words. The people with great influence live up their words, and this brings power to whatever they say. Others will always listen more closely and invest in what you say, when you live up to your words (you do what you say).

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

Successful communicators are great story tellers. They know that information alone does not have enough influencing power, and use stories to provide a context to the information they share. Stories make the information relevant to the listeners, sharing how it applies to them, and how they can apply the information to what they need to achieve.

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

It is only natural that what you get rewarded for, you will do more of. Every leader knows this, but not every leader applies this idea in the same way. In fact, the best leaders provide rewards to their people in all different ways, as well as realise that not every reward has to be money. Real motivation comes from something other than money.

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

Nothing happens without action, and action is always at the top of every successful leader’s mind. These leaders focus their people on what needs to be achieved, and if it is something new; they always make sure that their people know how to take the first step. Many delays in your company’s initiatives come from delays in taking the first step.

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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 trait in all people who create success in uncertain times…it’s adaptability. These people understand that uncertainty brings about circumstances that you can never totally prepare for. That means that having the ability to adapt and quickly find the right way forward makes all the difference. How adaptable are you?

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