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

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

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

People have both needs and wants. With a need, there’s a feeling that I have to have it now. With a want, there’s more of a feeling that I wish to have it, and that having it might take some time. Successful sales people always focus on selling to the needs of others, as this is where the feeling of having it now is.

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

Today’s life is at such a fast pace, with everyone trying to fit in as much as they can into it. However, if we are only doing, and not also thinking; we might not find the better ways to do more, and more importantly achieve more. Achieving more with less effort and time is driven by the quality of our thinking first. Find the time to think.

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

There are times in our lives when we get a setback, and we begin to doubt our abilities. This happens to everyone, with people taking two approaches. One, people give up or stop trying, and then only magnify their self doubt by replaying it in their minds. For the others, they know that the only way to bounce back is to take action, and start taking action right away.

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

People often get in trouble because they think they know what they are doing, and then never ask for advice or help…but, they don’t know. One trait in successful people is knowing what they don’t know. This drives them to seek out advice and help early on in attempting something new, and this is very likely the reason for the success with it.

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

It is often how much we want something that determines the pace we work on it, and whether we will ever achieve it. People start an initiative so focused on the “how”, when what determines their success is the WHY; and that’s where their focus should be first. Where does your focus go first?

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