Imagine you have a business that operates sloppily.
Your business has lots of sales, lots of employees, lots of activity ? but small mistakes are repeatedly made ? over and over. Your profitability suffers.
How do you change a corporate culture?
Do you make grand proclamations and send out memos with new rules?
Or do you start with the little things?
When you work in a highly active, slightly chaotic environment, it’s critical that you make a plan every day.
Why?
Work has to get done.
Otherwise …
Last week I spoke at a K–12 school in Northwestern Montana. I was asked to address the issue of bullying.
Is bullying worse today than it was forty to fifty years ago when I attended K–12 school? I don’t know.
But I do know that society and schooling have changed.
Today, we are much more aware of issues such as bullying.
When you?re proud, you take responsibility for your actions. It?s a motivator for the results you seek. Being proud is a good thing.
Pride can be good when used to set standards for yourself.
Pride can also be good when it boosts your identity or self-image while you achieve your goals.
But ? pride has the potential to be proud?s evil twin.
Knowing your own strengths is potentially life-changing.
Strengths are the things you like to do.
Strengths are the things you naturally do well.
Strengths are the things you subconsciously continue to develop – with ease.
By definition, your strengths don’t need fixing or improving.
During our formal education and within society generally, a huge emphasis has been spent on trying to fix or improve.
By definition, the things that need fixing or improving are our weaknesses.
Our weaknesses need to be fixed or improved.
Do you see the disconnect?
Note: The faith I?m referring to is not the religious kind of faith. The faith I?m referring to is the belief in oneself ? and the belief in one?s own dreams.
Forrest Gump had faith.
Forrest did believe in God.
Forrest did believe he was going to heaven.
But more importantly, Forrest had the faith to believe in himself.
