ATTENTION DECODED

What you do speaks so loud that people do not need to hear what you say. You do not always need to explain why something went wrong . What you consistently do tells people everything they need to know. You communicate your truest self through your character. In the same way you can judge a tree by the sum of the fruit it bears… Let people judge you by the sum of your actions, and not any one action. This way when ONE person judges you by ONE miss step you won’t let it define you. One bad apple has never in the history of apple trees condemned the whole tree. You are no different. Stay the course. Stop trying to make up for the few inevitable mistakes. Move forward.

Bad feedback is not the same as feedback that addresses your areas of opportunity.   Knowing the difference could have a major impact on your career and your self-esteem. If you cringe when you receive bad feedback from a client I hope this post makes you far less hard on yourself. First, lets talk about what bad feedback looks like… Bad feedback is when someone provides you with a review of something you supposedly did but their delivery is overly emotional, attacking and non-constructive.   Feedback should have useful undertones as you absorb it. Stay focused when you get feedback and look for what is actually useful about what was said. Now, this doesn’t mean look for something positive the client said about how you did. What I really mean is look for a suggestion that they made, look for a trend or pattern when you read feedback from clients. If people start suggesting similar things that begins to be...

"It is always something" Is that not the first thing we think of when we have just gotten through one “road block” situation only to immediately find another “road closed” situation? We want there to be this grace period where things just coast for long enough to catch our breath. We want to celebrate that we overcame our last obstacle before knowing we must concur another…  Yet how seldom we get the chance to revel in the tranquility of nothing going on . No, there is rarely nothing going on. Because “it is always something”. Maybe we should look at things differently. What if life was the opposite? What if the more common saying was: “it is never anything" If life was a series of nothing ever happening to us would that be better? Would you trade endless days of “never anything” happening for the people and responsibilities in your life that cause the “its always somethings”? Here is what I mean... If your Husband or Wife is always asking you to help them with yet ...

Masquerade: to assume the appearance one is not. Sometimes we confuse what people appear to be with what they actually are. Like many other things, what people are is subject to perspective. For example... Most people would consider a person in the market to buy a small boat to be a potential client to any boat salesmen. I am not convinced. And you shouldn’t be either. Not everyone in the market to buy a boat will be considered a potential client for every boat salesmen. At first glance, this may sound ridiculous. Why would a person in the market to buy a small boat not be considered a potential client to every boat salesmen? Who would pass up a chance to make a sale? The professional sales person with specific price points in mind, that is who. Because some people will masquerade as your clients when you have no business making them your client. A salesperson who is not wanting to be a one of many salespeople for consumers to pick out of a hat must be able to know how to quic...