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Friday, December 12, 2008

Fast Company: Show Up and Deliver Your Best Everyday

Fast Company offers valuable insight: "In a recent conversation with a client, she mentioned that she and her team were in a "wait-and-see" mindset as it pertained to budgets and projects for next year. Given the current market, I could understand where she was coming from. However, I sensed a certain lethargy that I knew would put them in a bad spot in the months and year to come if not addressed..."

When the news hits hard, or you 'survive' a round of layoffs it's hard for you not to feel like your energy has been zapped. The article suggests "What you do today lays the foundation for what you do tomorrow, next week, next year, and the rest of your life. It's not an issue of results. It's an issue of momentum. When you believe you can have a positive impact, others believe it too. Everyone's inspired to action. And you build momentum. When you vacillate in that belief, others vacillate too. Action starts and stops. Momentum never comes. And you get resignation and exhaustion instead. In this way, delivering your best is not something you can turn off and on depending on circumstances. It must be a daily habit..."

Other useful tips offered:
  1. Look at what's on your plate today or this week.
  2. How do you feel about it? Does it inspire you, bore you, depress you? Be honest with yourself.
  3. If it's not a productive mindset, find a way to shift it. Projects themselves are rarely boring or depressing, it's usually the approach to them that is.
  4. If you work with other people engage them in the process of shifting this mindset together.
  5. Remember, you can always have a positive impact on yourself and the world around you - it's merely a state of mind
Read the full article at fastcompany.com

Photo credit: Thorne Enterprises

Labels: business, career, daily routines, job, motivational, work, workplace

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