Attitude vs Skills

What attitudes and skills do we need over the next twelve months to be enormously successful? I ask this to many, many audiences and people come up with attitudes like energy, passion, hunger and they need determination. So they need all these different attitudes to succeed and then I say to them ‘What are the skills that they need?’ and they say the need to negotiate better, listening skills, communication etc. So providing you want to push forward, you need to find out what you need first off that’s going to make you more successful. Here’s the thing, interestingly enough. Let me ask you another question: At what stage when you were one-year old did your parents turn around to you and say ‘Give it up kid, you’re never going to be a walker’? They never said that to us. Even though they knew that one day we were going to walk, they kept encouraging us. What’s my point? My point is how energetic is a two-year old? How much passion, how much hunger, how much belief, how much determination does a two-year old have? Masses. And then we get to three, four, five-years old and people start saying ‘You know what, lower your standards. You know what, you’re not hard enough to play football with us, you’re not clever enough to work with us.’ People lower their standards.Here’s the thing; I believe we can learn skills. Here’s where most businesses spends loads of their money, loads of their time. We can’t change somebody’s attitude but we can remember one. So let me ask you this final question today: When has it been in your life when you felt magnificent? Before you start work and every morning of your life, remember the times when you’ve had the most courage, you’ve had the most passion. Remember being a child. Remember the times when you had humility, focus, strength, belief, determination, persistence. When were the times when you felt like a child?Anchor that in your subconscious before you start work, before you set your desk, feel in your heart where you really belong. Just before you start work, flow the emotions into your heart. Feel great before you sit down and make that phone call and don’t make that phone call until you know that your attitude is right.

Have a great day!

Warmest regards

Craig

Craig Goldblatt is one of the UK's top human potential speakers, contact him to find out how he can help your organisation.

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