Do Your Best

October 22 2007

Erin’s Business Tip Of The Week

Do Your Best

If you are not reaching your potential or if you are working below your capacity it is because you are not doing your best. Your best is dynamic, it ebbs and flows depending on the circumstances, but doing your best is about honestly putting in your full effort. In order to do your best consistently, you must master your attitudes, decisions, and actions. It is important to take some of the pressure off of you by surrounding yourself with those who encourage and support your efforts and by paying attention to the value and benefits you are providing for others in your effort. Doing your best also is going to require that you consistently improve and develop your skill sets in order to improve your opportunities for growth and learning and in turn your quality of life.

Follow Your Passion

October 15 2007

Erin’s Business Tip Of The Week

Follow Your Passion

When you are doing what you love, you love what you are doing. Once you find what you truly love doing, then find ways to parlay your strengths with your passion to create an economically sustainable life around that passion. If your work is something that you are not passionate about, you will find it a constant struggle and difficult to get ahead because you don’t have a true interest in putting all your energy behind it to make it work. When you are spending time in your passion you will have the energy and creativity to follow through on tasks, projects, and goals with little effort. Write down what you love doing and what your strengths are then begin to develop and steer your career path in the right direction for success.

Change

October 1 2007

Embrace and create change; it is inevitable, important, and essential to your effectiveness. If you are stuck in a daily/weekly routine where nothing changes you are not growing, learning, or developing and neither is your business. Change creates opportunity, but if you are stuck in predetermined patterns of behavior that are resistant to change you will not be able to take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. Take an inventory of your routines and start making room for different approaches to the same objective. Steer away from stagnant, complacent and uncreative processes and note when you are shying away from change or when you find you simply cannot cope with it. Then try something new, be open to new processes and approaches, find some comfort in uncertainty, that is where you will find the most important opportunities.