Leadership Tip of the Week

Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have!

Most people seem to focus by default on what they don’t have; the job, the car, the partner they don’t have and want.

There is nothing wrong with having goals. On the contrary. However, the best mindset and space from which to pursue goals is one of success and accomplishment.

If you are constantly in a focus, conversation and mood oriented around what you don’t have and how life will only be perfect if and when you get these things, you will project a negative energy and you will come across as someone who can’t achieve his or her dreams.

However, if you focus on what you do have and you own it, celebrate it and feel accomplished and blessed by it, you will project a positive energy and you will come across as someone who can achieve anything they want.

When it comes to pursuing and achieving your goals, the energy you project and how you come across to yourself and others makes a decisive difference.

Believe it!

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I have coached many teams and organizations in creating bold and aspirational strategies that take their success to the next level. Every transformation begins with setting ambitious goals. And every team emerges from this initial exercise highly optimistic, energized and eager to achieve a better future for their company and themselves. Time and time again, I am impressed and inspired by leaders’ genuine enthusiasm, commitment, and resolve to realize aspirational goals that, at the outset are often viewed as beyond current. Unfortunately, when it comes to fulfilling aspirational goals and transformational change, there are two types of leaders: those who stay the course and those who don’t.