I can't sleep…
From WSJ.com: Anxiety Can Bring Out the Best
“Somewhere between checked out and freaked out lies an anxiety sweet spot…in which a person is motivated to succeed yet not so anxious that performance takes a dive. This moderate amount of anxiety keeps people on their toes, enables them to juggle multiple tasks and puts them on high alert for potential problems.”
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Nick Crocker, a personal coach who helps people lead more active lives, had an excellent post in the HBR Blog Network called Find Exercise in Life’s Margins. Here’s a few excerpts:
“You consider yourself a fit, active person. But, like most busy professionals, you want to exercise more…And then time and again, life just gets in the way. You’re too busy. You work too late…You book a breakfast meeting. You have work and social commitments that you just can’t miss. And in all the chaos, exercise gets squeezed out. This, in reality, is most people’s experience of exercise.
The reality is, those spare hours in the week are not going to materialize. We need to come up with a different solution. The key is to find exercise in the daily flow of your life. Doing so will boost your productivity, performance and job satisfaction.”
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I’m a long standing member of the Mike Myatt fan club. Yet, I held off sharing this after trying to talk myself out of it. Contrived…maybe. Heard it before? Certainly. Many times. Believe it? Completely. I thought some of us could use an extra kick this morning to finish off the week…so here it is. I encourage you to click through on this post from Mike Myatt: “The Myth of Potential” to get the full essence of his message. Here’s (more than) a few nuggets:
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Are you a Professional?
How would you define a Professional?
Bill Wiersma conducted research asking a number of executives in various industries (including members of the Dave Matthews Band) whether they considered themselves professionals and what was their definition of a professional. Yet many who who surveyed did feel that those occupations that required a special degree or qualification, such as a doctor, lawyer, or accountant were professionals. His startling findings were that most people he surveyed did not view themselves as professionals, let alone understand the mind-set required to be one. It matters because the higher the degree of professionalism in a firm, the higher likelihood of achieving goals and driving better results. And that viewing oneself as a professional is a precursor to being one as the aspirational identity is affirming, and it elevates her view of herself and therefore influences her actions.
His research went on to find that 7 mind-sets were prevalent among the most trusted professionals:
Continue reading “Book Review: The Power of Professionalism. Are you a Professional?”
