A — Avoid assumptions, have an amazing attitude.
B — Be yourself. Do not be the imitation of someone else.
C — Clarify your wishes, deliver clear, concise communication, commit to your growth
D — Design and Delight in your Destiny, be determined, use due diligence to get all the facts
E — Educate yourself, give no “excuses”
F — Face your fears, Focus on your future, Forgive
G — Adopt a “Good to Great” philosophy, Goals should be twofold: DO goals that will change and BE goals that will remain timeless since these are heart and soul goals. Businesses have DO and BE goals and we should have DO and BE goals as well.
H — stay Healthy by developing a good wellness plan
I — Inspire, improve, become interdependent by helping others grow by releasing the control brought on by independence.
J — “Jump” at the challenges offered. Here is a saying of some advice given to young American Indians at the moment of their initiation.
“As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. JUMP it is not as wide as you think.”
K — Become a “key” employee. Remember the story of “Karate Kid” and how Miyagi portrays Karate as the challenge on taking yourself on from beginning to end, top to bottom, to rethink every aspect of you, and that Karate is not just a form of protection. He had to find out Daniel’s commitment level with a series of tasks including the famous wax on, wax off. No matter what we chose to do, Karate Kid Kommitment (pardon the use of the K, kouldn’t help it) means not walking down the middle of the road. Commitment is either yes you do it or no, you do not but there isn’t any guess so about it.
L & M — This is the LESS of and MORE of: Less negative energy, more positive energy, Less talking, more listening, Less individual, more team.
N — Networks. Highly effective people work in networks, relying on the right people for the right reasons at the right times. We are innately social people so networking is right up our alley.
O — Overcome obstacles. It takes extra effort to be “outstanding”.
P — Be professional, persist over problems, there is power in positive interactions. Research has found that marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions. Additional research also shows that workgroups with positive to negative interaction ratios greater than 3 to 1 are significantly more productive than teams that do not reach this ratio. So what does this mean for you and me? For most of us it means we need to increase the number of positive interactions we have at home and at work and reduce our negative interactions. We need to engage each other with more smiles, kind words, encouragement, gratitude, meaningful conversations, honest dialogues and sincere positive interactions. And to foster these actions we need to create personal and team rituals that help us interact more positively. If we make them part of our organizational process and individual habits they are more likely to happen.
Q — Be a person of Quality.
R — Risk, it is worth it!! Understand that life and decisions carry some measure of risk with it but without moving ahead, we run the risk of standing still.
S — “Solve” the problem, find the “Solution”. Solutions are always out there.
T — Try, try, try….Be truthful.
U — Be Un-equal. We can decide to be average and equal or become above average and unequal.
