Day 2 – Create Your Focus and Display Your Attributes

Interestingly enough, individuals are hired, get into relationships, and acquire contracts because of their attributes. Think about when you creating your resume, responding to a proposal or getting into a new or expanded relationship. We all show with a best foot forward. We work really hard to display our attributes to ensure others that we are what they want in their company, their world or their life.

That’s not a bad thing, if we keep in mind yesterday’s theme for capitalizing on our interests and motivators. We spend more time setting aside the very attributes that support success with our power, people and purpose. Suddenly, we are willing to compromise with our soul and spirit in order to fit in or be accepted. When in reality, it is our very attributes are what is attracting us to the external world.

When we fully understand and create our focus – we can feature and display those attributes that put us into the job, relationship or role to begin with. Conversely, when we start to compromise and settle because subconsciously we feel that we are changing our focus – we get into serious trouble. This, in my opinion, is the greatest problem that employers, employees, mothers, father, community members, human beings face every day. We lose our focus rather than finding the connections with our attributes and our personal focus – also known as our personal vision.

3 Tips to create focus and display your attributes

1. Reminder from yesterday, review your interests and motivators that you have journaled and captured over at least a week, a month or a lifetime. Distill that laundry list down into a very specific focus – For example, my focus is “Leading People and Companies Back to Health and Wealth.”

2. Next look at your attributes. Those attributes, also known as strengths and talents, that will help you in relationships, work and life to totally support your focus.

3. This is the biggest tip – Actively connect your focus and attributes to the situations, roles, jobs, relationships, that you encounter. This tip is no secret, but is the most overlooked. When we know our focus – WHY we are motivated to do what we want to do And then, know our Attributes- HOW we do what we want to do. The WHAT to do becomes so much easier.

Three simple tips. When you create you focus, display your attributes and then connect them to your work and life – Magic happens.

Get ready for Day 3, Look For the Derailers