Tips to Help Empower Yourself

“It’s not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” - Vance Havner

How hard do you really push yourself and is what you expect in return realistic? Most of the time results achieved fall in line with the exact amount of effort we are prepared to commit. We often sit and wonder why we did not achieve what we set out to do, we look for external reasons (and conveniently find them!) which give us suitable excuses for our half hearted effort. The fact is ordinary results come from ordinary effort, do you want to be ordinary or would you really like to be superb?

To achieve more you need to expect more. You need to be more demanding of yourself first, you can then follow this with higher expectations of others. We often expect more of our team members than we get, after all we pay their wages don’t we?

This rational will never work when it comes to improving results. It has to start with YOU FIRST. Your team are listening to you even though you don’t think they are, they are watching you even though you don’t think they are, and when you slip up… they will remember.

The expectation you have of you team and the results they will produce will only ever be effective in relation to the expectation you have of yourself and how you demonstrate this within your business.

Here are some tips to help you empower yourself to ‘step up the stairs’ today.

1. Set your goals and then re-set them just a little higher.
2. Be committed to constant improvement, believe that you are going to be better today than you were yesterday.
3. Practice, practice, practice, one day you WILL get it right.
4. Have a high level of expectation for yourself, this will enable you to raise the standards for everyone in your team.
5. Lead by example in every possible way.
6. Look for ways of improving your own skill set, knowledge base etc
7. Don’t just talk about it, DO IT!