When you have a POV (Point of View) that notices opportunity, what do you do to Magnify your position/situation/livelihood?
Since I published the book, Your Best Just Got Better, the world looks like a marketplace to attract those who’d be the most interested in making things #Better. For example, here’s my view recently at an Airport in Houston, Texas.
Creating opportunity?
Marketing effort?
Success?
Trust me, I’ve thought that these “pop-up” book signing events fulfill all those descriptions and more…it’s like a designer who wears the clothes they make, a photographer always having a camera “on their person,” a mom constantly scanning the vicinity wondering, “Are they ok?”
In July, 2014 I presented a full-day workshop based on that book and the past 8 years of advising clients worldwide on this “Better” philosophy. During the program - on one the breaks, in fact - an attendee approached me and quietly said, “I’m working here now, but I’ve started a side business that really is my dream career.”
We only had about three minutes to talk, and I spent two of those minutes listening.
I contributed one comment about how to view the landscape as one full of opportunity and how to “magnify” the possibility that success can happen.
For the leaders who are reading this, it really is up to you to step in to and own the position the world (at least “your” world) has given you.
You ARE in a position to influence others.
How have you changed your mental perspective to notice more opportunity where you look out in your world?