Last week I received an email that had some great career success advice. It was a challenge from Robin Sharma to “Be your own hero.” Robin Sharma is an internationally-known speaker on sales leadership, peak performance and creativity and the bestselling author of several motivational books. You should check out his website:
I really like the idea of being your own hero. I think it is a great way to get yourself on the road to the life and career success you want and deserve. I like it so much that I’m sharing Robin’s thoughts with you here.
Be Your Own Hero By Robin Sharma
So many of us have heroes. Leaders, artists or entrepreneurs that inspire us. People who have made an impact, people who have shown us a better way, people who have overcome outrageous odds.
Yet, the interesting insight about heroes is that they have the human imperfections and weaknesses that we do. They have their bad days, they feel despair, they get knocked down (in fact, heroes get knocked down more than the rest of us).
Yet, in spite of their human frailties, heroes find a way to change the world.
Here’s my challenge to you — be your own hero. Ask yourself, wh
You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan.
Off to the office, you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior.
You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait.
Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration, seeing that someone has parked in your reserved spot and the rain is now coming down in buckets. Glad there is an umbrella on the back seat, you make a run for it hugging folders from last night’s homework close to your chest.
The demands for your time never stop.
By noon, it feels like this Monday has been a month long and you start to wonder what it’s all about, why you work so hard and why there are so many demands on you that just don’t stop. Then yo
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As I jogged down Wall Street in New York in October through the barricades, police horses, and thousands of activists, something became clear. The masses had self-organized and social media had added yet another social movement to its résumé. At the same time, something else became clear to me. Much higher than street level, in the boardrooms of America’s largest companies, social media expertise was far from entering the résumés of most C-suites.
Why is there confusion inside these glass fortresses around the world? Senior executives are struggling to get a grasp of what to do about the social opportunity for their kingdom. But hey, it’s new, right? The kids only started signing up eight years ago. For lots of people, the biggest concern with technology is figuring out how to operate their BlackBerry in the post-trackwheel era.
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You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan.