Practice, Practice, Practice

Written by Skye Thomas


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Your talent will not be something you hate doing. Sure, I'm really very good at scrubbingrepparttar bathroom. You can conduct a white glove inspection when I'm done, but that's not my special talent. That's not my special gift torepparttar 122975 world. And it sure as heck never built an ounce of self-confidence for me. No, you have to really truly deeply love what it is you're doing orrepparttar 122976 talent won't show itself. You have to forget to think and lose all track of time while zoning out inrepparttar 122977 flow of creating, building, stretching, and growing withrepparttar 122978 hobby. Get torepparttar 122979 point that when you look up and notice what you've done, that you're impressed with yourself. Practice until you get to that point where you forget to judge yourself. You could very well end up making it into your career if there's a market for it. If there isn't, no harm done. You have got to build a can-do attitude around your ability to do something well.

Once you've learned something that well, you can begin stretching beyond your comfort zone and trying other things like public speaking. Okay so that might not happen right away, but once you've really mastered something, then you can always remind yourself that you are capable of success and you are capable of learning something new. Once you know that you can practice and learn new things, thenrepparttar 122980 fear of new things isn't nearly so immobilizing. You can step beyond your fears knowing that with enough practice you can master almost anything you set your mind to. At that point, you won't actually have a self-esteem problem anymore.

The point is that by playing around with something you love until you are very good at it, you will gain self-esteem and that is going to make it possible for you to hold your head high and to bravely step into other more frightening areas of life. Start out by practicing at something you love until you're good at it, then move on torepparttar 122981 other things that don't sound like much fun at all. You'll really know deep down that there's nothing to be afraid of. It all comes down to whether or not you believe that you are capable of learning something new. That's all. Self-confident people reassure themselves when walking into unknown territory by saying, "Well, I'll just have to wing it until I learn how to do it right. I'm sure I'll figure it out soon enough." That comes from experiencingrepparttar 122982 positive effects of having practiced and learned something new. So go learn something new -- start with something fun.

Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow's Edge

Skye Thomas is the CEO of Tomorrow's Edge, an Internet leader in inspiring leaps of faith. Her books and articles have inspired people of all ages and faiths to recommit themselves to the pursuit of happiness. After years of high heels and business clothes, she is currently enjoying working from home in her pajamas. To read more of her articles, sign up to receive her free weekly newsletter, and get free previews of her books go to http://www.TomorrowsEdge.net.


Success at Work : People Skills : Dealing with New Ideas

Written by Stephen Bucaro


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- Almost all mistakes made by a business arerepparttar result of an employee deciding to do things THEIR WAY rather than followrepparttar 122974 company's procedures. To eliminate mistakes, a company must fully document and vigorously enforce all policies and procedures. Workers must followrepparttar 122975 company's procedures.

Becauserepparttar 122976 workers actually know what's going on inrepparttar 122977 company, they are in a position to produce good ideas. Unfortunately, their ideas are often only ways to make THEIR job easier by shifting their work to another person or department.

If your supervisor/manager asks for your input on a co-worker's idea, don't respond by saying "that won't work" or by criticizingrepparttar 122978 idea. When you criticize a co-worker's idea, you criticizerepparttar 122979 co-worker. You will step onrepparttar 122980 co-workers ego and probably create an enemy. Instead, respond by asking questions aboutrepparttar 122981 idea in a way that implies that you might not fully understandrepparttar 122982 idea. For example, ask "how does that work with (reason whyrepparttar 122983 idea won't work)".

- Ifrepparttar 122984 co-worker's idea won't work, don't be surprised ifrepparttar 122985 manager approves it anyway. There are several reasons why a manager will approve a bad idea. Sometimesrepparttar 122986 manager wants to letrepparttar 122987 worker learn for themself whyrepparttar 122988 idea won't work. Sometimes a bad idea is approved in order to pacifyrepparttar 122989 employee. Sometimes it's becauserepparttar 122990 manager doesn't have a clue how things work in their own department.

- Most ideas start out stupid and eventually die (until some fool brings it up again a year later). But about one percent of ideas receive some study and get modified until they actually work.

Handling Rejection of Your Own Ideas

A good employee is always thinking of ways to improve their job and their company. Bosses like workers who takerepparttar 122991 initiative to solve problems. Companies need allrepparttar 122992 ideas they can get. Butrepparttar 122993 fact remains that statistically 99 percent of all ideas don't work, and that includes YOUR ideas.

When your boss and coworkers point outrepparttar 122994 reasons why your idea won't work, don't feel they are criticizing you personally. They are criticizingrepparttar 122995 IDEA, not YOU. No matter how unworkablerepparttar 122996 idea turns out, you are still to be credited with producingrepparttar 122997 idea.

- If your manager rejects your idea, don't be surprised if later they presentrepparttar 122998 same or a similar idea as their own. In any organization, no matter who takesrepparttar 122999 credit, everyone always knows where an idea really came from. Eventually you will receiverepparttar 123000 recognition you deserve.

Statistically, 99 percent of all ideas don't work. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep thinking of ways to improve your job, your company, and your company's product. It's notrepparttar 123001 GETTING of ideas that's bad, It'srepparttar 123002 implementing of ideas without doingrepparttar 123003 required studies - that's bad. One in a hundred ideas DO work, and occasionally that one idea will generate millions of dollars of savings or revenue forrepparttar 123004 company.

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