There are 60 Traits that when mastered will allow you to have an incredibly strong Personal/Professional Foundation – I have picked 5 of my favorites to share with you. Possessing these will lead to more profit in less time – simply put.

They are in no particular order:

Strengths – Strengths and gifts are those things you do very well and very right. In business we are often told what we do wrong and less of what is done right. We repeatedly focus on ways to strengthen our weaknesses. Instead, try focusing on what you do well, enjoy, and feel proud.

Identify your strengths in several key areas: Professionally, personally, technically, operationally, relationships, communication, planning, skills, and so on.

Never try to strengthen a weakness, instead learn how to delegate it to someone else. For example, if you are really really bad at keeping your desk clean and organized it might be a good idea to pay someone in a support position in your organization to spend 30 minutes each day when you are finished working straightening up.

If you are bad at details but great at the big picture, find someone who can help out with the details.

Tolerations – Tolerations are those things that you put up with from situations, other people or from yourself. Without realizing it, you allow these tolerations in your life so much that they drain energy and focus away from your ability to reach your desired goals.

Steps to becoming toleration free:

• List your tolerations (from situations, people, self)

• Check the ones you want to change immediately.

• Constantly review the list and add new ones.

• Know and understand that keeping tolerations is not helpful.

• Commit to take action to change.

• Make appropriate shifts and changes.

When you are toleration free, you have more energy left over for deal making. Not having to worry about or deal with the things you are tolerating could save you hours a day! This is time left over for money making action steps.

Have Firm Boundaries in Place – Boundaries are an imaginary line of protection that you draw around you. This is done to protect you and what’s important to you. You cannot grow without boundaries. Boundaries are what others CANNOT do to or around you. Boundaries are about other’s actions. Boundaries are what you establish to STOP others from doing certain things. For example, call you on a Sunday no matter what, despite it being a well-known fact that you always spend time with your family.

When a person has healthy boundaries, fear diminishes significantly and trust is rarely an issue. You begin to be surrounded by “healthier” people who have a greater respect for you.

When your boundaries are weak, you attract needy, disrespectful people into your life. They waste way too much of your energy and time and aren’t even enjoyable to be around.

Healthy people have set boundaries, both to protect them from and to attract them to certain people. They help define who you are and are not. Boundaries help qualify. Establish bigger boundaries than you need.

Positive Attitude – Positive people are successful because they have an optimistic attitude. Being optimistic is a habit that you develop about yourself and life in general. You could have a negative attitude, if you prefer, but you need to consider what the outcome would be of having one. If you presently feel more negative than positive, you can change that habit so that you will be more successful.

Positive people are successful because they have a philosophy that allows them to expect good outcomes to occur. Therefore it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think something good will happen, it probably will because you actually make it happen.

Quality Daily Habits – The idea of establishing good daily habits is not new. Successful people constantly look for ways to raise their standards of behavior. Experts say changing a particular behavior takes a strong intentional effort every day for a minimum of 21 days.

List 10 habits you’d like to develop. They can be a nice new habit to replace a habit you know is not good for you. Perhaps, it could be a habit to help you feel better or be healthier or a habit to help you perform better at work. The options are endless.

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