Good to Great...A Matter of Perspective
Are you hard on yourself? Can you tell people the things that you are GREAT at? Do you KNOW the things you are good...no great at?
I have 3 sisters and a brother. My brother Peter Yozzo, was a Division I NCAA wrestling champion for Lehigh College. He competed in Japan, at Madison Square Garden and trained for the Olympics until a knee injury took him out.
My parents would say he was a good wrestler. This tactic of modesty worked very nicely in developing Peter into a very humble man. However, it did skew my perception of "good" and "great".
You see I never won a national championship at anything...so if Peter who actually did win a national championship was "good" at wrestling...then I must not be "good" at anything...and certianly not "great" at anything. The reality was that Peter was a great wrestler (I can almost see him cringe at my stating that so bluntly). It is a proven fact and although it has taken me a large portion of my adult life to discover...I am great at stuff too!
I am a great strategic analyst and a great speaker. It is not arrogance to identify what you are great at, it is just honest.
I can also tell you that I am not so great at shifting gears from CEO of a corporation to mom. It takes some time for me to re-enter either role once I am emerged. I am also pretty bad, actually, at sticking with an exercise routine.
Those are just a few things I know about myself.
So don't be shy about who you are or what gifts you have to share with the world...If you don't know what you are great at...just ask someone who loves or respects you. Once you know, practice saying it out loud...be the confident person you were born to be.
I have 3 sisters and a brother. My brother Peter Yozzo, was a Division I NCAA wrestling champion for Lehigh College. He competed in Japan, at Madison Square Garden and trained for the Olympics until a knee injury took him out.
My parents would say he was a good wrestler. This tactic of modesty worked very nicely in developing Peter into a very humble man. However, it did skew my perception of "good" and "great".
You see I never won a national championship at anything...so if Peter who actually did win a national championship was "good" at wrestling...then I must not be "good" at anything...and certianly not "great" at anything. The reality was that Peter was a great wrestler (I can almost see him cringe at my stating that so bluntly). It is a proven fact and although it has taken me a large portion of my adult life to discover...I am great at stuff too!
I am a great strategic analyst and a great speaker. It is not arrogance to identify what you are great at, it is just honest.
I can also tell you that I am not so great at shifting gears from CEO of a corporation to mom. It takes some time for me to re-enter either role once I am emerged. I am also pretty bad, actually, at sticking with an exercise routine.
Those are just a few things I know about myself.
So don't be shy about who you are or what gifts you have to share with the world...If you don't know what you are great at...just ask someone who loves or respects you. Once you know, practice saying it out loud...be the confident person you were born to be.
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posted by Michelle Yozzo Drake at 6:37 PM
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