Right Thinking Requires Right Actions...

Prioritizing Requires Right Thinking – Curt Tueffert


Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions, repeated, build habits. Your habits, assembled, become your character. Your character determines the results you achieve in your life.

This month, I would like to place a challenge before you. As you read the statement above, ask yourself how this applies to your job, your professional development, and your personal philosophy.

Your thoughts determine your actions: What are you thinking during the course of the day? What “self talk” are you feeding your mind? Are you beating yourself up or building yourself up? You see, it all starts in your mind. What thoughts you generate will eventually result in actions you take. If your thoughts about customers are positive, your actions will reflect the positive impact customer have on you. If your thoughts are negative, customers are more of a burden and pain. That will impact your actions, both at your job and how you professionally develop.

Your actions, repeated, build habits. We want to build positive habits, yet we have to go back to what actions you are taking to build those habits. The habit of professional and personal development can be tied back to the actions you are taking (or not taking) to develop the habits. Are you reading the right books, networking with the right people, attending the right seminars, listening to the right CD’s. If so, these actions…REPEATED…will develop positive habits. If not, your habits will tend to be marginalized and dull. I am training for a half triathlon relay. I am doing the swim portion, 1.2 miles. My actions of repeated swimming, build habits of swimming 3x per week, extending the length of the swim and the technique. My actions build my habits.

Your habits, assembled, become your character. Take all your positive and negative habits and bunch them up; they become your character. What is your character like at your job, in your professional development and in your personal philosophy? Are you a man or woman of high character? It is never too late to build a strong and positive character, just change your thoughts, create new actions, and they will build positive habits. Character is who you are when nobody is looking. Bring your good character to your job every day and you can change the way you impact your peers, your customers, and your world.

Your character determines the results you achieve in your life. Results are what we demand from each of our employees. Why, because our customers demand it. Why? Because the marketplace demands it. In your professional and personal life, you demand results. These can be positive, negative, or neutral. Bottom line, life is a results driven experience. I believe we can have more positive results based on the foundation of a strong character of honesty, integrity, and fairness.

We all have choices. We al have options. I choose to have positive thoughts which will result in powerful actions, which will built healthy habits, which will strengthen my character so that I continue to produce results. How about you?