toolkit for success (tools 1&2)

A Toolkitfor Success

Tool #1: Master Craftswoman

• Education/Expertise/Experience• Apprentices Others• Categories• Mentors• Coaches• Advocates/Sponsors

Tips for Tool #1

• Establish relationships with all types of mentors/coaches/advocates to further your own growth• Focus on broadening your network by connecting with

people from various functions and levels• Remember: People like to help others. People like to be

needed and valued.

Tool #1: Activity

• Identify several people who could be master craftsmen & women • Who are experts at what they do?• Who has the job you want?

• Identify the various roles these people can play in your life.• Create action plan to connect with them in

mentor/coach capacity• Implement

Tool #2: Positive Attitude

• Can vs. Can’t• Muscle Test – Volunteer Needed!

• Be present. Mentally & Physically• Personal beliefs about self and its impact on self

"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." --Merle Miller 

Question Time

What is YOUR biggest limitation right now?

Tool #2 Activity 1

•List 5-10 positive affirmations about yourself• 1.• 2.• 3.• 4.• 5.

Attitude

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are." Norman Vincent Peale 

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." Denis Waitley 

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz 

Tool #2: Positive Attitude

• Be professional.• Be positive.• Be yourself.

Tool #2 Activity

• Identify 5 ways to adjust your attitude.• What are uplifting, feel-good activities you enjoy doing

that will improve your mindset?

• "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect It's successful outcome."-William James 

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."- Martha Washington