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5 Ways to Positively Win an Oscar at Work

Topic: LeadershipBy Dr. Joey FaucettePublished Recently added

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How do you walk the red carpet at work and up onto stage to accept the Academy Award for increasing sales with greater productivity so you get out of the office earlier?

Here are 5 Ways to Positively Win an Oscar at Work:

Focus on the Partr
As talented as you are, you have one part to play. Focus on that part and make it your role despite the distractions of a large cast of customers and teammates. Repeat the positive lines of success over and over until you get them right. Filter out the negative experiences.

This is the Perceive or mental core practice of your Work Positive lifestyle performance.

Friend an All-Star Castr
You act with others on the stage of your work. You support at times and are supported at others. The production is more than a monologue.

Surround yourself with positive people as team members. Remove the Eeyore Vampires—negative people—as swiftly and decisively as possible. They destroy morale. Productivity follows morale. Profits follow productivity. When profits evaporate, the red carpet fades to pink and then to nothing.

This is the Conceive or relational core practice of your Work Positive lifestyle performance.

Find the Characterr
Believe you are the role you play. Live into it. Know that you were born to play this role. Think of it as your unique contribution to make to the world.

This is the Believe or emotional core practice of your Work Positive lifestyle performance.

Fixate on the Performancer
Set a goal based on your metrics that spell Academy Award.

Daily see yourself walking the red carpet at work, up onto stage, and accepting the Oscar for increasing sales with greater productivity while getting out of the office earlier to do what you love with family and friends.

Then do the long hours of daily filming that leads you to completing your dream.

This is the Achieve or physical core practice of your Work Positive lifestyle performance.

Finish with “Thank You!”
Be a gracious winner. Say “thank you” to the many players involved in your achievement—the customers and clients who bought tickets and voted for you, your fellow cast/team members, the screen writer, director, and producer aka your suppliers. They all contributed to your success.

And be sure to thank your Mom!

This is the Receive or ethical core practice of your Work Positive lifestyle performance.

Go win your Oscar today as you Perceive, Conceive, Believe, Achieve, and Receive your Work Positive lifestyle performance!

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About the Author

Dr. Joey Faucette is the #1 Amazon best-selling author of Work Positive in a Negative World (Entrepreneur Press), Work Positive coach, & speaker who helps business professionals increase sales with greater productivity so they leave the office earlier to do what they love with those they love. Discover more at www.ListentoLife.org.

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