5/27/2023 0 Comments First impression quote![]() ![]() And life’s too short not to be fulfilling – as Harvey would be the first to tell you. An exciting professional life is a fulfilled professional life. “Life is this.” “I like this.” ĭon’t settle for the mundane. Be the guy who kept quiet and kept working. Don’t be the guy who’s spent the last 15 years telling everybody how he’d like to start his own company. 4 Robert Cheeke Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression. 3 Harvey Mackay You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist. The difference between “I want…” and “I will…”. You dont get a second chance to make a first impression, says James Uleman, PhD, a psychology professor at New York University and researcher on. It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake. The important thing is you are meritocratic in your judgement you don’t assume somebody to be a safe pair of hands simply because they claim to be. ![]() You can respect someone as a worker but not as a person, say, or vice versa. Never respect someone just because they tell you to: judge them on their own merits. “My respect isn’t demanded, it’s earned.” ![]() How? Through practice, self-belief, and not making excuses. You can’t eliminate chance, but you can certainly attempt to negate it. There’s a famous Gary Player quote: “The more I practice, the luckier I get.” He was talking about golf but the fundamental message – work begets success – rings true across every walk of life. Or, to quote the childhood classic We're Going On A Bear Hunt: "if we can't go over it, and we can't go under it, we'll have to go through it." “I don’t get lucky, I make my own luck” Pride & Prejudice proves that first impressions are not everything - a good opinion once lost can, in fact, be recovered in time. Leverage is only leverage if you allow it to be, and sometimes the best way to take away the opposition's supposed advantage is face it head-on. Sometimes you might find yourself in what appears to be an unwinnable situation. "When you're backed against the wall, break the goddamn thing down." Make your first shot your best shot, and then keep improving. First impression must be accurate because getting into peoples minds and correcting erroneous viewpoint is impossible. Once certain labels stick – “efficient”,“likeable”, “incompetent”, “lazy” – they can be mighty hard to shift. If you shirk responsibility and spill coffee over the computer, maybe not so much. The most obvious example is starting a new job: if you work late and cultivate relationships, you’ll thrive. ‘Behind the eight ball’ is a pool expression, meaning to find yourself in an unfavourable position. You start behind the eight ball, you’ll never get in front.” Ethan isn’t getting sacked tomorrow morning. Jon accused Ethan of making the everyone look bad. Ethan came into the office an hour early every day and ultimately topped leaderboard. Jon blamed his failure to hit target on a depression in the market. Take a sales team experiencing a slow month. What separates the winners from the rest is their willingness to accept responsibility and learn from their mistakes. "Winners don't make excuses when the other side plays the game." ![]()
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