Do you have a favorite? A favorite restaurant, favorite food, favorite drink, favorite TV show or favorite sports team? How about a favorite make of car, vacation spot, airline, hotel or coffee shop? Do you have a favorite friend, co-worker or boss?
Everyone has a favorite something. Some parents even have a favorite child - even though the right answer is "I love all of you equally."
But now here's the interesting question: are you anyone else's favorite? Are you the coffee shop's favorite customer? Are you your doctor's favorite patient? Are you your waitress's favorite customer? How about at work? Are you your boss's favorite employee or your customers' favorite representative?
If you're not a favorite, you'll never achieve great success. It just can't be done. You can't rise to the top in people's minds by sitting in the middle of the pack. The middle of the pack is for the mediocre.
Are you OK sliding through life just being ordinary? No one picks "ordinary" as their favorite. You find life changes when you stop being ordinary and start finding your Greatness. Greatness is where you find your favorites.
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Attitude w/ ATTITUDE by Kevin Burns - Corporate Attitude/Culture Strategist
Creator of the 90-Day Strategy to Greatness Culture
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1 comment:
Children don't want to be loved "equally" either...they want to be loved "uniquely". I say to my sons frequently "you're my favourite Cameron in the whole wide world" or "you're my favourite Carter in the whole universe". They love it, especially when I say something specific about what I'm so proud of. And then of course they both say "I'm their favourite Mommy in the whole world"! When we stop being ordinary in parenting and help them to find their greatness their confidence really blossoms.
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