Keep your eyes and mind open...

open mind

noun

1.      a willingness to listen to or accept different ideas or opinions

I know it's different, but try to keep an open mind.

 

Leadership professionals often get promoted because they are good at what they do - their skills and opinions are well honed and known. They’re high performers and high potentials, so opportunities come knocking on their door all the time. They should be confident in their abilities and give each a hard look with an open mind. Each opportunity comes with a separate set of circumstances that need to be reviewed and considered objectively. The biggest mistake you can make is not considering any of them because you don’t like change. I’d worked in manufacturing prior to being considered and ultimately receiving a job offer from a gaming company – lots of people gave so easy to reject such a huge change based solely on my comfort zone. At times like that it’s helpful to do a SWOT analysis on yourself, clarifying your strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities. With that mapped out, it came down to whether I had the courage to take that step – my open mind ultimately said yes. Our lives are filled with opening doorways – timing shuts some, the work itself scuttles others, but saying no should never be because you aren’t open to considering change. Don’t be one of those people that never take a chance: some of life’s greatest successes are often the result of approaching the unknown openly. Keep your eyes and mind open today.

 

E. B. White (#2 of 4 this week): American author who wrote Charlotte’s Web. In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels.