If you want to become a better speaker, read a book, take a course or join a group to help you become a more confident, comfortable and powerful presenter.  If you want to become a better writer, again take a course or write articles for a website or magazine on the subjects you enjoy writing about.  If you don’t want to go that far, just start paying more attention to your everyday writing in e-mails, memos, reports, etc.   Ask someone to review some of your written materials and provide you with feedback.

All too often we accept the “I wish I was a better” statement as meaning I will never be better at that skill and that is just not true.   You have the ability to be better at most skills if you decide you want to.

No more wishing or hoping about improving your skills, start intending to and do so!

Remember, it’s up to you to take your career wherever you want to take it!

Have you found yourself saying “I wish I was a better….” in your career lately?

Anthony Fasano, P.E., LEED AP, CPESC, CPSWQ, CPC

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Is it money, family, the type of job you have or the people you work with?  What inspires you each day to get up and go through your day?  What inspires you to be the absolute best you can be at work and advance your career as rapidly as you can?

Please don’t answer “I have to.”  That’s the easy answer.  Sure we all have bills we have to pay and we have to survive, but why do some people “survive and thrive” and others “survive to get by?”

Please comment on how you continue to inspire yourself each day, especially with some of the challenges this economy has brought to our companies and our careers?

Anthony Fasano, P.E., LEED AP, CPESC, CPSWQ, CPC

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