The Pygmalion Effect is where an individualโ€™s performance is influenced by othersโ€™ expectations. In other words, higher expectations lead to higher performance. However, the Pygmalion effect specifically refers to how our expectations of others affect our behavior towards them. In turn, this can contribute to higher performance.

Our expectations can influence how we treat people, which can influence their own expectations of themselves.

Low expectations can mean we treat people differently to those with high expectations.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is created. Low expectations create a negative environment that creates low performance. Whilst high expectations create a positive and encouraging environment that creates high performance.

Could this mean that our expectations of ourselves or low expectations of ourselves is why we limit our effort. Why we don't truly become our Optimal Self?

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Investor Graham Duncan on how to excel:

"[Tennis champion] Novak Djokovic said in an interview with the Financial Times that "I can carry on playing at this level because I like hitting the tennis ball." The interviewer replied in surprise: "Are there really players who don't like hitting the ball?" Djokovic answered, "Oh yes. There are people out there who don't have the right motivation. You don't need to talk to them. I can see it."

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If you can find the thing you do for its own sake, the compulsive piece of your process, and dial that up and up, beyond the imaginary ceiling for that activity you may be creating, my experience is the world comes to you for that thing and you massively outperform the others who don't actually like hitting that particular ball. I think the rest of career advice is commentary on this essential truth."

This is the ticket out of your current state. Most sit and complain about their circumstance, job, life. Instead take pride in everything you do, from how your make your bed, to how you do the mundane tasks at work.

Author James Clear "Atomic Habits" "You can usually accomplish more by giving something your full effort for a few years rather than giving it a lukewarm effort for fifty years.

Pick a priority for this season of your life and do it to the best of your ability.

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Having success is not about your education, your sophistication, what your know or your understanding. You can master all the technical sides.

Success is about how you behave.

Behavior has nothing to do with intelligence as your typically taught!

You know right from wrong. It's influenced by what you consume, who you're around, your environment.

Poor decisions are reflection of Lack of Clarity.

When you get clear on who you are, DECISIONS become EASY!

Train Clarity like a muscle. Build it, Say it Live it, EVERYDAY!

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Stephen Barth- Professor of Hospitality Law and Leadership โ€“ Attorney - Founder of HospitalityLawyer.com - Member of the National Speakerโ€™s Association

Author of Hospitality Law and coauthor of Restaurant Law Basics, is an attorney, the founder of HospitalityLawyer.com, the annual Hospitality Law Conference series, and the Global Travel Risk Summit Series.  As a professor at the Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, University of Houston, he teaches courses in hospitality law and leadership. In addition to legal and risk management insight, Stephen specializes in communicating the importance of Emotional Intelligence in leadership roles;  and has provided valuable insight to many companies including The Methodist Hospital System, Wyndham Worldwide, Dine Equity, Business Travel News and Aramark. His fun, fast paced presentations provide practical information and solutions to enhance your personal and professional life.

Social Media Sharable Quotes:

- โ€œItโ€™s never how far you fall, but how high you bounce!โ€ โ€“ Stephen Barth

- โ€œYou are not going to teach someone how to drive while driving down the I5โ€ โ€“ Stephen Barth on Emotional Intelligence

- โ€œYou need to set your intentions, and not be reactionary to outside noise.โ€- Jeremy

- โ€œIf you want to change your life, you just need to change your habitsโ€ โ€“ Stephen Barth

- โ€œWe fix everything in our lifeโ€ฆ car, house, bodies, diet, but we often miss fixing our โ€œbrainโ€ or mental strength. โ€“ Stephen Barth

- Most of the things we tell ourselves, we would never tell a loved one. - Jeremy

Show Notes:

- Intro

- Stephen Barth quick background

- Jumping right into Emotional Intelligence in 2021

- Be intentional with YOUR life, week, day!

- Stop being reactionaryโ€ฆ aka a control freak! Being reactionary is a virus of the brain.

- How to change from being reactive to proactiveโ€ฆ

- Making choices and accepting responsibility for those choices

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All success is built off of one factor: The Ability and Willingness to LEARN.

The importance of learning is that it helps the individual to acquire the necessary skills through learning and knowledge so that he can achieve his set goals.

Learning is an indispensable tool that nourishes our minds and soothes our soul. It is a necessity for both personal and professional career as it makes us capable of understanding and handling things in a better way in life.

Here are Five Steps to Accelerate your Success

P.O.W.E.R:

P - Prepare. The first step to ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ is preparation. Before getting started on any task, preparation is necessary. The most critical facet of preparation is setting goals.

O - Organize. The goals set during the preparation step cannot be accomplished without organization and prioritization.

W - Work. Once you prepare and set the goal you must take action, you must work the plan.

E - Evaluate. Evaluate leads you to compare your work with the goals you originally set. You need to understand that completed work is not finished until you have evaluated it. All too often people do not recognize the importance of evaluating their work and often fail to revise their work, which can lead to lower performance.

R - Rethink. Rethink consists of bringing a new perspective to what has already been accomplished. In contrast to evaluate, which involves considering whether the initial goals have been achieved, rethinking consists of a reconsideration of the process that has been used to achieve the goals.

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On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt gave what would become one of the most widely quoted speeches of his career.

"The Man in the Arena."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "

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Willpower definition is - the ability to control one's own actions, emotions, or urges; also : strong determination that allows one to do something difficult.

Willpower lessons as our energy lessons, as fatigue sets in.

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all"

-You must take decision making out of the process

-You do so by preperation, preperation/intention is the key

-Prepare everything you can before

"We don't rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our habits"

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The moment you take ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† for EVERYTHING in your life is the moment you UNLOCK YOUR POWER to have ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด in you life.

Three tips to apply so you can UNLOCK YOUR POWER

1. ๐—˜๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป - Repetition is the single most powerful lever we have to improve our skills. We tend to think of it as boring, but when used diligently it is the mechanism for making the wires of our brains faster. Instead of viewing it as a chore, view it as your most powerful tool.

2. Keep a White-Belt Mentality - Another way to say this it to have a Blue-Collar Mindset. High Achievers and Top Performers seem to have it easy, but when you look closer you will see that most of their life has been spent intensely practicing their craft. For more on this check out Podcast #206 "The Genius of Kobe Bryant"

3. Stop Trying To Break Bad Habits, Create New Ones - Breaking habits doesn't work, they are usually wired so deep and just waiting to be triggered. Instead, spend your energy creating new habits that can override the old one and be your new response to the trigger. Start small, start simple, be consistent and watch how the positive conditioning increase your confidence and compounds into a better life.

The Best Version of You is one small daily habit away!!

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What's the one thing that has had the biggest impact on your growth?

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