PREPARE To Be Your Personal Best!

Whether it's regarding your personal life, or a professional or organizational activity, it is important to realize, anything of importance, requires quality planning and preparation. Let's look at the mnemonic approach, to best PREPARE, to be your personal best!

1. Planning; perceptions: We each have certain perceptions about ourselves, and others we come into contact with! What we perceive and conceive, we can achieve! Will you dedicate yourself, in everything you do, and all aspects of your life, to learn the key components of professional, quality, effective planning?

2. Relevant: Don't sweat the petty stuff, but don't overlook the possibilities and alternatives! Know what's relevant and differentiate it, from what is relatively less significant or important!

3. Excellence: Expect the very best from yourself, and never settle for good - enough or mediocre. Be the best you can be, by demanding personal excellence, in everything you do!

4. Possibilities: Differentiate possible from probable, but try to consider the possibilities, in order to best prepare!

5. Attitude; attention: Proceed with a can - do, positive attitude, and pay particular attention to details, possibilities and alternatives! How much attention to detail, are you willing to commit to?

6. Reliable; reasonable; reasoning: Are your ideas reasonable, and have you dedicated your energies to enhance your reasoning? How reliable are you, both in your eyes, as well as how others perceive you?

7. Empathy: Will you listen effectively, and devote yourself to learning as much about others, as possible? Speak less, and listen more! Using empathy makes you the best you can be!

Don't assume, but PREPARE to become your personal best! Focus, prepare and do what you need to do!