In the first part of our Positive Attitude Series, Gavin Spencer talks about the importance of a positive attitude both in work and in life.
Inspiration comes from many places, people or events in someone’s life. A couple of weeks ago I found it in a set of cufflinks!
“Cufflinks!”, I hear you say. “Evidently Gavin is experiencing a severe case of the Monday morning blues after a particularly heavy weekend”. Let me elaborate.
My cufflinks (TM Lewin’s finest I’m assured!) read ‘Hot’ on one & ‘Cold’ on the other. Up until now I’d never paid too much attention to them. Not particularly expensive. Functionally, they tick all the boxes in terms of holding my shirt cuffs tight. Perhaps eye catching without being overly ostentatious, because let’s face it no one wants to be the guy with the ridiculous sparkly cuffs now do they!
But for some reason, the Hot and Cold caught my eye on a Monday morning some weeks ago.
Hot or Cold? Positive or negative? A smile or a frown? High energy or hide behind the desk?
In a people centric environment such as ours, your attitude and general demeanour is more important than anything else and that version of yourself that you choose to bring to work is exactly that: A CHOICE.
Every morning when I get up to drive through rush hour traffic to work, I make a choice as to what version of myself will go into the office – I may not get it right every time and for those times that I don’t I need that reminder…..my cuffs!
The Hot cufflink now sits on my left arm next to my watch as it’s the one I see the most on a daily basis. It’s a constant reminder to me that regardless of when I’m up the walls or stressed or insert whatever other bullshit excuse you use to justify your attitude slipping here that I should always revert to bringing the best version of myself to the table.
The best version of yourself is more than likely the reason you are in the job you are in. Successful business people not only bring the best version of themselves to the party but also surround themselves with similar people with similar positive attitudes to work and/or life.
The ‘You’ that gets up and goes into work every day is a choice. A positive attitude is a choice. Choose often and choose wisely!
And if TM Lewin could see themselves to sending me a second ‘Hot’ cufflink that’d be fine also!
Gavin is Account Director New Business at FMI.
Gavin Spencer @TheGavinSpencer
gavin.spencer@fmi.ie
In the first part of our Positive Attitude Series, Gavin Spencer talks about the importance of a positive attitude both in work and in life.
Inspiration comes from many places, people or events in someone’s life. A couple of weeks ago I found it in a set of cufflinks!
“Cufflinks!”, I hear you say. “Evidently Gavin is experiencing a severe case of the Monday morning blues after a particularly heavy weekend”. Let me elaborate.
My cufflinks (TM Lewin’s finest I’m assured!) read ‘Hot’ on one & ‘Cold’ on the other. Up until now I’d never paid too much attention to them. Not particularly expensive. Functionally, they tick all the boxes in terms of holding my shirt cuffs tight. Perhaps eye catching without being overly ostentatious, because let’s face it no one wants to be the guy with the ridiculous sparkly cuffs now do they!
But for some reason, the Hot and Cold caught my eye on a Monday morning some weeks ago.
Hot or Cold? Positive or negative? A smile or a frown? High energy or hide behind the desk?
In a people centric environment such as ours, your attitude and general demeanour is more important than anything else and that version of yourself that you choose to bring to work is exactly that: A CHOICE.
Every morning when I get up to drive through rush hour traffic to work, I make a choice as to what version of myself will go into the office – I may not get it right every time and for those times that I don’t I need that reminder…..my cuffs!
The Hot cufflink now sits on my left arm next to my watch as it’s the one I see the most on a daily basis. It’s a constant reminder to me that regardless of when I’m up the walls or stressed or insert whatever other bullshit excuse you use to justify your attitude slipping here that I should always revert to bringing the best version of myself to the table.
The best version of yourself is more than likely the reason you are in the job you are in. Successful business people not only bring the best version of themselves to the party but also surround themselves with similar people with similar positive attitudes to work and/or life.
The ‘You’ that gets up and goes into work every day is a choice. A positive attitude is a choice. Choose often and choose wisely!
And if TM Lewin could see themselves to sending me a second ‘Hot’ cufflink that’d be fine also!
Gavin is Account Director New Business at FMI.
Gavin Spencer @TheGavinSpencer
gavin.spencer@fmi.ie
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