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Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

If you want to be successful, how you show up to life matters.

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You Need To Gauge, To Engage.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

There are few things more important than being prepared—for an interview, an important meeting, selling your home, a new baby—the list goes on.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Even if what you’re preparing for does not happen, your efforts aren’t for naught. With preparation comes knowledge of each situation, as well as the confidence to handle every new encounter with more grace and ease than the time before.

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Without proper readiness, we’re subject to a 'flub,' or a costly mistake which might have been easily prevented with some simple homework beforehand. Failing to do so deteriorates credibility and reputation, leaving us vulnerable to an unfavorable impression.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Discover an interest, a passion, a preference or need your client has, and take the time to give them some small item related to it. By making the extra effort to learn about the person and their business, you become very appealing and much more memorable.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Living in the age of the Internet and being a part of the information generation, we have unlimited access to an unprecedented wealth of knowledge and learning. We have no excuse to show up to an appointment, a sales call, a date, or an important meeting without learning everything we can to tip the odds in our favor.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Knowledge imparts a sense of authority. It will help you stand out and give you an edge over your competition.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Being prepared and sharing your knowledge earns the confidence of those who are interviewing you, depend on your expertise, or seek you out for solutions, answers, or presentations.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Give yourself and others the gift of your brilliance to deliver a more compelling and memorable presentation.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Homework doesn’t end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Doing your homework and being well prepared for appointments is one of the most powerful ways to set yourself apart from your competition to gain and retain new clients.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

If there is someone whom you would really like to impress, learn as much as you can to be informed, enlightened, and aware of them before you meet.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

By performing a simple Google search, a website review, a visit to their LinkedIn profile, or a media release search on the person you are about to meet, you can find out where they’ve been, what they care about, and where they’re going. Whether you learn an interesting fact about a hobby they enjoy, the breed of their dog, or something you both have in common, it will show that you took the time to research and that you care about them as a person.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Whether you are staying in someone’s home as a house guest, attending a dinner party, or visiting a sick friend, when you bring a “hostess gift” or a thoughtful token, you are providing a gesture of kindness which will extend far beyond your visit.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Doing your research ahead of time shows that you care about your client and your reputation. Referencing this information will better enable you to ask relevant questions and link their answers to your product or service to create a win-win situation.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Emotionally intelligent people have the capacity to understand and express their own emotions—you are in touch with your strengths and weaknesses and realize where you might like to make improvements”.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will stimulate creative thinking and constructive problem-solving.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will elevate your energy and invigorate your tasks.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and self-esteem.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Share your happiness with others—its contagious!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will empower you to be more resilient to proactively adapt to change.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

When adversity hits, reframe the challenge and find lessons learned; acknowledge gifts that have come from the pain.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Stretch your imagination to a new dimension with hope and flexibility—opening your world to new possibilities.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Smile generously at others and you may find that their smiles are returned right back to you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Don’t participate or allow yourself to be dragged into other people’s dramas, complaints, or gossip.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Become a lifelong learner. Read books, watch videos, listen to audio, and seek lessons for learning how to live your best life now.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Take a moral inventory of ways you may be self-sabotaging and then take proactive steps to change them.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Be a source of positive energy and inspiration for others.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to see the best in others, situations, and experiences.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will help you be more inspiring and motivating to others.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Celebrate the success of others and they will be happy to see you succeed.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Be mindful of the words in your mind and in your mouth. Choose to use an affirming and positive vocabulary because your actions and outcomes will follow suit.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Remember that your attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward you. At any moment, you can choose to change everything for the better.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Exercise and get moving to pump up your endorphins and elevate your mood. Take an adult recess.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Wake up early, do your best, practice self-care, and finish strong.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

You are the only one who can choose your attitude for you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact is based on the premise that when you become self-aware and learn how to shine bright as your best self, you can transform your relationships in life and in business.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Absolutely everything associated with your success is relationship based and emotionally connected. Developing your emotional intelligence is one of the wisest action you can take for personal and professional transformation.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Developing your emotional intelligence will allow you to explore new depths of understanding in yourself and others.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Emotional intelligence will give you insight as to why people behave as they do and assist you in areas which you may wish to improve.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

All the elements of greater emotional awareness can weave together to ensure you make a more positive impact.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Emotional intelligence marks one’s ability to perceive, understand, control, and evaluate his or her emotions.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Haven’t you known people who seem to have a “sixth sense” super-power when it comes to connecting, communicating, and understanding others? These emotionally intelligent people always know the right things to say to make us feel that we matter.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Create and nurture a mindset that works for you rather than against you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be optimistic rather than pessimistic— forgiving rather than a grudge holder.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be a possibility thinker rather than an impossibility thinker.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be happy rather than downhearted or miserable—hopeful rather than resigned and doubtful.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be pleased and accepting rather than angry and resistant.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be a proactive participant rather than a passive procrastinator.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Strive to be active rather than lethargic—determined rather than wavering or lazy.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

When you make a deliberate effort to keep your thoughts positive, and authentically feel that way, more positive outcomes are inevitable.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your mindset buffet is filled with possibilities that can feed your heart, mind, and soul if you will simply serve yourself and go for it! Choose wisely, my friends, choose wisely.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations filter how you see everything in your world—and here is the clincher—you get to choose!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

You wear your attitude. It is highly visible to every person you meet and shows up in the way act, live, and love.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your attitude is the outward expression of your internal perceptions, self-esteem, and current thoughts.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Mindset and attitude are so tightly intertwined they almost mean the same thing!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your attitude is the one thing in this world you have complete control over. You have full command. As empowering as that truth can be, there are some days we let down and give in to a bad attitude.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

When you wake each day, it is your choice if you are going to use your attitude to your advantage or allow it to work against you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

If you want to fly high and go amazing places, your attitude is crucial.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Put yourself in the driver seat by designing the best attitude possible to help you get where you need and want to go.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Throughout my life, I have been blessed with a positive and resilient attitude. I grew up with an alcoholic father and he tested my disposition in more ways than you might imagine. Knowing I couldn't depend on him for positive reinforcement, I clung to my positive attitude like a life preserver to give me the strength for positivity and self-reliance. Otherwise, I would have sunk into the depths of low self-esteem and worthlessness. A positive attitude was my saving grace and it became a habit b

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

At times, maintaining a positive attitude and outlook takes great risk, courage, toughness, and flexibility. It is not easy to stay positive in a cynical and negative world.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Remain vigilant and try diligently not to succumb to the soul-sucking, mind-numbing, ill-mannered attitudes that seem so prevalent in the world today.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

I have known many people who have been incredibly successful in life. It was not necessarily because they had immense talent, brilliance, an expensive education, or exemplary skills. It was because they had an extraordinary attitude to take on life with love, passion, conviction, consistency, and hard work. What they all had in common was getting their minds right and becoming positive thinkers—which activated their potential to achieve remarkable things and build strong relationships.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Developing a positive attitude is one of the most transformational things you can do to shift your mindset, improve your disposition, manifest good things, and attract quality people into your life.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

The benefits you will enjoy with a positive attitude have a multiplier effect and exponentially impact your personal well-being.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude will not only make you more fun to be around, but it will bring more happiness and joy both into your life and the lives of those around you.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Surround yourself with positive people who ignite your energy and spirit.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Believe in your power to make happiness a choice—do so every day, until it becomes a lifelong habit.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

A positive attitude feels a heck of a lot better than a negative one.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Learn to leverage the Law of Cause and Effect to your advantage in positive ways!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don’t have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Would you like to feel a calm confidence when you walk into a room full of strangers, knowing that you can start new a conversation with anyone?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement—it is the underpinning!

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life’s experience.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Your internal thoughts determine your outer world.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

One would think that if people truly wanted to live incredible lives, they would do everything in their power to create a mindset which helped them get there. Right?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

More people continue to be and do exactly the things in life that prevent them from getting what they want or from waking up excited about their day.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Since your mindset can make you or break you, how is it going? Is it representing you well or does it need a complete overhaul?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

If you do nothing, you’ll have nothing. If you do something spectacular, you will have something spectacular.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

Do you yearn for loving, loyal relationships? Be that for others

Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

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Susan C. Young - The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact

If you want to enjoy confidence, engagement, positive feedback, connection, and reward in your relationships, start being and doing what it takes to make it happen.

Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People

Many people begin their criticism with sincere praise followed by the word "but", which signals that the criticism is about to begin. This may make the listener questions the sincerity of the praise. Use "and" instead, and provide constructive advice rather than criticism. this is possibly the most effective ways to address an issue in written form without seeming false in your praise.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact

Is chemistry a biological reaction which supports the propagation of our species? Or is it simply about being excited to find someone with mutually shared values, passions, interests, or experiences? Or is it because you have the same energy, vibrate at the same frequency, or share the same attitude? Regardless of how it happens, a robust and healthy chemistry is always a nice surprise and something to be celebrated.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact

We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don’t we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact

Bringing a great attitude with positive energy is one of the best strategies you can have for your personal and professional success. Matching our energy with another person’s will help us build rapport and relationships more easily.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact

We are all wired with a natural propensity to learn, grow, and expand. Think of the positive things that make you happy, bring you joy, deepen your understanding, and make you feel wonderful. These things enlarge and grow with positive energy, don’t they? The opposite is true as well; negative things make us feel stressed, sad, angry, or overwhelmed. They leave us feeling depleted and contracted.

Susan C. Young - The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact

ASK YOURSELF: Who are the people you are drawn to who bring out the best in you? How do they make you feel? Is your positive energy doing the same thing for others?

Susan C. Young - The Art of Body Language: 8 Ways to Optimize Non-Verbal Communication for Positive Impact

Upbeat people make us feel appreciated, important, and fantastic. These are the folks who expand and warm us with their positive energy.

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