Authenticity, Personal Branding and Success

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Positive personal impact is an important key to personal and professional success. If you want to create positive personal impact you need to do three things. First, develop, nurture and constantly promote your unique personal brand. Second, be impeccable in your presentation of self - in person and on line. Third, know and follow the basic rules of etiquette.

Mike Robbins has a new book out, "Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken." Great title -- and really true. As you might expect, it's all about authenticity. Personal brands are all about authenticity. So the advice in Mike's book is great if you're trying to create positive personal impact - and you should be if you want to succeed.

Here are five principles for becoming authentic...

1. Know Yourself

2. Transform Your Fear

3. Express Yourself

4. Be Bold

5. Celebrate Who You Are

Here are some of Mike's ideas on each of these principles.

You can get to know yourself by...

Simply paying attention - to what you do and say and how you react to different stimuli.

Learning about yourself and your personality - use a commercially available personality assessment tool like the DISC, MBTI, Strengths Finder. I am an MBTI expert. I can help you better understand yourself by using this tool. Send me an email if you're interested.

Appreciating your strengths - when I was young, words and writing came easily, math and science was difficult. It took me a while to realize that I would do better in life if I entered a profession where I could use my natural talent with words.

Here are some other things you need to consider...

• Have compassion for your weaknesses

• Accept yourself

• Get feedback

When it comes to fear, you need to:

• Know it

• Appreciate it

• Admit it

• Own it

• Feel it

• Express it

• Let go of it

• Take action

Great common sense advice. I have often said that fear is the enemy of self confidence. Fear is also the enemy of authenticity and your personal brand.

But what about conflict? Conflict scares a lot of people. It can be damaging to relationships. I have one bit of advice on resolving conflict that I offer over and over.

When you are in conflict with another person, work hard to find some point of agreement, however small. Use this point of agreement to help the two of you build a creatively solution to your disagreement.

This is a great way to express yourself positively in a conflict situation.

The Dictionary.com definition for the word "bold" is...

"Not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring."

There are five keys to being bold in life...

1. Be true to yourself.

2. Live with passion.

3. Step out.

4. Lean on others.

5. Get up when you fall down.

Finally, when it comes to celebrating who you are, you need to...

• Make peace with yourself, you're OK just as you are.

• Forgive yourself - and others.

• Appreciate yourself.

• Honor yourself.

• Own your personal greatness.

• Love yourself

The common sense point here is simple. Successful people stand out by creating positive personal impact. You can begin to create positive personal impact by developing, nurturing and constantly living your unique personal brand. While your personal brand should be uniquely you, it should be based on authenticity and integrity. Mike Robbins' great book, "Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken" is a treasure trove of advice on authenticity. You can't go wrong with Mike's common sense advice. Pick it up, read it and more important, use the valuable advice inside.

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Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, is an executive coach, motivational speaker, author and blogger. He is the Official Executive Coaching Guide at SelfGrowth.com. He helps his coaching clients succeed by applying their common sense. Dr. Bilanich is Harvard educated but has a no nonsense approach to his work to goes back to his roots in the steel country of Western Pennsylvania. His approach to career and life success is a result of over 35 years of business experience, 10 years of research and study of successful people and the application of common sense. He is the author of seven books, including Straight Talk for Success: Common Sense Ideas That Won’t Let You Down, where he presents his blueprint for career and life success: • Develop your self confidence. • Create positive personal impact. • Become an outstanding performer. • Become a dynamic communicator. • Become interpersonally competent. His clients include Pfizer, Glaxo SmithKline, Johnson and Johnson, Abbot Laboratories, PepsiCo, AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citigroup, General Motors, UBS, AXA Advisors, Cabot Corporation, The Aetna, PECO Energy, Olin Corporation, Minerals Technologies, The Boys and Girls Clubs of America and a number of small and family owned businesses. Bud is a cancer survivor and lives in Denver Colorado with his wife Cathy. He is a retired rugby player and an avid cyclist. He likes movies, live theatre and crime fiction.
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