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Five Positive Traits to Enhance Flexibility
| Guest post by: Kris De Leon |
Article Overview: Flexibility is often cited as one of the most important traits of every successful entrepreneur and leader. It is the ability to adapt your behavior to treat others the way they want to be treated. If you want to become more flexible in your way of interacting with others, cultivate the following 5 positive traits.
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Five Positive Traits to Enhance Flexibility
Flexibility is often cited as one of the most important
traits of every successful entrepreneur and leader. It is the ability to adapt
your behavior to treat others the way they want to be treated. If you want to
become more flexible in your way of interacting with others, cultivate the
following 5 positive traits.
Confidence – It means having belief in yourself and trusting
your own judgement and resourcefulness. Having confidence in specific
situations would flow from your ability to meet life’s challenges. A person who
exhibits confidence appreciates a sincere compliment, and is able to handle
criticism. Confidence is something that gets built up over time, and this stems
from your history of both large and small victories and accomplishments. This
helps you handle yourself well in any situation. It’s easy to get someone’s
attention with confidence. However, it’s hard to be flexible when you’re
fearful or easily intimidated.
Tolerance – A person is tolerant when he is open to
accepting opinions and practices different from his own, while an intolerant
person doesn’t get attention from a diverse audience. Tolerance is developed
from an early age, and this is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give to a
child. Holding negative attitudes towards certain people prevents flexibility.
With tolerance, however, people who may initially disagree will start to listen
to one another and open dialogue. This opens up creativity and coming up with
solutions to problems.
Empathy – A person with empathy will feel the pain or joy in
the other person. Some people may confuse it with sympathy, which means
acknowledging the feelings of someone else. Sympathy results in kindness and
pity. Empathy, however, is a term for a deeper feeling, where you can put
yourself in someone else’s shoes. You can’t feel the pain or joy of another
person until you are able to feel the same thing in yourself. Do you
acknowledge your own pain? Can you feel your own joy? Real empathy lies in
simply finding the same place within yourself that the other person is
experiencing. The willingness to be flexible can be easy when you can put
yourself in someone else’s shoes.
Being positive – This allows you to maintain a state of
positive expectations about people and situations, including a positive state
of energy in your thoughts and emotional patterns. The attitudes we hold shape
our experience and come from deep within you. This is built on having a
positive life philosophy, knowing your strengths, and surrounding yourself with
other positive people. This gives you a sense of purpose and can get you
through the tough times. Avoid people who tend towards negative traits, as they
often drain you. By maintaining positive energy, you will develop the other
three traits of empathy, tolerance, and confidence, and people will start being
drawn to you.
Respect for others – We’ve all heard the golden rule of “do
unto others, as you would have them do unto you.” Treat people the way they
want and need to be treated. Having a respect for others is not only a moral
imperative, but also necessary for survival. It’s easy to become flexible when you respect others.
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