Sunday, October 11, 2009

Show of confidence

President Obama said Friday he was "most surprised and deeply humbled" to win the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, adding that he accepts the honor as "a call to action to confront the common challenges of the 21st century."

If there was a Nobel prize for confidence, there would be a lot of sales leaders running for it. Zain Puteh, one of my guru told me before: "I have never met a sales person who has built a business who has not got a big ego." Truly, I believe, if you can't build your own brand, how can you build brands for people who pay you for it?

Confidence is thinking about what is possible and how to make it possible. Of course, we might be misunderstood for being arrogant. Arrogance, to me, is thinking we are better than other people in general. Confidence has nothing to do with a comparison of ourselves to others.

The only secret is (as Jude in the movie "Across the Universe puts it): It's not what you do; it's how you do it.

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