![]() Plus, the kind of self-absorbed self-talk needed to maintain this kind of motivational razzle-dazzle isn’t helping you to be more trustworthy. Unfortunately, there’s no oxygen on the moon. The fallacy here is a common in goal setting: expect to reach the stars and you just might land on the moon. Where’s the trustworthiness, if you’re not being honest with yourself? Indeed, do unrealistic expectations help anybody to be more credible? No. Lying to yourself and trying to believe it isn’t a strategy for establishing credibility. The strategy of self-expectation is built on unearned confidence. This kind of motivational mumbo-jumbo just isn’t credible. Arrogance is a spectacularly horrible recipe for credibility. Nothing to Prove, But a Commitment to Demonstrate: Brian Tracy says to “Expect to be successful, expect to be liked, expect to be popular wherever you go.” Wow.It’s the experience you’re creating for the people that matter to you, right now. The experience that creates credibility isn’t the experience of the past. ![]() ![]() In To Sell is Human, author Daniel Pink points out that no one buys (or hires) your past they are always buying in to your potential. Carmen Simon, in her book, Impossible to Ignore, says that the past is useful only when it helps us to predict the future. Consider this as a given: the past doesn’t create the future. The Past Doesn’t Create the Future: What would change for you if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were credible, trustworthy and competent? What if your credibility was a constant, like a “given” in a math problem? In a math problem, when it’s given that x=5, you don’t try to prove x.
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