Mark Sanborn: Be a Passionate Performer in Life

Mark Sanborn makes audiences spring to their feet with his rousing speeches. He’s also the best-selling author of The Fred Factor and his latest, The Encore Effect. Mark shared his strategies on how to be a remarkable performer in life with SUCCESS. Here are a few:

1) Don’t try to be remarkable in everything.
"If you try to give a remarkable performance in everything you do, you won’t give a remarkable performance in ANYTHING you do."

2) Assess if you have the one true mark of a leader.
"If you want to know whether or not you’re a leader, your title may or may not give some clues. The real clue is in the answer to this question: Is anybody better because of you? Do the people you work with say, because of him or her, I’m a better person or I’ve been able to find skills and talents I didn’t know I had, or develop skills that were latent."

3) Stop and reflect on moments that resonate with you.
"A lot of lessons in our life escape us because we’ve never reflected on them long enough to make them stick. We’ve had lots of things happen that were rich learning opportunities but we were so busy to move on to the next thing that we never paused to reflect on what we learned."

4) Realize you are more talented than you think.
"None of us have any idea of what we are truly capable of physiologically, psychologically or spiritually. We all sell ourselves short, and until someone can expand our horizon, we think we’re maxed out doing the most we can possibly be doing. The best way to let people know they have far more potential than they’ve tapped into is to share examples of others. There really are far less limits than we imagine there to be."

Read more of Mark’s insights from The Encore Effect.