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The first requirement is key – be different.

What do you do and how is that different than other doing the same thing.

The article, The Three Requirements for Consulting Success per Deloitte Consulting CEO Jim Moffatt – Forbes gets you to think about how can I ensure I don’t end up “competing for consulting work on price.” Answering this question gets you started.

You need to know how you can translate your difference into solving a client’s problem in an elegant way. You need to consider your interpersonal skills. In “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” Marshall Goldsmith reminds us that successful people sometimes have blind spots about a part of our personality that is preventing us from getting to the next level. Work on this as well, and watch what happens.

The other two requirements are be strong by having a partner or ally and be committed to customer satisfaction, continuous improvement and business development

Can the way you hold your body or move, have measurable affects on how you feel? Absolutely and Dr. Amy Cuddy has research to back it up. Dr. Cuddy is social psychologist, teaches at the Harvard Business School, and studies our perceptions of others and how others influence us.

Fake it until you make it works! There is evidence to back it up as a useful strategy (for more details see “Power Postures Can Make You Feel More Powerful” (WIRED Science, May 15, 2012.)

The first video is a five minute overview and the second video is a 17 minute presentation about the idea that we can change our feelings about our own status by changing the positions of our bodies.

What do you think?

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