We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Liza Marie Garcia a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Liza Marie, so many exciting things to discuss, we can’t wait. Thanks for joining us and we appreciate you sharing your wisdom with our readers. So, maybe we can start by discussing optimism and where your optimism comes from?
I’ve always been a person who believed the glass is half full. I’ve mostly taken all obstacles, challenges, and failures of plan A with stride and found the solution to the problem within a very short time frame.
This outlook, I credit mostly for my upbringing. A few years back I wrote my first book called “Never drink coffee during a business meeting”. An ironic title due to my love of caffeine which is increasing as I get older each year. The science of caffeine certainly gives me a little “optimist” push at the beginning of the workday.
Seriously now, where does my optimism or anyone’s optimism come from? It comes from a positive mindset!
If you rely on your past achievements and experience of achieving your goals, you can trust your own sense of confidence which can also drive your optimism. A friend once gave me a sign that said “every little thing will be okay”, also song lyrics. And this is true.
However certainly with experience, we should understand that all things will work out in some way. The more experienced we are, we understand that most of the time the outcome that you might not have expected yields even better results than anticipated. Yet another reason to approach all things in a mostly positive way.
I remember the first time I saw the huge difference between people who approached the world with a positive mindset versus those that have a negative mindset. This was when I hired my very first employee. This employee was recommended to me from my current supplier and I was young in my career to not understand the importance of “vetting”.
She worked for me for under a year and as we had clients out of state we would travel together I recall many times trying to not make mountains out of molehills and seeming to always be the one that kept us moving positively as a team through whatever challenges came our way.
I remember even today the morning after the day she no longer worked for us and feeling a tremendous heaviness removed from me. I remember feeling no drain anymore on my energy due to managing her. This feeling let me know immediately the difference between those that have a negative outlook in life and those who do not.
Of course, there is no one that I believe is 100% optimistic, 100% of the time and I’m no exception. I do however have the ability to turn my own mindset around and refuse to focus on the negative, the problem, the issue, or even sometimes the person creating the problem.
Optimism is a choice, it is a learned and practiced behavior and it is a feeling that does not take away our energy, quite the opposite it feeds us!
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
We are nearing our eighth year in business this September publishing books for our clients and promoting their profile and message of their books. I believe this is a very special industry as we elevate our clients who have a purposeful message they want to publish to the world.
Currently, we are publishing collaborative book projects to promote multiple authors within the same book. Each author writes one chapter with us and they gain the promotion our team provides.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
As an employer for over 24 years now with two major entities, these are the top three qualities that have made the most impact:
1-Resilience, never giving up, no matter what, never giving up (famous quote).
2-Understanding clearly and never losing focus on the mission.
3-Looking at the long-term. Driving towards the long game, not the daily, weekly even monthly goals too long. Understanding the end keeps you focused and driven to success in all the steps along the way.
To close, maybe we can chat about your parents and what they did that was particularly impactful for you?
Believed in me and told me to believe in myself!
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