Are You A Gen Y Superstar? 10 Strategies For Becoming One of the Best of the Best

I meet superstars every day, and we usually spend time talking about how they can become better at what they do. Generation Y embodies the superstar image, motivation, and expectations. The Gen Y Superstar exudes confidence, competence, strong communication skills and a willingness to excel towards personal and professional goals. At the same time, superstars can feel a sense of low self confidence and doubt. These A players of an organization need to be able to express their thoughts and ideas with the understanding that they will be heard.

So, if you are a Gen Y Superstar, here are the 10 most common suggestions I can share with you to help you stay ahead (and stay sane at the same time!)

1. Develop mental toughness by putting yourself in new, challenging situations.

2. Devote yourself to self improvement in the four main life domains: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

3. Focus on your own improvements, not on the successes of others. While it is always great to have a competitor serve as a benchmark, if you are constantly focusing on their achievements, it can take you quickly off your own focus. Stay dedicated to your own improvement.

4. Get connected with your inner drive…not the pressures of status or the demands made by other people

5. Work with a mentor or a coach, and ask for feedback, both positive and objective criticism. Take that feedback to heart, and work to improve yourself.

6. Stay focused on the long term vision for your life, career and family. While short term goals are great, staying focused on the bigger vision can help you keep your head in the game on days when life gets tough.

7. Spend time with the people who are the “best” at what you want to achieve, and shadow them for two days. I recently read a suggestion about amateurs who want to become professional golfers. The advice was to not make a decision until you have played golf with a superstar. This is the only way you can truly discover how incredibly accomplished a superstar truly is.

8. Perform each task in your life with excellence. Sloppy, casual errors will send the message that you just don’t care about becoming one of the best of the best.

9. Be dedicated to reinvention. Simply because you were great yesterday doesn’t mean that you’ll be great in 10 years. When I talk about reinvention, I always talk about Cher. She is a performer who never let her age get in her way of being a superstar performer. She keeps bouncing back again and again with new songs, new tours, new costumes which are relevant to the current times.

10. Each time you succeed, celebrate with friends and family members or treat yourself to time doing something you love to do. I know you have heard this before, but have you celebrated a recent success? Hey…you deserve it!