Zig said it best, “Your attitude affects your altitude”!
Oh my goodness – if I don’t see it once I see it a hundred times over on social media sites – an attitude less than positive and definitely not becoming in entrepreneurs’ and mostly women! This saddens me to no end. We as women want to be taken serious in the professional world yet we do not always present ourselves as serious competitors. Too much complaining and too much DRAMA! We want the world to see more positivity amongst our fellow female upcoming entrepreneurs.
If you want to be taken serious you have to present yourself in a manner that reflects just that! If you are non-stop putting your negative personal business out there for the world to see it gives the reader an immediate impression of you. More times than not – it isn’t a very good impression. Your attitude can be picked up through your tone of your posts. Make sure the world is reading an attitude that reflects a great impression of who you are.
Now I get it – we are all human and we all have bad days and/or bad things happen in our lives. We have people who aggravate us, annoy us, or things that just get on our last nerves. I understand – I really do. But if you have to vent use the Facebook option given to you to select the privacy of just who will see your vent. Facebook allows you to create custom groups to where you can select just close family and friends to be in a group excluding potential business connections or customers.
If you are unsure how to create a custom group please follow these simple steps:
- Go to your home page.
- On the left hand side, you will see the basic – Newsfeed- Messages – Events – etc…, under that Pages – and then under that the category FRIENDS. That is where you will start.
- If you roll your mouse over the FRIENDS you will see off to the left of it “More”. Click on that!
- A new view will appear and you will see the options at the top of the page “+Create List”. Click on that!
- A new window will pop up where you will name your list and be able to begin adding people to it. You can always edit your list later adding or removing people as you wish.
Take advantage of that tool and then yes – fine – vent away; but otherwise, leave it off Facebook. As for other social media sites – just don’t go there with any negativity. And NEVER use your Facebook Page as an outlet – business attitude only.
Your attitude really will affect your altitude – how far you go as an entrepreneur -let’s aim for the stars ladies!