Today is Friday, so this post is usually on interpersonal competence.  However, I have chosen to focus more broadly today instead of on just one part of my career and life success model as I usually do.
As you recall, my career and life success model holds that successful people have five things in common:

They are self confident.
They make a positive personal impact.
They are outstanding performers.
They have good communication skills.
They are interpersonally competent.

Self confident people have at least three things in common:

Self confident people are optimistic.
Self confident people face their fears and deal with them.
Self confident …