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Want to Really Find Your Keys (to Success)?
Have you heard the story of the person who says he’s having a bad day because he misplaced his keys and it took him 15 minutes to find them, and ‘just his luck’ they were in the last place he looked? And you’re thinking, “Well of course they were. What type of idiot would continue looking for their keys after they found them?” Unfortunately, this is what keeps many people from discovering and leveraging their true strengths. Because many of today’s ‘strength’...
The Short Course on Habit Change (Part 1 of 2)
First off, can a ‘short course’ really have two parts? For now, I’ll pretend the answer is “yes”. We’re all busy, and are easily distracted in today’s hectic world, so I’ll cut to the chase. Here it is. Because of the way habits are formed in our mind/brain, we can’t stop (‘break’) habits. We can only change them. The best way of changing a habit is “identity-based” change, not willpower. In other words, become the type of person that naturally has the ‘good’ habit...
Leadership Challenge: Balancing Doing, Growing Yourself, and Growing Others
One of the things, (not the only things but sometimes that’s closer to the truth than I dare admit), that I figured out early in my business career was balancing ‘doing’ with ‘growing’. Many leaders and achievers in life believe that it’s all about what you accomplish, what you achieve, or what you do. But who you become, and are becoming, is just as important. As the saying goes, “If you’re not growing, sooner or later you’re going to be the biggest constraint to...
It Really is Magic!
I know I’m not alone on this one. Last night I went to a networking event to hear one of my good friends present on confidence. But honestly, and just between you and me, at that moment I wasn’t ‘in the mood’ to hit another networking event. My friend’s talk was wonderful, but after that was the session of getting together in groups of 3 for a few minutes to talk about ourselves, then change and go to another group… We’ve all been there, right? Come on, I was just...
How Simple Can it Get?
Achievers position themselves to play to their strengths; Leaders position the members of their team so they play to their strengths. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent so much of my time recently helping people identify, develop and leverage their strengths to dramatically increase their personal performance and improve their results; or maybe it’s that I naturally did this as a leader (hey, even I’m good at some things!); but it continues to surprise me how few leaders...
So What Would You Do?
3 Question to Overcome the Fear of Failure and Take Action Most of us from time to time, are slowed by a fear of failure. Some of us simply procrastinate doing something we know we should. Others break into cold sweats ‘just thinking about’ making that call or whatever the action is. Years ago, I heard the great Zig Ziglar ask “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” It was a great ‘starter’ question to help me stop thinking about how it would feel if I...
Get Better Soon, My Friend!
This isn’t a message to someone who is sick. It’s a message to anyone that wants more, or better results, in their life. Most people do the same thing over and over again (year after year) hoping for better results. But it doesn’t work. And it’s rarely intentional. They just believe that’s all they can do. Rarely realizing they have a choice. So you want more out of life, that’s great. Now how are you going to get it: work harder, put in even longer hours at the...
Overcoming the Fear of Failure (part 3 of 3)
So related to ‘the fear of failure’, we’ve covered 1) working to eliminate the fear not the failure, and 2) understanding what fear is. Now let’s talk about how to eliminate or, at least, reduce the fear. One part of this is changing our objectives in the situation; thereby, reframing the possible outcome(s) into something we won’t fear. (The second part relates to changing the habitual response which we’ll cover in a later article, since it takes some time to...
I’ll say it like Dr. Seuss
“And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” When we are… leveraging our strengths … in achievement of our goals … as part of living our purpose/dream … aligned with our values … life becomes… almost effortless, and is much more meaningful, rewarding and fun. It becomes a blast with little worry or stress! You could say, we feel like a Real World Superhero! That’s what the Real World Superhero Academy provides....
Overcoming the Fear of Failure (Part 2 of 3)
So now let’s look at eliminating/overcoming the fear, rather than attempting to eliminate failure. First, let’s think about what fear really is. I don’t mean those cute phrases like “False Evidence that Appears Real”. I mean real fear. Fear is an emotion that we chose, yes chose, to assign to certain physiological symptoms within our bodies, primarily in our brain. (Understand, the brain is an organ in our body; the mind is something much bigger and more powerful....
