If you continue a lifelong journey of improving and developing yourself, this can only lead to one place – LEADERSHIP. Most people are busy trying to get somewhere – rather than working on becoming someone. As you improve your ability to communicate, to confront difficult situations and people, to postulate future realities… Your ability to lead, persuade and inspire increases in proportion.
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What is the difference between changing something and transforming it? Change is when you make small incremental adjustments. Over time, these small adjustments add up. However, the basic foundation is the same as what you started with.
On the other hand, when you transform something, you throw out the plans, the model, the past and invent something that was not there before: a new paradigm. It does not resemble the past, is often unrecognizable and is a fundamental shift that often cannot be predicted.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Tolstoy
“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. ‘No,’ I replied, ‘I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?’ “
– Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM
Leadership skills are as vital at home and in family situations as they are in the office and on teams. In fact, many people’s leadership behaviors at the office either mirrors or is the exact opposite of their leadership behavior at home. An example of the latter is the power executive who dominates everyone at the office, and when it comes to home and family matters – abdicates everything to others.
We are at the effect of anything that we abdicate… Taking responsibility means including ourselves in both work and family leadership situations.
The definition of FLOW is:
“Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Changing the relationship we have with money requires that we reprogram our subconscious mind. This means replacing negative thoughts and feelings that are inaccurate with positive thoughts and feelings that give us the results we want…
The cleanliness and organization of your office reflects how well the business is managed. If you have piles of paper on the floor, boxes stacked everywhere, piles of files on your desk and in a tray that is bulging… then consider what would happen if you cleaned up and got organized? The results may surprise you!
The level of organization and cleanliness reflects the level of drama and chaos present in the operation. So, does the drama create the disorganization – or does the disorganization create the drama?
More than one in three women will die of cardiovascular disease… The numbers are staggering. Many women think that heart disease primarily affects men; however, it is the number one killer of women in the industrialized world.
Are you familiar with the warning signs? Do you know what action to take that could save your life or the life of a woman close to you? Cancer is the number one killer in Singapore and the UK (and the number of cases are on the rise) whereas cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in Australia, Canada and the USA.
Whether you realize it or not, you lead every day: in your relationships, with your family, friends, colleagues, clients and associates. Since you must lead, why not be good at it? It can make a big difference in your results and quality of life.