Gotta love this video about fulfillment and doing things for others… 100% of your clients are people… 100% of your colleagues are people… 100% of your friends are people… sounds obvious but most people forget! How is that possible?
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This movie is about a couple in their forties, married with two daughters and a son (from a previous marriage). While in Greece on vacation they are looking for a night of passion and romance… instead they find themselves engaged in a tense debate about the past, present, future; family, romance, love and infidelity.
This story clearly depicts many peoples common experience. In their fighting there are a lot of hurtful, rude and inconsiderate things said to each other – which adds to the feeling of distance and disconnection.
How differently this story would be if this couple had some basic relationship and communications skills that would facilitate some real sharing, listening and understanding.
Many couples break up over some of the most basic and easy to fix things… consider an alternative scenario where the couple actually talk and share their feelings and reach a new level of connection and intimacy all while enjoying the romantic environment of the southern Peloponnese?
The result? Lasting happiness!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djbyv1AV588
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We are living through one of the most profound periods of transformation in recent human history. Our world is changing at an unprecedented rate. The way we live, the way we work and the way we do business are changing dramatically.
No longer is it an option to maintain our position by doing today, what we did yesterday. We are no longer competing with the professional or the firm down the road, but rather the highly skilled, more motivated, and lower cost individual or firm on the other side of the planet.
In order to do well in the future, we must begin to think more like leaders than managers, more like entrepreneurs than employees, take responsibility for our quality of life, upgrade our skills and become more aware of the value we add to our teams, our projects, and our organizations.
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Remember that all of us are leaders, whether we want to be or not. Leading is a part of life. Being a good leader means greater satisfaction in your personal and business life… Since you must lead, why not be good at it? It can make a big difference to your results and overall quality of life.
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One technique many people use to get what they want is to set their expectations so low – that they are guaranteed to meet them. This way they avoid disappointment and over time settle for less and less.
The key to having an inspiring and fulfilling life is exactly the opposite… To set expectations HIGH and to change what is in the way of realizing the highest ideal scenario. Having high expectations requires work… It requires learning… It requires letting go of the past… However the benefits are well worth it – I promise!
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Here is the definition of Confront:
CONFRONT: n. 1. An action of being able to face without flinching or avoiding. 2. The ability to be there comfortably and perceive.
So we see that to confront means to be able to see what is there, comfortably without flinching, wanting to withdraw or running away. Often, to fully understand a word, it is easier to look at the opposite. What does “non-confront” mean? It simply means the inability to see what is there. An inability to face something.
Why can’t we confront something? Because to confront means PAIN. It is too painful to view so we withdraw and refuse to look at the area.
Notice that the definition describes confront as an ability? It isn’t something you do, it is an ability that we develop over time. The ability to see more and more of the truth.
There is also what is call “low-confront” which is where a person can confront a little, can see a little of the truth of what is there… But not all of it.
How do you improve your ability to confront? The same way you improve any other ability, focus, attention and practice. And, dealing with the pain that had you not confronting the area in the first place.
As you can see, the ability to confront is directly connected to the ability to handle change. If a person can’t confront the future, or the unknown… Then they will stay in their comfort zone, and stuck in the past.
There are a whole set of processes to assist anyone in improving their ability to confront. These are available as part of the Optima Program.
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We all aspire to more happiness, success and fulfillment and yet few people are aware of the relationship between each of these states.
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We all know about setting goals and creating visions, however despite our knowledge of the subject many leaders fall short of legendary and land on mediocre.
The below is an excerpt (paraphrased) from the book titled “Beyond Entrepreneurship” — Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by James C. Collins and Willian C. Lazier.
…you set a goal not by pure analysis, but by analysis plus intuition. You’ll never be able to prove ahead of time that an audacious goal is going to be 100% achievable.
You have to know in your gut that it can be done, recognizing this simple truth: once committed to a bold challenge, the probabilities of success change.
When President Kennedy first proposed the Moon mission, he was advised that there was only a 50/50 chance of success. He believed in America’s ability to achieve the mission, to somehow turn the odds. He knew that if the country committed to the mission, they would somehow find a way to make it happen.
Think of it this way. If someone puts you on a difficult mountain climb and leaves you an easy avenue of retreat, the probabilities of success would be at a certain level, say for the sake of illustration 50%. Now suppose you are on the same mountain and the avenue of escape is removed; if you don’t succeed you die.
The probabilities of success change closer to 100%. Why?
Because you are committed. You’ll fight, scratch, invent, or somehow figure out a way to the top because you have no other choice…
What would happen if you committed to an audacious goal or vision and removed the possibility of not achieving it?
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We are living through one of the most profound periods of transformation in recent human history. Our world is changing at an unprecedented rate. The way we live, the way we work and the way we do business are changing dramatically.
No longer is it an option to maintain our position by doing today what we did yesterday. We are no longer competing with the professional or the firm down the road, but rather, the highly skilled, more motivated, and lower cost individual or firm on the other side of the planet. In order to do well in the future, we must begin to think more like entrepreneurs than employees, take responsibility for our quality of life, upgrade our skills and become more aware of the value we add to our teams, our projects, and our organizations.
Whether you are from Cape Town, Adelaide, Wellington, Hong Kong, Glasgow, Singapore, Milan or Albuquerque, the changes that are occurring affect us all. Sure, you can decide to ignore what is happening, to live and work the same way today as you have in the past. However, you could be missing out on the biggest opportunity of this generation and be rendered obsolete, redundant and find yourself standing on the sidelines.
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