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Are You a Manager or a Leader?

What is your level of Consciousness?

Did you know that the higher your Consciousness, the more results you get? Consciousness can be measured on a scale. There are 7 Zones or categories of Consciousness. Download free slides, workbook and bonus $125 gift now! >>> https://goldzoneleaders.com/slides/

A Prayer to the Goddess for Forgiveness

Music and text by Krishna Das

Verses from the Devyapadhakshamapanastotram, by Adi Shankaracharya

These are five out of the eight verses of “A Prayer To Beg Forgiveness From the Goddess,” written by Adi Shankaracharya, one of the greatest yogis ever and a true realized being.

The story behind the prayer is that Shankaracharya was traveling through the Himalayas on his way to a debate. In those days Shankaracharya was a believer in Non-Dualism, the doctrine of Absolute Monism. He did not believe in the reality of the Divine Mother (Shakti) and Her Creation which, according to his philosophy, was all Maya (illusion).

Nature is Efficient

This video is from the series “The Code”. With a simple bubble demonstration, we can see how nature doesn’t waste anything and is always defaulting to the most efficient use of resources.

By studying nature, we can discover Generalized Principles that are true in every case and can be applied to improve human life. Because we are a part of nature, what applies to bubbles, applies to us.

Think about it.

After the Disclosure

Harmful Actions

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We have all felt hurt or wounded by the actions of other people. For some of us, we have years of accumulated and unresolved hurt that we feel was caused by the people in our lives who are closest to us. 

Feelings of hurt, betrayal, and anger can be the most pervasive and destructive to both the target of our feelings as well as to ourselves. Ruminating on feelings of hurt, anger, and the quest for justice can lead to destructive behavior, which can cause us to feel worse, as well as cause negative health outcomes that, over time, can become life-threatening. 

Medical research indicates that harboring angry feelings towards people can cause numerous physical maladies, including high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

The benefits of forgiveness include increased feelings of peace and harmony, with decreased anger, as well as improved physical health, lower blood pressure, more energy, increased mental clarity, improved cardiovascular health, as well as general well-being and serenity.

Visionary Leadership

The Dark Side of Follow The Leader

Choose your leaders carefully.

Wise words that we would all agree with and yet how many of us get to know the obvious and not so obvious aspects of a leader – BEFORE we jump in and follow them?

Obvious aspects are those we can all see. Examples are their likeability, dressing, body language and grooming. Also their tone of voice, leadership style, and their past performance.

Not so obvious aspects would mean those qualities and attributes that we cannot see without getting to know them personally or investigating with more discerning eyes. Usually, these aspects include their values, operating model, typical emotional state, beliefs, honesty, candor, ethics, and integrity.

Why are these not so obvious aspects so important? Because these are the qualities that are better predictors of future performance, behavior under stress and most important of all… these are the aspects that we take on and duplicate from our leaders without evening realizing it!

If that doesn’t scare you – it should.

Let’s say you are an ethical person and you pride yourself on your honesty, straightforwardness, and openness. You want to improve your relationship with money so you look for a teacher to follow who appears to be world-renowned, well respected and successful. If you take this at face value you would conclude that this teacher is a good person to learn from and you decide to follow them.

Unbeknownst to you this teacher has a flexible relationship with the truth and believes that money is to be prized and valued over all else. If they suggested you do outright unethical things this would trigger your doubt and you would see it right away. The thing is, their true nature is masked by their public persona and they have such a good act that most well-meaning people would not be able to see them easily or accurately.

In fact, many of these people have well-crafted strategies to keep their real nature and intention a secret. They often engage in charity projects and donate publicly to needy causes. They will talk about doing the right thing and being a good person, while behind the scenes are doing exactly the opposite! We call this “public relations”.

Why does this matter to you so much? Because you are going to take on what they say, do and believe unconsciously. These unconscious memes will become a part of your makeup and you may find yourself compromising your standards little by little. You may also find that when you do what they say they have done, your results are different from theirs. Assuming you implement and execute exactly… it may not work for you because they didn’t do what they said they did!

This gap between what they say they did and reality can cause you to lose confidence in yourself and to doubt your own abilities… when in fact you should be doubting them and their advice!

Train yourself to look for the obvious and not so obvious aspects of a leader. Tune into their feeling. Look for “bodies on the side of the road.” Ask questions and look for telltale signs of incongruence. The slicker they are, the deeper you have to look to determine fact from fiction.

Choose a worthy leader and be a worthy follower!

Ten Leadership Lessons from the Fastest Land Animal

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