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The Rules Change With Success
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The training we receive in our formative years has a powerful influence on us as adults. The ways we learn to win as we are starting out tend to shape our view of how success is attained. The only problem with this is that as you become more successful, the rules for future success change. Unless you learn the keys to succeeding at higher levels, your progress is destined to come to a screeching halt.
Individual contributor – When I give her a job, I know it will get done
When we start out, it is important to understand how to become a successful individual contributor. Individual contributors are those who can master a task well. When given a goal and parameters, they are technically competent and understand all the details on how to accomplish it. Demonstrating mastery of the technical skills of delivering the product or service is key to advancement.
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The Value of Casting a Long-term Vision
Organic company growth is typically seen as something that is steady. Five to twenty-five percent a year growth is deemed reasonable and in many cases aggressive. Hockey stick growth, that which is 50, 75, 100+ percent growth in a single year and then sustained at high rates in a few subsequent years, is usually thought to only occur through acquisitions or mergers. This does not always have to be the case and a shift in planning processes may in fact make periods of rapid growth possible organically.
Frame of reference for planning makes a difference
Most planning processes are done annually and look at where a company is today as the basis for determining where things will be in the next year. Realistic growth targets are established based upon current performance. Forecasts are often done taking that growth out three to five years. With the current situation as the frame of reference, it is difficult to justify large changes in growth with out an acquisition or some other exogenous force.
Since some companies do experience hockey stick growth organically, we know that it is possible. What are rapidly growing companies doing that is different from those who experience modest growth and how to they plan for it?
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Innovative Time-Saving Tip
I just saw a Tweet (for those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, this is what their micro-blogging posts are called) with a great time saving tip. If you listened to this month’s Forward the Action Call on personal productivity, you heard me discuss the increased demands technology has placed on all of us. People now expect answers to their emails in minutes, not days or even hours. With a crowded email box, the effort of answering emails could take hours daily. This time in not spent forwarding your agenda, so what can you do?
The Tweet I read recommends leveraging another current trend/expectation. If you are responding to an email from your Blackberry or iPhone, people expect much shorter answers. In fact, they are honored that you took the time to respond to them at all since you are clearly away from your office and engaged in some other activity of importance. They know that you sent the message from your phone because the signature line tells them.
So here is the recommendation, change the reply line (you can do this just temporarily) on your desktop to read “Sent from iPhone” or “Sent from Blackberry”. Then you can send much shorter responses – like one sentence or phrase – to all of those emails.
Kind of innovative. What do you think?
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CEO of Your Life
Your life is the most important enterprise of which you will ever be a part. There are a host of proven tools and techniques from the business world that are available to you to help you succeed. As we can see from the state of our economy today, many business CEOs have been asleep at the wheel and did not do what was necessary for their companies to be able to weather this current financial storm in which we, and the rest of the world find ourselves.
Not surviving however, is not an option for you. Take your role as CEO very seriously and equip yourself to not only survive, but to thrive and have all the impact your desire.
Have a powerful day!
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You Always Have a Choice
You always have a choice in life. If you think you don’t have time to do something that is important to you, you have really just made a choice to prioritize something else ahead of it. If there is something you feel your boss is forcing you to do at work, you really do have a choice. You are choosing to comply because of the implication that not complying may have on your job and career. If the law requires you to do something – you are choosing not to have to go to jail or pay a fine. You can choose your reaction to situations, and what you think about them. You have a choice about everything in life – as long as you remember that you must also bear the consequences. Embracing this simple truth will rescue you from a life of victimhood and propel you into be a powerful agent of change both in your life and the world.
Have a powerful day!
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The Power of Validation
Great video on the power of validating other people. Stick around for the full 16 minutes until the end. It’s worth it.
Commit Only to What is Valuable
Only commit to things that you can place the highest value in accomplishing. These are the only things that you have any real intention of doing anyhow. If you have not commitment to follow through on your resolutions, they do more to rob you of your power than they do to support. This year, try it a different way and create plans to which you are committed and build in accountability. This will increase your odds of having a powerful 2009.
Have a powerful day!
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Positional Power Not Needed to Be Powerful
Often we think of power as something possessed only by a few – the rich, corporate giants, and political leaders. However, each one of us has an inherent power to grow in whatever direction we please without limit. Power simply means the ability to accomplish something.
Therefore, even people without positional power have tremendous reserves of power to have an impact on the direction of their lives, businesses, and our world. People who are consistently successful in accomplish their goals share one thing in common – they have mastered the use of the Power Cycle.
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They understand that their choices determine their actions and that their actions determine their results. Even more, they understand how to use their results to inform their future choices.
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Weight Loss and Exercise Are Usually Bad Goals to Set
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Every year millions of people set goals to exercise or to lose weight. A multi-billion dollar industry supports this national obsession with goals related to moving our bodies and slimming down. Gyms count on the fact that most of the people who purchase memberships will not show up. Were everyone to do so, there would not be enough room to hold all of the sweaty bodies. Diet product companies are supported by their repeat customers who had some measure of success that was not sustainable. The yo-yoing we used to do with toys as children has been replaced with an even more pervasive yo-yoing of our weight and waistline measurements.
Queen Latifa recently started Jenny Craig. She has been known in the past to say that she did not have a problem with her weight, she thinks she is beautiful, she likes to eat, and she thinks the skinny people look hungry. This opinion that she holds of herself is not one that she holds alone. This full-figured beauty “queen” has graced the cover of several magazines and full-page glamour advertisements.
So why would she go on Jenny Craig and why will she be successful in her efforts? Because her goal is not to lose weight. On one of her first commercials, she stated that she heard that by losing a small percent of one’s body weight, just 5-10%, the risk of diabetes and other heart related diseases dramatically decreases. That sounded compelling enough for her to take some action. Reducing health risks and increasing her energy levels became the goal. A change in diet and increased exercise became supporting habits she was willing to establish in order to accomplish her real goals.
There are a whole host of motivating goals that someone might establish, some more serious than others, that would require healthy eating and routine exercise as supporting habits for their realization:
- Preventing or recovering from disease or injury
- Achieving a certain weight class or performance level in sports
- Meeting the requirements for a job
- Being able to fit into an existing wardrobe
- Reducing stress levels
- Increasing and sustaining energy levels
- Feeling better
- Having clearer thinking
Goals such as these are linked to either our values or life’s desires. It is much more likely that our motivation levels will be maintained when there is a high level of internal alignment with our goals. Self-discipline and will power are supported by a genuine desire to accomplish something that is important to us.
Some things to remember when setting goals related to weight or anything else are:
- Don’t set goals to do or accomplish something just because people say you should
- Don’t set goals to do things you don’t like doing
- Set a goal to accomplish something that is important to you
- Identify the supporting habits, things you may or may not enjoy doing, that are necessary to accomplish your goals.
Have a powerful day!
Cecilia
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