CEO of Your Life

CEO of Your LifeYour 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

ChoiceYou 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.

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You Have the Personal Power

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There is no one on earth that can be responsible for ensuring we receive and accomplish all we desire in life besides ourselves. If we want to improve things, we may not have the positional power, but we do have personal power. Learning to effectively use it is what will move those with the positional power to act, and it is what will increase our odds of obtaining position power ourselves. Owning your part of the situation is the best way to operate inpower and to begin to change our world.

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Tap Into Your Power

tapintoyourpower-w-shadowIn December, I completed my first book, Tap Into Your Power: Increasing Access to Your Inherent Power.  I have been compelled to write and urged by others for quite some time now to write a book.  I have had a book outlined on how to change the world (yes, in big ways) for quite some time now, but decided not to write that yet.  Similarly, I passed on writing the book on problem solving or on my InPower coaching program.  All three of these seemed a bit too premature

Instead, I chose to write something that would be accessible to the masses, that would begin to change people’s thinking to a state that is more commonly in power than one of being a victim.

I chose to use quotes – something we are all familiar with and often use for brief moments of inspiration.

I chose a format that will support the goal of having this book have some impact on those who read and use it by suggesting reader participation.  I chose a format that was good for starting conversations with groups and even moving through the book with others.

My desire is to facilitate conversations about power and to create a community of people who have the audacity to believe that they have the power to lead a life of impact and even to change the world.

Share you thoughts with me and others on the kind of impact you would like to have.

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Commit Only to What is Valuable

What is ValuableOnly 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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New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work

FireworksEach year nearly 100 million Americans make New Years resolutions to lose weight, eat better, exercise, save, invest or earn more money, quit drinking or smoking, strengthen or make new relationships, or a host other things that might otherwise eliminate unnecessary pain or cause joy in their lives.  Every year, 97% of the resolutions made are broken.  25% are broken within the first week, close to 40% are broken within the first month, and nearly 60% don’t make it past the six month mark. The next year, the same resolutions are made to do, start, or stop the same things again.

New Year’s resolutions – the way our tradition would have us make them just don’t work.  Here are two major reasons why:

  1. Relatively little thought goes into determining the resolutions.  Either the last few days of the year or on New Year’s day, a list of things that are top of mind ar...
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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.

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High Achievers Must Set Their Own Standards

Hicham El Guerrouj is an Olympic gold medalist in track and field as a middle distance runner.  His vision of achieving the title of Olympic Champion led to a tough ten year battle and was almost not realized.  El Guerrouj was headed down the path of becoming “The Greatest Never” [to will a Olympic gold medal] and instead became “The Greatest Ever.”

Prior to arriving at his first Olympic games, El Guerrouj was part of the Moroccan relay team that set a world record.  He won the indoor world championship, came in second in the world championship, and was on an unbeaten streak in the 1,500 meters as he entered the games.  During the 1996 Olympics, on the last lap of the race, while battling for first place, he f...
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Accountability is About Results – Not Punishment

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For some reason accountability has gotten a bad reputation in this society. When the word is used, many of us tend to have flashbacks to being sent to the principal’s office to be held “accountable” for our actions — which of course only happens when the actions are deemed unacceptable.

Our entire school experience is based upon a punitive use of accountability. We are given assignments and are graded on our performance when they are due. When we are younger, our parents often bug us during the interim to see how we are doing and whether we are making progress. The older we get though, we learn that, in college, it’s our responsibility – no one will be there to prod us along. And our grades, at the end are used to hold us accountable – to reward or punish us for the quality of ou...
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