Manage Better

Clarity about goals saves a huge amount of energy that can be deployed productively in other areas.

1. Agree on goals (No more than 1/2 dozen) with team members. Make sure each goal is written down. From this point on they will know exactly what is expected of them, and you will be in agreement. Make sure these are not your goals projected on them but a good fit for what the result they would like to achieve. If these are done right, you shouldn’t have to spend much energy on them unless it’s to further their production. They are here to produce results.
2. People should reread goals frequently as a means of ensuring that performance matches expectations. Once in the morning and once in the evening is suggested. They should report back to you on daily results. This is so you have more opportunity to praise them and give them immediate realtime positive feedback.
3. If the person has skills to do it right and it’s not being done, then address the action not the person themselves. You don’t want it to be a personal thing but an action thing. Let them know that it is not up to the usual standards and remind them of their value. “Take a minute, look at your goals, look at your performance, and see if your behavior matches your goals.”

Discipline does not work well with people who are not secure in what they are doing. Majority of people new to a home business are VERY insecure in what they are doing and the only thing that works with them is encouragement. When goals are set properly, they will think it is fair to bring it up when they are not met.

People Get What They Work For

Gradually I discovered that there is a golden thread that runs through all teachings that makes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them.  That thread can be named in a single word-BELIEF.  Belief enables people to climb the latter of success, and yeilds great results for all who accept it. Most people leave their desires vague, so they get vague outcomes. Virtually anything can be yours and you can be anything, if you are able to develop a “knowing” that you don’t ever need to question. Our belief power is found in the relationship between the conscious and the subconscious. The subconscious continually expresses our deepest beliefs and desires.  It is our servant that renews and guides, but to get the most out of it requires great respect for and faith in what it can do. Imagery helps guide it, so we must feed it mental pictures of what we desire. It can then go to work to make that image true. Somehow the subconscious is connected to all other parts of our mind, and through the law of attraction it will attract events and people that will assist us in helping the vision become a reality. The belief has to become part of us, settled in the subconscious as fact. Repetition will help it get in there. This is why we spend so much time working on goal setting.

Warren Bennis “On Becoming a Leader” 1989

True leaders are not interested in proving themselves, they want above all to be able to express themselves fully.Life is not a competition but a flowering.Real learning is the process of remembering what is important to you, and becoming a leader is therefore the act of becoming more and more like your true self.

Becoming a leader involves:
1.   Continuous learning and never-dying curiosity

2.   A compelling vision:leaders must first define their reality (what they believe is possible) then set about managing their dream.

3.   Develop the ability to communicate that vision and inspire others to follow it.

4.   Tolerate uncertainty and taking on risk: a degree of daring.

5.   Personal integrity, self knowledge, candor, maturity, and welcome critique.

6.   Original-Leaders learn from others but are not made by others.

7.   Reinvention-to create new things sometimes involves recreating yourself.

8.   Take time off to reflect, which brings answers and resolve.

9.   Passion for the promises of life: a belief in the best for yourself and others.

10. Seeing success in small everyday increments and joys, not waiting years for the big success to arrive.

11. Using the context of your life, rather than surrendering to it.

Leadership is a choice and involves leading yourself first.

Affirmations vs. Questions

Repeating affirmations over and over, such as ”I am productive, I am productive, I am productive” can create a feeling of productiveness if done with enough emotion, but truly it will leave us without changing how we feel. We are still possibly left with not knowing what to take action on in the given moment. When we ask questions to ourselves like “What can I do right now that is productive?” our mind will then search for the answers that we know already, and create the change by reminding us what we need to do to be productive and then doing it. We then know what to do now.