Dream Dare Dazzle: Recent Episodes
Jim Bennett Global
Helping People to Dream. Dare. and Dazzle their world. Empowering Leaders without title to enable their family, community and organisation to be Stronger. Smarter. Safer!
In recent years It has become increasingly apparent that our organisations can't make the transition required by the fast pace of change in the world except under one condition: Change must happen through every level within the organisation almost simutlataneously.
What this comes down to is that people all know what they want the organisation to be, they also have the personal commitment to be leaders without title and personally make a difference in making it happen...
HOT Leadership
Within Heart Leadership we 'see things as we would like them to be' and then having the courage to be the change to make it happen.
On the path of courage, there is a time when a leader comes to know what is possible. With their heart as a guide they have a knowing feeling "If I can think it, It can happen". Their heart spirit brings them peace, inspiration, faith, trust and the complete belief in themselves and others. Let's explorein more depth....
HOT Leadership
When our businesses choose to lead from the heart and choose the Path of Courage - building a spirit respectine workplace, there are also prices to pay as well as rewards to reap - a balance:
give up being driven by events and accept being guided by our vision and values.
* give up doing it alone and being part of a team.
* give up our need to control peolple and outcomes and empower others.
* give up fighting the 'white water' and be in it*; have trust and faith our that our skills and expertise will carry us to outcomes we'll see as positive.
* give up what is known and familiar and have the courage to explore the unknown....
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The ability to lead for the heart and live from spirit is the result of choosing to live consciously. Being committed to living consciously in a society that mostly muddle through in auto-pilot isn't easy.
There is a price to pay for choosing to live consciously. A friend has said that to live consciously is to be more charitable. Unlike the the grudging donation made form obligation, true charitable giving comes from the heart. We still pay she says, but it is charitbale because we willingly choose to pay and it feels good when we do so.Whater the term we use - there is still a price to be paid - let's explore furhter...
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I have discovered that the things I should be doing were the product of my rules. Importantly, doing things kept me insulated form the conscious part of me that would have let me discover that there were no rules. It was a long time before I could sit and listen to my inner wisdom. When I listened to my inner wisdom I discovered incredible things....
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Many believe that all human behaviours are motivated by either fear or desire. I believe that fear and desire/want are nearly always related. Likewise, with almost every fear, there is an implied desire. attached to it. The associated fear may be as simple as being afraid we won't get what we want/desire - it is still there. I believe that until we name that fear and come to terms with it and make peace with it we never achieve wjat we are after in a sustainable way - let's explore....
Empowering Resource: Overcoming Fear with NLP
https://nlpco.com/how-to-overcome-fear-with-nlp/
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Peace is an essential part of our spirits. When we live and lead on our path of courage we become to know a deep level of peace that goes through every part of our bodies, We may still be afraid, angry and frustrated by at events of teh day, however, guiding us like a rudder is a deep sense of peace that tells us we are on the right track. This peace is generated by a inner connection to our authentic core made possible by self-awareness and conscious living...
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When we plan for the future, we try to project what conditions will be and determine in advance how to act to achieve a future goal that we established some time in the past.
However, when we prepare in the present to respond in the future we focus on our vision and values and on learning. We focus on identifying a core set of questions that will tell us if we are on track that enables resilience.
Our vision defines for us what we want to be. Our values how we want to do that.....
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When we are not present and not aware, we can lose connection. When we think about something we are going to do or something we should have done differently, we are affecting all the relationships of the connection that allows us to build trust, faith, cooperation, connection, and community.
For most of us, going mindlessly through the day is so habitual that it takes a lot of practice to start being truly present - let's explore in more depth...
Empowering Resource
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
https://newearth.university/resources/the-power-of-now-by-eckhart-tolle-unabridged-pdf/
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When we don't address and resolve conflict in a healthy way that respects everyone involved, misplaced anger almost always results. As human beigs, when we keep surpressing emotions around unresolved conflict, pressure builds, over time we becomd more and more volatile and can explode over the most minor of things.
When we want to truly resolve conflicts so that relationships improveand people work tohether in a mutually spirit respecting way, we must operatefrom our spirits. Let's explore....
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If we are to be completely in a relationship, we have to be whole, aware individuals who know what to feeland what we want as well as what we think, and we have to truly want to be in a community with others. I believe we can't come into the relationship dependant on others to get approval to make us feel whole.
When we come to relationships as whole individuals committed to acepting others in our community for who they are, as they are, we are committing to the relationship rather than ourselves, without giving up ourselves...
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In building relationships it's important to know what gets in the way of connectiont. To connect with others, we must be completely in the relationship - we must bting our true, whole, authentic self, complete with beliefs, values and emotions, to other that we live and work with.
We risk being vulnerable - instead of mechanically saying, doing, or feeling what we believe we 'should' say, do, or feel, we honestly sharewhat we are actually feeling. Let's explore in more depth....
Data on Organisational Maturity
Energy Sector Hearts and Minds Toolkit
https://heartsandminds.energyinst.org/toolkit
Core-Values-Behavioural-Dictionary
Please copy and paste above link in your web browser to see an example of unsatisfactory, below average, average, good and excellent behaviours for core values of Respect, Teamwork, Continual Improvement and Innovation that enhances connection..
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On the Path of Courage, there are aswers to the many barriers we encounter on the path of fear. When the Path of Courage is taken, empowered by powerful questions, new and different ways of doing things are always discovered. Each new venture/challenge coming over the horizon is an opportunity to learn and grow.
When we question what we know, we continuse to develop a higher sense of kowingness - we come closer to discovering our real truth.
"If the opposite of what we believed to be true was true - what would that mean for us?"
Resurces worth Exploring
Ladder of growth - Making Growth Visible
https://ladderofgrowth.io/
Leading with Questions, Marquardt, MJ
https://davekraft.org/wp-content/uploads/Leading-with-Questions-.pdf
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A considerable amount of my time in business has been helping individual Leaders and groups of Leaders discover what they didn't know they knew and also what they didn'r know they didn't know - tose things they believed to be true and were false. The consious mind has the ability to process about 7 pieces of informayion per minute. Our unconcious mind can process three hundred thousand pieces of information in about the same time!
Most of this vast databas of information is carried aound in our uncoscious mind, that part that 'we don't know', or the right brain, the non linier, nonverbal part of our brains. At any moment we are exposed to two billion pieces of information. All of this information helps me helps me empower groups discover what they don't know - let's do a 'deeper dive' into this marvelous world..
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We only know what we know - what we have been taught by books, by others and by our expereinces. That is all we know. Or is it? Is it possible that we don't know what we belive we know? That we know we don't know we know? Once is was sure I knew how to get ahead: get a good education, find a good company, work hard, do what I am told and be loyal...
In lee than a geneation, most of what I and other thought we knew began crumbling - compaies downsize, rightsize, flatten, reengineer,and decentrlalise. They leave million of people scrambling,often bloodeid and bruised.... What can we do to 'turn the tide'?
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Much of our world isn't very spiritual or positive - it is filld with negativity and fear. We are bombarded daily with negativity on a conscious and subliminal level most of our days. As the pace of doing quickens, we become more and more diatant from our being and from our values and slip more into reactive doing.
rather than conciously accessing our unconcious for inner wisdom, we slip into letting our unconcious run out lives as fate! We get furhter and furhter from our heart consiousness. When we spend some of our time in reflection we can take a detached view of our world and begin to make some sense of it and see it throught the lens of our heart. Let's explore....
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Dreams are another door to access our inner wisdom and can be considered a goodway to receive message - sometimesa very importnat message from our subconcious.Dreams are are our most effectivesource of informationthat we are taking into our unconscious minds at a rate of 43,000 times that our conscious minds process data.
Ther are countless ways for people to access their inner heart, their spirit. There are no right or wrongs ways, only different ways - let's ex[plore some.....
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People ask, "How do you get in touch with your heart, your spirit?" I belive the answer lies in being, - just being, in self knowledge and self awareness.It lies in listening to our inner wisdom and trusting that we have the answers. In trusting that we can know what we don't know. It lies inin giving up the past and choosing to live in the present.....
Interesting Reading
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
https://archive.org/download/ThePowerOfNowEckhartTolle_201806/The%20Power%20Of%20Now%20-%20Eckhart%20Tolle.pdf
HOT Leadership
We need to remember that we are all programmed with a lifetime of instructions, socialistation and linear, analytical, quantitative thinking. One of the greatest challenges we face when learning to lead from our hearts is to become aware when our automatic responses are active. We then begin to understand what is needed in mustering courage to keep the faith in Heart Leadership....
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An important part of discovering inner knowing, heart knowing, spiritual knowing is learning to be aware of our ourselves. Listening to our inner knowingness.Most of us have been socialised to ignore or stifle the gifts our bodies send us to help us be awater of our heart knowing - the tear in the eye, the lump in the throat,irritabiliuty or nervous enrgy. For some it may be abig stept o become conscious to the fact that we are having heart/spiritual reaction that says "There's something that we should examine more closely"
When we learn to recognise that our heartis trying to communicate with us, we have come a long way towards achieving spiritual knowing and rediscovering our inner 'Wonder Child' - let's explore...
Reference
John Bradshaw, Homecoming
https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/homecoming-by-john-bradshaw.pdf
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When we lead on the path of courage, complex situations, confusion and apparent chaos don't deter us from our learning. From out heart we know there is deep order in what is happening.
If we have the openness, the patience and the courage to ask questions and generate more and more information, we put ourselves and our organisations in the position to begin to see order in the chaos. We begin to see how how events and conditions relate to other events and conditions.....
Good Reading
Can't See the Wood for the Trees?: Landscaping Your Life to Get Back on Track, Alison Smith, (Findhorn Press)
We, Robert A. Johnson, (Harper Collins)
HOT Leadership
A key component of successful organisations is The Heart within the operations, the glue, the spirit that presents itself as a positive belief in people, and a belief that the organisation can handle whatever comes its way.
There is an intentional consciousness and commitment to live from that belief system. This apllies in all walks of life - highlighted recently at the winter olympics.
Good Reading
Susan Jefffers, Feel the Fear and Beyond (ISBN: 9780712608831)
https://susanjeffers.com/books/feel-the-fear-and-beyond/
HOT Leadership
In Heart Leadership if we are to lead with courage we have to Learn. Learn why we may be 'missing the mark'. Learn whay we do very well sometimes and not so well at other times. We need to undersatnd the sources of our fears.
Understand what disguises them from us so that we believe we are angry, frustrated, irritated or confused.
WE need to be conscious of what is driving us. WE should also understand our own spirits and the nature of spirit if we are to know how to respect the spirits of others.....
HOT Leadership
To bring spirit into an organisation requires Courage. It requires Leadership commiting to have courage to be calm amid chaos, to sustain the tension until empowered learning has happened. To maintain personal spirit, to have faith and trust in both people and the process.
Giving orders doesn't require personal courage. That's one of the reasons so many mangers, who give lip service to workers involvement, revert to old modes of working when the going gets tough...
To live the kind of courage required to bring spirit into the workplace requires our organisational leadership to take time to truly experience the relationship with ourselves and others we live and work with. Let's see what this looks, sounds and feels like...
HOT Leadership
The Leader who doesn't keep people focused on the organisation's financials as well as their spiritual goals is undermining their trust which jepordises the relationship of the leader to their workers.
Having a safe relationship is needed for workers to be innovative and creative. The real bottom line is to have finacially healthy, competitive organisationin which there is no need to choose between either financial security and productivity or helping people dicover creativity and meaning in their work - both are critical.
One way of looking and understanding this is to explore something called the Spirit Cycle......
Link to The Spirit Cycle Graphic:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kidoSf_hOURCBv_WkBy_RxxKVRifvyUY/view?usp=sharing
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In my Human and Organisational Factors research I have found that in organisations with empowering communications they do the following:
* when people talk they are present with each other
* their focus is on the person they are speaking to - completely
* they listen carefully
* their pace of talking is slower and more studied
* the level of respect with which each speaks to the other truly honours both
Let's explore in more depth...
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In my research into Human Factors and leaders who promoted creativity, quality and safety I had the opportunity to travel far and wide. I came across an organisation that had an intuitive leader who told me story after story of innovations that their workers had made to enhance the way that they worked. Some changes improved safety, others improved productivity, others improved engineering of products...
What was 'setting these people on fire'? It was something that was happening at a deep root level, someting we called the Spirit Cycle. It was the way people reltaed to each other in a spirit respecting workplace that produces a self perpetuating energy...
HOT Leadership
As Leaders if we are to provide space for a spirit centred community to emerge we need a new tool that seeks to challenge our assumptions, our creativity and our spotaneity rather than to restrict and controlin order toensure outomes with which we are familiar and comfotablw with.
A communication process called dialogue has gained great respect over the last number oy years - let's explore....
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The Power of questions may be the most underrated and overlooked leverage we have on our organisations.
It is a powerful decision making device and a powerful learning tool. Most of us aren't used to thinking in the terms of questions; we have to practice developing information and idea generating questions and learn to 'package' them in an empowering way to bring understanding to the isssue(s) being explored.
When we combine that with creating space for ideas to develop and actively listen to responses we all grow to greater levels of understaning and potenetially limitless possibilities....
HOT Leadership
Leaders in spirit respecting workplaces are deeply connected to everyone. Leaders love, value and respect both themselves and others.
Trust and faith in others is a given, it is unconditional. When we seek connection, we give up win-loose games - we seek perspectives on situations that allows all of us to 'win'.....
HOT Leadership
Heart Leadership is all about living with integrity to which some would call it "walking the talk" - do what you say you'll do. In heart leadership it's more than that - integrity is a wholeness that encompasses out belief system on at such a deep level that it is impossible to split that which we believe from how we act. Integrity is believing, thinking, speaking and acting in alighnment with our personal values.....
HOT Leadership
Spirit respecting Heart Leadership sees the possibilites in every situation and this makes risk taking so much easier. An environment that encourages people to experiment with possibilites and to make mistakes is a fertile ground for creativity and innovation...
HOT Leadership
Traditional Managers autopilot there way through business - particularily through their behaviours and decisions. They operate from assumptions and 'certainties' that haven't been challenged for a very long time.
When we Lead from the Heart, we want as many people as possible challenging as many realities as possible, contriburing as much pertinent information as possible and collaborately making the best decsions for the organisation as possible...
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It has been said by Nancy Anderson that "courage is not the absence of of fear: rather it is the ability to take action in th face of fear."
I have found that's what it's like in introducing heart/spiritual leadership within the workplace. When we recognise we don't live in 'little boxes' of work lives, community lives, lives as workers and employers and lives as parents, spouses or children. We live in one life where the same values and behaviours apply to all then we experience and inner peace. We have freedom to truly express ourselves in all avenues of our lives - our heart sings and we truly are leaders without title.....
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I believe that leading a spirit-respecting workplace is easier than managing a traditional organisation - it tends to take on a life of its own.
However, at the same time, leading this kind of workplace is also harder, particularily for those of us that are compelled to control the uncontrollable. (smile).
Most of us have clear ideas about what should happen and not happen in organisations and our reponsibilites as leaders within them. These become the rules by which we do our work and simplify the workplace. It simplifies the way we do businesss by keeping everything on a superficial level.
When we choose to build a spirit-respecting and spirit-nurturing organisation, we give up the illusion of simplicity. We build an environment for courageous leadership that encompasses everyone. WE make it safe to explore, to try newthings, to stretch our creativity. Time now to explore the principles.
Additional Insights
Spirituality: The Next Frontier of Workplace Wellbeing | Susannah Healy.
https://youtu.be/MosvBKul270
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For me work bridges the gap between the spiritual and the rational in each of us. A gap that is continualy looking for wholeness and completion.
Spirit is the fire within each and everyone of us that ignites us with passion, purpose, love, energy and courage. This fire lives in us and sets us alive and ablaze when we are near our work - not just our job or career but a personal calling or purpose that is spiritually and emotionally sustaining.....
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Spirituality, distinct from religion is a challenging topic because it can be a very importand part of religion in its pure form.
Respectfully discussing the spiritual nature of people without invading the realm of personal religious freedom or being perceived as been trying to convert someone to a sectarian religion is even more challenging.
If spirituality isn't necessarily religion, then what is it? How does it look, sound and feel like within the workplace? Let's explore in more depth.....
Additional Data
The Power of NOW - Eckhart Tolle
https://rootsandbright.com/the-power-of-now-by-eckhart-tolle/
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I believe there are two paths of leadership - the path of fear and the path of Courage and Heart. Heart Leadership where people are connected though spirit, joy and passion in their work.
To follow the path of Heart Leadership takes courage it's where we challenge old assumptions that may keep us from discovering new posibilites. We look at similar situations and explore with others how it will be different this time. We balance the quantifiable with the intuitive with vision and values, and with our belief in our ability to produce a positive result.
Let's discover more...
Resource: Courage
Limitless - Chris Hemsworth
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People who lead from the Heart have learned courage. They have discovered 'spirit' - that buoyant energy deep within that flourishes when what athletes call "in the flow" where everything seems possible. It's harnessing that energy and enriching your and everyones life. Let's explore....
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Heart Leaders are real human beings beings leading real people. Leaders who lead from the heart have a high level of self-awareness.They know who they are at their core - the good, the bad and the ugly. They don't crave for new things to do like a drug that keeps parts of themselves in wee boxes - let's explore....
Dream Dare Dazzle
We/you have an oppotuity to awaken up to the life we/you are following just now. If it's not fully working for you, if it seems as if it's "running away from you" you have an opportunity to take control today. Follow the x 7 'P's' of Transformational leadership and retake control of your personal and professional life. Let's take action with:
1. Purpose
2. Promises
3. Projects
4. Persuasion
5. Praising
6. Perseverance
7. Preparation
Additional Reference Data
MindNode Next Transformational Leadership Mind Map
https://www.icloud.com/share/0aeTUs-AIFeLC5-eoEcBhm0WA#Transformational_Leadership
Please click on the '>' to expand the Principle 'leg'. When you highlight the Root principle click on the '<' to collapse the 'leg'.
Shared Folder .pdf Versions
7 x P Transformational Leadership
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Is failing to prepare the death call of transformational leadership?
Yes, but not in the manner you may be accustomed to. The planning I’m recommending is the planning for undergoing the individual transformation required to lead the organisational transformation you're looking for - for your personal and professional life.
People at work or in your personal life who have achieved something extraordinary and who live lives known as rewarding and uplifting have a clear and compelling plan for achieving what’s important to them - let's explore in more details.....
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From time to time you’ll find that what you’re doing is no longer working. I have worked with technology executives for many years. One of the hardest things they have had to do is leave behind the enjoyment of the technical side of their work.
They entered the technology field because of an enjoyment or skill in what they are doing and have become enamoured with the intricacies of their technology. Although loving what you do and being good at it is essential to success at work, they’ve lost sight of the business value technology brings to an organization.
When I suggest they forget their technology and instead focus on the business and economic value to their technology, I’m rewarded with deer-in-the-headlights looks. How do we leave the safe harbour of the known? Let's explore...
Thought Provoking interview on Perseverance
Grit - Angela Duckworth
https://youtu.be/1TQ4gezRQh4
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Living a purposeful life and not an accidental life - accidental doesn’t mean accidental in the sense that your leadership and life are mere accidents. But what I find with that with nearly every executive and entrepreneur I’ve ever worked with is that the demands of their work are inhibiting them from designing the leadership and life that allows them to flourish.
The reality is that your transformational leadership journey will be filled with obstacles and barriers you anticipated as well as those you didn’t - let's look at our options....
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Every transformational leader wants to do compelling, meaningful great work, and they see their leadership purpose as the starting point for doing this. Yet, they can grind to a halt at a barrier.
Leaders who are successful and satisfied have learned how to address the four most common barriers that inhibit them from accomplishing their purpose. By understanding these leadership barriers, leaders are better prepared to overcome the barriers and lead purposefully rather than accidentally - doing their greatest work.
Additional Support Data
TED talk: the power of Purpose - Ashley M Grice
https://www.ted.com/talks/ashley_m_grice_the_power_of_purpose_in_business?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
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We continue our exploration of the principle of Perseverance and look at the "Tortoise and the hare" within organisations.
The tortoise represents that part of our work and professional lives that can only be accomplished with perseverance and a protective outer shell. The destination is clear and in focus, but it comes forward in baby steps. The hare represents the fast-twitch muscles required to get out of the blocks fast, but that cannot be sustained over long periods of time. You need both capabilities but will remain transactional in your benefits if you try and have your workforce do both.
Let's look at exponential growth!
Additional Resource
Wicked problem Solving
https://youtu.be/6QaVW_nNMaE
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I and my colleagues have found in our coaching and consulting work that when it comes to transformational performance, talent is overrated and perseverance is underestimated.
Perseverance is prominently displayed in the world of politics, business, and sports. Serena Williams once said about success, “Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.”
The Perseverance Principle asks How badly do I want my purpose? Will I overcome all the obstacles that will surely come? Will I not take no for an answer? Will I look through the fear of failure that will likely show up and be courageous anyway? Let's explore.....
Additional Resource
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance/transcript
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This may be the shortest podcast in our journey exploring transformational leadership. However, it may have the longest shelf life.
The diary grooming process is an ultra-short (five minute) process of reviewing your day as a transformational leader. It is a process of finding the areas of your leadership that are going well and accentuating them, along with the areas that are not going well and reducing or eliminating them. It's all about optimisation, it's about getting your 'flywheel of life' turning as efficiently as possible and maintaing it at peak health.
Diary grooming/optimisation is similar to dressing for work every day. You remove the clothes worn to bed, shower, and put on clean clothes appropriate for the day ahead. Then stepping forward for your bright new day envigerated...
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The 'compliment' to praising is purification - its purpose is to help us identify areas that are negatively impacting performance while building our credibility as leaders. Purification is about removing obstacles and barriers to higher performance, both for the leader as well as for your Team and colleagues.
Transformational leaders isolate one or two harmful beliefs or behaviours and work to eliminate or remove them.
Empowering Resource
For a deeper understanding of techniques to help change beliefs:
Overcoming Limiting Beliefs with NLP Techniques
https://unleashyourpower.com/blog/overcoming-limiting-beliefs-with-nlp/
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Praise will act as a catalyst for even higher levels of success when three praise aspects are present. Stakeholders know if a leader is paying attention to what they’re doing and sincere praise creates a positive feedback loop in which what gets noticed and rewarded gets magnified.
The three aspects are:
1. sincerity
2. timeliness and
3. specificity
Let's explore in more depth...
More info
Forbes: recognition - the key to 2025 employee engagement?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karadennison/2024/09/13/why-recognition-could-be-the-key-to-employee-engagement-in-2025/
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Praise helps people feel valued, heard, and appreciated. People who feel valued, heard, and appreciated work with more passion, experiment, take risks, and grow at rates far greater than those who don’t.
In every organisation there are pockets of workers/coleagues potential lying dormant. When you ask these people if they could do more the resounding answer is yes.
What’s fascinating is that when you ask people why they don’t accomplish more or what they are capable of accomplishing the number one answer is because they choose not to. They could if they wanted to, they just choose not to. The ability to do more but choosing not to is a massive drain on performance. Let's explore how we can unlock their potential....
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Far too many of us live in fear when it comes to our business lives. For some of us, it’s financial fear. For others, it’s emotional. No matter the source or type of fear, fear has a debilitating effect on personal and professional growth over extended periods of time. Fear can be a catalyst for action, but accelerated progress can never be made beneath the shadow of a fearful mindset.
The best way to fight fear is to identify what causes it. If you can determine the cause of fear, you can redirect it and make it less frightening for you and your team. Working with executives as a coach I have discovered eight types of fear that are most common to executives:
1. Fear of holding people accountable.
2. Fear of making mistakes.
3. Fear of leaving a job that sucks the energy out of you.
4. Fear of not being seen as smart and successful.
5. Fear of upsetting your boss or senior leaders.
6. Fear of turning away from current successes in order to have even greater success.
7. Fear of investing in one’s self.
8. Fear of making decisions.
Let's explore....
More on Mindsets
The Chimp Paradox - a better understanding of your mind.
https://betterwellnessguide.com/the-chimp-paradox/
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Let's talk about how to present your ideas in such a way that people will want to say yes to them.
There are eight strategies for having someone say yes to your requests. Some of the strategies are more mindset related and others are more skill set related. But in each case the strategies are a positive step forward to hearing someone say yes to your ideas.
The 8 strategies are:
1. Put Others First
2. Be Open to Being Persuaded
3. Exude Confidence
4. Be in The Moment
5. Use the If/Then Strategy
6. The Magic of Three Yeses Strategy
7. The Powerful Language Strategy
8. The Show-Me-the-Money Strategy
More on Mindsets
The Chimp Paradox - a better understanding of your mind.
https://betterwellnessguide.com/the-chimp-paradox/
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It has been said that the eyes are the window into the soul. If true, the ears are the doorway to the heart. It is by our ears we listen to what’s important to someone.
We not only hear the words they are using, but hear the tone of voice, inflection, and can distinguish between the emotions expressed and listen for what is hoped for moving forward. Our ears afford us the ability to do so, but all too frequently we don’t take the time to fully hear what's being said.
Let's see, hear and feel waht we can do about that...
Resource
7 essential NLPTechniques for stronger communications
https://nlpyourself.com/7-essential-nlp-techniques-for-better-communication/
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Having clear expectations can reduce the strife in your personal life and professional life by 50 percent as well as increase your performance. You do that by getting clear about the expectations you have with someone.
Clear expectations are rooted in seven fundamental steps:
1. Reafirm the Purpose
2. Define Success
3. Clarify Roles, Responsibilites and Time Frames
4. Clarify Decision Making
5. Schedule Status Updates
6. Address The Issues
7. Confirm Understanding and Agreement
Let's explore in more depth....
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If you are in a leadership position, you have likely read about how to have teams and workers you lead do something they may not want to do. A day doesn't go by that you don’t directly or indirectly persuade someone. You have high hopes for having people follow your lead and act in ways that foster innovation, growth, and passion.
But in everyday life, leaders are dealing with the realty that, all too often, people don’t do what they’re asked and/or behave in ways that don’t support the best interests of the customer, team, or organisation. Let's se how we navigate this in an empowering way....
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Persuasion in transformational leadership is not about eloquent and stirring speeches like Martin Luther King’s "I Have A Dream" speech.
Persuasion in transformational leadership is about positive influence, not manipulation. In its purest form persuasion is the shaping with full integrity the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and behaviours of others. Let's examine in more detail....
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Every organisation has deep reservoirs of talent that are not achieving their full potential. There are many reasons why full potential is not achieved and excellence is not cascaded throughout an organisation.
You will no doubt have your own list, but after working with organisations for many years I have found a set of 20 reasons why talent is not realising its full potential - let's explore, then look, hear and feel a holistic leadership development process that is focussed on talent maximisation, barrier elimination and results acceleration....
Resource:
Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
https://www.sachem.edu/assets/north_important_information/seven_habits_of_highly_effective_people.pdf
TED Spark: 4 ways to keep growing in a changing world
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-ways-keep-growing-changing-world-ted-conferences-kuyhe/
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There is a common misconception that people resist change. I believe people don’t mind change. What they mind is feeling bad about it.
If you want transformational levels of growth, understanding how the change impacts workers and stakeholders, how the change makes them feel must be recognised, respected, reflected on with a warm heart and responded to accordingly - let's explore....
Support Data
Rocking your Strategy
https://rockyourstrategy.com/how-to-cascade-strategy-to-deliver-excellent-results/
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Far too often leaders feel overwhelmed by the everyday demands of their jobs and they in turn disengage from the ideal of workers flourishing and doing their best work. They love the idea of workers flourishing and of a flourishing bottom line, but are not actively engaged in a leadership project that allows it to happen.
For me, it's about shining LIGHT:
Listening
Integrity
Generosoty
Heart
Truth
Let's explore....
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I would suggest that flourishing is in short supply because of lowered standards. Customers have become accustomed to airlines and railways that regularly delay flights/trains and dismiss passenger frustration; they’ve come to expect banks and other financial institutions to be more concerned with the bank’s financial wellbeing than the customers. Also, political narratives has been degraded to unimaginable levels. Let's explore in more depth.....
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Are you, your workers and customers flourishing? Are you faring well, prospering, highly productive, excelling, and living boldly? Let's explore and see what that means to you and your stakeholders.
Resource:
Flourishing at Work and Flourishing in Life
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/human-flourishing/202109/flourishing-at-work-and-flourishing-in-life
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If you are a financial advisor, accountant, attorney, engineer, IT professional, Human Resources specialist, or in any technically trained profession, you need to fall out of love with what you do and change your Focus to falling in love with making your clients’, customers’, and worksrs’ lives better for having worked with you.
This sends a powerful message that this person can improve the quality of my life. This is transformational leadership in Action.
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In many organizations the word project creates a negative response. Too many projects are
cumbersome and lumbering. They’re populated with people who view the project as a time suck and who lack creativity and enthusiasm for doing meaningful work.
Also, because they feel over scheduled, overworked, and overwhelmed, they want to check off the project team meeting on their to-do list and go back to more important work.
Let's explore what this really means from a Transformational Leadership perspective.....
Resource:
Mind Maps for Effective Project Management: Free Online Access to 40 Mind Map Templates Kindle Edition by Maneesh Dutt (Author)
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When everythig is a priority, nothing is a priority
What is a priority? The word priority comes from the Anglo-Norman French word priorie, which means “elder or superior of a religious order.” A priory is a small monaster y or nunnery governed by a prior or a prioress. In today’s world, a priority is something governed by a higher order.
In this podcast I’ll make the case that your highest priorities are best derived from your purpose and promises. Doing this purposefully as opposed to accidentally is the purpose of our podcast....
Resource:
Force Field Analysis https://asq.org/quality-resources/force-field-analysis
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When you work through the exercises of the Purpose Principle, you come to the Promises Principle with high hopes of having your purpose become real.
This is a substantial piece of leadership development that while challenging, will provide you with 10 significant advantages. When viewed together these advantages become the catalyst for you accomplishing transformational work and creating a mindset of passion, innovation, and growth.....
Resource
The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question, James Bailey
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaning-Life-Letters-Extraordinary-Question
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Promises influence people’s behaviour in one of two ways:
1. A promise kept builds trust, respect, and credibility.
2. A promise broken does the opposite.
Broken promises not only have an impact on the task and technical aspects of work, but they also have a much greater negative impact on the relational aspects of leadership.
In order for promises to have a positive influence on other people there are three must have aspects of a promise that have to be considered. Let's explore....
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What is the root of apprehension, ambiguity, and uncertainty?
At the centre of each word is fear. If I am apprehensive, I am afraid of the unknown. When ambiguity is present I am unsure of what might happen. With uncerainty, I might be afraid about what I should do next. I don’t want to fail or lose something important, so I hold back.
In each case, smart, talented, and well-meaning workers stand on the sidelines rather than running onto to pitch and 'having a go". This is a recipe for underperformance.
Far too many of us live in fear when it comes to our business lives - let's see "what we can do"...
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A promise is an abiding commitment, an assurance to others that we will or will not do something.
Promises are voluntary and not ever forced. Promises must be voluntary. When promises are made solely to placate someone or to get a foot in the door only to turn the tables and renegotiate the outcome, the promises come across as hollow and manipulative.
They are about so much more - let's explore.....
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Can every day be an ideal day? No, it can’t.
Will the choices we make increase the possibility that the number of days we experience as an ideal day increase? Yes, most certainly
Here’s my bold ascertion: living an ideal day is a choice. There’s no way around the fact that we have a choice as to how we choose to plan and live our days.
Let's Explore this principle in more depth.....
Reference:
Mans Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
https://archive.org/download/frankl-viktor-mans-search-for-meaning-1963/FRANKL_Viktor_Man%27s_Search_For_Meaning-1963_text.pdf
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Organisations know about the power of brands. Brands create value, loyalty, and, when compelling and distinctive, they create profound emotional experiences for customers that attract more customers who want the same experience.
What is not recognised as much is that a leader’s brand can be a catalyst for transformational growth.
Transformational leaders no longer rely solely on their organisation’s brand to guide their behaviour.
Transformational leaders develop their own individual brand.
Resource:
Personal Branding Examples
https://ohhmybrand.com/personal-branding-examples/
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The key idea about being distinctive is less about being something to people that you aren’t and more about aligning what you are gifted and talented at doing in highly differentiated ways for people who value it.
Resource:
This I believe....
https://thisibelieve.org/
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Dramatic performance personally and professionally, are closer than you think when you have a clearly defined purpose. Improvements of almost all types in organisations start with one word: clarity.
It is used with respect to expectations, results, value, competencies, accountability, and what makes us feel alive and vibrant. Without clarity there is little-to-no likelihood that focus can follow. With clarity and focus come new insights, new strategies, and new behaviors that move individuals and organizations forward in unprecedented ways.
We can help find our Puspose by exploring our Talent, Love and Values.
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Dramatic performance as well as engagement and satisfaction 'are within your grasp' when you have a clear and empowering Purpose.
Improvements of almost all types in organistions start with one word: clarity. It is used with respect to expectations, results, value, competencies, accountability, and what makes us feel alive and vibrant.
With clarity and focus come new insights, new strategies, and new behaviours that move individuals and organisations forward in exceptional ways. Let's explore....
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If you want a flourishing business - one that has top-line growth, greater profitability, high levels of customer satisfaction, and top talent retention you must have flourishing relationships with your workforce, colleagues and customers.
In today’s world of work, the customer experience must be so compelling that customers wouldn't consider going elsewhere. This leads to a happy workplace where all srtive to be in 'top form', having fun in an empowering workplace.
Let's explore the principles.....
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Designing for people is a design process that focuses on the needs and characteristics of the users or operators.
Good design takes into account how the operator is expected to interact with the workplace set up, the work equipment and how the work equipment fits into the system as a whole. As a result, facilities, hardware, systems, equipment, product tooling, materials, layout and configurations are adapted to human skills, limitations and anatomy.
The design process requires an analysis of the work tasks that operators have to carry out and the effect of any constraints that the design and its influence on the environment (e.g. noise, vibration) is likely to have on the operator’s health, safety and well-being.
Resource:
Designin for performance
https://www.iogp.org/workstreams/safety/safety/human-performance/
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Let's look at leadership initially from a senior management level - having a duty of care to look after everyone within an organisation and all stakeholders.
Understanding what human factors are about, how it applies to your business and where you can get additional support. Having People, Processes and Plant/Equipment effective for the tasks, environment and people from a human and organisational factors perspctive. Enhancing the the health and wellbeing of all and protecting our environment.
Leadership is a philosophy. It’s an attitude. It’s a state of mind - it's about hearts and minds. And, it’s available to each one of us. In safety, we talk about leadership without title - we all can make a difference and influence others around us in a positive way. It can be as simple as uplifting someone by a smile....
Resources:
Leadership for major hazards industries
https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg277.pdf
Energy Sector Hearts and Minds
https://heartsandminds.energyinst.org/
ZeLeadership Series
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/zeleaders-1-top-10-things-dazzling-leaders-do--51647600
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Human and Organisational Factors (HOF) on one level are 'straigtforward' on another, they are pretty complex with many factors 'in play' simultaneously. The key elements involved are:
1. Leadership
2. Designing for People
3. Health and Safety Culture
4. Fitness for Work
5. Staffing and Workload
6. Useable procedures
7. Maintenance, Inspecting and testing error
8. Training and Competence
9. Safety-critical Communications
10. Organisational Change
11. Managing Human Reliability
12. Accident Investigation Root Cause Analysis and Lessons Learned
Today we will 'headline' them giving a 'taste' for the future - let's explore.
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This is an introduction to a series of podcasts on a Field Guide to Human and Organisational Factors that introduces, in a practical manner, the key principles and techniques to make our organisations and communities Stronger, Smarter and Safer.
These insights are from a career of 4 decades spanning the Globe from the Artic Circle to Auastralasia within the Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Aviation, Logistics and Maritime Sectors as a Chartered Safety Engineer, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Accident Investigation Team Leader.
Human and Organisational Factors (HOF) are about People who are involved in all aspects of work within our communites. These are all the key elements within workplaces in all Sectors that have an impact on the people who work there and the communites they impact that are fundamental in keeping everyone safe.
Human and organisational factors affect how effectively and safely people are able to do their jobs.
When managed well, human and organisational factors set people up for success. When they are poorly managed, or have not been considered, safety, productivity and wellbeing are compromised to the detrimment of everyone.
Over the next few months we'll introduce the key aspects of this empowering area in an ever changing world to help our communites be more resilent and grow to the wellbeing of all.
Bibliography
Dame Judith Hackitt, Safety Leadership – a moral and ethical imperative
https://youtu.be/xaBMKnUqjeY?si=mrzhPBc4SaLJgXJL
Piper Alpha Tragedy
https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/workgroups/major-accident-hazard/remembering-piper-alpha/
Grenfell Tower Disaster
https://youtu.be/PR4VhqZV9_I?si=K2K05_NyaabIdbI3
Cardiac Journey
https://youtu.be/UeKTsfISp9E
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Let's explore resilient organisational cultures - my research and experience has identified ‘signalling channels’ that people use to pick up clues, cues, signs, and signals to determine ‘the way we do things round here’. (our culure)
These are 'leading performance indicators' that allow us to pick up through each of the channels if the organisational clues, cues, signs, and signals that we pick up are aligned and logical as opposed to misaligned, illogical or at cross purposes”?
This can help us identify if we have a resilient culture or one that is 'self- defeating"..... In which case we can look at 'nudging' our culture "back on track" ......
Reference:
Intentional Revolutions - A Seven-Point Strategy for Transforming Organizations,
MIT, Ed Nevis, Joan Lancourt , Helen Vassalo
ISBN: 978-0-787-90240-7
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Alone time in solitude can boost our weelbeing. This can be from relaxing and recharging to problem solving and emotional regulation.
Solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity and our relationships with ourselves and others.
Learning what makes us better at spending time alone can help us move to our best possible selves...
It's about being in the NOW...
Supporting Links
TED talk: How to Master the Art of being Alone
https://youtu.be/34ttspXxYlw?si=Jpjxs3HXPtafr3z4
The Power of the Present Moment
https://youtu.be/UklFtkyOVK8?si=lSou1rp5XunpEr37
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Here are some peak perfromance insights Ive jotted down from my global Leadership coaching over many years....
Hope it helps - have fun exploring!
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Let's explore the challenge of the so called 'Monkey Mind' and its relationship to Meditation. Some years ago I was curious about meditation and how to silence my 'manic maind' that was "all over the place".
My initial 'foray' into meditation was quite a revelation - I had no control over my 'Monkey Mind'. In fact, meditaion appreared to make it worse! Let's explore my insights after many peaceful years...
More to Explore
The Chimp Model
https://chimpmanagement.com/the-chimp-model/
How to Meditate
https://www.brahmakumaris.org/meditation/how-to-meditate
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Let's explore increasing our safe operating zone, some would call this their safe zone so that we can reach new heights.
By taking little daily steps that feel a littel scary we can get stronger and stronger taking 'more risks' that once seemed unsurmountable...
Motivational Resource
Real risk takers:
https://youtu.be/T4HwVrK2vRE?si=1DdjQ64CmytIoNRX
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Building a brand isn’t about being a fake. It’s about showing people the real you. That should always be enough. You need to be authentic if you want to build a brand that lasts.
Don’t try to create a fake persona, and pretend you’re someone you’re not, as eventually people will see through that.
Worth a Look
Designing a Purposeful Personal Brand...
https://youtu.be/Alqt7pIbp_o?si=PgR84R64fauwnQlG
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It’s important to celebrate your successes, and you should acknowledge to yourself that you’ve achieved your goals. But you need to be careful that how you celebrate success so that it doesn’t damage your long-term ambition or become destructive to your life.
It's OK to feel relief rather than joy when you accmplish a goal..
Motivational Success Stories
https://www.yescoachlisa.com/blog/true-motivational-stories/
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Be curious - it'll give you power.
I’m a level beyond curious - I’m inquisitive. I’ll keep asking questions because I want to know everything. The more information you have, the more opportunites there are to ethically increase your knowledge and power to grow and transform - increasing your 'operating envelope....'
That’s true inside and outside public and private life....
For furhter explorations:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-reboot/202311/the-psychology-and-neuroscience-of-curiosity
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You'e probably hearf the expression "fake it until you make it!" Yes, it can sort off work in the short term - in my expereince, not in the long term.
People waste a lot of time thinking about their body language when they should be working on how they really feel on the inside and then their body language will reflect that.
It’s tempting to pretend to yourself and to others that you’re OK. You don’t want to admit that anything is wrong because you see that as a weakness or a failing, as if going through a hard time somehow makes you less of a person.
Showing vulnerability doesn’t reveal weakness. Actually, it’s the opposite. It’s a sign of strength. You need to have a certain level of confidence to show vulnerability.
'Worth a Read'
Feeel the Fear and Beyond, Susan Jeffers
https://susanjeffers.com/books/feel-the-fear-and-beyond/
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How do you prepare for the punches that are going to come your way in life? Like anything, it takes practice.
If you’re going to succeed at anything, you have to practise, and you have to practise how you want to perform. That means bringing the same level of intensity and focus to your preparations that you’re going to want when you’re performing.
Resource:
Achieving Peak Performance: A Conversation with Anders Ericsson
https://behavioralscientist.org/achieving-peak-performance-a-conversation-with-anders-ericsson/
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Whatever you’re doing, try to use fear as a positive force in your life. It can be the fuel that makes you work harder than ever before.
When you’re preparing, feel scared that you’re not going to achieve your dreams. But when the day comes, you mustn’t allow fear to cloud your judgement as you can’t think clearly when you’re afraid.
If you’ve done enough preparation, you don’t need to be afraid.
Resource:
"Feel the fear and do it anyway", Susan Jeffers
https://susanjeffers.com/books/feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway-25th-anniversary-edition-uk/
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Positive energy goes a long way: everyone responds better to positive energy than to negativity, and to being around optimists rather than pessimists. In life, having a sunny outlook goes a long way. I would like to think I’m an upbeat person. I’m happy with who I am and what I’m doing with my life and that allows me to have a positive energy.
Have a think about how you might come across to other people, and whether they view you as positive or not. Consider the language you use and how you express yourself. Let's explore....
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If you want to change your life, and push yourself to new heights, you're going to have to take some risks.
Playing it safe gets you nowhere in life. At best, you’ll stay where you are today. More likely, you’ll drift backwards as others will rush past you.
Ultimately, if you don’t take any risks, you can’t expect to enjoy different results and new, bigger rewards. If you only stick to what you know and what you’ve done before, you might also end up regretting why you limited your chances.
Whatever you’re trying to accomplish in your life, it's a good idea to have 'numbers' that allow you to track your progress. This is the era of data – you should be able to find a way, maybe even an app, of quantifying the progress you’re making.
I've founf, over the years, that it's preferable to have targets that are measurable. Numbers put everything in black and white. Numbers mean you can’t lie to yourself. If you have a target that’s measurable, you’ll know when you’re on track...
Goal Setting Support Info:
SMART Goals
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-write-smart-goals
BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/big-hairy-audacious-goal-bhag.asp
Fitbit health fitness stats
https://www.techadvisor.com/article/742445/fitbit-health-and-fitness-scores-and-stats-explained.html
Garmin Health and Sports Stats
https://www.wareable.com/sport/every-garmin-metric-explained
Apple Watch Health Data
https://www.apple.com/healthcare/apple-watch/
You’ve figured out how you want to transform your life - now you need to start thinking about how you’re going to create that change. You can’t rely on luck – you can be sure you won’t get far without a strategy and without having measurable goals to work towards.
When someone calls you lucky, it devalues all the hard work and sacrifice that have gone into achieving your dreams.
Can impatience be a Dream Killer?
People today are more impatient than ever. Our celebrity culture is damaging because it creates the impression that overnight success is most people’s experience, that you usually don’t have to be patient and persevere. We understand people don’t want to work for years. They want to go directly to being successful, skipping out the tough part in-between. But that’s not how the world works.
Let's explore in some more depth...
Problem Solving by Writing it Down
Over the years I've discovered,that sometimes, there's nothing more powerful than a pen and paper. When I’m going through a hard time, or feeling low, I’ve learned that one way to deal with my problems is to write them down. Often the best and the quickest therapy is scribbling my concerns on a piece of paper. Getting it out of my 'scrambled brain' and connecting with my gut for a solution. Yes, logic also has a 'part to play'. Let's explore....
Don't waste precious energy being jealous of others. Jealousy gets us nowhere. Actually, it’s much worse than that -jealousy pulls you back and drags you down.
Jealousy means you’ve allowed yourself to be distracted from the person you should be focusing on: yourself.
We have an opportunity to take reponsibility for our lives and decide where our life is heading.
If you’re going to be successful in whatever you do, the belief and confidence has to come from you, not from strangers who don’t know you. And you certainly shouldn’t allow strangers on the internet to negatively affect how you feel about yourself and your ambitions.
If you’re comfortable with yourself, and have a strong sense of who you are and what you’re hoping to achieve, it won’t matter what others say. Be Strong, Be Smart, Be Safe....
If you’re going to change your life, or do anything meaningful, you have to truly believe. You can’t do anything half-heartedly. You’ve got to keep on telling yourself: "I can do this, I can really do this, I can see, hear and feel it."
Sometimes you’ll know where you want to get to, but you don’t know how you’re going to get there. If you truly believe, you’ll eventually find a way to make that dream become a reality - step, by step, by step....
The challenge for many prople in the 'adventure world' is that threir ambition lies on the reaching of a single goal. Then to be 'met' with a profound emptiness once it has been reached. "Where to now?" jumps up!
For me it's about keeping dreams alive - Big, Bold and Beautiful ones. It's about re-setting our compass once we've achived our first 'Biggie"....
I've heard that the way to achieve your gols is to imagine in great detail all the different ways success will affect your life. perhaps in some istances this will work. However, I am inclined to believe that's not as necessarily true.
Rarely there is only one single reason for what we do. While some motives aren't easy to identify, I believe there are some that are behind almost every journey. Momentary flashes of experience can be compared to eternity. Let's explore them in some more depth.....
Don't chase happiness, let it find you...
Have you ever wondered properly why you are happy? Although I've felt I was happpy when I asked that question of myself I beagn to doubt myself.
A good life is about using your senses, seeking knowledge, living in companionship with others and being engaged in striving. Does contenment come from someone who is content? Let's explore furhter...
I believe that a zest morning routine is one of the most important habits for an exceptionally great life. The way we begin our day very much sets up how our day unfolds.
Of course we may choose to start with MVP [Meditation, Visualization, Prayer] is also powerful.
Doing a sweaty workout while hydrating and listening to a fascinating audiobook or pulsating music adds magic to our morning.
I’ve also started writing a few lines in answer to the following 5 questions, which, in the spirit of service I share with you....
It is sometimes easy to reach agreement smoothly, painlessly, and quickly. Other times it takes a lot of tugging and pulling to finally arrive at “Yes.”
There are four main reasons why peo-ple do not ask for that “Yes”:
1. Fear of rejection;
2. Lack of appropriate vocabulary;
3. Insufficient practice;
4. Lack of belief.
Learn to ask for the “Yes.” Let's explore 'Factors plus incentives' and dealing with objections.
Behavioural Values Dictionary
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Core-Values-Behavioural-Dictionar-Rev-1y.pdf
ZeComms Workbook
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ZeCommunications.pdf
Methods and words that are used to persuade and influence people are important to identify.
These things are as important as modes of speech and body language.
Clients will choose you because they trust you, like you, have confidence in you, and think that you can get the job done. Most important, they believe you have their best interests at heart....
Helpful Link:
Standford Report on 'The power of language: How words shape people, Culture."
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/08/the-power-of-language-how-words-shape-people-culture
When starting a conversation with another person, you are attempting to break the other person’s preoccupation with whatever they are doing.
Make the person want to listen to you. Excite them, put them at ease, or have them feel important. Each of these reasons is supported with various techniques to have the most effective start to a conversation.......
Useful Help:
250 conversation starters
https://conversationstartersworld.com/250-conversation-starters/
Body language is considered the most important and largest percentage of the three major fac-
tors of communication. It far surpasses how you say what you say and what you actually do say in words. A staggering 93% of communication relies on aspects other than the words you use.
Body language really is the unspoken truth - it is as crucial as active listening....
Helpful Links
Understanding Body Language and facial Ecpressions:
https://www.verywellmind.com/understand-body-language-and-facial-expressions-4147228
Body Language and Non Verbal Communications:
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/relationships-communication/nonverbal-communication.htm
Questions are very powerful because they are always answered, even if those answers are not verbalised (spoken aloud).You will be able to create a number of different situations and reactions by the types of questions you use e.g.:
* Use information questions to both give and to receive information.
* Consider a focusing question to focus people on a potential outcome
* Fill an embarrassing silence with a good question.
* Show that you are listening actively by asking questions......
Resource:
NLP for Dummies
https://www.dummies.com/article/body-mind-spirit/emotional-health-psychology/psychology/neurolinguistic-programming/neuro-linguistic-programming-for-dummies-cheat-sheet-207437/
Subconscious Encoding
Consider that as humans we have two minds: the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious mind is the judge of the information that comes through the senses, dealing with one item at a time.
The subconscious mind stores memories and does not judge information at all. It simply stores it. When a person is asked a question they respond, whether the re- sponse is verbalised or not.
Getting to Home Base
Within any particular native language, each person has their own home base of language, according to the ideas put forth by the two founding scientists of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP).The home bases are built on the five senses of visual (seeing), auditory (hear- ing), kinaesthetic (feeling/action/touch), olfactory (smelling), and gustatory (tasting).
Let's explore.....
Resources:
Neuro Linquistic Programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
Natural Language Processing and Artifical Intelligence
https://www.deeplearning.ai/resources/natural-language-processing/
ZeCommunications is about enabling the zest in people and organisations through the power of values based communications. It involves “practice practice, practice” and a sense of fun ‘sprinkled’ with resilience…
Everyone is in the persuasion business.Sometimes that persuasion is directed to other people. Sometimes it is inwardly directed to your self talk. Persuasion can occur in a simple conversa-
tion with one or a few people, or it can be while speaking to an audience of 500 or more people, as part of your professional world or within your personal activities.
Persuasion is part of everyday reality and greatly determines the quality of your life and the success you achieve....
These are strange and gorgeous times. Tons of challenges. Dazzling possibilities. And I viscerally want you to leverage these times to fly. To express your talent. To do your dreams. To make the world better. To help you Lead Without a Title,
I’ve distilled 10 of the most valuable and practical insights on Leadership that I’ve shared globally to my corporate clients
These ideas have helped them do some great things. My deep wish is that they deliver the same results for you.....
The holy grail of habit change is not a single 1 percent improvement, but a thousand of them. It’s a bunch of zest habits stacking up, each one a fundamental unit of the overall system.
In the beginning, small improvements can often seem meaningless because they get washed away by the weight of the system. Just as one coin won’t make you rich, one positive change like meditating for one minute or reading one page each day is unlikely to deliver a noticeable difference. Gradually, though, as you continue to layer small changes on top of one another, the scales of life start to move.
Each improvement is like adding a grain of sand to the positive side of the scale, slowly tilting things in your favor. Eventually, if you stick with it, you hit a tipping point. Suddenly, it feels easier to stick with good habits. The weight of the system is working for you rather than against you.....
For a summary of the 'key habit secrets' please click on the following i-mindmap link:
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In our discussion of the 4th STEP of Behaviour Change we have covered the importance of making good habits immediately satisfying. The inversion of the 4th STEP is Make it immediately unsatisfying.
Just as we are more likely to repeat an experience when the ending is satisfying, we are also more likely to avoid an experience when the ending is painful. Pain is an effective teacher. If a failure is painful, it gets fixed. If a failure is relatively painless, it gets ignored.
The more immediate and more costly a mistake is, the faster you will learn from it. The threat of a bad review forces a plumber to be good at his job. The possibility of a customer never returning makes restaurants create good food. The cost of cutting the wrong blood vessel makes a surgeon master human anatomy and cut carefully. When the consequences are severe, people learn quickly.
Let's exp[lore in some more depth....
No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point. Perfection is not possible. Before long, an emergency will pop up - you get sick or you have to travel for work or your family needs a little more of your time.
Whenever this happens to me, I try to remind myself of a simple rule: never miss twice. Let's discuss in more depth...
Making progress is satisfying, and visual measures provide clear evidence of your progress. As a result, they reinforce your behavior and add a little bit of immediate satisfaction to any activity.
Visual measurement comes in many forms: food journals, workout logs, loyalty punch cards, the progress bar on a software download, even the page numbers in a book. But perhaps the best way to measure your progress is with a habit tracker - let's explore in some more depth...
Step 4 of changing habits is that it needs to be enjoyable for it to last. Simple bits of reinforcement
like soap that smells great or toothpaste that has a refreshing minty flavour can offer the immediate pleasure we need to enjoy a habit. Change is so much easier when it gives us joy.
It is more likely we will repeat the behaviour when our expereince is satifying. Our human brain has evolved to prioritise immediate rewards over delayed ones.
Key points in helping us change our behaviours are in this i-Mind Map:
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creating-Good-Habits-2.pdf
Making Good Habits Inevitable and Bad Habits Impossible
Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits harder. This is an inversion of the 2nd STEP of Behaviour Change "Make it Attractive". If you find yourself struggling to follow through on your plans make you bad habits more difficult by creating what pschologists call a commitment device.
Commitment devices are useful because they enable you to take advantage of good intentions before you can fall victim to temptatioin. For example - if you are looking to cut calories ask your server to split your meal in two and box half of it 'to go' before the meal is served...
Let's explore further......
For an i-MindMap of key insights please follow this link:
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Creating-Good-Habits.pdf
Even when you know you should start small, it’s easy to start too big. When you dream about making a change, excitement inevitably takes over and you end up trying to do too much too soon.
The most effective way that's known to counteract this tendency is to use the Two-Minute Rule, which states, “When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.” You’ll find that nearly any habit can be scaled down into a two-minute version.....
For an i-MindMap of the latest update please click below:
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Conventional wisdom holds that motivation is the key to habit change. Maybe if you really wanted it, you’d actually do it. But the truth is, our real motivation is to be lazy and to do what is convenient.
Despite what the latest productivity best seller will tell you, this is a smart strategy, not a dumb one. Energy is precious, and the brain is wired to conserve it whenever possible. It is human nature to follow the Law of Least Effort, which states "that when deciding between two similar options, people will naturally gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work."
Look at the well worn path in the grass where people "cut corners' to 'save time' (smile) rather than walking on the pathway......
This link for an i-Midmap
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ZeChanges-Rev3pdf.pdf
Making our Lives Easier
It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best programme to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side job. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action.
As Voltaire once wrote, “The best is the enemy of the good." This is the difference between being in motion and taking action. The two ideas sound similar, but they’re not the same. Let's explore....
This week we examine the cause of our bad habits and how to avoid them. The 'higklightd' are as follows....
The cause of our habits is the prediction that precedes them. (the 'activator') This prediction leads to a feeling. Habits are attractive when we associate them with positive feelings and unattractive when we associate them with negative ones.
When we create a motivation ritual by doing something we enjoy immediately before a difficult habit it then becomes a pleasure to do.
Let's examine this topic in more depth....
For a summary of the key points please find this link to an i-MindMap
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ZeChanges-2.pdf
Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group (the many) to guide our behaviour. We are constantly scanning our environment and wondering, “What is everyone else doing?” We check reviews on Amazon or Yelp or TripAdvisor because we want to imitate the “best” buying, eating, and travel habits....
Likewise, humans everywhere pursue power, prestige, and status. Historically, a person with greater power and status has access to more resources, worries less about survival, and proves to be a more attractive mate. Let's explore in more depth....
This week we look at culure and the role of family and friends in shaping our habits. Humans are herd animals. We want to fit in, to bond with others, and to earn the respect and approval of our peers. Such inclinations are essential to our survival. For most of our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in tribes. Becoming separated from the tribe, or worse, being cast out—was a death sentence. “The lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.”
As Charles Darwin noted, “In the long history of humankind, those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” As a result, one of the deepest human desires is to belong. And this ancient preference exerts a powerful influence on our modern behaviour.
We'll explore the powerful effect of those close to us in our social environment.....
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In our 2nd STEP of ZeChange let's learn how to make a habit attractive and irresistible.
It may not be possible to transform every habit into a supernormal stimulus, we can however make any habit more enticing. To do this, we must start by understanding what a craving is and how it works. Today we begin by examining a biological signature that all habits share—the dopamine spike.
Research has shwn that when it comes to habits dopamine is released not only when we experience pleasure,but when we anticipate it. It is the anticipation of a reward, not the fulfillment of it, that gets us to take action. Our brain has far more neural circuitry allocated for wanting rewards than for liking.
Let's explore in more depth....
Please click this link for a 'summarising' i-Midmap.
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As we move forward in our journey of culture and behavioural change in creating good habits lets look deeper into the secret's of self-control and review our 1st Step Principles as follows:
* The inversion of the 1st STEP of Behaviour Change is make it invisible.
* Once a habit is formed, it is unlikely to be forgotten.
* People with high self-control tend to spend less time in tempting situations. It’s easier to avoid temptation than resist it.
* One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it. Self-control is a short-term strategy, not a long-term one.
We continue our journey of looking at Step 1 in Making it obvious where we discover the motivation can be overrated at times and our environment matters more ar certain times as follows:
1. Small changes in context can lead to large changes in behaviour over time.
2. Every habit is initiated by a cue. We are more likely to notice cues that stand out.
3. Make the cues of good habits obvious in your environment.
4. Gradually, your habits become associated not with a single trigger but with the entire context surrounding the behaviour. The context becomes the cue.
5. t is easier to build new habits in a new environment because you are not fighting against old cues.
The 1st STEP of Habit Behaviour Change is make it obvious.
The two most common cues are time and location:
* Creating an implementation intention is a strategy you can use to pair a new habit with a specific time and location.
* The implementation intention formula is: I will [BEHAVIOUR] at [TIME] in [LOCATION].
* Habit stacking is a strategy that you can use to pair a new habit with a current habit.
* The habit stacking formula is: After [CURRENT HABIT], I will [NEW HABIT].
Let's explore in some more depth.....
The human brain is a prediction machine. It is continuously taking in your surroundings and analyzing the information it comes across.
Whenever you experience something repeatedly your brain begins noticing what is important, sorting through the details and highlighting the relevant cues, and cataloguing that information for future use.
With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predict certain outcomes without consciously thinking about it. Automatically, your brain encodes the lessons learned through experience.
It gives us a way of observing the cues that creates our habits that help us change our behaviours...
A habit is a behaviour that has been repeated enough times to become automatic. The process of habit formation begins with trial and error. Whenever you encounter a new situation in life, your brain has to make a decision.
Occasionally, you stumble across a solution. You’re feeling anxious, and you discover that going for a run calms you down. You’re mentally exhausted from a long day of work, and you learn that playing video games relaxes you.
You’re exploring, exploring, exploring, and then —a 'Eureka moment' that gives a reward. After you stumble upon an unexpected reward, you alter your strategy for next time. Your brain immediately begins to catalog the events that preceded the reward. Wait a minute—that felt good. What did I do right before that?
Let's explore in more depth.....
Few things have a more impact on our life than our daily habits. However, it is likely that this time next year you'll be doing the same thing rather than something better...
It can feel difficult to to keep good habits for more than a few days, even with the most sincerest of efforts and with good motivation. Habits, like exercise, meditation, journalling and yoga are reasonable for a day ot two and then they become a hassle.
Once your habits have become established, they seem to stick around for ever - particularily the unwanted ones.
Changing our habits is challenging for two reasons:
1. We try to change the wrong things.
2. We try to change our habits in the wrong way.
Let's explore "changing the worong things" to start with....
Small Habit changes can make a 'monumental' difference. Research has shown that it is easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value on making small incremental improvements on a daily basis.
We can convince ourselves that a massive success requires massive action. Be it losing wiegt, building a business, writing a book, winning a chamionship... Improving by 1% isn't particularily notable, at times not even noticeable. It can however, be meaningful , esoecially over time. The diference tiny changes can make over time can be phenominal... Let's explore the concept...
Our rational mind just loves it when things get nicely wrapped in a convenient package. Our brains get a good hit of dopamine – that feel-good chemical – anytime we’re able to categorise, predict or label an experience into a rational, coherent narrative.
However, incoherent events occur in our lives all the time, and that’s hard for our logical mind to accept. If something unwanted happens to us, such as losing a job, a loved one dying, or a relationship breaking down, we may find ourselves asking the question, ‘Why did this happen?’ or ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ We also might find ourselves saying things like, ‘This just doesn’t make sense..."
Let's explore in more depth.
We are all constantly talking to ourselves. It’s like we have a number of little voices within us that all have an opinion on what we should and shouldn't be doing.
We run into trouble when these small voices start to take on an active role in our lives. In small yet consistent ways, if we just take these internalised characters at face value, without checking in with our values, our life can become more about damage control than meaningful living. Let's explore in more depth....
Resource:
The Chimp Paradox
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-chimp-paradox/steve-peters/9780091935580
What do we mean when we talk about our values? Values go beyond the logical and taional processing areas of our brain.Like teh aire we breathe, our values are always present and around us, whwtwer we are aware of them or not.
Values are the small blocks that, when tuned into, build up over time to create the life you truly want and desire....
Resources:
Example Values Dictionary
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Core-Values-Behavioural-Dictionar-Rev-1y.pdf
Karen Darke - "Pole of Possibility."
https://www.karendarke.com/the-pole-of-possibility/
As a society, we have become obsessed with wanting to feel good, all of the time. We are bombarded with adverts for products and services that give us the promise of happiness and taking away our feeling of sadness and anxiety.
It's no wonder we are caught in a "hampster wheel" of trying to feel happier to feel good enough.
"You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don's want to feel..." Anon.
Resources:
The upside of stress, Dr Kelly McGonigal, ASIN : B00RWKN8T6
TED talk: Kelly McGoniga - How to make stress your friend
https://www.ted.com/talk/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Given our human tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain, it makes sense that we seek out some emotions and avoid others.
It has been said we have twice as many unwanted emotions as we do wanted ones. A small difference can make a huge difference in our lives if we atrat labelling our emotions wanted or unwanted. Let's explore in some more depth...
We oftten take what our minds tell us as 'gospel'. We say things like "I wouldn't be able to do that" to justify backing out of actions that may bring us closer to to who and where we want to be.
We make decsions based on what our mind tells us at that time rather than what matteers to us or our lived expereince. This is because our minds are trying to keep us safe. However, following a safe mind can lead to an unfulfilling, uneventful life at one end of a spectrum, or an overwhelmingly, overscheduled and unmanageable life at the other end...
Let's explore some 'thinking traps'.....
STEP Change Mental Wellbing Resources
https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/annual-themes-2022-q4/
From the moment we are born we can't exist alone. We are 'primed' to connect with others and instinctively we connect with our primary caregiver - normally our mother who feeds us and bonds with us so our emorional selves so that we can be nurtured. Connection is essential for survival.
As adults we don't stop needing connection - both socail and emotional. A study following Covid found that isolation was detremental to a person's health and wellbeing.
Most of our behaviours are driven by the need to avoid social exclusion. We do this by trying to gain social approval in big and small ways...
We explore small zechnage ways of moving towards authnticity in relatioinships.
Wellbeing Checker link
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wellbeing-checker-EAP-poster-interactive.pdf
Have you noticed that many people you speak to seem to be overwhelmed. It can feel that the goalposts are always shifting. We are being asked to do more with less and less time, energy and resources.
Ther are small yet effective tools and strategies that can help us break down any overwhelming situation and decipher what would be the most effective action to take at this volatile time. This is what we will share with you in this next series of podcasts,
We start with examining our our current Landscape, our environment and the 'rules by which we live by...'
Increasingly, the West is looking to Eastern philosophies and therapies to complement, expand and counterbalance its own traditional views. In the Chinese book of wisdom, the Dao de Jing (6th or 5th century BC), the author Lao Zi describes how everything is made from nothing.
The energy that flows between yin and yang is known as qi (alternatively spelt ki or chi). In Chinese and Japanese medicine, qi is believed to flow through all things, both animate and inanimate.
Although many people remain sceptical about unconventional medicine, we should remember that Eastern methods have been successfully practised for centuries.
For a copy of the workbook that accompanies this series of podcasts please follow this link:
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ZeEnergy-Toolkit.pdf
One of the deepest false beliefs that we inherit is that we can control other people. Becoming upset at another person, whether they are five feet or five thousand miles away is a demonstration that we are trying to control what we cannot control.
It is a deep illusion that sets up a powerful behavioural pattern. And then we use all kinds of rational explanations to justify our upsetness and our self-inflicted failure. The truth is, we can influence others but the more we try to control them the less influence we will have.
The secret of success in all relationships at work and at play is entirely based on self-control.....
"Shakespeare was dead right - all the world's a stage and YOU are on it" - we explore the realisation of our Goals. When we understand that our power comes from withing, and no the other way around we have a new found freedom and break old self limiting habits.
Underpinned by powerful affirmations we "fly" with new found freedom....
The Alphabet of Change is about Awareness, Belief, Commitment and Dicipline. Following that bt 'breking hold of your routines' - questioning the living patterns of our week.
The following the rules of attraction - being alert to opportunites that satisfys our buoyand vision of life...
Have you had a significant Life Even in the last year? Here is a little Life Event Quentionairre to explore and set your compass for future happiness.
Have you ever asked yourself if you're happy? Wondered properly as to why you are happy? It's something I have done - although I felt happy when I asked the question I began to doubt the answer soon enough. Let's explore together and see what contentment looks, sound and feels like....
Questionairre
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Life-Stress-Questions.pdf
When we feel stressed our predicament tends to be reflected in certain physiological and psychological symptoms, whose significance we may not fully understand. These are normal signs that we should re-evaluate our priorities - our body, or our state of mind, is telling us that something
in our lives needs to change.
This week we look at determining our 'base-line' - know where we are and set our compass for the future. "Victory awaits him who has evrything in order - this is called good luck. For him who has neglected to take the necessary measures in time, failure is an aboslute certainty - this is called bad luck" Roald Amundsen's account on how he became the first in history to reach the South Pole.
Stress Test
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Stress-Test-Rev1.pdf
As a child if I could dream it or imagine it, then I could do it. Everything that could be dreamed between my ears was possible when I didn't know any better.
I could do everything I wanted to do: become a world cup football player, sail around the globe, climb Mount Everest, save the world from destruction, be a fireman, travel to the moon or Mars.....
I was a great admirer of Thor Hyerdahl, the Norwegian explorer, one of the first books I read was Kon-Tiki - the 1947 voyage in a handmade raft of balsa logs from Peru to Polynesia. He was a man who Set His Own Compass he followed his own dreams - not that of others.
ZeEnergy is about finding your own Inner Powwer, Inner Zest and following your dreams, your innate inner compass making you Stronger, Smarter and Safer...
Ultradian Rhythms
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_quiet_secret_to_success
Kon-Tiki - Across the Pacifi by Raft, Thor Heyerrdahl
https://archive.org/details/KonTiki/page/n15/mode/2up
We’re at the root of our Legendary Performance Keystone, which brings us to Impact. My Behavioural Based Safety Leadership Coching took me to travelling in India. One of my coachees shared a poem from from Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet. "When you were born you cried while the
world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.”
That’s the ultimate end point of Legendary Performance, it’s less about applause, it’s less about being
liked because you can change the world, it’s less about standing ovations for the real A-Player.
In legendary performance, it’s all about impact, it’s all about creating rich streams of value for as many people as possible to impact. Impact is really contribution, you want to be so good at what you do, you want to be so great in terms of your production, you want to be so courageous and brave in terms of your mindset that when you grow up in the world everyday you do amazing things, you make lives better, you make your customers dreams come true, you are an inspirational force in the world....
Legendary Leadership Framework
https://jimbennett.global/legendary_keystone/
Every single output, every single bit of work comes together to form your production, your body of work. If you really want to play in the rare air of the top 5% of your industry and people walking the planet really think about your production.
Really think about this concept of a monopoly born of outright mastery. Would you like to have a monopoly on what you do? Would you like to be the only person in the world who does what you do?
That is really your opportunity.
Most people resign themselves to good enough, they say, “You know what, my work is good enough, I’m not quite average, I’m a little bit better than average, that’s good enough for me .”
for me good enough is not very good and this is the opportunity to leave average and to say, “My work is not just my job, it's my craft!"
In our Keystone of Legendary Performance element 4 is about the power of our environment. Please think about places, stimuli, people, PSP; those things really form your environments and your environments really forge your performance.
Legendary performance is the child of your environments. Your performance is really a result of the environments you fill your life with and when I say places, stimuli, people, these are the environments that most people fill their lives with. Places, that really just means the places that you inhabit at
work, at home, in your free time. Are they positive? Do they inspire you?
Legendary Leadership Framework
https://jimbennett.global/legendary_keystone/
One of the things I want you to think about is that every great performer, every legendary producer was super focussed. They were obsessed with their one thing. They were super focussed with their vision. They were super focussed with the idea that they could find the theory of relativity. They were super focussed with the idea that they could be the best in the world of their one skill of focus - let's explore their behaviours and the cocept of super focussed.....
The Legendary Keystone forms part of an Arch, part of a a framework. I want you to really think about it because it maps out how the best think. It really maps out how legendary performers construct and architect the way they live in the world. At the perimater you're going to see your story. What's your personal story. Your narrative is the lens through which you see the world. I believce you don't see the world as it is. You see the world as you are. You don't see the world as a reality, you see the world through your internal reality of your own belief system.
When you get your legendary mindset to world class your world will be okay. We often operate as victims. We blame our background, we blame our family or we blame our boss or we blame our
job or we blame our hardships or we blame the negative people around us on why our lives are not working and we are not playing at legendary performance. We blame the world for our lack of financial prosperity. We blame the people around us because we're not in epic health. We blame our parents because we are not playing in the rare air of outright world class.
Now we step proudly towards our goals....
I would like to share with and insight about legendary leadership with you which I call it the Myth of Genius.
If you watch an Elon Musk, you watch a Jay Z, you watch Picasso, you watch a Mandela, you watch a Darwin, you watch a world class violinist, you watch an amazing chess champion, you watch a great athlete, and what happens? Society suggests that these people are cut from a different cloth. I call this the Myth of Genius.
Society suggests that these people have this natural talent that you just don't have, that these people have gifts that they were born into. That is such a lie. I know that's a strong word but it's a lie. It is a Myth of Genius.
The reality is genius is less about genetics and it's a lot more about a strategy and a series of tactics. Once you learn that strategy and once you discover those tactics then you have the ability to apply them...
Legendary Leadership Framework
https://jimbennett.global/legendary_keystone/
Suggested Reading:
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
ISBN-10 : 0544947223
For the performer thinking like a victim, there are messy times ahead.
Geopolitical strife. Overleveraged economies. Climate transformation. Uber-volatility.
Yet, for the producer thinking like a leader (no matter what their formal title and authority is), the future presents gorgeous opportunities. To innovate. To contribute rich streams of value. To enrich communities. To inspire teammates. To unleash potential. To uplift the world.
To help your rise to your best, I offer you these 50 New Rules of Work with the hope that you quietly consider implementing them as well as discussing them at your next team meeting......
Resource:
Baldridge Excellence Builder
https://www.nist.gov/document/2023-2024-baldrige-excellence-builder-pdf
Over the years in business coaching, the one thing I have found is that Peak Perfomers pursue their passion no matter what. They never give up, even when the cards seem stacked against them or they face one hurdle after another.
We're taking about Reslience - this isn't just the ability to persevere, it's also an outlook we can cultivate to stay focused on the important things in life rather than what is most urgent. Keeping ourselves being carried away by negative emotions.
Resilience is our abilty to deal with setbacks. The more resilient we are, the easier it will be to pick ourselves up and get back to what gives meaning in our lives...
If you wish to 'fast track' this recording you can 'fast forward' as follows:
"What's the worst that could happen?" time 6:52
Beyond resilience: Antifragility time 17:46
Recommended Reading:
The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
Antifragile: things that gain from disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The final point I want to share with you is to set boundaries in order to Manage Your ZeTime, so that you Master Your Life.
This is a big one for most people. Most people try to be all things to everyone and as a result end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius said it so well he said, “He who chases two rabbits catches neither.”
Then we summarise our ZeTime insights as we boldly step forward in our dymanic world full of energy and resilience. creating 'space' to allow creativity to Dazzle!
When you clean out the areas of your life that aren’t working when you get organized you actually free up space within your mind, within your psyche to be more creative and allow the new things to enter into your life.
The Clean Sweep details some of the techniques we can apply. Let's explore.....
One of the consistent things I notice about my coaching clients is that they are unorthodox. They are different. You might even say they are eccentric. And I say that with great respect. They run their own race.
What I’m challenging you to do with great respect is to do things differently. Do things at different times. Start to shake things up - be a 'provocateur'...
Getting up early is definitely one of the golden threads that links Elite Performers. The
best of the best get up early. If you were to ask me what’s the single best thing I do to realize my potential I would say get up early.
Consistently, I get up between 5am and 6am every day. I know that may sound strange - it gives me time to think. To go through my series of practices to lock into a state that I need to be in to go out into the world and do what I need to do.
ZeTime Weekly Scheduling
I think that it's important to create a weekly schedule. You may be thinking - "it’s too simple, give me something revolutionary.”
What I’ve observed from my coachees is that success comes down to the consistent practice of simple fundamentals. It is not that hard to be really successful. The people who are living extraordinary lives are just doing a few simple things on a weekly basis that over time amounts to massive and extraordinary results.
They are not really doing earth-shattering things every week. It is not like they have special gifts. They are no different from anyone of us. It is just that they have commincated what they want their
lives to stand for and then they execute around those fundamentals consistently.
One of the things that Elite Performers do consistently is create a weekly schedule. Let's explore the fundamentals.....
ZeTime: Weekly Management
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ZeWeekly-System.pdf
The Four Qudrants of Time Managment
https://www.franklincovey.com/habit-3/
Stephen Covey shares his insights on time management from "The Seven Habits of Highly Succesful People."
Every day should act as a platform to get you closer to your business goals, your personal goals, your spiritual goals, your relationship goals, your adventure goals, your physical goals and your life goals.
Again when you look at people who are leading world-class lives it looks easy. You might think that these people are of the chosen few. That everything has been easy for them. That they come from perfect backgrounds. However, its not like that at all. Theyare where they are because they consistently practice simple fundamentals.
It’s the Swan Effect in action—they look very graceful on the surface but underneath they are
paddling, they are planning, they are doing what it takes.
Long Term Goal Chart link:
https://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Long-Term-Goal-Chart.pdf
Focus: know where you're going.
All too often we think success is complicated. And yet the more I work with the greatest people in business and in life I realize that they are using very simple practices but that they execute around these principles religiously. One of the most important of these fundamentals is that they are meticulous about protecting their time.
The first step in protecting your time is to know where you are going. Knowing your
destination increases your focus. Knowing your destination allows you to make wiser
choices. Knowing your destination saves you precious time and energy....
Sample Time Journal
Time of Day/ Activity /Time on activity/ Purpose of activity
How do some people craft extraordinary lives, while so many of us with equally powerful gifts squander our lives? It comes down to how we manage our time. I have had the
privilege as an executive coach of working with some of the most successful people in the world. One of the core traits of greatness that each one of them possesses is an incredible respect for time.
Let me put it this way. They jealously guard their time. They protect their hours. They are so focused on getting the most out of every day that many of them get more done in a month than the average person gets done in a year, two years or even a lifetime.
Let's explore....
Let's explore how we can enhance ZeLeadership so that more people can show leadership. In Behavioural Safety Leadership we empower everyone to be a Leader Without Title and make our organisations and communites Safer, Smarter and Stronger.
We are looking to have more Picassos walking this world. It has led me to think about the 7 things excellent Leaders do - let's run through them together....
Creative Mastery
Well, you’ve done it! You have completed the journey to this point and by now you should be feeling well pleased with yourself. You have learned a whole new set of theories, techniques and exercises, you can create sparkly opportunities simply by approaching life differently, and you know such opportunities are there for you simply by listening and attending to your state. Things have certainly moved on and you deserve to feel good.
Now you can turn your hand to Creative Life Mastery – the goal of making all that you have learnt in our Podcasts a permanent part of your life, not just a set of tools you can use when you need them. Mastery comes from doing it, from gaining experience. The more you do it, the more it becomes a part of who you are – it becomes second nature!
You need to be ready to come up with new angles and perspectives on all aspects of your life – whenever they are needed. You can’t afford to wait for your mext holiday to think about your life. It is happening now! When Creative Life Mastery becomes an essential part of who you are, your life
will become abundant with stimulus, opportunities will lie all around you and there will be a pervading sense of optimism.
With very little effort (if it takes much effort, you are doing it wrong) these skills will put you into a world of exploration, a place where you will never be bored, a life where you write your own exciting script. It might not happen overnight, but sustained creative wizardry pays off, because magic does
happen and lives are never the same again.
Everyone who has taken a shower Has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference. Go Dream, Dare and Dazzle your world!
i-MindMap:
https://app.ayoa.com/mindmaps/48c2b9bd-cdc6-40b8-9d55-f6d2516eda4a
Please click on the link on Insight, Ideas and Impact to get a more detailed MindMap....
Community Creativity Example: The Great Tapestry of Scotland
https://www.greattapestryofscotland.com/
IMPACT
It’s now time to make some impact on your opportunity or challenge.
There are two stages to this:
1. Deciding which idea has the highest zest factor – excitement, passion and the potential to create magic.
2. Making it happen.
The process of deciding can in itself be an incredibly informative exercise.
Before getting stuck in, take a deep breath and notice how you feel.
* Nervous?
* Excited?
* Hungry?
* Confused?
Worry not, all is safe and well.
Getting it right or wrong? Some people avoid this moment as if it were a meeting with the Grim Reaper himself! By making a decision and making a commitment to do something, they worry that they may have got it wrong. They think that if they get it wrong, their life is ruined. Their friends will excommunicate them, their career is over and they will die alone at the side of teh road.
You may laugh, but you would be surprised how often people whip themselves into such a frenzy about the possibility of making a mistake that their busy protective minds start to make this kind of misinformation up. But here’s the news ... There is no right or wrong.....
i-mindmap link:
https://app.ayoa.com/mindmaps/deaef396-cf5a-47e7-b235-4a7dadb740ef
When you have done the Insight Exercises in the previous Podcast, you will have a clearer view as to what the specific issue is that you want to crack. Although this may change as you have ideas and ponder it further, for the moment write it down and put it up on your wall. Now you know what you’re going for!
As we mature and enjoy rich experiences in our lives, our brains become more programmed with past
experience and consequently we find it harder to have new and different ideas. To break out of this backwards thinking we need to stimulate our imagination.
While there are thousands of types of stimulus, they can be grouped under five
main principles:
1. Re-expression
2. Related worlds
3. Revolution
4. Random links
5. Relax
Let's generate powerful Ideas...
Insights: What is our Opportunity...
Usually when a business comes to us at the What If! stage for creative help, they come with a specific challenge or opportunity they want to solve. They have spent time evaluating the issue and believe that it would really make a big difference to the business if some innovative magic could open up the opportunity.
We spend time together with the clients really getting to understand what the opportunity looks, sounds and feels like - why it could be rich and rewarding, what the future could look like, what impact it could make on people’s lives. It can take weeks to thoroughly explore what the opportunity could be.By the end of that process the world looks very different. We have insight into the reality of the opportunity that has opened up and have some understanding of how the goal might be achieved.
We say ‘might’ because you are never really sure until you jump in. There are largely two starting points:
1. You know what your opportunity is.
2. You need to explore a whole load more to understand the nature of that opportunity.
No matter how clear the opportunity may appear initially, it is vital to invest some time really exploring it before diving into solutions. Things are not always as they seem. All too often people invent fabulous solutions to the wrong issue.
Finding the Flow
Being in a Creative State is often referred to as being in Flow. When we are ‘in state’ we may be totally unaware of it because it feels so natural and easy.
Our conscious brain becomes less dominant so we become less consciously aware – more in Flow, more "in the zone.This is the State that is ideal for being insightful and having ideas. We occupy many states through the course of an average day. Our state changes with every change of stimulus from outside of us and inside – what we are thinking or imagining. Most of our time we are in a Coping State. It’s not a stuck, negative state but it is by no means a positive one. But if you are to have
amazing ideas and come up with inspiring possibilities, you have to be in that fabulous Positive Creative State.
The trick is to become more aware of your state and then do all you can to make
it positive.
We all have intuition, but some people use it better than others. These include the world’s most creative people, such as inventors, artists, leaders, sports people, politicians, teachers, explorers, actors, spacemen, circus acts, doctors, engineers, musicians, mime artists… all these are people who listen to their intuition. It doesn’t rule them, it just gives them another perspective.
To become more intuitive you just have to listen more. When we are rushing around doing 100 things at the same time, our sensitivity decreases. We focus upon the job in hand until it’s done, often ignoring our owm needs and well-being. Increasing our sensory acuity helps us listen to what our intuition is telling us.
here This week we're looking at Mojo Making.
Insight + Ideas + Impact is just a process. It’s a great process, but nothing more nor less than that.
Powerful though the process is, it is merely a navigational tool. We can use our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states as a navigational compass.
Energy, zest is required for change (in fact, change is energy) and to create energy it must be enriched with a liberal sprinkling of you!!
You with Passion!
You with Puspose!
You with Attitude; Punchy, Playful and Up for it!
You with your Mojo on Fire!
Furhter exploration:
Inscaping rather than Escaping - Les Morgain explains the principles https://qfour.net/
The Genius that Whispers
Our brains are groovy things. Scientists don’t exactly know how the human brain works and they still don’t kow what it all does. Its capacity is beyond comprehension (you’d probably need two brains to do that). Needless to say it’s fast, it’s sexy, it’s clever. It's the genius that whispers to us from within. Let's explore.....
Data Link:
How our brain works
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/anatomy-of-the-brain
NLP Principles
https://www.dummies.com/article/body-mind-spirit/emotional-health-psychology/psychology/neurolinguistic-programming/neuro-linguistic-programming-for-dummies-cheat-sheet-207437/
The human race has developed through creativity. Creativity in its broadest sense is simply doing something new and different that creates some benefit.
Without it we would all still be scavenging for food, with no tools to make clothes and build things. Those facilities central to our lives such as air travel, the internet and credit cards would be just distant dreams. The most significant advances in health care, education and agriculture are as a result of creativity. Creativity makes us bigger, it moves us on.
Creativity gives us choice, helps innovate new ways of doing things, gives us hope that in some way we can be special, we can be ourselves, we can create our own futures.
Today we introduce the Creativity Process flow of Insight, Ideas and Impact to stimulate your Mojo.
Further stimulation:
Innovation Management and models https://www.toolshero.com/innovation/
Unlocking our 360 degree Mindset allows us the cultural core for the construction of an agile and adaptive organisation. This allows us to collaborate, be innovative and pull different perspectives in a unified way to help us "think out of the box".
The 360 Degree/Global Mindset alows us confront a frequently overlooked truth about human perception -that none of us sees the whole picture. We each see, feel and hear things from our own particular way - gaining unique, individual and diverse, but invariably partial perspective of any situation. Together we have a marvellous opportunity to see the 360 degree global picture and be Stronger, Smarter and Safer.
References:
Indian Parabole about the 6 blind men and an elephant.
https://www.sloww.co/blind-men-elephant/
Johari Window
https://www.mindtools.com/au7v71d/the-johari-window
Today we enjoy a "walk in nature" and explore the topic of transitioning from where we are NOW to our desired future "if it was impossible to fail". We use nature to guide us and give us insights into our current thoughts and beliefs - assisting us in enhancing our opportunites.
Waliking, Talking, Reflecting.....
Resources:
(Some Resources worthy of exploration)
7 Habits of Highly Sucessful People, Stephen Covey,
https://www.academia.edu/13322752/Stephen_Coveys_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People_Community_Briefing_on_Coveys_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani
https://pdfwhale.com/the-code-of-the-extraordinary-mind/
The Power of NOW, Eckhart Tolle
https://allbookshub.com/the-power-of-now-pdf/
I'd like the opportunity to help you kickstart 2023 so that you install superb habits of your mind, body, heart and behaviour.
It's about 60 quick, actionable and unforgettable tips that will move you to break free of old patterns, stop being a 'victim' and inspire you to leap into high gear to get your Big Hairy Audascious Goals (BHAG) done.
Let's explore them now:
1. Believe in your vision and gifts when no one else believes in them.
2. Start your day with 20 minutes of exercise.
3. Make excellence your way of being (versus a once in a while event)
4. ......... 60.
I have found that Nature can give us many insights into Life. Particularliy in Problem/Challenge solving - they can be used as metaphors (a symbol) to help us get a deeper understanding of our world, our Landscape.
I find gardening can be used as a metaphor. For example, you could say, metaphorically, a car mechanic's workshop may need pruning, weeding, mowing, watering, dead heading and composting... That could transpose into the following questions:
* How many parts suppliers are like that tree who's roots are undermining the foundations of the house?
* What types of cars thrive in this environment?
* Who's in charge of the tool shed - keeping the tools sharpened?
An overview of the process is as follows:
1. Anchor a positive Zelandscape - to give us an 'anchor' to feel safe and happy.
2. Determing the current challenge you'd like some insights on.
3. Pick a saying that best reflects it.
4. Put the real life situation on 'the back burner'.
5. Explore the metaphorical landscape as you walk in Nature.
6. Revisit the original challenge - notice what you notice, see, hear, feel and smell it.
7. With these insights "Step Forward" in confidence with your action plan.
Let's go for a wee walk....
Reference:
NLP Anchoring Technique explained
https://nlpsure.com/what-is-nlp-anchoring-technique/
I regularly read obituaries. I've been doing it for years. And it's not being negative. In fact, it's positive. There are very few powerful things that will wake you up and remind you of what's important. To fuel your energy. To get you in the game. Connecting to your own mortality is one of few things that will allow you to let go of your fears, paving the way to get big things done.
Realizing and understanding that every single day could be your last, helps you appreciate that no matter how long you live, life is a short ride. You just sort of let go of the fears and you let go of the
limits and you live full on, and you seize opportunities, and you have real conversations with real people, and you wear your heart on your sleeve, and you bring on the fullness of your authenticity, and you do whatever it takes to get your greatest dreams get done
There's fascinating research coming out now about the value of your social network. In the book Connected, it talks about how your behaviour subconsciously influences your friends, their friends, and their friends' friends.
Mirror neurons. Emotional contagion. A lot of scientific phenomenon speaks to this. The people you surround yourself with dramatically influence your beliefs, because their thinking is like a mind virus, and beliefs are contagious. Your social network and the way your friends behave influence your behavior and habits. If you hang around with marathoners, there’s a much greater chance you’re going to get fit. Let's explore...
"Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives."
https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-Everything/dp/0316036137
If you’re human, you’re going to face fear. Developing resilience and hardiness in the face of fear is what iconic human beings do. It's what A-players do. It's what ZeLeaders do.It's about extending your Safe Operating Envelope. We share a few ideas to cure fear:
1. Practice bravery training.
2. Release your attachment to outcomes.
3. Hang with heroes.
4. Embrace the mess.
The things you now find easy were the ones you once found hard.
We continue our journey about being a Game Changer. Last week we explored the acronymns:
1. BIW - Best In World
2. OAD - Obsessive Attention to Detail.
3. TCM - Total Craft Mastery
The fourth is ABD. Always Be Daring.
The 95% of society that are in the cult of average consistently do what's most easy. They read the easy books. They study the easy courses. They hang out with the easy friends. They live the easy They spend the best hours of their days watching television in a subdivision, and they are seduced into thinking by avoiding what’s hard and by avoiding what’s frightening, they’re living good lives.
I invite you to really think about this idea, that the seduction of safety is always more brutal and more dangerous than the illusion of discomfort. What I’m really suggesting, is playing the safe game is really a recipe for heartbreak.
If you want to be a game-changer, go to the places that frighten you. If you want to be a game-changer, understand that on the other side of your fear lives your bravery. Always be daring. Do the difficult project. Go to the places that terrify you for there is where your growth lives....
You want to be a game-changer? Forget about getting through the next 7 days and start asking yourself this. “How can I live a life that will influence the coming generation? Starting today, what do I need to do to do work that wows, to make a contribution not just to my community, but to humanity?”
“How can I lead my field? How can I be the Michelangelo of my industry? How can I be an incredible human being? What must I do to live a life that makes history?” I believe that as we move into the future in the coming months and years, there’s going to be even more disruption, even more chaos in many ways, even more confusion in many industries and many sectors and many communities and many nations.
Let's explore.....
How can we work well with others, so we cooperate and collaborate in ways that combine our individual insights, ideas, and inspirations to solve complex problems and create new value to society.
Over the past 30 years my professional work has focused on helping organisations create cultures of safety, innovation, agility, and adaptiveness that unlocks the combined wisdom required for continuously creating new value in an empowering environment.
On a practical, day-to-day level, people experience and express organisational culture as "the way we do things round here." When people have been working together for a few months, the culture has become ingrained in their mindsets and enacted in their behaviors and interactions.
Let's explore furhter and get insights on how you can be a key influencer in 2023....
Resource Links:
2D and 3D Visioning and Mindsets: https://enterfea.com/2d-vs-3d-finite-element-analysis/
Johari Window 3D concept: https://www.communicationtheory.org/the-johari-window-model/
Here are some tips to help you create explosive productivity so you get big things done (and make your life really matter). For you to become the most productive person that you know.
Simple stratefies from many years of personal experience and from researching massively productive people like Stephen KIng, John Grisham and Thomas Edison....
There’s a ton of anxiety and outright fear in the world at the moment. I won’t recite all the problems. Because I’m sure you already know them. And yet......as humans we are built to survive, hardwired to continue and made to rise.The economic chaos will eventually lead to a new era of prosperity - though this will take a long time to reach.
And life will inevitably become smoother again - though it will never be quite the same as it was previousy. Let's explore how we can convert fear into fuel.
This week we are exploring the principles of Power Meeting to optimize the health and well-being of individuals and organizations.
6 Principles:
- Avoid large meetings
- leave a meeting if you're no adding value.
- Avoid the chain of command and communicate directly with colleagues.
- Be 'clear not clever.'
- Ditch frequent meeting - don't waste people's valuable time.
- Use common sense.
A great Human Factors resource area is the offshore STEP Change in Safety web site.
https://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/resources/topics/human-factors/
The £0.00 resources are free on website enrollment. Paid members have free access to all areas - otherwise there is a fee for some materials to non-members.
The Real Values - what does it mean to be true to ourselves? What are your daily behaviors that truly reflect who you are and that you live by?
What are the acceptable behaviors that you, your organization considers as an acceptable standard? How do we understand at a deep level what they are?
We use reflective inquiry to explore them...
Behavioral dictionary example: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtMRRgiUO6s1guEJZCp5-VUG7tpSfw?e=LWZGfo
"Leadership is the capacity of a human community to shape its future” as described by Peter Senge. Then anyone who takes responsibility for playing their part in creating a resilient future-fit organization is contributing to Leadership
So how can we play our own part most effectively?
By cultivating a 2D3D mindset is a pivotal place to start with.
An individual with a 2D3D mindset operates in line with a fundamental overlooked truth about human perception - that none of us ever sees the whole picture in any situation. WE have "blind spots". (Johari Window)
We each come at things from our own particular angle, bringing our unique, individual, diverse, but inevitably partial perspective to situations.
It’s from these diverse perspectives that the innovation, agility, and resilience characteristics of future-fit organizations emerge, enabling them to thrive in an increasingly uncertain and unpredictable world.
Widespread adoption of 2D3D mindsets enables sense making, decision making & action taking ti become more joined-up, iterated, embedded and distributed throughout an organization.
The most systemic contribution to a resilient future-fit organization you can make to shaping a bright future for yourself and the organization you work for is to adopt a 2D3D mindset, enact it in your actions and interactions, and by example encourage others to do so...
Johari Window: https://www.communicationtheory.org/the-johari-window-model/
2D3D Principles: https://enterfea.com/2d-vs-3d-finite-element-analysis/
This week we are "going with the flow" and embracing our zest, our energy towards our goal(s). Last week we explored being Stuck - "clearing the blocks" and releasing the barriers to enable us to get back on track.
Going with the flow is a little different. Going with the flow is not generally seen as a problem. In some ways that is our objective - to go with the flow at all times, making decisions that further support our heading in that direction.
The challenge is that many of us "going with the flow" and still end up in a rut, get bogged down or find a 'dead -end'....
We're thinking metaphorically - using our intuition to guide us as we follow the river flow to reach the freedom of the ocean, regularly "checking-in" to ensure we follow our primary route....
Let's explore in more depth.
Being Stuck - at times in our lives we can find ourselves having a feeling of being "Stuck", unable to move, unable to make a decision. It's a bit like being stuck in sand or mud - difficult to make the next step.
Words are so powerful, how about 're-framing', re-naming our situation and see what that sounds, feels and looks like. What does, instead of being stuck, saying I am uncertain about my next move? That implies there is a next move, I just haven't found it yet!
I have found that being in harmony with nature can help us "find our next move" - it can be used as a metaphor:
Making mountains out of molehills
Stuck in a rut
Can't see the wood for the trees
Head in the sand
Out on a limb
Treading water
Missing the tide..
When we pick a situation that needs some clarity we can walk in nature and "look for options" that can help us pull our feet from the sand/mud which can lead to opportunities.
It's about:
Knowing where you want to get to
Know where you are
Understand what may be stopping you
Plot a route
Take action
It's a bit like:
Finding a rut, or standing in mud
Stand in the rut/mud
Step out of the rut
Notice what you notice about the situation - what does it sound, look and feel like?
Be surprised on what you discover...
Let's walk in harmony on a short journey of discovery...
Then it's your opportunity to stride solo with joy and a "spring in your step".
Every single emotion we experience in every single moment of our life conditions the very substance and wiring of our emotional body. Hence, the quality and purity of our emotional nature is directly determined by the emotions we express. We literally build our emotional body by the emotions we go through. Let's explore how we can choose to change our automatic reactions to "people pushing our buttons"...
It's easy to get caught up in the "thick and thin" of things. It can prove to be seductive that you spend your finest hours climbing mountains that turn out to be "the wrong ones"...
The authentic heart leaders concentrate on the few priorities that will deliver their greatest aspirations.
We live in strange and gorgeous times. Tons of challenges. Dazzling opportunities. I have distilled 10 of the most valuable and practical ZeLeadership insights to leverage these times and help you fly...
The art of moving from Force to Power.
The fruit of realising that you are no one, have nothing and are going nowhere, are the shifts that occur naturally in all walks of your life. The gradual, yet sometimes sudden, occurrence of those shifts are also signs you are moving in an 'accurate' direction..
When we attempt to maintain the idea in the minds of others that we are someone significant, perhaps someone with substantial possessions (material wealth), we try to 'force' our way through life. Grasping, holding tight and seeking to acquire 'more' of anything are forms of force....
The practices and the art of becoming real. There are seven invisible creations within our consciousness every day:
1. Thoughts
2. Feelings
3. Evaluations
4. Decisions
5. Actions
6. Memories
7. Habits
Each is shaped primarily by who we believe we are, what we believe we have and where we believe we are going or want to go.....
How do our insights translate into the practicalities of daily life?
We certainly don't go around telling people I am 'no one' and I have nothing for obvious reasons. These realizations happen silently and subtly within our consciousness..As they do, you continue to play your role(s) as you have up to now.
That doesn't mean being cold, separated or distant. It means outcomes matter less to you, people's words and behaviours no longer upset you. You are no longer motivated by acquiring 'things', you lose the neediness from your relationships.
You start living from the inside out, instead of from the outside in......
Consciousness - going nowhere and being present in the NOW. Being present in the NOW is and Art. It's the art of being present in every moment of our existence, being grounded in reality. Have you ever noticed how your anticipation of and event is far greater than the realisation? You imagine how great the holiday is going to be, to find that it didn't meet all your expectations. Your imagination was only a temporary relief from your current circumstances. Physically you are still 'here.'
Realising you are going nowhere doesn't mean you stay in bed all day. You do set your self free from the habit of creating the feeling, 'some times a pressure feeling', that you need to be somewhere other than where you are.
Going nowhere doesn't mean you have no future. It does mean you live in the present, as you do, you become more present with others, and therefore a powerful presence for others. You are being an authentic Heart Leader living in the NOW.
Today we explore the concept of having nothing and the art of being free. Have you ever noticed how every 'thing' and everyone comes and goes? No 'thing' stays forever. No one stays forever. Coming and going are the the primary and most natural patterns of change in our Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) World...
The illusion of 'possessing' things and people originates within our consciousness - not our hands. It's the relationship we have with things, people and ideas 'within our self', that constitutes our belief in possessions or not...
Cultivating Character is not part of a process formula, it's not a skill set that you learn and then add to your armory. We are all different in that we have different ways of using the power of our consciousness when it's restored to its true and accurate nature.
That's the key - restore the awareness of your true nature and the ability to to express the appropriate character traits follow... naturally. No one can teach that - but, they can trigger your memory of the deep states that are prior to all the stuff that you've learned and developed up to now.. That deep state is the real you. it's more about unlearning years of institutionalization...
Have you ever had the sense of watching yourself doing something? Even while you're speaking, even when you're thinking. Somehow 'you' are watching your self speking, thinking and doing.
The one who is watching, who is aware of being the watcher, is you. The real you. The authentic you. Not the you that you 'think' or 'say' you are. When you cultivate 'observational awareness' you begin to realise the great freedom of being no one and being an 'observer'.....
The Natural Expression of Authenticity are not traits or abilities that are unique to a few. They are not skills or even competencies. They are the natural characteristics of someone who is being authentic while in the presence of others.
They are not 'learned' - so you can't be trained to demonstrate such attributes in an genuine manner. The emerge naturally form a person who is being their natural self. We explore the inner journey of returning to our authentic selves...
Authentic Leadership - many of us have been consciously or unconsciously wearing a mask. We've been pretenders, pretending most of our lives. It's about what we are all taught to do. It seems that only a few catch-on to the reality that almost everyone is pretending to be someone that are not. It's killing us and killing the world. But we can't see it!
It's only on realizing your own pretentiousness (the quality of trying to make yourself appear or sound more important or clever than you are) that you can help other free themselves from its many constraints.
When your pretentiousness is no more then you fulfill the oldest description of leadership, which is being an example of exemplary behaviour.
It's not what you say, it's what you do. It's what's both visible and invisible in your deeds that touches and inspires others, or not, as the case may be....
Leadership. Love that word.
Makes me think of Gandhi. Edison. Mozart and Beckham. Bono and Bieber (grin)
It’s a word I’ve passionately built around for the past 30 years of my life. Empowering so-called 'ordinary people' that they are destined to lead. And create. And contribute. And be their true selves.
These are strange and gorgeous times. Tons of challenges. Dazzling possibilities.
I want you to leverage these times to fly. To express your talent. To do your dreams. To make the world better.
To help you Lead Without Title, I’ve distilled 10 of the most valuable and practical insights on leadership that I’ve shared with delegates around the world in my Behavioural Safety Leadership workshops These ideas have helped passionate people do some wonderful things. My deep wish is that they deliver the same results for you......
I am sharing my insights on what I’ve found that acts as a catalyst to release more in your life, what pursuits it would be good to strip out and what moves you may need to experience your next level of craft, fire in the belly and of service.
With this main aim in mind, I've deconstructed 20 powerful tactics to promote your personal greatness. To feed your inner hero. To fuel the history-maker within and inspire you to Dream Dare and Dazzle your world.
Each person has a mental atmosphere. This atmosphere, from which we can’t separate ourselves and which necessarily goes with us wherever we go, is the result of all that we have ever thought, felt, done and said.
To be heart Leaders that inspire Courage, we have to be conscious. We must awaken from the spells that our autopilot modes have cast upon us.
From the place I have called spirit, our passion and enthusiasm allow us to be leaders because people have been empowered, inspired, influenced and impacted by us.
From this place of being our true self we can come to live the integrity of leadership that demands that we be true to others because we speak from our hearts. Spirit is our place of inspiration...
Globally, many organizations are managed largely from an unacknowledged and unspoken fear. This fear is non conducive to bringing forth our spirit to its full glory to guide our organizations, our communities and those within them to be their very best.
To be our very best requires us to take the path of Courage. To be our very best requires us to try new things, to transform and challenge our behaviors and beliefs from our old ways of thinking.
It demand moving forward when we know we are on the correct course even though we may not exactly know what lies ahead. Being our very best invites us to accept riskas part of life that can energize us rather than paralyze us.
When we choose to lead a spirit-respecting organisation, our first job is to learn To BE a leader. Regardless of where we are in an orgnaisation, what our formal role may, or may not be, or where we are on the organisational chart. We are Leaders Without Title with the ability to Influence, Impact and Inspire those we come in contact with. It's removing "the game face mask" by being the people we uniquely are.
All the insights shared in these Podcasts describe the path to a way of being that grows closer and closer to our real selves. Our maturing Wonder Child shines brightly with all our natural qualities rather than wearing the masks our egos may have created to protect us on the Path of Fear. We have the Courage To BE Heart Leaders in everything we do.....
Work is a spark that bridges a critical gap. It is a gap between two essential places: the spiritual place deep within each of us that is the source of our uniqueness, our creativity, and our courage, and the rational, thinking and productive world that we live in.
Where we develop our mental and physical abilities and produce things that we need to survive. Work is the bridge that brings wholeness and balance to life. The spark that ignites and sets us on fire with passion for work and life. The workplace we create is one that not only allows, but encourages us to be wholly present in our work, with passion in all aspects of our lives.
If we want to build a spirit respecting community and workplaces , the answers to these questions inevitably lead us to transform the role of the executive leader. We shift our thinking from focusing on the product, the task, or the tangible outcome to being in service of those who make the product, perform the task, or produce the tangible outcome.
We shift from being responsible for the production on one million widgets generating a multi million dollar/pound profit to being in service of those who do.
We shift our role from sustaining a system to being in service of the vision.
Heart Leaders have the consciousness, the commitment and the courage to see what they envision become a reality!
Continuous Improvement requires leadership at all levels with out organizations and communities. It needs Leaders Without Title to inspire, impact and innovate. We all have that capability if we have the faith and courage to take the first noble step....
On the path of Courage, leadership is seeing "things as you would have them be" and then have the courage to be the change you would create.
On the path of Courage, there is an instant in which the Heart Leader comes to know what is possible.
With spirit as guide, the leader believes all things are possible, and from spirit the leader knows that "if I can think it, it can happen"...
When our organizations choose to lead from the heart in the Path of Courage and build self-respecting communities/workplaces, there are also prices to pay as well as the rewards to reap.
We choose to:
Give up being driven by events and accept being guided by our vision and values.
Give up money today to invest in our guiding principles.
Give up our negative beliefs in our people and accept our role in creating circumstances and outcomes.
Give up our need to control people and outcomes and empower others.....
What is the Cost?
The ability to lead from the heart and live from spirit is the result of choosing to live consciously. Being committed to living consciously in a society that largely muddles through on autopilot isn't easy.
There is a price to pay for choosing to live consciously, and sometime it's a hefty price tag.
Our Wonder Child was born with spirit, and living from spirit is free... from birth before all the insulating walls, roadblocks, coping strategies are set in place. The price to be paid for returning to the Wonder Child spirit is the price of personal restoration.
Fear is going to be there; if we are to grow and learn as individuals, as organisations, as communities, it is essential to accept its presence.
On the path of Courage, Heart Leaders consciously acknowledge fear as a warning sign for what is a caution, not a stop sign. When we are able to look at fear consciously, we can talk about whether our fear is rational. When fear is rational, we can exercise caution and prudence merited by the situation.; when we are in denial of fear we often can't act prudently.
Acknowledging fear allows us to examine possible outcomes and discuss how we can turn each scenario into a winning situation.
If we wait until something is absolutely safe, we do nothing. safety in decision making is only an illusion.
The safety that most organizations seek in rules can be accomplished more simply by accountability, accepting the organization's role in creating its problems - practicing prudence and good judgement that is achieved by organizational learning.
Why live by these rules anyway?
When we are being our fear we need crutches to lean on to ensure us we will survive and protect what we've come to believe must be protected. our rules enable a set of strategies which we use to psychologically delude ourselves into thinking we are secure.
Perfectionism, self-judgement, judgement of others, righteousness, cynicism and resentment are all fostered by our rules. They are so much of us on the Path of Fear that we are not even conscious of them, yet they have licked our behaviors into permanent unquestionable autopilot....
Avoiding Fear creates what we Fear the Most. Many believe that all human behaviour is motivated either by fear or desire. As I've said previously, I believe that fear and desire are almost always related. With almost every fear, there is an implied desire.
Attached to virtually every desire there is an associated fear. I believe that until we name the associated fear and make peace with it, we never achieve what we desire in a sustainable way.
Often, when it's unnamed, fear actually causes us to create what we fear. The truth is that over attachment to any end, whether it's getting what we desire or avoiding what we fear, takes us from a place of spirit where we live consciously and are able to open ourselves to new possibilities. Either fear or desire can cause us to leave "our river of peace".
Making friends with the dark side. All that we have to accept about ourselves isn't just love and beauty. In each of us is a dark side. Fear, Righteousness, Judgement, Perfectionism, Resentment, Confusion, Regret, Blaming, Guilt, Cynicism, Worry, Control mania, Arrogance, Victim-hood, Greed...
Just as all the good qualities we see in others are a reflection of those positive qualities in us, all the things we dislike about others are reflections of those qualities in ourselves. All of these are part of me. All of these qualities are part of you. We can recognize those qualities in others only in the mirrored reflection of ourselves....
Love ourselves? Accept Ourselves? Be kind and peaceful with ourselves? Starting our spirituality with loving ourselves is difficult.
There we stand alone and naked with no one to blame or lean on. Until e love ourselves, we always depend on others to love us, to give us approval, and to give us positive feedback.. We are forever drawn from our spiritual centre by the desire to please others or by the fear of not pleasing them.
What does it mean to love myself?
Peace is an essential part of our spirits. When we live and lead on the Path of Courage, we come to know a deep level of peace that pervades our whole being.
We may still be afraid, angry, frustrated, or irritated at at event of the day, but guiding us like a rudder is a deep sense of peace that tell us we are on the right track.
This peace is generated by a a spiritual connection made possible by self-awareness and conscious living.
For most of us, going mindlessly through the day on autopilot is so habitual that it takes a lot of practice to being truly present.
Millions of hours are wasted each year in organizations with CYA (Covering Yous Ass). memos that rehash how we handled the past or aim to control the future. yet people regularly relate how their best management performances come when they are focused on being completely present in the present..
When leaders have self trust and faith in their ability to handle whatever develops, somehow the answer they need to know emerges.
When we are not present and when we are not aware, we also loose connection. When we think about something we are going to do or something we should have dome differently, we rob ourselves of the connection that allows us to build trust, faith, cooperation and community.
When we don't address and resolve conflict in a healthy way that respects everyone involved, misplaced anger almost always results. As human beings, when we keep suppressing the emotions around unresolved conflict pressure builds; over time we become more and more volatile. Eventually a mere spark in the area of our resentment can set off a raging fire of anger.
When we want to truly resolve conflicts so that relationships improve and people work together in a mutually spirit respecting way we must operate for our heart in a spiritual respecting manner.
Useful Book reference:
Have a Nice Conflict: How to Find Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places, Tim Scudder. ASIN : B006N7RMLO
When we connect deeply with one person or more on a deeply personal level our lives change forever. On first experiencing a deep connection I was made keenly aware on how superficial and empty most of my relationships were. I no longer wanted to live in a superficial world. I wanted deep intimate relationships, which differed from my old ways.
When we commit to creating meaningful relationships and to the learning that those relationships require, we commit to the discovery of the 'self' that we bring to it.
If we are to be completely in a relationship, we have to be whole, aware individuals who know what we feel and what we wants well as what we think, and we have to truly want to be in community with others. We have to be full and complete with ourselves. We can't come into a relationship as people who depend on others to provide approval to make them feel whole.
When we come into relationships as whole individuals committed to accepting others in our community for who they are, as they are, we are committing to the relationship rather than ourselves, without giving up on ourselves.
When we are in our brains and egos, we believe each of us is a discrete entity, separate from others with whom we live and work.
When we are in our spirits, we know we are intricately connected in a web of relationships that makes it impossible for us to take even a single action without affecting the entire connectedness.
Our relationships, our families, our companies, our communities, and our world are like a delicately balanced 'mobile'. Touch any part, even slightly and the whole 'mobile' reacts with movement....
I spend a considerable amount of time in organizations helping Leaders discover what they didn't know they knew. Including those things that they believed to be true that were false.
The conscious mind has the ability to process 7 pieces of information per minute. The unconscious mind can process 300,000 in the same time. Most of this vast library of information is carried in the unconscious, that part of the brain "we don't know", or the right brain, the non linear, non verbal part of our brains. At any moment we are exposed to 2 billion pieces of information. All of this information helps us, our organizatiosn and communities discover what we don't know. Let's explore further.
We only know what we know - what we have been taught by books, by videos, by audios, by others and by our experiences. That is all we know. Or is it? Is it possible that we don't know what we believe we know? That we know what we don't know we know? Once I was sure I knew how to get ahead: get a good eduction, find a good company, work hard, do what I am told and be loyal. promotions will come, I will 'move up the ladder' and make more money as I go. I will retire with a gold watch, a good retirement and a few years to live. That is what I knew a few years ago.
In less than a generation, most of what and I and others thought what we knew began crumbling....
Let's explore in more detail.
Dreams are a good way to receive message, sometimes very important messages from the unconscious. The Bible, Native American Lore and Greek, Roman and other mythology are rich in examples of dreams that provide significant guidance to people who listen to and seek to understand their dreams.
Dreams are our most effective source of the information hat we are taking into our unconscious minds at almost 43,000 times the rate our conscious minds can process....
How do we get in touch with Spirit, in touch with our inner self? The answer, I believe, is in being - just being., in self-knowledge, and self-awareness. It lies in listening to our inner wisdom and trusting that we "have the answers." It lies in trusting that we know "what we don't know". We understand our 'safe operating limit" from a physical and mental level. On a spiritual level it lies in giving up the past and choosing to live in the present. It lies in letting negative thoughts and judgement give way to loving and trusting thoughts. It lies in understanding what motivates our relationships and what our relationships really are. Most of all, it is in being - just being.
On the path of Fear, we sacrifice the peace and joy of our current experience as we reach out for the future. When I was on the path of Fear, I didn't know that in my new reality in the path of Courage what others happened to think would become irrelevant.
Moving forward I had reached a point of no return. I had glimpsed what it was like to live from the heart in short quiet times. I made a leap of faith when I made a conscious decision to live in the now and operate from my spirit, my heart centre all of the time...
We need to remember that we have all been programmed with a lifetime of instruction, socialization, and linear, analytical and quantitative thinking.
One of the biggest challenges we face in learning to lead from the heart, lead from our spirits is to become aware when our automatic behavioural responses are activated. Once we begin to to identify situations that pull us out of our heart space, or begin to recognise our own symptoms, we can begin to know what we need to do "to keep our faith."
Seeking the Wonder Child
For most of us, our search for spiritual knowledge is rewarded over the years in 'bits and pieces'. Yet spiritual knowing is within each of us all the time: but until we have done some organized self-discovery, most of us don't know we have it. The things that touch our hearts have always touched our hearts, we may not have been aware that we were being touched.
This experience is like tuning our radio to FM 89.9 for hearing a message that is on a different frequency of 92.0. We get a message, however the isn't really connected to our heart until we tune the dial a bit more...
An important part of discovering spiritual knowledge is learning to tune in and be aware of ourselves to find our wonder child....
Heart Leadership is about learning of the heart, not of the head. Reading and listening about it doesn't bring it to the heart. We often spend years helping our heads to discover what our hearts must have known 'years ago'. Our unconsciousness has the knowledge, bit it is usually inconvenient to acknowledge that fact. This knowledge doesn't 'fit' with popular or management trends or with our personal or business lives.
So we stuff it into the backroom of our hearts: waiting for a more convenient time, then "to our horror" discover their are no convenient times - only time!
The Learning process never ends - a friend once said "Any discussion on spirituality needs to consider learning as integral to being on a spiritual journey."
Heart Leadership growth is not a task with defined parameters and a decisive ending. The learning and the process continue; the journey is is without and end. The true destination of teh process is the journey itself, the process or practice of drawing closer and closer to the mark, learning to be ever more conscious of how we BE in our relationships to ourselves, to others, and the experiences of life....
The glue that manifests itself in successful organizations is a spirit that presents itself as a positive belief in people, and a belief that the organization can handle whatever comes its way.
There is a consciousness, intentionality and commitment at living from that belief. The ingredients that engender creativity, quality, participation, leadership and health and allow an organization to flourish are those of a heart centered spiritual organization.
Energy Sector "Hearts and Minds" Cultural Maturity Toolkit
https://heartsandminds.energyinst.org/
Many Managers who try to lead organizational change keep "missing the mark". Their frustration mounts until many 'give up.' "I've tried so many times and none of my approaches work". What they are really saying is "I haven't been able to allow then to work because I am unwilling to own my part".
A heart centered spiritual practice brings us closer to out target. Without learning, spiritual practice is simply a study in failure: without learning we never draw closer to our target.
Let's explore some of the principles...
UN Sustainable Leadership Goals
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Donald Cooper, Business Coach
https://www.donaldcooper.com/
Courage doesn't come in a bottle to be taken when needed when symptoms of weakness appear. To live the kind of courage required to bring spirit into the workplace, our communities requires the Heart Leader to take time to experience the relationship we have with ourselves and to discover what heart centered spiritual leadership is about.
It also requires an acceptance of emotions - ours and those of others: emotions drive drive most actions whether we acknowledge them or . When emotions are accepted, we can acknowledge fear or anger, or resentment and explore the sources of these very real emotions. With a shared understanding of where people are personally the organization can move ahead.....
We explore bringing spirit into everyday life and especially into our workplace. There appears to be 2 keys for understanding the 'Spirit/Heart Cycle" (as per the link below).
The first is seeing our work as a spiritual practice, like practicing on an instrument or a sport to get better and better at what we are doing.
The second is making a commitment to learn from each other and move closer and closer to what we want to create....
The Spirit/Heart Cycle
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Relationships are different here - when people interact there is an unusual quality in their relationship. When people talk, they are really present with each other. Even although there are many activities - their focus is on the person to whom they are talking to - completely.
They listen carefully and ask question to get a deeper understanding on what they are talking about. The level of respect in which each speaks honours each of them. This is a heart centered culture in action....
Unleashing the Spirit Cycle at work and within our communities:
We explore my work in helping organizations harness the the zest, the innate energy within their work. A journey in working with creativity, leadership, quality and technical integrity.
Getting a deeper understanding of "what was putting people on fire" in some organizations and not others. Something called the "Spirit Cycle" - the way people relate to each other in a spirit respecting workplace that produces self perpetuating energy...
If we as Heart Leaders provide space for spirit to emerge, we need a new tool that seeks to challenge or assumptions, our creativity and our spontaneity rather than to restrict and control in order to ensure there are outcomes that are familiar and comfortable..
We need tools that help groups of people to learn and think together so that as a group they can discover things that would have been impossible to learn outside the group setting.
One such tool is that of "dialogue". This is combined with critical analysis and judgement based on independent data.
Research Data Links:
UK Government Nudge Unit
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/behavioural-insights-team
Psychological Operations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)
NLP
https://www.nlp.com/what-is-nlp/
UK Yellow Card Reporting System
Please check the source data from the spreadsheets - not the Nudge Unit 'Spin...'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions
European Database
https://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html
UK Independent News Feed - UK Column News
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
US VAERS
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html
Leaders in spirit respecting workplace are deeply connected with everyone. Heart Centred Leaders love, value and respect both themselves and other. Trust is assumed and faith is given. Trust and faith are unconditional.
They can not be earned; they can only be lost. When we are warm, caring and sympathetic - truly putting ourselves in each other's shoes - we can bring people together in a new dimension...
Respect is a word that has taken on a new meaning from a Leadership perspective. When we 'respect' people we give them the benefit of the doubt, we are willing to look at other considerations or look again at the old ones and to say ther must be something here that we initially missed.b We challenge initial assumptions. We see positive possibilities. With a seceond look, we usually see perspectives we missed at a first glance.
Heart Leaders respect people. They respect their workforce. They respect their customers. They respect their suppliers. They respect their competitors. They respect their neighbours and community in which they live. They respect themselves...
Heart centered Leaders recognise that everything in life is a choice - whether it be in our family, business or within our communities.
When we say we don't have the time or money to do something for our family, our community, our organisation, that we think will be good for everyone, we are actually saying there are other things on which we choose to spend our time and money on.
Heart Leadership is recognising that we are always making choices. It is only when a choice is recognised that more information will be sought, more questions asked and the situation assessed consciously and objectively.The leader who leads from the heart considers not only the productivity challenges faced with but also considers the well-being, the spirit of the workers.
We explore the infinite positive possibilities of spirit respecting leadership.....
Courage is not treading a pathway without fear - it's the strength to face it and take action. Leadership occurs in all levels of our society, it emerges when people have the courage to incorporate a few simple truths into their whole lives.
When we live from our spirit, the more we recognise that we don't have work lives, home lives, community lives, lives as workers or employers and lives as parents, spouses, partners or children. Each and everyone one of us has one life that is seamless and continuous.
When we view our lives as segmented, we begin to experience stress. When we experience our lives as a whole, with the same truths and values governing all parts, we experience peace and joy.
Work bridges the critical gap between the spiritual and rational in each and everyone of us. .A gap that is seeking wholeness, completion. Our heart spirit is a fire within, that ignites us with passion, purpose, love, energy and courage.
That fire is within our core and sets us ablaze when we are near our work, not merely our job or career, but a personal calling, our purpose that is spiritually and emotionally sustaining. This work calls on our creativity and fill su with energy and enthusiasm as we embrace opportunities to become what we all can be....
Enthusiasm can't be can't be stirred by spiritless wo/men.The zest, the innate energy within is 'stirred' by the soul, the inner spirit.
Describing spirit is like wrestling with a lovable octopus - the closer you get to it, the harder it is to embrace. We ask the question "What is spirit"? We endeavor to share insights from 40 years of exploration...
Heart Leadership is about the internal qualities of a person, the energy, the zest they bring into their lives and others that they 'touch'. It's Leadership Without Title - we all have the capability of being 'Leaders.'
It's about unlearning the things that insulate us from 'spirit'. Traditional 'Management" training has often focused on manipulating people to the company's ends in the belief that the company can prosper when the individual cannot.. Courageous Heart leaders know that an organisation, a community, can never prosper over the long term unless those that make it up also prosper.
Those that lead from the heart have learned courage.They often feel like the leader of a group of revolutionaries when the lead a group of people who have just discovered spirit for the first time. Let's dive deeper into the precepts....
Before we can become leaders each of us needs to recognise that every human being is unique. To be a heart leader means seeing individuals, not undistinguished groups of people. To be a leader means discovering what works for us personally when we are living from spirit, not following a how-to-do-it prescription book. It means discovering and respecting that same place in each and every individual that we come in contact with...
Searching for a new path involves accepting our current situation - "calling it as it is". In our current pandemic many have found themselves in the midst of pain, confusion and struggle that chaos inevitably brings. Chaos is a creative incubator from which a higher order can emerge, but chaos is frightening.
It can be frightening for the people plunged in the middle of it, for leaders, for those that watch and wait and feel powerless. It can be a catalyst for gathering courage, patience, faith and the commitment to move forward; a period of reassessment, exploration,discovery and decisions where life will lead us.
To survive these personal transitions and thrive, we need a clear sense of direction, strong values and beliefs in our ability to weather the storm and to forge a better life for all - let's explore in more depth a heart leadership approach.
Leading from the Heart is about choosing Courage over fear in ourselves, our workplace and communities.
Our Pandemic world has raised a palatable level of fear within our communities. This introductory podcasts offers a prescription for transformation around four concepts:
- There are 2 paths in Life - the path of fear and the Path of Courage
- Leaders must their own internal work before they can the catalyst for community transformation.
- Organizational change and leadership development should begin by focusing on being rather than doing.
- A community atmosphere the encourages wholeness and growth of spirit result in a society that is healthier in mind, spirit and body.
Integrating Video:
https://youtu.be/ol2ExffKX_M
In this final Podcast of this series we examine what is called "The Game of Living". Many would say life is far too serious to be called a game. Although this is generally correct, many professional sports people, as we have seen in the Olympics, have serious approaches to the games.
Indeed to do well in a game you have to be very serious. A game is also an event that is observed. Again to do well in life, you must be able to see yourself the way others see you. This podcast considers 'the game of living' in the terms of skills, disasters, losing, winning and how to be better at this important game.
Please click this link to see an i-Mindmap of the key principles:
http://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ZePower-Control-life-Be-Better.pdf
Magnification to 300% gives a better view to navigate.
Your Life is what you make of it. Many people will arrive at the same destination by different routes.
Our Podcasts are deigned to help you achieve the best result for your unique circumstances.
Stress is a key component of everyday living - a number of approaches are offered in our podcasts. For some a stressful path is right, for most, stress free solutions would be more suitable. All being well, unwinding, understanding and controlling life will allow you to achive the result you desire....
For the key points in this and previous podcasts please se this i-Mind Map link.
(please zoom to 200% for viewing.)
http://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ZePower-Control-life-Be-Better.pdf
The object of life is to be better. If you can improve on what you started with, you have made progress.
In the first quarter of life many people succeed in improving themselves. For some reason this doesn't continue throughout life - many find themselves in positions that are static with no improvement. Instead, more and more time is spent trying to be happy.
The paradox is that it is easy to be happy when you are improving yourself, it is very difficult to be happy when you existence is spent trying to find happiness.
We explore insights on "how to be better"....
People who seem to control life seem to have more time; they seem to accomplish more.
When you look at what they have done and you add it all up, it seems to be impossible...
How can this be? It is obviously not impossible. Like everything else in life - to control life, you need to develop a skill. The development of this skill requires time and effort - it's not impossible!
There are three important considerations:
1. The use of time
2. The reward/effort ratio
3. The decision making
Let's explore in more detail...
For an i-Mind Map of key insights please click this link
http://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ZePowerControl-Life.pdf
Life is a frequently misunderstood word. It can be seen as "activity', 'vitality' and 'get up and gp'. Although life is all of these things , it is more simply the opposite of death.
Most people associate life with good things. For some, it is because they see bad things of life as being 'negative'. This may be true if you can only see the bad things.
The ideal is to see life as it it. What we nee is a great deal of truth and honesty and teh ability to see yourself as others see you.
Let's explore this concept in more detail....
Now we examine planning to unwind.
It has five stages:
1. Entrance
2.Muscles
3. Breathing
4. Mind
5. Exit
It spells as "EMBE" which is a palindrome.
Let's explore the technique....
Unwind, understand and control life with zest and joy.
Jim shares his insights on regaining personal power after falling ill with Chronic Fatigue/ME (Myalgic Encephomyolitis)...
A journey of discovery and recovery. Choosing to spring free from the treacle of life and soar with the eagles, then swimming graciously with the waters of his Scottish Lochs and rivers...
We examine the key principles of Dr. William Glasser's 'Choice Theory' which helps us live a fulling life.
For greater details please see his book:
Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
ISBN-10 : 0060930144
Jack wakened with a startle “What was that knocking noise?” he said to himself. Senses on high alert - where was the intruder? As quickly as he had tensed, he relaxed - a smile from ear to ear - it was a wee robin redbreast at his bedroom window knocking and chipping gleefully.
“Aye, I’ll need to get used to strange noises in a week or two he remarked to his mirror.” He was heading to a new base in Jakarta, Indonesia the project manager of a new offshore field – ‘Galaxy.’ It was to be in the Llalang Straight between Sumatra and Singapore. A heavy crude oil with all its associated technical challenges..
“Great! – What did you learn of a personal basis?” he replied with eyes sparkling.
A huge grin etched my face “That PEOPLE COMPASS you gave me away at the beginning kept me on the straight and narrow” I chirped back. “I referred to it on a regular basis and applied it to myself and direct reports as part of my ‘reflective cycle.” It created a culture on continuous learning.
My enthusiasm was running at ‘full steam’ again. On a deeper level within the ZeCircle of Power.
Jack laconically gazed out the window of the Manager’s office in Zulu. The float-out and jacket installation had been a heart-stopping movement – we nearly lost it!
The crane barge crew had the ballast incorrect – they hadn’t fully compensated for the type of sea swell – it was long and ‘peaky’ – at the crucial moment of locating the topsides the barge heaved and tilted to an alarming angle. Heaving, for what seemed a ‘lifetime’, at an alarming angle on the ‘point of balance’ between safety and disaster.
People Compass
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The offshore installation jackets were being installed in the central North Sea by the crane barge - Arctic Explorer. The wind was picking up steadily – North Westerly was starting to howl. The ‘weather window’ had closed for the next 12 hours - tolerance was the order of the day. Hector was well familiar with the bone chilling winds of Nepal.
On his return from Tibet he'd came over the mountain passes to the Annapurna valley. Some 18 months he’d lived there - spring and autumn were the windy seasons. At times, it was difficult to communicate by voice - the howling winds drowned any form of speech. He developed a delicate sense of sensory acuity whilst working in the valley as a ‘farmer.’ A member of THE valley “family” - he worked in harmony with the people and environment, sensing, feeling - being an integral part of the landscape.
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Hector and Jack were boldly walking down the quayside on the day of the “float out” of the offshore installation “jackets”.
Pride, surging through their chilled bodies, “Aye, it’s another cold day, grimaced Hector. The weather is picking up I don’t think it’ll sell for a few days - we need a good seven days weather window to be sure.” It had been a struggle getting the logistics sorted out. The offshore drilling rig had the key wells drilled, capped and template fitted.
Construction, had all the modules built, tested and commissioned on time – having the lay barges and tugs in place at the correct time. “Preparation, preparation, preparation” - the mantra of high-performance teams was ringing in Jack’s ears.
The classic business model of plan, do, measure, had stood them in good stead.....
Business Management Model
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Jack paused, and suddenly felt that “Aha” moment upon him: it was the birth of his virtuoso team. We all have the ingredients for TEAM MAGIC.
Our project was “ripe” to make that alive. A powerful vision, INSPIRED people, with the COURAGE to do what it takes to make it happen. “I'm working hard; I want them to work hard to, I want this to be the best thing we've ever done!"
We've got the cream of the crop -it is like magic. I’ve got others asking to join our project -it's like a giant magnet for great talent. This is the biggest development in the North Sea for a decade and has attracted industry attention as one of the most innovative projects to date. Seven economically marginal fields with different owners and different hydrocarbons to create ZULU.....
Team Magic Model
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Jack had risen early this morning and was fresh from his morning work-out. The project pace had “picked-up”. He was running things through in his “mind’s eye”. The key steps of his project management model on his internal screen – Appraise, Select, Define, Execute. Operate, Close Out. They were completing the DEFINE stage.
His mind sprung to the Hector’s insights. He had mentioned this innate quality of COURAGE previously. It would take courage to meet our stretch goals whilst living up to our ethical standards – a delicate balance of commercial and PEOPLE needs...
Hector was troubled; his new “charge” was bounding upwards and onwards at a tremendous rate. Riding on the crest of a wave. Oh, how he remembered that well. Nothing seemed impossible! Why was he troubled? It was at old gut feeling again - something wasn't ringing true. He searched his memory banks of the last few weeks since they'd been at the “Dam”. Jack's words and body language were out of ‘sync’. His words were all of the right corporate talk - the culture that “failure is not an option.” The tell-tale fumble with his pen, nervous foot tapping and forced laugh.
There was something wooden about the sincerity of his words.
“MMmmm, if I can see the ‘tell-tale’ cues then others will sense it as well.” he mumbled to himself. Jack's team are thoroughbreds and finely tuned – they’ll pickup their leader’s signals subconsciously. That's not the inspirational start he was planning for. “How have I failed him?” Hector reflected.....
VISION
"Dream, Dare, Dazzle your World!"
“Jack I’ve a proposition for you! These words were still ringing in Jack’s ears!”
These words were still ringing in Jack’s ears as he surged along Union Street. Talk about the “wow” factor – it really felt like it. It looked as if his guardian angel was looking over his shoulder. The opportunity to be part of an international Leadership Team developing a new offshore oilfield in difficult uncharted waters was compelling – thrilling to be chosen....
The Hidden Valley Unfolds
“OK you old renegade let’s swing the lamp and wander along the Beach Boulevard – tell me more about your escapades in Tibet.”
With a fresh wind on our face and a setting sun glowing we “moseyed along the beach. Hector’s eyes glazed slightly as he transported back to Tibet.” As I mentioned, we entered this hidden Valley, a bit like the one in Glencoe and, it opened out to an abundance of “green life” which was in stark contrast to the “outer world” of wind and barren rocks with little vegetation – an oasis in the middle of somewhere ….. (there was a cheeky grin cracking his weathered face) Tibetan community only occasionally ventured out of their valet when there was a request for help from the outerworld. Within, they were very self sufficient.....
Jack was saying his goodbyes to the lads and lassies of Cruachan Alpha – a wee lump in his throat as he reflected on the friendships formed over the last few years… A difficult time – organizational change in a large scale. The price of a “barrel of oil” had dropped to a new low of . It was ‘change or die’. He’d to tell workmates – members of his close community/kinfolk, that they were being “retired” early. It was met, on one side with a combination of anger, fear and disbelief whilst balanced on the other with euphoria, excitement and joy of the opportunities. “Aye they’re none say fickle as folk” was ringing in his ears....
We Dive Deeper into the world of transformational change...
Hector’s Sojourn
Hector, with glistening eyes, explained in more detail “As we traveled a strange fleeting energy was surging through my body from time to time”, he said. “I couldn’t’ sustain it and I got frustrated and frustrated, and frust.. - being angry at myself and at others in the party. I wasn’t easy company – intolerable springs to mind.”
Reflecting, he gave a travelogue: “We landed at Kathmandu for an overnight stay before heading north to Lhasa – a bustling town full of pilgrims. Was I one?” – he mused. With “belly in mouth” we rode the turbulence and had a hard touch down at Lhasa. We were moving rapidly now – Lhasa to Shigatse for a well-deserved Transformational bath to ease my aching body and mind.....
A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny - Jim shares his insights and global experiences as a Safety Leadership Coach in the Major Accident Hazards Sector.
An enigmatic journey of exploration from the Stormy North Sea of Scotland to the hidden valleys of the Himalayas.
This fictitious story will inspire you to fulfill your biggest dreams and help you step into the highest version of your greatest vision.
Our old unconscious habits, our self limiting behaviors are becoming a way of life - they no longer support us in our 'New Reality'. We now turn to focus on building our new systems; determining on more of what we want; re-setting our habits and cleansing our physical surroundings including our bodies. Real change is practically and physically re-aligning our society, our actions, and our environment - let's explore in more detail...
Worry never helped anyone accomplish anything. Worry is negative and passive. That’s why, by definition, it is incapable of accomplishing anything. The only way to change anything is by a positive and active approach. Practically speaking, what that means is that the way out of worry is to transmute it into active desire for positive change.
As Leaders Without Title (LWT) we have the opportunity to Inspire, Impact and Influence our world.
We look at what we need to do build our New Reality to have more joy and excitement.. How to Re-set our 'navigation' to decide and clearly voice what you want, how to be around others, look after our physical well-being and make powerful decisions.
Why and how to break the vicious circle of automatic reactions.
Every single emotion we experience in every single moment of our life conditions the very substance and wiring of our emotional body. Hence, the quality and purity of our emotional nature is directly determined by the emotions we express. We literally build our emotional body by the emotions we go through.
Let's understand how we regain control!
Welcome to your Graduation - Taking Action in your 12 Dimensions of Mastery and integrating it into your extraordinary Life.
Today, I want to start with a simple, but profound question: Why do we set goals anyway?
We visualize our future and set goals so that we can take action, so that we can do something about it. Every great accomplishment was imagined before it was implemented. Thoughts become things.
Exercise:
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Review the most important goals in your life that you wrote down yesterday, and choose one.
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Take one, powerful action toward the accomplishment of that goal today.
We are getting SO close to the end.
How are you doing? Are you up to speed? Caught up on all Podcasts so far?
If not, can you set yourself a SMART goal to get there? Let's apply these tools right away and use them to move our lives forward.
Her are some Golden Nuggets to reflect on:
'Your ability to choose and then act is your greatest freedom, your greatest strength.'
'Great choices and actions lead to a great life and lousy choices and actions lead to a lousy life.'
'Without focused consistent action all the goal setting in the world won't get you there.'
I don't know about you but my ACTION step today will be to get those 3 sentences above tattooed on my brain!
Who's with me?
This life is about ACTION! Our lives are made up of the choices and actions we make.
Are your daily actions aligned with your Life Vision?
What a great reflection. (I just put down the dark chocolate I was eating....)
Does the reality of your daily actions match your rhetoric?
Wow that is powerful stuff. If not...then what will you do about it?
Can you take 1 ACTION step today to move towards your Life Vision?
I personally will put down my dark chocolate and finish a piece I've been writing for a local magazine.
ACTION TAKEN! You can hold me accountable for that one.
Stop thinking, PUT down THE CHOCOLATE, or the chips, or the coffee, or the remote, and start DOING.
Let ACTION be the motor that will propel you into your ZeLife Vision. And tell us what you're committed to doing....
Congratulations on your Graduation.
Boldly step up and Dream Dare and Dazzle your world!
To continue your life of Zest Exploration please visit www.jimbennett.global
This week we are going to focus on taking that amazing ZeLife Vision of yours and actually implementing it. Because no matter how good your thinking and writing was, it won't mean anything if you don't execute on those ideas and bring them into reality.
Exercise:
Review your visions across the 12 categories and ask yourself:
1. What’s it going to take to make this happen?
2. What is the most important thing or things I need to DO to make this vision a reality?
Setting SMART goals:
SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Rewarding and Time Bounded.
Goals are dreams with deadlines!
What dreams do you need to turn into SMART goals?
To get SPECIFIC around what areas we need to work on first. All 11 categories at once can be overwhelming.
So let's narrow it down...
What areas do you need to work on FIRST? Improving what area will help your attain your ZeLife Vision the fastest?
Is it Health and Fitness? Love Relationship? Career? Your Spiritual Life? Maybe a Character trait?
Who do you need to BECOME in order to have that life?
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." ~ Tony Robbins
Exercise for this week:
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Define the 4-5 most important goals upon which your life vision rests
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Turn these goals into S.M.A.R.T. goals.
ZeLife Vision in the final category and is where we focus on the important single aspect of the ZeLife programme – a singular, compelling vision for the person you want to become and the life you want to live. Our ability to envision our future is the defining feature of our humanity.
Exercise: Review the 11 categories that we have examined so far, and answer two simple questions for each of them:
1. What, exactly, do I want in this area of my life?
- Why do I want that?
We all know the best way to predict the future is to create it. So don't get comfortable. Because life begins at the END of your comfort zone. Dream HUGE here, Dazzle the World with your awesomeness.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for. I applaud you for getting this far. But you didn't come this far to only come this far. You're here to create an extraordinary future. And there's still ACTION to take to get you there. These last few weeks will determine who the leaders are.
If you want something you've never had, then you have to do something you've never done. Nothing changes if you don't change anything.
So giddy up. Let's go. Imagine that the Universe is listening, and EVERYTHING you write in your ZeLife Vision WILL ACTUALLY COME TRUE. Let's explore your Future Self in 5 years time!
Quality of Life is about your happiness, fulfillment. It's about living joyfully and fully every day. This category is a fun one. It includes your dream house and car and the experiences you want to have in your life. This category comprises all the other categories.
Exercise 1 for this week:
What are your thoughts on quality of life? What does it mean to you?
The Quality of Life category is structurally different from all other categories, because it consists of the other 11 categories. There is something you can almost always count on to be nothing but positive: Your experiences. Creating quality experiences for yourself and for the people you love is one of the best things about life.
Exercise 2 for today:
- Plan an experience that improves your happiness and your quality of life.
- Commit to making it happen within 30 days. Schedule it.
Yes, it's difficult during the current Pandemic lets list some activities for now and later when we are creating the new 'New":
Book an overnight with your lover
Have a couples massage
Go sky diving
Hike in the woods
Climb a mountain
Do a random act of kindness
Adopt a pet
See your favorite concert
Preform karaoke
Sing at an open mic night
Write a poem
Take your kids to indoor sky dive
Book a trip with your family
Plan a family reunion
Buy a new bike
Explore a cave
Parasail
Go white water rafting
Snowboard
Bungee jump
Hold a monkey
Do a flip on a trampoline
Milk a cow
Hold a tarantula
Swim with turtles
Ride an elephant
Stand under a waterfall
Take the polar plunge
Hug a redwood
Name a star
Roll in a huge pile of leaves
Watch the sunrise & sunset in one day
Write a fan letter
Surprise someone
Tell your Dad you love him
Kiss a stranger
Forgive someone
Share a fantasy
Learn a line dance
Give blood
Volunteer
Go on a silent retreat
Clean up trash at a park
Write a song
Write a book
Paint a portrait
Try acupuncture
Get a facial
Dress in super sexy lingerie
Dance on a bar
Go camping
Learn the Haka
Preform a magic trick
Fly first class
As has been said before "wo/man's limitation is space travel is wo/man...."
This week we'll discuss why career is so important in our lives, not only because it makes us money, but also because it is how we spend most of our waking hours. We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity and can choose any career we want.
However, there is information overload for many of us - the paradox of choice.
A career exists to make your entire life better, not just your financial life. It all depends on your goals and what you want out of this category as well as what price you are willing to pay to get there.
No matter what level of financial or career success you have, there will always be a healthy level of stress. What matters is how much is enough for you. What price are you willing to pay in order to accomplish your goals?
Exercise for this week:
- Make a list of where you want to go in your career.
- For each item, ask yourself: What's it going to cost me to achieve this goal? Then write down the "price" you would have to pay.
- Ask yourself: Do I want to pay this price? If yes, write down OK next to it.
People have always had a love-hate relationship with money. But what, exactly, is money? In this category, we will explore financial abundance and how your beliefs and your attitudes toward money and wealth will have a major impact on your financial life.
This will be a hardcore exploration with no sugar coating. As a result, this podcast will be longer than usual.
Everybody, no matter how wealthy, wants more money. It's human nature. We are wired to strive for more. But, there are two sides to every coin. This is a great metaphor for the financial category, because this category involves so much paradox and dichotomy. Today, we'll learn how and why as well as a few key strategies to having a great financial life..
One of the true secrets of life that I've found, especially for the financial category, is that happiness requires both “striving for more” with a passion that drives you forward and being immensely grateful that you absolutely have enough already.
Happiness is the main thing - it's our North Star.
This weeks' Exercise:
1. Create a gratitude practice around your current financial life. Appreciate what you already have, whether it's a little or a lot.
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Write in your journal everyday on what you're grateful for in your financial life.
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Decide: How much money is enough for me? There is no right or wrong answer, but there is a right or wrong answer for you.
Listening to the podcast with a 'relaxed mind' will enable the key principles to get a deeper understanding within your sub-consciousness and give you greater empowerment.
This week we discuss your social life. In this category, we take a look at our relationships with our family and our friends.
Relationships are about RELATING and don't stay the same over time. They take an investment, which is why having a vision for your social life can help you decide what kind of friendships you want to have.
We also explore how to develop High Quality Friendships. Looking at some profound principles and life-changing content that will reveal just how high the stakes are in this category. Then, we’ll share some powerful strategies for taking your social life to the next level.
We define an extraordinary, romantic relationship as a passionate, spiritual, emotional, sexual attachment between two people who love and trust each other, who are highly connected, who communicate effectively, and who value each other above all else. We identify some of the strategies you can use to make this happen in your own life.
This links into the bonds of parenting. Whether you’re a parent or not, this will be a rich and rewarding category for you to explore. You were a kid once, you have parents, and children are an important part of all our lives.
Raising a child can be one of the richest, deepest experiences imaginable. It's an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual journey that can't be duplicated. There are as many parenting styles as there are parents....
More than anything else, your relationships will determine your happiness. They go directly to the heart of your life experience.
We will explore love relationships, Life Partnership, plus I'll share some insights from my experience and research.
Weekly Exercise: What do you think makes a great love relationship? Write your answer in your journal...
There are hundreds of ways to define Spirituality, which is why you have to define it for yourself. What's right for you. Knowing what we believe and why we believe it gives us a deep strength within ourselves. It helps to create a feeling of standing on solid ground, and asks us the questions of who we are and what we are all about.
This category deserves deep reflection because it is so rich and important. It addresses our purpose and the reasons why we are here.
We’re going to go a little deeper and explore applying the principle of Lifestyle Integration to your Spiritual Life with an exercise designed to change your daily behavior and create real results.
Our Moral Self is about building good character which is a mark, a symbol oy our soul. The actions we do on a daily basis that reflects our inner compass of what is 'good and proper.'
We look at what defines us and how we can choose to change these traits if we so wish to do so....
WE continue our journey of Transformational Change by looking at more depth into our ZeEmotional Life in respect to what makes us Happy and un-Happy.
What to do more of and what to do less of....
This week we look how our Emotions influence and impact our lives. Exploring what are emotions, where do they come from, how do they improve our quality of life?
This a link to the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People:
https://www.academia.edu/4116437/7_HABITS_OF_HIGHLY_EFFECTIVE_PEOPLE_BY_STEPHEN_COVEY
8th Habit - From Effectiveness to Greatness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_8th_Habit
Our Intellectual life is regularly ignored in the personal development world. It's the foundation that sets us on our navigation towards an extraordinary life.
Our ability to think is our primary survival toll that is of great help in our current turbulent world.
We examine our ZeLandscape for a bright and beautiful future.
This week we explore how we control our thinking and what some of our 'thought shaping factors' are. Everything around us is brought into 'being' by the process of thinking.
The quality of our thoughts are by choice - we have control. It impacts our education, relationships, career, love relationships, health, house we live in.....
You can take control of your thinking.
Achieving our ZeHealth and Fitness Vision is primarily down to the leverage we get from our powerful Purpose that empowers how we see, hear and feel about ourselves.
This week we look at the apparent reasons for failure and how to Landscape our life to achieve success in all categories of our Life Plan.
Getting a deeper understanding how Health and Fitness integrates with our:
Financial Life
Parenting
Social Life
Career
Mind Wealth
Love Relationships
Emotional Wellbeing
Spirituality
Individual Character
Quality of Life
* Our Life Vision
Helping us to Dream, Believe and Achieve.
This is the first of our 12 categories of our ZeLife Plan where we explore the Vision of our ideal health and fitness.
There isn't a single area of Life that isn't affected by our health and fitness. We look at the foundation principles that helps scope our health and fitness Vision.
A 'Win' in this category is a win in everywhere in your life.
ZeLife Plan Getting Started is about making our first steps in enabling our Big Hairy Audacious Goals.
http://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/D3-Life-Plan.pdf
We explore the areas most important to us looking at:
My personal life
My relationships
My business life
My quality of life
* My Life Vision
And what makes an Extraordinary Life?
Why isn't everyone doing it?
Our draft ZeLife Plan may be found here
Now it’s time to explore the other 11 life categories to discover how they affect, and are affected by, your life and career. This is a crucial step in developing your life and career vision, because it sets the tone for a 12-category smart lifestyle, and leaves no area of your life to chance as you build your extraordinary life!
Your Workbook may be found in this link:
http://jimbennett.global/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/D3-Life-Plan.pdf
We explore creating Zest Strategic Life/Career Plan and look in each of the following areas:
- Current State: Where am I now?
- Vision: Where am I going?
- Implementation: How will I get there?
- Measurement: How will I gauge my progress?
This week look at 'Current State:
- Where am I now?
- Who am I now?
- What I am Facing
We introduce the principle of Discernment and critical thinking in daily and business life. Explore Value Led leadership and what it means in our turbulent world.
Dr. Carrie Madej: Human 2.0 - A Wake up Call to the World?
She encourages everyone to use discernment and do their own research into current global activities - providing data research links for your own investigation.
https://youtu.be/ywuCRVJVDqs
Hello World!
Introducing Jim Bennett Global's 'Dream Dare Dazzle' Show...
Where he shares insights from over 30 years Global Leadership Coaching in the Energy Sector.
Travelling from the Artic to Australia experiencing circa 100 discreet cultures - being a Project leader for Transformational Change in the Oil and Gas Exploration and Distribution, Local Government, Logistics, Petrochemicals and Maritime Sectors.
A Process Safety and Loss Control Engineer underpinned by the field of Human Factors - "spinning Loss Control on its head" to navigate the field of 'Peak Performance"...
www.jimbennett.global