Week 21 - XLR8 The Passionate Leader

Save the date! On Tuesday, June 16^th, my fellow co-authors of Wake Up Live the Life You Love: Empowered plan on taking it to the Best Seller List at Barnes & Noble. My chapter speaks of how I finalized my formula for happiness: G + L + F = Joy. This week’s blog focuses on the “G” word, God as you define it. Your God is providing you with direction constantly through your dreams. I know this book will bring me closer to my dreams. What are you dreaming about?! Dreams Are Whispers From the Soul from Simple Truths will inspire you.

• Zig Ziglar’s Inspiration: 365 Days A Year
• My favorite quote for the week of May 25^th – 31^st: “God never consults your past to determine your future.” – Mike Murdock
• Lesson #3 from Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules – The Lost Writings (If you would like the Audio-tech summary PDF file – e-mail me). The law of reciprocation will cause people to treat you as well, or as poorly, as you treat them ~ sounds like God’s work to me!

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• Week Twenty Assignment – The Love You Need
• Keep repeating the auto-suggestion you identified last week.
• Week Twenty-One Assignment – Be Generous
• Generosity is one of the main characteristics of people with a great deal of self love. Think of something you could give yourself this week that would be an act of generosity and then invite someone you love to share it!

• Creating a Culture of Leadership Development – A Drop for Your Bucket!!! Send an electronic drop or comment by going to the blog (click on this blog’s heading – Wake Up the Passionate Leader above) and click on the “comment” icon at the end of this week’s posting.
• Here are two people’s examples this week of following their “In Search for Adventure” plan:
• E-mail worked best for soliciting XLR8Forward feedback. It gives people a chance to do it at their convenience, allows you to save the input and saves a tree!
• Several new team members were added to a leadership team and the first thing the leader wanted was their DISC information. For those that didn’t have a DISC, they got the link to get one. Now they, too, can begin the Success Discovery Process.

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Week 20 - XLR8 The Passionate Leader

Save the date! On Tuesday, June 16^th, my fellow co-authors of Wake Up Live the Life You Love: Empowered plan on taking it to the Best Seller List at Barnes & Noble. My chapter speaks of how I finalized my formula for happiness: G + L + F = Joy. This week’s blog talks about the “L” - love. The Simple Truth’s 3 minute DVD – To a Child, Love is Spelled T-I-M-E is not for the faint of heart.

• Zig Ziglar’s Inspiration: 365 Days A Year
• My favorite quote for the week of May 18^th – 24^th: “Love is life…and if you miss love, you miss life.” – Leo Buscaglia. My mother introduced me to Leo. His lectures were on PBS. I have to admit, at first I thought he was a little weird. But he planted the seed that love applies in your professional life as well as your personal life.
• Lesson #2 from Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules – The Lost Writings. (If you would like the Audio-tech summary PDF file – e-mail me) Use suggestion to persuade yourself to persuade others to do what you want them to do. Through the principle of suggestion, we are constantly influencing those around us. Are we doing it lovingly?

• The Best Year of Your Life: Get Debbie Ford's Kit
• Week Nineteen Assignment – Feed Your Internal Flame
• Did you make up an auto-suggestion or self-suggestion for something you want? Repeat it 3 – 4 times a day and see what happens. Let us know through your comments to this blog.
• Week Twenty Assignment – The Love You Need
• Although we often look to others to give us the love we need, the highest act of self-love is to learn how to give it to ourselves. When we take the time to listen to the desires of our hearts, we nurture ourselves from the inside out. Does your self auto-suggestion include the love you need?

• Creating a Culture of Leadership Development – A Drop for Your Bucket!!! Send an electronic drop or comment by going to the blog (click on this blog’s heading - Wake Up the Passionate Leader above) and click on the “comment” icon at the end of this week’s posting.
• This week, one of our coaching clients spoke of a difficult personal problem s/he was facing. His/her boss spent over an hour sharing his/her experiences with a similar life challenge. Now that’s love!
• Do you have a “love” story that you’d like to share? Go to the blog and comment.

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Week 19 - XLR8 The Passionate Leader

One of the selections on the Leadership Values Assessment list is “Humor/Fun”. So if that’s an important Leadership value for you, enjoy the latest Simple Truths book/video: Laughter is an Instant Vacation for some humorous quotes of life.

Send it to a friend, but don’t mistake sarcasm with humor/fun. SACRCASM SUCKS! It’s barely acceptable with your peers, but let us assure you, it completely turns off those folks who report to you. We must have had 6 – 7 stories this week alone from folks whose boss used sarcasm. IT WAS NOT APPRECIATED. It does not show respect. STOP IT!!! (Yes I’m yelling at you – and myself as well.)

• Zig Ziglar’s Inspiration: 365 Days A Year
• My favorite quote for the week of May 11^th – 17^th: “The way you see your future determines your thinking today. Your thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the todays of your life determines your future.” – Zig Ziglar.
• I’ve been reading Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules – The Lost Writings. He wrote: Think and Grow Rich in 1937, which has sold 60 million copies! He summarizes 7 timeless lessons which I will highlight over the next seven weeks. Coaches have been using these timeless lessons in one form or another ever since.
• Lesson # 1: You can use auto-suggestion to persuade yourself to achieve your goals. These suggestions you deliberately make to yourself about your future will determine your performance. What are you telling yourself?

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• Week Eighteen Assignment – Turn Off Your Shadow Box!
• You can shut down your shadow box using Lesson # 1 - telling yourself what you want to accomplish several times a day especially before you go to sleep at night.
• Week Nineteen Assignment – Feed Your Internal Flame
• Using Lesson #1’s auto-suggestion, choose something you want – something simple or more complicated like realizing your personal mission. Write it out and commit it to memory. Repeat it several times a day - especially when you wake up and go to sleep. Speak it while looking in the mirror. You will attract the right forces, people and things you will need to achieve it.

• Creating a Culture of Leadership Development – A Drop for Your Bucket!!! Send an electronic drop or comment by going to the blog (click on this blog’s heading - Wake Up the Passionate Leader above) and click on the “comment” icon at the end of this week’s posting.
• It’s your turn this week. Share a story of how using Lesson #1 worked for you. There are plenty of skeptics who think this is bull.
• If you do, I’ll send you Napoleon Hill’s book.

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Week 18 - XLR8 The Passionate Leader

My friends and colleagues, Joy and Kathy from www.innerlinks.com just sent their “angel” for the month of May – Awakening - “Let the sun illuminate parts of you that are dormant, numb, or forgotten. Rub the sleep from your eyes and welcome the new dawn.” Now that spring has finally arrived in upstate New York, awakening is a great theme for this week.

• Zig Ziglar’s Inspiration: 365 Days A Year
• My favorite quote for the week of May 4^th – 10^th: “The most important opinion is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.” – Zig Ziglar.
• I’ve been reading my advance copy of Wake Up…Live the Life you Love – EMPOWERED. I’ve caught myself thinking limiting thoughts of what might come of being in this book. It dawned on me that my ego was in the way. While it would be nice that someone enjoyed my chapter, maybe the real purpose is to see what I learn from the other authors. Then, the rest would be gravy.

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• Week Seventeen Assignment – Take Your Own Advice
• Did you find that there was something for you to learn in your advice to others? Why is it so easy to see other’s shortcomings – because you have “seen” it in yourself!
• Week Eighteen Assignment – Turn Off Your Shadow Box!
• Most of us experience a deluge of negative chatter on a daily basis that reminds us of our weaknesses and reinforces our limitations. This “shadow box” repeats the same message over and over again.
• Often an “awakening” begins with being sick and tired of being sick and tired - listening to this endless drivel. Choose not to listen to it and pay attention to what you could say to “welcome a new dawn.”

• Creating a Culture of Leadership Development – A Drop for Your Bucket!!! Send an electronic drop or comment by going to the blog and clicking on the “comment” icon at the end of this week’s posting.
• I’ve been collecting stories of Leadership “awakenings” from working with our clients. Here are some of the quotes that are so fulfilling. “I tried to come into this - open and receptive to whatever came my way this week. What I got in return has changed me forever. I have always believed in my abilities, and now I’m imagining the possibilities to unleash the energy!” “Thank you for inspiring me to define what I really want, how to get there & how to believe in myself to make my work and personal life the best it can be.”
• These clients and others know what how to combat their “shadow box” with their “awakened box.”

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Week 17 - XLR8 The Passionate Leader

One of the 360⁰ assessments we use, Leadership Values, is truly a measure of your character in the eyes of those you lead. During Leadership Week, we show the video “Walk the Talk” as an introduction to handing out their 360 data. Take three minutes to watch this video to start your week thinking about your leadership character, and send it to someone who you would like to Walk the Talk this Monday.

• Zig Ziglar’s Inspiration: 365 Days A Year
• There are a couple of quotes for the week of April 27^th – May 3^rd: “Character is not in the mind, but in the will.” - Fulton J. Sheen; “Character is what you are in the dark.” – D.L. Moody.
• When you lead by the values you espouse, you lead with integrity. The leadership values assessment asks you to pick the top 10 values you espouse in your leadership. How that matches up to the ones your assessors choose are not only an indicator of your self awareness but also a measure of how well you Walk the Talk.

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• Week Sixteen Assignment – Say NO!
• If you were successful in saying NO to those activities outside your Unique Ability, now take the time to study, practice and teach it. Do so for 10,000 hours and you will be a genius!!!
• Week Seventeen Assignment – Take Your Own Advice
• This week pay close attention to the advice you’re giving people that are consistent with your values. What do you suggest to those around you to lead better lives?
• As you give advice to others, notice if you could use a dose of your own medicine, and take whatever steps or actions you’ve recommended for them.

• Creating a Culture of Leadership Development – A Drop for Your Bucket!!! Send an electronic drop or comment by going to the blog and clicking on the “comment” icon at the end of this week’s posting.
• I conducted a “graduation” this week with someone who had eight matching values from his assessors from his first and second 360⁰ assessment. His values are truly coming out loud and clear. It was truly a pleasure to work with him because he lived up to the “ready, willing and able” contract we discussed when I first met him two years ago. He will now be working closely with two other people with similar jobs but with a different focus. Knowing him, he will learn as much as he shares. Congratulations!!!

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