Saturday, November 21, 2009

5 Key Values

I decided to share today this reading from one of my favorite mentors. and add a line where you can add your Key Value. Then copy your values onto 1 page and put it where you can view it for the rest of the program. You may want to journal this.

A key piece to playing at your absolute best as a leader (and as a person) is to ensure that your daily schedule reflects your deepest values. Anything less is a flight from integrity.

One of the exercises I've been taking our clients through at my "Leadership in Turbulent Times" workshop is called "The 5 Main Values." I take participants through a powerful visualization where they visit themselves, not as they now are but as they want to be at the end of their career. Then they record the main 5 values they will have wished they'd worked under.

I wanted to share my own 5 Main Values with you. I hope you'll share yours with me on Twitter so we can continue this conversation. Anyway, here are the top 5 values I want to work by and stay true to:

1. EXCELLENCE.
I adore this word. My goal is to work at a level of excellence, constantly refining my craft as an author and speaker - while delivering outrageous values to our clients.
My Excellence Value______________________________________________

2. PASSION.
Without passion, nothing great every gets built. Passion fuels innovation, builds a fantastic team and makes the impossible possible. I want to express my passion in all that I do. Otherwise, what's the point?My Passion Value

3. SELF-MASTERY.
You can't be a better leader than you are a person. So every day, I work intensely on developing my inner life. I read. I reflect. I write in a journal. I exercise. And do all those things I need to do to express my best.
what are you doing to Be a Better Leader__________________________________________

4. BEAUTY.
I'm an aesthete. I love beauty in all forms. So I make the time to look for beauty, in both expected and unexpected places. Interesting conversations are beautiful to me; brilliantly designed products (think Apple) are beautiful to me. Great food, fresh nature, cool architecture, a strong cup of coffee in the morning and modern art are all some of the things that fill my life with a sense of beauty.
I agree...I love beauty!!! I love an espresso in the am. I love a fresh Isagenix Shake in the am...filled with Isafruits, banana or sometimes Ionix and cinnamon...
I love My Apple too:) I love sunshine, I love the fresh smell of the ocean, I love the laughter of a friend, I love the enthusiasm and positiveness of business partners who call up with great excitement, I love a beautiful dinner out with friends, Yes...I have never thought of it...but I too am an aesthete, I love beauty in all forms.

5. CONTRIBUTION.
Leadership is about doing deeds that live on long after your death. I want to do things that will help people awaken to the fact that, regardless of what they do and where they are, they have the opportunity (and responsibility) to show leadership in their work and at their life. Few things are important to me than feeling I'm making a difference.
Giving back;
What are YOU doing?
Do you work in creative co operating, or in fear of loss?
Do you contribute to everyone you meet?
Maybe just sharing a smile and a "good morning"

Do you volenteer your love, or judgement?
Do you give to the person who may just a hug?
Where do you give back?
Journal your values.
Act on it.
Watch how your life changes....

Friday, November 20, 2009

Creating a Breakthrough

You must do this to Get Results.

Would you like to rapidly and increase your performance
Create change on a grand scale.

Right now, this instant, you are capable of exponential growth. You have the ability to multiply your performance, dramatically exceed your best expectations, and achieve goals on a scale that in the past seemed impossible.

You can do all of this once you begin to implement the leapfrog strategy.

Most people operate within a mindset that success comes one step at a time. While unspoken, the court of public opinion says that we must move systematically from our present level of achievement to the next.

People do one slow step at at time....but there is a Fast Track.


You can advance from one place situation and jump from ie. bank teller to vp in one short year.
Using the lessons of others and there failures without having to pay the price yourself.

Right now you are capable of expotenial growth.
To achieve things on a grand scale. Its all UP TO YOU.

We can choose gradual marginal progress or we can play "Leap Frog."
Achieving well beyond the obvious.
Do not settle for what you can have....Decide WHAT DO YOU WANT?
You must now act with complete Faith.
What would you go for..if you know that you could have exactly what YOU Want?

Relax. Do not force it.
Act like you have complete confidence...and do it.

You MUST do something new.
ACT TODAY AS IF...AS IF SUCCESS IS ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED.


THE OPPORTUNITY IS IN FRONT OF YOU....YOU ARE NOW CHOOSING TO ACT AS IF IT IS ALREADY YOURS.


Exercise:
Today I am so grateful for my ie. great business. I just increased my income by $$500. this week.
_____________________________________________________(obviously you are in sales to do this)
Today I am so grateful for....relp
Today I am so grateful for my .... amazing strong Lean Body!

ACT AS IF YOU HAVE THE BEST TEAM AND BUSINESS IN THE INDUSTRY..
ACT AS IF YOU HAVE THE BEST POSITION IN YOUR COMPANY
ACT AS IF YOU HAVE THE LEANEST FINE TUNED BODY..AND YOU RESPECT IT BY WHAT YOU PUT IN IT...
ACT AS IF YOU HAVE THE MOST AMAZING LOVING PARTNER IN THE WORLD...
(You get the drift)

Complete this.
We will be moving on to a new vision board in 4 days. Collect pictures.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

I realize that the power is in the wish...
I spend the afternoon playing with a friend yesterday...
an afternoon at the Barneys of New York Museum,
a few fun things at the spa..
and finished off watching Tango in the pm.

Friends are like beautiful crystals...all there to make wishes come true.

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wishing you blessings and abundance!
Bonnie Muenz
www.littleblackdress.isagenix.com
www.littleblackdressplan.blogspot.com

...making a difference!