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The Five Powerful Practices
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Article Overview: Leaders who are committed to living an extraordinary life, engage in extraordinary practices. These five practices will empower you to make a profound difference in your leadership, your effectiveness and your personal life.
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The Five Powerful Practices
The Five
Powerful Practices
By Ruben
J Guzman, MPH
Living
inside the realm of the extraordinary, we view ourselves from a rare and
exceptional point of view. We honor our
word, our promises, our agreements, and our commitments. We operate from the
principles of responsibility, generosity and integrity. We constantly practice the following powerful
practices as a way of life.
Acceptance
This is
where we accept others, just the way they are, with no judgment. This is the
basis of powerful love, for anything else is operating from fear. Acceptance is
unconditional respect. However, it does
not necessarily mean we condone unacceptable behavior. Regardless of the behavior, we accept the
person.
Apology
This goes
far beyond simply saying “I’m sorry.”
Apology begins with saying “I’m sorry,” but then taking complete
responsibility for the impact of your behaviors on others – the ripple
effect. The next step in an apology is
to communicate what you see is missing in both your mindset and your behaviors.
Then you complete the apology with a promise and a total commitment to change.
The practice of apology is therefore ongoing in fulfilling on your promises and
commitments.
Forgiveness
This is
where we take any emotional charge about a situation and put it in the past
where it belongs – carrying no emotional charge from the past into the present
or the future. To forgive, we must
completely clean the slate. We recognize
that whatever happened, happened. It is done, and it doesn’t have to shape the
present moment or the future any longer.
When we forgive others, we free ourselves.
Gratitude
This is
where we practice being grateful for what we DO have, and we stop complaining
about what we don’t have. What we appreciate, appreciates. What we put our attention on, expands. A
great way to practice this is to declare five things that you are grateful for
each day!
Acknowledgment
This is
where we practice communicating to others what we are grateful for about them. We acknowledge their contribution to us and/or
others, their actions, and their ways of being, eg. Being courageous, powerful,
generous, etc. This expands the power of appreciation to others and is a
generous gift. When we acknowledge others at every opportunity possible, we
initiate a powerful flow of positive energy from us towards others that
naturally flows back towards us in many different ways. This is an
extraordinary act of generosity that pays huge dividends!
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