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Be A Student

The wonderful thing I am learning about “learning”, and I am hearing it from many different locations all at once, is simply this; When you truly enter into an attitude of learning, rather than one of thinking that you know it all, and you give yourself permission to be open to other people’s ideas and suggestions, the frequency of learning opportunities becomes infinite, and your potential of greater success becomes assured.

Making Leadership Stick

Personal and professional growth is not a sure thing process. In order to discover things about yourself or about how the business works, you must be allowed to “experiment”, and the leader who is always telling people what to do misses out on a very important part of the whole growth cycle. It’s been said that success is a poor teacher, and in the area of growth, if you are always winning, how can you know what real success tastes like if you haven’t tasted any sort of failure.

Not On My Watch!

The thing that I have discovered about stress and worry is that the more time we spend idly thinking about the negative things that are happening in our lives; the more we are prone to worry about the consequences that will occur. If we could be more proactive and keep constant watch over what we allow to enter in, we will find that we will be less worried and much more productive.

Looking For The Real You

It is this thought or the fear of the answer that keeps people in the dark about themselves or their potential. They seem to get in a rut in life and they just accept it, never realizing that there just could be a better way, if only they expected more of themselves. They get in a "Good Enough" mentality that only encourages mediocrity. We could change the quality of our lives today....right now, if only we'd follow a few simple guidelines:

If You're DoingThis, You're Not Changing

We were sitting at a table in the Delta Hotel and were discussing Lorrie's participation in the communications program that I was working on, when she started talking about how she was building her own business and what she was doing to do it. As she was talking about marketing, I was totally engrossed in her enthusiasm and in her knowledge, while at the same time I was mentally going through what I wasn't doing in my own business to build it. One thing she said really caught my attention: Unless you're changing the status quo of your business, you're not growing.

Are You In The Game

Have you ever noticed that it is the people in the stands who supposedly know everything about the game? They give all kinds of advice, but you don't see them actually in the game. It is as if the game exists only for them. Many will say that yes, the game does exist for the fans, for without the fans, where would the game be? I'd like to throw a wrench into that argument and say that, yes the fans are an important part of the game, but without the players, the game wouldn't exist either.

Making Relationships a Work of A.R.T.

But if, on the other hand, you forget about yourself and what you can get, and focus on the other person and what you can help them get, they will never let you down. One of my favourite quotes of all time is one by the world famous sales trainer Zig Ziglar. He says "You can get almost anything you want in life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want." Do you know what other people want? Are you willing to help them get it?

There's Always Another Option

If you have doubts and an undefined destiny, I encourage you to take some time, find a quiet place where you can be alone to think, and describe on paper the kind of person you choose to be and the kind of life you choose to live. Create your own options! Write it like anything is possible, because it is! When you have a clear vision and clear intentions, then your brain can go to work to make the picture that you have imagined a reality.

A Culture of Leadership

One thing is certain though, for any organization to be successful in the current business culture of "get more done quicker, better and with less", everyone has to be thinking leadership. Leadership isn't an "It's all about me" game, it's a "how can I grow the people to higher levels of competence" game.

The Law of Average

I was working with a fairly large company recently on their business strategy, and how they were going to get their whole team engaged so that everyone was pulling their own weight, and everyone had a passion for the growth of the company. The idea was, if everyone could work together, productivity would increase, business relationships would flourish and the end of year bonus would be much bigger. Their goal was to be above average over all of the competitors in their market. That was the plan...

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About the Author: Paul Kearley

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Over the past 20+ years, I have logged over 6000 classroom hours where I have had the privilege to work with tens of thousands of people who have allowed me to coach them to create more in their lives: More confidence, more abilities to handle stress, more engagement, sales, leadership and more enthusiasm.

An author of one book, two e-books and over 380 articles, personal and business development is my passion.

Currently working on another book to be released spring 2010.

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