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I was reminded of this video today, Kick Out the Ladder philosophy at Honda – allowing people to rise to their own greatness and setting goals that at first seem impossible.

If your goal is too easy to meet, you’re not challenging yourself.

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Because leadership is inextricably connected to who we are deep down, every leader has a different style. Some lead with their eccentric, charismatic selves on full, charming display. Other leaders bear no banners and sound no trumpets. But the inner qualities that make for effective leadership remain constant among all types of leaders:

• Positive attitude. Leaders know they can alter their lives by altering their minds. Self-discipline, a sense of security and confidence blossom in the presence of a positive attitude.
• A drive for learning—from others, from opportunities, from mistakes. Those who stop learning, stop growing.
• Unwavering commitment. No great leader has ever lacked commitment. True commitment requires and inspires courage, passion, focus, initiative and responsibility.
• Communication. Sharing knowledge is essential; even more important is listening. As President Woodrow Wilson said, “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
• Interest in others. The best leaders thrive on helping others achieve their personal best; they are motivated by a desire for the highest good for all rather than personal glory.

Imagine a world full of everyday leaders!

According to Stephen M. R. Covey, the quickest way to make a withdrawal is to violate a behavior of character and the quickest way to make a deposit is to demonstrate a behavior of competence.

If you find yourself in a situation where you believe that you have destroyed the trust in that relationship and you want to repair that relationship either improve your capabilities or produce results.

Some examples of how to rebuild trust are:

• If someone doesn’t trust that you’ll keep your word and show up, show up EVERY time (and early – perhaps even….pick them up and go together!)
• Identify ways that you could increase your knowledge, especially in an area where you had a breakdown or made a mistake.
• When you work on a task, work on it to completion and get it done right – deliver outstanding results.

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I’m not even sure what that word means!  It seems to me that either you’re going to do it or you’re not.  Using the word try comes across to me as an excuse and an unwillingness not to commit either way.

I see it as a fundamental lack of commitment which also points to a lack of trust.  It’s as if you don’t trust your own ability to get it done or come through, so you’re unwilling to commit.  It’s like giving yourself wiggle room.

Sure, you can spend your life justifying how busy you are and how many very important things you must do, but when it comes down to it, you are already making a choice of doing or not doing in every moment.

I feel like screaming,  “Quit pretending that you might do something and stop using the word try!”

Not because it’s offensive, dismissive, and patronizing to the person you gave your non-committal use of the word “try” to ~ but rather because every time you do, you undermine your own ability to trust yourself.

When you trust and honor who you are as a person, you begin to stand with confidence in being able to declare what you want moment by moment and you make no apologies for your choices.

Stand with confidence by integrating the following practices:

• Honor yourself (and others) by honoring your choices; the things that you committed to do!
• Honor yourself (and others) by declaring what you will and will not do!
• Honor yourself (and others) by trusting that what you want is important, valuable, and worthwhile!
• Honor yourself (and others) by removing the word “try” from your vocabulary!

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I just finished reading an article today on Integral Life, called Gratefulness and the Spirit of Thanksgiving.  One passage in particular that struck me was:

Our gratitude is the immediate and effortless response to the radical abundance offered to us at every moment, an abundance that surrounds us even during our darkest times, whether we can see it or not. But not only do we express our gratefulness for abundance—as we offer our devout appreciation, we can also feel “great-fullness” as abundance.  That is, in the act of offering gratitude we actually become the source of all abundance, feeling the infinite love pouring through our hearts like sweet syrup, an inexhaustible warmth that floods the galaxies swirling behind our eyelids.

When I read this, I thought….and as the source of abundance I can be responsible for abundance showing up not only in my daily life, but also in the world. 

How cool is that?!?!  

So when I’m having thoughts about money, or thinking about getting more of something, (like clients or enrollment in trainings) or any kind of “lacking” thoughts I will stop for a moment and do an inventory of my gratitude practices.

1. Make a list of places I have gone in the last seven days.  Where was I?  On the bus, at the airport, in a taxi, at the gas station, grocery store, hair salon, work, someone’s house, hotel, coffee shop, restaurant, fast food, park, soccer game, doctor, dentist, shopping, with my daughter, spouse, friend’s house.  List everything.
2. Next make a list of everyone that I interacted with.
3. How many of those people did I express gratitude and appreciation?
4. Call or email everyone on the list that I missed.

If I am the source of abundance and I create abundance as I offer gratitude, I will offer gratitude and rest in abundance as a way of being.  Starting today I commit to grounding and re-grounding when necessary in this practice of expressing gratitude and appreciation with everyone in my life – not just a select few.  I will not hold on as if…. if I give gratitude and appreciation away I will not have any left over for the next person.  I will give it away as if, the more I give the more that will be available to give! 

I am the source of abundance!

When I was preparing to shoot some videos today, the battery on the camera…..was dead!  I couldn’t shoot anything.  I thought….Ugh!  So, I went and plugged in the battery to be recharged.  As I did that, I started thinking about…roadblocks.

How do I handle roadblocks?

What do I do when they come up?

How many times I do get off track?

How many times do I get taken off my path or my road and then stay off?

What DO I do?

All these questions started popping up for me and I thought what a great opportunity this was to reflect on that topic, roadblocks.  Because I think it’s not so much about….do roadblocks occur or why did they occur, but more about…..what do I do when they come up?  Is it even possible, to see them not as roadblocks, but perhaps more as a way to gauge my commitment level to my project/goal/vision? 

I think in some cases, it might be easy to become frustrated that I can’t get where I thought I was going, the moment that I thought I was going there but I notice that the more I want to get “there” the further away it seems to get.  Like when the battery was charging, I noticed that it didn’t charge any faster, the more times I went to check on it!  So I decided to just go do something else while I was “waiting.”  I decided to catch up on some other items that I had pushed to the side earlier.  So the opportunity for me was to complete on some open items.  (Which felt great!)  Then the opportunity became, do I go off in a completely different direction OR now that the battery was recharged, do I get grounded, refocus, and get back to going-for-it? 

I choose to keep going-for-it!