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Welcome to Thrive Thursday!

Our 3-2-1 for today is on Doubling Your Intelligence, Zooming Out, and Finding Value in Anger...

3 Ideas

I.

"Prime your environment to make the next action easy."

II.

"You can't double your intelligence in one hour, but you can use one hour to write something twice as clear.

And ideas that are easy to read and easy to understand will make you seem smarter.

The better you communicate, the more intelligent you appear."

III.

"Your entire life happens inside your body. It's the one home you will always occupy and can never sell.

But you can renovate it.

If you can only pick one habit to build, exercise might be the one.

Everything is downstream from how your body is functioning."

2 Quotes

I.

This Portuguese proverb offers a simple recipe for success:

"Think of many things. Do one."

Source: Cassell's Book Of Quotations, Proverbs And Household Words

II.

Poet and author Maya Angelou on how to find value in anger:

"I believe in anger.

Anger’s like fire, it can burn out all the dross and leave some positive things.

But what I don’t believe in is bitterness.

Forgiveness is imperative because you don’t want to carry that weight around, who needs to?  And it will throw you down.

It doesn’t help you to live life. I don’t make myself vulnerable if I can help it."

Source: Voices of Powerful Women

1 Question

Think of something you struggled with in the last year.

If you step back and zoom out, what is one lesson you have learned from the experience?

Have an awesome rest of the week and Keep Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

This Week's Challenge:  Practice Empathetic Listening

Listening with empathy means getting to the heart of what matters to the other person, whether we agree or not.

When listening empathetically, we listen with the intent to understand.

We respond by reflecting feelings and words.

- Today, practice listening for understanding.

- Try to reflect back the feelings of others and the content of the message.

- Check yourself when you interrupt, give advice, or judge.

Ask Yourself:  Do people around me feel that I genuinely understand them?

"Next to human survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival...to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."  - Stephen Covey

Welcome to Thrive Thursday...here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week.

I.

“If you'd like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day.

There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there has to be one day when you simply make the choice.”

​II.

“If someone has the courage to admit they were wrong, you should have the grace to give them credit for admitting it. Rubbing it in encourages them to never admit being wrong again.”

III.

“The more precisely you define the problem, the more easily you can find a solution.

“I feel bad” can have a million causes.

“I didn't sleep much last night and I haven't exercised in a week” has a very straightforward answer.”

I.

Rabbi, physician, and philosopher Moses Maimonides on thinking clearly:

“Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”

Source: Shemonah Peraqim

​II.

Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson on making each day a masterpiece:

“Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”

Source: Letter to his daughter Ellen, reprinted in The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is usually a block of time each day when you are at your best—​peak energy, peak enthusiasm. Let's say it's 2 hours per day. How do you spend those 2 hours? Who or what gets your best time?

Have a great week and Keep Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

This Week's Challenge:  Give Credit

Habit 4 of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People:  Think Win-Win

For many people, public or private acknowledgment is a big win.

We can build trust and strengthen our relationships when we share credit generously.

- Identify someone who deserves credit for something they've done or helped you accomplish.

- Privately or publicly acknowledge that person's contribution.

Ask Yourself:

- Who has recently helped me accomplish something?

- Have I thanked them?

"It's amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit."   - Harry S. Truman

This Week's Challenge:  Make a Win-Win Agreement

In a Win-Win Agreement, people commit to work to benefit both parties.

Win-Win Agreements can be formal or informal and can be made in any relationship or circumstance.

- Choose a relationship that could benefit from a Win-Win Agreement.

- Write down what you think would be wins for that person or ask them.  Write down your own wins.

- Make a Win-Win Agreement.

Ask Yourself:  What is my intent when I negotiate with others?  Am I committed to Win-Win?

"An agreement means very little in letter without the character and relationship to sustain it in spirit.  We need to approach Win-Win from a genuine desire to invest in the relationships that make it possible."  - Stephen Covey

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This Week's Challenge:  Balance Courage and Consideration

To be highly effective means to be courageous.  We are willing and able to speak our thoughts respectfully.

It also means being considerate.  We are willing and able to seek out and listen to others' thoughts and feelings with respect.

- Pick an area where you would like to have more courage.  Write down your point of view.  Share your ideas and opinions with confidence.

- Pick a situation where you need to demonstrate more consideration.  Focus on acknowledging others, not interrupting, and making sure everyone has a chance to be heard.

Ask Yourself:  Are there relationships in which you lack courage or consideration?  What price are you paying?

"If people can express their feelings and convictions with courage balanced with consideration for the feelings and convictions of others, they are mature, particularly, if the issue is very important to both parties."  - Stephen Covey

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Session 2 - Six Myths About Money 

This session may just blow up many of the myths that you’ve believed for years and help reshape your thinking. 

The only prerequisite for attending is an open mind.