Change The Game

Full range leadership means having the ability to be super intense, soft, empathetic, have perspective, discipline, as well as being relatable to others who operate completely differently. It’s important to bring the same intensity to holding others to a standard as it is to supporting them when the situation calls for it. Others need to know that you can go from one extreme to another all with the intention of wanting the best for them.

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When everything is going well and rolling along smoothly, everyone thinks they don’t need a process. Once things go south and you don’t have a process to fall back on, the problems can just compound and get worse. It’s easy to think the results produce the process, but having a process in place can guarantee the results you want.

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We can all get dragged to a spot where work becomes mundane and we lose the spark that keeps up alight. It’s so important to reflect on and hold on to the early days of your business when the excitement and determination were extremely high. When was the last time you had that level of confidence and certainty? If you can link that time in the past to a current action, it will make you extremely powerful.

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Working a weekly review into your prep for the next week can keep you from making the same mistakes over and over again. If you don’t prepare for the week ahead you never stay on top of things when life and circumstances get in the way. Don’t show up on Monday thinking you’ll prepare that day because you have already lost all the time before that on Monday to get ahead and hit the ground running.

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Professional athletes put in countless hours on their craft and then on top of that before every single event, they pregame, to prevent injury, to get their body right, to get their mind right, to be ready to perform at the highest level. You should be no different in what you do. You have a pregame if you know it or not. What does your pregame look like right now?

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Where do we get distracted from the message we are trying to send? If we are constantly focusing on others and what they are doing, and saying, we can become distracted and lose ourselves and what we stand for. What is an action you can take, today, to remove the distraction? While you are evaluating other’s messages, take a moment to think about what your message is that others are seeing?

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“I’m thinking about doing this” is a trap. Thinking is absolutely required but it must lead to action. Without action you have nothing but a bunch of wasted thoughts. Think - Decide - Act. Even if you try something new or different and it doesn’t work out, you have learned something and can then apply that to future decisions and actions.

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We all have items that hold serious meaning to us that we encounter or use on a regular basis, for me it’s a backpack, for you it may be something completely different. This backpack and I have been through a lot together and seen good times and bad times as well as everything in between. It doesn’t only hold items, it also holds memories and emotions. Think back on a time with that item and who you were and how you have changed since.

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Everyone, including ourselves, makes a lot of noise. Everyone and everything is calling for your attention. It is up to us to figure out if it is noise or music. What noise in your life are you allowing that isn’t serving you? Don’t just think about where the noise is coming from, take a step to remove it. The more you eliminate, the more space you make for the things that matter to you.

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How often do you listen vs blow something off? In your business, body, family, anywhere across your life. If you aren’t listening to your wife, your team, or your patients it is a recipe for disaster and you can do long lasting or permanent damage to those relationships. If you want better results just listen when others talk. Where in your life do you need to listen?

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