Leadership in a Nutshell

Have you ever been told that the world doesn't revolve around you? Well, today I'd like to flip that on its head. Of course, as leaders, we want to keep our egos in check and operate in humility. But hear me out, the world DOES revolve around you, because if you don't believe you are worthy of putting yourself first, you won't be fulfilled, and if you are not fulfilled, your team won't be either. Let's dig into this a bit more in this episode.

Dive in and let's learn how the world DOES revolve around you and how to operate in a more intentional way.

[00:01 - 04:25] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • The world DOES revolve around you
  • How this applies to you as a leader
• Your team and your leadership intersect
• • Eliminating a lack of truth
  • You are worthy of coming first
  • When you only focus on others
  • You can not come last
  • Insights from my experience

[04:26 - 11:50] The World Does Revolve Around You

• Challenge me on this
• • For the sake of sustainability
  • Your focus, desires, fears will dictate your actions
  • How your health also comes into play
• How I got this wrong
• • Battling with neck and back issues
• How do you spend your time and thoughts?
• • Your relationship with money
• How the world revolves around the team
• • We can't disconnect our world from theirs
  • Your experiences and emotions affect others around you
• Pain begins from not allowing what IS
• • Our approach to things we can't control
  • Trust in your own process
  • Don't feel guilt for putting yourself first

[11:51 - 15:51] Closing Segment

• The effects of not putting yourself first
• How this applies to you
• • Your own reality intersecting with your team's
• The dangers of codependency
• • This may also affect your team
• Please write us a review and share this with someone
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  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"Seek a natural intersection of where your world and the company meets…" - Kenny Chapman

"Don't get frustrated when your team is revolving in THEIR own world; when people don't see the world the way that you do." - Kenny Chapman

"All pain, all disturbance, begins from now allowing what 'IS'." - Kenny Chapman

Resources Mentioned:

• The Six Dimensions of Change
• [email protected]

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I believe that happiness is tied to progress, and the more progress we have - the happier we can become. Everything you do can be done with joy. Now hear me out; you may not be happy at every given moment, but you can approach everything with a sense of joy and fulfillment. In this episode, I break down what this looks like, and the importance of progress to the success of our life.

Let's dive into today's topic and explore the power of the Progress Catalyst as a tool for moving forward.

[00:01 - 04:25] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • The progress catalyst
  • The power of progress
• Happiness and joy
• • Joy is different from happiness
  • You can operate in joy without happiness
  • Joy as a mindset
• Progress is tied to your happiness
• • The more progress, the more happiness
  • Thinking at a deeper level

[04:26 - 11:18] The Progress Catalyst: Your Tools

• The need for progress in humans
• • Evolving as a person
  • Telling the truth
• 1. Where am I experiencing the most progress right now?
• • Evaluate what you are experiencing now
• 2. What is important about having this progress?
• • What is important about moving this needle forward
• 3. What is the support I have in moving forward?
• 4. How can I create more of this progress?
• • Maximizing momentum
  • What actions can I take to make more?
• Progress = Happiness
• • Fuel happiness with progress
  • Any way of moving forward
• Questions to look at the things that are hindering your progress
• • What isn't serving you?
  • What is this drain costing me?
  • Identify blockers: what is stopping you from fixing this?
  • What has to happen to move forward?

[11:19 - 13:01] Closing Segment

• Taking action steps to eliminate drain
• • Summarizing the progress catalyst
  • Identifying the hindrances to progress
• Please write us a review and share this with someone
• • Email the review to me and get a FREE BOOK
  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"I believe I can operate, overall, in a state of joy and be filled with joy in my life but not be super happy in a given moment." - Kenny Chapman

"All progress begins with telling the truth… If I'm telling myself a story that isn't true, it's going to be hard to make progress." - Kenny Chapman

"I make progress when I fail… 'To do is to know.'" - Kenny Chapman

Resources Mentioned:

• The Six Dimensions of Change
• [email protected]

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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When someone asks you why you did something, what do you say? This week on our Unique Advantage series, we're going to get to the bottom of our 'why.' You guys know, I'm all about purpose-driven leadership, and that's because I believe when you know your 'why,' you will be driven to find success around the passion of your purpose because of the power of your 'because.'

Let's dive right in as we wrap up this topic, and get into some practical steps to tapping into your unique advantage, being due to your purpose.

[00:01 - 04:14] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • Unique advantage - due to your purpose
  • Your 'why' and 'because'
• Being tied to your purpose
• • The most successful people are tied to their purpose
  • New book coming soon around purpose-driven leadership
  • There is a why behind your behaviors
• Who before how but after why
• • Why is your gas tank

[04:15 - 11:12] Unique Advantage: Due to Your Purpose

• I talk about the Seven Levels Deep exercise
• • Your seven Why's
• Remember to reach out to me and share this episode
• Finding the emotional attachment
• • Understand the emotional shift that takes place deeper into the why
  • Keep going until you break the emotional barrier
  • Examples
• Remember to slow down as you go through this exercise
• • Psychologically, goals tied to emotions will usually succeed
  • Embrace what you want

[11:13 - 13:32] Closing Segment

• The importance of embracing what you really want
• • It doesn't have to be complicated and angelic
  • It's okay to want what you want
  • Emotional tie turns into emotional freedom
• Recap of your advantage
• Please write us a review and share this with someone
• • Email the review to me and get a FREE BOOK
  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"At the end of the day, it always comes down to having a strong enough 'Why.' - Kenny Chapman

We want to live the life of our dreams, we step into our next level of greatness, but how am I going to know what that is if I don't know 'why' I want what I want?" - Kenny Chapman

"It's ok to want what you want… but why do you want it?" - Kenny Chapman

Resources Mentioned:

• The Six Dimensions of Change
• [email protected]

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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Where there is a goal, there will always be a gap. Last week we started down the path of your unique advantages and today we'll be continuing by talking about the concept of Gap Management. Listen, we all have gaps, and we will always have a gap, so how can we live without the constant pain of not reaching our goals? We're going to break down, what I believe, are the four steps you can take to manage the gap between you and your progress.

So let's jump right and learn to take control of this unique advantage you have, and start managing your gaps.

[00:01 - 04:43] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • Unique advantage of gap management
  • Summarization of last week
  • This week: taught this concept from a coach of mind
  • Living in the gap
• The gap is between you and your goal
• Learn about your gap
• • Even successful people struggle with this
  • We always have a gap
  • Setting new goals
• There is always a gap on the path to improvement
• • Winning over being right
  • The typical 'when' statements

[04:44 - 11:08] Unique Advantage: Gap Management

• The gap and the gain strategy
• Measurement creates progress
• • How you measure matters
  • The frustration of measuring the gap
• Only measure backwards
• • Measure against where you have already come
• Realize that ideals cannot be achieved
• • Goals are set on ideals
  • Ideals are too general
  • Goals are your strategy to achieve progress
  • Real goals are specific and can be measured
• Always expanding capability
• • 'The Grand Canyon' analogy
  • It's about the experience

[11:09 - 13:43] Closing Segment

• You are driven
• • Driven people always have gaps
  • The feeling of 'What's next'
• Recap of the four points
• Please write us a review and share this with someone
• • Email the review to me and get a FREE BOOK
  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"Anytime you create a goal you create a gap between right now and where you want to go." - Kenny Chapman

"Ideals exist for you to set the goal FROM… I've got to set specific goals around, 'what does happiness look like for me, when do I feel it, how do I know it?' - Kenny Chapman

Resources Mentioned:

• The Gap and the Gain
• The Six Dimensions of Change
• [email protected]

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Having a Growth Mindset gives you an edge in life. Over the next couple of episodes, I want to talk to you over the next couple of episodes, about the unique advantages that are available to you, not necessarily over others, but for you and your previous results and accomplishments and I believe it starts with defining your fixed mindset from your growth mindset.

Let's dive right into the episode and talk about the unique advantage available when you explore and embrace your mindset.

[00:01 - 02:10] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • Unique advantage of mindset
  • Based off of Carol Dweck's book - Mindset

[02:11 - 09:40] Unique Advantage: Fixed vs. Growth Mindset

• The Fixed Mindset
• • Defining success as being perfection and being smarter than others
  • Always wanting to be right
  • Focussed on validation
  • Desire for certainty
  • Prejudging potential
  • Threatened by the success of others
• The Growth Mindset
• • Growing and improving
  • Focussing on learning rather than results
  • The concept of Zazen
  • Learning from the success of others
  • Competition with our past self
• Your own unique advantages
• • What I learned from my late friend

[09:41 - 13:46] Closing Segment

• How to shift into your growth mindset
• • Tell yourself a different story
  • Set your goals around learning
  • Capitalizing on failure
  • Seek emotional regulation, and be flexible in your approach
• Embrace your unique advantage!
• Please write us a review and share this with someone
• • Email the review to me and get a FREE BOOK
  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"I'm going to seek out challenges. I love to find challenges because I know I need challenge to grow." - Kenny Chapman

"Do you want to be better than others for the sake of validation? Or do you want to be better than your previous self?" - Kenny Chapman

Resources Mentioned:

• Mindset - Carol Dweck
• The Six Dimensions of Change
• [email protected]

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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Hey, that New Years Resolution you have, just forget about it! 27% of Resolutions break within just the first week. Stop the insanity already and let's do something even better! I want to talk about the things that drive REAL change in people. Do your behaviors line up with what you say you want? Do you even know why you want it? You deserve to live your best life because you are worth it, not because you think you 'should' do something.

Let's dive into today's topic, because I want you all to ditch the resolutions and walk away with actionable steps to affect real change today.

[00:01 - 03:32] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • Stop the New Year's Resolution
• My thoughts around resolutions
• • If most people are doing something, be careful
  • Getting results you want
  • Most people's behaviors don't line up with what they say they want
  • Find out what's truly important to people
  • In the first week 27% of people break their resolutions
• Let's improve your win!

[03:33 - 13:35] Stop Making Resolutions, Do This Instead

• Why Resolutions don't work
• • They are based on 'Should'
  • You need to want it with a 'why' behind it
  • 'Should' lacks commitment
  • There are better reasons to change
  • Currently 35,500,000 responses to resolutions
• Figure out what you want for YOU
• • Where you want to go
  • How will you close the gap
  • Revelations, not resolutions
• My experience giving up drinking
• • I decided for myself and put it into action
  • My friend who quit smoking
• Four things to think about to affect change
• • You need to have Clarity
  • • You need to want it bad enough
    • What are you willing to sacrifice
  • Understand WHY you want it
  • Challenging and choosing your environment
  • • Commitment takes being with committed people
  • Write about your results
  • • Journaling

[13:36 - 14:35] Closing Segment

• The last take away for today
• • The four things to have in mind
  • Be easy with yourself
• Please write us a review and share this with someone
• • Email the review to me and get a FREE BOOK
  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Resources Mentioned:

• [email protected]

Tweetable Quotes:

"I live my life by kind of a core belief that if most people are doing it, it's probably not good for Kenny Chapman… most people don't get the results they desire." - Kenny Chapman

"The environment you choose to live in is definitely going to impact your odds of success… it's easier to commit when you have committed people around you." - Kenny Chapman

"Revelations, not resolutions…" - Kenny Chapman

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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It's a couple of days out from Christmas; got your presents? I hope you all enjoyed it. It's a special time for many and now we're ramping up to the end of the year. Now that we have our presents, it's time to shift our focus to Presence. For the new year, you owe it to yourselves to put your best foot forwards and step into your greatness by being more aware. So I want to give this as my gift to you - helping you get from 'NOWHERE,' to 'NOW - HERE.'

Let's talk about that! This is the one solution that can overwrite your overwhelm: being present.

[00:01 - 02:52] Opening Segment

• Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
• • Time for presence
  • Awareness
• Think about stepping into greatness by being aware
• • Identifying pain, distractions, and stress
  • The solution is awareness

[02:53 - 10:54] Stepping Back into Presence

• The root of all problems
• • All problems exist in the mind
  • Example
  • The label of 'problem' comes from you
  • Creating something good with what you have
• I talk about stepping into presence
• • The ability to control the mind
  • Learn from what we are dealing with
• How presence can serve you
• • Mindful of overwhelm
  • The different mindsets of different businesses
  • Getting down to what you can control
• How to step into presence
• • Focussing in on one particular thing
  • Don't live life unconsciously
  • Presence triggers
  • It takes your conscious self to get into the subconscious
  • What do you do on focus days?
  • Example of writing my upcoming book: Purpose Guided Leadership

[10:55 - 13:56] Closing Segment

• The last take away for today
• • Think about the word 'Nowhere' -'Now' 'Here'
  • It will take practice, practice, practice
  • Take a problem and deal with them, or learn from them
• Please write us a review
• • Email the review to me and get a FREE BOOK
  • [email protected]
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"There is one solution for many, many problems… That is being present." - Kenny Chapman

"Wait a minute, take a step back. Am I here? Am I breathing? Can I feel…? Take a moment to get back into presence, cause that's where life happens." - Kenny Chapman

Resources Mentioned:

• [email protected]

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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Everyone needs a coach at some point, but do you know that you've had access to your own coach this whole time? You guys know that I have quite the experience in coaching. I love getting people out of their way and into their greatness! As much as people like me can help train and steer you in the right direction, the greatest coach you could ever have is yourself. I want to talk to us today about becoming your own coach.

Let's dive right in and have a conversation around learning to catch and coach yourself.

[00:01 - 05:57] Opening Segment

• Welcome back!
• • How to catch and coach yourself
• I talk about my own experience in coaching
• • Personal growth
  • Coaching greatness
  • Individuals and companies
• We'll be talking about a process I utilize with myself
• • Transformation happens when you catch your own blind spots
  • Knowing from your gut
• How you feel comes from clarity
• • How do you want to feel
  • How to know when it's not in alignment
• It takes awareness
• • Most people don't pay attention to this
  • Knowing yourself and how you make others feel
• A desire to improve
• • Doing the dirty work of being honest with yourself
  • My experience with Blue Collar Group
  • Rooted in truth
• My example of self-awareness

[05:58 - 11:46] How to Catch and Coach Yourself; The Four-Step Approach

• Catch yourself
• • Be aware if you're out of alignment with yourself
  • Tapping into the gut
  • What does and doesn't resonate with you
• Write about it!
• • The 5 step ritual
  • Journaling - downloading the brain
  • Write when something didn't seem right
• Review it
• • Review what you wrote
• Release it
• • Catch and release with value
  • Get the value then let it go
  • Don't hang on to the issue

[11:47 - 12:45] Closing Segment

• Remember to connect with me
• • Links below
• Share this with someone
• Final Words

Resources Mentioned:

• Episode 33 - Why Did I Do That?
• The Six Diamonds of C.H.A.N.G.E.

Tweetable Quotes:

"Real transformation happens when you're able to start catching yourself and seeing your own blindspots if you will." - Kenny Chapman

"You can't self-coach if you can't self realize." - Kenny Chapman

"If you're going to be effective at self-coaching yourself, you gotta be willing to improve. Because when you want to improve you're willing to do the dirty work of being honest with yourself." - Kenny Chapman

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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Are you acquainted with the concept of Painge? No? That's probably because I made it up! It's a word that mixes change and pain, because as I've journeyed through leadership and through life, I've found that the two seem to go hand in hand. Today I want to share insight on how change and pain tie together and what we can do to manage the process on the path to cracking the code of the driven mind.

So let's jump right in and learn the art of Change/Pain Management starting with some stories I've witnessed first hand.

[00:01 - 03:06] Opening Segment

• Welcome back!
• • Change Management Pain
• What we'll be talking about today
• • Change is painful
  • Examples
  • We all handle change differently
  • Sharing insights on the tie of the two concepts
• Change and pain muscles
• • Creating fatigue vs. tolerance
  • Reducing pain

[03:07 - 09:10] The Mindset

• Growth vs. Fixed based mindset
• • Growth wants to get better
  • Fixed accepts everything given to it
• How changes create a dip
• • Visual analogy
  • As long and deep as you allow
  • Change curve
  • What affects the dip
• My story working with a manager
• • Challenging status quo
  • Stirring up the pain
• Insights on pain and change
• • It can lead to greatness if you dive in
  • Don't follow the false sense of comfort

[09:11 - 11:31] Closing Segment

• Think about this for yourself
• • How are your people leading?
  • You workout analogy
  • • Intentional pain
• Summary of our lesson today
• • A promise of pain
  • Embrace it and set yourself free!
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"We have these 'change and pain muscles'… if we overuse them we get fatigued." - Kenny Chapman

"Most change is created and most pain is created outside of people's desire. If you would step into change more, if you would step into pain more, you would step into greatness more." - Kenny Chapman

You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Be sure to check out my website https://www.thebluecollarsuccessgroup.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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Can you relate to asking yourself that question?

My job with my 1:1 clients is to uncover why they do what they do and figure out their subconscious pattern of behaviors.

Why you certain things is tied to the way you've always done things.

And how many of you do things a certain way because it's tied to money?

Listen a lot of what we do is tied to money.. it's not a bad thing. But we should be aware of it and make sure we're making the right choices.

Write this down: Money Mindset Matters