If your choice is not a freewill choice, is it still a choice?

Is your choice still a choice of the options are artificially limited?

Is your choice still a choice if you are rewarded or penalized for making the choice based on someone else’s opinion of your choice?

I believe we should all have free will, genuine options, moral compass and the right to choose.

I also believe, choice is a decision made by individuals which carries a huge weight of consequence and therefore must be exercised with caution, conscience and maturity.

We don’t allow a toddler to decide what’s for breakfast or when to drive the family car. We don’t encourage a loved one to operate a motor vehicle while under impaired judgement. These are maturity based limited choices.

Leaders also have an obligation to limit choices, WITHOUT limiting free will. Realistically offering, genuine options which are well within the scope of the chooser to be employed wisely.

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Sometimes what you need is different perspective. It’s not JUST what you’re looking at, it’s the way you’re looking at it.

Comics, comedians and great communicators have a “different way of seeing things.”

Dr. Caroline Leaf calls it the MPA - multiple perspective advantage - a simple wiring mechanism in the human mind.

Comedian Michael Jr. says he sees things seven different ways because he grew up with dyslexia.

We all have the ability to see things differently and we should use it.

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How long would you work in one book?

How many times is too many times to fail?

How many times do we forgive those who hurt us?

How many times do we forget our own mistakes?

How many times are we willing to start over, not on a new project, but on the one we so want to abandon?

When is the right time to quit on your dreams? Your passion? Your calling?

The greatest threat to your long term success is short term opportunity for success. Don’t fall for the “shiny object syndrome.” Only add a “new project” or goal or accomplishment if the end result of accomplishing it will move the needle on the long term goals you have already established.

LEAD WITH PERSISTENCE.

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Why do goals fail? Is it the failure of the “goal setting process” or the failure of the “goal achieving process”?

Many people make a decision to commit!

They stop short of making a commitment to that decision.

Commitment is the key. Consistency in the small and daily tasks toward any goal will eventually payoff.

Most of us have a dream or a hope or a wish which we call a goal. We muddle through life expecting this “thing” to happen to us or for us or to simply show up one day.

However, if we were asked to audit our activities over the last 24 or 48 hours there would be no identifiable concerted effort toward that goal. If we look back in earnest, it may have been days, weeks or even months since the idea of the dream came to mind and as yet, it isn’t even written down somewhere. That’s not commitment!

If you want it, you must believe three things:

1. it’s possible

2. you’re worthy and

3. It’s going to happen.

Then you need to act as if these three are true by committing to behavior, choices and daily activity which make the goal more a reality every day.

DO SOMETHING TODAY WHICH REMINDS YOUR GOAL YOU ARE IN HOT PURSUIT.

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What is the soundtrack to your life? Would people define you by the music you listen to? Can you tell when music alters your mood, personality or character?

Do you choose music based on the task at hand? Perhaps you have a special playlist for working out at the gym or a run through the neighborhood.

Perhaps you use another playlist for working in the yard or doing household chores like dishes or laundry.

Surely you have a favorite playlist for when your hanging out with friends and a very special playlist for alone time with your romantic, significant other.

See. You know for a fact music alters your mood, your concentration level, your emotional state, your memory and your level of learning, retention and recall.

So what is the soundtrack to your life? What would it tell your great grand children about you? Would the lyrics baffle them? Would the style be a shocker to those who knew you only at work? Would a close review of lyrics, meaning and volume prove incongruent with who you wish to be?

“Leadership is influence nothing more and nothing less.” John C Maxwell.

Music is a leader in your life!!! Where is it Leading you?!?

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Do you have a VISION?

It’s one thing to have a dream but a whole different thing to have a business plan. It’s one thing to have an idea or imagination but a whole different thing to have a vision.

Whether you lead a large or small company or organization you must have and be able to articulate a compelling vision if you want others to support you or to come along side you and make it happen.

Here is an acrostic from my Insuperable Vision Workshop which may help.

VIVID

INSPIRATION

SIGNIFICANTLY

INFLUENCING

OTHERS

NOBILITY

Watch the video for more on this topic.

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LOYALTY IS A LEADERSHIP WEAPON

Regardless the level of your leadership, the number of your followers, the size of your team or tribe LOYALTY MATTERS.

THREE AREAS OF LOYALTY

Three areas of loyalty must be guarded.

1. Loyalty to the Vision

2. Loyalty to the Leadership

3. Loyalty to the Team

As leader or follower your greatest currency in negotiating future success or opportunity is the value of your loyalty. Like respect, loyalty and trust are two way streets. They must be built over time, maintained with diligence and guarded with mutually shared obligation.

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Peg moments are those times in life when other people have used verbal elephant training to tie you to your past. You don’t have to accept their pegs.

An elephant is trained from birth with a single peg. Throughout life each of us will likely receive dozens if not hundreds of pegs from other people. These “verbal pegs” come in the form of criticism, judgment, accusations and condemnation.

When someone judges your talent as a seedling against someone else’s at full maturity rather than seeing it as potential, the might peg you as a failure.

When someone declares you to be “just like ________” (insert name of someone hateful or unappreciated) the might peg you as an outcast.

When someone cannot see your positive attributes, your character strengths and your willingness to do good, they might peg you as a waste of time.

You are free to pull up those pegs and move on without them.

Leaders should work hard to not place pegs in the lives of their followers or team. They should also be on guard to help pull up any pegs which are revealed.

This episode is also a segment in the course Live A More Excellent Life - Learn more at jlorennorris.com/live

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LEAD WITH A #NEVERGIVEUP ATTITUDE

“Attitude is how you feel about what you think.” J Loren Norris.

You have to make the CHOICE about how you feel and what you think. If someone else is telling you what to think or how to feel your life is not your own.

If you are blaming someone else for what you think or how you feel, you are surrendering your right to LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE!

A #nevergiveup attitude is an Insuperable Attitude. It is the choice to believe I will never be overwhelmed, overcome or passed by.

Only you can choose that for your life. Only you can love that life.

LEAD WITH AN INSUPERABLE ATTITUDE.

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Why does the teacher ONLY come when the student is ready?? And how do they even know the student is ready?

Have you ever heard someone say, perhaps yourself say, “I ain’t even tryin’ to hear that!”

Or “Who do you think you are to tell me anything? You don’t know me!”

Or “Who died and made you boss?”

Those are all expressions from people who struggle to learn. Not like a learning disability but more like a learning inability due to unwillingness.

If the teacher has not yet “shown up” in your life, it is time to ask yourself if you are ready to submit yourself and be the student, regardless who the teacher is for this season.

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