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Transformation Tip: “Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what is left of you” - Katie Reed

Wheel of life - make 8 segments of a circle. Assess how you are doing in each area on a scale of 1-10: 

• Career 
• Health 
• Money/Finance 
• Family/Friends
• Significant Other/Romance 
• Fun and recreation 
• Serving the community 
• Personal growth and development 
• Physical environment
• Insert your own category here 

Connect the lines - is it balanced?

Date it - pull it back out at a later date to measure growth

Transformation Application: Pick one or two of the categories to address. Then list one or two action items to help improve those categories. Don’t be afraid to ask for help!

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Purpose, destiny, and passion are not the same thing. In this episode, Steve and Pete discuss and differentiate these concepts to bring clarity to finding your true purpose.

Transformation Application:  "Purpose is not just what we do, but what happens in others when we do what we do." - Dr. Caroline Leaf

There is often a misconception that purpose is a single event

True purpose is found in understanding one's own value and making a meaningful impact on others

Success is not the same as significance

We must accept and embrace our imperfections. This allows us to truly focus on serving others and leads to fulfillment and significance

Transformation Application: Reflect and write down three times that you have felt a sense of joy while adding value to a situation or community. Consider what you would sacrifice time, energy, or resources to do again.

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Transformation Tip: “The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing”

A lack of clarity can lead to overthinking. Overthinking can lead to overwhelm and ultimately getting stuck. 

Practical tips for finding clarity:

• It is already in you 
• Process of removal 
  • “Burning off the fog”
• Talk things out or journal (processing)

Clarity is NOT:  

• Understanding the big picture in life
• Going to explain everything in your life
• Carved in stone and can never change 

Transformation Application: Ask yourself if you are overthinking things. If you are, find someone to talk through it with you. 

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Transformation Tip: “I am always ready to learn, although I don’t always like being taught” - Winston Churchill 

People retain information differently 

Demonstration and discussion help with long-term memory 

Transformation Application: Think about how you want to communicate knowledge. 
What can you do to make your communication more effective?

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Transformation Tip: “When we choose what to see and who we hang out with, we’re actually choosing our future.” 

Many people don't consciously choose their worldview. 

There is a battle for our attention, our beliefs, and our values which is pushed through media outlets. 

What is my truth? 

Transformation Application: Find a headline of a current event and go and read that story in three divergent outlets. See the truth in them and find a balanced view.

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Transformation Tip: “We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are or as we are conditioned to see it” - Gabor Maté

Every action is rooted in the thought that produced it 

Your worldview is the collection of your attitudes, values, stories, expectations, etc. 

You don't often think about what is truly shaping your decisions, but your worldview is impacting how you see and respond to situations every single day. 

Factors that shape worldview: 

• Environment
• Parents 
• Culture 
• Education
• Spiritual/Moral Principles

Transformation Application: Think of a topic you have a strong opinion about or affiliation with and then ask yourself “What or who shaped that belief or affinity towards that thought”? Trace it backward and recognize if that root is healthy or unhealthy. 

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Transformation Tip: “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain

It is essential to keep growing as a leader and as a mature adult

Alvin Toffler said: The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. 

What to do with your old thinking when confronted with new evidence: 

• Scrap it 
• Edit it 
• Augment it 
• Create a new category 

Transformation Application: Is there an old mindset that isn’t serving you well? Take time to articulate it and ask yourself if you should scrap, edit, augment, or create a new category. 

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Transformation Tip: “It is an acknowledged fact we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own”  - Leonardo DaVinci

The more we understand how our brains are wired, the better decisions we can make.

3 Types of Cognitive Bias: 

• Anchoring Effect - influenced heavily by the first piece of information you’ve received about something
  • Not taught, but caught 
• Confirmation Bias - favoring information that conforms to your existing beliefs and discounting information that doesn’t.
  • Hardwired into your brain 
• Affinity Bias - unfair favoring towards your own group, tolerating errors, and making excuses for our “in-group”

Transformation Application: Be aware of the information you receive, stop, and ask if you have an anchoring effect. What do you truly believe? Are there people you are continuously judging?  Be careful about labeling and aware of bias.

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Transformation Tip: “We judge ourselves by our intentions and we judge others by their actions.”

Mindsets: Don't react with fight or flight. Face it. Don't let things fester. 

• Practical Tips: 
  • Practice relational hygiene 
  • Grow in emotional intelligence 
  • Be curious
  • Own your emotions 
  • Strike three process 
  • Weigh the consequences 
  • When you get a resolution, it can become a coaching moment 

Transformation Application: Information + application = transformation. If you’ve been stewing on a conflict choose to address it. Start the conversion with curiosity, not anger. 

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