1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win/win
5. Seek first to understand then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
8. Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
There are laws of nature that govern life. We think we govern it, but we govern our behavior.
4 parts to our nature:
1. Body
2. Mind
3. Heart
4. Spirit
All 4 parts represent 4 capabilities that need to be honored and respected to find his or her voice and also inspire others to do the same. Voice is when your talent and passion overlaps what the world needs.
5 things that do not help us discover our voice:
1. Criticizing
2. Complaining
3. Competing-in the wrong spirit.
4. Comparing
5. Contending
Without our passion we need to be managed.
How we develop our voice?
Nature laws
1. Freedom and power to choose
2. Principles (universal, timeless, self-evident)
3. The 4 parts to intelligence (IQ for mind, EQ for Heart (social skills, emotional, self awareness, awareness of others, ability to relate to others), PQ for body (70 trillion cells working to protect you right now), SQ for spirit (deals with the need to serve and to have meaning and 2 to live by your conscious and have connection to the truths. )Unlike IQ, which computers have, and EQ, which exists in higher mammals, SQ is uniquely human and the most fundamental of the three. It linked to humanity's need for meaning, an issue very much at the front of people's minds. SQ is what we use to develop longing and capacity for meaning, vision, and value. It allows us to dream and to strive. It underlies the things we believe in and the role our beliefs and values play in the actions we take. It is what makes us human.
This stuff use to be a little out there but now is widely understood.
Our four needs: To live (body), To love (heart), To learn (mind), and To leave a legacy (spirit). That's what a whole person in the right place does and helps find the voice.
Whole person in whole job: Pay me fairly (body), Treat me kindly (heart), Use me creatively (mind), Serving human needs in principled ways (spirit). Meaningfulness the why behind the what and how, and to live with integrity. All have got to be developed (body, mind, heart, and spirit). Exercise, learning, rebuilding relationships, contributing. Service is the rent we pay for the privledge of living on Earth.
Four Assumptions:
Body-Assume you had a heart attack. Now live accordingly.
Heart-Assume everything that you say about another is overheard by them. Now speak accordingly. Be loyal to the absent.
Mind-Assume the half-life of your profession is 2 years, now behave accordingly. Learn fast. Invest in your education. Constant need for it.
Spirit-Assume you had a one on one relationship with your creator. Now behave accordingly.
Has someone ever believed in you when you didn't. Others helped you find your voice. Vision (mind)others vision changed your life, Discipline (body) to do now what must be done to get what you want, Passion (heart), Conscience (spirit). When the 3 are governed by conscience it will change the world. Gandhi versus Hitler. They had the first three but Gandhi had the conscience.
Trim-tab: The small rudder that turns the big rudder that turns the ship. Anyone in an organization can help create magic. Start in your own circle and it grows larger and larger to impact the world. This idea threatens some because they realize they have the responibility.
5 economic era's:
1. 1 unit of effort created one result. Hunting.
2. 1 unit of effort created more. Farming
3. Industrial era 1 unit created way more.
4. Information age. World of unleashing people not controlling them. In the industrial age you were an expense, where a machine was a investment. Now people are the investment. Close your eyes and don't peek. Point North. People point in all different directions. In the industry age most people can't name the number one goal of a company either. We need to have goals and translate them into action throughout the team. Many people don't know what they can do to help the company achieve it's goals. Once people know they are free to make it happen.
5. Wisdom age. That takes and learns from all levels to create what's best.
Communication tool-you've got the object I will listen as long as you have the object feel understood and then you pass it to me. We listen and it communicates their worth and potential allowing them to be more and more open.
3 challenges:
personal greatness-find your voice. The 7 habits.
leadership greatness-modeling (leading by example, kids will do whatever they see their parents doing) and helping inspire others to find their voice. Communicate their worth and potential so clearly they see it in themselves. The 7 habits leading to the 8th habit.
organizational greatness- Mission, vision, values, co-missioning others to the cause.
Don't worry about other people's shortcomings or what they need to do better. We need to get better and encourage all of those around us. Support their strength and diminish their weaknesses.
Empower others to find their strengths.
1. Be proactive
2. Begin with the end in mind
3. Put first things first
4. Think win/win
5. Seek first to understand then to be understood
6. Synergize
7. Sharpen the saw
8. Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
2 comments:
Yes. Begin with the end in mind. Just the slightest slipping on this, and we lost it. We might as well not even start it. Bc it will be just going through the motions. The only thing that matters is results, when I'm not begining with the end result in mind, then something else that I have in mind is manifested, that is my end result. And so the whole process was a waste of time. Like: the painter whose goal is to paint the house, but spends the time cleaning his brushes and stirring the paint, and the whole thing is pointless and useless, bc in the end, he didn't paint the house. It takes focusing and slipping, and catching ourselves and reminding ourselves and starting over, to keep the end result in mind, all the time. But not doing it, is just spinning our wheels. The previous article, on the things that are measured improve, bc we are focusing/paying attention to them, is tied together with this. We measure the results we want/have. So we start with that end result in mind, then the whole process takes us to that which we have in mind. Then we measure again, so we re-inforce the process. Then we start over, energised bc we have already manifested our end result. And then we do it again. Over and Over. By starting / and keeping it, with the end result in mind. How amazing. Thank you.
This was a powerful lesson. I am in the growth of all of these things...many which I have already known and taken as mine. Where I am lagging is in the envisioning the goal... what it is... when I will do it... what will I do to accomplish it... I am learning to deal with many things that are totally new to me. I see that the work I am doing now is toward a distant goal, but frankly, I have not seen the goal in my mind's eye .I must work on that and I think this blog helps me gather in the parts to a central spot in my being that will be the mortar that holds the blocks together as I take that goal as mine!
Great stuff... thank you so much!!!!!
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