Posted on Tuesday, June 30, 2015

[Success Secret Sauce] Series 6/8 Your Success in Faith and Fear

Tracy Worley

Tracy Worley is America’s leading grace coach, international key-note speaker, trainer, syndicated radio host, author, and potential seeker, strategist and CEO of three values leadership based organizations. She works with business executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders world-wide to develop potential, tailor employee engagement modules, and turn up the volume on individuals and organizations potential personally and professionally.

Tracy knows firsthand about what it takes to find your potential, Individuals and organizations have individual cultures, stories, and rhythm – Tracy’s innovative style knows how to make it work. With a background in business management, business communication, project management, and life’s drama, Tracy found herself running a multi-million dollar organization at the age of 25.

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

But it’s exactly all these experiences that built character, knowledge, wisdom, and intuitive insight into individual and organizational potential. Tracy is highly intuitive, perceptive, and a world thinker in connecting what you cannot see. These gifts give her the ability to strategize with clarity where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. Tracy’s expertise: training highly successful people to lead with authenticity to the desired success her client’s desire and deserve.

What tools are you using to engage and ensure change is AWESOME?

I love—no I really mean love—the word FEAR! Several years back I heard an acronym of the word, and ever since then have fallen in love with fear.

What is fear? False | Evidence | Appearing | Real

If things go wrong do not go with them! Stand tall in faith, because tomorrow is another day toward formulating your secret sauce for success.

So now you know that fear is false evidence that our minds appear to make real. Most of us are in sales one way or another, and what is the number one thing we do to create relationships? It’s those dreaded phone calls! People are afraid of the phone, because they are creating a false fear of rejection and of hearing the word NO. But here’s the scariest part: What do you do when you get a YES!!!

Don’t get me wrong. I believe that there are healthy fears, like not standing too close to the edge of a cliff without proper safety gear. However, creating your secret sauce to success has a dash of healthy fear and faith in your ability.

“Fear creates a barrier towards action and discipline in reaching your potential. When you spend energy in fear, you have wasted an opportunity. “Fear not that your life will come to an end, but that it will never have a beginning” ~ J.H.Newman.

Focusing on what we can control brings a healthy expectation and perception of fear. There are so many people, places, and things not in your control, so stop worrying and being fearful of an outcome you have no part of. Mark Twain states this so well, “I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, a few of which actually happened.”

It is a privilege to share this time with you, and I hope to walk alongside you in your Secret Success Sauce journey.

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

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Posted on Monday, June 29, 2015

[Success Secret Sauce] Series 5/8 Are You an Opportunity Owner?

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

If you want to halt progress in personal or organizational progress just say the word, change.

No one likes change; very few understand how to lead it. One of the main reasons people resist change is the perception of loss, they take it personally. It is like that infamous statement, “the only person who likes change is a wet baby.”

Change is awkward, change rubs against tradition, and the timing maybe wrong. There is a guarantee of failure if change is not embraced when there is a need to do so. Without change there can be no creativity, innovation, and launch to the success you desire and deserve.

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. If you desire growth, then you must embrace change.”~ Max DePree

An optimistic person who has an attitude of adventure and tomorrow will come no matter what happens today is who you want on your team or inner-circle. The heart of success and creating your secret success sauce is you must give up something to go up. As we learn and glean new experiences to be better tomorrow than we are today we cannot continue to do everything or carry everything. This is where leading and delegating change comes to play toward your success.

What are items on your daily agenda that should now be delegated?
What activities no longer hold value for who you are today?
What fear is holding you back from accomplishing your next goal?
What time clock are you waiting for; the right times is now and not wait for everything to be perfect.
What bogeyman is blocking the doorway?

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly the bogeyman.”~ Pat Paulson

Attitude toward change is the difference maker in creating the future you want! Change can lead to those things we call PROBLEMS but I see problems as opportunities and not an obstacle. Problems are the gateway to solving and creating innovation. If you watch the show Shark Tank most products or services are solving a problem people or organizations have.

One of my previous clients was Wal-Mart and their culture embraced opportunity vs. problem. Their culture was every problem is actually an opportunity to solve and be creative in daily business. They continue this today so when you receive a call from Wal-Mart corporate (any position from executive to associate) they will state, “I have an opportunity.”This is another great example in practice of how one word can change your world.

“Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.”~ Norman Vincent Peale

I encourage you to look at problems as an open door others are not willing to walk through and create an original idea or product!

Think positive by creating opportunity of new doors you may not have seen before!

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

Top4 Is Your Core: Build Your Solid Foundation

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Sunday, June 28, 2015

[Success Secret Sauce] Series 4/8: Discouraged Heart Over The Mountain

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Attitude is the difference in moving forward without quitting.

What tools of discovery will take you to the next level of your secret sauce?

Discouragement for me is that deep sink in my tummy where fight or flight comes to my mind. This is where my awareness turns to the understanding that this is NOT a great time to make decisions. Why? Because within discouragement you may also be experiencing fear of change, problems or failure, and our imagination creates larger obstacles.

My husband and I do a lot of mountain peak hiking, and to our wonder we will see people turn around before they get to the top. With only a short way to go people stop and turn around thinking they have “seen it.” However, when we get to the top there are views of glacial lakes, butterfly fields, and miraculous views of wildlife.

“Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.” ~ Paul J. Meyer.

It is my desire to walk alongside you to have an encouraged heart to the top!

Most people quit due to wrong expectations, and this gives them a way to just give up instead of GET UP! So find the right perspective in your expectations. No matter how dark life seems, it does get better through your tenacious attitude and secret sauce of success.

This story paints a perfect picture of no matter how things look now, the right perspective encourages heart for you and your team. A man stopped to watch a Little League baseball game. He asked one of the players on the bench what the score was.

“We’re behind eighteen to nothing,” the boy answered.

“Well,” remarked the man, “I have to say you sure don’t look discouraged.”

“Discouraged?” the boy said, puzzled. “Why should we be? We haven’t come up to bat yet.”

What benches are you stuck on discouraged because you cannot see to the next inning? The most successful people overcome the greatest obstacles. Their success did not come from circumstances, but from their attitudes.

Paralysis of perfection will keep you from obtaining and creating your success. Be tenacious and look at life realistically, where you are, where you want to go, and do not despair! Move forward with the mountain-top in mind and rest in the valley of perseverance and tenacious attitude toward serving those you are meant to serve.

It has taken me five years to learn this lesson well and keep moving, even when it looks like everything is against me. Reality usually shows its true colors, and nothing is impossible!

And together we stand at life’s crossroads

And view what we think is the end,

But God has a much bigger vision

And He tells us it’s only a bend.

For the road goes on and is smoother,

And the pause in the song is a rest.

And the pat that’s unsung and unfinished

Is the sweetest and richest and best.

So rest and relax and grow stronger.

Let go and let God share your load,

Your work is not finished or ended,

You’ve just come to a bend in the road.

Success in your personal and professional life is taking an ingredient from all our experiences, wins, fails, bloodied knees, and elation of success. The idea of creating you from a recipe card is a false expectation to be like everyone else. Your journey to the top is a pinch of this, a teaspoon of that, and a cup of tenacious attitude.

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

Top4 Is Your Core: Build Your Solid Foundation

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Friday, June 26, 2015

[Success Secret Sauce] Series 3/8: Celebrate Your Greatest Asset

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Your greatest asset is your attitude and it is the base ingredient to your Secret Success Sauce.

Attitude is not a set strength or gift; it is a choice. Attitude is the only thing you have complete control over on a second by second basis. When I was downsized in 2011, my first reaction was not anger. It was, “What do I have in place to keep moving forward?”

The first step to creating success through your attitude is to take responsibility for it. Attitude does not come from our circumstances, history, or others. Attitude comes from within; you are made of the sum from the inside out. Reflecting within is key to identifying and relating to any of your relationships. Where are they blaming others for circumstances; where in reality the outcome came from choice.

The second area to evaluate is where you are now in your relationships and perhaps barriers to your goals. Personal evaluation is not to condemn where you are today, but to become aware and make different choices. How we feel and view ourselves often relates to how we relate and think of others. Attitude truly is the solid foundation to your Secret Success Sauce.

When evaluation occurs in an honest and nurturing way, your growth to change becomes easy. Perseverance does not seem as hard, and the tenacious nature it takes to stand your ground will give confident freedom in becoming who you were meant to be and who you are meant to serve.

The biggest question is: Are you going to keep working and trying to get better, or is this as good as it gets?

You are not what you think you are, but what you think…you are.

The last step toward an AWESOME attitude is discipline in your agenda. Yes, the things that make up your daily calendar are the choices you are willing to make. Again, reflection is part of gaining back your day and doing what you need to do in planned action vs. others unplanned reaction.

Attitude is the difference maker to opening doors you did not see before, and it helps overcome obstacles and reality shifts you did not ask for. In 2011 I had a choice to be angry, bitter, frozen, and paralyzed from losing my job, but my choice was to thrive despite someone else’s decision for my reality and future.

Choose to thrive!

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

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Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2015

[Success Secret Sauce] Series 2/8: Are You Attitude or Character Driven

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

What is your secret sauce to being a difference maker in your life?

The basis of leading and making a difference is all about attitude and what it can—and cannot—do for you and those around you. I have a confession to make. Early in my career and youth, I was the one where my parents and co-workers would look at me and say, “Check the attitude at the door.” I did not have a bad attitude, but a very inquisitive one, and had not yet learned how to harness my “why” questions to team build. The way I asked questions did not build collaboration but separation.

To sustain success you cannot separate self-esteem, character, or attitude. All three must be part of your reality to lead authentically and to be a difference maker.

From The Difference Maker here are some areas to consider for reflection and change toward making the difference you desire:

Attitude cannot substitute for competence
- Competence is what is needed to accomplish a job, but attitude completes the circle of contentment and daily joy, not only for yourself but also for those around you.
Attitude helps with your health (mental and physical)
- Change if you can.
- If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.
Attitude takes work.
- Personal growth should be part of your daily and weekly calendar.
- Don’t give up even when it feels like the easy thing to do.

Creating a plan to be a difference maker in attitude and understanding reality does not substitute for choosing your attitude. In 2011 on a brief phone call, I learned I no longer was employed due to a third round of downsizing. Was this a blow? Absolutely! However, I did not let the experience keep me down. I kept a forward vision and took actions one step at a time, even if they were baby steps toward the future I desired and deserve.

Moving forward has everything to do with a positive attitude, perseverance, and not sitting in a stinky pool of pity. I kept moving forward toward the next adventure in making a difference in other people’s lives. I hope you are one of those people.

Challenge Question: What is in your calendar to ensure you are not sitting in a stinky pool of pity?

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

Top4 Is Your Core: Build Your Solid Foundation

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Monday, June 8, 2015

Are You A Difference Maker? Series 1 of 8

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Are you a difference maker or a mood breaker? We all know someone who walks into the room and the mood changes from “life” to “silent hiding”. Why? No one wants to talk to this person because they are the life sucker who not only takes, but also puts you down and keeps you there.

What is your secret sauce to being a difference maker in your life?

In 2006 I had an incredible opportunity to not only chair our Employee Ownership Stock Program, but also to create the leadership training content for all employee owners to experience and learn. One of the resources I brought in was written by John C. Maxwell, The Difference Maker. What makes you a Difference Maker? It is simply your attitude.

I write, speak, and teach attitude often, as this is the one thing you have control over. Only you can make the decision about how you are going to enter and leave the room. How you are entering and leaving conversations? But most importantly, how do you make people feel? Everyone remembers how you made them feel over and above all other things you give them.

“Your attitude colors very aspect of your life. It is like the mind’s paintbrush; you see the world as you are!”

Here are some areas to consider for reflection and change toward making the difference you desire from The Difference Maker:

Personality – Who You Are
- Everyone is uniquely made. When you live in the comparison gap of others this is a mood breaker.
Environment – Who and What is Around You
- We are made up of the five people we spend the most time with.
- Is it time to have courageous conversation and create a necessary ending?
Others – What You Feel
- Hurt people hurt people.
- Positive words have an extraordinary impact.
Self-Image – How You See Yourself
- This is how you see others.
- Labels apply to boundaries and actions.
Beliefs – Judgement
- What you think.
Choices – Action
- What you do.

“Every thought you have shapes your life. What you think about your neighbor is your attitude toward him. The way you think about your job is your attitude toward work. Your thoughts concerning your spouse, the people on the highway during rush hour, and the government create your attitude toward everything you think and apply is your attitude.” John C Maxwell

I am no longer with the organization where I transformed The Difference Maker into their curriculum, but I do have the pleasure of seeing many of those employees continue to grow and make a difference not only at work but in the community in which they live.

Challenge Question: Where are you a Difference Maker in your community?

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Create Your Secret Sauce

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

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GRACEbreak Episode: Are You a Difference Maker? 1 of 8

Dr. Henry Cloud (2010) Necessary Endings

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Are you a difference maker or a mood breaker? We all know someone who walks into the room and the mood changes from “life” to “silent hiding”. Why? Because no one wants to talk to this person because they are the life sucker who not only takes but also puts you down and keeps you there.

What is your secret sauce to being a difference maker in your life?

I write, speak, and teach attitude often as this is the one thing you have control over and can make the decision how you are going to enter and leave the room. How you are entering and leaving conversations, and most importantly how do you make people feel. Everyone remembers how you made them feel over all other things you give them.

“Your attitude colors very aspect of your life. It is like the mind’s paintbrush, you see the world as you are!”

Personality – Who You Are
Environment – Who and What is Around You
Self-Image – How You See Yourself
Beliefs – Judgement
Choices – Action

Challenge Question: Where are you a Difference Maker in your community?

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Create Your Secret Sauce

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series startingn in June!

Event: 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Date:	June 8, 2015
Time:	8:30 a.m MST
Appearance:	GRACEbreak Radio \| Are you a difference maker? Series 1 of 8
Outlet:	GRACEbreak Radio
Location:	Montana
Format:	Radio

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Posted on Friday, May 29, 2015

Are You Prepared to Take Risk With Imagination and Innovation?

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

We all have risk in our lives, and we can either embrace it or do everything in our power to avoid it. Imagine a playground where a group of children are jumping off the top of the monkey bars, and then there are a few kids who stand at the edge pacing and waiting for the school bell to ring so they do not have to jump.

I want to encourage you to JUMP! Not in the sense of physical, mental, or spiritual harm, but to really jump back into a childlike state and use your imagination. Create and innovate right where you stand! Ken Robinson states the risk of imagination eloquently, “Be prepared to be wrong.” When you are prepared to risk, be wrong, and basically stand there looking like an idiot—you are onto something!

Society has teaches us through our education system to no work within our natural gifts, but to test out to an educational standard. Highly successful people have bunked the standard and create success by taking the risk of standing alone. The risk takers are the ones you watch rise to the next level. The risk takers are the ones who are creating original ideas.

When you are prepared to imagine, innovate, and risk within your gift set, you are no longer living within the set standard of average! ~ Tracy Worley

Take time out and reflect on your life, career, and the significance that your natural gifts offer the world.

Reflect on what you loved doing as a child (natural gift).
Reflect on all of those assessments you have taken over the years (natural gift).
Reflect on your voice of doubt, do it afraid, do it anyway.
Reflect on discipline in your daily agenda. Are you taking time to risk?
Reflect on the ideas popping into your head and write them down. Some will make sense and some will not. Step forward with one where clarity comes through and start moving forward without knowing the how or the details. Don’t get held up in the paralysis of perfection.

You are meant to have a life and career of significance so embrace your natural gifts, talents, wisdom, and knowledge to create original ideas. If you look back in history and innovation, most of those who risked standing alone where mocked, but now we have light-bulbs after ten-thousand tries. We have flight because the Wright Brothers believed with imagination, risk, and perseverance that it was possible.

Society’s standard of average is not where you are valued. Create value by standing alone on the edge of the monkey bars and JUMP!

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

I know you are curious!

Do you want to find your secret sauce of imagination and create original ideas through your natural gifts?

We are starting a new series in June where you will build critical insights to building your secret sauce to creating the future you want. 5 Ways to Create the Future You Want.

Ken Robinson, Ph.D. (2009) The Element

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

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Early Registration Ends TODAY: 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

Planning for tomorrow is essential:

Think ahead and plan goals (within your value statement)
Steps are in place (escape paralysis of perfection)
Schedules (your plan)

5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

1) Reflection Leads To Purpose
2) Consistency Leads To a Life of Significance
3) Keep It Simple Silly For Extraordinary Results
4) Creating The Future You Want
5) Apply Tension For a Better Tomorrow

Thousands of professionals responded to 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want. . . Why? Because this is a personal process, encouraging you to create the future you want creating your “secret sauce” this world needs!

NOW is the time to step forward into creating your secret sauce of success!

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Week One (Reflection, Consitency): The top 1% of entrepreneaurs schedules daily time to reflect and think into their success. Action vs. Reaction Learn how to take the time to stay on purpose for the success you were created to glean. New Habit vs. Old Habit. Creating satisfaction creates significance in your life and mastering “basics” to create the future you desire.

Week Two (Systems): Keep it simple for extraoridnary results. Changing one word will change your whole world. Process vs. Purpose Your life is not an assembly line, you are uniquely made to contribute the “secret sauce” only you can offer the world.

Week Three (Environment): Creating the future you want is not selfish, creating the future you want is growing your ptentntial in the right envrionment. Your environment made of your daily agenda, people, places, and things. “The bitter ingredient of your future is the unwillingness to try; if you do not try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you receive.” ~ Tracy Worley

Week Four (Tension): Applied tension to success is consistent applied pressure to your growth and stretching into something and someone bigger and better tomorrow. “If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?” ~ Rabbi Nachman

Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2015

Leadership Value Through Serving Others

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Leading and serving others is not a painful experience it is a cherished opportunity to lead through your value. ~ Tracy Worley

Yesterday was a full day of serving others without asking anything in return. What do I mean by nothing in return? I did not receive monetary compensation and/or ask for anything in return; I fully gave of self. I am not sharing this to impress you but to impress upon you adding value through serving others pays the highest dividends in your personal Value Proposition.

Part of My Day:

Spoke at Sunrise Rotary | Are you Stopping Before the End of The Trail
- Service to others in value and leadership potential
Time Out | Spent time with an acquaintance and masterminded business
1Million Cups, Missoula MT
- Showed up filled up to ask questions and find ways to add value to new start-ups and ideas
Mentorship
- Mentoring a new entrepreneur in their journey of leading masterminds, coaching, and speaking.
Calls to two individuals who I know are struggling in their business; offered support, when asked offered advice and connections to get them to the next level. (Notice I did not offer advice until asked).

At lunch I attended the monthly Missoula Businesswomen’s luncheon and learned I was one of eight nominees for MBN Business Women of The Year. The nominees are women I admire and humbly stood next to and wondered; how did I get here? The answer is simple; Leadership Value Through and By Serving Others.

Value statements are one of the first things I have my clients do. When you know what you value and how to serve others through your Value Proposition, it is easy to let go of anything or anyone interfering with your purpose and value to serve others.

Check Points to Ensure you are Leading and Serving with Value:

Let go of anything or anyone that interferes with your value proposition
Attitude and actions reveal your values. Your belief system must come first to shape the right attitude and actions toward your purpose in serving.
Society often does not “gel” with personal value-sets. Do not be surprised when others question or interfere; just state your purpose, do not ask for permission, and move forward serving others!
Negotiate the value of your intention because the intention of your value proposition is to lead others through service.

By leading in service first I truly have/had the distinguished honor standing next to these phenomenal ladies who give so much of themselves to their families, clients, and community! I have added links to their LI or web-page as I encourage you to connect and get to know these outstanding leaders of service!

Congratulations to our distinguished Business Woman of The Year 2015: Miranda Ming of Wipfli-GHG

Remember to serve well through your unique Value Proposition!

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

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