5 Ways to Authentic Leadership

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.

Authentic leadership is moving past the paralysis of perfection; keep moving forward with intentional belief success is yours. When I coach executives and teams on projects, 99% of the time what is holding them back to gleaning extraordinary success is the mindset of perfection. I call this the paralysis of perfection; you remain the same and glean the same results because you are unable to move forward.

Waiting for perfection often leaves you at the starting gate in the paralysis of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE must be perfect before you start. My advice to you, start even if it is ugly!

Opportunity Tracy WorleyLife is not a straight line from start to finish; you have stop signs, obstacles, distractions, and tall buildings to climb toward your finish line to success. When living your authentic-self doors of opportunity you did not see before will appear. . . now which one will you choose? Below are guidelines to moving forward without perfection and finding the door(s) of opportunity you seek.

 

 

 

5 Ways to Authentic Leadership (Self)

  1. Potential: Keep compounding interest (knowledge) on your strengths through coaching, educational opportunities, and mentoring others.
    1. Gifts and Strengths; when you compound knowledge you become the ‘wisdom’ expert in your field.
    2. Weakness; address weakness, be aware of them but do not dwell in weakness. Know what you’re potential and delegate area’s you do not excel in.
  2. What You Want: Knowing what you want and understanding the belief “I can’t” simple does not exist if you are moving in and toward your potential. Everything is obtainable within your gifts, talents, and strengths. Yes, everything is obtainable within your gifts, talents, and strengths with the right attitude!
  3. Character of Achievement: Character is your solid-foundation in supporting sustainable success. Authentic leadership (self) is your self-image and belief you can move toward your goals and finish with celebrated success.
  4. Perfection: Your beliefs, dreams, passions, and growth to your desired goal. Perfection is who you are right now; this is the celebrated success of your perfection!
  5. Celebration: If you love what you are doing, you are NOT willing to lose it.
    1. Celebrate Wins: if you have a goal of closing 20 clients and 3 have signed. This is a time to celebrate the 3! These clients deserve your best in attitude and achievement of 3! And 3 is better than 0.
    2. Celebrate Losses: taking time to learn and glean from losses creates bigger wins for tomorrow.

Authentic leadership is staying in love with what you love and allowing it ignites others; remember when you are living and celebrating your unique self; everyone wants what you are having.

“It doesn’t matter where you have been in the past or where you find yourself today. Growth comes from a positive attitude and the willingness to challenge your self-belief. Courage is the gift of becoming the person you are meant to be. The seeds of courage fuel your heart for change and the aspiration to possess the perfection of your dreams.” ~ Tracy Worley

 

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Law of Character is the solid foundation to your life and life stance. Core of your character is your values, beliefs, experiences, and set points. Your dominate thoughts is what you will attract or detract from your success. Be firm with yourself by creating a solid-foundation of belief!

Law of the Lid is the limitation of achieving higher than you can today. A lid inhibits your ability to be more tomorrow than you are today. What self-limiting belief are you stating to be true? See yourself where you want to be and delete the truths you no longer need or want to hold true.

Law of Perfection is your beliefs, dreams, passion, and growth. Through humble learning you can find ‘perfection’ in your purpose, desires, passions, dreams, and value. Perfection is the truth you hold true and set new truths toward your success. Do not wait for ‘perfection’ as the world sees it, step forward without knowing the next step because life is messy and to achieve Authentic Leadership you must model perfection of not knowing ‘everything’ before moving forward. Step out of the paralysis of perceived perfection and move into your perfection of belief!

Law of Celebration is unfolding a more meaningful and greater expression of your leadership purpose. Success is staying in love with what you love and allowing it to ignite others to their authentic leadership style. Remember, when you are living and celebrating your authentic self; “they want what you are having.” If you love it, you are not willing to lose it.

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

 

Super thrilled to be presenting at MBN Business Skills!  Join us this Friday as we measure, implement  and create your own “Secret Sauce.”

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

I have had thousands respond to 5 Steps to Create The Future You want curriculum. . .

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

Click Below: To find out  more about the 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want: and what to expect Friday at MBN Business Skills @ Noodle Express / Broadway, Missoula

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Date: May 8, 2015
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. MST
Event: MBN Business Skills
Topic: 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want
Sponsor: Missoula Business Womens Network | Business Skills
Venue: Express Noodle on Broadway | Missoula
Location: Missoula 59801
United States
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How Do You Skip Rocks?

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.

Coaching is one of my favorite things to do in my business because I have a front row seat to others launching to the next level. It is almost like watching the space shuttles take off: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!  John Maxwell states , it is hard to improve when you have no one but yourself to follow

How Do You Learn to Skip Rocks? Modeling behavior is how we learn, the picture I share is of my husband, his brother, and nephew. This is a true example of modeling, practicing, and applying learned thought and movement toward success.

Modeling Tracy Worley

Hiring a mentor is finding someone who has gone the road before you. Practice what you teach! Currently I have several mentors where we would be considered peers but they are ahead of me in certain areas of business and life. Recently, one of my mentors helped me achieve a 441% increase in ROI of what I invested vs. new business. Below are personal numbers not to impress you but to impress upon you mentorship is worth every minute and application of study!

The past six months I have mentored  one client to 700% ROI as she launched her own agency. And most recently mentored a client to her first 5 figure contract which is a 400% ROI of mentorship investment.                                                                                                     ~ Tracy Worley (ROI based on coaching fees against new business.)

Studies following return on investment (ROI) from coaching:

Harvard Business Review did a study on ROI (return on investment) in hiring coaches and the return is not surprising to me but maybe to you. The study showed a 529% ROI for Executive Coaching. 

  • Companies that offer training alone experience 22.4% increase in productivity, but when combined with coaching that figure rises to 88%.
  • A conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from coaching, according to Fortune magazine, managers describe an average return of more than six times the cost of coaching.
  • Companies who combine coaching with training increase employee productivity over 80%.
  • A Manchester, Inc. study in 2001 demonstrated a 7-fold return on investment from coaching.

Mentoring is not one sided growth you cannot receive without giving in return. When mentoring others your growth and awareness improves because you have applied your knowledge and then learning from your mentees new perspective.

“Are you committed, consistent, creative, purposeful, reflective, and grateful for those who went before you and poured wisdom into you? Being a mentor or mentee creates a synergy of sustainable success for organizational success.” (T.Worley)

“Raising up leaders is the truly self-less goal of every mentor leader, the culmination of focusing on others. To elevate your followers means to help them reach their God-given potential, even if it means preparing them to replace you. It may also mean that you prepare them to leave your organization for better opportunities elsewhere -perhaps even with your competitor.” (T.Dungy)

Take an honest inventory of where you were 5 years ago, today, and where you want to be 5 years from now. I can personally guarantee if you keep the inventory you have today, you will find yourself doing the same thing you have always done and more than likely always for someone else.

Mentoring

1.) Get Committed           4). Be Purposeful
2.) Be Consistent              5). Be Reflective
3.) Be Creative                   6). Be Grateful

Be teachable, be prepared, ask questions, demonstrate learning, be accountable

VISION – MISSON – VALUES = GUIDING LIGHT

How to Start: Do you know people who do what you’d like to do?

1.) Get Committed – If you have to, pay people for their time and advise.
2.) Be Consistent – Meet regularly with someone who can help you.
3.) Be Creative – Learn from people even if you can’t meet them.
4.) Be Purposeful – Prepare for every interaction: don’t wing it!
5.) Be Reflective – Reflect on each encounter and discover what you are learning.
6.) Be Grateful – ALWAYS show appreciation for what you are learning from others. (Mentors)

Check List To Finding A Mentor/Coach:

  • Selective: find someone who has same or like values, if there are red flags during your initial conversation the intuitive flag is there for a reason. Remember, who you spend time with directly reflects your attitude, action, and ability (what goes in comes out).
  • Availability: you must have access and availability to be actively mentored, ask questions, learn from their answers, and apply what your learned. Note: always apply what you learned to find your win/fail secret sauce!
  • Wisdom: a mentor/coach possess experience, knowledge, wins and fails in the area you are looking to be coached in. Wisdom comes from the experience and make sure they have the ability to mentor you to success. Remember, just because someone wins does not mean they have the ability to teach. .
  • Support: a great mentor provides friendship and support. Your mentor should care about your success over all else, unselfishly working to help you reach your potential.
  • Difference: a great mentor makes a difference in people’s lives, daily. “A ‘coach’ remains something, or someone, who carries a valued person from where they are to where they want to be.” ~ Kevin Hall

Ego: Competitive mindset pushing others down instead of lifting them up, you will be known by your actions more than your words “talk is cheap”

Great things happen whenever we stop seeing ourselves as God’s gift to others, and  begin seeing others as God’s gift to us.” ~ James Vuocolo

We all need people to help sharpen our gifts, talents, strengths, and navigate through problem areas.

ACTION: Make two lists. Then start searching for people with expertise in these areas who have wisdom, available, will support you and committed to making a difference in you life. Do not be discouraged as you seek mentors, keep looking and you will find the ones worth following.

  1. List strengths or skills you want to improve to reach your potential.
  2. List specific problem areas where you feel the need for ongoing guidance.

Look UP & OUT,

Tracy Worley

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John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Modeling, Chap13.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
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Gerald Olivero, Denise Bane & Richard Kopelman, Public Personnel Management
Bureau of Justice statistics, June 2001.

Is Your Team Contributing to Grow Others?

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.

Contribution is leading self while contributing to the growth of others. When your team is contributing to grow others your organization is compounding interest for the sustainability and success of not only the organization but for your team and community.

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Ben Franklin asked himself every morning, “What good shall I do today?” and in the evening, “What good have I done today?”

Adding value and contributing to others is one of the greatest joy’s and rewards you and I will ever experience. When I reflect on contributing to others within any area of life my vision goes to the face of a child. My minds-eye picture is when they are learning something new, the joy when someone is showing them how to fail and achieve. The pay-off of contribution is being a part of their joy and excitement when the “aha” moment arrives in achievement. Learning with heart filled joy gives you the ability to learn quickly and love what you do and who you serve.

I challenge you to find your inner joy!To start lift others up and find the inner joy from so long ago on their face. Contribute to someone else as their joy and “aha” brings a contagious momentum in the desire to learn, grow, and keep on giving.

You have the ability to make a difference every day. “I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.” ~ Jimmy Carter

Intentional Contribution:

  • Be Grateful
  • Put People First
  • Don’t Let Stuff Own You
  • Don’t Let People Own You
  • Define Success by Giving, Not Receiving
  • Self-Development, Not Self-Fulfillment
  • Keep Growing, Keep GivingBookerTWashington

Successful people give of themselves first without asking anything in return. However, to continue giving you must grow into your potential by learning daily with the heart filled joy from your  youth. As my friend John Maxwell states, “If you’re not doing something with your life, it doesn’t matter how long it is!”

Start living my friends!

Look UP and OUT,

Tracy Worley

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John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Contribution, Chap15.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

 

Sow Your Potential Today to Harvest Future Success Tomorrow!

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.

There is no finish line! Have you heard the statement “If it ain’t broke, break it.” Expanding into future success requires breaking the model of who, what, when, and where you and your team are today!

The potential that exists within us is limitless and largely untapped, when you think of limits, you create them.” ~ Kriegel & Patler

To increase your capacity (potential) is to ensure you are investing in self, others; changing how you think and what you do. Tracy Worley Leadership HarvestExperts say people use only 10 percent of their true potential. If this is true you have 90% ratio of harvest than what you have today!

 You must be willing to be a pioneer, to enter uncharted territory, to face the sundown, to conquer your own doubts and fears. ~ John Maxwell

Here are some area’s to ask yourself to move forward in defining your priorities to stay on track and expand your potential to harvest what you sow today!

  • What Works: Start thinking into what is working, and delete what isn’t to make room for the 90%.
  • Can I vs. How Can I: Stop asking yourself and others permission, state your purpose and move forward. Overcome your odds by challenging yourself!
  • Opportunities: When you delete truths and processes no longer serving you not only will the door you have been staring at open but many doors of opportunity you did not see before open. Basically, you have created more options!
  • Change “Doing”: To obtain different results is to change what you are doing. If you keep doing what you have always done you will find the same results.  “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order to learn how to do it.” ~ Pablo Picasso
  • Expectation: Change the status quo in doing more than what is expected increases your contribution and in turn increases your harvest.
  • Daily Agenda: Protect your daily agenda to do what is important daily. Delegate or delete unimportant things to tape into 90%.

Sowing your potential today to harvest future success tomorrow is best stated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow where he compared his growth to an apple tree.

The purpose of the apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do. Not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined end always; But to live that each tomorrow finds us further than today. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where are you going to find yourself tomorrow? I hope you find yourself out of the starting blocks and exploding past the 10 percent finish line!

Look UP and OUT,

Tracy Worley

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John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Expansion , Chap14.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

 

Are You Curious Enough To Grow Your Business?

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.

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

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Curiosity is the desire to know with interest leading to intellectual curiosity. Be honest, we are all “that” kid who peeks! 

DO YOU ASK WHY? I have a confession, I am that person in the board room  who asks, WHY? I do not ask to hold up development but asking why creates discovery in other possibilities.

Have you noticed when people ask you why,  it forces you to dig deeper in intellectual reasoning and sometimes your WHY is not big enough.

Curiosity is a developed thirst for knowledge, interest in life, people, ideas, experiences, events, and living in a state of wanting to learn more.

The more you know compounds interest in knowledge, wisdom, and awareness to the next steps of success. 

The greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. ~ Peter Drucker

  • Be curious – ask questions
  • Have a beginners mindset
  • Make WHY your favorite boardroom word
  • Spend time with other WHY people
  • Learn something new daily
  • Embrace failure

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience (failure/wins) is.

  • Keep looking for the right answer
  • Get over yourself – do not care what other people “think” because they are asking the same question but not daredevil enough to
  • Jump out of your box (step into other peoples worlds)

There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something! ~ Thomas Edison

Schedule  in your daily calendar to ENJOY LIFE! Curiosity will increase your knowledge and business bottom line by believing in your vision, team, and WHY.

A great way to start to ask why, experience new success outside of yourself today is to do something  you have never done before. Ask different questions, take a gardening class, learn how to golf (or something you have always wanted to try).

Being outside of yourself and daily agenda brings healthy curiosity to grow your business. ~ Tracy Worley 

Look UP and OUT,

Tracy Worley

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John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Curiosity, Chap12.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

 

Are You Applying Tension To Where You Are Today And Where You Could Be Tomorrow

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.

Tension to success is not hearing, “not tonight dear I have a headache”. Tension to success is consistent applied pressure to your growth and stretching into something and someone bigger and better tomorrow.

My tension started in 2001 when I moved hundred of miles away from my hometown to take on a new job, city, friends, and to top it off the population was only several thousand. This move and new job was a huge stretch and paid off in learning and gleaning so much over-time. Eventually, I had to find new ways to stretch my growth. Truly, with  a small population to continue my growth I had to seek opportunity outside of the community. This meant online training, masterminding across the miles, and reading books from authors I admired and without knowing this stretching one of those author mentors would become a friend, mentor, and business partner; John C. Maxwell.

In 2011 when I had an opportunity to “jump” the opportunity to partner with John C. Maxwell opened and I was prepared to walk-through.

On stage with world leaders, co-collaborators, and John C. Maxwell.

On stage with world leaders, co-collaborators, and John C. Maxwell.

Tension is thinking of a rubber-band how you pull there is tension, release, and then do it over and over; after a time the rubber-band cannot go back to it’s original shape. This is what happens when you keep applied pressure/tension to your growth you are never the same again. By applying consistent pressure you will quickly and easily become the top in  your field. Why? Because few people want to be uncomfortable, learn, and stretch outside of their comfort zone.

Benefits Of Applying Tension:

  1. Few People Want to Stretch: 42% of college graduates never read a book after college, too many people are willing to sett for average.
  2. Settling for the Status Quo Ultimately Leads to Dissatisfaction: Familiar patterns are easy, take an inventory of where you are taking it easy and apply pressure.
  3. Stretching Always Starts from the Inside Out: our choices start our movement and movement creates significance. James Allen states, you cannot travel within and stand will without.”
  4. Stretching Requires Change: most people do not like change but to claim the reward of success you must be willing to do something different today to be and do different tomorrow.
  5. Stretching Sets You Apart from Others: ask yourself if “good enough is good enough”, if it is then no worries. If you are not satisfied then it is never to late to improve yourself. When you do excellence always shines through and when you get better so will  others.
  6. Stretching Becomes a Lifestyle: As I shared at the beginning I kept stretching and as I did other opportunities became available and I was ready for them. As a lifestyle stretching creates an energy of attraction where people do want what you are having.
  7. Stretching Gives You a Shot at Significance: you can continually add significance to self, others, community, and the world but it takes consistent applied tension to keep it.

Keep stretching to the end, I love Mahatma Ghandi’s statement, “the difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

I truly believe everyone can have a life of significance it just takes a bit of applied pressure to stretch into something more!

If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, when what do you need tomorrow for? ~ Rabbi Nachman

Apply tension to your Keep It Simple Silly Strategic plan and think about what significant action you could take if only you become what you could be. Dream  big, and set this as your lifetime goal! !  Not sure where to start , please feel free to contact me!

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Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Rubber Band, Chap10.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

 

 

Allow Temporary Discomfort to Clarity

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.

We have all heard “No Pain No Gain”, this is true in any area of growth up and out of current circumstances, success, and leading others.

The pain comes from the discomfort from being outside of your comfort zone. Some discomfort comes from planned growth and other discomfort comes from bad experiences. What sets you apart from others is learning from all experiences good or bad and applying the lessons learned. John McDonnell said, “every problem introduces a person to himself.”

A  problem to me is an opportunity for growth. I also state and have my team not say “we have a problem”, I have them change the world to challenge or opportunity. Every discomfort is a temporary lesson to clarity. Life has a way of giving you more than you think you can handle from loss of a spouse, child, parents, job, divorce, natural disasters, etc…at the end of each life changing scenario you come through the back end with more clarity, purpose, and strength.

Law of Pain Tracy Worley

Discomfort in hiking 4,000 vertical we found something of significance! The payoff of the view, wildflowers, and great satisfaction of accomplishment!

I’ve never known anyone who said, “I love problems,” but I’ve known many who have admitted that their greatest gains came in the middle of their pain. ~ John C. Maxwell

My personal life of discomfort has truly shown how attitude and looking for the lessons in clarity has created a life of significance and the gift of coaching others through my own experience of divorce, loss of children, loss of a job, hiking 14K+ mountains, sky-diving, and so on. . .these few examples from my stories give courage to character. Given strength, wisdom and knowledge to take into the corporate arena with a fierce understanding the discomfort is only temporary for the team to achieve something of significance! 

Attitude is the number one trait of achieving great clarity through the Law of Pain. Virginia Satir states, Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it is the way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Experience is the best teacher but the examination and taking lessons from each experience is key to the clarity of significance. Where there is no conversation of discomfort innovation becomes stagnant and the clear road ahead becomes foggy.

Look at current or past experiences to find creative clarity of moving forward:

  • Define the challenge or opportunity (a.k.a. problem)
  • What is the emotion involved and understand why (dig deep)
  • Articulate and outline the experience and lesson learned (like Thomas Edison stated, just one more way not to make the light bulb which took him 10,000 tries)
  • Now outline desired  change to move forward with clarity (brainstorm numerous pathways)
  • IMPLEMENT course of action from the temporary discomfort to a life of significant clarity

Discomfort, Pain, and Clarity is not something kept on your daily agenda, but I promise once you define them as outlined above the temporary discomfort will bring you to achieving something of significance! Not sure where to start , please feel free to contact me!

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Tracy Worley

 

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Pain, Chap8.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

 

 

 

Keep It Simple Silly For Extraordinary Results

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.

We have all heard the saying “Keep It Simple”, but usually with the word STUPID at the end. When changing one word our whole world changes!

When I find myself in complex projects, situations, or conversations I say to myself or even out loud to my team. . .  “Keep it simple silly to achieve extraordinary results”.  I am not calling myself “silly” but changing the thought process that where the team or myself is stuck is because we have made the design too complicated! Saying this statement to yourself or out loud gives a cathartic release of frustration, blood pressure, and most of the time a smile which changes the room instantly!

Keep It Simple Tracy Worley

Designing systems is essential in keeping accountability and forward momentum to success. Question, have you designed a growth plan to be more tomorrow than  you are today, are you predictable in  your results? As Michael Gerber states, systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.”

If you don’t design  your own life plan,chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” ~ John Rhohn

Planning  and designing your life is finding yourself (core values),  knowing who you are (gifts, talents, strengths), and then designing a simple growth plan to obtain extraordinary results in your life. Remember, your life is not  meant to be part of an assembly line you are uniquely made to contribute the “secret sauce” only  you can offer the world.

Here are a few areas to take into account when applying design to area’s of your life (career, family, health, faith, hobby, marriage, personal growth, etc..):

  • The Big Picture: Will the system help you reach your big-picture goals?
  • Priorities: Does thee system design fit within  your values and commitments?
  • Measurement: Does tour system have a tangible way of measuring results?
  • Application: Is there a built-in system in your design to propel forward motion/action?
  • Organization: Does the system design make better use of your time, resources, and achieving higher results?
  • Consistency: Can you and will you repeat the system design on a regular basis?

The top 10% of people in their industries apply designs for growth. Designing extraordinary result systems into your life should not be complicated, and the systems themselves should not be hard to apply. In fact they should be easily repeated and followed, if you are unable to easily repeat then it is time to go back and make a few adjustments.

Challenge: look at your calendar “to do” list for the week and next coming week:

  • Is there any activity that does not fit within the big picture goals? If yes, delete or delegate.
  • Is there growth goals getting bumped due to other peoples priorities? If yes, say no.
  • Time, organization helps you from not letting one of the most valuable resources be spent without your permission: Time!
  • People, are there people you are meeting for lunch or coffee that does not set a purpose to achieving the results you desire? If so, cancel or reschedule.

Lastly, be kind to yourself. Designing your life of significance and achieving extraordinary results will not happen over night but changing course can. If you find yourself falling into old-habits just state to yourself, “keep it simple silly” and move forward without asking for permission.

I believe in you!

Look UP & OUT,

Tracy Worley

Keeping it simple  is the start to creating the success you desire and creating a dynamic team of leaders who will succeed beyond your “business-plan” expectations. Not sure where to start on designing your plan, please feel free to contact me!

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Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

 

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Design, Chap7.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio