Who or what do you use as an accountability track to keep you in the main lane of success?
SHARE: share your tips and tricks on accountability practices, partnerships, and the like.
Tip: look at your calendar, take inventory of people, places, and things not lending to your lane of success. Then adapt, adopt, and delete people, places, and things that create momentum and synergies to your goals.
Evaluated character is your personal core of beliefs and at this core how you personally model and receive the Golden Rule; treat others they way you want to be treated.
My husband and I are not blessed to have children but we certainly love hanging out with our nieces, nephews, and all or friends little ones. Who better to model your words/actions “The Golden Rule” than the little ones around you. They will certainly “parrot” all of the phrases and actions that perhaps you only want to be seen and said behind closed doors. You know what I am talking about and either you are giggling right now or shaking your head in remembrance of an incident at the grocery story or your little saying a four letter word or catching them having a one-on-one in-depth conversation with your pastor of a story about mommy or daddy.
My mother talks about a story when I was a toddler riding around in the grocery cart. My mom dropped a can of soup and out of my sweet little face came “oh, S_ _ T. My mother was horrified as the lady in the aisle said, ” at least she said it in context of the situation.” Oh MY! This was an opportunity for my mom to evaluate character and lead to a higher success in our home. I know this is a simplistic story but applied to your daily interaction with your team, where should you be evaluating character to lead to success?
Character of what you say and do in humble honesty opens opportunities for you in the future. It is The Law of the Ladder, Character Growth Determines the Height of Your Personal Growth. Character is something you are today, and you have the ability to change your circumstances by achieving something inside yourself. When circumstances change within, circumstances change outside as well.
The values of character have been studied and in most nations the number one character value admired in leaders is honesty. Norman Scharzkopf states, Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character. Character growth is the Law of the Ladder, the higher your character the higher your growth and people willing to follow you.
Ask yourself and your team to dig deep to evaluate character and lead to greater growth:
Taking evaluated experience into your character will explode your growth in opportunities you did not see before and or perhaps opportunities others did not trust you with before. This means keeping your core beliefs and integrity when it is the right thing for the right reason even when others disagree or looking to take short cuts. Short cuts always lead to more work at the end because the solid foundation has not been built for significant success to stand on.
Habit is the daily battleground of character. ~ Dan Coats
Climb the ladder of significance with the comfort of evaluated character. I guarantee a difference in the opportunities given to you and the strength of your team will explode! 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 Ladder, Chap9. Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
Powerful statement, Are you creating the future you want?
Whether your are a Home Engineer, Entrepreneur, or work within someone else’s corporate structure I DARE YOU TO ASK YOURSELF, “Am I creating the future I want?”
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in.” ~ Mark Caine
Creating the future you want is not a narcissistic question so allow yourself to release any “selfish” notion with the question. Creating the future you want is growing your potential in the right environment. Your environment is made up of your daily agenda, people, places, and things.
Whether you are a success or failure in life has little to do with your circumstances; it has much more to do with your choices.” ~ Nido Qubein
holding you back? These people determine as much as 95% of your success or failure in life. This is one of the hardest because you need to sacrifice time spent with people you know and love. However, you do not have to “dump” them just spend less time and create a reference group who will challenge you to be more tomorrow than you are today! My personal best is when I spend time with my mastermind group, they model all of the 8 areas referenced in the YOURSELF category and I am my best when others around me are growing!You cannot take this journey alone, not if you want to reach your potential. The most significant factor in any person’s environment is the people. If you change nothing else in your life for the better than that, you will have increased your changes of success tenfold. So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for where ever they are headed, so are you. ~ John Maxwell
Self leadership is the start to creating the success you desire and creating a dynamic team of leaders who will succeed beyond your “business-plan” expectations. I am sure this peaked your interest . . . “succeed beyond business-plan?” Yes, and if you want to find out more please feel free to contact me because what keeps your team alive is you!
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Look UP & OUT!
Tracy Worley
John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, Chap6. Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
I am instituting this is NATIONAL THINKING PARTNER DAY!
I want to celebrate by asking you. . . ARE YOU THINKING INTO YOUR SUCCESS?
The main benefit to thinking into your success is you create a proactive life vs. a reactive life. Yes, when we spend time everyday thinking about our success it creates the synergy of laying the track before you arrive at the destination of desired success. The other main benefit is creating life-long friendships when you bring THINKING PARTNERS into your life. Thinking partner’s keep you in focus of your WHY and ask you the tough questions to keep you in focus.
Today as I look at my calendar and also few unscheduled calls are people who are strategic thinking partners toward the success of my personal and professional life. They all invest in my WHY and allow me to invest in their WHY! Here are a few ways to identify and or “hire” your Thinking Partners!
Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth. Napoleon Hill
Thank you ladies for bringing STRATEGY AND THINKING into my life!
UPDATE: I tapped into one of my Mentorship calls with Paul Martinelli this morning and the subject of thinking partners and who is in your life was the subject matter. What you think, believe, and create a harmony with is what will pour into your life! I had a question and contract I am working on; I asked Paul one question and in the awareness he brought up a simple state I would not have immediately seen because I was aware of one ‘track’ and not laying forward the other pieces.
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The DONKEY leadership principle. Donkeys have the heart and courage to haul large loads and navigate narrow pathways overlooking 10,000+ foot cliff faces. The amazing fact is they navigate the trail without a lead. Just set the Donkey’s on the trail and they will navigate without micro-management.
I am blessed to live in the rugged Rocky Mountains and a lot of our back-country horse friends have swapped out their elegant steed for a Mule or Donkey as they are more steady, less spooked by change, loud noises, and whether the tough terrain without a lot of fuss.
This is great opportunity to look at your team. As Jim Rohn states eloquently, “You are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with.” Your team spends a lot of time with you and each-other.
I use the word DONKEY as an acronym for leaders to do a quick check of where they are in the spectrum of team awareness:
If you have answered no to any of the above DONKEY questions this is a great opportunity to reflect, respond, and re-evaluate your process to let your team step up to the rock-face with confidence!
IS YOUR TEAM TAKING RISK ON THE CLIFF?
Look UP and OUT!
Tracy Worley
FOCUS ~ CLARITY ~ DISTRACTION
Yes, I asked the question and Poop is the word!
When working with my Executive clients I have found a common denominator when they are not on track, loss of focus, clarity is cloudy, and distracted from their main goals and purpose.
The common denominator: They are busy playing in someone else’s sand box!
What does this mean? When you are at a high level of success innovation and creativity is imperative to moving your organization and team forward. The tendency at this level is to look, play, and model what other people are doing; play in their sand box.
When playing in someone else’s sand box I can guarantee you will be the one to dig up all of their Poo-Poo that has been buried. Your organization has a unique culture, purpose, passion, mission, and vision all your own for a reason. So stay in your sand box, invite others to play in yours to build, innovate, and create sustainable organizational mission, vision, purpose, and passion. Caution, be selective of who you invite in so they do not leave a smelly deposit behind and your team has to spend time cleaning it up.
A Few Sand Box Tips:
NOTE: These conversations with just your team or inviting individuals from the outside give you an ROI of better processes, boost of energy to your team, and often an outline of best practices implemented to a level of achievement you did not see before.
Are you in your sand box today? Is there someone in your sand box that needs to be scooped out?
More on….the sand-box next time!
Look UP and OUT!
Tracy Worley