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!

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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 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.

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

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2015

Failure is a Highly Valued Commodity

Tracy Worley

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

Gratitude is the grounding wire for success and your core values. Too often I work with clients where employee engagement and culture in the tank (toilet tank that is). Usually, the number one reason is non-gratitude of wins, failures, which create a culture of entitlement.

One of my favorite books I picked up in 2006 written by John C. Maxwell, The Difference Maker. I have notes, marker, post-its, and dog-eared pages in this book. Last year at one of our yearly meetings I brought this old tattered book and asked John to sign it. This is truly one of my treasured lesson books for my personal and professional life stance.

Attitude is gratitude, embracing failure and wins on equal measure, and having the awareness to truly make a difference in everything you do! “Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never succeed. It just means it will take longer.” ~ John C. Maxwell

In conversation with corporate recruiters one of the top questions they are asking candidates; “Is there a project you worked on that was a total fail? If so, what did you learn.”

You see failure costs but only if you did not learn from it! Fortune 100-500 companies want to hire “learned failure” because the company you are coming from already paid the price. You are now a highly valued commodity if you show what your learned, how you applied new principles, built the strength to last, tenacity to keep moving forward, you gained the experience and wisdom to lead through imperfection without entitlement.

As leaders and everyone is a leader of one (self) find time in your agenda to write down what you are grateful for. Even if it is as simple as the glorious Grande Skinny Cinnamon Dolce from your favorite barista, find at least one thing to be grateful for. This compounds interest toward future success because you are not filtering awareness in entitlement but in the gratitude of imperfection and creating valuable momentum toward success.

Entitlement is the root cause of low employee engagement and creates cultures of non-performance and no accountability toward success. Modeling the behavior of gratitude and taking imperfection lessons into wins is what brings your organization from average to the top!

Here are a few areas to find and show gratitude:

Apologize to your children, spouse, coworkers, customers, and generally other people you may have failed.
Seek understanding of the situation and people to learn the truth.
Be aware of being defensive and take note is this worth keeping.
Serve your people, under, over, and near. Serving others without asking for anything in return will pay success forward at a faster pace!
Nothing is beneath you, if you find a task or position “beneath” you. Go spend a few hours or day doing this task as this will bring appreciation and empathy. You will lead better from the experience than the entitlement seat.
Seat of entitlement, you cannot lead from here. If you do this for long you will be over thrown, and perhaps not in a violent way but you will be overthrown with low employee engagement and morale.
Imperfection and failure should be modeled as a learning experience. Remember it took Thomas Edison 10, 000 tries to get the light-bulb right. “I just learned one more way of not how to make the light-bulb.” ~ Thomas Edison

Challenge: Take a few notes of areas you are “entitled” and where can you take this to embrace, learn, and serve your people this week!

Look UP & OUT,

Tracy Worley

Failure is a Highly Valued Commodity

RESOURCES

Tracy A. Worley (2015)
John C. Maxwell (2006) The Difference Maker
Dr. Henry Cloud (2004) 9 Things You Simply Must Do

Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2015

How Do You Skip Rocks?

Tracy Worley

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

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.

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.

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

Look UP & OUT,

Tracy Worley

Want to learn more? Click Below:

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Modeling, Chap13.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
mowbraybydesign.com/2011/02/12/coaching-roi
Gerald Olivero, Denise Bane & Richard Kopelman, Public Personnel Management
Bureau of Justice statistics, June 2001.

Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2015

Sow Your Potential Today to Harvest Future Success Tomorrow!

Tracy Worley

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

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. Experts 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

Want to learn more? Click Below:

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

Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2015

You Don’t Always Get What You Want, You Always Get What You Choose

Tracy Worley

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

Success is a succession of trade offs, you have to give up to go up. The most successful people apply this concept by reviewing their activity often – what they can delegate, what no longer serves a purpose, and the hardest part of this rule is who to give up people to go up. I am not stating to dump your colleagues, family, and friends but to evaluate trading to sustain a higher level of success as you move up. Moving up is all about your potential and what potential means to the quality and quantity of your life.

Think about when you were a toddler riding a tricycle it is easy because there is safety of balance. The next step is a two-wheeler with safety wheels and at some point you decide it is time to trade-up and choose to feel the independence and speed of two wheels. The excitement, fear, and doubt were intoxicating – you knew you would fall but the choice to get what you want over-powers fear and doubt to your success of two wheels.

Your life is all about trade-offs and choice. I love this statement, the hardest part about stealing second base is taking your foot off of first base. I dare you take a stand and give up to go up to be the best you can be every day. No one embraces change or wakes up every morning and states “what can I change today.” I guarantee when you give up – opportunities you did not see before will appear! Eric Hoffer states, “People will cling to an unsatisfactory way of life rather than change in order to get something better for fear of getting something worse.”

Steps and Benefits to Choosing Trade-Offs:

Trade-Offs Are Opportunities
- What are the pros-cons | Will you go through this change, or grow through this change
Next Level To Your Potential
- What are you willing to give up to go up? What or who will you have to give up?
- Note: not willing to give up something is a key reason most people do not reach their potential
Trade-Offs Force You to make Personal Changes
- When you want something you have never had, you have to do something you have never done before.
- Change is always possible
  - Change is Personal: to change your life, you need to change
  - Change is Possible: You will be rewarded when you change
Loss of Trading Is usually Felt Before Opportunity
- This is the main reason people fear change, it might hurt a bit (Go back to your two-wheeler)
- Transition between change and the fruit of the change is a powerful time of renewed self

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. ~ Henry Kissinger

Trade-Offs Can Be Made At Any Time
- Better health, habits, education, etc. . . – It is rarely “too late” to make a change
A Few Trade-Offs Come Only Once
- Go back to pro-cons, timing etc. . .
The Higher Your Success (Climb), The Tougher The Trade-Offs
- Many people stop growing because they have reached a height for which they are no longer willing to work to get higher
- The skills you have today are not the skills to get you to the next level
- Consider your potential – what will it feel like to trade-off to get to your next level of success?
Trade-Offs Never Leave Us The Same
- Fear of change is you will be different on the other side – yes, you will. Is where you are today where you want to remain tomorrow?
Trade-Offs Not Worth the Price
- Trade-offs that will damage, harm or even ruin an entire life
- Delayed gratification through the above analysis ensures damage is avoided
- Value question for all of us. . . is it worth the price?

The only job security we have is our individual commitment to personal development. ~ Kevin Turner

Trade-Offs Worth Making
- Financial security for potential tomorrow
- Giving up immediate gratification for personal growth
- Willing to give up the fast life for the good life
  - Delegate to others | Do what you do best and drop the rest
  - Control your calendar or someone else will
  - Do what you love because it will give you energy | Work and play with people you like so your energy is not depleted
- Give up some security for significance
  - You will not achieve your potential while remaining in a safe place (get off your tricycle)
  - Significance means taking chances on others too by helping them find their potential
- Be willing to give up addition for multiplication
  - Lead others who will lead
  - Seek collaboration partners for just about everything | Share, not hoard, resources and knowledge with others
  - Share credit for achievement | Be a conduit for blessings, not a reservoir of assets – the more we give the more we receive

I challenge you to reflect on the above and ask yourself: Am I on a tricycle of safety or am I continually giving up to go up feeling the freedom of a two wheeler!

Start with one area you have identified to trade-off and once you have done the first one the rest of the area’s will be easier to keep steady and balanced toward the success you desire and deserve!

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Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Trade-Offs, Chap11.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2015

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

Tracy Worley

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

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.

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:

Few People Want to Stretch: 42% of college graduates never read a book after college, too many people are willing to sett for average.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2015

Evaluated Character Is Essential To Your Leadership Success

Tracy Worley

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

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:

Focus on being better on the inside than on thee outside – character matters
Follow the golden rule – people matter
Teach what you believe – passion matters (borrowed beliefs leave you powerless and passionless)
Value humility above all virtues – perspective matters
1. Big Picture
2. Be Teachable
3. Serve Others
4. Be Grateful
Finish Well – faithfulness matters

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

Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2015

Allow Temporary Discomfort to Clarity

Tracy Worley

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

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.

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

Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Keep It Simple Silly For Extraordinary Results

Tracy Worley

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

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!

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