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Stop Sacrificing Yourself on the Altar of Work
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Success + Balance
Are you geared up for success and balance in 2010? If not now, when?
It begins with a conscious choice and only takes a moment to DECIDE. Start by asking yourself: What do I want to feel in my experiences of balance and success? Calmness? Joy? Freedom? Peace of Mind? Love?
Choose one! Make sure your choice is deeply meaningful to you. Use this 1-Minute Life Balance & Success Practice to embody your choice.
Declare your decision at the start of your day with these words: "I choose to experience ___________ in my work and life today." Then notice how your 'feeling of choice' shows up in small, medium or big ways for you to experience and enjoy it.
Soul of Money Institute Founder, Lynn Twist, tells us: "What we appreciate, appreciates." So stop sacrificing yourself on the altar of work. instead, make yourself a real precious priority. Boldly decide to experience the feelings you want balance and success to give you. Your decision empowers you to recognize and receive balance and success - your way.
Success is Easier with Balance
Clients tell me that the more balanced they feel, the more success they experience. They feel more energized, calmer, and clearer about their professional and personal priorities. This inspires them to consistently take action that leads to the right results in business, leadership and life.
Let me know how this balance & success practice works for you. Leave your comments below.
Sylvia Warren
in Balance & Success, Better Decisions, Client Wisdom, Leadership, Lynn Twist, Make Yourself a Real Priority, Powerful Decision, Soul of Money, Stop Sacrificing Yourself, What's Possible, Work/Life Balance, conscious choice, right results
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Work Smarter
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Yes, it's possible. This Fast Company video shows you a quick easy way to start - right now. Let me know how this simple success practice works for you.
Sylvia Warren
in Better Decisions, Conquer Email, Fast Company, Gina Trapani, Upgrade Your Life, What's Possible, Work Smarter, Your Business Best, Your Professional Best, simple success practices
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Leaders: Dare to Ask for Help
Who Supports Your Success?
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Do you need better results for 2010? Then ask for help. You know you need it. So go ahead and ask for it.
Ouch, did I just say “ask for help?” I know you probably hate that advice. But here it is again: Get Help! Do it now!
If you are contemplating making resolutions this year, then simply humble yourself and ask for help in getting those resolutions done. And don’t be afraid to ask someone for what you may need. There is rarely ever a mistake in reaching out to others to make your new year a better one. You don’t need to do everything alone; even if you think you can. You may think you have all the tools and great ideas at your disposal; but you still need others to help you.
Success does not depend upon the brilliance of your plan but upon the consistency of your actions.
Step five of six in my personal strategic planning workshop is engage and deputize all involved. There is no shame in reaching out. You are asking for a hand up not a handout. Think about it and ask yourself: who could help you jump start your business and accomplish your goals in 2010?
Ask For Help
Build motivators into your everyday life. One of the best methods is to ask someone to support you. I know of a real estate salesperson who promised to take his family camping every time he made a sale. His children became enthusiastic supporters of his success at work.
- Employer
- Employees
- Coaches
- Clients
- Family & Friends
- Movers & Shakers
The best way you can predict your future is to create it. ~ Stephen Covey
Can’t think of anything to ask for help with? I have some ideas:
- Ask your current clients for referrals
- Ask your family to celebrate your success with you
- Ask someone you admire to mentor you for six months; it may turn into a year
- Ask someone to help you see different realities and fuel your imagination
- Ask someone in the job you aspire to for their support and perspective
- Ask someone doing your job at larger scope or maturity, or in a different industry…
Tell them how much you respect and admire them and you would like to learn from them. Then do the things they tell you to do and report back. They will feel empowered that you are empowering them. We all love to help others. Always thank them. Give value to them so they are glad they gave of their time and knowledge to you.
You should have a goal of adding at least one real mentor to your life every year, and learning things from one really smart person once a month.
Encourage getting outside the comfort zone; jump start your year. Ask for help, share yourself and be committed to the process. Being steadfast in your intentions can reap great results.
“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” ~James Bryant Conant
So what are those favors on which you’ve been waiting to cash-in? Who has been on your “chicken list” that you have wanted to connect with but have not had the courage to pick up the phone? How might you summons that courage to ask for help? How can you jump start your year with a little help from someone near, or far? I would love to hear about all it! I look forward to sharing the best practices when people ask me for help!!
Sylvia Warren
in Best Practices, Better Decisions, Celebrate Success, Dare to Ask for Help, Effective Leaders, Kristi Royse, Leadership, Leverage Your Leadership, Stephen Covey, What's Possible, Your Business Best, Your Professional Best, better results, inspire
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Courage to Soar
Celebrate What's Right with the World
There is always another right way. That is the gift of exploring and discovering 'what's possible.' With a vision of possibilities as an ally, our perspectives transform challenges into opportunities and the ordinary into the extraordinary.
DeWitt Jones shows us that what we believe is what we experience. In this video we see how celebrating what's right with the world balances the success we seek with the significance we want to share.
This balance gives us energy. It supports us in making what we do the BEST we can make it to help the world be a much better place. Inspired, we learn to soar - as entrepreneurs, executives and leaders - on the winds of change with courage and confidence.
Sylvia Warren
in Balance and Energy, Better Decisions, Celebrate What's Right with the World, Courage and Confidence, DeWitt Jones, Effortless Results, Facing Uncertainty with Confidence, Leverage Your Leadership, Perspectives that Transform, Success with Significance, Travel Insights, Vision of Possibilities, What's Possible
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2010 - Your Year to Thrive!
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Living the Life Your Soul Intends
In an ancient wisdom tradition when an African woman knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends. Together, they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They know every soul has its own song - a vibration that expresses its unique flavor and purpose.
When the women attune to the song of the child, they sing it out loud. Then they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else.
When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child's song to him or her. Later, when the child enters education, the village gathers and chants the child's song. When the child passes through initiation to adulthood, the people again come together and sing. At the time of marriage, the person hears his or her song.
Finally, when the soul is about to pass from this world, the family and friends gather at the person's bed. Just as they did at his or her birth, they sing the person to the next life.
To this African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. if at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or engages in aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village. The people in the community form a circle around the person. Then they sing the song of that person's soul to him or her.
The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you hear your soul's song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.
Photo by Fran Kelley
A friend is some who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself.
They remember...
- Your beauty when you feel ugly.
- Your wholeness when you are broken.
- Your innocence when you feel guilty.
- Your purpose when you are confused.
You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, yet life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn't. In the end, we shall all recognize our soul's song and sing it well.
You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have the great singers. Just keep singing and you'll hear the beauty in your soul's song. ~Author Unknown
Sing your soul's song. Let it help you THRIVE in 2010!
Sylvia Warren
in 2010, African Tradition, Better Decisions, Client Wisdom, Life Your Soul Intends, Make Yourself a Real Priority, Singing Your Soul's Song, Thrive in Business, Travel Insights, What's Possible, Your Year to Thrive, ancient wisdom, balance
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