Inspiration
We may want to blame our results in life on our circumstances or other people. The truth is that our results are OUR RESULTS! We OWN them because what we believe determines our actions and our action or inaction generates our outcome or results! Adopting an ownership mentality for our results will compel us to see more clearly. When we see clearly we see what can be done to change our outcome!
Here are 5 keys to an ownership mentality!
Initiative is the first key. Stop waiting for someone to tell you what to do and when to do it! My awesome friend and colleague Mark LeBlanc, who just so happens to be the most amazing business coach and author of Growing Your Business; says to have a plan or strategy for what you will do today and the next 30 days! Create a set of actions or what he refers to as benchmarks that you can measure on a monthly basis. Keep your focus on those benchmarks! I have a reminder that pops up every work day to remind me to plant 3 seeds to move my business forward!
Passion is the second key. It is important to have passion for your plan or strategy or you will not sustain it! It must be something that you enjoy and gives you what I refer to as Go-Juice! Coaching, speaking and writing all energize and refuel my passion which allows me to energize my clients, audiences and readers. Think about what energizes or refuels you and go fill up!
Align is the third key. What I mean by align is that your plan or strategy supports your core values. Your plan and your core values need to work together to help you achieve a common goal. It is also extremely important that your team members' core values align with your practice or company. If not you will experience constant struggle and stress trying to get them on board.
Innovation is the fourth key. Stop trying to do everything how you have always done them in the past. There is more than one right way! Be creative in your thinking and open to new ways. We get so locked into how something needs to be done that sometimes we can't see the forest from the trees. Prior to YouTube video links I would snail mail my videos on DVDs to meeting planners for their review. I think back to when a meeting planner had requested a demo video of a presentation. I worked diligently for over 5 hours trying to copy it from my computer and change it's existing file type to one that could be put on a DVD to mail. I was frustrated and exhausted and finally went bed. It was the best decision I made that entire night! The next morning I woke up refreshed and more creative. I asked myself the most important question; who said it had to be done this way...who said it had to be on a DVD...all I really needed to do was to get the video to the meeting planner. Two minutes later...wallah...my video was on a thumb drive and in the mail.
Optimism is the fifth and final key we are going to talk about in this month's news letter. We have to hope and expect the best. We have to have confidence that if we continue to strive towards our goal things will continually get better and better. Optimism gives us resilience to overcome the obstacles that might otherwise stop us. I start my day by asking myself; What wonderful things can I help make happen today! And yes, I say it out loud to make it real! It's amazing how when we really put it out there we become clear on the actions to make it happen!
What wonderful things can you help make happen today!
An Ownership Mentality will get you the results you want to Own!
