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The Four Cs of Change

7/25/2012

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As I am going through a change in my own life (selling my home and moving) it reminds me of the 4 Cs of change that I use with my clients when they are going through a change:

  1. Create a compelling vision - I know I had wanted to move for a while. My place was getting older and I wanted to be in the city where I could be closer to friends and clients. But it wasn’t until I realized that I had to change in order to reach the goals that I truly wanted - to be closer to community that I made the decision to finally move. I now had a compelling reason to move.
  2. Chart a course of action - once I knew I wanted to move I had to determine exactly where I wanted to go, find a place, and then take the necessary steps to sell my current house. I had to take action in order to make my dreams come true.
  3. Challenge the ups and downs that arise - as with any change resistance will arise. For me the house took longer than I expected to sell and there were many challenges in the process of selling it that arose, but I had to keep focusing on the reason I was doing this - to reach my goals and dreams - in order to push through the resistance.
  4. Celebrate - once you move through the resistance and get to the other side than you can celebrate. Celebration is a big part of acknowledging the action you have taken and recognizing the accomplishment of everything you have gone through. I celebrated with friends and family who encouraged me along the way.

What change are you going through? What step in the process are you in and what can you do to keep moving through the change process?
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Leadership Tips from Marathon Training

7/18/2012

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As I train for my first marathon (the 2012 Marine Corps Marathon) I realize that there are so many things to learn from the training that apply to leadership. Here are my top 5 picks:

  • Think big - I only started running 3 years ago. Before that I would work out and eat healthily, but I hated running and would look at coworkers and friends who ran as crazy. Somehow, however, I began running and then signing up for races and then signing up for the marathon! I thought bigger than I ever imagined possible and am now training to run 26 miles!.
  • Surround yourself with people who can support you - once I started running I realized that after running about 6-7 miles I got really bored. I needed the support of other runners who could push me when I was tired or unmotivated and vice versa. I joined a road runners group and got a trainer  made up of people who had already run a marathon before to help me chart the path to my goal.
  • Persevere through the ups and downs - marathon training has good days and bad days. Some training runs I feel great and some I don’t. It is staying committed to my goal, just like any leader would need to do, in order to keep going through the ups and downs of training and not quit.
  • Work hard as there are no short cuts - marathon training takes discipline to ensure that you put in the necessary mileage each week to be fully trained. It also takes commitment to doing speed work and tempo work as well as the long runs to be really ready for the big day. Skipping out on runs or not doing the speed work won’t get you there and I don’t want to be ill trained on the day of the race.
  • Stay mentally strong - as everyone tells me the marathon is more of a mental than physical exercise after a certain point (as is any leadership challenge). It is being able to shift out of the negative state of mind of self-doubt or uncertainty and stay focused on the end-goal to keep me moving to the finish line.

So what leadership trait out of the ones above can you put into practice to make you a stronger leader? How can you push the envelope to reach the goals you have in mind?
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“The Big Leap” Review 4

7/11/2012

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In the last section of the book Gay Hendricks talks about two major topics time and relationships.

Time
For time he says that we need to shift from a Newtonian view of time (that there is a scarcity of time or that either you will have not enough of it or too much of it) to an Einsteinian model of time - one of taking ownership of time as something inside of you. You are the source of it and can make as much of it as you want. 

Huh? You might be saying? I too was having a hard time understanding this concept, but the essence is we can relax into time instead of constantly fighting against it. The more you relax and be (e.g. - especially during the times when you can’t control time) the more productive you are in the times you can actually be doing something.

Relationships
The second topic he discusses is relationships. He says that  many people who are successful are in unsatisfying relationships often because of the Upper Limit Problem. He says as you bring two successful people together it can be magnified so he says becoming more aware of the tendencies each person has to self-sabotage, also being open to communication, allowing for some space to integrate the relationship with some alone time, and allowing for the full lifecycle of emotions can help in pushing through the Upper Limit Problem.

All of this is to say that relationships can be successful and satisfying as long as there is awareness, communication, and understanding of this Upper Limit Problem.

So as you can see the Upper Limit Problem can impact so many parts of our lives. With a lot of awareness and insights from this book we can make different choices than having these limits continue to run our lives and/or our work situations. We can transcend these limits and move into greater and greater levels of success and happiness.

What is getting in your way of success in creativity, money, or love? What can you do to transcend those Upper Limits in your life and/or in your business today?
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“The Big Leap” Review 3

7/4/2012

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Guy Hendricks, the author of “The Big Leap” says that we always have to be on the lookout for the Upper Limit Problem because we are always raising the bar on ourselves. Once we know we are at our upper limit we can ask ourselves these questions in order to continue to raise the bar into the Zone of Genius:
  • What do I most love to do?
  • What work do I do that doesn’t seem like work?
  • In my work, what produces the highest ratio of abundance and satisfaction to the amount of time spent?
  • What is my unique ability?

When you answer all of those questions you can then get clearer on what it is about you that is unique and what would put you in your Zone of Genius. 

For me it is listening and intuitively knowing the pain that people are feeling in order to then help them to shift out of it. What is yours?

The author also speaks about the ways to live in your zone of genius:
  • Having a mantra and practicing meditation - to shift your consciousness to the new way of thinking
  • The Enlightened No - saying no to the things that are not in your Zone of Genius
  • Renewing and refining your commitment to the Zone of Genius - when you hit a wobbly spot recommit to staying in the Zone of Genius.

So what can you practice out of the three things described above to live in your Zone of Genius? I know for me the most important one is saying No to things that do not fit in my ultimate purpose. It is a commitment we all have to keep making over and over again. What are you going to commit to?
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    Monica Thakrar has over 18 years experience in business focused mainly on strategy, change management, leadership development, training and coaching resulting in successful implementations of large scale transformation programs.  

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