Live Your Greatness Today! Insight 1

Disturbing, distressing and tragic events rock my world. The tragedies heighten my awareness that each and every breath is a priceless gift to be treasured and enjoyed, to live from my genius and greatness today, and to not postpone happiness, love or doing good in this world.

These 2X4 reality checks trigger reflections about daring to be greater in a world where it becomes increasingly apparent that tomorrow is not guaranteed. The insights I have learned and sharing in the next several blogs are posted to do good in your world today and every day.

Insight 1:

Life is too short not to enjoy each and every moment. Learn to take yourself and life sincerely, not seriously.

In what ways could you lighten up to enjoy this glorious moment?

Smile more!

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Good Exercise

Let’s make the complex simple today.

What do you want?

What do you have?

What actions could you take today to close the gap?

 

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Team Question for Success

This is a great exercise for newly established teams or for those groups that have gone off-track.

Call the team together.

1. Ask each team member to articulate what they need from each person in that room or as a collective group to be successful. Write the answers down on a flipchart.

2. Have a dialogue regarding the answers collectively.

3. Do a new flipchart with key behaviors and actions.

4. Ask for agreement to model these behaviors. Once you achieve agreement, have every person sign-it.

5. Post the flipchart. Revisit the flipchart as needed. 

If the dynamics are really strained, do this exercise with the following modification to step one. Ask the individuals to write on a post-it note what he or she needs from the group to be successful. Then have them put on the wall, grouping their response with others that are like theirs. Then facilitate steps 2 to 4. If things have really gone south, consider getting a neutral outside party to facilitate.

From my experience, a leader is only as good as his or her collective team  

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