LEADERSHIP IS INFLUENCE: THE ABILITY TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE IN OTHERS
How can we deliberately harness our ability to bring change into our lives? The secret is to start doing things differently, and we teach you 10 steps to do it:
1.
DECIDE
IT ALL STARTS WITH A DECISION
A chain of events flows from the decision, bringing all kinds of unexpected incidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed of; but for every decision made, a force will also appear to oppose our decision. Never forget that our persistence will always break that resistance.
DECIDE TO CHANGE!
2.
FORGIVE
FORGIVING moves us away from the past
and we need to let it go before we can focus on the future. Our destiny is the sum of small actions in our present, but if we live looking at the past we will never be able to reach for the future: others may stop us temporarily, but only we can stop ourselves permanently
LET GO OF THE PAST! FORGIVE
3.
GET ANGRY
STOP BEING COMPLACENT: get angry about the current situation. If the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing, then it is time to do it. Don’t make excuses; face what is failing in your life and change it. Honesty creates the freedom to act. The Japanese say we are slaves to a lie when we do not face it with the truth: stop being complacent, accept the truth and change.
4.
VISUALIZE
VISUALIZE where you want to be and where you want to go; you can reach as far as you decide. Raise your standards and invest in yourself. Time alone is essential for personal improvement. It lets you look at your failures and successes so you can learn from them. It gives you the time and space to sharpen your personal and organizational vision, and it enables you to plan how to improve in the future. To keep improving continually, set aside some time to step back and «slow down».
5.
BELIEVE
QUESTION YOUR BELIEFS: it is not the truth that makes us act, it is what you believe to be true. Your beliefs will either limit you or help you reach further. A commitment to change something you believe in is a commitment that will be easier to achieve; spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular ones, and believing in yourself is the first unspectacular achievement that will move you forward. BELIEVE!. .
6.
EVALUATE
You have to give yourself permission to succeed. Evaluate all your results and adjust whatever is needed to move forward. Review your strategy. Break out of your usual way of thinking. Strategy is a way of organizing your resources to produce results CONSTANTLY. Producing results is not enough; we must produce them all the time, and to do so we must know how to produce them: we need a strategy. Break some rules, EVALUATE and change.
7.
PLAN
Dreams with planning become goals and objectives, and goals with decision become reality. You have to know how you will do it, how you will change: PLAN. A plan keeps us from wasting our time and resources; with a plan we can steer toward a clear goal. When we plan, we can see what others don’t and prepare when others don’t.
8.
FOCUS
Define your goals for change. There is power in clarity, because it focuses you, and being focused lets us notice details that can’t be seen at first glance. When we lose focus on our goals, we get distracted by what is around us, and the problems we see are simply distractions from having lost our primary goal: our FOCUS.
9.
JOIN THE RIGHT GROUP
Birds of a feather always flock together: surround yourself with the right people. No relationship is neutral; we will find people who add to our lives or subtract from them, people who multiply our lives or simply divide them. For things to change, YOU MUST CHANGE, and sometimes the first thing to change is the people who don’t believe in us. If your friends don’t believe in you, then change your friends.
10.
CONNECT
CONNECT WITH MENTORS. There are always two ways to learn: the first is by constantly making mistakes and learning from them, and the second is by connecting with someone who has already made them — these are our mentors. A mentor is a shortcut to success. Ignorance costs money and mistakes will cost us; connect with mentors and absorb everything you can from them, and your life will change in less time than you thought.
After everything we have shared, we can reach the following conclusion:
Do you want to succeed in life?
We certainly can, because both SUCCESS and FAILURE come from the habits we have… you are the sum total of your habits. Remember, everything starts with a single word: the word you believe is the one that will determine your success.
Sow a word and you will reap a thought
Sow a thought and you will reap a belief
Sow a belief and you will reap an action
Sow an action and you will reap a habit
Sow habits and you will reap a character
THE TRUE MIRACLE IS TRANSFORMING THE HUMAN MIND.
