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As we begin a New Year – New You dialogue, we are examining what it means to have the right Culture for your team. Culture is a visualization of what we value as a team, so people can see what you personally value. There is no confusion – absolute clarity is achieved.There is a crucial question that must be asked; “Why do you want to be a leader?” There truly is only one answer – Add value to people! What? Did you really think it is about the perks and privileges? This New Year – New You dialogue is about re-examining the true essence of being a leader.

Most people do not lead their lives, they simply accept their lives and call it fate! Many people never come to terms with the correlation of personal action and results. To them there is always this mystical force that I cannot know or control that keeps me from being my optimal best.

It is time in this New Year – New You dialogue to stop accepting your life and start leading your life. Here are 4 insights to consider if you are serious about intentionally leading your life.

There is nothing in your life that is beautiful, lasting, and worthwhile that is easy.

• Our digital age has distorted reality. We believe that everything significant is instant.
• Relationships are one inch deep and one mile wide. Lasting relationships take more than Likes, Shares, and Tweets.
• Life is worthwhile when…
  • You Learn
  • You Try
  • You Stay – do not quit!
  • Care
• Digital Technology doesn’t replace the human element – HU

Achievements are not accidental.

• Many people have uphill dreams and downhill habits.
• You cannot coast uphill.
• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden

Willful Choices.

• Consistency compounds! No one ever rewarded consistency for one weeks effort.
• Stephen King, one of the great authors of our time was asked, How do you stay inspired to create? He responded by saying that creativity fortunately shows up for me every morning at 7:00am. Stephen King writes an average of 2,000 words per day. Willful choices!
• Consistency doing the right things over the course of life compounds into significant legacy’s.

Become the author of your life.

• Stop reading your life and start writing your life.
• Is your life a page-turner? A yawner? A cliched story you’re tired of repeating? Every life is a story. The story of your life doesn’t have to read like a bad novel, filled with guilt, anger, and hopelessness that limit your understanding of the past and close off possibilities for the future. Even ordinary lives have the elements of great literature, and we can revise trite or destructive story lines to craft a new narrative of courage, fulfillment, and imagination.(See the book, The Story of Your Life, by Mandy Aftel).

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Music: “Canal 3” by Quinicas Mooreira

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