Yesterday morning I attended a seminar with the Engagement Expert Niklas Delmar. (check out more about Niklas here) This is what I've learned: According to Gallup (in Sweden): * 16 % are engaged at work * 73 % are disengaged at work * 11 % are actively disengaged at work Documentary to watch: The Swedish … Continue reading Talk with Engagement Expert Niklas Delmar
Category: Mind
Overview of the Immediate Success Program
Success (my definition) = Making a decision towards a goal that you care deeply about 1. Find Your Path - Know Yourself - Define Your Mountaintop * Acknowledge the Integrity Gap vs. Medicate the feeling of the Integrity Gap/cognitive dissonance * Define what Success means to you vs. Follow Society's Definition of Success * Find Your … Continue reading Overview of the Immediate Success Program
The Starting Point
"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything." - Napoleon Hill Many times it has felt as if I have stood in a valley looking up at countless mountain tops, trying to discern and decide which mountain to climb. But how … Continue reading The Starting Point
“Impossible is just a big word…”
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men and women who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” - Muhammad Ali
The 3 Step Transformation Formula
1: AWARENESS Start with Improvements in the quality of your awareness. * what do I want? * what are the results I'm looking for? * what are my strengths? * what do I care most about? * what am I passionate about? 2: CHOICES Then you will have a groundwork to improve the quality of … Continue reading The 3 Step Transformation Formula
How to Cultivate Authentic Grit
Hey! Have you noticed that some people are super passionate and work really hard to achieve unbelievable goals. They never give up and they see every challenge as a stepping stone to their success. It seems like these people have some kind of tirelessness to them. They just go! So, they've got something Angela Lee … Continue reading How to Cultivate Authentic Grit
A Few Simple Principles & Goals (what could be more important?)
What if we focused our entire lives on cultivating these qualities of character? 1. Do our very best whatever we do 2. Be honest to ourselves & others 3. Be kind to ourselves & others What if we lived every day of our lives in pursuit of these principles? What would our life look like? … Continue reading A Few Simple Principles & Goals (what could be more important?)
Self-Discipline
When you act with integrity, you strengthen yourself. When you violate your integrity, you weaken yourself. - Mark Wright Get ready to strengthen yourself and stand for what you believe is right. *** “It doesn’t seem like self-restraint would increase your confidence but it does. Think about it for a moment: what would your life … Continue reading Self-Discipline
Honesty
“The first step to greatness is to be honest.” – Samuel Johnson "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness & truth." - Leo Tolstoy
Well-being
The Recipe of Well-being = PERMA 1. Positive emotions 2. Engagement (with your strengths) 3. Relationships (vulnerable + real) 4. Meaning 5. Accomplishments (and reminding yourself of them often) None of these categories can stand alone for wellbeing but each of them contribute to it. “Is there someone in your life whom you would feel … Continue reading Well-being