The choices you make today are the seeds that determine your harvest tomorrow. Every person is responsible for the choices he/she makes and the consequences (good or bad) associated with them. When you make choices in key areas – and lead yourself accordingly – you will reap the kind of tomorrow you desire.
You can elevate your life, right now, by making choices in seven key areas. Yesterday, I introduced you to the first three and provided salient questions for each.
- Choose what matters most … the choice for CORE VALUES.
- Choose who you want the most in your life … the choice for ALIGNMENT.
- Choose what you want the most … the choice for PRIORITIES.
Today, I am sharing the remaining four:
- Choose what you need to stop doing … the choice for EFFECTIVENESS
“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.” – Peter Drucker
- Choose to have a Positive Attitude … the choice for OWNERSHIP.
“You cannot choose everything that happens to you, but you can determine how what happens to you affects you and others around you.” – Leadershipology.com
- Choose to take care of little things … the choice for MINDFULNESS.
“When you take care of the little things, the BIG THINGS take care of themselves.” – Leadershipology.com
Mindfulness Questions:
- What do you need to be more mindful of personally?
- What does your team need to be more mindful of to create better outcomes?
- Choose to give life your best … the choice for EXCELLENCE.
“Essentially there are two actions in life – performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which you will accept for yourself.” – Steve Brown (past president of Fortune Group) Leadershipology.com
“Go deep into your study of people, and you’ll discover unsuccessful people suffer a mind-deadening thought disease. We call this disease, EXCUSITIS. Every failure has this disease in its advanced form. And most ‘average’ persons have at least a mild case of it. You will discover that excusitis explains the difference between the person who is going places and the fellow who is barely holding his own. You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses. But the fellow who has gone nowhere and has no plans for getting anywhere always has a bookful of reasons to explain why. Persons with mediocre accomplishments are quick to explain why they haven’t, why they don’t, why they can’t, and why they aren’t. Study lives of successful people and you’ll discover this: all the excuses made by the mediocre fellow could be, BUT AREN’T, made by the successful person.” – Success Unlimited
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