Tag: awareness

Do You Know the Three Words of Success?

successEveryone has goals they would like to achieve. Normally success does not occur by accident. You can increase your level of success by learning a process for growing and achieving.

Let’s review the three words of success that you should know. These three words provide the basis of success regardless of the goal.

1. Awareness: The first step towards success is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices you are making. Some choices lead you towards your goal, and other choices are moving you away from your goal. No matter your goal, expanded awareness helps you make better choices.

2. Intentionality: The second step towards success is intentionality. Take action to turn your dream into reality. What you do matters. Your goal is attainable if you face reality, know where you are starting, know the cost to succeed, and then intentionally work at success daily.

3. Accountability: The third step is being accountable; not being accountable to someone else, but to yourself. The biggest gap in our success is the difference between what we know and what we do. Regardless of the goal we are trying to achieve, our knowledge is greater than our action. To be most effective most people need a third person or a neutral partner to help them with accountability.

Whatever your plan for success, you should continually grow and raise your awareness, act intentionally, and find someone to help hold you accountable to your goals. By continually taking these three steps, your level of success becomes unlimited. It won’t keep you from encountering set backs and making mistakes, but it will allow you to learn from your failure and moving forward.

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Intentional Sacrifice

decision_blogWhen I was a kid, I used to collect marbles and baseball cards. Unlike my friends I did not like trading. I always wanted to keep what I had. Looking back I think they were happier with their collections, than I was with mine. They made multiple trades with good cards and bad cards, to get the few cards they truly wanted.

The Law of Sacrifice from John Maxwell’s, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership says, “A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up.” All through life we are faced with choices. We cannot continuously progress without giving up things within our comfort zone. It includes choices as simple as baseball cards, and as complex as our current job. But not making a choice is, by default, a choice to remain the same.

Change happens in our lives. We can’t stop it, but we can become more intentional about our changes. A coach can help us see opportunities by raising our awareness. A coach helps us see the decisions we made by default.

If you find yourself avoiding decisions, or only living within your comfort zone, then I would suggest you could benefit from some reflection on your opportunities. Opportunities you may not even see. If you feel stuck, finding a professional coach can help. All of us can be more intentional when it comes to The Law of Sacrifice.