10 Ways To Tap Into Joy

 

 

My wish for you in 2011:

 

1. Your divine spirit is meant to shine. Making no apologies for its brightness.  Let it shine.

 

2. You are created as perfect, and your path is prepared and waiting for you in this moment.  Dwell in the perfection of your imperfections.

 

3. Worry and fear are imagined.  The reality is that there is nothing to fear.  Release the past, be present, and create your magnificent future one moment at a time.  Be where you are.

 

4. Change is inevitable.  Be unattached.

 

5. You are never alone.  Ask for help.

 

6. Regrets steal your energy. Let them go.

 

7. If you want to know what you’re committed to, look at your life.  You’re committed to what you have created – what exists for you right now.  Commit with discernment, and create with discipline only what aligns with your purpose. 

 

8. Faith in God makes all things possible.  Pray more.

 

9. Your judgments limit you.  Suspend them.

 

10. We’re wired for love.  Love more.

 

Be blessed.

 

Charrise

 

 

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8 Strategies to Make Your Business ROCK!

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Fearless Leaders create and conduct uniquely inspired business practices.  Here are 8 strategies that lead to business that rocks!

1. Hire the best people and take care of them. People are the most significant resource available to you.  If you want to create a great business, you must create it with great people.  Preferably great people with a well developed sense of humor.

2. Invest in extraordinary training, coaching, and mentoring for those great people.  Talent is not always enough - people must know that you're committed to their development or they will find someone who is. This creates your organization as THE place to work in your industry. Can you say Google?

3. Create and integrate guiding principles from which every decision is made at every level of the organization.  Do not tolerate behavior from anyone outside these guiding principles. Really.  Yes, I mean fire them.

4. Create a culture where innovation and change is the norm, by rewarding ideas more than anything in the workplace.  You might find yourself surrounded by geeks and creatives, but isn't that where all the cutting edge stuff is developed?

5. Operate with excellence, and never settle for what's simply good enough. Remember that one time where you settled?  Oh yeah, and look what happened.

6. Create a product or service that astonishes your customers so that they couldn't imagine buying from anyone else. Deliver it relentlessly.

7. Lean into process when it's appropriate and when it's not, be willing to tear it down and start again. And provide lots of coffee (and maybe a chair massage) for those rebuilding it.

8. Be hyper-vigilant to matching talent with task.  People will be fabulous at doing what they love to do, and they will stink at what they dislike doing.  For examples of this, see recent performance reviews.

See, it's really not so difficult, right?

The Power of Change

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Leaders grapple with the tension between knowing their culture could be more agile for change, and actually creating a culture that inherently initiates change.  Fearless leaders understand that in order to avoid status quo, they must actively encourage people to question every assumption.  The culture must allow people to take risks, leaving their comfort zone without adverse consequences.  People must see that change is essential for growth, and for greater job satisfaction.

Fearless leaders model a resistance to conventional thinking, which in turn, creates an expectation that others will do the same.  

If we don't create change, change will create us.

Resisting Resistance

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I first read about resistance in Steven Pressfield's book, The War of Art.  Recently, I read Seth Godin's new book, Linchpin, where the idea of the ways in which resistance holds us back was reinforced.  Both of these books are must reads for anyone who wants to create success.

Resistance is fear.  Whenever we're not doing something we know would be good for our business, it somehow relates to this resistance, and at the root of it - it's all about fear.

Fearless leaders probe the resistance.  They get up close and friendly with it.  They see it for what it is and push through it.  They do the work every day whether they feel like it or not because they're more committed to the success of themselves and their business than they are to the resistance.

Resisting the resistance cancels it out - like two negatives making a positive.  Fearless leaders resist the resistance.

Fearless Affection

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Fearless leaders don't buy into the myth that they need to be cold-hearted.  They give affection to their people, and they also make it clear that they require affection.  They value the relationship piece, because it's good business - and because it makes business more enjoyable.  Encouraging heart centered practices creates a culture of people who feel connected, valued, and heard.  When a leader fearlessly creates life-long relationship with people, bigger things become possible.

It's clearly the right thing to do.

Coach Charrise

Arguing for Success

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Fearless leaders argue for success, rather than arguing for failure.  They see what their teams are doing to create success, and support that.  They don't make excuses for something that wasn't accomplished.  They put all their energy into holding the space for phenomenal creation of world class teams.  They ask "why", and more importantly they ask "why not?" 

Fearless leaders have the highest of expectations, and they don't waste time making excuses.  When they expect more, they get more.  Simple as that.