Live YOUR Dreams Today

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This is the last article in the series on ten personal tenets you should consider and adopt in your life if you want to be a leader and/or want to have success.  To be able to live your dreams, you need to take control of your destiny.  You need to become a leader … even if it is only YOU who you are leading.   If you can’t lead your own life, how do you expect that you can lead others - whether it’s in your job or in a business or in reaching your goals?

(If you haven’t had a chance to read the other 2 posts, here are the links to Part I and Part II.)

• Tenet # 8 Difference Makers and Impact Players have the ability to equip THEIR winners with the right tools and provide a nurturing environment. If you have a team, family members, and business partners who help you to bring your goals and dreams into reality, you MUST help them succeed as well.  You do this by creating a safe environment filled with encouragement, love and support.  You do this by creating ways to train and educate them so that they can grow and achieve more than they ever thought.  Always be looking for ways you can help your “winners” be better, learn from their mistakes and teach them to have fun at the same time.  Also, let them know how grateful you are for their dedication to you and your goals.  When they know you care, they will feel appreciated and that their efforts have been recognized.

• Tenet # 9 Compete not compare! Impact players don’t compare themselves to others in their field, niches, teams or similar businesses.  Instead, an impact player attempts to exceed his or her personal best … on a daily basis.  If you compare yourself to someone who is doing better than you are, you’ll only make yourself feel like “crap”.  You can never be like another person - your skills, talents, beliefs, life experiences, education, etc. will be different from theirs.  What someone else can do will be different than what you can do.  So, make a more empowering choice.  Compete with yourself - with your personal best - and strive to go beyond that.  Figure out what you can do each day to be just a little bit better than the day before.  Apply this to your business, your job, your family relationships, your health, your spiritual growth … and by the end of the year you’ll be a stronger, wiser, more successful person.

• Tenet # 10 You must adopt the “little bit more” mindset. What this tenet means is that you must do things just beyond your comfort zone.  Beyond your perceived limitations.  Also, you must help others on your team, in your family, at your job or in your business because they won’t do if for themselves.  People will go farther than they think they can when shows them or tells them that they can do it.  When you encourage others along the way that they CAN be better, that they CAN achieve the next step, that they CAN do a little bit more … their goals and dreams (and yours) will come true.  A great movie to watch that illustrates this tenet the best is “Facing the Giants“.   In Winston Churchill’s words, “Never, never,  ever give up!”

Your dreams are the most important thing in your life.  In order to live your dreams, you must make them sacred.  You must become the person you will be when your dreams become your reality.  To get started or to give an extra boost to your efforts, seriously consider these 10 tenets.  Adopt the ones that will empower you to take daily action towards your goals and dreams.  And then seriously consider the rest and make them a part of your life’s philosophy.  These 10 “big picture, impact player” tenets will give you a solid foundation for building your success and living your dreams!

Please feel free to leave your comments.  I would love to hear your stories of what tenets or beliefs helped you create your successes.

In my last post, I went through tenets 1 through 3.  If you missed the first part of this article click here to read it.

• Tenet # 4: Live up to YOUR commitments. Essentially this is: “Say what you mean and mean what you say.”  If you can’t follow through on what you said you would do, then don’t make the commitment in the first place.  Or if circumstances come up where it will be difficult to keep a commitment you made, call the people involved and renegotiate the terms so that you can follow through.  Another way to live up to your commitments is to always be on time or early for appointments.  When you are late for a meeting, that reveals everything about you and your mindset … that you aren’t careful or respectful of others’ time.  Being early also tells everything about you, too.  When you set your watch (or clocks) 15 minutes ahead of everyone else in the world, you are sending out a message those with whom you are meeting that they are important and you value their presence and time they are giving you.  Just imagine what a new customer, a prospect or a business partner will feel like because of your courtesy.  They will also have a pretty good idea of what kind of leadership capabilities you have.

• Tenet # 5:  Impact players are loyal. You have no hidden agendas with anyone.  You must show that you are trustworthy with everyone you deal with.   Your loyalty is a personal attribute you must hold sacred at all costs.  If your customers, team members or business associates can’t trust you or depend on you, they will be unwilling to continue to do business with you.  Your success is dependent upon your reliability and dedication.

• Tenet # 6:  Impact players know they have an influence on others. So your words, actions, behaviors and lifestyle must be congruent and give off a positive message at all times.  The people around you will see how you “really” are under stress and when “no one is looking”.  In other words, you cannot be two-faced, inauthentic, or counterfeit.  What you show in public life should be who you really are in private.

• Tenet # 7:  Impact players are winners and attract winners. You attract people who are like you not who you want to be. Winners have certain standards of behavior, attitudes and mindsets.  A winner wants to continue to improve and wants to be with other winners to make that possible.  Together winners can even do more than they can do alone.  So adopt a winning attitude and a can-do mindset … start taking actions that set you apart from the crowd and that which get you closer to living your dream.

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(Part III will have the rest of the 10 Impact Player Success Tenets.)