EMPIRES OF THE MIND CT

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EMPIRES OF THE MIND

1. SELF-LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE

You must learn from your past mistakes but not lean on your pastsuccesses

Be the new intellectual entrepreneur

• News speak (power of vocabulary)You must continue to gain expertise but avoid thinking like an expert

2. SELF-LEADERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY

• You must accept responsibility for your actions but not the credit foryour achievements

• The immutable universal law (Isaac Newton) Every action an equal

• Don’t look for the goat

• Power of a higher vocabulary

How to be differento Higher standards of behavior

o More time and effort to everything you do

o Taking calculated risks

• Unhook your prejudices

Ex: I don’t have enough talentI don’t have…

(Don’t be influenced by the negativity of others)



• You must stick to your convictions but be ready to abandon yourassumptions.

Three ruts to the road of excellence

o The rut of the average

o The rut of conventional wisdom

o The rut of groupthink

• You are the CEO of your company

• You must act self-employed but be a team player

• Who is in charge? – You

• Vocabulary is the new sword

3. SELF-LEADERSHIP AND BENCHMARKING



BENCH MARKING

• Internal audit

• Your own time machine (Projecting oneself)

Become an investigative intelligent agent

- Observation- News papers- TV- Popular content

Tips for approaching a new position/Challenge

1.What is the current jargon and culture2.What is the organizational design (Power structure)3.What are the most important issues and problems in the field (how totackle them4.How does the information flow (Formal and informal)5.Protocols for ideas and change

4.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND INTEGRITY

You must consider the bottom line but make it integrity before profit

The devil is in the details



5.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND CORE VALUES

Weeds of self-esteem

Body language – the need for exercise

Core values from inside to outside

Enhance your self-esteem

• Be more aware of your physical appearance• Improve your body language

• Focus on one quality a month (1 year to fix)

• Make a thanks list (people, things, other)

6.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND CORE VALUES

Building team members esteem - Smart Moves - Sam and Lyle

1. Document their accomplishments2. Show how to find opportunity in adversity3. Assign tasks to display their unique talents4. Teach how to get what they want from other people (Assertive)5. Power of listening6. Sieve vs. sponge

7. What is expected from them8. Criticize performance not people9. Praise for them and their performance10. Keep on ongoing training programs

7.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND VISION - YOUR VIRTUAL REALITY



Convert past experiences into positive input to visualize adesired future

Store the mind with winning images

8.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND ATITTUDE - YOUR SELF FULFILLINGPROPHECY

Action exercise for inner vision

• Use your six senses

• Form mental images

• Become a better speaker

• Improve your recall abilities

• Get in touch (close eyes and feel something)

• Listen and learn

• Watch TV with your eyes closed

• Write your thought on a regular basis

• Learn to draw

• Continue to read

Life is not rehearsal or a virtual reality game. What you simulate you willgenerate,

How you speak is what you seek. What you will say will determine youday. What you visualize will materialize.

A vision is your mental dress rehearsal for success.

A mission statement for oneself (starting from the core valuesworking out to material desires and financial needs guided byanother paradoxical proverb

You must understand that seeing believes but also that believing isseeing.

The question isn’t whether we have faith its whether we use itcorrectly.



Break long term goals into smaller ones

Stick with positive friends

Make a list of your current wants and desires and the benefits youwill getWhen you achieve them. Refer this every night before you sleep.

9.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND PASSION – YOUR PURPOSE IN ACTION

You should do something for your passion for it not for mere profitonly

10.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND POWER – YOUR INVICBLE FORCE

A leader must not intimidate but inspire confidence and teachexcellence.

11.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE – YOUR INFORMED TOUCH

Being high tec and high human touch

12.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND SKILLS – YOUR WINMNING AND LOSINGHABITS

Habits are not broken but replaced

Stay away from the destructive environment



We become what we watch

Kicking bad habits

• Identify your bad habits - Where did you pick them up

• Learn what triggers your bad habits

• List the benefits of the new habits that will replace the old

• Be strong

• Visualize yourself in the new habit

13.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND RESILIENCE – MISFORTUNES MASTER

You must risk in order gaining security but you must never seek security

IDEAS FROM PROCRASTINATION TO PROACTIVELY

1. Think about the best way to send your day (wake up early and plan)2. TNT (Today not tomorrow) - Plan correspondence, calling time

3. Give solution oriented feedback if people who tell you their problems(ask them what they like to see happen)

4. Finish what you start (Focus and avoid distractions)

5. Be in a praise group instead of gossip, pity parties or group gripping

6. Limit television time

7. Make list of 4 unpleasant projects you have been putting of and getcompletion dates for them.

8. Observe role models

9. FEAR (False Education Appearing Real) LUCK (Laboring Under CorrectKnowledge)



10. Problems offshoots of change

ACTION STEPS FOR PERSEVERANCE

1. Do high priority work first2. Concentrate on the 20% of your most productive activities (Pareto)3. Don’t worry about change4. Try and try again5. Try to associate people with similar goals6. If you reach a dead end with a problem change your scenery and mood7. Speaclize before you diversify8. Approach problems with logic and honesty9. Always expect the unexpected

Don’t argue there is no such thing as winning an argument onlywinning an agreement.

Failure and setbacks are corrective feedback

14.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND LOVE – GREATEST GIFT

You must strive to be lovable but never seek to be loved

Look at yourself through others eyes

Be empathetic in your communication

Be enthusiastic about family members interests

Give family members responsibility for their actions

15.SELF-LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE – YOUR ROAD BESTTRAVELLED

Spend your time wisely but never try to save it.

Success is not a destination but a process

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