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THE GAME-CHANGING ACCELERATOR FOR YOUR GROWTH
The real power of these types of conversations is not that they solve issues for you but that they give you access to a realm of knowledge from which you can create solutions yourself; often immediately and easily.
Access to this realm of knowledge allows you to see what you’ve never seen before. This is the game-changer between slow, minimal progress and rapid growth.
In today’s issue of The Grip, we reveal this powerful realm of knowledge for accelerating success in your life and show you one way to start accessing right now.
THE UNREASONABLE ADVANTAGE
In ordinary life, being unreasonable is considered a negative trait. What if it's not always that way? What if being unreasonable can actually be of great benefit, not only to you but to others as well?
In this week's issue of The Grip, we'll show you how being unreasonable is the key to creating extraordinary results in life. Your purpose and mission are counting on it.
CREATING AGREEMENTS THAT WORK
At both work and home, it is very common to have complaints and frustrations in relationships. What’s not so common, however, is understanding that the reason most complaints and frustrations exist in relationships is because effective agreements don’t.
When effective agreements are missing, complaints and frustrations flourish.
Leading By Agreement
How would you like to increase the productivity of your business AND workability of your team while simultaneously minimizing frustration and friction in the process? The most powerful thing you can do to get this result is to stop leading by expectation and start leading by agreement instead.
Living FROM Rest
Rest is not a place to get to; it’s a place to come from. Regardless of which day of the week you designate as your rest day, I’d like you to start seeing it as Day One from which the following six days will be fueled.
Seeing your rest day as the start rather than the end of your week fundamentally shifts it from being a day to crash in exhaustion to a day intentionally designed to support your wellbeing.
Doing Weekly Rest
For much of my adult life I thought a three-hour Sunday afternoon nap was getting the job done; nice try, but no.
What does it look like to “do” Weekly Rest? Today I’m giving you a snapshot of how I intentionally rest each week.
It’s not a standard of “perfect” or the “right way” to do Weekly Rest. It’s an example of what is working really well for me right now.
When Was Your Last Day Off…Really?
There was a time I viewed weekly rest as optional.
Like many leaders, I prioritized getting quality sleep every night, but I was “too busy” to carve out a day for nothing but rest each week—who’s got time for that??
Then a mentor challenged me to experiment with it for a couple of months to see if it made a difference.
Unmasking The Imposter 3
Unmasking The Imposter 2
People rely on Imposter Syndrome, aka Fake It Til You Make It, for success when they fundamentally misunderstand how the process of “becoming” in life works. They operate under a false premise that they can work their way into becoming someone new, and that’s the trap. Life doesn’t actually work that way.
Unmasking The Imposter 1
Many leaders experience some degree of what is frequently called Imposter Syndrome: persistent self-doubt, fear of failure, and worry of being exposed as a fraud. It’s so common that even if you don’t struggle with it yourself, it’s likely that someone you value does.
I choose to…BE CURIOUS
What do I notice—what do I experience—when I bring curiosity rather than judgment to people or situations I don’t like?
I choose to…LEVERAGE ADVERSITY
But the advantage won’t be obvious to your natural eye—it will be raw, rough, immature, and likely covered in shit.
I choose to…CREATE
If anything is missing from your life, it’s only because you have not yet created it…and that’s really great news!
I choose to…OWN MY CHOICES
Even when life is so hard that the only choice you can acknowledge is that you choose to wake up and stay on the planet one more day, you can own it and be responsible for it.
I choose to…ACT NOW
There is no future in the realm of direct experience.
What you call the future is actually your next right now.
Foundations 2
My promise is that when you put this body of work into action, you will see new possibilities for your life. And when you see what you’ve never seen before, you will create what you’ve never created before.
Foundations 1
When the material disturbs or disrupts you in some way,
that is a great sign that you are striking gold.
So when an assertion hits a nerve,
keep digging.
Using Intentional
Intentional is not meant to be read; it is meant to be lived. It is not meant for accumulating more conceptual knowledge; it is designed for creating living experiences. The power to bring forth something new in your life through this material lies in your direct experience with each new choice, not in the idea of the new choice alone.
Intentional Starts Here
Journey through Intentional with us. We will post several sections or chapters for you to explore.
The Innovator Leader
Not all innovators are leaders, and not all leaders are innovators. As The Innovator Leader, you are uniquely both.