Sunday, February 12, 2012

Speak like a Superstar

The words you use determine the way you FEEL !!!

The language you choose shapes the way you perceive reality.

Your vocabulary drives meaning in your life.

Notice your leadership team while they speak in meetings or large gatherings.
You get inspired by their speeches because they see and speak things in a positive language.

Ex: They would call a problem as opportunity to create something even greater.
Ex: Bad news as a challenge that will help us grow.

Their positive language provokes a set of positive sensations within them that supports them in a playing victor vs. Victim in seemingly difficult situations.

So are you in? Let's start recording an inventory of words we frequently speak. This increases your self awareness. Now articulate a series of spectacularly positive words that will serve
you - words that you imagine a superstar in your field or management team using.

Bring them to your daily vocabulary. Speaking these words will make you feel better. More powerful. More passionate like your leaders feel. You will do great things.

The words you use influence the life you live.
Select them wisely.

Doesn't it feel great for the newly found confidence and the greatness feeling?

Do this exercise please!

The Greatness Guide - Robin Sharma

Started reading Robin Sharma's The Greatness Guide and it is simply great !!
  • Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity
  • The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be
  • And you don't need to have the biggest title to do the best job
  • As you live your days, so you craft your life
  • Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you
  • The real risk lies in riskless living
  • Some of life's best pleasures are it's simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.
  • There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all
  • Leadership and success beging on the extra mile. Ordinary people don't spend much time on the extra mile
  • Positive reference points will pull into a new way of seeing things and introduce you to a new set of possibilities. Doors you never even knew existed will begin to open.
  • It is easy to forget that people do business with people they like.
  • Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd
    • Be the eternal optimist
    • Value people
    • Be an original
    • Laugh and have fun
  • When you get back to doing things that lifted your spirit and sent you soaring, you reconnect with that state of happiness that you may have lost.
  • Not one of the uber successful people got there without outworking everyone around them
  • Genius: Focus plus daily improvement plus time equals genuis. Understand that formula deeply and your life will never be the same
  • Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways to honor that person and forge a deep human connection
    • You were given two ears and one mouth for a reason: listen twice as much as you speak
  • Human Beings move when their emotions are moved.
  • Every time you say yes to something that is unimportant, you say no to something that is important
  • Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.
  • The ultimate competitive advantage of your enterprise comes down to a single imperative - your ability to grow and develop leaders faster than your competition
  • If you think something cannot occur in your life, then there's no way you will take the action required to make that goal a reality. Your "impossibility thinking" manifests itself
  • Remember, every great leaders was initially laughed at. Now they are revered
  • Being a leader isn't about being liked. It's about doing what's right
  • You are here to find that cause, that main aim, that vital destiny that will move you at the most visceral level and get you up at the crack of dawn with fire in your belly
  • On of your most sustainable competitive advantages will be developing what I call a Culture of Leadership
  • Try not to teach your feards to your kids. Introduce your children to what's possible
  • This world was built by people who felt some discontent with the way things were and knew they could make it better
  • Take personal responsibility for the success of your business. Show up like an entrepreneur. Grow Sales. Cut Costs. Get good stuff done.
  • Top athletes know that practice is how you get to greatness
  • Be Outrageously energetic and madly alive.
  • What distinguishes people with an extraordinary character from the rest of us is how they respond when life sends one of its inevitable curves. - Grace under pressure
  • Checking your emails on your Blackberry every 60 seconds will not make you more effective
  • When you're relaxed and having fun is when you get your best ideas and thoughts
  • The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. Offer a heartfelt and enthusiastic "thank you"
  • When you get back to doing those things that lifted your spirit and sent you soaring you reconnect with that state of happiness that you may have lost.
  • Not one of the uber-successful people got there without outworking everyone around them
  • Focus plus daily improvement plus time equals genius. Understand that formula deeply and your life will never be the same.
  • Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways I know of to honor that person and forge a deep human connection
  • Human beings move when their emotions are moved.
  • Every time you say yes to something that is unimportant, you say no to something that is important.
  • Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best – and most brilliant – self
  • The ultimate competitive advantage of your enterprise comes down to a single imperative-your ability to grow and develop leaders faster than your competition.
  • You are here to find that cause, that main aim, that vital destiny that will move you at the most visceral level and get you up at the crack of dawn with fire in your belly.
  • A nice schedule: Up at 5 am five times a week with naps on the weekends, A 60-minute holy hour once I’m up, for self development and personal reflection, Five big time workouts a week, A 90-minute massage every seven days. A world-class diet, A period of journaling most days. Journaling  builds self-awareness. I also use my journal to write daily goals, plan and record what I’m grateful for, and capture and process new ideas along with lessons learned. A period of reading each day (from Harvard Business Review to Travel and Leisure to Dwell and good books), Affirmations or what I call Success Statements throughtout the day – especially in the shower. Right thinking drives right actions, A weekly planning sessions. I also review my goals here. Usually Sunday morning, At least one conversation with an interesting person each week to keep my passion high and to surround myself with big ideas.
  • One of your most sustainable competitive advantages will be developing what I call a Culture of Leadership.: Rituals, Celebration, Conversation, Training, Storytelling
  • Your schedule is the best barometer for what you truly value and believe to be important.
  • Try not to teach your fears to your kids. Introduce your children to what’s possible.
  • In this “experience economy” we now live in, the customers must be taken on a journey from start to finish that makes them go “wow”
  • Take personal responsibility for the success of your business. Show up like an entrepreneur. Grow sales. Cut costs. Get good stuff done.
  • Be outrageously energetic and madly alive.
  • It’s amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early. Their fears are bigger than their faith.
  • What distinguishes people with an extraordinary character from the rest of us is how they respond when life sends one of its inevitable curves
  • I get my best ideas – the thoughts that have really elevated my business and revolutionized my life – when I’m relaxed and having fun.
  • Today, take a moment and think about the people in your life who need to be cherished, appreciated and told that their support has been helpful.
  • The words you use influence the life you live. Select them wisely.
  • There a cure for aging that no one talks about. It’s called learning.
  • One of the deepest needs of a human being is the need to belong.
  • There’s no safety in being the same person today that you were yesterday. That’s just an illusion that ends up breaking your heart.
  • Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within.
  • I want the experience of an old man while I’m still young. And I think I’ve figured out a way to get it: Collapse the timeline.
  • While you chase success, I urge you to stay devoted to elevating the lives you touch and leaving your world better than you found it.
  • Greatness arrives for those who are never satisfied with what is, no matter how nice it looks.
  • Investing in learning and getting your skill to world class is the smartest investment you’ll ever make.
  • Give out what you most want to come back.
  • Do good and leave behind a virtue that the storm of time can never destroy.
  • Rewarding yourself with good things sends a message to the deepest – and highest – part of you. One that says “I’m worth it – and I deserve it”
  • Delete what needs to be eliminated from your life – you will feel lighter, happier and your mind will experience more peace.
  • You can’t get to the top of Everest by jumping up the mountain. You get to the mountaintop by taking incremental steps. Step by step you get to the goal
  • Good manners are a stepping stone to being a remarkable human being.
  • The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing.
  • Prepare 101 things he was absolutely committed to doing before he died.
  • Organizational leadership begins with personal leadership. You can’t be great at work until you feel great.