All of us at some point in our lives has been at a fair or carnival and experienced the joy and squeals of fun while turning round and round of the Ferris Wheel. You might have event had the unlucky experience of becoming actually ill from too much to eat combined with a hot day and all that whirling around and around made you sick. As adults we are able to all to clearly bring up those memories and with a hand stretched out we say, "No….I think I'll sit this one out" and we let the younger people go to the Ferris Wheel and we enjoy their pleasure for terra firma.
Our lives are a lot like that Ferris Wheel. We voluntarily get into the little cage/seat with the safety bar down and are strapped in and then with a push of the big red button off we go into the stratosphere! Even if we are not feeling well, we can't get off and when the wheel stops momentarily up at the very top we feel like we have no control over our own fate way up there in the air. Life is a lot like this. The Ferris Wheel eventually runs its course and the bar is lifted up and we step out of the car seat we were sitting in, but life isn't so easy to disembark from is it?
Over the course of my own life, I have had moments of clarity that surprised even me. I have had the awesome discernment to recognize a moment of learning, a moment of opportunity and have always tried to stay in a mindset of being "teachable". In the very near future, I will have my first book published and in this book and subsequent learning program I begin to explain what this process looks like in a woman's life.
This process is: Awareness, Growth & Freedom. Let me explain how these three things can propel you dramatically forward and can help you to regain control of you life and to achieve that elusive "balance" that all of us are seeking.
The first item in the process is: AWARENESS. Awareness is your ability to recognize when something is either not right or is very right. You might get a physical reaction like goose bumps, the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end, your heart races, you make experience any number of things and something it is nothing more than a feeling or inkling that you know something is different, and you may not know what that is. In my book and in my programs which support this book you will learn how to heighten your own AWARENESS and use it to your greatest advantage during your daily life.
The second item in the process is: GROWTH. In virtually every area of our lives we need to experience growth in order to mature or grow up. Knowing what you need to grow in is a big part of the growth process. Each of us has areas in our lives where we are still kindergartners and in other areas we are experts. What I do is give you a framework from which to make these decisions for yourselves and then give you the skills and tools that help you to grow.
The third item in this process is : FREEDOM! This is the awesome feeling that you experience when you recognize just what you have accomplished and overcome! This is a feeling that all of us love to experience everyday of our lives. You can experience this feeling once you understand where the gaps are in your own core foundation of who you are and how you make decisions about life, love, professional life and private life.
Stay tuned to the first publication of my book and be one of the first to get a copy and to start dramatically moving ahead in your own life!
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Let's face it, as women who are in business, women who are moms, women who keep a home, run errands, do dishes, buy food, who are nurse, lover, and friend we have a lot on our plates every day.
When are you at your most energetic during your day?
I'm willing to go out on a limb and state that I bet that is the time of day when you do your best work.
It is the time when you fly through tasks completing them faster than the speed of light.
What is it about that time which energizes you?
We each have a two sides to our lives. We have our Professional Life at work and all the things that have to be completed there. And we have our Personal Life and our duties to our families.
I would like to propose to you that if you did that 20% of the most important things in each area of your life when you are the most energetic that you would get 80% of what need to get done, DONE!
We tend to do what is pleasant and easiest instead of what is on that 20% list. We wind up drowning in the 80% of the items on the list which for all intense and purposes do not move us upward or forward in our career or in our daily life. We seem to be waiting for some "MOMENT" to arrive.
Now I am looking for anyone out there that knows when "THE MOMENT" is going to arrive. If you knew this one thing and you could sell it, you would be set for the rest of your life. Of course you would have to write copy for it, package it nicely and get it to the right market at the right time in order to capitalize on "YOUR MOMENT"!
The other day, I spend 2 1/2 hours in my car going some place and then another 7 hours in an event although pleasurable – LOUD, and then another 2 1/2 hours driving back home. I know that my best energy time is in the morning in the sunshine. It doesn't matter where I am, I have lots of energy and all the neurons are firing in my head. Since it was a sunny day and I was driving during my peak performance time, I chose to listen to an inspirational CD from someone that I like to learn from. The middle 7 hours is somewhat of a blur. The ride home was exhausting. I took out my contacts (because they were sticking to my eyeballs), I rolled down the windows to let the brisk 29 degree wind in the car so I wouldn't fall asleep and I tuned the radio to an upbeat station.
You get the idea.
Now think back about your own day. How do you use your most energetic time?
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Many of you may know what the "80 – 20 Rule" is, however, many of you have no clue what the 80 – 20 rule is, so I want to explain it here. Even if you think you know it by heart, reread it and then teach it to someone else and cement it in your head for life.
In 1895 an Italian economist, by the name of Vilfredo Pareto noticed something about his world and the people in it. He called this observation the "Pareto Principle."
Pareto noticed that the people around him there in Italy spent 20% of their time on a vital few things. He also observed that the other 80% of the Italian's time was spent on trivial things in life, eating up their precious time available every day.
Hence the 80 – 20 Rule.
One of my favorite teachers, mentors, leaders and inspirational people that has shaped my life is Dr. John Maxwell. His books on leadership and teams and a plethora of other topics is a wealth of knowledge that I have drawn from for decades. One of Dr. Maxwell's teachings on the 80 – 20 Rule gives this account about how we used this today in our personal lives and in our professional lives.
We spend 20% of our activity time doing things which will account for 80% of your results.
20% of our customers will account for 80% of your profit.
20% of your tasks today will account for 80% of the value that you bring to the table.
Look at your work calendar today.
What did you spend that 20% on?
Who are those 20% of your customer base?
What are their names?
When did you last communicate with that 20%?
Where did you spend the 80% of the "trivial" today?
Look again at your work calendar today; list the 10 things that you did today on a separate sheet of paper.
Look at the list again. TWO of those ten will bring you 5 to 10 times the other 8. What were those TWO things?
What are you now seeing about how you spend your time during the day when you are at the office?
The very best way to learn this is to do the exercise with someone else.
Who will you teach this to?
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