Explore the importance of being fully alive, owning responsibility for your life, and creating a sustainable presence. Discover the significance of finding your soul's home, doing an energy audit, and surrounding yourself with people and events that energize you. Learn about radical responsibility, the power of curiosity, and the insights on conscious leadership and being fully present.
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Being fully alive requires curiosity and a high learning state.
'By Me' thinking empowers us to take responsibility for our own experiences.
Curiosity is crucial in maintaining a high learning state and achieving sustainable excellence.
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Maximizing Full Aliveness through Curiosity
Being fully alive requires curiosity and a high learning state. Curiosity allows us to be present and open to new experiences. By conducting an energy audit and eliminating energy-draining activities, we can maximize our aliveness. The audit involves evaluating our day-to-day activities and determining whether our energy goes up, stays neutral, or goes down. We can then choose to eliminate, delegate, or approach activities differently. The key is to reclaim and cultivate energy by focusing on what brings us the most aliveness.
Shifting from 'To Me' to 'By Me'
Making the shift from 'To Me' to 'By Me' is a mindset change that empowers us to take responsibility for our own experiences. 'To Me' thinking puts the locus of control outside of ourselves, blaming external factors for our happiness or lack thereof. In contrast, 'By Me' thinking recognizes that we are the cause of our own experiences. We can choose to be present and create our own aliveness. This shift involves embracing radical responsibility, trusting ourselves, and being authentic in our relationships.
The Power of Curiosity and High Learning State
Curiosity is crucial in maintaining a high learning state and achieving sustainable excellence. Leaders who prioritize curiosity are open to new opportunities and interactions as learning opportunities. By treating every interaction as an opportunity to learn, leaders can adapt, grow, and implement new ideas. The commitment to curiosity helps leaders continually expand their knowledge and remain agile in their decision-making. Being open to learning enables leaders to respond effectively to the ever-changing dynamics of their environment.
The Significance of Candor and Authenticity
Candor and authenticity play a vital role in building trust and deepening relationships. Leaders who embrace candor are honest, clear, and trustworthy. They create an environment where open and honest communication is valued. True candor is rooted in revealing oneself and sharing personal perspectives, without trying to control or manipulate others' experiences. By establishing a foundation of trust within relationships, leaders can foster openness, receptivity, and mutual growth.
The Importance of Radical Responsibility
Radical responsibility is the key to personal growth and sustainable leadership. It involves taking ownership of one's experiences and being accountable for one's actions and choices. Leaders who embrace radical responsibility recognize that they are the cause of their own experiences, rather than placing blame on external factors. This mindset shift empowers leaders to respond effectively to challenges, maintain a high learning state, and make intentional choices aligned with their values and goals.
What do leaders who sustain excellence do? They have the ability to be present for an extended period of time. They are here now. They live a life that creates a sustainable presence.
They are fully present. Be here now. Fully here. This makes you available for this creative moment.
Play the long game. Excellent leaders play the long game. "Live a life that creates sustainable presence."
Space and Place: It's important to know your soul's home:
For Jim: Northern Michigan. Quiet, still, simple, in nature... "It's recharging for me."
Lead and live intentionally to get to your flow state.
Ask: What is it that creates the most "alive-ness" in you?
Do an energy audit. Look at your calendar for the last week. What events make your energy go up, stay neutral, or go down?
Maximize for people and events that make your energy go up. "Populate your life with what you love."
Are you willing to be fully alive? What are you willing to risk to make that happen?
Get rid of energy downers. You can do that in 3 ways.
Dump it,
Delegate it
Do it differently
Responsibility – By me: I commit to taking full responsibility for the circumstances of my life, and my physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. I commit to support others to take full responsibility for their lives.
I have to = Victim mindset
I choose to = Ownership mindset
To me = At the effect of other things. Outside my locus of control.
By me = Inside. I am the cause of the experience. Radical responsibility. How am I causing the experience?
Josh Waitzkin - Make weather what it is. Play in the rain.
Curiosity is everything as a leader.
The opposite of curiosity is always needing/wanting to be right.
Deconstruct all the places where you want to be right.
Most of it stems from fear. There are three fears:
Approval
Control
Security
Curiosity - I commit to growing in self-awareness. I commit to regarding every interaction as an opportunity to learn. I commit to curiosity as a path to rapid learning.
Candor - I commit to saying what is true for me. I commit to being a person to whom others can express themselves with candor.
Accountability and Responsibility: Responsibility is not something that can be assigned, it is something that has to be taken. Responsibility lives in the world of integrity and impeccable agreements. Speak truth in love.
“We often describe unconscious leaders as reactive. They react from a “story” about the past or an imagined future, and their personality, ego, or mind takes over.”
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