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Do you want to just survive as an individual, a department or a company, or do you want to thrive? Martha reveals the eight traps that people unconsciously and consistently fall into that are literally and figuratively killing them. There is only one way out and that is by applying The Eight Principles You Must Follow to Thrive in Life and Work. This presentation, her hallmark piece, is also the title of her new book, Your Survival Strategies are Killing You!
Martha points out that to be a balanced, successful and fulfilled human being, you must regularly address this profound question in every aspect of your life and work. It will give you a perspective that opens up possibilities and avenues for creative problem solving that you never saw before. The answer will affect your framework of thinking; your thinking drives your actions and actions produce results. To improve results, it is imperative that this question be asked and answered, again and again.
You can have a brain the size of all outdoors, and still end up swimming upstream against the current getting nowhere. You feel stuck and trapped and ineffective, and you are! Why? Because you're doing one of three things (or maybe all of them) that will always keep you from getting the results you say you want. When met with obstacles and barriers and outside circumstances, most people give up, lose focus or get discouraged. Yet, water always reaches its destination. It always finds its way downhill. Why? Because it follows the three guidelines that take it past anything in its way. If we would be more like water, we could do that, too.
Smart people love the subject of leadership. They study it, find it to be an interesting subject matter and learn what to DO to be a leader, but no one is following. Why? Because they don't know how to BE a leader. Therefore, they end up DOING leadership rather than BEING a leader. Martha outlines the five areas that must be developed for smart people to become great leaders.
When someone asks you, "How's it going?" do you answer this question truthfully or do you frequently find yourself covering up the experience of feeling overwhelmed, overpowered, undermined, frustrated, upset, impatient and discouraged? What do you need to change too feel empowered, alive, excited, fulfilled and free? Martha reveals some life-altering approaches that shift paradigms and improve results so that when someone asks, "How's it working for you?" you can honestly say, "Great!"
There are things you know that you know; things you know that you don't know; things that you don't know you know; things that you think you know and most important of all, things that you don't know you don't know. This is the domain known as the unconscious and it is where we sabotage ourselves again and again. Begin to discover some of the hidden behaviors that hold you back and free yourself up to reach success.
In life we have one of two things: the Results we're looking for or a bunch of Reasons why we don't have them. Which one do you want and how will you get there? Are you bigger than your circumstances, or will you continually allow circumstances to be bigger than you and allow them to dictate your life? Learn how to get back in the driver's seat of your life and direct your future to be as you choose.
Sometimes this is a real tough decision. How often do we quit a job to be right, drag our heels to be right, sabotage others (and ourselves) to be right, refuse to cooperate, fight, sleep on the couch and even divorce to be right. We pay a heavy price for these behaviors and so do others - all in order to be right. Why do we do this, again and again and again? The reasons and solutions are revealed.
Scientists tell us that we are being bombarded by 10MM stimuli messages every day. If we allowed all that information to register with us, we would be babbling idiots. Therefore, we have a filtering system that allows some information in and rejects the rest. This Life View Filter tells us how to act. Our actions produce results. When we don't have the results we want, we make the mistake of changing our actions when in fact, we need to change our filter. What information are you letting in that hurts you? What information are you filtering out that could help you? Maybe it's time to clean out your filter.
What are the things that lure us into self-destructive results? We stand at the water's edge, the moment of decision is upon us. We are uneasy about what we are about to do, but like lemmings that leap off a cliff to their death, so, too, do we do and say things that we know are not right. We step into the water anyway and succumb to the waiting alligators of manipulation, denial, avoidance, covering up, resistance, gossip, complaining and more. They drag us down to the bottom and consume who we are. Discover how to make better choices.
What is it? Do you want it? Are you afraid of it? Do you hate it?
Do you challenge it? Run over it? Challenge it?
Do you use it? Abuse it? Or lose it?
How do you use it? To overpower or empower? To create separation or build connection?
Who is powerful? Why?
How are you giving your power away - right this very second?
How can you get it back? Where will you find it?
Ask and answer these questions and many more.
Ever feel like you're in a rut? Or like a wind -up doll that keeps walking into the same wall? Rather than stopping and assessing our actions and the thinking that drives them, we just back up, wind ourselves up again and ram right back into the same situation, with the same type people, with the same results. Sound familiar? Find out what drives you to do this and how to get yourself re-directed for a more effective outcome.
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