2. We are all born geniuses. Don’t hide. Each of us come fully equipped with larger-than-life mental faculties that allow us to apprehend the world through many more modalities than just our five senses: we are given the imagination to create, the intuition to lead us, the will to focus (not the willpower), a memory that works forward and helps us create a future we would love, the ability to adjust our perception to what’s real and to reason correctly given all this information. Yet, by age 5, only 20% of us are still able to operate at our innate genius level, and by age 20, only 2% are. Very quickly, we got disconnected from our incredible power to create. What happened to us? We absorbed all the rules and limitations, learned to judge ourselves, and doubt our capacity to create our own results. Our most amazing faculties got atrophied by lack of use, or maybe even worse, we misused them against ourselves. 1. We let our imagination torture us by focusing on the worst that can happen. 2. We disregard our inner voice. 3. We force ourselves into inhuman burnout modes. 4. We use our memory to bind us to the past and look at our current results to decide what’s possible for us, as if the past could predict our future. This backward thinking is what causes us to shrink. Only the thoughts we think determine our future. If you want to uplevel your leadership, you must repattern your thinking to think like a valueCreator®, a person who increases every and all interactions, a person who creates value through herself, unconditionally, regardless of the current circumstances, situations, or conditions. Your life is in your hands. The truth is we never know how much time we have, so let’s start putting our name on our life, right now. All it takes is a decision. Decide means to cut away from. We cut the old way and embrace a new way. 3. The quality of the questions we ask determines the quality of the answers we receive. Albert Einstein said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem that my life depended on the solution, I’d spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask. For once, I had the proper question, and I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.” We often ask dead-end questions, questions that are disempowering: “Why did he do that? Why did it happen?”...the answer lies in the past. Or, “How am I going to do that? “...the answer lies in the future. Our only point of power is in the here and now, so we train ourselves to ask powerful ‘Clarity Questions’, and they usually start with ‘what’. 4. Four Clarity Questions to unlock your leadership and start living a life worthy of you, now! 1. We start with “Who am I now?” because it is the perception that we have of ourselves that drives our results. In other words, the results we create are a direct reflection of who we perceive ourselves to be. We cannot outperform our identity, but the great news is we can upgrade it. Success has a sequence, and it starts with clarity of Identity. We update. We often operate from an older perception of ourselves, an outdated version, the Who we were in a distant past. To be able to create from our most current identity, we have to update our awareness of who we are now. The new part of us that wants to move forward must not be held back by the part of us that didn’t get the memo: ‘We are moving forward! ’ We correct. Most of the time, the perception we have of ourselves is vastly distorted. It got shaped by an old event, something happened or someone said something, and we made it mean something that is now locked in us. Reinforced over time, it became a truth that we are not even questioning, and it’s been running my life for decades. The correction is overdue.
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