SEVEN DISCIPLINES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE

There are 7 disciplines you must develop if you want to achieve all that is possible for you. You can learn these disciplines through practice and repetition until they become automatic. 
Goal Setting
Every morning, take 3 to 5 minutes to write out your top goals in the present tense. Get a spiral notebook for this purpose. By writing out your 10 goals at the beginning of each day, you will program them deep into your subconscious mind. 
This daily goal writing will activate your mental powers. It will stimulate your mind and make you more alert. Throughout the day, you will see opportunities and possibilities to move more rapidly toward your goals. 
Planning and Organizing
Take a few minutes, preferably the night before, to plan out every activity of the coming day. Always work from a list. Always think on paper. This is one of the most powerful and important disciplines of all for high performance. 
Priority Setting
The essence of all time management, personal management, and life management is contained in your ability to set proper priorities and use of your time. This is essential for high performance.
Concentration on your Highest-Value Activities
Your ability to work single-mindedly on your most important task will contribute as much to your success as any other discipline you can develop. 
Exercise and Proper Nutrition
Your health is more important than anything else. By disciplining yourself to exercise regularly and to eat carefully, you will promote the highest possible levels of health and fitness throughout your life. 
Learning and Growth
Your mind is like a muscle. If you don’t use it, you lose it. Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. 
Time for Important People in your Life
Relationships are everything. Be sure that in climbing the ladder of success, you do not find it leaning against the wrong building. Make time for your relationships every day, no matter how busy you get. 
Action Exercise
These 7 disciplines will ensure that you perform at the highest level and get the greatest satisfaction and results from everything you do. Study these 7 disciplines and then make a plan for how you can incorporate each of them into your daily life. 

BE THE LEADER YOU ASPIRE TO BE

Commanding vs. Coaching

Many leaders are hesitant about coaching because they are not confident in their coaching ability. Occasionally, a leader will confide in me that coaching feels risky. It feels as if you are giving up control. When you feel that you are under huge workload pressures, giving up control seems like the last thing you should do. Underneath it all, there’s a common fear that if your team does all the work—working at their maximum capability—what will you be doing? What will be your value? You are good at doing the work, you were promoted because you are, and now you have to stop doing the work. So what do you do? You coach, of course!   Try this: In looking at the chart above, is your workplace a commanding culture or a coaching culture? If you are a leader, do you command or do you coach? Thinking about your current work environment form this perspective, what is one improvement you would like to see on your team? “Leaders who coach create and grow trust.” - Dr. Karen Morley

WHY LEADERS SHOULD CREATE A COACHING CULTURE

When leaders coach, they create a culture that is empowering and energising. When coached, people develop, their motivation elevates, and they engage more deeply. Organisations with excellent cultural support for coaching experience 13% better business results and 39% stronger engagement. Organisations where senior leaders coach very frequently enjoy 21% higher business results, according to Josh Bersin.

Coaching cultures are more responsive and adaptive

Organisations need leaders who can make change happen quickly, which coaching facilitates.  When coaching is added to learning programs, learning increases by up to six times. Coaching helps by making sense of change, guiding individuals through change and making every conversation aligned to the change.

Coaching shifts the power dynamic between leader and team. Through coaching, power is granted generously, which empowers. Leaders see power as more like a see-saw, balanced between themselves and others, than a jungle-gym, where the aim is to claim the highest ground.

For a coaching culture to thrive, typical competitiveness between senior leaders must reduce. By adopting a coaching style laterally as well as hierarchically, senior leaders reduce petty silo behaviour. They acknowledge the necessity of collaboration for achieving strategic outcomes. Senior leaders need to be less focused on the high ground, achieving success through individual effort, and aim for success through shared ground, the aligned efforts of everyone.

In a coaching culture, leaders ask;

• How can I help my team to be its best?
• How do I work with my peers to best meet our challenges?
• How do I balance an investment in future capability with a focus on results now?

In a coaching culture, everyone’s performance is elevated

The simple reason for creating a coaching culture is that coaching elevates the performance of everyone.

The coaching process generates new ideas, new possibilities, and new energy. In a coaching culture leaders cultivate trust by supporting and developing others. They focus on helping others to do their best work. Not only does more and better quality work get done, this has the enormous benefit of relieving the ‘power stress’ they feel.

Coaching increases well-being at work; people feel more satisfaction, are more positive and are more likely to feel they have the right resources to meet their challenges. And by being deliberately developmental, a coaching culture grows future leaders as it empowers and develops current leaders.

Coaching is also an excellent way to improve culture. According to Groysberg, a coaching style reinforces a flexible culture that is guided by purpose and learning. People welcome change rather than stability. They care about the future, and are more open and agile. Coaching embodies these features. This creates an affinity between the means and the end, helping to speed change.

How to create a coaching culture?

To cultivate a coaching culture, senior leaders need to:

• Believe in coaching, and to coach others;
• Model their openness to being coached;
• Look for opportunities to help others learn, including identifying challenging work assignments;
• Ask open questions rather than provide the solution;
• Willingly give and receive feedback; and
• Have honest conversations.

Coaching is contagious. Its contagion helps it to spread readily creating a ripple effect. When leaders in organisations start coaching, people start to find their own answers and become more resourceful. People work more effectively together because they engage in dialogue, they listen and ask questions rather than tell, and they see resistance as an opportunity rather than a threat. The nature of conversations between people changes. Interactions become more positive. The coaching style ripples out as more people enjoy its experience.

 - Dr. Karen Morley, author of Lead Like a Coach

IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR ATTITUDE

Most of us want to be positive people. It is advantageous to posses a sunny outlook. Doors open to optimist. They make friends, earn respect, close sales, produce loyal friends, and others enjoy and want to be like me. The question is how can we do that? What does it take to have the right attitude. How can we grin instead of grouch? Good news! If you want to pep your outlook, never forget....Attitude are contagious. Always ask.... Is mine worth catching? I hope it will be.

1. WAIT TO WORRY

Many people fail to rejoice today because they live with the worry of tomorrow's threats, evil and sorrow. Something fearful might happen and they can't ignore it. If we worry about something that has not occurred, theologian Helmut Thielicke calls it, "wandering in times not our own".

2. KEEP AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

Zig Ziglar started poor. Dirty poor. His father died when he was six, leaving his mother to raise 11alone. The family was virtually penniless. Yet despite their poverty, Mrs Ziglar instilled a strong work ethics in her children and raised them to believe that both she and God loved them. She also instructed her children to practice saying "please" and "thank you". Those lesson stuck. Her formula of work, love and faith made their difficult lives easier. Gratitude made their lives enjoyable. Zig once said, "When we neglect to require our children to say 'thank you' when someone gives them a gift or does something for them, we raised ungrateful children who are likely to be content. Without gratitude, happiness is rare. With gratitude, the odds for happiness goes up dramatically.

3. YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH

4. THE SERIOUS BENEFITS OF BELLY LAUGHS

5. JOY BOOMERANGS

6. LOOSING THE FIGHT? WRITE

7. KEEP THE FAITH, BABY

8. LEARN TO SAY "NO" GRACIOUSLY 

9. UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF DISCIPLINE

10. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSIVE PEOPLE

Get a copy of this book  Attitude is Everything - 10 Rules for Staying Positive by Vicki Hitzges

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