Right Track Coaching Newsletter
Transform * Lead * Love
May 2007

In this issue:

The Power of Certainty is Extra Special in Getting Extraordinary Results

Who among you can climb more than one mountain at a time? Visualize that if you can! Imagine having one foot on one mountain and the other foot on a different mountain with the intention of reaching both mountain tops. Pretty ridiculous wouldn’t you say! How can you be certain you will reach the summit of either mountain when you are divided? Yet a folly that threatens many is to try and prove that more than one mountain can be climbed simultaneously! – how? By multi-tasking!

There is underlying bravado in being part of the world that acknowledges multi-tasking. Driving and being on the cell phone; answering the cell phone while in a face-to-face conversation with someone else; allowing unimportant situations to interrupt while working on a project, thereby breaking concentration; answering text messages while at meetings, etc.
Multi-tasking has its advantages – such as cleaning the breakfast table and watching/listening to the TV or walking and listening to your iPod. These combined actions seem to go together, like Oreo cookies and milk.

Climbing your mountain isn’t about multi-tasking. It is going up one step at a time. It takes certainty – attitude - focus – skills – desire – planning - correct action – and support. Multi-tasking muddles navigating to the top. It resembles jumping from one mountain to another. Most of us are performing various roles in our lives. Those roles make up our mountain. Sometimes it feels like we are pushing a boulder up the mountain. One of the ways to get rid of the boulder is to STOP to get a clearer picture of the cost in trying to climb multiple mountains. Create and attract those places, people and events that support you and bring certainty as you move up to the top of your mountain.

" The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
Charles Dubos

TIP:

For a week make a list each day of when you were multi-tasking.
How did it serve you?
How did it serve others?

For example, if you were in a conversation with someone and you stopped to answer you phone, which could have been handled after your conversation (not everything is an emergency or life and death deal), how was the person being served by the intrusion?

Were you truly a fully present listening supporter for them or was your mind full of chatter of what you had to do next? Or did you stop and were fully present when you on the phone with someone? Or were you checking email at the same time you were talking?

Practice being fully present to what you are doing in a way that others feel your authenticity. It will make a huge difference in making your mountain climbing easier. Join RTC for our f'ree teleclass to bring more certainty to the trek up your mountain.

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Leadership Pointers - Creating More Impact With the Power of Certainty

" Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood."
Daniel H Burnham


Certainty is not about “being right.” It is about “being on the Right Track.” There is a big difference.

The “being right” model can cause fall-out from your employees; employees sabotaging the work due to lack of being included in decisions; no room for new possibilities and loss of trust.

With certainty you hold the space for the vision in your charge. This allows for greater employee retention, less stress, creative solutions, better job atisfaction and ease. Your career is part of what makes up your mountain. When you are on the Right Track with certainty you:

  • … are empowered
  • … have increased productivity
  • … better job satisfaction
  • … better balance between career and personal life
  • … improved health
  • … wake up looking forward to your day

TIP: You are most effective when you are present to what you are doing and who you are being. If in your multi-tasking you are shortchanging those you are with and cutting down the quality of your work, reconsider the costs. When you are climbing the mountain that means the most to you with certainty and focus, the above benefits are available. It is more attractive to be a leader with certainty and confidence. Would you follow someone who was wishy-washy?


Transition Pointers: Exploring Uncertainty to Certainty

During transition the journey is fraught with uncertainties, specifically when it comes about unexpectedly. It could be loss of a job, health issues, and relationship problems, death of a loved one, or anything that takes us in new directions.

How we go about answering the question, “what’s next?” is different for each of us. However, there are some common themes. One, unfortunately, is to try and live in the past and fall victim to circumstances. Another is resting awhile in the form of making no decision and staying in the neutral zone. The neutral zone is listening at a deeper level to your heart. It is rusting in the wisdom of your heart.

Sometimes going rapidly into a new direction of changing careers is the best solution before talking yourself out of the chance to create a new life. There are numerous choices even when we think we don’t have any.


TIP:

When you are ready to muse through the labyrinth of what’s next in your life, it is wise to get out of your head and listen to your heart. Transformation is your own individual process. Do not skip the process. To try and rush an outcome is like going through a fast-food drive-in. If you skip the process you will miss the riches of what is being born in your evolution, plus there is a good chance you will miss your mark. The journey of transformation is called “The Hero’s Journey” by Joseph Campbell. Having a life coach partner with you in your journey is without a doubt an investment in your next chapter.


" The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences…The world doesn’t fear a new idea. It can pigeonhole any idea. But it can’t geon-hole a real new experience." D. H. Lawrence

TIP:

Questions have the answers:
  • What is it time to let go of?

  • What do you think is waiting in the wings of your life to take flight?

  • What is it you secretly wanted to learn? (art, music, new career opportunity)

  • What permission do you need to give yourself before moving forward?

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