Posted on Monday, June 8, 2015

Are You A Difference Maker? Series 1 of 8

Tracy Worley

Tracy Worley is America’s leading grace coach, international key-note speaker, trainer, syndicated radio host, author, and potential seeker, strategist and CEO of three values leadership based organizations. She works with business executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders world-wide to develop potential, tailor employee engagement modules, and turn up the volume on individuals and organizations potential personally and professionally.

Tracy knows firsthand about what it takes to find your potential, Individuals and organizations have individual cultures, stories, and rhythm – Tracy’s innovative style knows how to make it work. With a background in business management, business communication, project management, and life’s drama, Tracy found herself running a multi-million dollar organization at the age of 25.

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

But it’s exactly all these experiences that built character, knowledge, wisdom, and intuitive insight into individual and organizational potential. Tracy is highly intuitive, perceptive, and a world thinker in connecting what you cannot see. These gifts give her the ability to strategize with clarity where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. Tracy’s expertise: training highly successful people to lead with authenticity to the desired success her client’s desire and deserve.

Are you a difference maker or a mood breaker? We all know someone who walks into the room and the mood changes from “life” to “silent hiding”. Why? No one wants to talk to this person because they are the life sucker who not only takes, but also puts you down and keeps you there.

What is your secret sauce to being a difference maker in your life?

In 2006 I had an incredible opportunity to not only chair our Employee Ownership Stock Program, but also to create the leadership training content for all employee owners to experience and learn. One of the resources I brought in was written by John C. Maxwell, The Difference Maker. What makes you a Difference Maker? It is simply your attitude.

I write, speak, and teach attitude often, as this is the one thing you have control over. Only you can make the decision about how you are going to enter and leave the room. How you are entering and leaving conversations? But most importantly, how do you make people feel? Everyone remembers how you made them feel over and above all other things you give them.

“Your attitude colors very aspect of your life. It is like the mind’s paintbrush; you see the world as you are!”

Here are some areas to consider for reflection and change toward making the difference you desire from The Difference Maker:

Personality – Who You Are
- Everyone is uniquely made. When you live in the comparison gap of others this is a mood breaker.
Environment – Who and What is Around You
- We are made up of the five people we spend the most time with.
- Is it time to have courageous conversation and create a necessary ending?
Others – What You Feel
- Hurt people hurt people.
- Positive words have an extraordinary impact.
Self-Image – How You See Yourself
- This is how you see others.
- Labels apply to boundaries and actions.
Beliefs – Judgement
- What you think.
Choices – Action
- What you do.

“Every thought you have shapes your life. What you think about your neighbor is your attitude toward him. The way you think about your job is your attitude toward work. Your thoughts concerning your spouse, the people on the highway during rush hour, and the government create your attitude toward everything you think and apply is your attitude.” John C Maxwell

I am no longer with the organization where I transformed The Difference Maker into their curriculum, but I do have the pleasure of seeing many of those employees continue to grow and make a difference not only at work but in the community in which they live.

Challenge Question: Where are you a Difference Maker in your community?

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Create Your Secret Sauce

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series starting in June!

Event: 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

GRACEbreak Episode: Are You a Difference Maker? 1 of 8

Dr. Henry Cloud (2010) Necessary Endings

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Are you a difference maker or a mood breaker? We all know someone who walks into the room and the mood changes from “life” to “silent hiding”. Why? Because no one wants to talk to this person because they are the life sucker who not only takes but also puts you down and keeps you there.

What is your secret sauce to being a difference maker in your life?

I write, speak, and teach attitude often as this is the one thing you have control over and can make the decision how you are going to enter and leave the room. How you are entering and leaving conversations, and most importantly how do you make people feel. Everyone remembers how you made them feel over all other things you give them.

“Your attitude colors very aspect of your life. It is like the mind’s paintbrush, you see the world as you are!”

Personality – Who You Are
Environment – Who and What is Around You
Self-Image – How You See Yourself
Beliefs – Judgement
Choices – Action

Challenge Question: Where are you a Difference Maker in your community?

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Create Your Secret Sauce

Are curious! Do you want to find your secret sauce of being a Difference Maker, and create original ideas through your natural gifts? New series startingn in June!

Event: 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

John C. Maxwell (2006). The Difference Maker
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Date:	June 8, 2015
Time:	8:30 a.m MST
Appearance:	GRACEbreak Radio \| Are you a difference maker? Series 1 of 8
Outlet:	GRACEbreak Radio
Location:	Montana
Format:	Radio

To grow as a leader, you need to be mentored, either formally or informally. One of the best ways to take advantage of the opportunities is right here with our Potential Builders community.

Are you creating days of action or re-action?
Are you finding discipline in your daily agenda?
Are you process driven or purpose driven?
Are you in a constant state of motion to something bigger and better?

5 Steps to Create The Future You Want Key Benefits:

Create a personal plan toward action and not reaction
Find personal satisfaction by mastering the basics toward significance
Create a one word strategy to change your world
Create your secret sauce by jumping off the assembly line of average
Learn how to dream big, and set your future toward everything you are capable of

Thousands of professionals have responded to 5 Steps to Create the Future You Want.

NOW is the time to step forward into creating your secret sauce of success the world is waiting for!

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Week One: Mastering Basics

Schedule time to reflect
Action vs. Reaction
New Habit vs. Old Habit

Week Two: The Secret Sauce

KISS, Keep It Sweetly Simple
Change one word will change your world
Process vs. Purpose

Week Three: Creating the Future

Self vs. Selfish
Potential & Environment
Bitter Ingredients vs. Secret Sauce

Week Four: Step Up & Jump

Tension toward success
Applied pressure to growth
Stretching into your future of significance

Why have so many responded to this program? Because this is a personal process, encouraging you to create the future you want creating your “secret sauce” this world is wating for!

Receive $697 in bonuses!

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Tracy Worley will lead this online course and invites you to learn more about her style, background below.When joiningthe program you will learn how Tracy created her secret sauce to the future she wanted!

Tracy knows firsthand about what it takes to find your potential, individuals and organization have individual cultures, stories, and rhythm – Tracy’s innovative style knows how to make it work.

With a background in business management, business communication, project management, and life’s drama. Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

It’s exactly all these experiences that built character, knowledge, wisdom, and intuitive insight into individual and organizational potential. Tracy is highly intuitive, perceptive, and a world thinker in connecting what you cannot see.These gifts give Tracy the ability to strategize with clarity where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there.

Tracy’s expertise: training highly successful people to lead with authenticity to the desired success her client’s desire and deserve.

What Others Are Saying

I love Tracy Worley’s teachings! She gets to the heart of matters with her unique teaching approach speaks to all ages and stages in the lives of everyone! I highly recommend her!

Tracy is an energized, dynamic speaker who will inspire you to look deep within yourself to see where you need to grow and then she will hold your hand and support you through the entire journey.

Tracy’s style of coaching/mentoring is so refreshing. She encourages and helps one stretch to find exactly what is needed to develop goals and dig deep to realize those goals.

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You will be part of an optimistic peer group with a shared endeavor of creating your own secret sauce the world is waiting for! Join us to be part of the secret sauce conversation to receive and give feedback to participants, learn growth principles the top 1% of entrepreneurs practice every day.

The weekly call is 90-minutes and all are recorded for all of you who are busy. We have international clients who are successful with the program between time-zone barriers, so basically everyone can participate even if you cannot make the call.

$147 Early Bird Registration + $697 in bonuses
(Ends June 17)

$197 Regular Registration + $697 in bonuses (Starts June 18)

$203 Payment Plan + $697 in bonuses (Bi-Weekly $101.50)

Program Starts: Wednesday June 24th | June 24th, July 1st, July 8th, July 15th
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (MST)
Where: This is an online event and will be recorded for you to listen at your convenience.
Private Group: You will be added to an online private group
Group Coaching: The format allows for 60+ minutes of coaching
Materials: All materials will be provided prior to each call with additional hands-on tools, training, and ingredients to create your secret sauce!

I would love for you to join me to create the future you want!
Look UP and OUT,

Tracy Worley

Date:	June 24, 2015
Time:	11:00 a.m.
Event:	5 Steps to Create The Future You Want
Topic:	5 Steps to Create The Future You Want
Sponsor:	Tracy Worley
Venue:	Online
Public:	Public
Registration:	Click here to register.

Posted on Friday, May 29, 2015

Are You Prepared to Take Risk With Imagination and Innovation?

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

We all have risk in our lives, and we can either embrace it or do everything in our power to avoid it. Imagine a playground where a group of children are jumping off the top of the monkey bars, and then there are a few kids who stand at the edge pacing and waiting for the school bell to ring so they do not have to jump.

I want to encourage you to JUMP! Not in the sense of physical, mental, or spiritual harm, but to really jump back into a childlike state and use your imagination. Create and innovate right where you stand! Ken Robinson states the risk of imagination eloquently, “Be prepared to be wrong.” When you are prepared to risk, be wrong, and basically stand there looking like an idiot—you are onto something!

Society has teaches us through our education system to no work within our natural gifts, but to test out to an educational standard. Highly successful people have bunked the standard and create success by taking the risk of standing alone. The risk takers are the ones you watch rise to the next level. The risk takers are the ones who are creating original ideas.

When you are prepared to imagine, innovate, and risk within your gift set, you are no longer living within the set standard of average! ~ Tracy Worley

Take time out and reflect on your life, career, and the significance that your natural gifts offer the world.

Reflect on what you loved doing as a child (natural gift).
Reflect on all of those assessments you have taken over the years (natural gift).
Reflect on your voice of doubt, do it afraid, do it anyway.
Reflect on discipline in your daily agenda. Are you taking time to risk?
Reflect on the ideas popping into your head and write them down. Some will make sense and some will not. Step forward with one where clarity comes through and start moving forward without knowing the how or the details. Don’t get held up in the paralysis of perfection.

You are meant to have a life and career of significance so embrace your natural gifts, talents, wisdom, and knowledge to create original ideas. If you look back in history and innovation, most of those who risked standing alone where mocked, but now we have light-bulbs after ten-thousand tries. We have flight because the Wright Brothers believed with imagination, risk, and perseverance that it was possible.

Society’s standard of average is not where you are valued. Create value by standing alone on the edge of the monkey bars and JUMP!

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

I know you are curious!

Do you want to find your secret sauce of imagination and create original ideas through your natural gifts?

We are starting a new series in June where you will build critical insights to building your secret sauce to creating the future you want. 5 Ways to Create the Future You Want.

Ken Robinson, Ph.D. (2009) The Element

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Early Registration Ends TODAY: 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

Planning for tomorrow is essential:

Think ahead and plan goals (within your value statement)
Steps are in place (escape paralysis of perfection)
Schedules (your plan)

5 Steps to Create The Future You Want

1) Reflection Leads To Purpose
2) Consistency Leads To a Life of Significance
3) Keep It Simple Silly For Extraordinary Results
4) Creating The Future You Want
5) Apply Tension For a Better Tomorrow

Thousands of professionals responded to 5 Steps to Create The Future You Want. . . Why? Because this is a personal process, encouraging you to create the future you want creating your “secret sauce” this world needs!

NOW is the time to step forward into creating your secret sauce of success!

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE AND REGISTER!

Week One (Reflection, Consitency): The top 1% of entrepreneaurs schedules daily time to reflect and think into their success. Action vs. Reaction Learn how to take the time to stay on purpose for the success you were created to glean. New Habit vs. Old Habit. Creating satisfaction creates significance in your life and mastering “basics” to create the future you desire.

Week Two (Systems): Keep it simple for extraoridnary results. Changing one word will change your whole world. Process vs. Purpose Your life is not an assembly line, you are uniquely made to contribute the “secret sauce” only you can offer the world.

Week Three (Environment): Creating the future you want is not selfish, creating the future you want is growing your ptentntial in the right envrionment. Your environment made of your daily agenda, people, places, and things. “The bitter ingredient of your future is the unwillingness to try; if you do not try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you receive.” ~ Tracy Worley

Week Four (Tension): Applied tension to success is consistent applied pressure to your growth and stretching into something and someone bigger and better tomorrow. “If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?” ~ Rabbi Nachman

Honored to be one of Sunrise Rotary’s 2015 speakers.

Presentation Title: Potential² Stop Giving Up Before the End of the Trail

Potential² Manifesto Find Yur Infinite Potential has you as your WHY. Who are you and why are you here? Before answering this question, I will tell you who I am and why I am here. Through decades of learning from the best mentors and my mistakes, I know my why. I wish this for you, too. It is my purpose to give you hope and courage to discover your potential, purpose and heart’s desire in and from life.

Most people use only a small fraction of their ability and rarely strive to reach their potential. A few years ago, my world came crashing down around me without my permission. Within a short period, I found myself divorced and downsized. I had hard choices: To live or die, or as my friend and mentor, Kary Oberbrunner, teaches, “be a victim or a victor.” I ask you, when life deals you “lemons’” are you choosing to live or die, to be a victim or a victor? From my life experiences, I found my Potential² and that is to gracefully inspire and empower others to achieve their infinite potential.

Definition: Infinite Potential (Potential²) is growing, learning, and adding value to self and others until we are no longer able to take another breath on this earth.
Outline:

Part One: Power of Potential
Without limitation, do you know who you are?
Part Two: What is Potential
Why finding your Potential² is important.
Part Three: Where to Start
Finding value in you.
Part Four: Potential²
Ten steps to your Potential².

Program Excerpts:

Potential² is growing, learning, and adding value to self and others until you no longer are able to take another breath on this earth. Potential² is living out the gifts and talents we are given and refining them to live the fullest life possible. Fullest life? Your potential carries a life and energy force of its own. When living within your gifts, your potential for joy and success comes naturally and without struggle. This equals your fullest life.

The first step to finding your gifts, talents, purpose, and potential is to devote time and energy to what you love doing. When you spend time in your strengths and gifts, you are creating the genius of your individual self; Potential². “Visioning our plan, gifts, and desires leads us to reach our Potential² and the courage to push out of our comfort zone.”

Date:	May 13, 2015
Time:	7:30 a.m.
Event:	Sunrise Rotary \| Missoula
Topic:	Potential² Stop Giving Up Before the End of the Trail
Venue:	Blue Canyon
Location:	Missoula, Montana
Public:	Public

Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2015

5 Ways to Authentic Leadership

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Authentic leadership is moving past the paralysis of perfection; keep moving forward with intentional belief success is yours. When I coach executives and teams on projects, 99% of the time what is holding them back to gleaning extraordinary success is the mindset of perfection. I call this the paralysis of perfection; you remain the same and glean the same results because you are unable to move forward.

Waiting for perfection often leaves you at the starting gate in the paralysis of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE must be perfect before you start. My advice to you, start even if it is ugly!

Life is not a straight line from start to finish; you have stop signs, obstacles, distractions, and tall buildings to climb toward your finish line to success. When living your authentic-self doors of opportunity you did not see before will appear. . . now which one will you choose? Below are guidelines to moving forward without perfection and finding the door(s) of opportunity you seek.

5 Ways to Authentic Leadership (Self)

Potential: Keep compounding interest (knowledge) on your strengths through coaching, educational opportunities, and mentoring others.
1. Gifts and Strengths; when you compound knowledge you become the ‘wisdom’ expert in your field.
2. Weakness; address weakness, be aware of them but do not dwell in weakness. Know what you’re potential and delegate area’s you do not excel in.
What You Want: Knowing what you want and understanding the belief “I can’t” simple does not exist if you are moving in and toward your potential. Everything is obtainable within your gifts, talents, and strengths. Yes, everything is obtainable within your gifts, talents, and strengths with the right attitude!
Character of Achievement: Character is your solid-foundation in supporting sustainable success. Authentic leadership (self) is your self-image and belief you can move toward your goals and finish with celebrated success.
Perfection: Your beliefs, dreams, passions, and growth to your desired goal. Perfection is who you are right now; this is the celebrated success of your perfection!
Celebration: If you love what you are doing, you are NOT willing to lose it.
1. Celebrate Wins: if you have a goal of closing 20 clients and 3 have signed. This is a time to celebrate the 3! These clients deserve your best in attitude and achievement of 3! And 3 is better than 0.
2. Celebrate Losses: taking time to learn and glean from losses creates bigger wins for tomorrow.

Authentic leadership is staying in love with what you love and allowing it ignites others; remember when you are living and celebrating your unique self; everyone wants what you are having.

“It doesn’t matter where you have been in the past or where you find yourself today. Growth comes from a positive attitude and the willingness to challenge your self-belief. Courage is the gift of becoming the person you are meant to be. The seeds of courage fuel your heart for change and the aspiration to possess the perfection of your dreams.” ~ Tracy Worley

Law of Character is the solid foundation to your life and life stance. Core of your character is your values, beliefs, experiences, and set points. Your dominate thoughts is what you will attract or detract from your success. Be firm with yourself by creating a solid-foundation of belief!

Law of the Lid is the limitation of achieving higher than you can today. A lid inhibits your ability to be more tomorrow than you are today. What self-limiting belief are you stating to be true? See yourself where you want to be and delete the truths you no longer need or want to hold true.

Law of Perfection is your beliefs, dreams, passion, and growth. Through humble learning you can find ‘perfection’ in your purpose, desires, passions, dreams, and value. Perfection is the truth you hold true and set new truths toward your success. Do not wait for ‘perfection’ as the world sees it, step forward without knowing the next step because life is messy and to achieve Authentic Leadership you must model perfection of not knowing ‘everything’ before moving forward. Step out of the paralysis of perceived perfection and move into your perfection of belief!

Law of Celebration is unfolding a more meaningful and greater expression of your leadership purpose. Success is staying in love with what you love and allowing it to ignite others to their authentic leadership style. Remember, when you are living and celebrating your authentic self; “they want what you are having.” If you love it, you are not willing to lose it.

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self

Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2015

Failure is a Highly Valued Commodity

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Gratitude is the grounding wire for success and your core values. Too often I work with clients where employee engagement and culture in the tank (toilet tank that is). Usually, the number one reason is non-gratitude of wins, failures, which create a culture of entitlement.

One of my favorite books I picked up in 2006 written by John C. Maxwell, The Difference Maker. I have notes, marker, post-its, and dog-eared pages in this book. Last year at one of our yearly meetings I brought this old tattered book and asked John to sign it. This is truly one of my treasured lesson books for my personal and professional life stance.

Attitude is gratitude, embracing failure and wins on equal measure, and having the awareness to truly make a difference in everything you do! “Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never succeed. It just means it will take longer.” ~ John C. Maxwell

In conversation with corporate recruiters one of the top questions they are asking candidates; “Is there a project you worked on that was a total fail? If so, what did you learn.”

You see failure costs but only if you did not learn from it! Fortune 100-500 companies want to hire “learned failure” because the company you are coming from already paid the price. You are now a highly valued commodity if you show what your learned, how you applied new principles, built the strength to last, tenacity to keep moving forward, you gained the experience and wisdom to lead through imperfection without entitlement.

As leaders and everyone is a leader of one (self) find time in your agenda to write down what you are grateful for. Even if it is as simple as the glorious Grande Skinny Cinnamon Dolce from your favorite barista, find at least one thing to be grateful for. This compounds interest toward future success because you are not filtering awareness in entitlement but in the gratitude of imperfection and creating valuable momentum toward success.

Entitlement is the root cause of low employee engagement and creates cultures of non-performance and no accountability toward success. Modeling the behavior of gratitude and taking imperfection lessons into wins is what brings your organization from average to the top!

Here are a few areas to find and show gratitude:

Apologize to your children, spouse, coworkers, customers, and generally other people you may have failed.
Seek understanding of the situation and people to learn the truth.
Be aware of being defensive and take note is this worth keeping.
Serve your people, under, over, and near. Serving others without asking for anything in return will pay success forward at a faster pace!
Nothing is beneath you, if you find a task or position “beneath” you. Go spend a few hours or day doing this task as this will bring appreciation and empathy. You will lead better from the experience than the entitlement seat.
Seat of entitlement, you cannot lead from here. If you do this for long you will be over thrown, and perhaps not in a violent way but you will be overthrown with low employee engagement and morale.
Imperfection and failure should be modeled as a learning experience. Remember it took Thomas Edison 10, 000 tries to get the light-bulb right. “I just learned one more way of not how to make the light-bulb.” ~ Thomas Edison

Challenge: Take a few notes of areas you are “entitled” and where can you take this to embrace, learn, and serve your people this week!

Look UP & OUT,

Tracy Worley

Failure is a Highly Valued Commodity

RESOURCES

Tracy A. Worley (2015)
John C. Maxwell (2006) The Difference Maker
Dr. Henry Cloud (2004) 9 Things You Simply Must Do

Posted on Friday, May 1, 2015

Is Your Team Contributing to Grow Others?

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Contribution is leading self while contributing to the growth of others. When your team is contributing to grow others your organization is compounding interest for the sustainability and success of not only the organization but for your team and community.

Ben Franklin asked himself every morning, “What good shall I do today?” and in the evening, “What good have I done today?”

Adding value and contributing to others is one of the greatest joy’s and rewards you and I will ever experience. When I reflect on contributing to others within any area of life my vision goes to the face of a child. My minds-eye picture is when they are learning something new, the joy when someone is showing them how to fail and achieve. The pay-off of contribution is being a part of their joy and excitement when the “aha” moment arrives in achievement. Learning with heart filled joy gives you the ability to learn quickly and love what you do and who you serve.

I challenge you to find your inner joy!To start lift others up and find the inner joy from so long ago on their face. Contribute to someone else as their joy and “aha” brings a contagious momentum in the desire to learn, grow, and keep on giving.

You have the ability to make a difference every day. “I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.” ~ Jimmy Carter

Intentional Contribution:

Be Grateful
Put People First
Don’t Let Stuff Own You
Don’t Let People Own You
Define Success by Giving, Not Receiving
Self-Development, Not Self-Fulfillment
Keep Growing, Keep Giving

Successful people give of themselves first without asking anything in return. However, to continue giving you must grow into your potential by learning daily with the heart filled joy from your youth. As my friend John Maxwell states, “If you’re not doing something with your life, it doesn’t matter how long it is!”

Start living my friends!

Look UP and OUT,

Tracy Worley

Want to learn more? Click Below:

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Contribution, Chap15.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2015

Are You Applying Tension To Where You Are Today And Where You Could Be Tomorrow

Tracy Worley

Tracy knows from life experience the ups and downs of colossal failure and the elation of success beyond imagination.

Tension to success is not hearing, “not tonight dear I have a headache”. Tension to success is consistent applied pressure to your growth and stretching into something and someone bigger and better tomorrow.

My tension started in 2001 when I moved hundred of miles away from my hometown to take on a new job, city, friends, and to top it off the population was only several thousand. This move and new job was a huge stretch and paid off in learning and gleaning so much over-time. Eventually, I had to find new ways to stretch my growth. Truly, with a small population to continue my growth I had to seek opportunity outside of the community. This meant online training, masterminding across the miles, and reading books from authors I admired and without knowing this stretching one of those author mentors would become a friend, mentor, and business partner; John C. Maxwell.

In 2011 when I had an opportunity to “jump” the opportunity to partner with John C. Maxwell opened and I was prepared to walk-through.

On stage with world leaders, co-collaborators, and John C. Maxwell.

Tension is thinking of a rubber-band how you pull there is tension, release, and then do it over and over; after a time the rubber-band cannot go back to it’s original shape. This is what happens when you keep applied pressure/tension to your growth you are never the same again. By applying consistent pressure you will quickly and easily become the top in your field. Why? Because few people want to be uncomfortable, learn, and stretch outside of their comfort zone.

Benefits Of Applying Tension:

Few People Want to Stretch: 42% of college graduates never read a book after college, too many people are willing to sett for average.
Settling for the Status Quo Ultimately Leads to Dissatisfaction: Familiar patterns are easy, take an inventory of where you are taking it easy and apply pressure.
Stretching Always Starts from the Inside Out: our choices start our movement and movement creates significance. James Allen states, you cannot travel within and stand will without.”
Stretching Requires Change: most people do not like change but to claim the reward of success you must be willing to do something different today to be and do different tomorrow.
Stretching Sets You Apart from Others: ask yourself if “good enough is good enough”, if it is then no worries. If you are not satisfied then it is never to late to improve yourself. When you do excellence always shines through and when you get better so will others.
Stretching Becomes a Lifestyle: As I shared at the beginning I kept stretching and as I did other opportunities became available and I was ready for them. As a lifestyle stretching creates an energy of attraction where people do want what you are having.
Stretching Gives You a Shot at Significance: you can continually add significance to self, others, community, and the world but it takes consistent applied tension to keep it.

Keep stretching to the end, I love Mahatma Ghandi’s statement, “the difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

I truly believe everyone can have a life of significance it just takes a bit of applied pressure to stretch into something more!

If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, when what do you need tomorrow for? ~ Rabbi Nachman

Apply tension to your Keep It Simple Silly Strategic plan and think about what significant action you could take if only you become what you could be. Dream big, and set this as your lifetime goal! ! Not sure where to start , please feel free to contact me!

Want to learn more? Click Below:

Look UP & OUT!

Tracy Worley

John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Rubber Band, Chap10.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio