Who or what do you use as an accountability track to keep you in the main lane of success?
SHARE: share your tips and tricks on accountability practices, partnerships, and the like.
Tip: look at your calendar, take inventory of people, places, and things not lending to your lane of success. Then adapt, adopt, and delete people, places, and things that create momentum and synergies to your goals.
Adventure Entrepreneur
Are you packed and ready?
Life is an advance and ordinary life has a way of sweeping us away into schedules where we are over-booked!
We end up over booked and in the “acquiring things” race. Do not get me wrong “things” are great, a privilege, and makes our lives more comfortable.
Adventure is:
Find adventure in the adventure in the messiness of your life. An example is my messiness of area’s of too organized and unorganized. There is adventure in both; choose adventure!
Find adventure in everything, everyday, making the ORDINARY an ADVENTURE!
Embrace your own adventure, choose messy hair!
CHALLENGE: step out of your “schedule” and pack a bag to find adventure in your daily everything’s!
Thank you for joining me on our Summer Fire It Up Friday Series.
Look Up & Out, Tracy Worley
Are you DOA when showing up personally and professionally? What is DOA: Dead on Arrival or Dead on Attitude.
My questions to you are:
Dead on Arrival vs. Daily Opportunity of Action
This past week I had the privilege of attending our Innovate Montana Symposium. Before going I set the intention with an end in mind. My end in mind was meeting people to help my clients in their next endeavors and a current project I am working on…
I was ALIVE ON ARRIVAL! As humans we should show up with intention and ‘alive’ in everything we do. There are always the few who show up because they have to. These are the individuals I like to “light” up! Giving them other perspective and a reason for being there and how they add value.
Albert Schweitzer, “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.”
When I work with organizations in employee engagement we always start with a survey to see where the engagement needle is and the culture. I can say 99% of the time when engagement is low there is little trust and/or respect to and from leadership.
Here are a few steps to engaging yourself:
The core of engagement is transparent humility (this is not showing employees or clients how to weep but to let them know you are human, everyone wants to know they are on the team with someone who has heart)
If you and your team are not making individual efforts , then everyone is DOA when they walk through the door every day. ~ Tracy Worley
Thank you for joining me on our Summer Fire It Up Friday Series.
Look Up & Out, Tracy Worley
All success comes from an individual perspective in measurable increments. For organizations it comes from their perspective initiatives and the perspective of gain or loss.
One of the top reasons I adore about living in Montana, USA is the rugged back country is close and tangible. I find myself in a National Forest several times a week and if possible daily. No matter what trail my administrative staff and I hike; there is always an elevation gain or loss.
Administrative Staff On Trail
Success also has a measure of gain or loss dependent on your initiatives and goals. I recently read, “The only person who needs to move forward little by little is you. Engineer your own evolution” ~ E. Burger, M. Starbird.
When I read evolution my reaction was, “Yes, success is creating your own revolution from the norms of how others have accomplished success.”
As you create goals there are meaningful ways to ensure a gain:
Moving little by little is like climbing a trail. It takes step by step, bit by bit to make it to your destination and crest the top. Once you are at the crest you will see a higher peak (next goal) to strive toward. There are times you may need to lose elevation to glean new knowledge, understand the depth of measurable increments, and evaluate timing.
Refining knowledge is where most entrepreneurs and organizations lose traction. The tendency is to gobble up all information, processes, and best practices. This tendency hinders progress of little by little; often creating a stale environment of growth and innovation. To keep on track, define your objective clearly then adopt, adapt, or delete best practices and move forward.
Each goal has its own trail of learned knowledge. Success can happen time after time hiking the same trail. However, conditions can change and new knowledge is gleaned from season to season. Business perspective; who is on your team creating a stale mate, are clients engaging, is it time to adopt, adapt, or change trails to new success?
The hard truth is not one person or organization creates success on their own. There is always someone supporting them in one manner or another. There are teams who sustain forward momentum to success and community who purchases services and or products. The basic truth not often seen are those who blazed the trail ahead of us. A back country hiking trail is often not for the faint of heart. There is a lot of elevation gain, loss, gain, loss and keeps going until final destination. A back country trail is not managed and if it is there is a group of volunteers who hike in with band-saws and other gear to keep the trail clear (chain saws are not permitted due to fire danger, there are no motor vehicles allowed). From back country hiking to entrepreneurial paths cleared there is always someone who blazed the trail or idea ahead of us. It is your responsibility to create synergy and innovation from what is already forged.
“If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants” ~ Isaac Newton. Bring someone on board to create and sustain your momentum toward your goals bit by bit. No matter what or who you bring on board it is important to be open-minded about possibilities not seen at the beginning of the trail.
Success is worth the journey bit by bit, little by little! Would love to hear about your journeys and where you have gleaned success and what your goals are today!
Look Up and Out,
Tracy Worley
Did you know customer service is your brand?
This past week I experienced two significant customer service scenarios. As providers we forget clients are humans and remember first and foremost how we made them feel.
Your clients can and will purchase product/services from competitors. Clients will do so even if your competitor’s product is inferior to yours; where clients feel valued is where they will purchase.
The first is I called our phone provider for service. I was on the phone for over 40 minutes with no resolution to our issue. At this juncture I had to jump off the call to make my coaching client call. I went to a local store for help and again no resolution. As a human being these are hours I cannot get back and “no” return on my time. How did I resolve our issue? I called the phone manufacture directly and they took care of me promptly, with care, and had a replacement the next day. We are now under serious consideration to move our business elsewhere as this company is consistent in not caring for clients.
The second customer service experience is with a direct product company. I have been a customer with them for about seven years and certainly have not spent as much money or years with them as I have with our phone provider. My experience with the call was prompt, courteous, and resolved my human-error issue without judgment. I received great care and concern for my order. I walked away with a huge return on my time as this conversation was less than 15 minutes and I felt like a winner.
This brings me to your brand. How you and your employees show up is your brand and how referrals if any will be passed forward. Here are a few things to consider:
If you want to know more please feel free to reach out to us. We have several tools you could easily implement to glean client satisfaction. From here you can build a strategy for strong brand communication.
Look Up & Out,
Tracy Worley
What or where are you holding back in life?
Sometimes you are not aware where barriers are present to step forward. Personally, I can go back to several significant levels of amazing things happening in my life.
There is a theme in how I stepped forward into new level of success, beautiful relationships, and so much more!
1. Afraid: I moved forward with trepidation anyway.
2. Super Powers: Once I moved forward the tools I needed activated within me or others would step up and give me their talents, gifts, and wisdom.
3. Humility: Being in humble heart, mind, and spirit allowed the space to grow and nurture; new beginnings, relationships, success, and community.
I will be sharing more tools to activate your Super Powers!
Look Up & Out,
Tracy Worley
Leaving a legacy is all you have. A strong legacy is not made of monetary value but of heart value. How you lift others to their potential. You 
create safe environments for growth. When you leave the room, people are better than you found them. Have fun, take business at hand seriously and above all laugh at yourself!
Leadership, love, and life evolve in and out of your personal and professional lives. You may try shutting the door on one without the other, but your stories and legacies follow you wherever you may go.
I have a full history of knowing all of my Great-Grandparents, Grandparents, and a bushel full of Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. Recently, I visited my Grandpa Eldon in Eugene, Oregon. He is the last of my vast line of Grandparents and cherished beyond words. I asked questions, heard new stories, and reminisced.
We are all built with our history, stories, and holding truths we cherish and hopefully “deleting” truths no longer holding truth for you. About 30 years ago my dad once asked me where I learned my “values” from. The heart answer is my grandparents. They all left me with my core personal and professional business model I created; Potential² Builder.
From ranch life, construction, business deals, play, fun, hiking, wicked card games, hugs on the couch, to out of the blue phone calls. The rich experiences compounded interest in a legacy of heart, potential, environment for growth; cherished bank account full of unconditional love.
There are three main areas’ you can focus on to build a legacy to leave your family, friends, business relationships, and community. Over my thirty-plus year career, these three areas are what I have found to part of the solid foundation for strong families, business, and people who leave strong legacies.
Have Fun! Hamming and Glamming With My Guy
It is never too late to build your legacy and write on the hearts of those around you; what they will say and miss when you leave the room.
Where ever you might be in thought and heart of leaving a legacy here is a poem I wrote about my Grandpa, who is 93. I may be looking at his 93 years; all it takes is 93-seconds to touch someone’s heart.
He is my HERO,
My first hugs, filling my heart,
to letting me put rollers in his hair that tickled us,
until we had to part.
He is my HERO,
He fixed many things from wagons, dollies,
to wondrous buildings.
He is my Hero,
Outlined with brilliant strands of silver,
a gleaming light of Gods Armor.
He is my HERO,
He is 93, standing tall,
with liquid blue eyes,
smile of a warm friend,
loves with all he has under his halo of silver strands.
As he holds my hand, I understand he is my HERO.
93 years shifting through the sands,
93 braids of silver his legacy stands.
Written By: Tracy Worley
Twinkle In His Eyes
Challenge Question: Will you take 93 seconds to touch someone’s heart?
Look UP & OUT!
Tracy Worley
Tracy Worley (2015) Authentic Leadership, Authentic Self
Tracy Worley (2013) Red Shoe Courage
I have so much fun being authentic of who I am and it lends to freedom of self. This picture is not of self-importance but an opportunity of spontaneity in the moment.
Pamela Dunn-Parish is who I use exclusively for my photo shoots. I found her shooting head-shots for all the members of a local non-profit women’s organization. There was no one waiting so I asked her if we could just do a few fun shoots while waiting.
Here is one of the fun pictures she captured my humor, hot-shoes, and my authentic state of “smile”.
CHALLENGE: What are you doing today to add freedom in your leadership and most importantly creating freedom for your team to create and innovate to the next level of success!
Look UP and OUT!
Tracy Worley
I love people watching and am keen observer of their actions. Two of my higher level strengths is connecting and relating. These two strengths are so strong and developed that at a networking event I can tell you who belongs to who, who is avoiding who, and who doesn’t belong to who but spending a lot of time together.
Don’t worry I do not share your secrets. I have discovered and noticed as an increasing technology society we are leading our lives under Fitbit rules. These are just a few ways society is being led by technology.
My question to you as a leader, are you finding the pulse of your people?
People do not know where they are going unless goals and the path are laid out. When goals and the path is not clear; people set their own goals, or end up somewhere else. “People need responsibility, they resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.” ~ John Steinbeck
As a leader of “self” what actions are you not fol
lowing through on? Your actions are being shown in large lights and even in Fitbit rules your actions are shown with a back-light in the dark. There is not hiding your leading actions, so again I ask as a leader of “self” what actions are you not following through on?
“The world has a habit of making room for the person whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.” ~ Napleon Hill
Below are five areas of connection and caring actions to bring into the bright lights of your leadership. The pulse of the people is hungry for strong leaders without oppression and modeling success with transparent integrity.
Change the pulse of your people to healthy conversation around the water cooler, if you do not give them knowledge, goals, and sustainable actions they will make it up, gossip, or go somewhere else. “All human beings by nature desire to know.” ~ Aristotle
In “celebration hands” I applaud you and celebrate your success!
Look UP & OUT!
Tracy Worley
