What I want for you is to step-up and look beyond where you are today to see where the opportunities of tomorrow are!
— at Mount Blackmore.
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Tracy Worley
Category Archives: Intentionality
Are You Applying Tension To Where You Are Today And Where You Could Be Tomorrow
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!
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- Law of Rubber Band: GRACEbreak Radio
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Tracy Worley
John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Rubber Band, Chap10. Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
Keep It Simple Silly For Extraordinary Results
We have all heard the saying “Keep It Simple”, but usually with the word STUPID at the end. When changing one word our whole world changes!
When I find myself in complex projects, situations, or conversations I say to myself or even out loud to my team. . . “Keep it simple silly to achieve extraordinary results”. I am not calling myself “silly” but changing the thought process that where the team or myself is stuck is because we have made the design too complicated! Saying this statement to yourself or out loud gives a cathartic release of frustration, blood pressure, and most of the time a smile which changes the room instantly!
Designing systems is essential in keeping accountability and forward momentum to success. Question, have you designed a growth plan to be more tomorrow than you are today, are you predictable in your results? As Michael Gerber states, systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.”
If you don’t design your own life plan,chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” ~ John Rhohn
Planning and designing your life is finding yourself (core values), knowing who you are (gifts, talents, strengths), and then designing a simple growth plan to obtain extraordinary results in your life. Remember, your life is not meant to be part of an assembly line you are uniquely made to contribute the “secret sauce” only you can offer the world.
Here are a few areas to take into account when applying design to area’s of your life (career, family, health, faith, hobby, marriage, personal growth, etc..):
- The Big Picture: Will the system help you reach your big-picture goals?
- Priorities: Does thee system design fit within your values and commitments?
- Measurement: Does tour system have a tangible way of measuring results?
- Application: Is there a built-in system in your design to propel forward motion/action?
- Organization: Does the system design make better use of your time, resources, and achieving higher results?
- Consistency: Can you and will you repeat the system design on a regular basis?
The top 10% of people in their industries apply designs for growth. Designing extraordinary result systems into your life should not be complicated, and the systems themselves should not be hard to apply. In fact they should be easily repeated and followed, if you are unable to easily repeat then it is time to go back and make a few adjustments.
Challenge: look at your calendar “to do” list for the week and next coming week:
- Is there any activity that does not fit within the big picture goals? If yes, delete or delegate.
- Is there growth goals getting bumped due to other peoples priorities? If yes, say no.
- Time, organization helps you from not letting one of the most valuable resources be spent without your permission: Time!
- People, are there people you are meeting for lunch or coffee that does not set a purpose to achieving the results you desire? If so, cancel or reschedule.
Lastly, be kind to yourself. Designing your life of significance and achieving extraordinary results will not happen over night but changing course can. If you find yourself falling into old-habits just state to yourself, “keep it simple silly” and move forward without asking for permission.
I believe in you!
Look UP & OUT,
Tracy Worley
Keeping it simple is the start to creating the success you desire and creating a dynamic team of leaders who will succeed beyond your “business-plan” expectations. Not sure where to start on designing your plan, please feel free to contact me!
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- Law of Design: GRACEbreak Radio
- 8 Week Course: Making your life “present to your potential”
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Tracy Worley
John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Design, Chap7. Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
Are You Creating The Future You Want
Powerful statement, Are you creating the future you want?
Whether your are a Home Engineer, Entrepreneur, or work within someone else’s corporate structure I DARE YOU TO ASK YOURSELF, “Am I creating the future I want?”
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in.” ~ Mark Caine
Creating the future you want is not a narcissistic question so allow yourself to release any “selfish” notion with the question. Creating the future you want is growing your potential in the right environment. Your environment is made up of your daily agenda, people, places, and things.
- Yourself: Few people will share your enthusiasm for growth and moving up and out. Here are a few statements to focus on for your self-growth and creating a positive environment(can also be applied to your home or work team): 1) Others are ahead of me (if you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room 2) You are continually challenged 3) Your surroundings are affirming 4) You are out of your comfort zone, DAILY 5) You wake up excited 6) Failure is embraced and not your enemy 7) Others around you are growing 8) Growth is modeled and expected .
Whether you are a success or failure in life has little to do with your circumstances; it has much more to do with your choices.” ~ Nido Qubein
- People: This truly is the law of sacrifice as to go up we must give up and often this means relationships and or an environment holding us back. Jim Rhone states, “We become like the five people we spend the most time with.” Ask yourself, are there people in your top five
holding you back? These people determine as much as 95% of your success or failure in life. This is one of the hardest because you need to sacrifice time spent with people you know and love. However, you do not have to “dump” them just spend less time and create a reference group who will challenge you to be more tomorrow than you are today! My personal best is when I spend time with my mastermind group, they model all of the 8 areas referenced in the YOURSELF category and I am my best when others around me are growing!
You cannot take this journey alone, not if you want to reach your potential. The most significant factor in any person’s environment is the people. If you change nothing else in your life for the better than that, you will have increased your changes of success tenfold. So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for where ever they are headed, so are you. ~ John Maxwell
- Focus: “Today is when everything that’s going to happen from now on beings.” ~ Harvey Firestone Jr. A great lesson is what is the happiest moment of your life? The answer, right now! Focus is moving forward today despite yesterday, this morning, or whatever is in your mind, body, or spirit holding you back. Don’t wait for change to happen, focus on the change and take one step forward. Just as a little one learning to walk, you will be wobbly, fall, and perhaps get scraped up. However, when when taking charge, laugh, and learn from the wobbly-fall you quickly find a way to RUN!
The bitter ingredient in 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
Self leadership is the start to creating the success you desire and creating a dynamic team of leaders who will succeed beyond your “business-plan” expectations. I am sure this peaked your interest . . . “succeed beyond business-plan?” Yes, and if you want to find out more please feel free to contact me because what keeps your team alive is you!
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- Law of Environment: GRACEbreak Radio
- 8 Week Course: Making your life “present to your potential”
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Tracy Worley
John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, Chap6. Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
Reflection Leads To Purpose
Reflection and purpose are not a usual combination when writing about Leadership, and most importantly leadership of self.
The top 1% of entrepreneurs take time daily to sit in silent reflection and think into their business, life, teams, families, projects, etc. . . bringing about pro-active success vs. re-active chaos.
In a previous post I wrote about your gifts, talents, and strengths and this is where you have the ability to take the time to stay on purpose for the things you were created to do. This is on of my favorite statements and profoundly when I take time in my daily agenda I do stay on purpose toward personal and team goals.
As John C. Maxwell shares with us The Law of Reflection, I find this is the lesson to dig deep if you are going to win big! Clarity found in reflection brings the habit of evaluating experience (wins and fails) to a higher awareness of next steps toward success. Below are example of the power of pausing and reflection for yourself and your team :
- Reflection turns experience into insight
- Everyone needs a time and place to pause
- Pausing with intention expands and enriches thinking
- When you take time to pause, use your I’s (Investigation, Incubation, Illumination, Illustration)
- Good questions are thee heart of reflection (become that “kid” who asks WHY
WHY is the power tool in your leadership tool kit. Honestly, I have never grown out of asking why to myself and also in the board-room. Why is the most powerful tool because we dig so deep into awareness and intention the ‘aha moments become addictive. The addiction is not a bad word here but you must be careful in how you ask WHY because it is attached to ego which is reflective of our emotions, motives, and accountability. When you start asking why people on your team will embrace it or hate it! I believe if our corporate culture asked more WHY organizations would not have or continue to fail their own mission, vision, and ultimately fail their customers.
- Make time in your daily agenda for reflection
- Allow time in your teams daily agenda for reflection
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. ~ Tony Robbins
I remember a story explorer Albert Schwetizer shared. On a long journey through Africa their group was pushing hard to reach their final destination. During this trip all of the natives with their group stopped, just stopped. Albert inquired about the delay and the response is priceless; we have been traveling so fast they must rest to let their souls catch up with them.
Reflection allows your mind, heart, body, and soul to align and let your purpose catch up to the things you were created to do.
Want to learn more? click on Law of Reflection: Tami and I recorded a FAQ and teaching. Want to receive one-on-one to create your Reflection Tools? Plug into our 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth 8 Week program.
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Tracy Worley
15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Law of Reflection
John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, Chap4. Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
Life Is Now In Session, Are You Present?
In the board room, volunteer meetings, and discussions with our kiddo’s what does the phrase “you need to be intentional about what you are 
doing” mean to you?
More than likely the person or group making the statement has not implemented “intention” in their life. Think about the statement for a moment it SCREAMS “we are in a situation”, instead of a proactive planning situation.
Leadership and teams thrive on not only the leader being intentional about everything on their calendar but also their team. ” Ask yourself who or what keeps creeping into your daily agenda and interrupting your mission? Are you being intentional in saying no? Are you being intentional of leading for the future instead of the “we are in a situation”?
“You cannot change your destination overnight but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn
The Law of Intentionality is about growth if self so you can help grow others. As John C. Maxwell shares there are Growth Gap Traps:
- The Assumption Gap: Assumption you and your team will autocratically grow.
- The Knowledge Gap: I don’t know how to grow.
- The Timing Gap: It’s not the right time to begin.
- The Mistake Gap: Afraid of making mistakes.
- The Perfection Gap: I have to find the best way before I start.
- The Inspiration Gap: I don’t feel like doing it…JUST DO IT!
- The Comparison Gap: Others are better than I am.
- The Expectation Gap: I thought it would be easier.
Wherever you are in honing the growth of your craft, leadership, or learning something new the best time to start is today! Now that you have a glimpse of the gaps of growth look at your calendar for the next 12 months. How much time have you scheduled for personal growth? If you’re like most people, your answer will be none. Or you may have planned to attend one event int he coming year and honestly that is not going to cut it.
A first step is to rework your calendar so you have an appointment with yourself for personal growth every day! (STOP the thoughts of I do not have time). Do it anyway, if you want to succeed, you need to do whatever it takes. get up an hour early. Stay up an hour later. give up your lunch hour. Put in extra time on the weekends. If you don’t you’ll have to prepare to give up your dreams and any hope of reaching your potential.
START TODAY! Great way to start is to plug into our 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth 8 Week program. Still not sure then listen to my Radio session on The Law of Intentionality.
Look UP & OUT!
Tracy Worley
15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Law of Intentionality
John C. Maxwell (2012). 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, Chap 1.
Tracy A. Worley (2015) GRACEbreak Radio
