Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Effective change is closer than you think

As the year wraps up, we may once again be considering new year's resolutions for change. For some, the thought of the well-intended resolutions that we let fall by the way side this year can have a perturbing effect on the process since we hated that feeling of failure.  Nonetheless, we all know deep in our heart that we are called to more and have to change in order to achieve.

When considering personal change,  we can tend to focus our change efforts on some under-achieving area of our life, instead of pouring our limited change energy into strengthening the areas which are peforming. It's a natual tendancy since we tend to focus on our negative instead of expanding our positive. Scott Belsky of "Fast Company" challenges us to optimize instead of employing a drastic change. More often than not, our radical attempts to change fail since we attempted to over-correct much too drastically, leaving in its wake a chaotic mess of frustration and self-condemnation.  Additionally, Belsky suggests that our pursuit of greatness has more to do with optimizing our strengths instead of just trying to rid ourselves of the unattributable qualities that suffer from comparison. In other words, take what energy you do have and apply it to the areas that are producing in hope of optimizing yourself.  So the next time you are considering change, consider optimizing. When applied, the concept will give you the small Penny principle victories that add up over time to make up a windfall of greatness. Below is a short video piece on the concept of optimization.



Win Today!

Victor

Friday, November 4, 2011

Sitting in the airport waiting for a connection flight can give you the time to people watch and to contemplate. The people watching is what I enjoy most about the waiting, but through the time to contemplate I can't help but recognize an energy of purpose in the air among all of the travelers moving through their journey.  As I see it, purpose has a way of making our lives much more focused as it summons our innate desire to be relevant.  What's more, when purpose arrives, an efficiency of sorts tends to infect our entire process so that our decisions become prioritized.