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November 2006 |
Volume 1, Number 3 |
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Links to Articles Dudley Lynch "To Be or Not to Be is NOT the question"
Edward de Bono
MICHAEL JORDAN ON ACHIEVEMENT Q: What are you most appreciative of at this point of your career? Jordan: Appreciation of the opportunity. A lot of people never get an opportunity to express themselves or succeed or have the opportunity to succeed. I'm very appreciative of the opportunity to see the best, play against the best and hopefully evolve to be one of the best. And very few people get that opportunity and the desire to do so. Q: It must make all those hours in the gym worthwhile. Jordan: Well, I think what you initially do is you learn this about the whole season from start to finish. And all the work and all the times that you didn't want to do it or you didn't feel up to it and you pushed yourself to do it because of that moment. That moment that you're about to experience of winning a championship and being the best in the world. It was many days that you felt, "Well, is it worth it ? Could you just somehow take a day off and get by and yet still achieve what you want." Those are the moments that you push yourself to get to that ultimate goal. Now, that you've gotten to it, you take a moment for reminiscing to understand the gratification that came out of that push and that desire and that determination that you questioned so many times over the length of that year. And yet, it was finally accumulating to what your motives and your ulterior motives were from day one and that was to win a championship. - Excerpted from an interview posted on NBA.com
LIGHTING A SPARK Certain things in life are better done in person. When you are trying to sell someone on an idea of yours or you want them to perform, you must make every effort to meet with them face to face. This type of commitment to your idea will demonstrate your passion for the project. In the face-to-face communication you and only you will create the same passion in the person that you are seeking to help you resolve your issue. You are "enrolling" the person generating a spark of possibility for others to share. As they share with others you soon will create the fire to fuel your passion. To practice enrollment you must: Imagine that people are an invitation for enrollment, Stand ready to participate, willing to be moved and inspired, Offer that which lights you up, and Have no doubt that others are eager to catch the spark. "The life force for humankind is, perhaps, nothing more or less than the passionate energy to connect, express, and communicate. Enrollment is that life force at work, lighting sparks from person to person, scattering light in all directions. Sometimes the sparks ignite a blaze; sometimes they pass quietly, magically almost imperceptibly, from one to another to another.
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Adapted from "The
Art Of Possibility" by Zander, Benjamin & Zander, Rosamund Stone (2000)
MELTING POT HUMOR
Recipe for Making an Argentine (in case you were wondering)
Add
in the following order: Allow to cook for 300 years at low temperature.
Before serving, quickly add: five Italians, a Russian Jew, a German, a Galician, three-fourths a Lebanese, and finally a whole Frenchman.
Allow to sit for 50 years, then serve.
THE RIPPLE EFFECT Do you want to be a positive influence in the world? First, get your own life in order. Ground yourself in the single principle so that your behavior is wholesome and effective. If you do that, you will earn respect and be a powerful influence. Your behavior influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences. If your life works, you influence your family. If your family works, your family influences the community. If your community works, your community influences the nation. If your nation works, your nation influences the world. If your world works, the ripple effect spreads throughout the cosmos. Remember that your influence begins with you and ripples outward. So be sure that your influence is both potent and wholesome. How do I know that this works? All growth spreads outward from a fertile and potent nucleus. You are a nucleus. - John Heider, "The Tao of Leadership"
VIDEO INTERVIEWS Check out these interesting previews of the DVD Project "Peak Performance and the Mind" - Planned Release: December 2006 >> [Go to the Web Page] TELL YOUR STORY You thought about it. You want to do it. It only takes five minutes: Tell your peak performance story |
From My Desk: Tell Your Peak Performance Story
I have posted a Storytelling Form for you to submit your stories, quotes and any other contributions to the book. [Just Do It!] I trust you will also be able to give me valuable feedback and suggestions. You can read some examples of stories I have collected on two PDF documents here: [Answers 1] [Answers 2]. If you prefer to have a conversation, just call me at +1-704-992-6555 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. [U.S. Eastern Standard Time]. Thank you for your friendship and support. Carlos Salum Efficiency: The Panacea Performance Blueprint
HOW THE BRAINMAP WORKS
WHAT THE BRAINMAP DOES
Quote of the Month: Charisma as the X Factor of Success "A charismatic leader acts as a bonding agent, allowing you to give in to the giddy togetherness of a peace rally or a line dance. You forget yourself in his company and climb into the palm of his hand. This intricate pas de deux is known as synchrony and may be the key to charisma.
Synchrony is a marker of rapport; if two people click, they unconsciously adjust their posture and speech rate to each other. Charismatic people are natural "attractors" who get others to synchronize to them. An Oprah Winfrey, for example, controls an audience with her keen sense of timing, repetition and rhythm. They play the crowd like improvisational jazz." - Adapted from the article "The X Factor of Success" by Carlin Flora, Psychology Today Magazine; May/June 2005
In his inimitable jovial way, Joe told me a story that convinced me that he’s been looking at the glass half full since very early on: “When I was a little child, I went to Sunday school and one time they taught me about David and Goliath. The priest said that David took a stone, charged it in his slingshot and hit Goliath right between the eyes. Goliath was dead and David became a hero. The next Sunday, the priest taught us: "Thou Shall Not Kill!" I remember thinking: Wait a minute… How come David kills Goliath and becomes a hero when Thou Shall Not Kill? I raised my hand and I told the priest that instead of killing Goliath someone should have converted him to Christianity. Then, they should have taken him around the region asking people 'Goliath is a Christian. Are you a Christian?' One look at him and they all would have answered: 'I am now! Of course I am!' Just imagine, everybody would be a Christian by now! Needless to say, the priest was stunned and quickly moved on to another topic, but I knew I had a point there. " Joe’s childhood story reveals a quantum leap in logical thinking. Regardless of the Biblical incongruence, Joe intuitively felt that expanding his thinking (Why kill Goliath?) could illuminate new options. Although David was not in the business of promoting Christianity, little Joe Brown found a viable use for the giant’s unique ability (let's call it "gentle persuasion"). When we think “in parallel,” we discover that two contradictory issues could actually be complementary; they could be combined to craft a unique solution without canceling each other. Creativity depends on questions like “What else can we do? What are the alternatives?” This skill is trainable; it depends on repetition to become a positive habit. Instead of scrambling for our slingshot when facing challenging decisions, our habitual response should be to use a provocation that could lead to better solutions. >> Visit the Creative Development page
Tip of the Month: Orchestrating Your Health with Music by Dr. Nick Hall Music is capable of both inflaming and taming the passions, and even can be said to be a process for disclosing our emotions to ourselves. By penetrating the very core of our being, it can cause an experience of intense pleasure or sadness. It is most likely through its ability to modulate the expression of emotions that music has its greatest impact upon our health. Music does not necessarily cause an emotion. Instead, it has the ability to intensify or highlight the emotion which might be elicited by some other event. Music is a powerful tool that can and should be used to enhance the emotional state that we wish to experience.
Music can be used as a metaphor of life. It exists in time. To fully appreciate it, we must have a memory of what notes have occurred in the immediate past as well as an expectation of those to come. If we have no expectations for the future, then the score of life will be discordant indeed.
Whether music really induces a feeling state through the alteration of emotions, or if it simply induces images and memories of feelings is debatable. Some argue that it is nothing more than an escape from reality. Under some circumstances, this may be the case. But there also is overwhelming evidence that the physical properties of sound waves are able to penetrate the inner recesses of the brain to induce very real physiological and emotional consequences. Use it.
Dudley Lynch and Paul Kordis set the stage with "The Strategy of the
Dolphin," a book that called attention to the need to explore our "home
thinking base" if we are to make any significant improvements in our lives.
The cardinal question that "The Mother of All Minds" seeks to answer is this one: where does the explosive advance in information, change and complexity of our modern times leave human thinking skills—leave the mind itself? This highly resourceful work's confident answer: doing what it always does best! On the leading edges of the envelope, says Dudley Lynch, the human brain has been busy rewiring itself so as to prepare the mind for keeping pace with a restless, demanding, ever-changing world. "The
Mother of All Minds" should be required reading for all leaders, managers,
coaches and entrepreneurs aiming to go beyond their current limitations and
helping their companies and families to transform themselves from the
inside-out, from pupa to winged marvel like a butterfly. >> Purchase "The Mother of All Minds" and other Brainware tools
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Brainware: The mCircle Instrument What's Your Unique Ability? - Focusing on what you do best Book Review: "The Art of Possibility" by Benjamin and Rosamund Zander Peak Performance and the Mind - The release of the DVD project Profiles in Peak Performance: Philipp Johner |
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I met Klaus
Regnault in Cologne in 1987. The following year, I spent eight
months sleeping in his sofa in Dusseldorf while we organized together
Dr. Jim Loehr's first European Speaking Tour. We have been close
friends ever since. Now, Klaus is associated with Josef Brauner,
former president of Sony Europe and former Board Member of
Deutsche Telekom and T-Com Mobile.
