These nine behaviors which serve to reduce stress, and increase happiness. These behaviors are all proven to reduce our stress, make us feel in control
regardless of the problems that hit us day in and day out, he shared. By doing
these nine things, we feel in control as a leader, and if we can teach our
people how to do these things as well, they feel in control.
Here they
are.
#1: State
Your Intention Every Day The best leaders state their intention every day
rather than being on automatic pilot. ―I think this is critical for
entrepreneurs. Whatever you did a month ago that worked doesn’t ‘t necessarily works
now. So it becomes a matter of asking yourself, ―what ‘s my best choice?
The issue
here is I can‘t always choose my circumstances but I can always choose my
reaction and my attitude, and then I have to state that to other people, he
continued. ―I have to tell people what I am thinking. I have to reveal my motivations.
#2: Be
Accountable The minute you sink into victimhood; when you think (or worse, say
it aloud) ―poor me, you‘re dead in the water, according to Greg. ―So this one is all about identifying what
are your blockages as a leader, what are the defence mechanisms that are
getting in your way. What you should do is acknowledge the reality, and then
ask, ―What do I need to do to make it better for me?
#3: Identify
Your Primary Passion This simply means identifying all the things that you are
most passionate about. Most entrepreneurs I know are at least initially
passionate about whatever their product is or their service. Are you?
#4: Make it
Central to the Way You Operate This means whatever that passion is, make it
central to the way that you operate, and do things in a way that play to your
strengths, not somebody else‘s strengths.
#5: Recast
Problems and Roadblocks Whenever Possible R recasting is what good leaders do
when they really do hit a big roadblock. This is the process where you really
dive in to what is going on for you, and through the process of recasting; you
end up with new opportunities. It is not about making lemonade out of a lemon,
necessarily; it‘s about figuring out what these new opportunities are.
#6: Search
for Options…They’re There! The worst place for any entrepreneur and any team is
in the realm of hopelessness, when they feel like they‘ve tried everything. The
only thing they think to say is ―And now we‘re really stuck, there is nowhere
to go.
The
definition of hopeless is that there are no options. When that starts to
happen, you need to open up new options. This is where you go to your most
innovative self.
#7:
Appreciate Others ―It is so critical for leaders to figure out with each person
that they interface with how to make them feel valued, respected and worthwhile,
shared Greg. ―At some level, that’s what we all want, and any leader that can
figure out how to do that – because it might look different for you than it
looks for anyone else. But, if you can figure out how to do that you have a
great way to keep people motivated.
#8: Give,
Give, and Give Some More What this means is that the smartest business leaders
have figured out that if they want something from somebody in part of their
network or a vendor or anybody they work with; the best thing is to give it
first, because if you give it first, chances are you are going to get it back.
So cultivate a giving nature.
#9: Live
Your Truth in All Things ―This is truth to self, of course, but it is also
telling the truth to the people around me, to my employees, to my customers, to
my investors what is really going on because people can smell a falsehood a
mile away. and, guess what,
Our heart
rate increases when we lie. Truth blesses us with health, energy, and abundance.
