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Be Excellent by Taking Ownership

June 20, 2022 John Uncategorized No comments

Your most excellent life begins with your taking agency for it. Simply stated, it’s all up to you.

Start with these GenuLines tips to head you in the right direction.

Be Excellent by Taking Ownership

Are you trying to lead a life of commitment to displaying excellence in everything that you do? One way to do this is by taking ownership and responsibility for all your actions.

Once you ‘own’ your choices and accept the consequences you’ll gain others’ respect. They’ll see you as someone they can count on.

Take It Easy

The easiest way to display ownership is by not making excuses. If you were late for an appointment don’t come up with a ridiculous excuse.

Tell the other person why you were late, then apologize for not calling to let them know.

Stay Inside

It’s easy to blame outside influences for your mistakes or oversights. No-one can control one hundred percent of what happens.

But you can control how you respond to certain situations. This reaction can change your life.

Take ownership for your relationships, your education, your fitness and your social life. As you start this process you’ll find that you feel more confident and have a purpose in life.

Flexibility

Along with ownership you need to learn how to be flexible. Are you willing to do things in a different way?

This means not being stubborn when something isn’t working.

Take advice and attempt to change what you’re doing. If you do you will begin to excel at more tasks and this helps increase your confidence and self-esteem.

Becoming a flexible person means that you’re happy to respond to a situation in a different way. When you’re flexible you’re not rigid and set in your ways.

Balancing Act

There’s another important factor in your move toward excellence in everything you do. This is the step of adding balance to your life.

When you live a balanced life you’re focusing on those things that hold meaning for you. At the same time, though, you’re still mindful of those around you.

You make choices related to the way you feel and what you’re thinking.

Add It All Up

Balancing your life includes knowing not go out with friends when you need to finish up an important project. You recognize the importance of staying healthy and fit and you follow through.

Combine taking ownership, being flexible, and balance, into your life. You’ll be well on your way to leading a life that’s committed to excellence.

JohnK 6-20-2022

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Overheard: Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

~ Vince Lombardi

Do You Have What It Takes to Think Strategically?

January 10, 2022 John Uncategorized No comments

You think clearly, but to think strategically is something else again. There are some important features that are part of this process and GenuLines gives you a look at a list to get you started.

Do You Have What It Takes to Think Strategically?

“Curious, Not Judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

Strategic thinking is a wide-ranging skill.

It affects how you think, assess, view, solve

problems.

It goes a long way toward creating a future for you and others. It’s knowing what you want to achieve and how to achieve it.

It’s not always easy to develop a strategic approach since it’s both mindset and technique. Strategic thinkers are able to see the big picture,

identify the possible impact and set up a plan to get there.

Common ground

Strategic thinkers have seven main qualities in common:

Vision, Perceptiveness, Assertiveness, Framework, Flexibility, Emotional Balance, and Patience

Let’s look at those in more detail.

They have a knack for logical and creative thinking using both left and right sides of the brain.

Strategic thinkers can develop a razor sharp vision for business or personal needs.

They’re flexible in their planning. They set up benchmarks to guide them.

And they recognize opportunities to revise plans when they need to.

Self aware

Strategic thinkers are aware and perceptive of themselves and what’s around them. They recognize subtle external and internal clues to guide their direction.

And they grab opportunities for themselves or their company or organization.

They listen, hear, and understand what others say. They read and observe whatever they can to use as a guide.

And hey often have “Ah Ha” moments while relaxing or doing other activities.

Strategic thinkers have a clear definition of their goal. Their action plan breaks down into tasks.

It includes lists of needed resources or a specific timeline.

Self care

The best thinkers take time for themselves. It can be a retreat.

A walk through someplace special to them. Relaxing in the lobby of a historic hotel.

Or an afternoon alone with a blank sheet of paper for writing down your thoughts.

Strategic thinkers are often lifelong learners. They draw from every experience put before them and in every part of life.

Their creativity is balanced with a realistic sense of what’s possible in the long term. They refer to themselves as realistic optimists.

Enlisting help

Strategic thinkers often seek advice, confide in, and offer ideas for feedback. This can come from a coach, mentor, a peer group or elsewhere.

They’re non-judgmental. and don’t allow themselves to judge their own thoughts.

Strategic thinkers are patient. They don’t rush to conclusions.

Great ideas need time to develop into success in the future, and they’re aware of this. They see a potential for how the world should be and take the steps to get there.

Strategic thinkers set up and commit to deadlines.

Know thyself

They are conscious of their own biases.

They’re observant, watching before forming a judgement.

They understand other people’s intentions, desires and hopes.

Strategic thinkers make quick informed decisions.

They’re good communicators. They communicate what they want and need through clear directions or orders.

They respect the thoughts and desires of others.

They’re calm under pressure.

Strategic thinkers have a high level of confidence and self-esteem.

They know their weaknesses and seek advice from others in those areas.

They’re flexible thinkers so they can shift gears and think about things in more than one way.

Strategic thinkers develop skills that allow them to have a vision. They see where they want to go and they create the plan and begin the steps to get there.

You too can develop these skills and become a strategic thinker.

JohnK 1-10-2022

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